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All right. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the Transportation Authority plans Programs Committee for tuesday, november 15, 2016, like to thank our clerk steve stamos and leo and mark from sfgovtv madam clerk, any announcements . No announce. Mr. Clerk item one. Roll call commissioner avalos commissioner breed absent commissioner farrell commissioner peskin commissioner hwang absent we have quorum okay. Thank you very much colleagu colleagues commissioner tang had a previous engagement can i have a motion can we take that without objection . 70 all right. Mr. Clerk item number 2. Sense advisory report this is an informational item. Good morning item number 4 the 3. 1 million for the traffic calming most of questions or comments from the cca the clarifications on specification by the degree to which federal dollars we need to continue the operations of the cable car and to replace the gear boxed in the overhaul funded made this monthly attractive were happy to have this and have the traffic calming efforts there is a large increase and desire for traffic calming item 5 the central subway master plan the cca wants to ask a question, of course, something we didnt touch on much and should perhaps be part of every study and discussion how land use effects your subways and how the demographics are take into account to the get to the jobs in the Recreation Centers that 0 closes any remarks. Colleagues, any questions. Move on to Public Comment for item 22 anyone wish to comment seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Colleagues this is an informational item no action mr. Clerk item 3. Approval of the minutes for the october 11th an action. Colleagues questions or comments move on to Public Comment anyone wish to comment on item number 3 seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Colleagues can have a a motion to approve. Motion any commissioner avalos. Roll call vote commissioner avalos commissioner breed is absent commissioner farrell commissioner peskin approval of the minutes are approved. Berkley item 4. Recommend allegation of 3 million plus prop c in prescription of one hundred thousand for prop k subject to the fiscal year distribution schedule a commitment to allocate prop k funds an action item. Good morning, supervisors and rather commissioners im the Deputy Director for the Transportation Authority youll jump into this allocation request grouping we have 4 requests to present the first, the cable car compulsion gear boxed request and this is a prop k request from the mta for approximately 2 or 1. 3 million inform leverage the federal funds to overhaul the com provision gearboxes it provide powers to the cable car there are 4 in use and one a spare and been in use since 1984 a rehab project as opposed to to the the cable car is a unique system and no official parts and component that can be purchased they need to be custommade tlasz information in the packet of materials that includes the shut down schedule the mta is proposing a series of 4 shut down systems 3 one more each cable car line and one for all of the cable car lines the 10 consecutive days a elevation period and an outreach plan a Communications Plan mta is working with the tourist and the hotel and convention and churches and stakeholders in the area to make sure to get the word out about the shut down schedule the project should be complete by the end of 2019 next the traffic calming implementation project is referred to as the backlog of traffic calming projects from area wide plans that were completed between 2 and 10 years ago this is the last banish of those projects there are the traffic calming plan that be will pretty a total of lovingly of them there are various schedules of development for the construction because of the various banishes will be going on encouraging but complete at the end of 2019 those are the recommendations from the plans and traffic island speed humps and the proposition of the speed humps the third for the edge or the Pedestrian Safety project this is a district 8 Transportation Improvement Program Capital Improvement for 80,000 for the design for the project and a commitment to allocate another one and 25 thousand when the project precedes and improves the glen canyon and request do from the stakeholders and supervisor wiener supports the request the project will be open by 2018 and the last request is from the Transportation Authority and this is for one hundred thousand dollars to leverage and caltrain grant to the sf ct a for district of funded phase one Study Program sections in the south of market area and studied 5 locations and made short term and easier to implement the recommendations for those ramps and this will expand the set of ramps that can be examined to 10 ramps the project focuses on the south of market area the highest clusters of high injury ramp intersection areas and this particular corridor but there are other projects that you are glounth the city like the alamany and the balboa park where ramps are studied for the improvements and other areas for the various types of configurations of ramps ill be working closely with the caltrain and Community Outreach beginning next summer and im available to answer any questions and various project sponsors from the sfmta. Thank you very much colleagues questions or comments commissioner avalos just a question about the work that we done on alamany right now a real need for pedestrian assess if the southern on the south side of alamany to get to the Farmers Market a goal to be able to make sure there is actually access for the pedestrian. Yes. There was a presentation at the finance Committee Last month that the alamany sgrarj Program Study it is currently underway the presentation went to finance committee because commissioner avalos the District Representative for the studies on this committee there two phases of mere term improvements that are recommend one of which youll see next month for lane configuration and putting in better striping to guide the traffic and guide the cyclists in the area the second phase of work for a multi use path that will allow for access and a signal going to get the streets wrong but provides the Farmers Market streets and drainage issues that will be creating a new path that is prone to flooding we need to work with puc but the striping requests should be coming forward next. The intuts the cross over sounds like you guys are working on that. Any questions or comments we want to thank you and the whole staff for working on a lot of the Laurel Heights the committee is working on for years with that, we open up for Public Comment anyone wish to comment on item number 4 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Same house, same call . Same house, same call . All right. So moved. Mr. Clerk, call item 5. Update on the subway master plan an informational item. Good morning, commissioners matt longrange manager planning and with michael from the San Francisco Transportation Authority on a possible component of San Franciscos Transportation Future significant specifically subways and want to knowledge the Planning Department in this work as well the subway division is generated out of an ordinance by supervisor wiener isnt fall of 2015 and supervisor wiener is really about not losing momentum on transit investments for the city we think about the first iteration of subway we wanted to frame what is subways are their characteristics and how policy guidance how we think about implementing delivering the subways for the city of San Francisco also an operator a start find a conversation not predetermining who might run the subways in the city and thinking about initial candidate corridor they make sense the work will feed into the sf program and the rated this is the start avenue conversation this allows moving large volumes of people in separated corridors quickly hes a trade off were delivery process is very along the