Transcripts For SFGTV Trans Authority Plans And Programs 128

Gov t. V. Mr. Clerk, roll call. Im the 1, commissioner breed, breed absent, commissioner christensen. Here. Present. Commissioner farrell, absent. Commissioner tang, tang, present, commissioner yaoe, yaoe, present, we have a quorum. Can you read item 2. Citizens Advisory Committee report, this is an information item. Good morning, commissioners, i think im recovering the same thing you are, so i will keep it brief also. Just two ie steps that i really wanted to discuss today, item number 6 on your agenda, the allocation of 638 and a half thousand dollars in prop k funds, the cac approved this unanimously, there were two items in this, the upper fo ek street light was part of the upper polk Streetscape Project, the only concern we had was with regard to its coordination with the van ness brt projts, thats what you might want to talk to fta about and sloat boulevard, this is for the backlog of traffic calming implementation to sloat boulevard project, so one of our concerns was how that would be backfill, how those funds would be pult into the traffic calming portion of that. On item number 7 regarding the congestion Management Plan, we approved this unanimously, three items that came up in our questions regarding level of service as a ceqa threshold was repealed by senate bill 743 but cac staff ashirebacker insured us it was a good measurement, mtas red carpets have shown or part of why bus service is maintained at a consistent level while other speeds of vehicles are dropping, so these red carpets appear to be working. And in a congestion Management Plan was also asked, we were also asking about why we dont see things about offpeak hour ins the congestion Management Plan, and the reason being that other projects take care of these offpeak hours or at least they look at them, so those are the three things we looked at in item number 7 and thats kind of all we did. Er thank you very much. Thank you. Mr. Clerk, item 3 . I will take Public Comment on item 2. Sorry, we have Public Comment on the cac report, seeing none, Public Comment closed. Item 3. Consent calendar, items 3 to 4 compromise the consent calendar, these are considered routine, staff is not planning to present on these ie steps, if a member object, any of the consent items being removed and considered separately. Moved. Any Public Comment on these items . Seeing none, Public Comment closed. Do you want to do that again . So moved. The item is passed. Item 5 . Item 5, recommend proiment of one member to the citizens Advisory Committee, this is an action item. Do we have good morning, im mike pick ford with the authority, so it has 11 members each serve ago two year term, it recommends and the board appoints individuals to fill any cac vacancy, neither Transportation Authority staff make recommendations on appointment, they must be San Francisco resident and is must appear before this committee at least once to speak to their interests and qualifications, this shows information about Current Committee member and is the list of applicants for the vacant position is attachment 2 and detail of application materials can be found in the enclosure, the vacancy under consideration is as a result of the resignation of ray moan smith and there are a total of 24 applicant that is you can consider for the vacancies. With that, i can take any questions. I believe we have at least a couple of here to speak to this. So, at this time, if we have members of the public that are interested in this position, if you can come forward and introduce yourself. Good morning, committee, name is joe lake, im a resident of district 6, i live in selma and have lived in San Francisco for a little over 6 years at this point and one of the reasons that i love living here is im originally from southern california, from the san diego area and i find the Transportation System is far and away superior to that of san diego, especially the public Transportation System. I have been able to sell my casing i dont need to drive around anymore, im able to get everywhere using Public Transportation and someone who is a fraekt user of most forms of transportation, when i lived in the mission, i would take the bart to work every day, now i regularly take the muni bus or train to get around, also i occasionally will take a ride with friends and things like that, so i have some idea of the various forms of transportation and im interested in being part of the citizens Advisory Committee to kind of first get more involved in my community and ive lived in selma on full son between fourth and fifth, thats a place where im seeing a lot of transportation growth and changes, we have the tunnel system thats the metro thats being put in along the Fourth Street corridor and additionally, we have bike lane that is are trying to be put in on folsom and being a voice of the neighborhood i think is something i would be good at and being able to represent the interests of district 6. I also work for the government, for the federal government in a completely unrelated role, i have some understanding of how bureaucracies work, ive been on committees in that role as well, so im interested and i appreciate your consideration. Thank you, mr. Lake. Thank you. Anyone else want to speak to this item . Good morntion commissioners, my name is door rao en hor ston and i applied to represent district 6. Ive lived in district 6 since 2004 and i walk, bicycle and ride muni as my primary modes of transportation, im a parent and our family is carfree. Professionally, im a librarian with the San Francisco Public Library and im in fi 10th year of service, i spent five