Ronen absent. Safai absent. We have corium. Thank you madam clerk. Do you have any announcements . Gentlemyes, i would like to announcement about Public Comment. Please proceed. Public comment will be available for each item via telephone by calling 8882045987 and the access code is on the screen. Dial 10 to speak. Each call will be allowed 2 minutes. Calls will be taken in the order which they are received. Best practices are to speak slowly, clearly, and turn down the volume of anything around you. That completes my announcement. Thank you, could use please read the next item. Sorry, this is commissioner ronen. I can sort of hear you. Did you hear me when i said i was here. Now we can hear you, see you, and you are counted present. Good morning commissioner ronen. I think were just missing commissioner safai. With that, could use please read the second item madam clerk. Yes, item two, chairs report. This is an information item. Good morning chair peskin, vice chair mandelman and commissioners. Im the chair of the assistant Advisory Committee and im here to report on our september 2nd meeting. The c. A. C. Adopted an amended motion to allocate 14 million in doublea funds, which is item 8 on your agenda today. Among the various requests, the Golden Gate Park travel and fulton Street Safety project received favorable attention from the committee. The shortterm bike Parking Program did raise a question about the way in which the bike rafts are distributed throughout the city and how equity is ensured. Currently its based on 311 questions and by staff. They welcome further suggestions about distribution strategies. The lions share of the discussion on this item overall was devoted to the slow Street Program request. The c. A. C. Members shared overwhelming support for the program, however district 6 representative inquired about Current Treatment that were welcomed but did not rise to the standards and shared a concern that it didnt include district 6 locations. Also, district 7 did not have a slow street. Staff shared that the popularity of the program had been an early challenge and now finding resources to maintain the temporary markings and signage is a continuing challenge. She also shared that the criteria can be challenging in certain areas, although staff is continuing to research streets across the city. With the condition that the slow Streets Program allocation include the sfm treating the Current Treatment along the tenderloin in the same way as the streets include in the slow Streets Program, with regards to installing more durable measures and performing ongoing maintenance and requiring them to identify a plan in district 6 and 7. After a series of votes, the c. A. C. Approved this amended item. From a memo submitted to you, it appears that d7 does include a ten block stretch of the street at the Northern Edge of the district. In addition, other d7 streets have been proposed for the program but ran into public opposition. However, an additional street is in the process for approval for d7. As for d6, they are committed to working with Community Partners to identify official slow streets, while maintaining community streets and expanded shared spaces for both districts 6 and 7. On behalf of the c. A. C. , i would like to thank the staff for their thorough response. Now for the alemany final report, safety members noticed that bicyclist safety improvements did not figure highly in the proposed for this corridor. Program staff noted the near term bike lanes are challenged because even though alemany is a high volume street, it is still a primarily residential in this area. Finally the, work program and the staff developed a well thought out plan given the budgetary challenges ahead in our current environment. That completes my report. Thank you very much. Thank you mr. Larson. Are there any questions for mr. Larson or the c. A. C. . Seeing none, is there any Public Comment on this item . Okay chair, let me check. This is just a reminder that you press 1 and 0 for Public Comment. Thank you ms. Milton. You have one question remaining. First speaker please. Welcome. Go ahead caller. Im from san jose. I wanted to recognize the person that there are minutes for the c. A. C. And i expect my deep appreciation for accurately exposing the comments. Thank you and thank you to the staff for that. That is a lovely Public Comment which we greatly appreciate. Are there any other members of the public that would like to comment on item number two. You have zero questions remaining. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] madam clerk, could you please read the next item. Item three, approve the minutes of the august 25, 2020, meeting. This is an action item. Is there any Public Comment on item number 3 . You have zero questions remaining. Public comment is closed. Is there a motion to approve minutes made by commissioner. Moved, yee. Moved by walton and i will give yee the second on that item. A roll call please. On item three, approval of minutes. [roll call] minutes are approved. Next item please. Item four, appoint one member to the citizens Advisory Committee. This is an action item. Waiting for my red box to appear. All right. Good morning, the Transportation Authority has an 11 members citizens Advisory Committee with each member serving a two year term. They appoint any individual to fill open seats and neither staff or the c. A. C. Itself makes recommendations on the appointments. [inaudible] San Francisco residents [inaudible] mr. Pickford, youre a little frozen, unless thats me. No, i think thats mr. Pickford. All right. I think i can do this presentation, or ms. Lombardo. You can finish it. We