capital dollars are high in delivering those investments and they may not meet the needs of all travel choices and modes for the stations they may not allow everyone to get everyone where they want to go part of eco system we took a 3 pronged approach for the prior plan review and talked with san franciscans today about where they think subways are valuable and conducted new analysis in the prior plan saw a lot of great ideas that have not materialized but ideas that have for the corridors plan the central subway it is under construction and the brt project this past weekend and moving through the Environmental Review that is looking at what it comes next not the first time that San Francisco has tried to think big about railing we saw a number of corridors we wanted to keep in mind as we forwarded this work. In trying to hear if san franciscans today, we decided to use the leverage of online proud sourcing for people to engage at their convenience from their home and really spend as much or little time to let them looking at the stopping stations and rail alignments how they fit into the Current System we need to compliment that with outreach elements so we were touching folks may not have intersect access and have high internet 10 or penetration in our community and want to technique with us we had 34 pop up activities from the bayview and tenderloin and excelsior inwards were heard back the online tool westbound extremely successful 26 unique submissions some were single lines people were drawing their commute trips and comprehensive networks and systems that includes the software stations and creative thinking with the island a couple down in the south of america and africa and australia by the way, you can see on the heat map on the online tools asked folks to draw their dream for the future we can interpret where people think their mobility is not met and a greater need for more streamlined travel the corridor is at top based on the heat map that is a point of information to understand where the perspective and realty in travel patterns online we also at the pop up design the tenderloin bayview and excelsior we were intercepting people on the streets by and large didnt hear and the Transcription Services a need for from folks not native English Speakers and we can by and large is the one and thirty responses and the multiple hundreds of people we spoken with would not will have heard in these people that heat map to the pop up events we see some of the similar desire lines indicators of a greater market within the corridors and other lines as well and so were glad to i really appreciate that type of outreach and in district 11 in you look at who uses our Public Transportation system it is almost 95 Percent People of color and immigrants and people whose language is in the english i appreciate that. So this is we did our prior plan review we spoke with san franciscans today, we want to take those two information points and tie them together with the analytic work to think about where people need to move in the future and subways are the most appropriate with that, im going to turn it over to mraek to speak towards that work. Good morning michael sweaters with the Transportation Authority we use the 20 first two data points and did analysis with the existing operational analyze and looking at 2040 and looked where the land use patterns were developing not only the ridership but the overall traffic demand people that are driving places there is a lot of travel demands xhertsd to traffic High Quality Network like a subway we did look at density patterns this map shows with the population density and job density and looking ways those patterns develop into the future and then also looked at kind of where people patterns tend to develop if there is a u bic subway that helps us to understand where the demand is generated in the future from the 3 sets of information we generated 3 types of corridors will fall into multiple bucket but one across town people want to get across San Francisco and bart goes through the city from one side all the way to the other so people have a desire to get across town and the other a correction people want to get to the metro or other trunk lines regional trunk lines and the pure demand basis with Transportation Demand could be from as many transit and diving we likely see a lot of displaced in the future and as i mentioned some of the corridors will fall into multiple buckets before i talk about the maps dont get attached to them but we wanted to test what that looked like if we triple the subway within the city of San Francisco we have 15 million today and another thirty miles with two concerts looking where we generate the most demands using the analysis okay. This is where we think he can generate ridership where peoples designations if you look at this the lines in the geary area and then makes its way south by the Golden Gate Park an extension of t third at the lombard and the underground part of t third and in addition the van ness area heading southeast into the south part of mission bay with the m and putting that both is the soma pulling it out of the metro and then we said okay. This is one comparison lets see if we have a different concept how to get more geographic coverage and looked at it trade offs between corridors and different alignments within a similar corridor thats why we came up with the system and the t third a line into Hunters Point shipyard and the fillmore and divisadero and then the extension will be going to the physics rather than the lombard for the t third and the geary is out towards the beach and this is corridors not streets but in the vicinity and underground with the existing m with the mission bay and on the southern part of city some couple of those were shown including the extension of the m line and the geneva corridor so we looked at sort of what the potential for those kinds of system and we did find if we were able to do something as monumental tripling the subways in San Francisco well have significant benefits including major traffic times, savings about 25 minutes for travelers on a given trip 10 to 15 minutes round trip by quoting the system well be able so have the barts level in the 90 percent no union train will be arriving at that time, the significance of ridership 10 to 15 percent and under either of the corridors nektsd youll see grandchildren 40 percent of san franciscans being able to walk to theyre walking danced to the station we did an outlook and found it low income residents benefits at a larger rate than the population at large and this is a complicated map to show you the analysis looking at the traffic time for the zones across the city blue is increases and red is increases in travel time this year to the concept b the Hunters Point shipyard there was a direct line improves a significant amount of time at this point we know there are Major Network benefits and there are some next steps to you to do the hard work of prioritizing and an incremental way to develop the projects with that, to graham. Thanks michael as i mentioned the thirty miles of subway will not materialize overnight but incredibly build out for the where will we be moving the most people and the new investments and new subways compliment and provided synergy benefits to the system were thinking from an interaction and build a robust system we dont want to leave anyone behind especially the needs of the high capacity reliable transit those are representative but want to frame the thinking how will we decide which routes corridors we want to think that prioritizing for investments and as i mentioned this the division the start of conversation but there is lots of other areas to be thinking dramatic and in an efficient like manner and funding is an easy one thirty miles of subway the funding stream didnt seem realistic in our lifetime maybe a change heed of us but we need to look at expanding resourcing and need to think about how we are delivering and