Transcripts For SFGTV MTA Board Of Directors 51716 20160520

Please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar soundproducing Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. Are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar soundproducing Electronic Devices. Microphones, we respectfully ask they be turned off. Thank you approval of the minutes from the mayor 3 regular meeting is there such a motion. I. Opposed . The is have it. Thank you next item, please. Ms. Bloomer. Communications directors please be advised founded drortsdz not a disclose of the local t y local 200 at the policy and governance meeting on friday thats all for now and introduction of new business. Director borden weve golden gotten emails of Market Street you know about the upper market and that there say is anything well be hearing it again. Can to the call of the chair well talk about the governance and policy board. Thank you anything else okay ms. Bloomer item 7 directors report. Good afternoon director reiskin great report. Im not leaving. Good afternoon mr. Chair and members of the public and staff thank you for the opportunity to come down and personally give an accomodation to one of the valued employees that is leaving austin terrace our correct of Capital Improvement and construction to come join me a bittersweet and with a lot of jaeflz our great employees is moving on to to retirement for the few weeks heading up the Construction Division he oversees a hundred engineers and Contract Administration and Construction Managers in delivering the big muni Capital Projects the Rail Replacement projects, the technical projects like the radio, the Emergency Communications system and the automatic train upgrade unusual the capital core of the agency this is vinces second tour in this job in the early 2009s same position was instrumental like the t third late rail line the phase two the central subway and if a that point brought a lot of great experience and knowledge to the agency and 210 east he severed as the executive director the san ucla continent of government a combination of the mtc and the county Transportation Authority for Stanislaus County and we had a Transportation Planning and funding background as well as his engineering backward he served as the executive director of the Alameda County Transportation Authority he managed a billion dollars Transportation Improvement Program and before many in the private sector worked in various place across the country and came to the mta with a whole lot of great experience i dont know if i told vince this i didnt know vince from his first time i left the government before i jibbed the government his resume i called up Michael Burns the general manager of the muni and the mta would you vince is politically will be hire him he said i tried to hire him and couldnt get him to come to san jose thats one of the strongest endorsements and vince is about tremendous in the time i had the pleasure to work with him not just the expressive background and resume and criminals credentials but his manner the way the professional very even tempered with all the crazyness sometimes around the agency a steady solid presence with the project control system implemented within his division modernizing and keeping the big projected o projects moving forward and serving the demanding manager like john haley and the rest of the board is just such a strong presen not only in his executive team hell tell you hes a kid from west oakland but a mentor and role model to a lot of folks we didnt blame him not wanting to commute 17 hours a day but certainly wish him the best and give him in special heavy duty mta youve earned that plaque. clapping. mr. Harris on behalf of the board of directors and the all the people of San Francisco i totally agree with director reiskin with grace and style and like our support wish you all the best in retirement. Mr. Chair thank you very much and mr. Chairman and members good afternoon and ms. Harris this is my last time before i depart this is privilege. Thank you for the recognition it is truly appreciated my career director reiskin indicated like the others quite frankly is a true journey the sfmta is a very important part of that to me i want to thank dwrelg and my colleagues on the executive team and my Great Division staff and some of them are here for hire tireless work an enormous feat i thank them for the efforts and certainly this board for the opportunity to come back and work if this great city as a reminder our division is, in fact, responsible for major Capital Improvement and those projects unfortunately, all of them have some problems but the true test eve character is how we resolve those problems and our division we tide to solve them together and oftentimes possibility e together means working with you and its communities, the supervisors and other Agency Divisions working with the hope will be a solution that is fair and equitable and, of course, solves the problem my experience with the director indicated is unique i left the agency and had angle opportunity to become a director of another agency and sprooels was invite back glad to come back any return quite frankly given me a broader perspective for the kind of work we do and quite frankly for this great city so i just want to once again say thank you for the accommodate and honestly for me a privilege and honor to serve. Thank you. clapping. director reiskin. Thank you vince a few other things last thursday oh, okay. He on intersections well pause my report. You should be in the picture shouldnt you. No, no for the picture for the supervisors laughter . Hi there. Good afternoon welcome thank you so much mta board of directors and director reiskin are for making time for me, i want to come and express my strong support for the glth biennial on our calendar. Thank you mta for prioritizing the corridor one of the eastern corridors our office identified with the Bike Coalition and San Francisco Small Business commission as a priority as you may know that is would the the thought high injury corridors every 38 days someone is injured between polk street and Market Street and the one of the ways to calm the traffic loan along the heavily utilized corridors and we also building that additional cyclists on the corridor make the corridor safer that activates the corridors and supports the seniors and families on golden gate is really xrefrngs a lot of transformation to the historic y and down to one of the problematic liquor store big boy that is experienced so valencia and it is really great to see one the liquor store a Riding Program for the neighborhood and this is happening on golden gate complimented and protected by Public Safety really help to rae activate this street so thank you very much fewer support and sfmta not only for working us to prioritize had. Thank you, supervisor kim. Director reiskin. So that is the item on the consent calendar but fits nicely last thursday was dwarf day and supervisor kim and many other supervisors participated vice chair director brinkman was there as well hopefully many more i know some of you ride to work most days and this was reference to some of the projects were doing like the golden gate so it is a great time that is coming a couple of things we unveiled last thursday were two new viable automatic at that time bike berry roommates between 16th street and 17th street and westbound on Market Street between 9 and 10 compliementsz the eastbound direction also unveiled and a a bic system to roll out more 12 hundred signs citywide over the next two years im not sure it will be much clearer like lanes between 50 and 20 percent ridership on bike to work day a whole bunch of people on Market Street for example, between 8 30 and 9 30 the peek however, the ridership was up 13 plus compared to last year and so thats great during the a. M. Peak the bikes radio 86 percent of private vehicle