Implementing this program but there are other parts that have access indie indiscernible . Operator you have three questions remaining. Speaker i would like to commend the sfmta on the slowstreets program. I think its great and particularly, i have frequently used the one on sanchez and if anything, thats to be extended even further and the slow street on 20th can be extended west, as well. I think that would be a great idea. I want to reiterate what everybody else said regarding the tenderloin, an equity standpoint in ten in terms of mg everyones lives better, its unfair they dont have slow streets. And people should take a step back and remember 30 of people in San Francisco dont even own a car and yet up until now, almost 100 of the streets where dedicated largely to cars and even now, 95 , so i think thats important perspective to keep in mind and just remember as we go forward, i think that this would be great to implement, especially after the pandemic and hopefully, make the city a better place to live in. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Operator you have two questions remaining. Speaker i live in clipper street. And i get t have to be careful i leave my house at the wonderful slow street area. Im calling to share my support for the slowstreet program. I enjoy, likmostly, im excitede expansion in golden gate park. Im a rollerskater and i appreciate using the park as much as i can and as far as i can and we should be able to use the park from every side of the city and i think everyone should have access to the park and i think its really important. I think that this program and other programs like it can be the outreach that they need and we want and having space for people to create their own programs is more important than creating programs for people. When i was listening earlier and i heard people say when we get attack to real meetings, this is a real meeting and that can still happen. Between park and rec, its all real and were all here right now and i would like to thank the board of directors. I just found out while i was listening to this that theres a part of duncan that is why would you want to ride your bike or rollerskate or teach your kid how to skateboard on that . That doesnt make any sense. The tenderloin, the main thing we need is public toilets and so, public toilets and then we can talk about the closed streets. Pai indiscernible . Next speaker, please. Speaker im a richland district resident and im actually on cabrero street right now and just yielded to a jogger and i just want to say that im a big fan of the slow street getting implemented so far throughout the city, especially jfk drive and lake street, paige street and the great highway. I think that these should be part of the landmarks in the city. Until that time, which i know would require a lot of planning, i want to just say i applaud the staff that have been doing their outreactheiroutreach and to supr fewer, who i hope will take ownership and take walks on the slow street. Earlier, the caller mentioned about the third street avenue slow street and the cabrero intersection being a problem. I was there ten seconds ago, i think it could be worked out. I am in a car and i dont think it will be a problem for our neighborhood if we just treat each other with civility and share the space. Thank you. Thank you, and was that our last speaker, moderator . Operator you have one question remaining. If anyone else wishes to address the board, dial 10 now. Next speaker. Operator you have three questions remaining. Next speaker, please. Speaker this is Hayden Miller and just wanted to voice my support. I live a few blocks away from lake street, soon to be cabrio and excited to be on the slow street and i look forward to more. Thank you so much and im looking forward to golden gate park. So lets keep these streets going. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Operator you have two questions remaining. Speaker hi. Im asking you to remove duncan street from the safe street extension. It would be hazardous and the implementation would be impractical. It looks nice on the slow streets but on the ground it doesnt work and its dangerous. Duncan street is completely cut off and theres no way through for pedestrians. indiscernible . Operator you have one question remaining. Speaker i apol advis apoloe background noise but im picking my son up from school. Im on 20th street and i see people and their children walking back and forth in the little commercial district here. We heard from a lot of our residents and neighbors they wanted something in our neck of the woods and it seemed like a great idea. indiscernible . Speaker for my neighbors that have concerns, they go about their daytoday lives and safer if you wanted to do it by foot or by bicycle. So thank you for your consideration and we hope you pass this. Moderator, any additional questions or speakers . Operator you have zero questions remaining. So with that, we will close Public Comments and i know that some directors have questions. Director tumlin, maybe you could address this about the tenderloin. We would like more slow streets in the tenderloin neighborhood and can you talk about the limitations and the constraints given that its a much more dense area . That there are transit lines in the other sorts of considerations and maybe you could talk about those and work with the Fire Department, specifically around jones and other streets in that area. I would be happy to start and tom mcguire could add to this. The tenderloin has the greatest concentration of Vulnerable People in all of San Francisco and that covers all categories of vulnerability. Its also a neighborhood that historically has had threeway bound traffic through it and in this period of covid time, from mobility perspective in San Francisco, theres no need for routing freewaybound traffic through the tenderloin and for the entire tenderloin, south of ellis and east of hyde, streets where were currently running buses on, from a basic