Call the roll please. Director heinicke, director nolan, ramos, present, directors please be adviced that director of the board will not be here today however, you have a quorum and you can proceed. Please be adviced that the ringing of cell phones and other Electronic Devices are prohibits at the meeting. Any person responsible for one going off maybe asked the to leave the room. Also, gentlemen, if you would please find a seat, we need to honor fire code. So people standing need to find a seat. Thank you very much. Item for approval of the minutes of the april 5th of regular meeting. A motion to approve. Second. All in favor say, aye. Aye. Any opposed . Thank you. Next item, please. Item 5, communications, directors. Item 6 with new unfinished business. Item 7, directors board. Good afternoon, members of the public and staff. Just a few things to report to you on and give you updates. The first is that we just this week maybe within the last week we released our annual bike count report. This is something weve been doing since 2006. At those intersections from 2006 to 2015 bicycling we saw 184 increase. Last year we hit a million. Market street bike barometer. We hit that in december. It was a 25 decrease over 2014. Extrapolating from the data we got in this report. We are estimating 2,000 bike trips daily in San Francisco. Weve been using automated bike counters and found that weekend bike trips increased from 20142016 to brought you the to 2. 4 million trips to 2. 6 million trips in just 1 year. A pretty good increase there. According to the us census bureaus that bikes makeup for all trips. Back in 2006 it was 2. 3 . To 2. 4 , a pretty good jump. 85 of the bike improvements that we made that you authorized from 20102014. Located neighborhoods that have more that the citywide average of 4. 4 percent than the commute. So whether we are targeting areas that are more conducive to biking or areas that are attracting to more areas of cycling. Its great to see that overlap. It seems that we are making investments in the right places. So the continued increase in cycling coincides with the steady improvements which we are making to get in the bikes and alleviates crowding and great for pollution. We would like to thank those for making these improvements who have been paying off which seem to be very measurable and significant due to crowding. That was great. Somewhat on the same theme, this is bike and roll to school week. Its the eighth annual such week. Coordinating by the San FranciscoBicycle Coalition with our state route to School Program in the city. I actually road from excelsior in the playground. Once a week there are families from three different schools that gather and Excelsior Playground and do a walking or riding to school buses. Its phenomenal that this just has grown up organically in the neighborhood. It was less than a half hour to get to work. Its just a reminder. We will have thousands of kids participating. Nearly ninety schools across San Francisco will be participating. This is a National Movement in more than 40 countries and in all 50 states in our great country. The mission is to make walking and biking to school safer and moyer accessible for children includes those with disabilities and increasing those who are walking. We had a great turnout today and hopefully during the week. Its good to see young folks getting around. Many of us learned how to recycle from our kids. Moving on, i think i mentioned before that San Francisco is participating in the u. S. Challenge and there were five chosen which San Francisco was one. Last wednesday, our city met with the department of transportation to discuss smart city challenge proposal to get their feedback. We had numerous of our partners and potential partners in the room. There must have been 60 people in the room from the private sector to nonprofit, advocacy sector. It was a strong showing of the breath of partnership. It will award 40 million to the city. There is an its a 50 million award to the city. We are one of seven. The Innovative Technology they are starting to evaluate and testing including self driven cars and smart vehicles and transportation network. Another priority of smart city challenge along with our strategic goals is to make sure the deployment of this Technology Focus on safety and equity. These changes will benefit all san franciscans, so our competition is austin, texas, ohio, everybody is putting a strong showing. Us dot is going to all cities. We will know where we stand in june. Pretty exciting that weve been able to advance to this point. Last thing i wanted to mention that tomorrow as Everybody Knows is april 20th. Known as 420. We are working as part of an effort to bring the city together to ensure that everybody can whether they are participating or not can have a safe event and the rest of the folks particularly the neighborhoods surrounding the park are not unduly adversely impacted. Our enforcement folks in particular as well as Transit Force will try to minimize impacts on muni and keep things flowing. Lastly as part of this report, im going to ask our transit planning chief to give you a little bit of an over view of changes that go into the series of the Service Changes that you authorized as part of this budget good afternoon, directors. Yes, not julie, sean kennedy, project manager for sf mta. I want to highlight for you some really exciting changes that are going to be taking place april 23. Rd. 2 years ago this body increased by 10 . This is known out of the transit effect in this project. And developed over the years of community outreach, Community Input to really help reduce crowding and performance. We made that promise in july of 2014 that in the next fiscal year budget we would deliver 10 service increase. To this change, we will fulfilling that promise of reaching that 10 additional increase in service. And, you know, its a pretty exciting moment for us. I mean, you would be really hard press today look back in the entire