have all been through this before but the person has to be a San Francisco resident, they have to have attended a meeting. This is the district four nomination and i believe that nancy bufum is in attendance. Im sorry that mr. Pickford is frozen. With that, i believe that commissioner mar intends to recommend her. So why dont we hear from ms. B bufom. Thank you very much. Im nancy bufum. Sorry, my apologies. There are very few bufums. Thank you very much and thank you to the commission for this opportunity and thank you very much for staff for your support. I am a long time sunset resident. I lived in the outer sunset since 1994. I have two children who went through the Public School system and one who is a graduate of San Francisco state. My family owns a Small Business on irving street, the artisans picture framing. Some of you may know me because of my many years as the family and Schools Program manager for the San FranciscoBicycle Coalition. We work throughout the city and the Public Events for families and children has provided a place where Civic Leaders are able to exchange information, talk to and meet families and other people who never make it to meetings and hearings. Ive been privileged to be involved in transportation issues and hear from people all over the city. In is sunset, im particularly interested in the future of the great highway and Golden Gate Park and the slow Streets Program. With the climate crisis, the precious resources of our outdoor areas in public spaces, including the places where people can walk, bike, and travel by transit and alternative mobility is especially important. I would welcome the opportunity. Thank you very much. Thank you and i apologize for mispronouncing your name. With that commissioner mar. Thank you chair. I just really want to thank your willingness to serve our city and district in this role. Ive been so impressed and grateful for all your advocacy for better transportation and Mobility Options for our neighborhood. One of the most important set of perspectives and needs for transportation is for families and children and i know you bring a strong background in supporting the needs of family and children, especially around transportation and safe street. So im really excited to support your nomination today for the Transportation Authority citizens Advisory Committee. I look forward to working closely together as we move forward on so many important priorities in district 4, including our mobility study. Sunset forward, and rideshare expansion, neighbor way expansion and the future of the great highway. Thanks again. Thank you commissioner mar. Are there any other applicants who would like to testify . I dont know of any other ones so lets go to Public Comment. Is there any Public Comment for item number 4 . Let me check. You have zero questions remaining. Seeing no members of the public on this item, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner mar, would you like to make a motion to appoint ms. Bufum to the c. A. C. . I will, i move that we appoint ms. Bufum on the citizens Advisory Committee. Is there a second for that motion . Mandelman. Seconded by vice chair mandelman. Madam clerk, a roll call please. Yes on item four. [roll call] there are ten ayes, item is approved on its first reading. With that madam clerk, the next item please. Item five, sfmta rail service update. This is an information item. Thank you madam clerk. We are joined by the director of transportation and his deputy, as well as our Deputy Director of maintenance. I want to thank the three of them for a difficult, but and unpleasant conversation we had last week as i ran them through the paces as to the, what i think we will all agree as premature opening of the subway under Market Street and reinvigorating our light rail system. With that, the floor is yours. Let me just start by saying i know that these are extremely difficult times for all of us and Public Transportation in particular. I want to salute and acknowledge the steps that the sfmta has been taking. It is our collective responsibility to drill down into that premature opening and really in a constructive fashion figure out how we can help the m. T. A. Both as a funding body and policy body and really capitalizing on the opportunity that you recognize and identified early on during the pandemic where in we have the ability to make massive Capital Improvements during the pandemic. So with that, i say that from a spirit of disappointment, but wanting to capitalize on this opportunity. So with that mr. Tumlin. Thank you chair peskin and thank you for the opportunity to come present to you today. I understand that all of you are here, both to hold us accountable and to find a productive path forward in order to deliver san franciscans the system they need. I would like to turn this over to our director of transit who will be delivering the presentation. I should also add colleagues that bob sergeant who works for the sfcta as a consultant posed early on a number of questions to the sfmta and he will also he is in attendance and is also available for questions. So feel free to jump in. I have a list of the questions you asked and i understand that they have now all been responded to and with that you can go ahead. Can i confirm you can see our screen. You can confirm yes. Great. Im here today, much like when i was here for the l. R. V. 4 to continue what i hope is a strong relationship of transparency and trust. The issue here is different in that we are faced with a defective part. I think the complexities are how do we use the opportunity to look at fortifying and improving the resiliency of our overall system. The