speed up the timeline from a cost to calendar and schedule perspective and the cac report talked about land use not in the likelihood of major, Major Investments in the city without a conversation about land use and the number of people that those investment will be available for and how we can move and grow as a city those things need to be talked about together their intrinsically linked and lastly sorry not lastly conditioned inclusive and open outreach those decisions need to be made together the only way to be successful in that building champion champions of the Community Level and champions at the regional and federal level as well those these things need to come together to push forward individual elements of the subway divisions so well or were going to incapsulate and the work didnt stop there will feed into the connect sf program a misrepresent departmental collaborative effort not only the subways but the whole eco system the eco system is not the Silver Bullet all needs to create the comprehensive Transportation Authority<\/a> plans Programs Committee<\/a> for tuesday, november 15, 2016, like to thank our clerk steve stamos and leo and mark from sfgovtv madam clerk, any announcements . No announce. Mr. Clerk item one. Roll call commissioner avalos commissioner breed absent commissioner farrell commissioner peskin commissioner hwang absent we have quorum okay. Thank you very much colleagu colleagues commissioner tang had a previous engagement can i have a motion can we take that without objection . 70 all right. Mr. Clerk item number 2. Sense advisory report this is an informational item. Good morning item number 4 the 3. 1 million for the traffic calming most of questions or comments from the cca the clarifications on specification by the degree to which federal dollars we need to continue the operations of the cable car and to replace the gear boxed in the overhaul funded made this monthly attractive were happy to have this and have the traffic calming efforts there is a large increase and desire for traffic calming item 5 the central subway master plan the cca wants to ask a question, of course, something we didnt touch on much and should perhaps be part of every study and discussion how land use effects your subways and how the demographics are take into account to the get to the jobs in the Recreation Centers<\/a> that 0 closes any remarks. Colleagues, any questions. Move on to Public Comment<\/a> for item 22 anyone wish to comment seeing none, Public Comment<\/a> is closed. Colleagues this is an informational item no action mr. Clerk item 3. Approval of the minutes for the october 11th an action. Colleagues questions or comments move on to Public Comment<\/a> anyone wish to comment on item number 3 seeing none, Public Comment<\/a> is closed. Colleagues can have a a motion to approve. Motion any commissioner avalos. Roll call vote commissioner avalos commissioner breed is absent commissioner farrell commissioner peskin approval of the minutes are approved. Berkley item 4. Recommend allegation of 3 million plus prop c in prescription of one hundred thousand for prop k subject to the fiscal year distribution schedule a commitment to allocate prop k funds an action item. Good morning, supervisors and rather commissioners im the Deputy Director<\/a> for the Transportation Authority<\/a> youll jump into this allocation request grouping we have 4 requests to present the first, the cable car compulsion gear boxed request and this is a prop k request from the mta for approximately 2 or 1. 3 million inform leverage the federal funds to overhaul the com provision gearboxes it provide powers to the cable car there are 4 in use and one a spare and been in use since 1984 a rehab project as opposed to to the the cable car is a unique system and no official parts and component that can be purchased they need to be custommade tlasz information in the packet of materials that includes the shut down schedule the mta is proposing a series of 4 shut down systems 3 one more each cable car line and one for all of the cable car lines the 10 consecutive days a elevation period and an outreach plan a Communications Plan<\/a> mta is working with the tourist and the hotel and convention and churches and stakeholders in the area to make sure to get the word out about the shut down schedule the project should be complete by the end of 2019 next the traffic calming implementation project is referred to as the backlog of traffic calming projects from area wide plans that were completed between 2 and 10 years ago this is the last banish of those projects there are the traffic calming plan that be will pretty a total of lovingly of them there are various schedules of development for the construction because of the various banishes will be going on encouraging but complete at the end of 2019 those are the recommendations from the plans and traffic island speed humps and the proposition of the speed humps the third for the edge or the Pedestrian Safety<\/a> project this is a district 8 Transportation Improvement Program<\/a> Capital Improvement<\/a> for 80,000 for the design for the project and a commitment to allocate another one and 25 thousand when the project precedes and improves the glen canyon and request do from the stakeholders and supervisor wiener supports the request the project will be open by 2018 and the last request is from the Transportation Authority<\/a> and this is for one hundred thousand dollars to leverage and caltrain grant to the sf ct a for district of funded phase one Study Program<\/a> sections in the south of market area and studied 5 locations and made short term and easier to implement the recommendations for those ramps and this will expand the set of ramps that can be examined to 10 ramps the project focuses on the south of market area the highest clusters of high injury ramp intersection areas and this particular corridor but there are other projects that you are glounth the city like the alamany and the balboa park where ramps are studied for the improvements and other areas for the various types of configurations of ramps ill be working closely with the caltrain and Community Outreach<\/a> beginning next summer and im available to answer any questions and various project sponsors from the sfmta. Thank you very much colleagues questions or comments commissioner avalos just a question about the work that we done on alamany right now a real need for pedestrian assess if the southern on the south side of alamany to get to the Farmers Market<\/a> a goal to be able to make sure there is actually access for the pedestrian. Yes. There was a presentation at the finance Committee Last<\/a> month that the alamany sgrarj Program Study<\/a> it is currently underway the presentation went to finance committee because commissioner avalos the District Representative<\/a> for the studies on this committee there two phases of mere term improvements that are recommend one of which youll see next month for lane configuration and putting in better striping to guide the traffic and guide the cyclists in the area the second phase of work for a multi use path that will allow for access and a signal going to get the streets wrong but provides the Farmers Market<\/a> streets and drainage issues that will be creating a new path that is prone to flooding we need to work with puc but the striping requests should be coming forward next. The intuts the cross over sounds like you guys are working on that. Any questions or comments we want to thank you and the whole staff for working on a lot of the Laurel Heights<\/a> the committee is working on for years with that, we open up for Public Comment<\/a> anyone wish to comment on item number 4 . Seeing none, Public Comment<\/a> is closed. Same house, same call . Same house, same call . All right. So moved. Mr. Clerk, call item 5. Update on the subway master plan an informational item. Good morning, commissioners matt longrange manager planning and with michael from the San