on Market Street so pretty expressive there and what we talked about at the event was that in 2016 will be starting construction on 22 millions miles of bike lanes a lot of the work in the planning and design by the folks in liveable streets is really come into fruition in terms of the construction thats great and just to remind you from the last bike counts report we present at the the policy and governance last month we completed 23 projects with improving safety and people an increase from enforcement from through 2015 and since 2006 saw one hundred and 80 percent growth in chrysler it remains the faster part of transportation it is great we have a number of projects coming this year including the mosaic and polk and Second Street interpreting construction this year and currently a bike network that spans a lot of miles it great to see that on bike to work day moving uber to van ness as you may know the van ness bus Rapid Transit is a program it is moving forward were actually going to have an item at the next meeting to approve the construction project were getting ready to broub and when you approved the program well start putting into place next San Francisco month so well be doing business bus stop coalition with the work ahead of time to get the patterns in place and 0 coordinate with the construction we are doing some of the consolidation now to the operators and the public can be familiar with the changes before the construction starts which is this summer helps with traffic circulation and other issues during construction and the stops we maintain the ones near where the future center of boarding island will be what well have im not going to read where all the bus stops will be weve done a ton of outreach with regards to the van ness program but doing specifically with regards to the bus stops we will have ambassadors out there and buses and text message and press releases and blogs making sure that no one is precipitated and prepared as has the information kind of the physical step of this project this is been perhaps 20 years in the making were excited to see that coming in terms of the trains i on intersections i may have mentioned allotment weve done a soft launch of double stopping in the system and we have kind of left it in place now as as Ongoing Service in bound to the montgomery for those who for those of you who dont know it allows for a train pulls into the station and already a train there the people on the second train can get off and not be frustrated until the first car clears it is rider amenity we on intersections that would be great and ambassadors to make sure the people understood what is happening but generally the system determines when it hemispheres and it only happens during the commute hours we have a lot of trains and congestion by the way, it is helpful for folks coming to those stations well be leaving that in place available on the out bound side so thats well not use it b there but good to see it is a long history to get into being upgrades one rail on the motorbike loop last december the California Court of appeals listed the construction of the mission bay loop and tomorrow resuming construction on the loop that goes 19th street and illinois and back to third street the construction on those 3 streets met with the stakeholders in the dog patch neighborhoods over the last couple of months to get everyone prepared after the initial evacuation new rails and sidewalks and signals at the intersection of 18th street and i will and the new overhead lines and we repave everything and what this will allow is us to do is to on the busiest portion this is something we wanted to get done in advance the central subway came in r coming in well move to 2 car trains with the t line but you excited to be able to get this project back moving is will be an important part of t service and help in the meantime wanted to update you last as i understand as data breakers a significant event from the transportation stand point there was a lot of good planning lessons if previous years and a lot of activates management that made the day go fairly well, we had our very well Operations Centers staffed for the day that brought different departments of organizations and different parts of transit as well as our street enforcement our communications, everybody in the loop together to actively coordinate with the citys Emergency Operation center and the plans that were adjusted reverberations of previous years plans worked very well and adjustments made on the fly but there were a lot of things we were able to do to get poem transforming p to and from the event were you mother impacted we had a day without collisions great not two ocher on a day with unusual activity was great person with our cameras and other field reporting able to get much better information what was happening on the streets and will be able to use use that information to better refine the service and streamline it and make that more efficient we had a lot of coordination in the events post event work between public works and the Police Department to get the streets reopened we reopened the streets anothers 9 30 in the morning and muni was restored earlier than previous years i want to commend the numerous folks on a sunday to make sure the event went well from communications to other divisions to make that work last thing wanted to do was followup on an item we heard about a month ago with regards to the commuter shuttles going through part of mission want to ask tom maguire our sustainable streets advisor to give you an update. Good afternoon directors and chairman and directors you, you remember that last time we talked about the proposals for the mature stops on delores street with the network with the program that went into finally effect on april 1st the requirement we rove the commuter shuttle stops in april we brought the first batch to you but part of the delores to investigate whether there were technical raenlz for the existing large vehicle wait restrictions on guerrero street our team investigated the issue and did an analysis and found no technical impediments on guerrero two lanes in each direction both streets are less is steep and castro has a classification of aerial street on the caltrain map that was a question we were asked to investigate. Are the this may change the situation in terms of the where the stops are of delores can you ask you to come back with a recommendation. Okay. Thank you. Director reiskin. That concluded my report. Thank you. Ms. Bloomer. Mr. Chairman none wants to address you under the directors report so moving on well take item 8 with the Advisory Council i dont see mr. Weaver to be at item 9 general Public Comment at this time, members of the public may address the commission to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. With respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when hold on im having a moment with the machine starting with john and calling names good afternoon. Good afternoon my name is john alex the member of the Public Safety Advisory Committee i come to you with the presentation of vision zero resolution i speak to you on two points my response to the unfortunate fatality that occurred january this year of abraham what was in a collision in june of last year while he served as on the cable car line i respond to his family and promoted me to create the bay area walk a group for pedestrian pier to pier support group to affirm and provide grief counseling in any research in that unfortunate collision and fatality i learned a thirty day rule i have the document i can provide and email to roberta and have it on paper if you want a copy a memo by is vision zero traffic fatality drop out they defined the protocol and where they determined what is a traffic fatality ray is not considered a traffic fatality coauthored to sfpd and the vision zero traffic fatality group a point that she