Clerk alberto okay. Thats okay. The committee would also like to acknowledge the staff at sfg tv who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available online. Mr. Clerk, do you have any communications . Yes. Members of the public, please silence or turn off our cellphones. Public comment will be taken after each item. Speakers will have two minutes. At every meeting i have announced the number of fatalities since our last meeting. Another four people have been killed on the streets. Thats 22 people who have lost their lives this year, the deat deaths are tragic and heartbreaking and i want to give pause for them. But what we dont here enough about is the nearly 600 people annually when are severely injured on our streets. Severely is not bumps and bruises. It means trauma. Most likely lifetime of impact. 600 people annually. Despite our vision zero efforts, these numbers have not gone down, with more drivers, more congestion, more mobility devices, we must be aggressive in our actions. Education is partially the answer, but we also are failing on enforcement and accountability. When i meet with Autonomous Vehicle companies who state that safety is their north star, yet their idea of Community Investment is having cars at parade parades. We are failing to ensure that companies are True Partners in our vision zero policy, rather than focusing on marketing and p. R. When a t. N. C. Company states they are going to roll out alerts to passengers to watch for bikes and that never comes to fruition, we are failing. When i ask bayview bay wheels that what their tangible efforts are to support vision zero as they roll out thousands of bikes, i am told they give money for bike racks. Its kind of insulting thats their answer to vision zero, bike racks. As a city, we are investigating in engineering changes and are working to create stronger policies, but vision zero requires accountability from everyone. As more mobility devices are launching on our streets, we must be vigilant and hold Companies Accountable for the impacts they have and not make it nearly impossible for the residents to have their concerns noted and tracked. We must have accountability written into any permits so that bad players can be eliminated. I want to see lighting implemented city. Wide. As a city we most promote the passage of automated speed enforcement. We must work to slow down our corridors. If Companies Want to launch mobility devices, they must commit to vision zero in tangible and measurable ways. Putting up bike racks is not one of them. I dont want to be a broken record. I want accountability. I want to hear updates on what has been done, but also clear plans and timelines and measurable goals for what is being planned. I think there will be a lot of questions today. So, mr. Clerk, please call the first item. Clerk item 1, roll call. [ roll call ]. Clerk we have quorum. Item 2. Approve the minutes of the june 27, 2019, meeting. This is an action item. Motion to approve the minutes. Subject to Public Comment, i would make such a motion. Even though i was not at the meeting, i have read the minutes. I would move, subject to Public Comment, approval of the june 27, 2019, minutes. Is there any Public Comment for this item . Seeing none, then this motion passes. Roll call, please. Clerk on item 2. [ roll call ]. Clerk we have approval. One more. We have approval. The motion is approved. Mr. Clerk, can you please call the next item. Clerk vision zero Progress Report. This is an information item. Come on up. She is up. I name from the sfmta. I am the Vision Zero Task force cochair. I would like to open with a Progress Report on our 2019 Action Strategy actions. Today im going to be joined by my colleague geraldine and john, who will be presenting on elements of this. Specifically, geraldine will be talking out our north of market and south of market signals. Its currently in progress and an item currently of interest to many of you. Within our safe streets category, our goal was to implement five quick build projects within two years. Weve now since expanded that work since you were able to Fund Additional money for this program. So weve committed to ten projects in one year with more coming in the next years. So very specifically projects that we completed that you can go see in the ground include the Taylor Street quick builds, where we converted in some blocks three lanes of traffic to one lane of general traffic with large buffers to reduce the speed of cars traveling down Taylor Street. We also completed the sixth street big build. It is two lanes north bound and one lane south bound. We were not going to wait for a longtermonstruction project before immediately implementing any of the safety implements we could as fast as possible. Seventh street quick build is our absolute fastest project built in the history of my group. We completed over a mile of a protected bicycle facility on seventh street. In seven total weeks from planning to implementation. That includes a protected corner of an intersection at townsend street. These are outdated pictures. If you go out to townsend street, we are currently pouring concrete on townsend today, building the largest bus boarding area in the city probably west of the mississippi and make sure it is safe for those taking Public Transportation serving this most intense part of the city. In conjunction with the chase center opening, it wasnt just about muni and any other form of transportation. We built a twoway bicycle facility which fronts effectively the waterfront. So the chase center is a very safe and easy place to get to from bicycle. We are appreciative of our crews who are able to get that in before the chase center opens and make people know that this is one more way you can get there. We have a connection in district 3 parallel to the embarcadero. For those who choose not to ride on that, that may not be comfortable for every user, we created a contra flow bike way on battery street. We are able to help people safely cross the street there using a new signal timing phase. Weve really gotten great feedback and big complements from our petty cab users in addition to other people who ride their bike down there. Im going to turn it over to my colleague geraldine who is going to speak about the north and south signal timing project. Its a lot to take credit for. Thank you for coming today, geraldine. Good morning, commissioners. I am the project manager for the north of market, south of market signal retiming project. Today ill give you a little bit of detail about our project. To start off with sure. To start off with, this project will retime 345 signals in San Francisco, and that represents about 30 of the over 1200 signals we have in this city. To provide some background on the grant, it was a 3. 