Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

SFGTV Government Access Programming July 14, 2024

So for the pieces that are around the turn restrictions, when will those happen . You will see those in early 2020, either january or february , depending on when we get our clearance, and then m. T. A. Will be ready to submit all the work orders to install the signs and the striping changes. And what are the clearances that are required for that that require us to wait for six months . It is part of our Environmental Impact report from ceqa. We need ceqa clearance. It is part of the project description in the federal clearance, so that is why we need that clearance. And we need the project approval from the director of public works and the m. T. A. Board. Those are the four things we need in order to implement any of the better Market Street improvements. Right. Will there be other shortterm improvements before 2020 . You mentioned this short area of a pilot around some of the changes around bikes. Yes. The bikeway pilot is between on market between franklin and goss it is where we have a 2inch race and a four and raise bikeway right now. We will make it we will increase it to 6 inches and make it sidewalk level. That is a pilot of the bikeway design. Theres also a couple of locations where we will be able to create painted safety zones because of the turn restrictions that are being implemented. Those are the key early implementation elements. And for the phase one in 2020 , the summer between fifth and eighth, can you talk a little bit more about what those changes will be . Sure. That is the full better Market Street project, complete redesign from building phase two building phase. It is 120 feet wide. You will see new accessible sidewalks, and by accessible, that will mean replacing the brick with a larger paver with fewer joints, which will be easier to travel along. You will see all of the Street Furniture, including the trees and the path of gold in that furnishing zone that varies between six and 10 feet. Right now the Street Furniture goes all the way out to the curb and takes a much larger area. Even the bike share stations will all be neatly within that furnishing his own. It will create that delineation between the pedestrian area and the bikeway. There will be a new sidewalk level bikeway that is, typically 8 feet wide from stewart to octavia. Right now it stops at eighth street. We will also create a small 4 foot buffer between the bikeway and the roadway. The roadway itself will still be two lanes in each direction but it will be a completely new roadway, new asphalt, new track, new track way, new overhaul new overhead lines, a completely redone Market Street. Thank you. Okay. Seeing no other questions from commissioners, are there members of the public would like to testify on items five and or and or six . Please come forward. Good morning, commissioners. I am a Senior Community organizer the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition and vice chair of the better Market Street Community Working group. Im here to express our strong support for the switch in funds and a location with the end result of funding Market Street for an additional three and change million dollars. I really believe that better Market Street is the most important Capital Project in San Francisco for the safety of people walking or biking. Market street is our busiest streets were people writing, but right now, if you ride inbound from eighth, there is no dedicated bicycle infrastructure it is a painted area on the ground. There are thousands of daily bicycle riders that have to share a travel lane with large vehicles and bus traffic. It is very dangerous. And not surprisingly, Market Street is on our high internetwork and one of the top three most dangerous corridors for people walking or biking in San Francisco. This project, with side lot sidewalk level bicycle lanes, automobile restrictions, and a host of Pedestrian Safety amenities would make Market Street a safe record or for all. There are hurdles to implementation. One of them being funding. This will keep coming back here. I will continue to look to you, our commissioners, for leadership on getting this project built and in the ground. Thank you. Seeing no other members of the public on these items, Public Comment is closed. Do we have a motion to approve the aforementioned Fund Exchange motion made by commissioner brown, seconded by commissioner mark. We have the same house, same call. The resolution is approved. Mr. Clark, next item please. Al qaeda proximally 11. 8 million in proper tax funds and 618 million in prop a. A. Vehicle Registration Fee funds with work with conditions. This is an action item the first of the two request from bart is for the modernization project. This is the second prop k. Fund. There was a prior allocation last year. This fulfils and intend to allocate that the board approved at that time. The project is really going to reconfigure the station, it will move some of the fair gates and increase the functionality and the security and the capacity of the station and so bart is coordinating with m. T. A. There is a separation wall between central subway and the Palace Station and the agencies are coordinating agreements for the purchase and location of the new gates. As the chair of the Citizens Advisory Committee mentioned, there had been some concern by t. A. Staff, particularly about the High Percentage of costs that were going to be borne by Construction Management activities. We have worked with staff to clarify that, you know, this is a very tightly constrained working