City and County of San Francisco Tuesday, October 01, 2019

I will call roll call in a moment. Those of you who are realizing

we are starting ten minutes late , I apologize. I can assure you all of us were on other M.T.A. Business elsewhere.

I do apologize that we are starting several minutes late.

Please call the role. [Roll Call].

[Roll Call] Directors, director torahs will

not be here today but we do have

a quorum. Item three is announcement a prohibition of sound producing advices. -- devices. These devices are prohibited at the meeting. Anyone responsible for one make going off maybe asked to leave the room. Item four, approval of the minutes from the September 17th regular meeting. Mr. Chair, I have not received a

request from the public. >> okay. Any public comment on the minutes? Seeing none, public comment is

closed. >> motion to approve.

>> is there a second? >> second. >> all in favor play please say

aye? >> aye. >> the closed session that you have scheduled as part of this

meeting will not occur and is

off the agenda. >> very good. >> item six is introduction of new or unfinished business by

board members.

>> I wanted to say -- are you

going to fix my microphone? This one?

>> that is it. >> okay. Thank you.

Last thursday, at the invitation

of the human rights commission,

I attended there meeting that focused the focused on transit

equity.

I just want to recognize them. I just wanted to report back on some of the things that the human rights commission was focused on. The topic generally was transit

equity and we heard lots of great public comment from

different folks then show up at these meetings, so that was really useful.

There was a big emphasis on trying to get more transit

service generally into potrero

hill, excelsior, and other you -- other neighborhoods.

There was a big focus and interest in service reliability

impacts because of the operator shortage. The human rights commission, the commissioners themselves were interested in what we are doing

to address it. Julie kirschbaum reported back and has a more reporting back to

do. They were also interested in the demographics of our workforce,

in particular, the drivers. We heard from a public school teacher who works with immigrant communities about the free munimobile for youth program and

how sometimes delays and that process result in students missing school because they are afraid that inspectors are

working with immigration and would report them.

It is a concern of those communities. Finally, we heard from writers

who experienced both fellow

writers and drivers having

negative views about wheelchair users and women and people with strollers trying to board the buses. There was a lot of other discussion, but I wanted to bring those comments back to the

board and the public for a report back and I believe the human rights commission will follow up with an additional

hearing next month or they will

let us know. That is it.

>> thank you very much.

Other directors, new or unfinished business? >> it was interesting because as

I mentioned, I had spoken to a nurse with the hospital who

talked about some of the impacts of moving best stops away from health centres and it made me really think about when we talk about our equity planning, and I

would love to have a briefing about this board about how within our strategy we're

looking at things on the street. Schools, clinics, hospitals, childcare centres, things that

are on the streets and have them overlaid were -- with where we are making transportation improvements to make sure we're

not making it harder for people to make their healthcare appointments because they can't walk above a hill or the bus is no longer in front of that

facility. I would love to have that

brought back to us. >> very good.

Without objection, I think I might ask you to work with director mcguire to put a little bit more formalization and focus

around that. We can discuss when that comes to the board board.

Is that okay? >> yes spinney --

>> any further new or unfinished business? >> I would like to request a briefing on the better market

street process. >> I have personally received a very thorough briefing on the

better street market project. It has been a topic of my personal interest for nearly a decade now and I am thrilled to report the next meeting, this entire board will receive that

briefing and there will be a

significant chance for dialogue. If you would like to receive

that briefing before the meeting , by all means, please

talk to secretary boomer and she can set up -- it is a very

thorough and thoughtful briefing >> thank you. >> any other new or unfinished business?

Any public comment on new or unfinished business? Seeing none, public comment is closed. Director mcguire, the floor is

yours. >> you can't get to pandora that quickly.

It is not going to work. Tom takes big strides. There we go.

Thank you very much, man in the

purple shirt.

[Laughter]. >> I would like. Kim to join me at the podium

please. Since last February, until you

joined us as a permanent H.R.

Director, you are serving as our

acting human resources director. Stepping into a temporary roll

and a very -- challenging time for the agency. Saw the division through a

number of challenges, most important procuring our labour contact negotiations. He has been with the agency for more than 12 years. He has played a whole variety of

roles.