74 million Highway SafetyImprovement Program grant that we applied for a few years ago and got. Thats how we got the funding for this project. Some of the key aspects and goals for this project were to try to improve safety in a number of highinjury corridors in the city, including the south of market, tenderloin, financial district, union square, and Western Addition areas. The idea for this was to use signal timing to address the collisions that had already been observed in those areas of the city. Some of the key elements and benefits for our project were the first one was to reduce the walking speed to 3 feet per second. What this refers to is for the part of the pedestrian timing that where we developed a countdown portion, we reduced our walking speed assumption from 3. 5 feet per second to 3 feet per second. How this plays out in the field is a typical improvement you might make is if the countdown before was 10 seconds, now you might see it a couple seconds longer, at 12 seconds. Thats how a pedestrian would see that benefit out in the field. Another benefit was we added a lot of leading pedestrian intervals to intersections. At the end i can i have some numbers to show how many leading pedestrian intervals we added. Another element benefit to this project was to update the signal synchronization for some key corridors. So this has a couple of key aspects to it. For some corridors, we actually lowered the design speed, where it was 25 mph before, we took the opportunity to lower them to, say, 20 mph. In some other areas where we observed a lot of congestion, we took this opportunity with this project to improve progression so those areas werent so congested. So we took into account the latest traffic volumes, looked at patterns, updated lane geometries to come up with new progression for a lot of the corridors. We also in developing the signal timing, we took into account key muni lines, made sure that we were keeping those corridors flowing from muni. In particular, mission, for example, we made sure to Prioritize Mission and make sure that we were keeping the progression good for that corridor. Finally, some of the other elements for this project for updating the cycles, yellow lights, and allred clearance intervals for the different intersections. With regards to cycling, a typical improvement we did was to lengthen the cycling. So common existing situation is we have 60 seconds for a typical cycle at an intersection, and that just wasnt long to do all the improvements we wanted to, longer yellows, all reds, and the crossing time. With regards to the yellow lights, again we lengthened a lot of yellow lights to update the timing to the most to the very latest standards with regards to yellow timing. How that plays out is if you had an existing yellow of, say, 3 seconds, we increased that to 3. 5 or 4 seconds. For allred clearance, a typical improvement was if we had an existing 0. 5 seconds, we may have increased it to, say, 1 or 1. 5 seconds. So by 1 or 2 seconds is how we increased the allred time. Whats allred . Allred is the portion of the signal time where everybody gets a red. So after one phase ends, theres a pause before the other direction of traffic gets the green. Okay. Thank you. This map visually shows the scope of our project. To date as i mentioned were going to update about 345 intersections. Weve actually started the implementation already at over 200 intersections to date. Its already in the field. How weve been implementing the changes are through batches. Like, we couldnt implement all the timing changes in one shot. So what weve been doing is implementing them by splitting it up into the different areas. So, for example, the western edition updated timing went in in april. About 50 intersections north of market east area went in. The latest batch a week ago. Soma east part of fourth street, that went in about a month ago. So a total of 200 intersections already got the new timing. The remaining intersections that will get the new timing are for the rest of north of market. We are anticipating putting that in later this month. So thats about 100 intersections. The very last batch will be the west locations, the locations west of fourth street. That were hoping to do next month. Finally, just to kind of summarize some of the key improvements weve done on an intersection basis. So weve implemented new leading pedestrian intervals at about 200 intersections. Weve updated the 3 feet per second walking speed at 280 locations. Weve updated the yellow and allred for 180 intersections. Finally, we took this opportunity as part of this project to coordinate the implementation of pedestrian scrambles at nine intersections in the tenderloin area as part of this project. For those scrambles, we plan on implementing those later this month. Were still trying to finalize the details of that. If you were interested in the list of locations, i dont have it on a slide, but i can verbally say the locations for the scramble. No, i dont know that you have to read it in. But can you at least give me those nine locations. Oh, sure, yeah, yeah. Are you finished . Yeah. Can i i want to in regards to the signal retiming, it sounds like most of what youre talking about will happen in the next few months i guess. Yeah, most so as i mentioned, we actually implemented the new timing already at 200 of the 345 or so locations. The remaining intersections that need the timing still