Transcripts For SFGTV Environment Commission 52416 20160525

SFGTV Environment Commission 52416 May 25, 2016

Internally, to execute on that. President omotalde thank you. Commissioner wald commissioner wald thank you both for coming in. Its good to see both of you again. So, this is sort of a follow to commissioner hoyos question. If you achieve your goals, this can be a ripple effect. Youre going to have vast numbers of new writers and those people are going to the park, if thats the technical term, in San Francisco and a lot of them are going to get on other kinds of public transportation. Whether its bike were buses or whatever. So, i would welcome, at least assurance, or it is not a big discussion, that you are not only talking to the departments about its expertise, but that you are at least trying to get sort of a candle on all the parts of the city family in San Francisco that will be impacted by the achievement of your goals. Particularly, in terms of ridership. Both in terms of increasing the number of people who ride and how they get to your vehicles. Its not just in San Francisco. Its all around the bay. I mean, do we need new institutions in order to make sure that this experience is seamless and that everyone has the same goals and that they are all benefiting from each one is learning and doing, or can we use the institutions that we have . It would be a shame if we didnt think about, as it seems to me, in this product and systemwide way as we possibly could because, i think that we would be much more successful if we did. Testifier its a really great question. Depending on who you ask, is 27 or 29 different transit operators in the bay area. Whoever you ask mike and thats probably a good 22 many. I think theres a think we really do need to sort of think about how were all coordinating effectively. Traditionally, part five itself as an east Bay Institution and i think San Francisco spray much in east Bay Institution the new generation of leadership both in the city and part i think are thinking much more recently that all of our problems and its not justi think thats a lot closer collaboration now than there has been in a long time between bart and although sortie sort of city family. I think its probably reflected in the last transportation bond measure. Where there was money devoted to the canopies over to protect the part escalators and entrances which also muni entrances and escalators as well. Theres been a real sort of strong collaboration between the city and part on that. Its kind of, a small as that seems, i think even that is as it happened in a long while. About about bold heart, for instance which is another joint part unique facility, we been doing incredible work with muni on rebuilding that station and sorting out helping muni sort out a bunch of the real challenges especially safety challenges that her face there in terms of pickup and dropoff for cars and for tmcs in terms of pedestrian access, in terms of even intermodal access between barton summoned the muni lines there. So what, really narrow paths and really narrow corridor just be sort of big unique metro light rail vehicles rushing up right next to you. And with the Planning Department as well and the supervisor avalos autos, were going to be be purchasing one of the parking lots for which we call the upper yard right next to the balboa park station for affordable housing. That i think is a key part of how we can work with the city. We need to not just the workers transportation site with the planning side as well. To make sure were using our resources as effectively as possible and were contributing overall to the city planning targets and planning objectives. So, i hope that kind of its bid or scattershot that gives you some comfort. Commissioner wald it does indeed. Thank you president omotalde any further comments . Hearing none, thank you so much. Thank you. Just before we move onto the next item i would like to announce what Public Comment after all of the presentations for item 7 due to inefficiency of time. Anthony. Clerk items seventhe presentation on the extension bay area bike share. The speakers are Emily Stapleton, general manager motivate and heath maddox transportation planner with the San Francisco immiscible Transportation Agency. Testifier good evening commissioner and director rafael. My name is Emily Stapleton general manager for bay area bike share. I work for a comedy called bay area motivate. Which is the largest operator bike share assistance across the country. As you know, the bay area bike share system has been on the ground here in San Francisco in four other cities for the past two years as a Pilot Program and were very excited to announce a huge expansion coming over the next two years. Ive a short presentation and will hand off to keith maddox, from sf mta in the middle of it he will him and bike the microphone back to me and will happy to hear your questions at the end. First of all, the sense of scale for the increase in the bike share system is something to really get our arms around as we begin this presentation. Today, there are 700 bytes the cover five cities San Francisco san jose in three cities along the peninsula redwood city, mountain view, and paulo alto. When expansion is coming whether 7000 bytes across our network which is approximately the size of city bike today. Those city bike is itself expanding and growing beyond its bikes but this is a complete transformational change from the toe in the water pilot we been doing the last two years. The increase in scale should increase the utility of the program here in San Francisco and any other cities that we service. There will be a change in terms of the total footprint of the system. Like i mentioned, in