Twothirds vote because of it. Would there be a way for the housing measure to go first in 2020 and then the transportation measure to follow after . We are really focussed on the november 2020 ballot, seems the political alignment. Is ripe for that, but also dont feel that if we dont do it in to 20 its not worth doing. We are sure in 2022 we will have the same problems we have today if we have not made the substantial changes and transformations. I cant stand up here and say we dont have a backup plan, but we think a real momentum behind what we are doing and momentum to get on the 2020 ballot. And then to address your second point on the demand side. You know, we spoke about this before and i think this is its very true and so you know, the work thats been done at m. T. C. And elsewhere on starting to build out the express lane network is something that we have heard from a lot of people, should be completed as part of this measure. And having a sort of a regional, gapless Regional Express lane network, which operates seamlessly so we dont have nine different counties and a bunch of j. P. A. S operating their express Lane Networks with their own rules and everything, having a gapless express lane network, forms the basis for a sort of a sort of a truly seamlesslyrun express bus network around the region, which integrates with an upgraded rail network, also operates seamlessly could be the sort of one of the foundations and express lanes could be one of the drivers, one of the demand sort of producers. We are also thinking that on one of the ideas that we are exploring with our Business Partners and others are looking at kind of the regional scale t. D. M. Program. Thats something that the last time this was tried was in the early 1990s, coming out of some federal Clean Air Act and then implemented by the bay area Quality Management district and others. But at the time it was not really possible to do it, but the time was not right, basically, and not possible to do it in a way which was flexible and easy to administer. And so there was a revolving in the legislature and 1996 the legislature stopped the programs like the one we are considering. But we think the combination of Major Investments in transit, which kind of provide an alternative to a lot of employees for driving alone, will be sort of whats necessary to get employers to the table and to provide their own incentives for people to get out of their cars driving alone. And i think some of that will lead to more people taking transit, especially if its, you know, if it can get them to work and a lot will end up in carpooling and van pooling as well. At the regional scale, many people who carpool to work to take transit, put that in context. But i think we have more work to do there. But this would be a transformational start to put Something Like this t. D. M. Program in place if it makes its way. Other directors . Thank you. Thank you, all of you for the presentation. Its fascinating. My first thought is i wish we had done this five years ago, ten years ago, i wish we were already well on our way to these solutions that are outlined here. At first i wanted to say im a little bit agnostic on how we get to that funding. I do understand the regressive nature of the sales tax. I think the low income sales tax credit could help address that, its a serious issue. Do you know off the top of your head briefly, los angeles was sales taxbased, correct . Yes, 0. 01 sales tax. And seattle . Combination of different measure, including if im not mistaken, and off the top of my head, probably also a senior moment, a sales, a vehicle license fee, and peter parcel tax and sales tax. Combination in the measure. And go ahead. Im saying, i feel like i dont have the knowledge to say where the Funding Source should come from. Others probably have better knowledge to say we need this so badly that im at the point where i will, i will support it, i will support it almost wherever the funding comes from. I would love it to be as aggressive as possible but i think the idea we can make this transformative will speak for the region, people are tired sitting in traffic, putting on my caltrain board member hat, we are topped out on passengers because we are overcrowded. We cant take more cars off the freeway, we cannot fit them on the trains right now. So we need these type of projects to switch people to cars on to this, so i understand there are serious reservations, but boy, we have to try it. We have to, we have to do something, otherwise we are going to be drowning in the same traffic and the same pollution that we have right now. So, thank you for support on this. For your work on this. You can count on my personal support and hopefully well be able to get the region on board and get something passed because we need to. Thank you, director. Director eaken. Thank you for being here, for the presentation. I was actually a little surprised when i read the briefing materials last night this was going to happen so quickly, ambitious and clearly a smart moment to go. I am a little bit concerned that some of the folks who have spoken up today should be your natural allies, they should be right there with you Holding Hands in the coalition and they are not there yet, and a chance when you want to go fast and be inclusive always, double down on the efforts to be inclusive of equity, environmental, health, social justice organizations. To be honest you need them to get through the legislature and this measure to pass. I know you have initiated, reached out to my organization but i just, it seems to me very clear theres more work to be done to build a broader winning coalition. I think thats absolutely true and we appreciate all the work that the voices have done and i think we are sort of working our way together, and i dont want to speak for them, hopefully they feel we are working our way together, and i think that