implemented are most of north of market and the soma west location. But the other locations like western edition and the part of bush pine thats west of vaness will be implemented at different times during this year. Im making sure that i heard right, which is that the rest of it, the yellow and the reds, theyre going to be implemented in the next few months . Yes. So for the rest of north of market, the current plan is to implement the rest of it later this month. Soma the soma west im calling it, its were tentatively scheduled for next month. So beyond what you spoke about today, are there any plans to roll out any other areas in San Francisco . So far not as big an effort as this project because in order to update these many intersections, we had to take some time to develop some commut computer models, gather lane geometry speeds and put that in a computer model that had to be optimized. Thats how we develop our final signal time. The question is do we have future plans for other areas . So perhaps ricardo might have something to add about that. Good morning, commissioners. I am with the m. Ta. City traffic engineer. Like geraldine said this was a conscious effort where we obtained funds because of the size and the complexity involved. We do have plans to retime the rest of the city. As we had discussed in a previous city, were committed to do the remaining intersections before the 2024 deadline, so about five years from when we had discussions. It will be a matter of grabbing locations and retiming systems and locations on a casebycase basis. We do have plans to gradually retime signals because we feel that this is an area where theres a lot of safety gains to be made relatively efficiently. So we do have plans, but this was a very large effort that we wanted to highlight today. No, no, i really appreciate this large effort i guess. It seems this effort was done with some efficiency. So im just wondering why we cant roll out the rest of the twothirds or 70 of the city with as much efficiency. What are the plans . I mean, you know, im curious since this effort did not impact my district, didnt impact commissioner stephanies district. He has lumbar street. I have 19th avenue and a bunch of other streets. What are the plans . I mean, you say you have plans, but what are you going to roll out next . I mean, youre almost finished this piece right now by next month sounds like. Whats going to happen after next month . Whats going to happen in the next six months . We can give you more details. We dont have an immediate sixmonth plan. Like i said, we have a plan to retime a lot of signals, and a lot of signals have been retimed. What we can provide is what locations remain to be done and what have been done and what locations will be done by 19th avenue and others. So theres a lot of initiatives that are behind us and ahead of us. We can provide more information in terms of looking ahead schedule. We dont have a project of this magnitude right now identified. So the remaining retiming will be done by existing projects or existing staff efforts. We dont have any large effort because we dont have the money, is that what it is . We have not applied for the grant to do other systems. Its possible that other systems can be retimed without having to do as much data collection. In some of the systems we need to do some modelling, we already have them. Well see if we do need to have an effort of this magnitude, but for the most part the systems that remain are relatively smaller and more linear. So i think we can tackle those on a nonfund basis. We can probably look at seeing how we can use existing staff and resources to do those systems. So i guess at our next meeting can you present at least the next years effort or Going Forward yeah, we can give you an idea of which locations have already been retimed and give you an update on locations were going to be doing next. That would be appreciated. If its a resource issue, then are we looking at resources at all, madam director . [ indiscernible ] we have obtained as part of the quick build funding that we have obtained, we will do some additional for that. We have some additional engineers positions that we will devote to this. We will do additional work in this area as part of this initiative. So just prepare for to present next time. In terms of the scrambles, its been my desire to maybe expand this separate with scrambles. Are we going to actually look at once you put these nine in, for instance, are you going to look at the results of that . Certainly after we put in the scrambles, that is part of the project is actually to do some posttiming analysis. So we could definitely do Something Like that after we install the scrambles. Scrambles are relatively new to the city. Are we making any effort for these nine locations to have somebody out there, whether m. T. A. Or somebody else, to educate people how to use it . Because i found when the first place i saw it was in oakland. I found people not knowing what to do. So it creates almost like a negative impact in the sort of immediate usage. Yeah, we got this very specific request from the tenderloin which has a Traffic Safety task force of community members. We do have one scramble that was recently installed. We heard the feedback that there is some confusion, especially because we cannot put in what are called the diagonal heads just yet. So weve had a request from the community to support education. Right now were kind of trying to identify funding to support specifically your request. So making sure that we have dollars going directly to the community so they can educate each other. Especially because theres a couple groups already out there on the streets already doing crossing assistance, tenderloin safe passage. So even better than the government going out and doing it is the Community Going out and doing it with each other. That would be our goal when the scrambles go out commensurate to the project. So moving forward, can we actually time it in a way that theres no lag time . I mean, you would have these people ready when the scrambles are installed, ra