Once but twice to get wiped out in San Francisco. The first time was getting off the train at fourth and king and trying to go across the platform. The traffic stopped, so i started walking, and the bike didnt stop and went threw the e red light at 100 Miles Per Hour. Maria remembers it because she wrote it down and the situation was written down. Next time i got nearly wiped out was right here in front effort steps entering city hall. I waited for my time to cross and as i went across, a bike blasted straight through at 30 Miles Per Hour and i never saw it coming because the bike lane was masked by a van. So none of these cases, i thin think actually, a policeman saw it and said there was nothing he do about it because bikes do not have registrations and my suggestion to you, and i know it would be heavy in San Francisco, is to consider mandate rate, a recommendation for bikes with our f i. D. Didnt that way you can enforce it. Let me wrap up. The ultimate path to vision zero is the way we design our cities, is by not having pedestrians operating in the same sphere as vehicles. You go all over europe, you look at the great places and look at paris and brussels, lux ombourg. Public comment is closed and commissioner, any closing words . Thank you, everyone. We know this is tough work and we a lot more we need to do and appreciate you and all of the folks out there are doing in the enforcement are doing and thank you, colleagues, for having this hearing and well be following up and continuing to partner with you all. And you are always welcome to the vision zero committee. Commissioner, hainey, as any members of the body are interested, we will happily include you. With that, mr. Clerk, next item, please. Item 11, on the geneva san jose study. Mr. Henderson . Good afternoon. Im tony henderson, an engineer with the wall Streets Division and here to discuss the geneva san jose study and provide an update on where we are. To give a little bit of background, ill try to keep this presentation high level right now and happy to go into any details through the discussion. This is a study that was requested by the then balboa station and funded through the program by commissioner avalos and we communicate. The goals of the project are to look at the general area around balboa park station, centered around the geneva san jose intersection and as coordinate g with the other developments. Over time, our focus has shifted to the mline terminal on the south leg of san jose avenue didnt this is because as we worked through the area, we were finding opportunities to do little changes to the general intersection of geneva san jose. We were working to coordinate with many of the adjacent projects in the area that have been underway and we have the upperyard development which is the former muniyard developed shortterm as the rv triage site and longterm will be turned into a 100 Affordable Housing unit, believe north of 100 units. To coordinate with that, bart is proposing to do a redo of the plaza adjacent to the station and right now it is two drivethrough lanes and theyre proposing to create a plaza and a culdesac loop to facilitate temporary patron loop and dropoff facilities. We have the jeani jeanie have ge which will be bringing a lot more people to the area. As i mentioned, our focus shifted to the mline boarding facilities which is located on the southern leg of san jose. As you can see in the photos here, it shows that this is really not an ideal boarding situation by any means and does not meet current standards. The boarding island for inboard downtown does not fit a twocar train. Most of the trains that serve this are two cars and also the boarding island doesnt connect to the crosswalk. As you can see in the top right photo. This is because of the swing of the train as it exits the terminal and posing technical difficulties. So. Many cross from the sidewalkto. In the bottom photo, you see what happens in the outbound direction. The muni customers step off and cross midbe block. Thimidblock. This is a typical s people are transferring from the mline to bart or other moonny muniroutes. There have been no major incidents and our goal is to make changes before an incident could potentially happen. This is where we came up with the current proposal that weve been working to develop in concept. The current boarding facilities, because of how the tracks are laid out and the turns are, dont allow us to build what we would more traditionally do at a lot of other facilities with boarding islands. So what we are looking at conceptionually is for new boarding buildouts at the niagra intersection, which is the entrance to the bart loop. They are the orange blobs in the lower left corner of the screen and they would be accompanied with accessible ramps for wheelchair users or other persons with limited mobility. Those are the teallshaped items. The trains would be shifted a little bit from their current pickup and dropoff and supported by the new bart path and plaza. The red is a current walking path and the blue is the new one. This would greatly be enhanced for riding and this woul the abo install new pedestrian ramps, the current sorry, the accessible ramps, the current Accessible Facilities are limited and can be cumbersome for passengers to use. Boards are moved away from the congested intersection and discourages pedestrians from crossing midblock. The new bart plaza is less deep than walking along geneva. As with everything, there are tradeoffs, there is increased walking distance to bart or transit lines on geneva avenue but its a less path of travel to transverse. When we have to serve the outbound ramp, the train would momentarily block the next. This is a conversation with the Fire Department and it would move in one lane of traffic. However, traffic volumes here, we believe, can