San Francisco san jose in three peninsula cities going for it week San Francisco san jose three e. Bay cities that, on object today there are zero bikes their stations in the east eight the course of this extension three 1500 bytes in the east bay alone, which is comparable to bike share system for example in the boston metro area which is a huge system. So, each of these three systems is San Francisco growing to 500 bytes. The state going to 59 and san jose growing to 1000 bytes. Each is a formidable system together an interconnected network of bicycles shared stations. It should be a powerful force overly encouraging voter shift from people that may have driven to their destinations maybe now you can take part or amtrak workout thing and get to where youre going to have a plan for your final mile. A couple other notes before i move from this slide. The pointer on this slide. The way that we are bringing this largescale expansion is through sponsorship and two member revenue. So its a nice thing about the program is that its coming at no cost to the taxpayers of no public funding is going to the purchase of the stations were the operation. Were pretty excited about that. Were looking for a partner right now to be our Title Sponsor for the program and hope to news about that very soon. The other piece of those that support 20 of the stations will be located in committees of concern in all the cities in which were operated. So, those locations or those areas designated by mbc and printed out were station locations go, we have an overlay of those communities of concern and we are sure to go out and actually engages the committees. Going to stations on where the stations should go. Running to the Number System auto go but for a quick review, 4500 bikes in San Francisco increase of over 4000 bytes from today. Which is really wonderful. By the time that were done with the extension bay area bike share, ill be the dances by sure in the United States having the most bikes per capita. At this point number two handoff to m my colleague keith maddox whos going to talk whatsoever benefits of the problem including environmental benefits but ill close with some discussion about our process and timeline for when to expect by share and how were selecting stations. Testifier hello thank you emily did a good evening commissioner did am keith maddox. Tina planner with a missile Transportation Agency that in managing the citys efforts on bicycle sharing for about the last five years now. Its a pleasure to be here this evening to talk you. So, what emily described the extension is really a Publicprivate Partnership. Much of the burden for funding is fallen upon the private sector, but we are still going to accrue all be benefits to the public sector. We are getting something that is very affordable on a large scale for visitors and residents to use. Its importantly active transportation, which will improve the health of our City Residents and reduce healthcare cost. Clearly, its not missions and congestion reduction benefits. The point here about 30 of the bay area during the pilot about 12 of trips taken by bay area bike share members were formally by either single occupant vehicles or taxis, were the Transportation Network companies. Bike share is often used as a first and last mile mode to access transit and so its taking better vantage of the existing network and a lot o allowing peopl to get to transit, but also relieving overburdened transit like we have issues as director described about bart. And muni as well. It also supports, here we have station zero on the slide but sports all those of other city policies and efforts to our general plan is the transportation element could the transit first policy for the city of San Francisco. The mta Strategic Plan, the bicycle strategy in the bicycle clamp. Bicycle sharing fits and supports all of our existing policy efforts, really. We have some motivate in this Publicprivate Partnership a commitment to follow cities for source hiring guidelines even though theyre not required to do so and we expect there will be a good number of green collar jobs though, of the partnership and were excited about that. So, of particular interest tonight is the Greenhouse Gas emissions reduction would you have some estimates so the back of the envelope. We have a lot of data from this estimate that was excited about bicycle sharing. Its the more i work on by sharing into a less about the bike that about the system. And because we know our members are doing over the bikes are starting and ending up a lot of information the whole backend to the system and it people i work with at the mta have built an impressive dashboard and so there on the left its a little hard to read without representation of daily trips. This one. Thats bout three years of data im almost2. 5 years of data really. Its close to 1 million trips will he have been taken so far. 1000 trips in San Francisco. The high range in San Francisco in todays 1400 trips are on average weve seen about 800 trips per day just 350 or315 by slept in the system at this point. So, as part of the Pilot Project evaluation metropolitan transportation commission, did were hired kaiser to do in the valuation of the Greenhouse Gas emissions benefits because the primary source of funding for the pilot was from mpcas Climate Initiative program. So, they did a on application in averaging 800 trips a day about three or 1000 trips per year, they be taken into account the omissions from the actual operations of the system and subtracting that from the net, were from the gross rather, they quantified just over 70 tons of greenhouse emissions reduction per year for the pilot. If you scale that up, to be closer than 16,000 trips a date which is where he will respect will see a whole expansion of the pilot, and something on the order 69 trips per year, then instead of 2. 