mentioned in her memorandum i can share with you there is a possibility this group will create an annual report on who died over thirty days from the collision it is not a defiant active a consideration by commander and devon and james i encourage you to should you we will. Thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names . Good afternoon eileen parks residents doing portions of a letter from the merchants known as pops opposing this was sent to the board of supervisors and read to the installation and handed to mta i quote the terryville merchant continue to have serious conditioners regarding the terryville rapid project those concerns are the loss of muni stops and transit only lanes and replacing the stop signs with traffic signal and relocation of parking onto resident streets the changes in the project its the merchant continue to have serious issues regarding the outreach process both the scope of the puck etch and the member of the General Community not sufficient time for people to understand the impacts of those changes therefore the terryville merchants are strongly urging the board of supervisors to address the unresolved sfmta issues beginning with holding a meeting on the muni matter we believe those have an urgency to void the unpleasant exhibitionists enconcerned by the merchant written by president pops. Thank you. Next speaker, please. clapping. good afternoon. Gilbert district 8 resident and San Francisco long time supporter of the central subway and i just wanted to direct the i make my yearly appearance here i want to thank the board and holy in the budget coming up that youre going to approve for the free for seniors and disabled i dont know long that program will run im a big supporter of it i use it so i hope it continues and i have been following the meetings watching it on my mobile device and i havent heard ive heard bits and pieces of expanding the central subway to Fishermans Wharf and north beach i know there was something in the budget for either a study or an analysis Going Forward for Fishermans Wharf and north beach and im not exactly sure what that is, i wondered how you can involve the community and the state legislator and the governor and the people like nancy pelosi and Dianne Feinstein to get money for expanding the system and i want to be involved with that as strong supporter for the central subway and its expansion to Fishermans Wharf and north beach i live on the evelyn and im not a tourist im a resident that use the f line and a lot of people going to Fishermans Wharf and north beach it is crowded during the tourist season so expanding the central subway is aical and extension into the future for san franciscans. Thank you, sir appreciate it next item, please. calling names . Good afternoon good afternoon directors and director nolan and director reiskin im the policy manager with walk sf im here to talk about the walk sf we teamed up with mercy housing to look at Pedestrian Safety at the direction of Herman Laguna and market lets see if that comes up laguna and herman and market mercy housing is going to be opening a Senior Housing department as 55 laguna and 95 laguna up the block and open house opening a Senior Center hundreds of more seniors easing the direction we are considered considered that the treats we want to make sure they go far enough to protect the seniors that will be using this intersection we had the great opportunity to work with a group of seniors and do the training with the seniors and assess the conditions of this intersection 4 of the seniors are here to talk about that and share their expressions of that intersection and could make them feel safer i applaud the seniors they come to 3 different emotions to be part of project so i ask you to listen to them and their senior voices we dont hear enough and not be able to come back when this item is on your agenda take to heart what they say and mercy housing is here to talk to i cant help but tell you what walk sf are concerned about the crossing at laguna here and so we can talk you and hear about that our priority for this intersection but youll hear more from mercy housing and the seniors thank you for your thank you. Next speaker, please. Shannon calling names . Good afternoon. Im sharon with the messenger in california im here to support kathy and the seniors on the it was a great project to participate in as kathy said well soon open 55 laguna and then in the spring of 2018 the open house on 95 laguna with 200 seniors to the z we have reviewed the upper market with the staff theyve been great with cooperating with the plans we you are interested in also the laguna street crosswalk and if interest is a possibility for right senior crossing signs that will help to attract the drivers attention to the fact that there are a lot of vulnerable pedestrians in the area and if at all possible lights ive noticed in the loose two years going up to the intersection because folks are coming north if guerrero street they dont see their focused on crossing the large intersection if you make eye contact their respectful i support the planned upper market improvements im a neighborhood another van ness and market and walk up to Church Street amend and the improvements on the south side of the street should help with Pedestrian Safety your time. Next speaker, please. calling names good afternoon hi good afternoon. Im jeanine im a San Francisco resident im 64 and a half i have support my life partner that is disability in 1989 after she was rear evident and open house will open their center and they several hundred of seniors on a weekly basis they have huge numbers of people they will serve and we want the seniors to be safe at the corners of lang and market huge numbers of pedestrians go through the intersection i do walk sf and here we have the jeep in the middle of a crack with the tires on the strips with the invasion of seniors we need the bulb outs that helps to keep the pedestrians safe. The last speaker was right there is numerous numbers of cars north from guerrero up to Market Street and a lot of get stuck on a yellow light and drivers are monk see monk do so checkout those mediums and please as a matter of law a large concrete medium that will slow down cars going north promote Pedestrian Safety and are prevent cars from going to laguna thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names . Good afternoon shes living in mercy house. speaking foreign language. and past she is attend the trinity for the walk sf speaking foreign language. she was wait a second through Laguna Herman and Market Street speaking foreign language. i observes that some areas of safety but some areas not that safety. speaking foreign language. especially for the senior person. speaking foreign language. in the herman street. speaking foreign language. and in the herman street the Transportation Departments should be putting Traffic Signals on the left side and right side. speaking foreign language. now i dont see any Traffic Signals on the herman street. speaking foreign language. for the senior person is very dangerous. speaking foreign language. when the time the left side or right side the senior person not seeing the cars coming or not. speaking foreign language. i suggest Transportation Department put a traffic signal on the herman street. speaking foreign language. to protect the senior for the safety. speaking foreign language. thank you very much. Thank you next item, please. calling names . Good afternoon. Bring the microphone down a little bit. My name is sue. speaking foreign language. i am 87 years old. speaking foreign language. im living in the mercy housing. speaking foreign language. i was training for walk sf. speaking foreign language. i worked for herman street Market Street and the laguna street i observed the Market Street. speaking foreign language. i observed the Market Street have traffic lights but speaking