Director borden director heinecke director hsu director nolan director ramos director rubke mr. Chairman directors you have quorum please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones, please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room meeting room responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar soundproducing electronic devices. Item 4 approval of the minutes for motion to approve and second all in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The is have it. Ms. Bloomer ladies and gentlemen, because of the interest in item 11 were going to go immediately to item 8 the and come back tends and do the directors report and the other things mr. Chairman. We need to advise folks there is an overflow room and standing is not allowed so anyone standing needs to go to the north light court. Plenty of time to come up and speak Everyone Needs to go you need to leave the room if you dont say where a seat and people back there, too okay. So members of the public if you could please make your way to the north lighted Court Members of the public who are standing please make your way into the north light court. Well not start until you do okay. Yes. Hes okay. Go ahead. And okay. Okay ms. Bloomer citizens counselor advisory report a. Good afternoon chairman. I want to present the motions that we adopt on our september 1st meeting. The first motion is that the magnifying cac urges the mta to work with the infrastructure rec and Park Department to put in a crosswalks across Martin Luther king drive those motions has to do with with the presentation on vision zero that we received at the meeting next motion whereas the mayors executive director directive on achieving concession calls for an analysis of targeted improvements to improve safety for amongst others seniors and people with disabilities therefore the mta cac recommended that expended expanded enforcement including the requirement to parking control officers site all on site with no exception and not just in response to complaints 9 enforcement of sidewalk parking agree central element of vision 2025 r vision zero plan and third motion on the subject since the California Traffic Safety credits 80 percent of collisions for driver inattention especially cypress the sfmta cac urges the distransacted driving be added to the focus on the 5 next motion cac urges the sfmta and r pd to evaluate the conditions for bicyclists at all intersections in all city parks finally the mta cac recommend that the agency strive to graduate enough drivers from the Training Program in advance of Training Programs in advance of planned service requirements. Thats it. Thank you mr. Chairman members of the board questions or comments thank you for your thoughtful recommendation and mr. Chairman consent calendar commission. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission, the public, or staff so requests mr. Chairman in member of the public has asked a consent calendar item be severed. Motion to approve. All in favor, say i. I. That motion carries if you item 11. For the amendment of the transportation for the transit between 1 avenue and 46 wellbeing westbound adapting the monitoring the program for the conditional of approval for the traffic modifications along the muni tara very well transit corridor youll not read today. Good afternoon. Decorations Sharon Kennedy the transit manager of the sfmta okay. So figure out the there we go as terryville is a corridor is one of the highest ridershipship over thirty thousand riders a day a distinction of being one of the foe transit corridors or lighting corridor in the country that allows them to ride in a space this picture in front of you people on and off the train in the street that is 19th street we have to go to get off the train for the hospital aside from the l there is also reliability issues and travel time issues with a portion of line it stops essentially every block a. 32 block stretch and at average stops every block and steps a little bit less than two blocks and one stops every block in 2018 there will be a major rehabilitation and city repair project along the corridor theyre going to be replacing infrastructure underground and as well above ground and underground will be water and sewer when we are proposing they put it back with two transportations goals in mind with the vision zero goal of up to zero pedestrian death by 2024 the projects ill speak on is related to those issues 7 or 8 years ago we establishment the planning phase with the environmental process and we heard about what can, duplicate with the l and moved muni forward the implementation false of the program and last september did a survey to make sure we reaffirmed what we heard along the corridor and our own data there is liability issues and people are concerned for their safety on and off the train and a medication of infrastructure things like the rail a lot of noise when the train is here basically reaffirmed. With that, information we developed a proposal that has elements go budgeted into 5 or 6 seethes safety, 40 o 40 0i8dz to approve the safety along the corridor as well as pedestrian goals were not concentrating on the job on transit but the wider vision zero goals and proposing Pedestrian Safety improvements along the corridor and third the transit reliable Traffic Signals and lanes have a pedestrian benefit and then stop removal ill get into in a minute like i mentioned we started did process last september with a small group focus group and held a number of ways and different types of outreach pop up over houses and regular open houses anyone in the community can come and worked with the supervisors and Small Group Meetings and did a 126 thousand mailing telling people what is in the project and how we got to what we are and we at the meetings did spanish and cantonese speakers available as well as the approved material and through the outreach weve heard a lot of things people like and not like if you look at the table notice we basically have changed all the elements to