years across the plaza as a the government documents library, im familiar with government, from 2008 to 2011, i was a member of the Library Green stacks committee and i received a blue and green award for my work on sustainable transportation, since then ive observed a lot of the chaining happening in the neighborhood. I read the waterfront transportation assessment and i was very pleased and relieved to see that many of the issues im concerned about are mentioned in that report. I live right in the middle of the study area and i travel within district 6 every day. If selected, i would like to ko pt the work thats described in the report and my biggest priorities would be safety for pedestrians and bicyclists and reliable transit. Some of the issues i would like to work on are traffic calming and smart enforcement, barriers between bike lanes and car lanes or at least more visual signs like more green paint, conversations with developers and businesses to encourage safe, secure bike parking so we can get more people out on to their bikes without having to worry about theft, safer pedestrian crossings and an overall awareness of bicycle and pao es raoe yan needs, i mope youll consider my application, i already served the people of San Francisco as a librarian, i would be honored to serve the citizens Advisory Committee. Thanks for your already considerable service. Anyone else to speak to this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Colleagues, comments . Its one of these things where its always difficult to make these choices. I think both candidates are pretty well qualified to serve on this. I dont know if any of them had spoken to supervisor kim or not, has any of you . I have actually. I was talking to the candidates. Oh. And i guess because they seem to be both qualified and im looking at the existing Committee Members and one of the things ive noticed is theres a dominance of males versus females and it would be nice to have some gender balance in this, and so im in favor of nominating doreen hosten, and its not any [inaudible] to mr. Lake. So, we do have as i understand it, we have a request from supervisor kim with respect to both of the candidates who came down today, she asked that this be postponed until the full that a decision be postponed a little bit until the full committee meeting, so this i withdraw. Out of respect out of the supervisor of the district, i withdraw my nomination. So, do we have a motion to forward this without recommendation to full committee . Motion. Seconded. Er we recommend commissioner breed, good morning, welcome, we need to take a roll call on that. On item 5, commissioner breed. This is the motion to forward with no recommendation. Er breed, aye, commissioner cyst ten zen, aye. Commissioner farrell, absent, commissioner tang, tang, aye, commissioner yee, yee, aye, the item passes. So, thank you both of you who came together, were going to postpone your uncertainty a little longer but we recommend you get in touch with supervisor kim and we look forward to seeing you at the full committee. Thank you. Item 6 . Recommend allocation of 638 thousand 477 in prop k funds with conditions, subject to the attached fiscal year cash flow distribution schedule, this is an action item. Good morning, im mike pick ford once more. This morning, we have two prop k requests, the first request is for a construction for polk streetscape signal modifications which upgrade the five intersections on the vision zero corridor that are not being upgraded by other complementary intersections, the others are pine, north point street and is the upgrades will improve accessibility for pedestrians and visibility for the signals. For context, there are a number of other projects including the polk Streetscape Project, and two major signal projects around which the project team will be coordinating, the signal work will be in close coordination with the Streetscape Project to avoid causing additional construction impacts. The second request is to provide additional construction phase funding to implement pedestrian improvements at two intersections on sloat boulevard, they will be curb outs and median improvements at Everglade Drive and pedestrian hybrid beacons at 23rd avenue, this allocation would supplement an earlier construction phase prop k allocation to cover Cost Increases for the project, because the project had to be redesigned according to caltrans guidelines and because the original low bidder on the project backed out due to financial hardship, meaning that the project had to be rebid, it requires a waiver of prop k tra staoej i can plan policy to allow public works to use prop k funds for construction thats already been award, to fund this allocation, we would amend the prioritization plan to a line item for calming traffic projects, with that, i can take any questions. Colleagues, any questions . Alright, thank you. Any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Can we take this item [inaudible] the item passes. Item 7 . Item 7, recommend approval of the 2015 San Francisco congestion Management Program, this is an action item. Mr. Cooper, welcome. Good morning, commissioners, im drew cooper, im leer to present the congestion Management Program, im taug about the legislative requirements of it and the results from this years monitoring. The purpose of the cmp is to strengthen the links between Transportation System performance and the policy investment and Planning Decisions that we make. We do this by tracking every two years the performance of the Transportation System, land use changes and changes in travel demand, we then make sure we are in conformity with