support that and there would be parking impacts. We are talking order of magnitude around 12 to 15 spaces. These are conceptual diagrams and present unique design challenges we would need to work through with our designers. We also need to continue working with the Fire Department on this and it is narrowing the roadway and it would be the accessible stops, blocking the intersections. We need to continue working to make sure we have an acceptable solution. Cost and funding, we are preliminary on the design aspect and its tough to make a cost estimate until we can get detailed into the design but we do expect this would be more expensive construction than what we see on other bulbouts and around the 15 million range. Right now we have funding for this study and to move into preliminary design and we are working with our colleagues and finance to find additional funding. Other improvements to the area that we are looking at, the cameron beach railyard, trying to improve the pedestrian environment through crosswalks, better separate out, the train area, pedestrian area and streetskate improvements. The intersection itself, the signal, it is a very complex signal impacted by multiple train movements, heavy pedestrian and vehicular traffic and we are evaluating of courses, southbound, rightturning vehicles from pedestrians, but this will depend on traffic signal feasibility, if the equipment can handle it and well be doing that evaluation. For outreach, this has been and ongoing process. We started with a kickoff meeting several years ago where we heard a lot more from the community about what they liked and disliked about transportation and access in the area. Throughout the years weve done combined areas with bart as theyve had meetings. Our next step is to do onsite popup meetings in the fall to combine with school in session, to discuss with the riders and the big picture here is this, were viewing this as a midpoint on outreach, not the end and theres still a lot of unknowns with what needs to be flushed out with the design and well need to be working with the community to discuss the options and tradeoffs throughout and were far from the end on any outreach here. And with that, ill end. I found this interesting photo from 1972 in the archives, when upperyards was used as a bus yard. Commissioner safai. Thank you, chair and ill be brief. I appreciate that, tony. This is an important study. This anybody has been out in that intersection geneva, it is dangerous at times and there are housethousands and thousands ouf transportation, walking and all different forms of transportation. So anything that we can do to make it safer, im in full support of that. Obviously, we need to work out the details with the Fire Department, to understand better whether or not with can actually block traffic that way. So i want to look at the design, but essentially, im definitely in full support. This is an important part of protecting riders and encouraging riders and making them feel safe in the connectivity. I think moving over to the niagra area allows for an easier flow to get on to bart and its safer and less steep and i like that. Well keep work on the design but i just wanted to say this is a big priority and we want to make riders safer and this area better so we appreciate your hard work and well work closely with you and your team and everyone else to ensure this is the right outcome for out community. Thank you, commissioner. Any other questions from colleagues . Seeing none, i have one speaker card. Mr. Goodman and other members who would like to testify, come forward. Thank you, mr. Henderson. I was on the balboa park station area and that committee is no longer in session and we hope to see that reinvigorated because more housing come into district 11. This services thousands of people and most likely more in the future and we need to look seriously at this site. There is more than just the k, j and m lines and hopefully a future t connection. It was proposed as a possible lrv or brt connection and there are four major routes to this area, this station and anything that can be done to improve the safety for pedestrians and the increased population that will be there is critical. I think that needs to be considered as an alternative, that they look at linking the m, k, j and t lines, whether its across a platform or do a future study to actually look at a more largescale intermodal hub and put engineers in a room and im sure theyll come up with a solution to actually cross platforms and directly connect transit lines and that will improve transit in this district and it will drastically improve transit in other districts adjacent. So im hoping d7, d10 and d11 can push forward the need to study this more in depth. There can be solutions to link the platforms and the trains together, thank you. Any other members who would like to testify . If not, Public Comment is closed. And thank you for that intip study that has gone from commissioner ovolose to commissioner safai and looking forward to working with you, commissioner to further flush that out to find longterm capital. Mr. Clerk, can you call the next item . Potential regional transportation measure update, information item. Miss bose and i mess up your name, michelle. Im michelle bolue at the Transportation Authority and as Marie Lombardo mentioned, the bay area is discussing a transportation measure for a number of years, especially in light of the successes of the major transportation measures in seattle and l. A. And so for a little context, l. A. s measure m is expected to generate 120 billion through a new halfcent stales tax didnt tension of a second halfcent sales tax. Voters approve this to raise 54 billion over 40 years. Our work on the San FranciscoTransportation Plan and the transportation 2045 task force