some degree based on the Community Outreach ill go into detail on several of these but touch on these one Traffic Signals we had proposed 11 stop signs some overflow room were proposed to replace the stop signs with the Traffic Signals that allows the train to move a little bit better through the corridor and but we heard a lot of from the communities that Traffic Signals didnt fit with the community especially so the revised has 5 and 11 Traffic Signals are property from 20 east so nothing west of 28 and want to talk about accessibility if you are a person that has mobility issues the l is a tough line there are over 36 places where you can assess the train on and off the train is we had originally proposed based on Engineering Work with our mac and be Accessibility Services a group of mta to put two key stops along the corridor and there was another location that we needed to make work we worked through engineering issues and added a third location so were proposing 5 locations along the corridor so i wanted to get into a few more specifics on some of the larger issues one is safety this map shows where people have been hit in the last 5 years on and off the train thats 23 people and 46 people have been hit on the line in general and were proposing 40 hours of transit stops but the proposal is much more than that we have 32 block increase or sector along terryville and proposing improvements at 23 blocks for Pedestrian Safety and by the time you put that with the projects were working on we touched 31 directs on the corner with Pedestrian Safety improvements in support of vision zero wanted to just go over the boarding islands so people know what were talking about people have different ideas in this case what is showing up on the top 23 on terryville and the bottom is a new island that was conducted open n judah they allow and support not getting into driveways their descend where the boarding island will be and allows for Emergency Responder issues and mountain ability weve heard a number of other ideas besides just the boarding elements and many of these are great and excited to it is stuff were adding to the proposal for the boarding islands the 3 workers enforcement, education and engineering you know the boarding islands are an aspect were adrc to the enforcement and education aspect working closely with the merchants in the corridor to educate people during the pilot ill talk about that more in a minute and working with the terryville Police Department area has been excellent shes a strong proernt of vision zero and already started enforcing in enforcement campaigns at 19th street and stewart for the people and shes going to working closely with the pilot period youll talk about additionally at the pilot locations very visible presence on the street onehalf already heard from the community a great idea of adding led lights to the back of the train so had the doors open hey people can tell i better slow down and those lights are flashing were putting these on the train and rolling out in the next several months so even though the original proposal included a one for one parking basically parking trade off obviously the trade off roving the offstreet parking parking and replace those were proposing to lose with the boarding islands and still concerns from the merchants loading on the street in front of their businesses we developed a criteria to look at locations where maybe a full boarding island was not the initial needed step so we looked at 3 things in this criteria one that nobody what have been hit in the area in the last 5 years so no history of pedestrians being struck, two had to be a few a allow number of lighting we defined three hundred in a corridor thats a super low number so for the day not per hour but three hundred per day and thats basically that space can urban design used for loading by politically the criteria 5 locations in bound that will support the criteria the basic ideas when you look at on the 23 people that were struck getting off train 22 were in the out bound direction getting off the train is more dangerous than on were proposing this pilot to maintain the access for the businesses but also for safety goals many of those ideas youll see other than the screen are coming from the community the flashing lights on the back of the led and increasing the budget strikes were increasing that by 4 times the size and look at it went to the state of california and got lane markings i was talking about this was a unique situation let alone california letting people off in the street in the california Traffic Control and asked for permission and say stop ahead a train loading area and doubling the size of the sign it says loading area during the mrirlt like i said a enforcement working closely that the terryville pd and getting the information how to drive around the boarding loading and unloading trains the real crux the evaluation is compliance right now state law that you have to stop behind a train that has open doors and only it out of 3 drivers do that 6 of percent are complying with the law and 35 percent not the idea to increase inclines at the locations and so over the next of months well be looking at the inclines 4 how to drive up the compliance with the goal of 90 percent in go six months those locations are boarding island locations now for the location that are not in the pilot we are proposing this early implementation clear zone idea basically, not wait until 2021 that boarding islands are offered those are not as good as boarding islands not to be in the clear zone not offering protection if someone is not paying attention they can drive there it, it is paint but gives that break and allows people to get off the train they dont have to worried about a car at the last minute by the way, there is a picture in the lower part of slide that shows this is implemented on the sprsh line weve heard from the community they want everything as a pilot were not concerning this a mrirlt this is full implementation your locations were proposing and