congestion management and then we coordinate San Francisco pronlt priorities and funding eligibility. Approval of the 2015 San Francisco congestion Management Plan confirms San Franciscos project priorities with the regional Transportation Implementation Program which will be reviewed by the mtc along with other bay area congestion Management Programs for consistency with the rtp, the regional Transportation Plan. Since 1990, ledge sla i slaying establishes statewide cmp requirements has required that it be developed by the designated Congestion Management Agency which the transportation of San Francisco, its to be adopted every two years and it must include the following components, level of Service Monitoring on the cmp network, multimodal Performance Measures, an approach for analyzing the impact for land use change, documentation of the Congestion Management Agency travel demand model, travel demand management element and a 7 year capital implementation program. The map on the right shows the cmp network which plans the road segments that we monitor, so lets take a look at 2015 monitoring results. We use level o f service to measure the performance of the Roadway Network for traffic, level of service is a measure of auto congestion based on speed and it is required by state law. We found that between 2013 and 2015, average traffic speeds decreased, although its worth noting theyre still higher than they were up to the early and mid 20000s, this chart summarizes average speeds by arterial and freeway during the a. M. And p. M. Peak times, both a. M. And p. M. And average freeway speeds delined by less than a mile per hour at the a. M. Peak period and about 3 Miles Per Hour at the evening period. For transit performance, we monitor munis rubber tire fleet using on board apc amounts which records the time that buses arrive and depart at transit stops and the time it takes to unload and load passengers, we map [inaudible] auto speeds to transit speeds by segment, the map on the right is red being slower and blue and green being faster, average bus speeds were 8. 7 Miles Per Hour in the a. M. Period which is down onetenth of one mile an hour fra the 2013 monitoring period, and 7. 9 Miles Per Hour in the evening period which is also down. Although average transit speeds declined, the magnitude is less than general traffic speeds which has led to transit becoming more xhet tif with automobiles in terms of speed. We used the measurement of the auto transit speed ratio which is simply the auto speed divided by the transit speed, a lower auto to transit speed is more competitive while a higher ratio indicates it is less competitive between 2013 and 2015, the auto to transit speed ratio dropped from two to 1. 7 which is as a result of the direction we would like to see. If we look at red carpet lane that is were installed in the 20132015 monitoring period on clay, o farrell and market, transit speeds remained relatively stable, changes by 1 mile an hour in either sdrekt, with the exception of o farrell with where mason and market is where the [inaudible] market. By comparison, general traffic speeds on these same segments declined by an average of 2 Miles Per Hour ranges between 1 and 4 Miles Per Hour. In our role as Congestion Management Agency w ear engage ined a work plan that directly aims to address Transportation Network performance issues, some examples on this slide are at the regional level, were engaged in the core capacity study led by mtc which seems to identify long term Transit Needs for the region, at the local level, we have several travel demands, Management Program involvement projects that seek to incentivize travel by modes other than single occupant vehicle and reduce peoples reliance on their primary mode of travel. And we also are engaged in Planning Efforts to better coordinate land use and transportation, one example of which is the rail storage alternatives analysis and boulevard feasibility study, this is only a partial list and a more detailed list is available in the executive summary in our packet. Im happy to take any questions that you have. Colleagues, do you have questions on this . I have a few. So, multimodal, are we really just looking at Public Transportation and automobile, it doesnt include bicycles . So, we have not reported bicycle or pedestrian performance yet, we have started this year monitoring volumes and we would like to come up with some measures to better measure performance for these modes Going Forward, but they were not included in this years and it seems to me that the state focuses on streets. What happens Going Forward with brt, subway, other significant transportation projects . We have some leeway to so, through multimodal Advisory Committee<\/a> report, this is an information item. Good morning, commissioners, i think im recovering the same thing you are, so i will keep it brief also. Just two ie steps that i really wanted to discuss today, item number 6 on your agenda, the allocation of 638 and a half thousand dollars in prop k funds, the cac approved this unanimously, there were two items in this, the upper fo ek street light was part of the upper polk Streetscape Project<\/a>, the only concern we had was with regard to its coordination with the van ness brt projts, thats what you might want to talk to fta about and sloat boulevard, this is for the backlog of traffic calming implementation to sloat boulevard project, so one of our concerns was how that would be backfill, how those funds would be pult into the traffic calming portion of that. On item number 7 regarding the congestion Management Plan<\/a>, we approved this unanimously, three items that came up in