foreign language. the light is absent changing the corner she is is a senior walk very slow. speaking foreign language. in the streets theres a lot of seniors person Walking Around in this area. speaking foreign language. the senior persons walk slow they dont feel safety. speaking foreign language. oh, some people drive dont look at there and the. speaking foreign language. because their senior walked slow when he when they see the traffic so fast they are science scared. speaking foreign language. sometimes maybe car accidents. speaking foreign language. the seniors does not have a car accident but very scary. speaking foreign language. give them a lot of room. speaking foreign language. okay she said she hopes transportation can put the light and give them people warning with the seniors on the walk on the streets. speaking foreign language. and then for the yellow signal on the traffic lights they will be the driver and people can be accelerated and drive a little bit slow and the senior people feel more safety. speaking foreign language. she said please protect our seniors. Thank you thank you next item, please. calling names . Good afternoon. I want to say. speaking foreign language. she speak have got english laughter . San francisco. speaking foreign language. she was attend the training class in San Francisco. speaking foreign language. i was are the herman and math and the laguna street. speaking foreign language. laguna street does not have any traffic light. speaking foreign language. i went through lefthand side or right side they dont feel safety for the senior person. speaking foreign language. okay. Because for the safety so she insists the Transportation Department put a righthand side or a lefthand side so the senior can look at. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Ms. Bloomer. Francisco da costa followed by Herbert Wiener and then larry kaplan the last period of time to turn in a speaker card. I on intersections go ahead mr. Da costa. Huh . Ged and give our testimony. My name is francisco da costa and some perspective to what is happening in our city sometime ago sent a letter i norman dont do this the light is right a letter giving me the authority from the first people of this area the Muwekma Ohlone i have a very Good Relationship with director reiskin ive said thisefore and i hope you understand what im saying because i work as as farther our what im saying today that is were not addressing the common footprint and lick fax and flooding nine hundred tons of meth gas into the atmosphere pursue in the year 2016 we can have real the data on this things now were talking about transportation and it factors in he know that we have the big one and before that we have to be prepared to have sound transportation that takes us from one place to another so id like to speak but director reiskin with a letter of authority ill bring sent it to you to have preserve for the future thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names Herbert Wiener do board is free to throw a history i didnt fit after my statement bus stops have bang eliminated on the grounds of making them run faster i believe that stops and lincoln way have been eliminated if im not mistaken and this is adversely impacts on people that previously walk long blocks and now walk longer ones so i say with the progress and making the buses run faster a receipt of cruelty and contempt towards the seniors and the contamination you have to correct the hardship it sloouks solution is offered as a remedy to a problem that could have been prvenltd those changes should not have been implemented instead of the solutions the parties have become part of problem itself and while the planners and the related parties get great salvation from the above their defeating themselves when they look into the anywhere they may not see a reflective next item, please. Good afternoon. Im larry kaplan a taxi driver here in the city and county of San Francisco for the past 36 years fulltime and for the past 10 years a San Francisco medallion taxi driver medallion holder so i guess what i have to say is simple im here to implore you to waive the upcoming annual medallion fees this year you heard it in various forms before ill put it this way the taxi business in San Francisco has bang tolerantly destroyed and the livelihood of the taxi drivers has been completely devastated i used to be able to make a living in the town i cant make a living here anymore the allowed uber and lyft to invade the city the way they have is nothing short of a cancer many nobody at the state level or the city level has done anything about i do remember a few years ago when it seems to me the city as essential hell believability that moneyizing the medallions and the city has nothing done nothing for a medallion theyre worthless nobody wanted to buy or lease a medallion were hooking most of the time most of us dont have the thousand dollars to pay for the renewal fee what will happen were very, very unhappy about the situation i mean to have the rug pulled out from underneath you is a horrific thing youve counted on something for many years and put your life into it and suddenly its gone thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Somebody needs to come to the microphone. Yes. Are we using a 0 clock today because that clock is not working again how many minutes do we get to today. 3. I want to start off with number 07 on my list because wheelchairs have lost a taxi service that uber and lyft do not support and you kind of let that taxi service go so if you recommend a lawyer id like to sue the city for allowing them to fall apart you must know professionals and 1 3rd lets get to number one third of the piece of pie is a large portion of that pie 1 3rd of wheelchairs used for ramps on the buses okay. And if youre sitting in a new one without a ram your moving this way or that way it is very uncomfortable not right and should we should have are real locks also a handicap light only the back of the bus to say that the rack is being engaged and next overhead i have to switch this will takes the slant in the ramps that are coming out the overhead please which the middle can yes there we go. And move up this is part of what im saying when the new buses have that middle ramp it is a tough one you, you have to go up a hill again and go up backwards they need to open up their ramp and the bus needs to be lowered at the same time the rattles there are no reason that new bus of 27 miles rattles like a trap we dont have any i on intersections of the mechanics did a good job on it. I have 3 minutes. You have 2 mr. Chairman the last person to address you under general Public Comment. Okay. So moving on. To cds calendar, are considered to be routine commission. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission, the public, or staff so requests mr. Chairman several items have been severed 10 point one p through t which has to do with with establishing a bike lane on golden gate avenue 10. 