He is a really unique guy. He brings I.T. And finance to his job and he has been with us for 12 years.

Before that, he was launching

the city's first 311 system. He has been a silent part of the

M.T.A. For the last seven months serving the role and he has helped me and my predecessor and

the senior staff at the agency hold together things in challenging times. Please join me in recognizing him for his service.

[Cheers and Applause]

>> thank you, director mcguire. Thank you to the chair and all

the board of directors. I am proud to receive this recognition, but it would not be possible without all the help and support I have received from

sfmta and the city family. It has been an amazing experience to work with all the

public servants. There are so many people to think. I can't thank them enough.

i would also like to thank all the other sfmta directors and

the board secretary for

supporting me as their leader and providing encouraging words in stressful times. This would not be possible without the dedicated, hard-working public servants at

your sfmta.

It is well-known in H.R. Circles that if you seek recognition and adoration, you are in the wrong line of business.

[Laughter]

So in being recognized today, I

would like to thank all those hard-working professionals. And lastly, I am thrilled to

have a new H.R. Director come on board as we improve and

strengthen community sources to meet all the challenges facing sfmta. Thank you again. >> thank you.

Let me say before you clap, although roberta is itching to clap, you are in the right business. As I have said to you privately

and in closed session, I will

now say publicly, I have been around for several of these labour negotiations. There's always some stresses, but the professionalism with

which this one was handled on the results that were retrieved

for everyone in the agency were unparalleled. Certainly the most rewarding of these experiences that I have had and I have recognized that

you were a key part in that. Thank you.

On behalf of the agency and the city, congratulations on your recognition. >> thank you.

[Applause] >> next I would like to call my

colleague julie kirschbaum up. Good afternoon, julie.

>> good afternoon.

I'm here today to talk about a

really amazing program that we

have in the city and that sfmta heavily supports which is our

apprenticeship program.

We have everything from high

school, to fellows, to pre apprentice, to apprentices going through our system, really

building the next generation

workforce.

I want to share some photos. I want to share some photos

because I want you to see what

diverse and excited set of people entering the workforce

that were able to attract, and

we want you to know the folks

here, as well as many of their colleagues, are serving as

mentors to these apprenticeships the average age of our mechanic

right now is 50 years old. We are looking at high

retirement, and a trade that isn't attracting nearly as many

people that it used to in the past.

So having these apprenticeship programs is really an opportunity for us to connect

people with others in

opportunity, but also help our very, very real pipeline

challenges. This program is something that

existed before I stepped into this role. It is something that I was

thrilled to discover, and it is something that I wanted you all to have an opportunity to hear a

little bit about today.

I'm going to hand out plaques for the folks standing here come

from all over our maintenance groups. We have a representative from

woods maintenance and the wood

machine shop, the green machine shop, the cable car cart machine

shop, would body shop, presidio

maintenance, the body shop, our

special machine shop and our non revenue. The fact that these apprentices get to experience so many areas

is a lot of something our

employees ever have something to do and it really helps people

make great career choices.

I am going to hand out some of these certificates.

While I do, we thought that the most efficient use of time would

be, rather then you hearing from each of them, for you to hear

from a current apprentice. He is in the apprenticeship program.

He can speak to what the time and leadership of of the staff has meant to him.

Thank you.

>> all right.

The floor is yours.

>> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I grew up writing munimobile

riding munimobile all my life.

It is an honor to be part of this program. It has been a great experience.

I want to thank my colleagues

for always teaching me and helping me succeed.

I also want to thank local 1414 and supervisors like gabriel and

austin for always being there to support me. Thank you. >> thank you very much for saying that.

I am so glad you are part of this program and maybe there is an apprenticeship in the coming occasions department for you

next because that was very well said and brief, which we appreciate most. Would you like to say something? >> I would just like to say that chatting with the people beforehand, some of you were at

an outreach event at george washington high school today

looking from the next round. Thank you for doing this program

it is such a value to the city. >> thank you for all the work

that we do to make sure we can deliver service to san franciscans every single day.

>> on behalf of the agency and

the city of san francisco, congratulations and thank you to you all.