our questions regarding level of service as a ceqa threshold was repealed by senate bill 743 but cac staff ashirebacker insured us it was a good measurement, mtas red carpets have shown or part of why bus service is maintained at a consistent level while other speeds of vehicles are dropping, so these red carpets appear to be working. And in a congestion Management Plan<\/a> was also asked, we were also asking about why we dont see things about offpeak hour ins the congestion Management Plan<\/a>, and the reason being that other projects take care of these offpeak hours or at least they look at them, so those are the three things we looked at in item number 7 and thats kind of all we did. Er thank you very much. Thank you. Mr. Clerk, item 3 . I will take Public Comment<\/a> on item 2. Sorry, we have Public Comment<\/a> on the cac report, seeing none, Public Comment<\/a> closed. Item 3. Consent calendar, items 3 to 4 compromise the consent calendar, these are considered routine, staff is not planning to present on these ie steps, if a member object, any of the consent items being removed and considered separately. Moved. Any Public Comment<\/a> on these items . Seeing none, Public Comment<\/a> closed. Do you want to do that again . So moved. The item is passed. Item 5 . Item 5, recommend proiment of one member to the citizens Advisory Committee<\/a>, this is an action item. Do we have good morning, im mike pick ford with the authority, so it has 11 members each serve ago two year term, it recommends and the board appoints individuals to fill any cac vacancy, neither Transportation Authority<\/a> staff make recommendations on appointment, they must be San Francisco<\/a> resident and is must appear before this committee at least once to speak to their interests and qualifications, this shows information about Current Committee<\/a> member and is the list of applicants for the vacant position is attachment 2 and detail of application materials can be found in the enclosure, the vacancy under consideration is as a result of the resignation of ray moan smith and there are a total of 24 applicant that is you can consider for the vacancies. With that, i can take any questions. I believe we have at least a couple of here to speak to this. So, at this time, if we have members of the public that are interested in this position, if you can come forward and introduce yourself. Good morning, committee, name is joe lake, im a resident of district 6, i live in selma and have lived in San Francisco<\/a> for a little over 6 years at this point and one of the reasons that i love living here is im originally from southern california, from the san diego area and i find the Transportation System<\/a> is far and away superior to that of san diego, especially the public Transportation System<\/a>. I have been able to sell my casing i dont need to drive around anymore, im able to get everywhere using Public Transportation<\/a> and someone who is a fraekt user of most forms of transportation, when i lived in the mission, i would take the bart to work every day, now i regularly take the muni bus or train to get around, also i occasionally will take a ride with friends and things like that, so i have some idea of the various forms of transportation and im interested in being part of the citizens Advisory Committee<\/a> to kind of first get more involved in my community and ive lived in selma on full son between fourth and fifth, thats a place where im seeing a lot of transportation growth and changes, we have the tunnel system thats the metro thats being put in along the Fourth Street<\/a> corridor and additionally, we have bike lane that is are trying to be put in on folsom and being a voice of the neighborhood i think is something i would be good at and being able to represent the interests of district 6. I also work for the government, for the federal government in a completely unrelated role, i have some understanding of how bureaucracies work, ive been on committees in that role as well, so im interested and i appreciate your consideration. Thank you, mr. Lake. Thank you. Anyone else want to speak to this item . Good morntion commissioners, my name is door rao en hor ston and i applied to represent district 6. Ive lived in district 6 since 2004 and i walk, bicycle and ride muni as my primary modes of transportation, im a parent and our family is carfree. Professionally, im a librarian with the San Francisco<\/a> Public Library<\/a> and im in fi 10th year of service, i spent five years across the plaza as a the government documents library, im familiar with government, from 2008 to 2011, i was a member of the Library Green<\/a> stacks committee and i received a blue and green award for my work on sustainable transportation, since then ive observed a lot of the chaining happening in the neighborhood. I read the waterfront transportation assessment and i was very pleased and relieved to see that many of the issues im concerned about are mentioned in that report. I live right in the middle of the study area and i travel within district 6 every day. If selected, i would like to ko pt the work thats described in the report and my biggest priorities would be safety for pedestrians and bicyclists and reliable transit. Some of the issues i would like to work on are traffic calming and smart enforcement, barriers between bike lanes and car lanes or at least more visual signs like more green paint, conversations with developers and businesses to encourage safe, secure bike parking so we can get more people out on to their bikes without having to worry about theft, safer pedestrian crossings and an overall awareness of bicycle and pao es raoe