2. Say that again 10 point one p there t and 10 want ab with regards to a commuter surety zoned on van ness and c e and f has to do with with commuter shuttle on golf and franklin the rest of the consent calendar is a motion on the consent calendar must 10 point one to ab c e and f. Correct. So motion to approve. All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The is have it. So okay ms. Bloomer 10 want one. 10 want one p through t has to do with with a when we get to there. Establishing and bike lane on golden gate in the vicinity of golden gate. Take all those together. Yes. calling names are our speakers. Good afternoon mr. Stall. Good afternoon. My name is ken im a Pedestrian Safety organizer at the corroborative and an advocate for vision zero im here to support the improvements for the golden gate after the tenderloin streets have been high injury corridors for years and no changes to make them save now with the golden gate zero to eliminate all pedestrian deaths by 2030 the neighborhood will finally be safer for the children and families and disabled residents many of the trader joes that work in the tenderloin are enlists instead of car owners so having a bike infrastructure is important to make sure this area the city flourishes and you are thrives for future residents and others in the tenderloin thank you. Thank you, mr. Stall next item, please. Madeline. Good afternoon. Nice to see you all again yes madeline folks for polk im here to speak for the Lower Polk Neighborhood Association for the cd and the new leadership the Polk Association there is great support for the bike lanes and as jane kim and kevin referenced crisscrossed by freeways one way streets of which people go high speeds and the residents suffer a one, two punch one of the biggest crash zones but disproportionately for bicyclists ive personal rind there are no bike lanes that offer that route from downtown towards the west through the t l and dangerous and thus people rides on sidewalks or whatever and then suffering with the citations they get and supervisor kim referenced the nature the neighborhood and golden gate avenue is changing to which i want to add that bike shares have coming up with the second roll out we would like to see this in the ground and more safety for people which will 2, 3, 4 turn increase the uncle of the bike share system and relief some of the congestion i want to quote the mp a leadership it promotes safety and they would to see a 2way street with wider sidewalks we look forward to protected bike lanes like ellis and others. Mr. Chairman the last person to turn in a speaker card. Is there a all in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The is have it. Okay 10. 2a and has to do with with establishing a commuter shuttle a bus zone on valencia street. Ab yes. The first speaker is j. D. calling names . Good afternoon good afternoon my name is j. D. Ive lived on the corner of valencia and 26 street and my comments will be two issues one safety and the second traffic first vision zero plan was implemented to reduce the traffic deaths and mass no sense for the shuttles a major bicycle avenue they blocks o block the bike lanes and as they wait theyre blocking bike lanes and 3 or more shuttles idling and people find themselves trapped one in front of them in the stop blocking the bike lanes and the 3 on the left side this mick of huge buses and bikes is no way to reduce the high injury corridor the second point is traffic and congestion the shutter operators claim to take cars off the road ill argue they relieve congestion further i counted 34 bus stops the commuters can take bart or caltrain to the peninsula and have a shutter you pick up them theyre having a saving and assuming a fraction of the 8 hundred shuttle trips from thirty to 40 miles of congestion on the highways those living more than 4 blocks away with the shuttle take them to the nearest hotel station and traveling short distances within the city will reduce commemorating and this will help reduce the Green House Gas emissions and four of them less than a thirds etch people will walk to the station this is a common sense method and reduces the need for more public space. Next speaker, please. calling names . Good afternoon good afternoon directors my name is dan ive been a funeral director in San Francisco for the last 43 years our family owns the mortgage on 26 and van ness r valencia street im a fourth adjudication funeral director on valencia street my father and great gathering owned. Funnel home on have a seat street on the valencia corridor since the last 80s when the funeral per sessions were by horseandbuggy we host 4 hundred Funeral Services every year we as well churches in that direct vicinity have historically been allowed to park vehicles down the center deprived of valencia street with morning and evening having anyal or Rosary Services we also line up femur per sessions in the admitted divide ill argue between ourselves and st. Lukes hospital between st. Lukes and ourselves and our three hundred and 50 to 4 hundred services we have more detail volume of visitors and vehicles including the bicyclists than any other buses in the valencia streets of San Francisco corridor my daughter is a trauma nurse at San Francisco General Hospital and seize many bicycle accidents in conclusions i ask to you when how make our decisions the 4 v the very important the volume of visitors, and vehicles including bicyclists on 26 and valencia street thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names . And then laura. Good afternoon, sir. Good afternoon thank you for the opportunity my name is martin i live on valencia street and i am here as a residence id like to echo any support of j. D. And mortuary theyve put forth before the board i want to cite some statistics and propose alternative transportation that i on intersections should be considered in 2011 when valencia street the greenway was permanence and allocated to bicycle lane and widened the skraukz a boom and increasing the bike traffic to the last consensus to 13 hundred bikes a day 13 hundred bikes traveling down valencia street has to compete with the stretch the newcomers commuter shuttles that are traveling when i compare that to Mission Street it has less than only about 15 percent of bike traffic about 100 percent and 70 bicyclists in the last consensus and also zero percentage of the commuter bus stops on Mission Street and 16th street with the terms of the muni bus blockade when you take into consideration along with the street changes on Mission Street where you have to turn off and make resistant and it is transit only between 14 and Caesar Chavez it didnt make sense to the bus corridor i propose it be considered we consider utilizing Mission Street as a sole first street oriented street and leave it to the bicyclists and improving the safety of the bicyclists and the businesses around thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names . And thats the last person that turned in a speaker card. Good afternoon. Hi im cindy the Community Relations i director the Salvation Army with the Rehabilitation Center the bus stops is going to be foreclose of our building our main concern about 50 feet towards Caesar Chavez our main driveway with our 32 box trucks leaving at 6 30 in the mornings with the concern with the buses parked at the bus stop it going to cause a blind stop for not only the driveways but the cyclists on the street and also, if there is a pilot and our trucks cant get out it impacts our nonprofit business if we dont get our trucks it out out to pick up the donations it will impact us we have a nonprofit that provides drug and alcohol rehabilitation free for men and women we hope this bus stop is not go in front of our building thank you. Next speaker, please. Laura calling names those are the last two people. Nominees a lauren im a resident on valencia and 26 well weve brought 6 speakers i present one hundred and 15 signatures from residents and businesses and customers near valencia and 26 street that oppose the proposed commuter shuttles there and thats my personal statement 70 percent of severe and fatality are 12 percent of the students valencia street is considered one of the high injury corridors according could sfmta data is a significant number of injuries to pedestrian and cyclists why are continuity shuttles allowed on valencia the main northsouth thoroughfare for cyclists and moving the shuttle from one block at valencia and 25 to valencia and 26 which this proposal does were not making us safer and moving the blocks east or west to other high injury corridor streets that is mission and south jean e van ness and according to the mta data will not make the pedestrians and cyclists safer i on intersections that sfmta mediate to step back and create a plan not allow