Francisco<\/a> Transportation Authority<\/a> on a possible component of San Francisco<\/a>s Transportation Future<\/a> significant specifically subways and want to knowledge the Planning Department<\/a> in this work as well the subway division is generated out of an ordinance by supervisor wiener isnt fall of 2015 and supervisor wiener is really about not losing momentum on transit investments for the city we think about the first iteration of subway we wanted to frame what is subways are their characteristics and how policy guidance how we think about implementing delivering the subways for the city of San Francisco<\/a> also an operator a start find a conversation not predetermining who might run the subways in the city and thinking about initial candidate corridor they make sense the work will feed into the sf program and the rated this is the start avenue conversation this allows moving large volumes of people in separated corridors quickly hes a trade off were delivery process is very along the capital dollars are high in delivering those investments and they may not meet the needs of all travel choices and modes for the stations they may not allow everyone to get everyone where they want to go part of eco system we took a 3 pronged approach for the prior plan review and talked with san franciscans today about where they think subways are valuable and conducted new analysis in the prior plan saw a lot of great ideas that have not materialized but ideas that have for the corridors plan the central subway it is under construction and the brt project this past weekend and moving through the Environmental Review<\/a> that is looking at what it comes next not the first time that San Francisco<\/a> has tried to think big about railing we saw a number of corridors we wanted to keep in mind as we forwarded this work. In trying to hear if san franciscans today, we decided to use the leverage of online proud sourcing for people to engage at their convenience from their home and really spend as much or little time to let them looking at the stopping stations and rail alignments how they fit into the Current System<\/a> we need to compliment that with outreach elements so we were touching folks may not have intersect access and have high internet 10 or penetration in our community and want to technique with us we had 34 pop up activities from the bayview and tenderloin and excelsior inwards were heard back the online tool westbound extremely successful 26 unique submissions some were single lines people were drawing their commute trips and comprehensive networks and systems that includes the software stations and creative thinking with the island a couple down in the south of america and africa and australia by the way, you can see on the heat map on the online tools asked folks to draw their dream for the future we can interpret where people think their mobility is not met and a greater need for more streamlined travel the corridor is at top based on the heat map that is a point of information to understand where the perspective and realty in travel patterns online we also at the pop up design the tenderloin bayview and excelsior we were intercepting people on the streets by and large didnt hear and the Transcription Services<\/a> a need for from folks not native English Speakers<\/a> and we can by and large is the one and thirty responses and the multiple hundreds of people we spoken with would not will have heard in these people that heat map to the pop up events we see some of the similar desire lines indicators of a greater market within the corridors and other lines as well and so were glad to i really appreciate that type of outreach and in district 11 in you look at who uses our Public Transportation<\/a> system it is almost 95 Percent People<\/a> of color and immigrants and people whose language is in the english i appreciate that. So this is we did our prior plan review we spoke with san franciscans today, we want to take those two information points and tie them together with the analytic work to think about where people need to move in the future and subways are the most appropriate with that, im going to turn it over to mraek to speak towards that work. Good morning michael sweaters with the Transportation Authority<\/a> we use the 20 first two data points and did analysis with the existing operational analyze and looking at 2040 and looked where the land use patterns were developing not only the ridership but the overall traffic demand people that are driving places there is a lot of travel demands xhertsd to traffic High Quality Network<\/a> like a subway we did look at density patterns this map shows with the population density and job density and looking ways those patterns develop into the future and then also looked at kind of where people patterns tend to develop if there is a u bic subway that helps us to understand where the demand is generated in the future from the 3 sets of information we generated 3 types of corridors will fall into multiple bucket but one across town people want to get across San Francisco<\/a> and bart goes through the city from one side all the way to the other so people have a desire to get across town and the other a correction people want to get to the metro or other trunk lines regional trunk lines and the pure demand basis with Transportation Demand<\/a> could be from as many transit and diving we likely see a lot of displaced in the future and as i mentioned some of the corridors will fall into multiple buckets before i talk about the maps dont get attached to them but we wanted to test what that looked like if we triple the subway within the city of San Francisco<\/a> we have 15 million today and another thirty miles with two concerts looking where we generate the most demands using the analysis okay. This is where we think he can generate ridership where peoples designations if you look at this the lines in the geary area and then makes its way south by the Golden Gate Park<\/a> an extension of t third at the lombard and the underground part of t third and in addition the van ness area heading southeast into the south part of mission bay with the m and putting that both is the soma pulling it out of the metro and then we said okay. This is one comparison lets see if we have a different concept how to get more geographic coverage and looked at it trade offs between corridors and different alignments within a similar corridor thats why we came up with the system and the t third a line into Hunters Point<\/a> shipyard and the fillmore and divisadero and then the extension will be going to the physics rather than the lombard for the t third and the geary is out towards the beach and this is corridors not streets but in the vicinity and underground with the existing m with the mission bay and on the southern part of city some couple of those were shown including the extension of the m line and the geneva corridor so we looked at sort of what the potential for those kinds of system and we did find if we were able to do something as monumental tripling the subways in San Francisco<\/a> well have significant benefits including major traffic times, savings about 25 minutes for travelers on a given trip 10 to 15 minutes round trip by quoting the system well be able so have the barts level in the 90 percent no union train will be arriving at that time, the significance of ridership 10 to 15 percent and under either of the corridors nektsd youll see grandchildren 40 percent of san franciscans being able to walk to theyre walking danced to the station we did an outlook and found it low income residents benefits at a larger rate than the population at large and this is a complicated map to show you the analysis looking at the traffic time for the zones across the city blue is increases and red is increases in travel time this year to the concept b the Hunters Point<\/a> shipyard there was a direct line improves a significant amount of time at this point we know there are Major