yan needs, i mope youll consider my application, i already served the people of San Francisco<\/a> as a librarian, i would be honored to serve the citizens Advisory Committee<\/a>. Thanks for your already considerable service. Anyone else to speak to this item . Seeing none, Public Comment<\/a> is closed. Colleagues, comments . Its one of these things where its always difficult to make these choices. I think both candidates are pretty well qualified to serve on this. I dont know if any of them had spoken to supervisor kim or not, has any of you . I have actually. I was talking to the candidates. Oh. And i guess because they seem to be both qualified and im looking at the existing Committee Members<\/a> and one of the things ive noticed is theres a dominance of males versus females and it would be nice to have some gender balance in this, and so im in favor of nominating doreen hosten, and its not any [inaudible] to mr. Lake. So, we do have as i understand it, we have a request from supervisor kim with respect to both of the candidates who came down today, she asked that this be postponed until the full that a decision be postponed a little bit until the full committee meeting, so this i withdraw. Out of respect out of the supervisor of the district, i withdraw my nomination. So, do we have a motion to forward this without recommendation to full committee . Motion. Seconded. Er we recommend commissioner breed, good morning, welcome, we need to take a roll call on that. On item 5, commissioner breed. This is the motion to forward with no recommendation. Er breed, aye, commissioner cyst ten zen, aye. Commissioner farrell, absent, commissioner tang, tang, aye, commissioner yee, yee, aye, the item passes. So, thank you both of you who came together, were going to postpone your uncertainty a little longer but we recommend you get in touch with supervisor kim and we look forward to seeing you at the full committee. Thank you. Item 6 . Recommend allocation of 638 thousand 477 in prop k funds with conditions, subject to the attached fiscal year cash flow distribution schedule, this is an action item. Good morning, im mike pick ford once more. This morning, we have two prop k requests, the first request is for a construction for polk streetscape signal modifications which upgrade the five intersections on the vision zero corridor that are not being upgraded by other complementary intersections, the others are pine, north point street and is the upgrades will improve accessibility for pedestrians and visibility for the signals. For context, there are a number of other projects including the polk Streetscape Project<\/a>, and two major signal projects around which the project team will be coordinating, the signal work will be in close coordination with the Streetscape Project<\/a> to avoid causing additional construction impacts. The second request is to provide additional construction phase funding to implement pedestrian improvements at two intersections on sloat boulevard, they will be curb outs and median improvements at Everglade Drive<\/a> and pedestrian hybrid beacons at 23rd avenue, this allocation would supplement an earlier construction phase prop k allocation to cover Cost Increases<\/a> for the project, because the project had to be redesigned according to caltrans guidelines and because the original low bidder on the project backed out due to financial hardship, meaning that the project had to be rebid, it requires a waiver of prop k tra staoej i can plan policy to allow public works to use prop k funds for construction thats already been award, to fund this allocation, we would amend the prioritization plan to a line item for calming traffic projects, with that, i can take any questions. Colleagues, any questions . Alright, thank you. Any Public Comment<\/a> on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment<\/a> is closed. Can we take this item [inaudible] the item passes. Item 7 . Item 7, recommend approval of the 2015 San Francisco<\/a> congestion Management Program<\/a>, this is an action item. Mr. Cooper, welcome. Good morning, commissioners, im drew cooper, im leer to present the congestion Management Program<\/a>, im taug about the legislative requirements of it and the results from this years monitoring. The purpose of the cmp is to strengthen the links between Transportation System<\/a> performance and the policy investment and Planning Decisions<\/a> that we make. We do this by tracking every two years the performance of the Transportation System<\/a>, land use changes and changes in travel demand, we then make sure we are in conformity with congestion management and then we coordinate San Francisco<\/a> pronlt priorities and funding eligibility. Approval of the 2015 San Francisco<\/a> congestion Management Plan<\/a> confirms San Francisco<\/a>s project priorities with the regional Transportation Implementation Program<\/a> which will be reviewed by the mtc along with other bay area congestion Management Program<\/a>s for consistency with the rtp, the regional Transportation Plan<\/a>. Since 1990, ledge sla i slaying establishes statewide cmp requirements has required that it be developed by the designated Congestion Management Agency<\/a> which the transportation of San Francisco<\/a>, its to be adopted every two years and it must include the following components, level of Service Monitoring<\/a> on the cmp network, multimodal Performance Measures<\/a>, an approach for analyzing the impact for land use change, documentation of the Congestion Management Agency<\/a> travel demand model, travel demand management element and a 7 year capital implementation program. The map on the right shows