the shuttles that are ramped up 800 visitations to drive the i know this is on your plate to do; right . Those transit hubs really will be outside of the city and bart is a great idea the new transbay terminal i urge you to consider the locations that provide safe spots away from residents and businesses and schools safety first thank you. Thank you and. I actually thank you. Next speaker, please. Last speaker tie walker. Good afternoon mr. Walker. Thank you for your time for hearing me, im a residence of 1457 north of the proposed commuter bus stop on valencia and 26 street the issue is a Health Concern with regards to the commuter buses offending off valencia im a bicyclist and suffer from allergies that are aggravated by diesel and other manages and further contemplating this resulted in the removal of part of my i have asthma rooerpd when im cycling and caught behind a bus and i noticed an increase in any allergies the second issue is in regards to safety i regularly witness the operators of the bus driving too fast and waiting to enter the intersections and at mortuary and church with 3 popular bars and restaurants all in our block that results in a nightmare in terms of parking so basically what i see routing is you know cars parking in the middle of the street and on the right and the left and the computer shuttles running up and down 0 intolg those gaps it is disconcerning not only as a cyclist but a retained it is sort of a matter of when someone will get hit in closing thank you to the board for hearing our concerns regarding this bus stop i realize it a difficult discussion your weighing a lot of facts but we live on the block and it is becoming so congested and thank you and take care. Members of the Board Director reiskin. Director rahaims. Please ask what are the spots out of curiosity. Every block will have merchants it is a Silver Bullet but just. Good afternoon decorations so the reason we brought this proposal because an existing computer shutters southbound on 24 street that is a shuttle zone eurozone large enough for one shuttle when happens some of the speakers adu alluded to the shuttles will block the bike lane and drivers at the crosswalks the new zone on 26 street is large enough for two shuttles theyll park there without blocking the Salvation Army driveway the logic to remove a zone two small and one that is alongside. This will share the zone okay. Not a frustration. Director ramos i want to remind us all that is a very much are still a relatively exploratory phase of what we want to make permanent these things can be adjusted relatively easily i certainly emphasize with those who ride their bicycles up and down hate street during the commute times i have to commend with the large vehicles and i know they can be imitating at the same time i know that i recognize theyre taking a bunch of cars off the street and one professional driver driving on 15 or 20 more people than those 20 people or maybe 15 of them driving their individual cars were put in a position to make trade offs the thing that really stood out i hope well Pay Attention to the Salvation Army trucking and delivering i on intersections this is something that i mean, i for one value our services im sure a lot of folks that do that we can speak for so ill just encourage us to be cause how it is accounting in the long run the blind spot is real i believe especially, as bicyclist thereer pedestrians walk where the traffic is that is a concern i for one been keeping an eye on this and confident staff will be where respect to the petitions i saw ooechld and a lot of the comments made i on intersections that is more helpful if alternative transportation were proposed i mean, i would opposite those verngz vehicles on my street as well but the reality of this they have to go somewhere we need a place to go and cant keep them around and around and need alternative transportation to oppose i feel that we ended up were compromising here so i will as a board member be open to ideas and suggestions but at this point, i feel that staff has done you know their Due Diligence were not going to make everyone happy but again, it feels like this is something we can change in the future if we need to ill, supportive. Pardon mr. Maguire earlier in our report on guerrero street will this impact this particular decision this afternoon potentially. So the decision we are making please replace one with another so not increase or decrease but move into a place a theyll more curve space and certainly we know or understand that van ness and delores are part of south systematically system so continue to be look at ways to relieve the pressure. Members of the board is that a motion any further discussion . All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The is have it. Id like to associate myself with director ramos position. Ms. Bloomer. All right mr. Chairman 10 want 2 c e and f has to do with with a commuter shuttle on golf and franklin street and you have one person that wishes to address on this matter and that is marlene morgan. Ms. Morgan. I see ms. Morgan here. Oh, shes coming. Oh, great. Hello commissioners. Im marlene mortgage of the Commuter Association i want to mention we did a lot of work with the camtc hospital a bigger supporter of the van ness brt we on intersections that will do a great job in businesses and move traffic but because of complexity right now with the polk being revved for van ness and transit and golf and franklin are still the corridors for northsouth traffic from the Golden Gate Bridge and actually, i thought we were doing prospecting with the commuters on van ness what a lot of bus stops people waiting for them in the morning later unfortunate morning in the evening their empty from 6 to 8 and 4 from like maybe 6 to go 8 at night theyre heavy yes used before moving on to these to golf and franklin which are gridlocks now can there be more study about how many of these buses are hitting those stops everyday how many people in them fully uses and shorten the time period love to get the marin county people out of their single contributor occupancy vehicles that will not happy overnight how many people and whats the impacts and particularly in ellis and golf the Cathedral Hill crossing the school is a very dangerous crossing thats a very bad place to put a bop if you on about that well appreciate that. Im familiar with that area lots 0 a lots of traffic everyday with the high school especially in the moorings and acupunctures could we inquiry. I on intersections that is also at the top of hill talk about other spots i know because of the construction going on with camtc particularly along golf street sometimes that lane is not available for the traffic a lot of congestion from about geary to california. Mr. Maguire weve looked a lot of stops the reason it is here we need to move the shuttles off the van ness awhile today youre looking at stops and franklin and golden gate and bush through additional locations golf and pine we withdraw the neighbors expressed concerned about the traffic problems and blocked driveways and for franklin and hayes to be a shutter stop but clftsdz with safety there so we looked a wide variety of locations van ness is a high volume place. So thats the near itself stops. Ill ask my colleague to speak. Thanks tom and members of the board. State your name for the record ami alex working on the Commuter Program for the last couple of months currently stops along van ness at van ness and california and van ness and madam secretary weve proposed an extra stop to sprayed out the shuttles stomping so the shuttle that are stopping at california and bush stop the shuttle at golf and ma marpt. Our concern is when school stops and starts is it possible to limit the shuttles during that period of time can you do it later or earlier. Its a big school. Yeah. So these are proposed for the standard 6 00 a. M. To 10 00 a. M. Thats the