mobility functional perspective, theres no need for vehicular traffic. What there is a need for and its related to the fact that the tenderloin has the highest concentration of vulnerable populations in San Francisco, if therthere is a need for unimpedd emergency access and it has by far the highest call rate for the Fire Department and the building heights in the tenderloin all require the big fire trucks with the ladders and stabilizers in order to be able to operate in the tenderloin and its important that the fire trucks are not delayed, that they are not moving barriers out of the way. And so, for the issues strictly with the sfmta purview, there are no problems with the street closures of any kind in the tenderloin and we need to be respectful of the needs of our sister agencies. Particularly the San FranciscoFire Department and also the San FranciscoPolice Department which, of course, has a major Police Station in the tenderloin. We also have had some challenges in the covid period about decisionmaking. And so, up until recently, all of our streets projects that weve been doing are implemented under the Health Directive and therefore, we as sfmta dont get to do what we want. Our work needs to be approved through the channels that have been created under the emergency directive, which require a lot of input from a variety of departments, several of which have effective veto control over our work. And they also need to have a strong tie to positive Health Outcomes which include, also, emergency services. And so thats been part of our frustration in the ten tenderlo, that the simple techniques weve been able to deliver so quickly with some simple little barricades with sandbags in a neighborhood of low buildings. Therefore, not requiring the big fire trucks, low buildings, no overhead wires and no Traffic Signals and no commercial activity, those technics that we view ed this have been successful in places like the sunset dont work in the tenderloin and what were struggling with is to figure out what are the techniques that work and do we have the resources in order to procure those materials . So the tenderloin remains our highest priority. Its the place weve actually invested by far the most effort and were finally starting to see some results with jones street, turk and levinworth has not been mentioned, but it has been much slower because it has required collaboration with agencies that have a different mission than we do. And tom, perhaps, you could add more along with the recent success. One more thing, actually. In terms of i know we dont put on sunday streets, and i know weve sun sunday streets in the tenderloin. Were there any lessons from that to be applied to which streets we choose for this process . Yes, so another history with the tenderloin, of course, it requires a high level of management. Anything that we would do there needs to be carefully managed with Community Partners and so the small efforts we have done that have been successful have been in collaboration with Community Partners largely around accommodating through distribution, accommodatin and r communitybased partners have helped us. One thing we are trying to figure out doing resources for is doing more sunday streets like events, where we are managed play streets. The challenge there is getting through the Health Department restrictions against gatherings in this time. And so, for many of the ideas that weve tried to put forward, that conventional approach was denied to us. And so, again, were trying to make progress on figuring out what can we do to make it possible for children to be able to play safely in the street in the tenderloin but not actually have that be a public gathering that results in the kinds of activities that are not supposed to be happening during shelterinplace . I have one question about ha, because in my neighborhood last weekend, not this past weekend but last weekend, there was tents in the street and i thought it was a straight fare but istreet fare butit was a me. I dont understand how that stuff is allowed and then we cant figure out a way to slow streets which are legal, congregating of people. I dont know who approved that or how it happened. Thats not something that was sanctioned. The supervisors were there and others. So, again, i noticed it mostly because there were actually, like, tents, not expensive kind, but kind of the tents that you have at soccer fields kind of thing. But anyway, just kind of was trying to figure out how that happens and how we can figure out working with the city for recreation purposes, congregating opportunities. Because its not meant that necessarily there is playing all together. Its lots of people congregate to do whatever they do. So maybe thats something we can work through with the Health Department or whomever, because i see it all of the time and theyre in the public right away. And no one theres no it doesnt seem like a consistent policy. I feel for the people in the tenderloin, theyre so devastatedly impacted and there arent enough play spaces and they feel we cant justify not doing something sooner. Tom, what did i miss in my statement . That was pretty comprehensive, jeff. I think just making it clear to this board that are four specific street reductions of traffic or removal of traffic from the streets projects in the tenderloin and theres the project we already did to reduce the capacity of golden gate avenue and that was done early in the shelterinplace and theres the jones street decision which doubles the amount of walking space on jones street and now today, well be able to get out in the streets in the next week or so. And then the other two were working on are converting and expanding the pedestrian space on turke and a similar kind of expanded pedestrian road on levinwortt and were working those through with the Fire Department right now. The sum total of those four will actually be a pretty Robust Network on four of the streets among the most dangerous for people simply trying to walk around in