Network<\/a> benefits and there are some next steps to you to do the hard work of prioritizing and an incremental way to develop the projects with that, to graham. Thanks michael as i mentioned the thirty miles of subway will not materialize overnight but incredibly build out for the where will we be moving the most people and the new investments and new subways compliment and provided synergy benefits to the system were thinking from an interaction and build a robust system we dont want to leave anyone behind especially the needs of the high capacity reliable transit those are representative but want to frame the thinking how will we decide which routes corridors we want to think that prioritizing for investments and as i mentioned this the division the start of conversation but there is lots of other areas to be thinking dramatic and in an efficient like manner and funding is an easy one thirty miles of subway the funding stream didnt seem realistic in our lifetime maybe a change heed of us but we need to look at expanding resourcing and need to think about how we are delivering and speed up the timeline from a cost to calendar and schedule perspective and the cac report talked about land use not in the likelihood of major, Major Investments<\/a> in the city without a conversation about land use and the number of people that those investment will be available for and how we can move and grow as a city those things need to be talked about together their intrinsically linked and lastly sorry not lastly conditioned inclusive and open outreach those decisions need to be made together the only way to be successful in that building champion champions of the Community Level<\/a> and champions at the regional and federal level as well those these things need to come together to push forward individual elements of the subway divisions so well or were going to incapsulate and the work didnt stop there will feed into the connect sf program a misrepresent departmental collaborative effort not only the subways but the whole eco system the eco system is not the Silver Bullet<\/a> all needs to create the comprehensive Mobility Network<\/a> that San Francisco<\/a> will need to be a desirable liveable place to live and competitive and reach the goals weve reached for ourselves the connect sf is underway and reach this fall with a survey talking about the core values how people think about the future of transportation in San Francisco<\/a> and into 2015 continued in that outreach and stakeholder activities. With that, id like to open up to any questions. Thank you very much for your presentation commissions questions or comments. Thank you hard work open up for Public Comment<\/a> on item 5 anyone wish to comment. Seeing none, Public Comment<\/a> is closed. Okay. Colleagues an informational item so no vote mr. Clerk and introduction of new items. Colleagues, any new items to introduce. Number 7. Item 7 general Public Comment<\/a>. Anyone wish to pubically speak. Good morning as a career we take personal family and social values to be of great importance in life therefore we have accept the liability and true justice making this to be objective for the seeking of true destiny we work hard to have pay off in life and sure of benefits with the world pathway we definitely can having a true games of with regards in return of spraepdz the true principle helping the needy for the transportation for virtues the results of personal cultivation one must sincerely be honest to ones virtues not letting ones emotions going out bound we have to fight for the traditional values of personal, family and social justice to assure our integrity of wellness in life we have to one way or another making ones destiny and on the other hand, transform from an older individual into a holy portion to have true ufos in life thank you. Thank you very much anyone wish to comment seeing none, Public Comment<\/a> is closed. Parking garage call item 8 adjournment. Thanks everyone we are i have 2 job titles. Im manager of the tour program as well as i am the historyian of city hall. This building is multifaceted to say the very least its a Municipal Building<\/a> that operates the city and county of San Francisco<\/a>. This building was a dream that became a reality of a man by the name of james junior elected mayor of San Francisco<\/a> in 1912. He didnt have a city hall because it was destroyed in the earth wake of 1906. Construction began in april of 1913. In december 1915, the building was complete. It opened its doors in january 1916. Its a wonderful experience to come to a building built like this. The building is built as a palace. Not for a king or queen. Its built for all people. This building is beautiful art. Those are architecture at the time when city hall was built, San Francisco<\/a> had an enormous french population. Therefore building a palace in the art tradition is not unusual. Jimmie was an incredible individual he knew that San Francisco<\/a> had to regain its place in the world. He decided to have the tallest dome built in the United States<\/a>. Its now stands 307 feet 6 inches from the ground 40 feet taller than the United States<\/a> capital. You could spend days going around the building and finding something new. The embellishment, the carvings, it represents commerce, navigation, all of the things that San Francisco<\/a> is famous for. The wood you see in the board of supervisors chambers is oak and all hand carved on site. Interesting thing about the oak is there isnt anymore in the entire world. The floors in china was cleard and never replanted. If you look up at the seceiling you would believe thats hand kof carved out of wood and it is a cast plaster sealing and the only spanish design in an arts building. There are no records about how many people worked on this building. The workman who worked on this building did not all speak the same language. And what happened was the person working next to the other person respected a skill a skill that was so wonderful that we have this masterpiece to show the world today. Good morning. And welcome to the monthly meeting of the San Francisco<\/a> county Transportation Authority<\/a>, im scott weiner, the chair of the authority. And mr. Clerk will you please call the roll . All right, item one, roll call. Avalos . Here. Breed, present. Campos chl present. Cohen. Present e farrell. Absent. Kim absent. Mar. Absent. Peskin. Present. Tang. Present. Weiner. Present. Yee. Present. We have a quorum. Thank you very much. And before going any further i want to thank sfgov tv, for broadcasting todays hearing. And item two, please . Item two, chairs report, this is an information item. Thank you. Colleagues, this has been an exciting month for the Transportation Authority<\/a>. Last friday i was very happy to join with commissioner kims office to to the cal tran and the chp, and the federal highway administration, and the metropolitan commission, and this was the first major capitol project delivered by the traness powertation authority. And the new ramps provide safe access, and are the first of many Infrastructure Projects<\/a> planned for the Treasure Island<\/a> and yerba buena island, i want to con gr congratulate the director, and for competing the 98 Million Dollar<\/a> project on time and on budget. And i also would like to congratulate cal trans in the opening of the bike and the pedestrian an path, connect tg to the island on sunday. And this regional link was much anticipated on by many people. And a lot of people are going to benefit from this improved access. And so this is no longer any dead ends and i want to thank the agencies that were involved in moving this forward. Earlier this month, they were also, delighted when the federal department of transportation secretary fox announced the award of a 11 Million Dollar<\/a>, innovaive technology and grant for San Francisco<\/a> and the projects funded by the grant will be implemented by the mta and the Transportation Authority<\/a> with the support