boarding islands we come through right now like i said trying to get the Pedestrian Safety but those are not pilot locates from our stand point they that said, of course, there can be and will be monitoring with that tweaks we can make and changes to the design going through the process but not calling those a pilot. So shifting gears a little bit to stop spacing as you can see theres an bar chart here the far left bar is l stop station on the surface and seven hundred feet per stop on average comparing that to the far too bars one the far too local and the 38 local bus service is popular with the bus lines both have quite a bit further distance between the average stops than the existing l with the proposal ill go into more detail in a minute with our proposal were still going this is the second bar well still be nine hundred 20 average feet along the corridor our substantiated is one and 50 feet were allocate bear minimum the the threshold this is a average that begs the question of the out liars from the small distance that people have to walk 3 or 5 hundred spacing ill show 13 hundred feet between 22 and 26 and so 13 hundreds fiat like i said, the substandard is 15 hundred excuse me and out of there are 15 stops were proposing to retain along the l out of those 8 will be below our nine hundred threshold were talking about relatively closely spaced stops and referenced other places around the country portland notice has 3 thousand physically on average between the stops a local example mta has about 35 hundred fiat continue those stops, of course, you know were not them and never recommend 3 thousand feet but point out that as an example what other cities have done this is a map of the actual locations the blue dashlz represeboardings the green circles are locations onehalf originally proposed to remove through the community has to retain and then the red locations obviously are the stops were proposing for proposing to remove. And then shifting garners one time to lastly the transit only lane i know daily traffic along the terryville is fairly well when you look at the Cross Section irving and two lanes both of those street have more traffic than terryville and additionally talking with the transit operators that drive this everyday and deal with people coming in and out of lanes they come up to the stop signs and wait for two or three people that stop and start again with one and 80 people on the train imagine that is not comfortable for the operator a transit only lane offers more extended space and improves the reliability of line and has a Pedestrian Safety in the space so but we have heard under from the community and as well as the supervisor we know that people are worried about an additional drive to the side streets and so were planning to work and evaluate this over the next 6 months what happened to the side street traffic so dont is a level of service on terryville go down were looking at evaluating those ideas as we implement the transit lines. So to wrap up todays legislation we have two categories Pedestrian Safety and transit reliability but the projects were presented today represent pretty much a vastly different proposal than a year ago bans the Community Concerns this balances all the various needs not on the street rirlt well and you know 49 wins vision zero pedestrian boubz and the traffic enhancement so early implementation and the pilot were looking at probably mid january before that will happen and like i said a 6 month period of looking at things during if time and evaluating how things are working with the trade off of the 5 locates and then the full project goes under construction right now anticipated or planned to go into construction early 2018 that is roughly a to year structural go window for this project so thats all today unless there are questions. Thank you members of the board any clarification questions if not two members thank you to representative. I just mr. Kennedy one quick question the captain has talked about you can you elaborate on the involvement of police and fire and what they think of the details. The fire Sf Fire Department working closely with deputy chief lombardi to look at the plans for the boarding islands that meets his ideas and specs and there are comfortably with that and went out with 25 frermz and apparatus on the street and tried it out and made design modifications and their comfortable with the design of those islands as if it allows for midtown should there be fires in the intersections and so the pd they we have meeting for every task internally and theyre at the meetings not having any issues at this point and since then reached out to terryville specifically and theyve been nothing but supportive and like i said started the enforcement with 19th street and where the most accidents i daresay im interested and xiefrtd to get it going and rolling that outline to the full corridor in concert with the rest of the corridor. So thank you for the good presentation i know well hear in the public two quick questions along the stopgap between 22 and 26. In the in bound. Those radio flat blocks to the best of my knowledge and youll get our chance. Number two on the enforcement issue when you showed the picture it remind me of the school bus is it possible to have a stop sign or device on the l l r v when the law says the driver is to stop. We have technical concerns ranking from when you go through the tunnel it might get ripped off. A sign lit up. The sign for the l l v that will be able to do that it is quite a bit different than a school bus they go over the curve and lets people off on the righthand side the travel lane so cars are going by on the left side and it is different from people standing in the street. I know director nolan the steps are down and if there is a lit flashing sign on the back the train not illuminated before youll get more drivers attention. Were looking at that and actually that was the very thing i think that led the community to ask for the flashing lights on the doors but adding the sign