7 trips per day per bike which is what we are seeing up, we spec once the system expensive we used were intensively. Some were trips per bike per day and will be seen somewhere closer to 1400 tons of Greenhouse Gas emissions reduction per year. Just a little more about the Publicprivate Partnership your between motivate and the mta. Emily mention the sponsoring motivate is in charge of finding a private sector sponsor to fund the purchase and deployment and operations of the system. Being the equipment and sophomore software and in charge of signing up the members and leading efforts on Station Design and citing an outreach and also operations and marketing. On the mta said, a lot of these functions were performed by my team at the mta, but now its up to motivate to perform these functions. But we spent a lot of time last year working on contacting and we served out largely a coronations and review quality assurance, Quality Control and support for the Station Design an outreach from my group is in charge of all of the permitting which sounds very simple, but nothing is simple. In San Francisco. So wheres you might be able to get a station permit in a daze in summer like not san jose might take 90 days in San Francisco. Theres a lot of stuff level review and intraagency review and intraagency review and ultimately a series of permits will be issued to motivate to deploy the equipment on the street. So, right now were in the process weve chosen the locations for the 60 or 70 new stations in the first wave were beginning to review the first designs have entered into our approval process and ultimately will be issuing permits the summer. And into the fall. Then, also on outreach, thats primarily motivates response ability, but we have a lot of expertise and interest in cd outreach done right so were very supportive of their efforts there. Thats all i have for you tonight. Were going to let emily finish of the presentation. Thanks very much. Theo thank you. Testifier so, the last portion of the presentation would just be reviewing what we are today and were about to go. The rollout of the bike share stations in San Francisco with a place in four phases. We are preparing right now for phase 1, so weve been through a Public Outreach phase and we are now entering the permitting phase for phase 1 of the process. Simultaneously, we party begun phase to you are looking for potential sites for the second portion of the rollout. So our process there you can see were repeating the second row, everything will timely enter a phase. It starts with motivate identifying feasible locations. Things that have enough access to solar for example the stations are sold out. Making sure that no utility conflict is not within breath making sure its a bible station location. The second is bringing the stations to the public and having a discussion and dialogue with the communities in which the stations would be located and saying, here are some options, which do you like best for your micro neighbor that you live in or work in . From there, we reached this step for phase 1, we propose locations for phase 1 sites. From there, were accepting additional feedback from either of funding businesses for example or other residences or businesses on the blocker we will have it bike share statement we didnt really proactive outreach doortodoor with them to make sure they know bike share is coming and answer any questions. The survey Public Feedback forum online. Were hoping the expansion that circulates neighbors help neighbors and were getting additional feedback from people that were not able to make the workshop. From there was review pretty good about the stations are then selected for each phase, we say the stations and submit the permits to mta and that picks up where keith was describing his process in the mta. So, were doing this in portions because the extension is so huge and so rapid that it would be rolled out. We can do this all once overnight. But will be doing it in segments for San Francisco and similar segments for the East San Jose as well. I just talk to this a little bit in terms of how we do our outreach to find technically bible cites those public workshops. Oscar to this slide pretty quickly. Moved to the last one picture shows a few stats about results. We have a website that i would encourage people to navigate to. Give us some recommendations and where they like to see stations. Its been open since last week that 5000 unique summations for what people would like to see by ship it thats very encouraging to us theres a lot of Public Interest in this. As we been engaging in conversations for phase 1 but with that more than 70 stakeholder meetings with neighborhood associations, urging groups, other city stakeholders, bart, muni, the port authority, second part, anybody touched by bike share we want people to know its coming. We want to talk about ways to partner and so weve had several meetings the number has already tallied up well beyond 70 in recent weeks. As we go through the different expansion phases we are having workshops that are cosponsored by physics for buses so the first age it was district 8 and 95 2030 participants for workshop which was wonderful. And afterwards, several comments collected from the sf online map. One other we were trying to reach people is posting in public letters in the neighborhoods were going to bike share so that if you did make it to the workshop can see it online, didnt submit a comment theres one more place you can see the station and the program is coming and submit a

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