the cmp network which plans the road segments that we monitor, so lets take a look at 2015 monitoring results. We use level o f service to measure the performance of the Roadway Network<\/a> for traffic, level of service is a measure of auto congestion based on speed and it is required by state law. We found that between 2013 and 2015, average traffic speeds decreased, although its worth noting theyre still higher than they were up to the early and mid 20000s, this chart summarizes average speeds by arterial and freeway during the a. M. And p. M. Peak times, both a. M. And p. M. And average freeway speeds delined by less than a mile per hour at the a. M. Peak period and about 3 Miles Per Hour<\/a> at the evening period. For transit performance, we monitor munis rubber tire fleet using on board apc amounts which records the time that buses arrive and depart at transit stops and the time it takes to unload and load passengers, we map [inaudible] auto speeds to transit speeds by segment, the map on the right is red being slower and blue and green being faster, average bus speeds were 8. 7 Miles Per Hour<\/a> in the a. M. Period which is down onetenth of one mile an hour fra the 2013 monitoring period, and 7. 9 Miles Per Hour<\/a> in the evening period which is also down. Although average transit speeds declined, the magnitude is less than general traffic speeds which has led to transit becoming more xhet tif with automobiles in terms of speed. We used the measurement of the auto transit speed ratio which is simply the auto speed divided by the transit speed, a lower auto to transit speed is more competitive while a higher ratio indicates it is less competitive between 2013 and 2015, the auto to transit speed ratio dropped from two to 1. 7 which is as a result of the direction we would like to see. If we look at red carpet lane that is were installed in the 20132015 monitoring period on clay, o farrell and market, transit speeds remained relatively stable, changes by 1 mile an hour in either sdrekt, with the exception of o farrell with where mason and market is where the [inaudible] market. By comparison, general traffic speeds on these same segments declined by an average of 2 Miles Per Hour<\/a> ranges between 1 and 4 Miles Per Hour<\/a>. In our role as Congestion Management Agency<\/a> w ear engage ined a work plan that directly aims to address Transportation Network<\/a> performance issues, some examples on this slide are at the regional level, were engaged in the core capacity study led by mtc which seems to identify long term Transit Needs<\/a> for the region, at the local level, we have several travel demands, Management Program<\/a> involvement projects that seek to incentivize travel by modes other than single occupant vehicle and reduce peoples reliance on their primary mode of travel. And we also are engaged in Planning Efforts<\/a> to better coordinate land use and transportation, one example of which is the rail storage alternatives analysis and boulevard feasibility study, this is only a partial list and a more detailed list is available in the executive summary in our packet. Im happy to take any questions that you have. Colleagues, do you have questions on this . I have a few. So, multimodal, are we really just looking at Public Transportation<\/a> and automobile, it doesnt include bicycles . So, we have not reported bicycle or pedestrian performance yet, we have started this year monitoring volumes and we would like to come up with some measures to better measure performance for these modes Going Forward<\/a>, but they were not included in this years and it seems to me that the state focuses on streets. What happens Going Forward<\/a> with brt, subway, other significant transportation projects . We have some leeway to so, through multimodal Performance Measures<\/a>, we can seek to highlight these kinds of projects. As of right now, its still required we do Level Service<\/a> monitoring with sp733, that requirement is said to go away which will substantially change how different modes are reported in this report. Does the reporting cadence stay the same, just with different criteria . Im sorry . Does the reporting cadence ill go ahead and aed to drews answer, so commissioner christensen, the cmp law indicates we monitor [inaudible] one of the thins we do try to depict going back to your earlier question about multimodal is the network itself, to the extent the bis kl Facility Network<\/a> is more cleat, more connected, higher levels of comfort for cyclists, that is an indicator itself, the network itself as an indicator of quality and performance for the bike sector. On traffic safety, we try to report those statistics as well to depict wats the condition for travelers by foot and by bike. To your question about brt and subway, those should get picked up in our as drew mentioned, the travel time statistics, the more we provide more dedicated, reliable, fast transit s frs, that should get picked up in the Performance Measures<\/a> on the average speed of transit relative to automobiles, over time, thats how the system metrics should pick those investments up. And in what way will this reporting requirement likely change . So, the law has already indicated and has been passed s 743, that we should no longer have the level o f service, its currently on the book, but the rulemaking is in progress now. For automobiles . Rieblgt, and thats not to say thats not a valid planning measure, its something thats quite narrow and many jurisdictions were only monitoring that or using that as a reason not to monitor other things so the law will i dont think it will be prescriptive, the state Transportation