majority of southbound or northbound you know the 6 to 8. Could you do it on eddy it is just the park not the a lot of traffic going to eddy. So we look at every single thing on franklin and golf we generally have not put shuttles in front of parks there is all kinds of pedestrian traffic into the parks thats a location. There is a baseball diamond that is flater your at the top of hill as ellis im not trying to make our life for complicated but i used to live actually in that building 15 years ago. So the thing about secondguessing at the Board Meeting it is difficult to your point try not to put them in front of parks i respect that but between 10 and 6 00 in the morning more traffic at the schools than the park again that is a dangerous cyclist road to go down but if there is a minor tweak. Have we heard from the school itself. No, but alex reminded me an issue with the trees at eddy due to the visibility. laughter . So we look at the trees extend out of the right away when we look at the shuttle zebras and at that location at eddy the trees limbs extended into the street that preventive shuttles from pulling to the curve and block traffic so trim the trees. What if we approve that the first time. We cant say trim the trees im sorry, i mean it is a rec and park thing in terms of safety it would be much better at that location those fields are used at night life and the sklsz in full sections in the daylight or daytime im not trying to make that difficult there are real concerns because of hills and the school and what if we approved that with exception of one stop and come back and talk about the trimming of the trees. Well visit the eddy issue with rec and park and come back to the next meeting met the july deadline. Well ask the gentleman next time yes, thank you. Okay. Thank you very much. So mr. Chairman for clarity item 10 c e and f the item is to the approved. Is it possible to remove golf and eddy. Just c so then e and f. We approve thats the motion i assume we have the motion. Yes, sir. A motion and second any further discussion . All in favor, say i. I. And ask the city to come back with an evaluation of the park positive only the alternative thank you for coming appreciate it. Ms. Bloomer. All right. All right. Regular calendar item 11 dedicating cable car willie junior on the 85 birthday more fun. Mr. Chair we had the great honor a few weeks ago you remember there along with the mayor and larry bear the head of the giants and others to celebrate the andrew of two San Francisco consciousness associated with number 24 our own cable car number 24 that was built in 1897 that is mindboggling not too many over one hundred vehicles but cable car 24 was actually coincidentally rebuilt in 1958 when the giants saw the light and laughter left the great city of new york we had the honor of celebrating willie mays 85 birthday by recognizing him and what hes done for the city and for the sport and for the country by honoring him with a cable car dedication we were joined by video by another special guest ill play the video for you now before i im going to turn it over to to the rest of the board. Okay. San francisco. laughter . Today is one of the were honoring a favorite son and the longest living ball player willie mays. Wow. He got here hit his 6 hundred plus homeer wins and 2 thousand inaudible so when they say San Francisco cable car was the first historical thing in San Francisco we know that inaudible that is baseball cable car rolling down the hills thats San Francisco with both of them 8 sites or whoever got into their was laughter today with an important number 34 to see two icons coming together and the city loves you and youre n important person as you were an army veteran and someone with a special ability to put a smile on a kids face and inaudible he refused to hand out baseballs he signed inaudible as he believes in inaudible on air force one people like inaudible more inclusive here the legacy of the giants happy birthday congratulation on this special honor. To recognize this idea came from director heinecke who arranged this this is really director heinecke. You made me follow the president laughter you know well ive known willow as as you may know longed services and personal lawyer and it was my sons idea i moved it along causeandeffect talking with the mayor about that first of all, willie was touched ive been in a lot of sidewalks with him he received a lot of accolades and phrase this moved him you should take pride and all san franciscans and specifically i have to say that candice and paul, and, of course, director reiskin and the Mayors Office were fantastic about putting this together and tom was there to help to dedicate the cable car there is a lot of work that went into that i dont on intersections. All of it but part of it setting up a video from the president s thank you for all of you who made it happen you made an old guy happy from my owner experience we took a 3 block ride in a cable car way to go so ms. Bloomer members question. I have to ask for one official request he noted to me that he has not paid for the cable car ride well give him a free pass to the cable car. So mr. Chairman no member off the public that wishes to speak saw a motion sure . Tom my i was baptized in 1954 or 55 a photograph of me as a young kid and my dad took it in the evening a dark photo im baptized with the giants and a giants jacket and 3 years two years later my father suffered the worst heartbreak born in 1921 in new york a hundred block the giants were his team and he had watched mustard and the empty cans of beer toss at the along the rivers another Dodger Stadium a rough time if my mom volunteered my father he wouldnt have felt as bad and a as when the giants left new york he loved willie and it was a difficult time when i was older when Bobby Richard caught a long drive that ended the world series in 61 even though i was still in new york i was heart broken myself so congratulations to willie he did do a wonderful job a genuine human being. A motion on the resolution. Motion to any further discussion . All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The is have it. Thank you next item, please. Item 12 authorized the director for 3 charter with peter and associates for as needed the inadvertent and transportation and documents for terms not to steady 2018 and the option to extend for two terms for a total millennium not to exceed nine hundred plus dollars mr. Chairman no members of the public that wishes to address this matter. Good afternoon im victor with mta and joined by my colleague on the project so im sure weve heard that the city can do a better job of implementing the project and today is the opportunities to show our commitment to project delivery as you may know weve been focused on how quickly to import the transportation prongs and in fact, project delivery in terms of ceqa streamlining youve seen as it relates to level of service and actually frankly staffing working with the planning departments and the Environmental Review we had other successes is he activated a system to track the folks that are butt the projects and identifying the issues in advance and mitigate them in the process as possible so weve moving forward with our project delivery successes but a resource with the project delivery is as needed contract and able to use them to quickly bring the resources on board to design and move forward we on intersections this is going to be a useful team for the project sponsors streamlining the administrative process to be able to and the expertise we need to inclusive some of the projects and, of course, increase the staff abandon width and environmental clear them but allowing us to incubate those staff will deliver to move forward and i want to highlight a couple of things 6 contracts in front of you for approval up to 9. 