from uc berkeley, and including the development of the high occupancy lanes, and car pools. And many smart traffic signal or the smart Traffic Signals<\/a> to reduce congestion and improve the safety and the electronic toll system and the testing of three shuttles for Treasure Island<\/a>, and i am excited to see these demonstration projects beginning to transform, the visions and in the Practical Solutions<\/a> and i want to congratulate the mta and the Transportation Authority<\/a> and thank, mayor lee and, leader pol for their support for this effort. I would like to thank the ta and the mta staff, michael swartz. And jones, for presenting an up date of the planning study at the board of supervisors land use and transportation Committee Last<\/a> week, it was great to see the early thinking by the planners in the public including a lot of feedback on where the major rail and subway investment could make sense. And although, it is early and our plans are am ikz i am convinced as a city and a region, we must be forward looking in setting the transit that we want to pursue and i look forward to the completing of the study, and when i offered it tapped into a lot of energy, in the committee and the people want more subways and i am glad that we are finally moving towards at least an initial study of where the future subway lines should go and of course, the hard work of planning and obtaining the funds and so with that, ic, conclude my remarks ad here he is. And i want to ask if commissioner mar would like to do a report out for the revolution conference that he attended earlier this month. At the hyatt just in time. He is by his microphone. It was a great conference, 1200 people, 75 speakers and great to hear from ed from the mta and the mtc and i think that for me, the most important parts were looking at Transit Authority<\/a> and development and putting the e in to the tod or the equity and for real liveable cities. And to really build more sustainable but also equitable for the low income people that the communities are protected. I think that amy really had the great perspective and really as usual, the transform staff like ramos and our mta commissioner did a great job integrating the great transit thinking with the Housing Development<\/a> and land use policy. And i also wanted to say that a lot of the tours were Pretty Amazing<\/a> for the visitors from around the country as well. And a great panel with Christie Wang<\/a> from spur on housing and how we merge Housing Development<\/a>s that is equitable with the transportation policy as well. And i wanted to last say that was a fun conference, and they, kind of wonky but building in lots of interesting ways to talk about complex and challenging policies. I think that kim, from the tech crunch to many of the others, talked about the challenges with the innovation capitol of the world. The San Francisco<\/a> sil con, valley, bay area, but many other regions are looking towards us for how we do it right. And i wanted to at last say that i think that conferences like this are great for the networking but for me, it is like the synergism and the intersectionality of the work that a lot of people are doing and hats off to the organizers, especially the low Income Investment<\/a> fund and others who really insuring that the vision of equity and social justice is integrated into the transportation planning, thank you. And thank you, commissioner mar. Okay. I see no other names pish r withishing to speak, is there any Public Comment<\/a> on item two . Seeing none, Public Comment<\/a> is closed. This is an information item. Item three . Three. Executive directors report. This is an information item. Miss chang. Thank you. And commissioners before you today are three reports from my monththy report as well as two updates on the projects. First off at the federal level, good news on that safety front, the u. S. Department of transportation has also announced its commitment to end traffic deaths with a launch of its road to zero plan to reduce and eliminate the traffic fatalities by 20 and in 30 years, and so in about 2046 and later, in october, we also saw support by the league of cities, which adopted a resolution, supporting Vision Zero Initiative<\/a> and it will require, consistent and unified advocacy from the california cities, including San Francisco<\/a>, la and san diego and, san jose, and so we are really thrilled with the developments at the federal and the state levels to support the local effort and to continue the collaboration that we have begun here locally. And another up date on the federal front is that the nation alien vier mental policy, and the delegation to the cal transand the risk of expiring and this is back to 2007, when california was the first state to be delegated by the federal government, from the usdot, federal highway administration. But that sunset provision for the Expiration Date<\/a> of that authority is january, 2017, and unfortunately, efforts to reup on that to extend that sunset, failed earlier, in this legislative session, however there is two more options. With the special session, that continues to late november. As well as potentially in the bill in december that will allow for the cal transto retain that delegate authority. And so meanwhile, we are supporting the advocacy, by the cal trans, for both of these options and we will work with the partners at the selfhelp counties to take action quickly and allow for the projects to continue unimpeded and without interruption. And so chair, weiner it you so much for coming and speaking again. And at our westbound, i80 celebration and it was a wonderful opportunity to highlight the new capacity and the new partnerships that we have developed as we have implemented this important project. It was very exciting and it was very festive and i would also like to recognize our past director, jose who worked together with lee and also, with eric, back then at that stage as well. And previous, administrations of the mayors administration and our chair at the time, chair avalos and others before him. And so this has really been a wonderful long term effort and definitely will be the first of many connections to the Treasure Island<\/a>, to come. Regarding the resolution, conference, thank you mar for representing San Francisco<\/a> and for your deep involvement in so many of those topics as the topics that i think is really that truly is the value of those gathers that i find as well. And i was honored to moderate a panel on building, the brt partnerships and really putting in the brt and the context of the streets and all of the disciplines that come together around affordability and access and land use, and urban design and safety in particular, and our principle planner, michael also presented on San Francisco<\/a> pioneering policies around the demand management and so it was a wonderful conference and to congratulate the organizers, and i also participated in a few panel and just wanted to let the board know about the its and the institute of Transportation Program<\/a>, and it is a four campus collaboration for research and so we have been supporting that as well as the state wide, transportation, transit planning effort as well that is i am naturing for that led by ucla, it is a time in california where many local jurisdictions and the state wide institutions are trying to implement the new climate mandate, and all of our important transportation initiatives. Locally the chair has mentioned some of the exciting news about the usdot grant, and that is available for more information on our website. And press release there to describe some of those projects and the subway vision as well. Is described further on the website, and we want to thank the public for their over 2600 submission and suggestions for what quarters we should be looking at and so that work will continue through the connect sf effort together with the Planning Department<\/a> and sfmta and the regional