rail service was initially shut down in march of 2020 and it was done so in the early weeks of the pandemic, which unfolded really quickly. Were seeing on a daily basis, staffing rates drop, and people that needed to stay home for their own protection and other people that were responding to this fear and uncertainty that the climate created. Our ridership dropped almost 80 , within a two week period. In order to have service be predictable and responsive to the changing travel patterns that we were seeing under shelterinplace, we were treated to a point in what weve been describing as radical resilien resilience, because it has fewer moving parts, it has simpler maintenance and can be scaled up and down very quickly. It has served us well in serving essential trips in San Francisco. Reporter all the decisions are being driven by Realtime Data that we are using both like absolutely in realtime making decisions about if a bus is too crowded, if its not too crowded, also as we make planning decisions. This when approaching the service, we had fundamental questions that we needed to add. No way to our operators or staff managing the system, we need the buses to leave every 8 minutes or every 10 minutes, and they travel at a safe speed through our city streets. That has led to, i think not only strong operator support, but being able to drive to the conditions, but also has led to over 90 head way appearance, which means were not seeing big gaps in service, even in this unpredictable times. We also let our values of equity guide this work. The people that are using transit right now are people making essential trips and people who do not have the privilege of driving in a personal vehicle and so focusing resources on communities of concern was absolutely critical. So, we made the decision to shut down the rail system as i said, because of its complexities, because of the downtown was not where we were seeing heavy trips. Thats what the rail system is great at. It is great at taking 400 people on a two car train and getting them to montgomery station in an efficient way. Thats not how people are traveling right now. During the closure, we also accelerated a lot of the state of good repair work. We already had a Strong Foundation of this. We were doing this during our extended subway maintenance windows where one week every quarter, we had been shutting down the system at about 10 00 p. M. To get a lot of deferred maintenance done and we used the same collaborations and approaches. That work really didnt start in earnest until mid summer. The department of Public Health did not have guidance for how to do close contact Maintenance Work in the first few months of the pandemic, so we were doing basic safety inspections, we were doing caretaking of the system, but it was until midjune that we were able to start our work. We did get a tremendous amount of things done. We completed the crossover, which when we do return to a bustling downtown, it will allow us to run three car trains from emba embarcadero to west portal. These are some of the photos showing staff at work. We cleaned all of our stations from top to bottom. We replaced sections of overhead infrastructure that needed to be replaced. There is a shortterm maintenance and also as we think through what makes our subway vulnerable to delay and repair. Really what was driving us is what we were seeing is an increase in Economic Activity we had a stable bus system and the service was working well, but it was crowded. Part of what the rail system did was free up capacity for us to be able to keep up with the growing bus demand. We knew we had an overhead wire vulnerability with the splices, but at that point it was presenting as a relatively low risk. We had one incident in the subway of 2019 and we havent had another incident in the subway for another 13 months. We were working to address the splice to get a better product in. It didnt present as the urgency until we really got into the full start up mode. What is the increase in ridership . We got down to below 100,000 essential trips at the very early part of the shelterinplace. There is exponential growth and we expect that to continue. Were adding Service Every 4 to 6 weeks, we are still seeing an increase in the number of crowded trips. So early on, we were only seeing 2 percent of trips be crowded. Now were seeing about 5 of trips being crowded. You pack in with your buddies and that was your trip that day. We are not picking you up. So 5 of trips being crowded means a lot of people trying to make essential trips and not get where they need to go. So our risk profile did change pretty significantly right around the time that we were opening the rail. Within 72 hours, we had two splices break, one near castro station and one near forest hill. The first was the day before we opened and the second was the monday, the first monday of service. The splice itself is shown in this photo here. This is three splices. A splice is an overhead wire part that we put up when we need to repair a section of overhead wire. So a typical section of overhead wire when its brand new and our overhead wire was all brand new in the subway in 2008. When its brand new, its in stretching of about 1,500 to 2,000 feet. If you have a nick or a problem in the wire that needs to be addressed, we often dont have time to run 1,500 feet of wire in a single maintenance window. So what well do is well place a smaller section of wire and then well put a splice on either side. The splice is intended to be very strong, stronger than the wire itself. That is not what we saw in these instances. This photo here shows that the splice broke at the s