3 million total there is 6 contracts with two firms and we are going to have a local contract and f h w contract with each of them allows us the flexibility to essentially receive the services irrespective with the federal services we have lbe and others ranging from 16 to 25 percent that is great but the 3 buckets of Services First one is ceqa and au into the weeds we can use the particularly for complete streets and last one is transportation Data Collection and analysis so just to give you an idea of the kind of prongs well use this one again example townsend street the consultants will help us analyze basically the Traffic Circle and recommend safety improvements and other examples is sf barts planning theyll assist and work closely with the communities for the prigs to more meters in the city and then bicycle corridor planning, of course, across corridors with powell well utilize the services so far a needs for review for stockton as part of this streamlining delivery i ask to you authorize this ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. Board members questions or comments. Motion to approve. Second discussion . All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The is have it. Next speaker, please. 13 authorize for the contract amendment under the 632 with the flyers of america to exercise the option to purchase more trolley buses for the manuals and special tools for 55 thousand plus thousand dollars and for a total contracts amount not to exceed 150 million plus to not change the term of the contract no members of the public have indicated an interest in addressing you on this matter. Good afternoon. President director nolan and director reiskin and the board of directors so the division. Introduce. Gary chang with the sfmta project manager. So actually, this is the 7th time were coming back to the boards seeking approval to approve the purpose of 33 quality 60 foot trolley vehicles within the last few years sfmta has successfully put in three hundred new vehicles and in general the public is pleased with the performance of the vehicles and the feedback weve been getting is really happy with the performance so actually for this approval for this option one contract the delivery schedule will be 33 of them completed delivery by next year in 2017. Obviously sfmta has has been working for the last few years to bring in more vehicles coming in the muni because actually, we tried to average down the age of the fleet and by doing so we increased and help to translate up to a cost focus Maintenance Program so i wanted to highlighted a few key items first of all, inventory since the trollies and also on the ohio brussel theyre using the same chase i didnt it is the same so with that said our maintenance inventory it has reduced it by 50 percent and then also i know nowadays a smart phone or smart tv ive been calling the vehicles as smart vehicles a Computer System that collects the data from the vehicle and with that information maintenance can try to diagnose the problems faster and also, we, also prepare for better prevent Maintenance Plan since those now coaches are all new approaches not maintaining the trvp wheelchair lift i recall when i joined muni in the 90 it was the most costly for the labor and parts with the simple design the wheelchair ramp the public loves it i want to point out the slope is the rational is one. 5 degrees so basically the operations to make sure they deploy it onto a flat area one gentleman suggested and it brings that to 95 degrees also on the electrical labor door were incorporating into the past we have been using the new doors it is very troublesome were moving away to electronic doors we changed the interior lets to led so basically the typical will the for the led is 2 point puss many years more than likely well not replace the led this is one of the major last year around this timeframe we brought in the trolley 60 for another the first system in muni so far the public loves it and like today, the weather the people will appreciate that more so besides the advantages transferring to a cost maintenance Fiscal Program we want to point out we can lock into a lower Vehicle Price all the vehicle are into the p ti and San Francisco has been blessed weve been getting this blossoming and the homelessness o homelessness o population has increased it with new vehicles we can put them into service so far the daily demands and the future last but not least in about 6 months from today actually ill be coming back representing transit and seeking for another approval for the 40 for another trolley procurements thats all i have thank you. Quite a bit this is great we are able to purchase overseeing new vehicles weve been here talking about the vehicles breaking down this is a really good i know i know there an awesome lost work any further discussion . Move to approve. Thats a second. All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The is have it. Thank you, mr. Chang. Actually want to point out i prepared it was mr. John haley i took his from there. Thank you, mr. Daily. This is to conduct a session. Second all in favor, say i. I. All. Announcements for closed session to discuss the landmark with no action and there was that was that and disclose or not disclose discussed. Move not to disclose. All in favor, say i. I. Were adjourned thank you. Hi everybody, we down here at the ep is a center which is our pop up space down here in San Francisco where we operate a store front to educate the policy from the home owner who has center which is our pop up space down here in San Francisco where we operate a store front to educate the policy from the home owner who has never done anything in the house to the most advanced structure engineers we have working around here. We were going to here from kelly to talk a little bit about San Francisco. How are you doing kelly . Very well, thank you for having us here. In front of us, we have a typical soft story building. When i see this, i think this is some of the most beautiful architecture our city has. A lot of people dont know these are problematic buildings. Why dont you tell us about some of the risks he we have in these buildings . Soft stories are vulnerable in past earthquakes and the northridge earthquake to this type of building and character of building. When we talk about the soft story, what were talking about is generally a ground story that has less wall or other pwraeugs to resist the lateral forces that might be imposed by the earthquake. So were looking for something that is particularly weak or soft in this ground story. Now, this is a wonderful example of what some of the residential buildings that are soft stories in San Francisco look like. And the 1 thing that i would point out here is that the upper force of this building have residential units. They have not only a fair amount of wall around the exterior of the building but they also have very extensive walls in the interior and bathrooms and bedrooms and corridors and everything that has a certificate amount of brazing yea its significantly less country srabl in those stories. Now very often, we get even a garage or storage or sometimes commercial occupancy in this ground story. That very often not only has a whole lot less perimeter wall but it often has little or no wall on the interior. That wall is the earthquake bracing and so he see very significant bracing in the top floor and very little on the bottom. When the earthquake comes and hits, it tries to push that ground floor over and theres very little that keeps it from moving and degrading and eventually paoerblly keeping it from a collapse occurring. So we know theyre vulnerable because of this ground story collapsing is this only a problem we see in sentence france . San francisco . No, this is certainly a national problem. More acute in western but more up to california, washington, moving out into other states. This kind of building exist and this kind of building is vulnerable. When youre