Plan<\/a> is calling for a multimodal Performance Measures<\/a> to be established by each jurisdiction. And this also includes analyzing the impact of land use changes. I dont notice that component of this report. Yes, it should be in there, in fact, theres been a lot of work on the part of multiple agencies here, the planning department, mta, the mayors office, ourselves have been working on things like the Sustainability Program<\/a> which is a three part Program Start<\/a> witching a fee on residential and Institutional Uses<\/a> that came before the board, the next one will be a tdm ordinance, a demand management ordinance to provide guidance and a mechanism for developers to show how theyre contributing through the design of their projects, the Trip Reduction<\/a> goal and we expect the ceqa reform to take hold officially here once we have guidance pr the state, so the three part program where the Development Review<\/a> process we hope will benefit from a streamlined, clear, transparent pro, a simpler process and a multimodal process which aligns with our transit first policies. This reporting methodology counts the travel pace of vehicles on our streets but it doesnt register in any way or measure the quantity of those vehicles . The volumes, yeah. Ill let drew answer. So, we do we have started monitoring on these same segments volumes, but this is a program that we also started this year, so i didnt include it in this presentation because theres nothing at a previous time point to compare it to, but we do intend to monitor that Going Forward<\/a>. In addition to traffic counts, vehicle miles traveled is a useful metric that is likely to come out of the senate bill 743 process which is a which captures both kind of the volume and duration of travel in a more holistic way, so thats a metric that we would like to move towards but havent yet. So, i think so, it seems that the primary purpose of doing this report is meeting a state requirement. My question is, can we learn anything from it in the process . I mean, are we gaining useful information here or are these issues being addressed in other forums in other ways so that so, we believe that it is useful to understand what the state of the Transportation System<\/a> performance is, especially over time, so that we can learn trends from it. We also use this as a way to frame our work program in terms of meeting those goals, and so, for example, transit lane projects, red lane project, transit signal priority projects, we can see through this monitoring that those seem to be working in isolating that mode from the effects of general congestion, so this is an affirmation of the work we have been doming and an encourage to keep doing that kind of work. Just to add to that, supervisor, i think weve been using these updates every two year, i consider them snapshot tos let us know how were doing, if you look at the long ark of the trends, given especially that we have grown 10 thousand people per year and this is all in the report, we describe that were doing pretty well, it does feel congested out there, people are frustrated, its confusing, there are more people using the street on bike and ped, thats an indication that our land use and transportation strategies are working and our economy is strong, so i think what this tells us is that our long term goals are working and our long term strategies are work in that people are taking transit, it could be much worse from a congestion standpoint, the transit ridership is booming in all three of our services sx, as a result of that, it has reduced the impact that could have been worse on the auto circulation side, we see construction out there, various of you mentioned that in your briefings televisings certainly a lot of road work and building thats going up in the construction impacts on that on traffic is certainly felt as well, and then finally theres i think thats the road works itself, the new projects and the land use strategies, theres an indication because folks are coming in and using transit, overall were managing okay but its time to think about long Term Investment<\/a> and capacity so, big, Big Investments<\/a> that can be more transformative a downtown extension of cal train, or the next extension to Fishermans Wharf<\/a> to to make the muni train to move people more efficiently across town, were on the right track, more and more people are using our streets, our land use strategies are working, were putting it in the right transient oriented way, we need to keep investing in the next generation of Traffic Management<\/a> to smooth out traffic, give users more options and choice, tell them which options and routes might be better for them, direct them in transit to realtime, but make sure the long term capacity to transit is there. So, those are obviously our primary roles, getting people out of cars to other forms of transportation. It seems like the study is a bit of a throwback when were seeing how effectively we can move cars around our city, but we look at residents times, we have a will the of vehicles on the streets so im assuming there are a lot more cars that there used to be, were restricting where cars can go so theyre in fewer places so they appear more congested but i also and mr. Cooper and i talked about this during a briefing, we dont seem to know the impacts of construction, right, or other things that contribute to congestion for vehicles, im presuming as long as there are some cars on the road, it doesnt benefit any of us to have them sitting in place spewing fumes longer than necessary and certainly the frustration levels have increased in terpser of how challenging that is, so it