[Applause] Mr. Maguire? >> moving on, a few more updates for you.

First of all, on the vision zero efforts, I can report that in

August, the state's traffic

fatality task force met and we continue to refine and study the concepts that were originally proposed by the california state transportation agency.

Two key areas that will require legislative changes change that

are under active study by the

task force are the way we said speed limits and the possibility

of using speed enforcement tools in california. We meet again this month and continue to refine these

concepts with the aim of our website and mandate to make

recommendations in December. And also the vision zero with the first, as we went through

the first month of school, our

campaign was out on the streets.

we had a lot of media coverage.

We ran a really neat new story about the way speed is enforced

and radio spots in three different languages and 15 channels.

We saw over 2.7 million on our social media accounts. Another important initiative, I know you have already heard

about this, but on such over 205 th, we issued permits to

four operators under the new power scooter share permit program that was adopted last

July. I want to remind us all of the journey we took from a pilot program where we came back to

you with media reports, findings that helped you make a decision about what the key criteria

would be. However, our role in regulating

this does not end with the permits, it has really just begun. We will be back with an informational report at our next meeting about how we are rolling the program out, and all the

different ways we can ensure transparency by these operators. We have very high expectations

in san francisco for not just

good behaviour but transparency. Some of those requirements where requiring that the operators had

at least 50% of their fleet on the street at all times, were requiring a spread across the

cities of norm or than 40% of the city his downtown and

requiring them as we were during

the pilot. We are doing a lifecycle

analysis of the sustainability of the scooters themselves and

we were very pleased that as a

result of the high bar we have

set for all criteria in the program, all four operators will

be paying their employees. There will be no gig workers

involved. The permit involves four

applicants starting small, but

those have increased to four or even 10,000 scooters. I want to make it very clear to

you that we have heard very clearly from this board and from the board of supervisors that we

need to let those scooters roll

out in a methodical way. We need to see performance and

compliance before we give anyone the right to deploy their

maximum number of scooters. Another thing we will be doing

to support this rollout is put through bike racks throughout

the service areas.

This is just the next step on the scooter journey we have been altogether for the last year and

a half and we are really

thankful to this board and the mayor's office, and the board of supervisors and to the san franciscans who have come to this board and come to other policy boards and given us

thoughtful feedback on how to make scooters work in san

francisco. We will see that we are the city

that stood up for equity and for safety and for transparency.

That is to all of our credit. Two more quick updates. The director mentioned that --

better market street and the director said, we are excited

that there will be a number of public hearings about the street

coming up in the weeks ahead. We have a plan that is ready to start moving through the approval process. there will be an E.I.R. Coming before the planning commission on October 10th for certification. The public works director will be holding a hearing on October 11th.

And finally, we will hear an item on October 15th which will give you an opportunity to

weigh in on the parking and traffic changes as well as the

environmental impact report.

And one thing that I know is

very important to many people on

this board, once we get there that hearing, once we approve

whatever -- the parking and traffic change, we'll be in a

position to quick bill a ban on private cars on market street

east of tenth street as early as January 2020, which I know has been a goal of many people on

this board. Very much looking forward to having that discussion with you next time. Finally, a couple quick notes on the events.

As you May know, we are in the process of rebuilding and

extending the potrero yard.

We replace the building with a building that has the modern storage and circulation necessary to serve our new

battery electric fleet. We have been doing a bunch of public outreach. There will be a meeting on October 7th. We will also be hosting sight

tourism October 23rd and a

community meeting on October 26.

It has been great seeing him new people are interested in coming

and seeing a tour. Tomorrow morning I will be out with the mayor and senator scott weiner at national walk and roll

to school day at eldorado

elementary school.

Also with supervisor walton and assembly member david to.

We now have over 100 schools in san francisco, middle, high

school who are doing some version of walking to school or

safe transit to school.

Fleet week is starting on sunday lots of activities throughout the weekend.

Two things, we need to support -- provide extra support in the embarcadero and offering free

rides to anyone caring military I.D.

On October 10th, we'll be

handing our -- having our 55th

anniversary competition, which I invite everyone here too.