we, you know, have enormous amount of respect for the coalition they put together and the work they have done. And i think this is part of the process. And this looks a little more like it kind of a, the type of outreach process that a state legislative bill goes through, rather than sort of a county sales tax, and i think thats one of the challenges because at the start it is a legislative bill that has to go through the state legislature and then its going to be sort of, if this passed, a whole other level of outreach and kind of Community Engagement that would happen before there was an expenditure plan and on and on, so i think we are trying to, the best intentions inherent to this and trying to work our way through them and really appreciate kind of, you know, everybodys availability to work with us and try and get through. Director. Add on to that. I think its important at this early stage understanding that you need to get to the legislature to engage with the Disability Community in particular, you said a lot of really good things, the presentation addressed the universal Design Principles and all that stuff and im sure some of the coalitions that exist of Community Organizations include people with disabilities but specifically in the certain San Francisco disability is a Key Organization and regionally and nationally, defense fund, transportation expertise and policy expertise that would be really, you know, very relevant to the discussion here. I think its crucial that they are at the table early because people with disabilities and seniors are so transitdependent compared to the rest of the population. They are often, obviously they overlap with low income populations as well, and what we are seeing in our transportation network, especially with shared mobility and technology, those populations are being left behind. Bike Share Program does not address people with a disabilities. So it needs to be picked up in this transformative thinking. So, engage with those folks often. Very, a point very well taken, and ive had the pleasure of working with some of those folks with my other hats on as a director and others, point very well taken. Absolutely. Ive just close up the comments by saying please do work more with public transportation. I think we need to have allies and come together and make sure there are building plans for future. And i think we cant under score the issues of around housing and the transit connections and the tradeoffs to make investment in major Rail Infrastructure specifically, they have to build the necessary housing so that we can, so that works, right, we dont want the investments for rail that goes out to the middle of nowhere where nobody lives because people say they want rail. So, you know, those fights, my point is i think that that is the key thing. You saw, you might have seen the capital plan, 30 billion plus dollars that we could easily take from this pot if we are able to, so we are making the commitments here in San Francisco and i want to make sure we dont also get other jurisdictions dont always make the necessary commitments that they need and making sure that everyone is equally accountable. I think that is something we are conscious of as well, how can we use this measure to kind of sort of help support communities creating equitable, and its a big incentive pot to help with that, and something we are conscious of, and complimentary policies are worked on at m. T. C. And elsewhere, revamping the Regions Development policy, a process ongoing, and at m. T. C. , and appreciate your engagement in, especially director heminger. But yeah, i think its absolutely spot on. Final comments . I wanted to sort of thank m. T. A. Staff for their engagement in the coalition, as broed a coalition as possible, enormous amount as a transformational potential for lots of different agencies. So, thank you very much for your deepen gaugement, directors. Thank you. With that, the next item. 15, approving various parking and traffic modifications from Mission Street, trum bull to geneva, and geneva avenue to Mission Street and Mission Street excelsior safety project. Victoria weiss, i am very excited, actually to bring you two projects today, todays hearing on our high injury network. The first one, Mission Street excelsior safety project, going to deliver some critical safety improvements, not just on Mission Street but geneva avenue as well. Talking about new traffic signals, targeted bus relocation and comprehensive merchant approach to curb management. Some of the key aspects of the project but spend a couple minutes about the community jut reach we have done. Its been long, frankly, but a very extensive one, so what we are bringing you today is reflective of what the community wanted and of their concerns, and we included all kinds of outreach, everything from door to door to actually doing transit rider surveys and so on. Transit reliability improvements, not a future red lane on the street. And direction from you and the mayor, london breed, executing a quick build providing you all approve it today. We do anticipate doing it over the winter and 2020. With that, ask my colleague matt to come up and share more detail with you, all aspects of the project. Supervisor safai, he came up from his meeting downstairs to give briefly some remarks. Thank you, thank you commissioners, thank you for indulging me. Im trying not to be disresuspectful to Public Comment downstairs but wanted the opportunity to commend your staff, done a phenomenal job with the community outreach. They have done an extensive amount of conversations, flyer, put information out in multiple languages, they have talked to merchants, we have had a number of different town halls and community meetings, worked with my office extensively. We have had a lot of back and forth. Had some followup with different merchants and different organizations