history in San Francisco to find more service on the street than you will be finding after april 23rd. Its exciting news. This has been built for years of hard work both in operator shortage and filling that need and filling the back fill with your support on new buses, new metrics for improving service around the city. This is the fourth round of service increase. It equates to about 10 . The total 10 service increase. Roughly about 20 million a year annually in this package of roots. What is interesting about this service is we are improving every area of service. We are doing connectivity lines. I want to go through some specifics on that. A total of 18 lines we are approving. Extending Service Hours on eight lines. Last time we talked about increasing the expanding service on some of the express routes because we realized that people dont commute at the same time they are used to and changing to adapting at how often and when people are going to and from work and also creating new connections and really trying to leverage the idea of the regional network, the work and improving connections to those networks and then improving the services as well, the 24hour services for the city. These are a table of the specific lines. As i mentioned weekend lrv service or Light Rail Service in the system is really getting a nice belly rub. The idea is 10minute frequency, the point is to increase reliability in the tunnel. Right now the way the schedules kind of mesh together, you get a 58minute break between trains coming in the tunnel. With this, the idea that ever since the five lines in the tunnel, basically every 2 minutes there will be a train coming in the tunnel. We think one is going to help with the reliability for the overall system and two provide that service for the trunk and core part of our line. Also want to point out the 1012 folsom. We are increasing frequency on those two lines. Thats also, those are two specific lines we hear a lot about in gaps and service. That will help with those lines. Expanding Service Hours. One of the gems in this Service Package is the addition of the 28 r, currently the 28 r is a school tripper. It runs from 79 00 a. M. In the morning and 24 00 p. M. And we really think that this is, the idea that we are going to all day service. 77 on this line that we will really improve connectivity throughout the corridor. We are pretty excited about this, 10minute head ways and all the way down. The route will have a map in the back. Instead of going to daly city then to balboa park and connecting geneva. Its connecting the southeastern portion with the northwestern portion of the city. Those are travel patterns that we have seen over the last decade or so that has become an important travel service that didnt have that service. We are excited about adding this 28 r. The 14 r connecting on an all day basis. Right now its just during the peak periods. We think that will add a lot of service. And the expresses extending those an extra hour in the evening to get some of those later night trips, those early evening trips. And then of course the 57, pash park merced, we made some changes to that service. The 18 used to service this part of the line and started at 5 00 a. M. And the next one at 6 00 a. M. We added service to the 57. The e line, well start weekday service, currently its just weekends. It will be weekday from 107 p. M. 00 p. M. I want to bring up another line. That is 2 clemente. We feel that the service line is crowded. It needs more service on the Center Portion of the line. We are adding a 2 clemente short line from its current terminal to california and presidio. Then the regular two will continue as it does today out to 58 park press the 2 br will carry it down to glen park bart. There is 2 hours we are implementing the 44 and 48. Its a segment for the two lines. The owl service, there will be a full presentation on this a little bit later. The owl service itself, we know there is a gap in service in the southern portion of the city. The idea is we really strive to have everybody within the city view within a half mile of a 24hour transit service. So, there is like there are several gaps in these two lines that are meant to address and help with. I want to point out that the Rapid Service started a year ago. Happy birthday, rapid. I do want to know, by the way, we are managing the system and increasing performance. Some of the rapid lines are 7580 on time. As you are aware our system is low 60s. We have peak crowding on this line. Peak period went to about 4. 5 on this line. Thats something we are really excited about. On time performance in general has gone up 5 on the route. Thats really a testament to the idea of better management, having enough drivers to fill all the runs. Having enough vehicles to make the runs everyday. Some of the really hard work that the trade and division has done in the last several years to really beef up and provide that service. When you provide that service, you dont have the gaps on service that are slowing down the line and the run. With that, i want to say that as we continue to move forward, we want to make improvements specifically to the routes we just made. I dont want to underestimate how much we appreciate your help and what it has done for the riders and really making this truly a fantastic place to live. Thank you supervisor wiener is here. Supervisor scott weiner i would like to say how thrilled we are to have this service increase. Both extremely positive. I want to mention some of the work that this team has been able to do in these often and very difficult circumstances. Thats not why im here today. Im here today to follow up on a letter that i sent you last week about what i think is an unacceptable funneling of a huge number of commuter shuttles on the one street, dolores street. Its a very unfair impact to one street. As you know i have been very vocal in support of the commuter Shuttle Program. I think its an extremely important way of getting people