just seemed an opportunity to look at how can we kind of clear things out and get things moving at a safer pace. Safety is the key, i think thank you for mentioning we have been shifting rightofway to pedestrian, bike and transit mode, those are policy decisions were making on a cumulative level that withdraws some capacity from automobiles and its not to punish motorists or make life difficult, were seeing trends in private industries coming into the market and offering subtle services and Flexible Work<\/a> times so those are part of the tools of solutions that we appreciate the engagement of the private sector as well, those are all three trends that are working, investment is working, our land use is working, we have right of way shifts that are implementing our multimodal investments. Thank you. Colleague, any other questions . Commissioner breed . Thank you. I have some questions about Traffic Control<\/a> officers and why there isnt a detailed description in the report about Traffic Control<\/a> officers and the role that they play in supporting issues around traffic congestion. We did not through this report look at enforcement, however, just to be clear, not necessarily enforcement, but Traffic Control<\/a> in terms of Traffic Management<\/a>, as you may know, in certain intersections especially during peak commuter times, there are lights that are not necessarily properly synched, there are car that is are congested in intersections on a regular basis, this is happening all over the city where there is a lot of congestion and with proper light snacking as well as Traffic Control<\/a> officers to help manage that traffic, it could definitely be a lot safer, so in talking about a report around traffic congestion, i just you know, my thoughts or that there should be some sort of detailed recommendation around Traffic Control<\/a> officers specifically as a part of the entire package and not just the nuts and bolts of whats necessary to change the city changed the infrastructure, but more importantly what else can we add to try and address the situation because its not a part of the solution right now. Thats true, we did not include Traffic Control<\/a> officers or devices or any of that in this study. I believe thats to do with the thorough job that it would properly require a separate study, that this might not be the right vehicle for that. Er commissioner, point well taken, we can describe this current situation, working with the sfmta and refer to their studies so well incorporate it by reference and do a better job to incorp. Roit a deeper dive at that time. This is important and i just want to make sure, i know that we basically produce this report every two year and is we look at some of the trends, we look at the infrastruck khu, we look at what we can do better but i dont think its being very responsible to do it without exploring different avenues, we need to make sure, this is real [inaudible] to good success could make unity of holy original nature and working benefits from destiny of unified two credit work, the construction of overblight National Research<\/a> center of the logical whole studies t National Memorial<\/a> hall for [inaudible] establishment, the National United<\/a> city meditation television system, the holy national [inaudible] citywide regular social Recreation Party<\/a> of celebration on the five centers of unified politic, holiness, education and citizen programs are our foundation of method logical meeting of holy perish ers, man must take on one destiny always, for choose existence to choose selfnature in [inaudible] for ones career and ones family, for securities, we must [inaudible] of our people to be [inaudible] and be able to uplift everyone from the falling by the holy rescue system i discussed about. Any other Public Comment<\/a> . Director . Thank you. Through the chair and today is very fitting, its nice to see vice chair christensen taking the helm, i want to express on behalf of staff for your service on the Transportation Authority<\/a>, since this may be your last week, we want to recognize your thankful service op the ta, on this body in particular, youve been interested in every item we present, you give us insiekt, the last discussion we had on the cmp, you read our materials, your staff are fantastic and i just want to recognize how much we appreciate that leadership and that involvement and engagement and your guidance over the past year or two, the central subway project, phase 3, you requested that work and youre going the see that move forward, the ker knee Street Project<\/a> took shape, [inaudible] stockton of course, its a long, long list, columbus is moving forward with all the safety improvements, the polk street work of course and safe routes to school throughout the district, even your time was short, youve had a huge impact and it was deep, and we look forward to working with you in your next capacity. I can return all comments, im grateful to you to you and your staff for all the help youve provided and to all my colleagues. With that . Item 10, adjournment. We are adjourned. meeting is adjourned","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"archive.org","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","width":"800","height":"600","url":"\/\/ia801208.us.archive.org\/19\/items\/SFGTV_20151209_161500_Trans_Authority_Plans_and_Programs_12815\/SFGTV_20151209_161500_Trans_Authority_Plans_and_Programs_12815.thumbs\/SFGTV_20151209_161500_Trans_Authority_Plans_and_Programs_12815_000001.jpg"}},"autauthor":{"@type":"Organization"},"author":{"sameAs":"archive.org","name":"archive.org"}}],"coverageEndTime":"20240623T12:35:10+00:00"}