environment, this and the embarcadero station are two of the busiest stations on the line and there are additional life safety requirements because there are higher tech volumes. The construction will be during and alford after revenue service, so we needed to ensure minimal disruption to passenger flow. This pertains to this project as well as the embarcadero station project, which i will get to any moment. This has led to higher than typical Construction Management costs in San Francisco. We typically see somewhere between 15 and 30 . Originally these were in the magnitude of 50 to 60 . Bart has revisited the Construction Cost estimate and actually increased the construction contract estimate to reflect the current Market Conditions with a limited number of bidders in San Francisco and also a lot of work in San Francisco. So the percentage for the soft cost has actually gone down. The embarcadero station, this is one bay area grant project like this project. This is prop k. Funding that will be complementing that federal grant that you have provided and also the scope of work is to procure and install a new elevator at the station. This will be a bart elevator. The existing elevator will provide service to munimobile passengers, but it will also provide for a redundancy should one of the elevators be out of service. Next request is for the downtown Ferry Terminal. Prop k. Has funded the design phase of this project and this is for separated pedestrian area between the south end of the Ferry Terminal and the new passenger emergency staging plaza for the south terminal. This would be providing safe access and separating the cars and pedestrians for folks accessing the ferry service. The next request is for the emf streetcar extension to aquatic park. The project would fund two portions of work, if you will. The first would be an opportunity for Needs Assessment that would be basically producing a report on the overall cost benefit analysis of the project, and this would be to provide the board with information, and other stakeholders, to inform decisions about the transit priorities of the city going forward. Once task one is finished, there will be a presentation by m. T. A. To the board on the outcomes of this analysis and then Public Participation and Stakeholder Engagement would then follow. We will also be coordinating with m. T. A. On the connect s. F. Effort. The next request is for the rehab. It is essentially a rebuilding of five streetcars that m. T. A. Owns. These are double entered double ended vehicles. Their operating cabs at both end of the vehicles so they can operate bidirectionally. This will increase safety, reliability, service, and allow for vehicles to be put into service for an estimated 25 years. The funds are coming from a 30 foot vehicle replacement project that m. T. A. Is delaying pending outcome of studies on alternative fuel and vehicle projects. Lets see. This project is the first of the vehicles projects that we have negotiated with m. T. A. An enhanced protocol for oversight, and this is stemming from the light rail vehicles project. There will be an oversight protocol in place for that project as well and so it will allow for increased communication and oversight by agency and with m. T. A. Next request is for both prop k. And prop a. A. Funds for a public works paving project. These funds will fully Fund Construction for nearly 40 blocks in the city and about 70 curb ramps, a variety of straightforward paving work that will benefit street users. The next request is for central richmond Traffic Safety central richmond Traffic Safety, so this will be implementing improvements on streets with a history of high injury collisions and where children and seniors and people with disabilities are walking or cycling. It is a key target area and it advances the goals of a new yet to be launched Traffic Calming Program called the advancing equity for safer Streets Program the amendment is to pull funds from that programmatic line in the fiveyear plan and to fully fund this project. There are improvements that are listed in your enclosure to your packet that provide Additional Details to list out the locations that are shown in the map on your screen for folks watching at home as well. Next request is for ocean avenue safety improvements. This is to improve safety and accessibility and comfort for people travelling along ocean avenue and geneva avenue between city college and balboa park station. It will take the recommendations and all of the work that has been done from the planning departments ocean avenue corridor design study and advance them. It will do Additional Data collection and analysis and some outreach stemming from the work that has already been done and conceptual engineering to produce a recommended list of nearterm and longterm improvements so that and these will be produced in a final report by the m. T. A. The bikeway, this is for design of a separated bike lane between market and folsom, the scope of work, street marking signs, single work signal modification to facilitate the bikeway as well. This is for the developed design phase of the project. Nestor . Next request is for vision zero quick build implementation. This is the program that the m. T. A. Has been advancing over the last few months to really get these quick build projects in the ground as soon as possible to advance safety and advance the goal of vision zero in San Francisco. The projects are mostly reversible or they are adjustable enhancements for treatments, rather. It is like Traffic Control and like roadway and curb paint and signs, and signal timing and transit boarding islands, these painted safety zones and bike lanes and adjustments to parking to facilitate safety can be implemented as soon as possible by inhouse staffing. So m. T. A. Would like to sustain this funding level and this level of work for the next few years. We are recommending funding in this current year with funds from the sixth Street Safety project, which is now going to be fully funded with Development Impact fees and a state grant as well. The next two years, we are recommending advancing funds from the out here of the prop k. Programs. Theres a Strategic Plan amendment to make this. M. T. A. Would come back to request those funds. To . 