the sense of their exposure to traffic and so we have a breakthrough on jones and were hoping to have this shortly on levinworth and turke so that very soon, well actually see a network of carfree streets in the tenderloin. Great, with that, ill turn it over to director eakin because i know she has questions. Im sure other people have other questions. I wanted to pick up on a couple of things we heard through Public Comment. The comment about embarcadaro was a great reminder we had a conversation a couple months ago. We heard there wasnt enough and ill just hear staff respond to the pretty provocative suggestion about taking half of the street and making it a slow are street and or give us a status update on the other embarcadaro project. So embarcadaro is like the tenderloin where the traffic volumes out there right now are very low. From an sfmta perspective, we would have no problem converting the northbound lane into a twolane. Its not in our jurisdiction and the court right now is in a far worse financial position than even we are at sfmta. Their tenants are struggling a lot and very stron and have stra their market is. And so, the stakeholders want to maintain full traffic capacity in order to attract cars to the various destinations on embarcadaro. So maintaining the capacity while creating a bikeway is a longterm objective bu, but thas a very expensive project and we have not found a solution that can do both. Director mcguire . No, sorry. Great. And then, ill also just join director brinkman in expressing my sadness that broderick is coming off the list today. That was one my family was excited about. Weve heard from Public Commenters on that, as well. And strongly recommend that we come quickly with a substitute to meet that corridor need that was identified. And on that note of the Larger Network on the connections, weve spoken a few meetings ago, i think, of the idea of a Larger Network and i think the presenters spoke about how were taking steps toward the complete network, but how there are some significant gaps remaining and so im thinking about the next step after this process. Are we looking to create a network and will you be bringing back a next phase so the board can fill in some of the gaps . We have no idea how long shelterinplace will last. Given the health data from this week, it appears that it will be lasting for quite some time. You heard that muni will be suffering for many months to come. We have lost about 30 of our Service Hours and twothirds of remaining service and a total loss of 10 to 80 of munis capacity and in precovid terms that is preventing 3,000 people from using muni everyday. We have to focus on shifting focused to the most we are 10 off as part of the overall Street Network and so in order tor San Francisco to continue on the economic recovery, we have no choice but to accept the geometric limits of driving and emphasize the most significant modes of transportation. So in addition to providing safe space for outdoor exercising, it is directly related to the covid emergency that we need to allow for people in San Francisco to feel safe walking by cane, using wheelchairs and scooters and skateboards in order to get around. And s so there is to reason we cannot have a phase five or six and would love to continue getting direction from this board as well as policymaybers and the publimaybemakers on pols on what that would look like. Just echoing the concerns about the vizidaro street and the constraints there and that is one corridor but i think we have examples of that. How do we have safe access to Grocery Stores and restaurants. Weve been encouraging merchants to take advantage to move tables or other services out parking lane so that the narrow sidewalk space can accommodate people walking. Weve also used the parking lane to accommodate some queuing and key destinations along divizadaro and will continue with the merchants to help manage that. Having a couple of spaces taken over doesnt help with access destination and i was wondering what more proactively looking at spaces where we should be looking at a solution that will meet the need more directly. Yeah, i can response to that briefly, if you like. We are actively looking at streets parallel to create that northsouth connectivity that the caller talked about. Were bringing you this because this is what we had ready to go at our deadline for this meeting. But this is were talking about doing this in phases but its a continuous process and whether its shared spaces or slow streets, we are always looking to expand this network everywhere weve got interest and support. So we will definitely be looking at that specific corridor in phase four. Thank you. And i swale tha will say i hd from merchants about the speed of the traffic because the sidewalks are narrow and theres a narrow street and people are trying to speed around the bus and so, i mean, i think we should, maybe, think about portions of that street are transitonly and, like, we have the transit lane and the slow streets lane. We could have slow streets shared spaces and i think, like supervisor pekkin mentioned, how to create slow slow shared spaces and other people saying lets think about the parklet things because lots of businesses would like parklets but the sharedspaces program kind of prohibits them, which doesnt make sense because from a safety and security standpoint of sitting on the street where theres traffic, you know, you want something sturdier than a railing on corridors where traffic moves pretty fast. Directors, any additional comments . Seeing none. I will undertake a motion that i note that the motion needs to strike broad i know this is painful for a couple of you. I will sadly make the motion to remove broader street from the list of slow streets and i do this because i know that staff has worked so hard on this and i appreciate everything that all of you are doing and im sure that well find a way forward with all of this. So i will make the motion to strike. Is there a second . I wi