out of their cars. This is a classic example of cause and effect. I have respectfully disgreementd with some of the directions the agency has gone with sometimes responding to some outside pressure of my colleagues continually restrict where the shuttles can go and what stops they can use. Im a strong supporter of managing the system well but whats happened is every time the number of stops are reduced, every time the number of streets are reduced, what ends up happening is funneling, its not surprising, they are commuting the shuttles to arterials. They didnt realize what that meant. If you happen to live on arterials like dolores street, in this case you are going to have 55 shuttles on your street with a morning commute for a street that hasnt had buses on it. That is a significant change. Im asking you to not do this, to my constituents, to my neighbors. I think dispersing the shuttles has to be the game. I think they have done a tremendous job. In my district work when we had funneling on first street and duncan street to disburse shuttles so people can get onto the freeway. Im asking to you please take that into account. Please take a hard look for what this is going to mean for the corridor. My support for the Shuttle Program has not gone down by 1 millimeter. I just want to see more disbursal. Thank you for your service. Mr. Chairman, there is no determined for the speaker cards. The increase in trips by bicycle per day is just so good to see because i think it puts some data around what we see which is more and more cyclist than just cyclist traffic jams. Without data, we are just people with opinions and its good to see that what we are seeing. Also, the community bart day, is fantastic. In conjunction with the red carpet on Mission Street is really going to help that commercial corridor. I think we saw somewhere in the data around that, Something Like 60 the people that visit that commercial corridor do arrive by transit. As they are going to be in different parts. Mr. Ramos . Thank you for expanding the service. I would hope we would have the tools and measurements or systems in place to look for what i sense might become intentionally seeing more bunching and gapping when you have a lot more service instead of having the infrastructure to keep that moving without bunch. I would hope that we can stay away from that, but at the same time, when you just put more service onto a corridor without the requisite lanes or traffic signal priority or weve done the all door boarding which is great. But to anticipate for that to prevent that bunching from happening in the future. We know when we see buses bunched up. You have a whole lot on the front and a lot on the back and that is a wasted money. If we had Infrastructure Improvement to go with the improvement to roll out. Thank you all for the very exciting news. Im getting a little bit concerned. We are over the limit in this room for the fire. Excuse me. I have an Public Comment on item 7. To sharing the results. The on going report out of metrics for the report on how each line is performing. I hope those reports will not only be shared with the report but publically easily available to see how things are going to the extend that changes are needed and monitored. I think some things will be successful. But i think its important to monitor and report and be able to make changes for maybe not june but in august. Finally on that route changes, generally, although well talk about them in later items. The maps and the shelters and the realtime information throughout the system needs to be updated. That took a long time after the last set of changes. I hope thats already in the works. Im not sure if thats going to happen by saturday. That would be nice. Its important to have that information for riders. Thank you. Any others for the directors report . Seeing none. On going activities. Nancy, followed by albert chow. Can i thank sf govtv for getting the captioning working finally. Good afternoon. Good afternoon, commissioners. My name is nancy, i served for nine long wonderful years in the parking open Space Advisory Committee which an acquainted me with the background of how the government function or doesnt. Hopefully it functions very nice, thank you. Im also a member of the Action Committee group sunset for 4 years and im also the founder of park side for kids as you know is the Diane Feinstein elementary cool. We made sure for 4 years the bond money didnt get lost. Im here and im a little disappointed that the leadership couldnt present a report. I want you to understand that its important for the sunset district to have this transparency of what is going on through the cac. This information that there was going to be a presentation by mr. Sean kennedy at the cac meeting. Here is a page from the powerpoint that identifies having an outreach on the way. Nobody in the outside group, the focus group being talked about new this meeting was happening. They did not know mr. Sean kennedy was going to present. They didnt know they had an opportunity to speak and to bring to that cac their concerns. This is a transparency problem im bring to go your attention because i believe this body needs to know. You are going to be hearing more from the people because this process is not going the way you would like it or the way we would like it. I have respect for this body, and i want you fully informed which is why im here today of introducing the topic of transparency. Albert chow. calling names public speaker my name is albert chow, also the secretary of peoples park side sunset. The association on street. We were given notice back in october about the project thats going on in terdel street, but we were not given a chance to voice our opinion. There is a certain amount of layer of lack of transparency that we dont get to see the full process that we are properly address some things and work with sf mta on taravel. I believe it going to be disruptive to the community and the merchants and just b