It is a fantastic event. You will hear people doing things with cable car bells that you have never heard before. They will be demonstrating their best rhythms, originality and a

chance to win trophies and

prizes.

It is a great event celebrating

cable cars, but also celebrating the terrific M.T.A. Meeting

workforce to get us around every day.

That concludes my report. >> wonderful.

Do we have any public comment? Directors, I will get to comments and directions --

directions in a moment.

I'm sorry we do not have walk-up music for you, either, but welcome back. The floor is yours.

>> herbert weiner. I am very concerned about the

scooters on sidewalks. I hope this agency hasn't

unleashed a pandora's box because the public is

potentially at risk and I would like to know what measures are

going to be taken to protect us. This is a potentially dangerous

decision. I do not want to be hit based --

by a scooter person.

I am 80 years of age. I'm sure there are other people

in my position. Either we have to have protective measures taken.

I think this board, at times is

an alien body. I think this is a decision that

May their this out. If you don't do something about

it, if you are responsible for

our safety, perhaps the M.T.A.

Board or the agency should be dissolved. Thank you. >> thank you.

Next speaker, please.

This is only on the director's report. If you want to speak on scooters

, please. >> thank you.

My name is anne harvey. >> you have two minutes. Welcome to our board. >> I want to say something that

I think needs to be considered very importantly here.

There is a big problem of injury

to people and their needs to be insurance that covers the

liability of these people on scooters.

I have been almost run over just

walking on my streets and on my sidewalk people coming downhill who totally lost control.

These people, is a former P.E.I.

Attorney. I know if you are hit by

somebody just in the crosswalk,

it is impossible to get a recovery for an injured elderly person. There needs to be thought given

to liability insurance as part

of the pax. Liability to ensure the liability of the scooter rider who will run over people. Thank you very much.

Should be a requirement of the permits. >> thank you. Any further public comment on director mcguire's report?

Public comment is -- okay, yes, please. You will be the last public

speaker on the report. >> you can use that microphone. >> on the topic of micro

mobility -- >> Mr. Wright, welcome. >> you hear a lot about people

being afraid of getting hit and one of the issues is we don't have the space dedicated for

these kinds of transportations on our street. And that needs to change. These will be incredibly

valuable tools I would suggest

an entire 10-foot lane dedicated

to all forms of other micro

mobility, bikes, scooters, ebags , whatever, wheelchairs, et cetera. Not the sidewalk and not to the

cars that is protected.

>> thank you.

Public comment is closed on director mcguire's report. Board members, questions or

directors for Mr. Maguire? >> Mr. Maguire, I'm glad to hear

that part of the permit fee will be going towards more bicycle racks, and I know that as these

scooters roll out and when they

get their dock lists, we do have a serious bike rack shortage.

is our pinch point the racks or

is it stuff the put them in place? >> until now we have had a

challenge with the staffing, however, we just hired two new

staff people.

I think we have solved the staff

problem and we are ready to really accelerate our bike rack deployment to.

>> I am glad to hear that. Thank you. >> any other directors? >> two things. I am very much looking forward to the market street project. I will not see more.

Thank you for heading me off the path on that one.

And on scooters, at the risk of stating the obvious, I think

safety is paramount with going forward.

I think one of the issues we are hearing about is not having

scooters on the sidewalks.

Something that I will say I have personally seen, not in great

epidemic form, but certainly have seen the problem. I would repeat to you the questions I asked the former director.

As we work through this, these

are technology companies. If there's any technology solution including geo-fencing off the sidewalk, I would ask them to continue to look into that.

I think that could be a path to

expanding the permit and using what is strong technology to solve a problem that we currently have.

Second, on enforcement of these

issues, I have asked this question before.

It has already been addressed.

i apologize. If one of our citizens experiences a scooter riding on

the sidewalk or some other unsafe scooter behaviour, what is the appropriate way for that

citizen to report it?

Is it to take a picture and send to sfmta, is it to send it to the company, how can we tell people not just that we are looking at this, as I know you and your staff are, but that

they can be part of the solution , too?

What should someone do when they encounter an unsafe scooter situation? >> I will ask my sustainable streets director to give you a comprehensive rundown on that.