partners. Moving to the freeway side, our freeway quarter Management Study<\/a> is making progress. We really want to spreesht v appreciate the commission staff, and the executive director, art and his project management lis for coming to our plans and Programs Committee<\/a> and presented on their percent with the 580, and the 680 lanes and then we provided an up date on our study as well. And alternative concepts for the 280, 101, corridor should be available by the end of this year and it will be conducting the out reach to the neighborhoods along the corridor, both local and regional travelers to hear their thoughts and questions about how we might better improve the reliability and efficiency for the transit, the buses and the trans, offer the service in the corridor as well as to the motorists who are trying to access San Francisco<\/a>, from the south bay. And the geary bus Rapid Transit<\/a> project and the quarter Improvement Project<\/a> where we are working with our federal partners who are roo he viewing the final document. And the last steps before we can release it is to obtain their approval in the next few weeks, following the release, we anticipate, holding a brt citizens meeting in mid novemeber, where the Citizens Advisory Committee<\/a> can indicate its support for preferred alternatives and then, the next step would be for that decision to come to this body as well as the sfmta board and so we will continue to support this with an out reach, effort once the environmental document is released. But we have been presenting along the way, updates on what we have heard what we have done in response to the tremendous, public input that we have received to date. And so, i encourage the folks to check out geary brt. Org which is the website on the project. The related news on van ness is that we are entering doo construction, and so congratulations to the sfmta and the partner and the public works and the others on the milestone and over the next couple of weeks. There is going to be a few traffic changes and the public open house on october fifth to help to get the word out about the changes. And the signal timing and left turn removals and among those variable Message Signs<\/a> will be used to notify motorists, and make sure that the drivers are aware of the change. And in addition, polk sfreet is expected to also, undergo its ground break and construction as well. And so these two projects should be completed by late, 2018, and 19, respectively. Moving on with project delivery, the prop k, antip, program and the neighborhood Transportation Program<\/a> is making great progress, and we saw for example, the out reach on lumbard street and we are going to continue that out reach and hold a second meeting in mid novemeber to share some of the findings and then continue to receive public input on the potential solution and on district nine, we presented the interchange study to the finance committee, this month. And we will be following up given how well those have been received, to date. By the community and we will be following up with commissioner camposs office to advance the Capitol Grant<\/a> to facilitate implementation in the november december, cycle. In district one, we are happy to report that this work is complete, and the striped, bike lanes and so thank you, for commissioner for the leadership in the communities. Thank you so much. Your leadership on those and it is exciting and our first capitol project and i think, that one of the first if not the first to be completed and look forward for the deputy is nodding yes and that is true, and you get to be first, district one. And in addition, we have on deck, the hair ball interchange, and planning study, which is the 101, bay shore, interchange study in district ten and so that will be presented to the finance committee where the commissioner cohen sits, and as well on wednesday, october 26th, tomorrow, the mta staff will be leading the first out reach meeting for the District Eleven<\/a> study. That we have been working with in the community. It is at 6 00 in the high skal, in room c. Okay. And finally, just a quick up date on the mtas vehicles and the delivery of several new exciting subsuites. One of the most important roles of the prop k sales tax is to provide a local match to mta and other operators for the vehicle. And so you will see in your report and the folks can find online an up date on where we stand on the lrvs and the articulated clek trollys and also on the hi brid, motor coaches and the mta reports that 95 percent, complete with the design of the new light rail vehicles and the first 24 of those will be coming for fleet expansion and delivery in late, 2017, and so thank you, again, president breed, and commissioner breed and all of you who have supported this procurement. And in addition on the bus side, and the mta has received, 60 out of the 74, articulated electric trollys and so hopefully the people have been seeing those around town. And they are great. And mta is also received, 144 out of the 307, hybrid diesel motor coaches on order. And so, it is great work on the mta and to mta on that, on that progress. Lets see, another item to report, is that we have conducted another joint training with mta and this is an initiative that we began last year year and so it is like the fifth training that we have done together where we have combined the staff from the agencies participating in the project management boot camp. And theyed there is to cover the fundamentals for the project management through construction to develop a common, vocabulary, and facilitate, the Relationship Building<\/a> between our agencies and so they have been successful and popular with the staff and i want to appreciate, dr. Reskin for his partnership, and eric for leading the end. And thank you and congratulations for the development, for fong for another year of clean audits and that is going to be coming to finance next month, along with the 7th straight, audit of the ybi ramps project, and with that icon include my remarks. Thank you. Thank you. And commissioner, mar do you have a question . Or is that from before . Okay. Colleagues, and unless there are any questions, we will move to Public Comment<\/a>, is there any Public Comment<\/a> on item three . Seeing none, Public Comment<\/a> is closed and this is an information item. Item four . Item four, approve the minutes of the september, 27, 201 , meeting this is an action item. Are there any questions, comments or changes to the minutes . Seen none, is there any Public Comment<\/a> . Seeing none, closed. Could you call the roll on four . Avalos. Aye. Breed. Aye campos. Aye. Cohen. Aye. Farrell. Aye. Kim. Aye. Mar. Aye. Peskin. Aye. Tang. Aye. Commissioner weiner. Aye. Commissioner, yee in aye. And then the minutes are approved. Okay. And item number five . Item five, execute a memo of agreement with the Treasure Island<\/a> Development Authority<\/a> for the yerba buena island, vice ta point, Operations Services<\/a> in an amount nottoexceed, 500,000 through december, 31 gs, and negotiate the Agreement Terms<\/a> and this is an action item. Commissioner peskin . Thank you chair weiner. And i was, i know that this was present in plans and programs. And quite frankly i cannot remember the answer. But i was just concerned that we were spending a half a Million Dollar<\/a>s on a temporary item that would be removed in less than two years from when it was built. So. I was cer yus as to why we are doing this. All right, miss chang . Yeah, i might ask eric to elaborate on my response if i dont get it all. Right. But commissioner, peskin thank you for the question, the idea here is to insure that we have a safe and welcoming and receiving area for visitors to the island once the pass has opened and we wanted to be able to have permanent safety feature and there is some of that will be permanent and others of those Services Like<\/a> some of the bathrooms and hydrations may be just for a limited period and