that would be impacted by this. Overall, i think this is a phenomenal plan. We are super excited to see this. I came here to say, if theres any way to accelerate the timeline we were really looking forward to that. I know it takes a lot of time to put the document, you know, once the document is finalized to put it into construction documents and put it out to bid and then receive bids and go through all that process. But every day that goes by there is theres new issues, we get emails all the time with Pedestrian Safety issues, with vehicular traffic issues, with, i mean, theres areas of this district where people just unilaterally cross the street where there is going to be a crosswalk as part of the plan but do it anyway because distance between the crosswalks and certain intersections are so far apart. But i think there is a lot of sensitivity paid to existing businesses, the type of uses, the type of design that can happen on top of that, we took the time to work with the Planning Department along with department of public works and fast forwarding a conversation about a better streets plan. That is already in the makings. We are trying to have this be the launching point for future investment but about a 15 Million Investment is a significant, i mean, i think thats around the price tag, is a significant investment. I think there was one last little tweak, i think staff is going to make that recommendation today. But other than that, i wanted to thank you for making this a priority in a part of town that has not received this level of investment and attention in a very long time. And commissioner brinkman, we are 100 committed to making sure that muni is prioritized and committed to that. I think what we decided collectively was that we would put this phase of the project forward first, would deal with a lot of the pedestrian and other issues and some of the improvements and take the next step to have the conversation about muni. So just wanted to thank you all for the opportunity to speak and thank staff and commend them on the phenomenal job they did on this project. And if you have anything you want to ask me quickly before i go back downstairs. Nothing to ask, but thank you for your cooperation on this, i know you have done a lot of hard work in the community to support this part of the project, and i know you will continue to do hard work. Thank you. Ill end with this, we use the large plan and safety and Improvement Project to build off of that. Used the neighborhood trainings improvement money. We did over 600,000 from my pool and additional money from your pool to do traffic calming around the district. So much so, people are emailing me on a daily basis asking for their street to have street cushions, raised sidewalk, so we are doing wonderful work with your team. We are going to continue that work now on alameni, its a dangerous corridor people are using as alternative to the freeway and alternative to Mission Street and the accidents are piling up. We just authorized 100,000, we might not need to use that full amount if we shrink the time, the Community Planning time. My only point is we have used that for conversation about r. P. P. , for traffic calming, for a larger districtwide conversation. So, appreciate the attention and thank you very much for your support and guidance. Good afternoon, follow with that. Name and title. Matt lasski, livable streets, to talk about the Mission Street safety, excelsior safety project. Excited to be here to present this project. I have a power point here, please. Thank you. As part of this project, implementing quick build projects and longer term streetscape project, which is great. On sections of Mission Street and geneva avenue, in the excelsior neighborhood. Sfmta staff and sustainable streets and transit worked really hard on this project. Since at least since 2017 and we worked a lot as well with the community as youve heard, ill touch on that as well. So the project area is, its an lshape, and approximately a mile long, focussed on Mission Street between geneva and trumbull, four travel lanes and on street parking. The 1414r, 14x, 49 and 52 all operate along this business corridor. On geneva avenue, concentrating on the area between mission and prague, also four lanes, with on street parking. And the 8bx, 53 and 54 lines operate here, equity routes. Additionally, all the areas around the project area, neighboring communities are communities are concern. So the stakeholders involved, you know, really are wide ranging. Its been a long planning process, like i said. Theres been many opportunities for Community Input, and we hope to implement quick build project starting this winter and then coordinate with public works on detailed designs and construction drawings for implementation of streetscape elements starting in 2021. And they actually have a paving project that we are working with them to leverage. There is definitely a need here in the area. Help us achieve our goal of vision 0. Both these corridors are on the high injury network, 323 injury crashes between 2011 and 2017. Five fatales of pedestrians as well. And of the 325 injury crashes, approximately 100 were bicyclists and pedestrians. So, definitely a need here. I think it speaks for itself. Mission and geneva also had during this time period, 43 collisions, seventh as the highest pedestrian, highest injury intersection for pedestrians in the city. So, since 2017, we have conducted a range of input on the proposed improvements and generally there is a strong desire from the community for safety improvements, primarily focussing on Pedestrian Safety. We had diverse inclusive process, we heard from stakeholders and Community Members and various opinions on the project. But some of our highlights included talking to commercial businesses as the supervisor stated. We spoke, we spoke to about 175 businesses once, getting their inp