>> thank you. Citizen should be reporting it to the company.

They can always reported to 311, of course, and we will follow up on it.

I want to the company to be tracking the complaint and

actually one of the very important provisions that we

will be having is if there is a

violator that is repeating the complaint, they will be removed

and they won't be able to use that service anymore. They will be keeping track of

these every year. >> so the scooters have

individual flyers on them. That would be specific to the company and the scooter.

And we can time, them and know who the user was. >> correct. Unless there are many scooters around, that maybe hard, but we can do it. >> thank you so much. Thank you for the amazing presentation on better market

street.

When we are asking our citizenry to engage in reporting and to

report other issues with misconduct, there is obviously safety considerations come into that. We don't want to put anyone into

a situation that will create a conflict. Do we have any tips for the best

way for someone to do this is? I assume it is removed and not in a confrontational way, but perhaps with a picture or a note

to the company, but since I know you probably have thought about this more than I have, and they want to make sure folks listening get the key tips. How would you recommend people make these reports about scooter riders to the companies?

>> that is a very good question. We can come back to you with a conference of answer on the 15 th when we talk more about the scooters. >> excellent.

Thank you so much.

The appropriately named wise --

the appropriately named Ms. Wise can we move onto next item?

>> item eight is citizen advisory report. I don't think there will be a

report today. Moving on to item nine, general

public comment. Members of the public can

address the board on matters of jurisdiction but not on the agenda.

>> how many cards do you have?

>> we have four. >> Ms. Harvey makes five.

Two minutes apiece. Welcome. >> good afternoon, directors. i am with san francisco transit

riders. I want to thank the director for participation in the human rights commission and we look forward to growing our advocacy

around those issues raised. It was definitely eye-opening. I want to commend the director of transit for her grace under

fire and her dedication of improving munimobile for all

riders.

I want to comment on better market street. We are excited to get cars off market.

I urge you to move as quickly as

possible to make that a reality. We are concerned that the other transit plan is not accessible

for the 75,000 people who use this service on market street

every day.

It affects riders coming in and

going out to all districts. There are not enough soft -- taps in the center lanes. The centreline and the curb

stops don't line up every -- very well so transfers will be

difficult.

Another big concern, speaking of safety, is with the curb stops

being in the middle of the block , you have to cross a

bicycle lane to get to them. This design forces a conflict between bicycles and pedestrians

, and it is the densest bicycle corridor in the city.

Hopefully it will get better with better bicycle infrastructure. These components at up with

munimobile being harder to use and anyone to access with

mobility challenges.

I urge you to move cars off market street as quickly as possible but hold off legislating the design until a later date. Thank you. >> very good.

Mr. Weiner? >> he will be followed by christopher peterson and nico

right. >> two matters. Herbert weiner.

One is, this whole task force on

munimobile.

It is composed of everyone who

is threatening to munimobile.

It is now going to a whitewash. It is an internal dialogue where you can look at mirror mirror on

the wall, who is the fairest of them all. Basically, they are all friendly to munimobile.

It is a stacked deck.

Secondly, there is a bully culture in M.T.A.

It is a very serious problem. It is going public. There have been incidents of sexual harassment and bullying.

I would like to see a report as

to how this is being addressed.

It is a public matter because

poor personal relations are a danger to productivity in the

agency and also service delivery

this bully culture has to stop.

It is affecting public transportation. Please address this.

Thank you. >> thank you very much. Next speaker, please. >> christopher peterson and followed by nico right. >> welcome back.

>> thank you.

I'm here today to talk about the

balboa reservoir project.

The public comment period on the e.I.R. For that project recently closed.

It is a project that can depend

on what variation might be approved from approximately 500, up to 800 affordable housing

units.

A major theme of comments regarding the E.I.R. Has been about transportation. It is specifically about the adequacy or inadequacy of service in the area. Given what an important project this is to the city, I urge

M.T.A. To make making improvements to the transit

service in that area and the multiple lines that serve that

area to be a high priority so we

can get those implemented before occupancy for such an important project. Thank you.

>> thank you. >> good afternoon.