theyed is to have a safe and a welcoming mra is for visitors and i will have eric add to that. Yes, definitely. A great question commissioner peskin. And these are, they are temporary in nature, and these are maximum budget amount of 500,000 all the way through the end of 2018. And we are currently right now, working with the state of california, in the area of the Toll Authority<\/a> to go ahead and institute some additional improvements in the area that frankly would put us in a position to send a lot less than 500,000, and so we are managing that accordingly with all of the stake holders. I might submit to you colleagues, that maybe when we have a smaller nottoexceed amount, and i mean that i dont want to say nottoexceed half a million, when it should be nottoexceed 200,000 or 300,000. Why dont we wait until they narrow that amount down. And appropriate ate what needs to actually be appropriate ated. I am sorry, could you i dont think that i understand what you are suggesting. The operations and maintenance of the vita point include security. As well as just over all maintenance, and garage pick up as well as the shuttle. And so those have been budgeted for a maximum nottoexceed of 500,000. And that is through december of 2018. What may occur, and which is very much likely, is that we will Start Construction<\/a> in that area, which would put us in a position where we would stop these temporary service frz occurring. And Start Construction<\/a> in the area in question. So, our thought process was to make sure that we covered what would be the maximum through december, 2018. And so it could be a situation whereas early as the end of 17, that we will Start Construction<\/a> and in the area there, and rebuilding the on and offramp structure and rebuilding the areas in question, there with the eastbound offramps. I appreciate it and in terms of what commissioner peskin was suggesting i was not fully understanding what you were suggesting. What i was suggesting is that in so far as this all seems to be in flux and this may be resolved in 17, i am just not sure why we are agreeing to execute an memo of agreement. When everything is still in flux. You are saying that it should be shorter. Or a smaller amount for a shorter period of time . When the staff can tell us, what really is going to happen, then we should enter into the memo with much more fixed time flames and dollar amounts that was my point. Did you want to add something . Certainly. Commissioner peskin nour concern and your suggestion there. And perhaps we could limit the period of the mou to the spring and then come back to the board and provide an up date and then potentially extend that. I think what eric is referring to is the potential beginning of our west side, ramps yekt and also the interchange project that is literally before the state right now, in terms of decision about funding and so that will be very easy for us to do is come back in the spring and i would suggest that as a way forward. And so the 500,000 has already been budgeted and in our office, budget. Yeah, it is running the shuttle and some of the security and the maintenance. It is budgeted as part of the project now, and the approximately, 2 Million Dollar<\/a>s has been budgeted for the temporary vista point of which one million comes from the authority and one million from the ybi ramps project. And so the suggestion is perhaps, executing the mlu through the end of april or the end of may, instead . Yes, we could do that, and come back and report and extend that at that time. Okay. So, okay, great. So perhaps an amendment by the end of may and just to give the flexibility. And yes, that will be fine. And we will take that up after Public Comment<\/a>. Any other questions or comments . Okay. And is there any Public Comment<\/a> on item five. Please come forward. Hi, commissioners my name is jessy and i am the director of the Bicycle Coalition<\/a> and we are thrilled about this project and i know that in your attachment and the memo there is a drawing of everything that is going on, and i saw a version of that, that had all of the different time lines with ticd, and cal trans, and mtc and, mta, and i think that i have counted all of the different agencies perhaps there are more. But there are a lot of moving parts, but what is not a moving part is the fact that starting on sunday, this past sunday at noon, the people biking and walking could finally make it to oakland all the way to San Francisco<\/a> on the district six in the yerba buena island, and it is important that these pieces all move together, and i appreciate the comments and a lot of moving parts and with he have been disappointed by cal transand not waiting to make sure that the landing is properly safe and welcome for the people that actually get on to San Francisco<\/a> and so your concerns are i think, heard from the aed vdvocates and the staff well. And the people are already there and so your attention to this and making sure that both the shuttle and the money is allocated to make sure that the point is welcoming to the public. And it is really important to us, and our membership, and we are just thrilled that this project is moving for ward, thank you. Thank you, very much. Is there any additional Public Comment<\/a> on item five . Seeing none, Public Comment<\/a> is closed. Okay. And commissioner peskin, perhaps you could make or offer an amendment and actually maybe we should make it through june 30th to the end of the fiscal year and so that we dont have that so we will have that match up . Sure, so perhaps on in the title we should say through strike december 31, 2018 and turn it to june, 30, 2017. And in the body of the instrument on page 2, in the first whereas, make the same change. And in the resolve, the first resolve, make the same change. Okay. Does that sound. That sounds fine. Okay. Great. Okay, so commissioner peskin has made a motion to amend, and seconded by commissioner tang. And colleagues could we take that amendment without objection . It is adopted. And on the underlying item, could we take item 5, as amended, the same house same call, without objection . That will be the order. Item 6. Allocate 12,713,969 in prop k funds with conditions for two requests, subject to the attached fiscal year, cash flow distribution schedules, this is an action item. Are there any questions or comments on item six . Seeing none, is there any Public Comment<\/a> on item six . Seeing none, Public Comment<\/a> is closed. And colleagues, could we take item six, same house same call. Without objection, that will be the order. Item 7. 7, approve the 2017, prop aaa plan policy and screening. This is an action item. Any questions or comments in seeing none, any Public Comment<\/a> on item number seven . Seeing none, closed. And colleagues, could we take that item same house same call . Without objection . That will be the order. And item 8. Approve San Francisco<\/a> input on the plan bay area 2040, draft preferred scenario, this is an action item. Colleagues, any questions or comments . On item eight . Okay. Seeing none, is there any Public Comment<\/a> on item eight . Seeing none, Public Comment<\/a> is closed. And colleagues could we take item 8, the same house same call . Without objection . That will be the order. Item 9. Introduction of new items. Colleagues, are there any introductions . Seeing none, is there any Public Comment<\/a> on item nine introductions . Seeing none, Public Comment<\/a> is closed. This is an information item. Item ten. General Public Comment<\/a>. Please come forward. Good morning inaudible Mission Officers<\/a> inaudible rescue for our people inaudible establishment of virtues enforcement of humanity. inaudible courage inaudible destiny inaudible thank you. Is there any additional general Public Comment<\/a> . Seeing none, Public Comment<\/a> is closed. This is an information item. Item number eleven. Adjournment. We are adjourned. 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