5 million in year two and 2. 3 million and year three. We have been made aware that there is a project that is one of the projects on the list of corridors that has actually advanced in construction. This is the Taylor Street quick build project. Theres about 400,000 that might be able to be reprogrammed to a substitute project that m. T. A. Would be working to identify on the high injury network. It there there will be quarterly reporting to the board on the delivery of this program. This is to fund the phase i paving, the rock rapid project paving treatment. This is the paving portion of the scope of work. This is the hairball intersection, if you will. These are additional funds that the board was made aware of that were needed to fully fund the project and to fund the retaining wall that was identified as necessary during the design phase of work. This will cover that scope. The last project is the vision zero coordinated bulb project. These are to install corp curb ramps on corners that are really hard to get. They are over sidewalk basements , so there is additional treatments in addition to the curb ramps that are necessary so there is a raised crosswalk and bulb out. This is why the project is on the pricier side for installing curb ramps. And additional location at california and height, which is not funded by the scope, by this request, but it will advance through the project. With that, i can answer any questions. Thank you. That was 18 milliondollar mouthful. Commissioner brown . Thank you. Just have a few questions as i was looking through this. Im just looking at the quick build allocation. So you had mentioned there was a project on taylor that has been completed ahead of time, so there is actually more money there that could be used so we are not retroactively asking for these fundings. Is that what you are saying . That is correct. I just wanted to clarify that. Can you tell me, maybe i missed it, were there any quick build projects in district five . I dont believe that there was a district five location that was identified at this point. They might be identified through either a substitution effort, potentially like with the save taylor funds, or there are spot improvements. There was a pot of funds in this allocation that would be used to fund hi collision areas with spot treatments. Right. Is there an area is a reason why there was no request from district five office, or can you tell me why . Let me bring up the director of livable streets to address how the projects were identified in terms of identifying the projects, i wanted to mention two things. First is the allocation wouldve line of enforcement that would fund will city why that has been requested by members of this body. The second thing i think is this is the first of many for years of this program. We were scrambling to put this together in the last couple of months. We picked the projects that were ready to go right now. As it happened, this is where this project was. As we come back for future years , we will have more time to prepare and make sure weve a better spread of projects for subsequent allocations. Im just a little concerned because i have have five pedestrian deaths. That is 30 of the city of pedestrian deaths which is in district five. I would really love it if you would really seriously look at some projects in district five that we can use that money. We would love to sit down with your office and identified the quick build projects in district five. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any other questions from commissioners . Seeing none, is there Public Comment on this item . If there are other speakers, if you will line up to my left, youre right. I am with the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition. Theres a lot of really great stuff here. I want to express our support for several in particular. The central richmond Traffic Safety project, the ocean avenue safety improvements, the bikeway , a really awesome project, the Quick Build Program , and the hairball improvements. I do want to speak specifically to the quick build implementation program, though. A couple months ago in may, this body approved a resolution compelling city agencies to work harder towards vision zero and faster. This is the result of that work. I want to thank this body but also commends the sfmta on their work towards number of projects that are crucial to the safety of people walking and biking. Already we have seen taylor go into the ground, that is a 31 road diet on in the tenderloin, one of our dangerous streets. This afternoon, we will be looking at approvals for sevente lanes, another one on the quick build list. We are moving at an unprecedented rate. It is very exciting. It will take more funding so we really hope that you approve this today. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good morning, commissioners. I am from walk San Francisco

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