I am here in response -- I heard on twitter that Mr. Henninger said in the last meeting, I wonder why they don't have people who are very mad at us. I am here to be mad and sad for

the city at the failure of the city to address this in a comprehensive way. I found a letter two weeks ago,

and e-mail to the mayor and the

board here and all of the supervisors after a 12-year-old

was hit in the tenderloin. And the only person who

responded to me was jodi. I will read that letter. The city and its leadership are deeply ashamed that yet another pedestrian has been injured by a

driver by a private automobile.

And this time, a 12-year-old

child legally crossing the crosswalk. it is no consolation abdication of responsibility to say that the driver was under the influence.

The streets of the city, and the allocation of resources continue to promote the kind of dangerous

and irresponsible use of public streets by drivers of private automobiles.

We need a change in the way we think about how our streets are used and imagined if we're ever going to come close to

accompanying any of the goals,

as you well know, the city is dramatically failing this year. The age of the public streets,

in my opinion, must be put behind us.

And the reasons are a multitude.

Cars are ineffective modes of transportation. They are the primary cause of

industries -- injuries. They contribute to carbon emissions, transportation

accounts for 40% of emissions. Cars clogged up our streets and

take away public space.

They are contributing to a less civil society by segregating individuals into their own private domain. There is a greater and better

feature available to all of. >> thank you, sir.

Your time is up.

Thank you, your time is up. >> you May leave that with the secretary, that letter, if you like.

Thank you.

>> thank you.

Since I moved to the city in

1978, I am a loyal writer of munimobile. I do not drive.

I am very upset about the way

munimobile is treating people

like me. The bus stop needs to move at will.

Either there needs to be

requests -- we get notified, we get e-mails about what is happening.

Van ness, the bus stop seems to

be moving wherever it feels like it. I had to walk from union street to california to figure out

where to get a bus.

No one knew where it was anymore we should not have to walk so

far to get to a munimobile bus. It should be stopping near union

somewhere and not having to walk around pipes and all sorts of

crazy construction. It is very difficult. It is very dangerous for older people such as me.

I would request that we notify -- munimobile notified people. Van ness is -- I can't figure it

out, but it is a workout for the bus drivers and I am scared to

take munimobile at night on van

ness.

The best driver can't see anything and people are crossing it is horrendous. With the hard part for me is knowing where the buses are.

I would like to be notified where they are moving to so I know where to go. Thank you. >> thank you very much.

Next speaker, please. >> if you place a document under there and move your hand, it

should pick it up. There we go.

It is there.

>> hello.

One year ago I came here and balled my eyes out in front of most of you because I just

witnessed the death of an individual.

He was a second cyclist to die in san francisco and sadly we

had another death about six

months ago. I wanted to say thank you.

Thank you for the great work. Thank you to tom, thank you

directors, and thank you to kimberley who has been working

with me on a project where I have activated my community at

14th and south van ness. We can go faster. Let's keep going faster. This is this morning on 14th

street. We have a tow truck parked in

the bike lane and another

company vehicle parked in the lane. Cyclists are travelling through

the lane around on 14th street

I took another cycle around the

intersection.

Thank you for your patience. I found a postal track and a cop car parked in a red zone on the

sidewalk.

I saw someone on a wheelchair g 13th and south van

ness with cars passing very dangerously. >> thank you very much. >> let's go faster. >> thank you. If you happen to catch the operator or the company that operates that tow truck, I would

submit if you are comfortable

doing so, sending it to the company so they know. I don't want to put you in a spot.

Thank you. >> good afternoon.

I have been living in the city for seven years. I'm also the founder of a

parking app.

I founded this up with my

cofounders to help people save time finding parking and reduce congestion and help the city

with that.

Today the app is used by hundreds of thousands of san franciscans. To help them find parking, understand parking rules and comply with regulations, get reminders to remove their cars

and book parking and save money. The reason I am making this comment is over 50 2% of our

users have requested that there be metre payment on the apps. Today this is not something we

can do because it is the parking

company that is providing a service, so I am making this

comment to ask for the city's

position on opening up payment

to multi-vendors since this can have great benefits to citizens, more competition, more innovation, better service, but

also to the city with increasing

mobile payment penetration, increasing revenue and

decreasing all the costs and the cash collection payment machines

I am requesting the position on open payment and I would love to have a follow-up with you on this topic if possible. Thank you so much. >> thank you very much.