demonstrated there are large funding needs for all parts of our Transportation System and were including the tnc tax and downtown congestion pricing study. A rcmp nam measure would complement that work and recognising that maintaining our existing system in a state of good repair while enhancing it to meet the vision for the future requires funding support from all levels of government. And so, the two groups here today, the bay area and voices for Public Transportation have been planning and thinking about a transportation measure targeting the november 2020 ballot, which promises to be popular given the anticipated high voter turnout. But nothing is set yet and we know there are many barriers to getting something on the ballot and it will be very hard to get something passed because it needs twothirds voter support across the entire region. Now so thithis is your chance tn on all matter of these measures and i know both groups will value your feedback. With that, were start wig the h the voices from the Public Transportation group and then the bay area. Ok. Miss selby. I was going to say good morning but we are well into afternoon and i really have some ricola if anybody needs sugar. My name is dia selby and im with the transit riders and we are proudly the largest transportation Advocacy Organization in the city with the largest number of transportation riders in the region. We are part of and i cofounded this voices for Public Transportation. Does this click automatically . Do i need to come over here . These are some of the organizational endorsements that we have. We have labour, transportation advocates, youth, seniors, disabled and environment. Our goal is to create a valuesbased measure that will have good outcomes and that is winnable and thats what were working towards. This is not about buses and trains but about people. This is marion and she works for the sfp and lives in East San Jose and isnt able to have breakfast or go to school with her daughter judy because she has to get to work. But with investment from a regional transportation measure, she can spend that with her daughter. This is ernesto, the love of his life in livermore, but the commute is killing them but the train is a feasible option and love prevails. Now this is troy l i, born in china and she doesnt werent rohave to burden her family by staying overnight and she wont have to. She can have an easy day trip to the grandkids and get home for dinner when we invest in a regional measure. This is joe at San FranciscoCommunity College and relies on the student express, the 29, which, unfortunately, at nighttime runs 20 been 30, 50, 60 minutes apart. We want to make sure residents of all abilities and income enjoy Transportation Options that reliably, safelily and conveniently get us to where we need to go and how do we do this . With this gamechanging measure creating goodpaying jobs, reducing Carbon Emissions because people will actually want to ride Public Transportation. Behind the vision are principles on the lefthand side and just to show you how policies might come out of it, the principle of better transit green jobs and climate leads to union didnt greeand greenjobs and the sustae worldclasworldcoordinated transportations funds operations at 30 didnt make it cheaper. Promoting social equity means buses get as much attention as trains and lowincome areas get more attention than the downtown where the attention has been. And ensuring fairfunding means we share the burden of the cost of this measure among residents and businesses and the wealthy and we want to be clear we are not supportive of a onecent sales tax as the only way to fund this. Prioritizing Community Engagement means the people have to be at the table working on this measure. Here is some of the folks who develop this vision and principle. A little bit more about who we are, voices for Public Transportation. I just want to focus one more time on the Revenue Source and we will have three different sources of revenue ready for you. We have a consultant working with that with Silicon ValleyCommunity Group and they will be much it will be a much more fair Revenue Source and then, of course, as i mentioned before, very important to us that are principals guide our revenue and were reaching out to the people who need Public Transportation the most. All of this leads to a winnable measure. Quickly, a timeline for you. Senator bell, our transportation chair has to flesh out his bill, sb278 and we need to have our musthaves and by we, i mean everybody, by november. He has the awesome task of by may 2020, passing in both houses by twothirds. In june, it goes to the mtc. In august, back to us and county ballot measure deadlines, the Campaign Begins in ernest august through october for this regional funding measure about people. We vote and we win. So thank you very much for your time and if you have questions, just let us know. Thank you, miss selby. Next presenter, please. Good afternoon. My name is stewart cohen, a member of the Steering Committee and for the previous 22 years until march of this year, i was the founder and executive director of transform, a transportation Advocacy Organization and during that time, i got to work closely with the folks that just presented in voices and so, i appreciate their principles and presentation. The concept of faster bay area, like michelle said, came out of 2016 victories in seattle and los angelos and three groups in our region, bur, the Bay Area Council and the Leadership Group looked around at the fragmented Transportation System, especially Public Transit and realized that unless we can create an integrated and seamless system, were never going to be able to provide access to opportunity for all of our residents, especially with the displacement taking place and were never going to be ab