Next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, board of directors. I apologize for not putting in a speaker card but I originally was not going to speak now. >> he made up for it with the hustle coming up here.

>> there we go. I came up.

Because he baited me with a comment about enforcement, which

I thought was somewhat amusing because we don't actually meaningfully enforce our traffic

in the city at all. In that vein, I wanted to

mention an effort that a kind

citizen named stephen brice made about safe lanes and to block

lanes with automated number --

automated numbers. M.T.A. Appears not to have the

resources to know how much bike lane blocking actually happens

and where. We citizens are taking it on

ourselves to gather this because I'm sure you already know this,

but we want you to know it some more, if you put a parking control officer on valencia in the evenings or on polk street in the gap where the one garage

is, you could be writing tickets all the time for blocked bike

lanes. There are so many known hotspots

and it boggles the mind.

There are not officers out there every day writing tickets for five times the value of their hourly wage. Thank you.

>> thank you very much.

Any further public comment on item nine? Seeing none, we will close

public comment and move onto the consent calendar. >> these items are considered to be routine unless a member of

the public or the board wishes

to request or sever an item and considerate separately. I have not received a request from any member of the public or

board members. >> okay. If there are no questions, there might be a question.

are you going to move it? >> second.

>> all those in favor please say aye. >> aye. >> anyone opposed? Consent calendar passes.

>> now we will go on to item 11.

>> I am here today with roger,

President Of tw local 258 with the kind of request that we never want to have to make to you. We're asking you to honor the

memory of one of our own, a cable car operator, rinaldo bronte .

He was a 26 year employee. He was a dedicated father of two , now grown children.

He started his career at green division, which is fairly unusual and then moved to the kirkland division.

He was honored for operator of the month and systemwide

runner-up in 2011. According to his family, he

loved his job. He also loved anything sports

related. He was known for his kindness and always having a smile for

his colleagues. In February of 2014, he was certified as a cable car

operator, what you know is one

of our hardest operator classifications to pass.

On June 11th of 2015, he was struck by a drunk motorist -- motorcyclist in north beach.

Six month later, he died from his injuries. There's nothing that we can say

or do that will make this okay.

But in dedicating cable car 17

today, we will ensure that his service to the people of san francisco and the sacrifice in the line of duty are never

forgotten. Every day, transit operators

like rae, as well as our parking

control officers, our inspectors , our crossing guards, in other communities but their

lives on the line in service of

this city.

It is times like these today most grateful to my colleagues for everything that they are

doing to improve safety on our

city streets. Roger will address you in a

moment, but collectively, would like to ask you to dedicate cable car 17 in memory and

memory of our cable car operator >> very good. Thank you. Thank you for being here and thank you for initiating this process. If you would like to address the board, please do so. >> thank you for having me here

today.

Members of the board, I wish I were not here today in front of

you pertaining to this issue, this tragic accident, the loss of one of our most dedicated

brothers, sibling, but we are here. There is nothing that we can do

or say that can alleviate the

situation and make it better in any way, shape, or form.

However, we can honor the memory , the work, the dedication

of ray by supporting this and

honoring him and remembering him as a dedicated operator who served the city and county of

san francisco. With that being said, I want to

implore all of you to please support the dedication of cable

car number 17. >> do we have any public comment on this item? >> we have a role in two has

submitted a speaker card.

>> my condolences to his family,

both his blood family and his work-family at M.T.A. I am very glad to see that

M.T.A. Is taking these steps to

dedicate the cable cars and other such things in the names

of the victims of traffic violence on our streets. I would like to voice my

disappointment with the fact that in a resolution from M.T.A. Staff commemorating the death of

one of their own in traffic, we are still using the word accident.

We heard a description from Miss

Kirschbaum about what happened.

He was struck by a drunk motorcyclist. His death is not accidental. In fact, if the motorcyclist it

had a prior D.U.I. Conviction, that would have been chargeable second degree murder under law.

We don't go around calling murderers accidents in general. I would urge you not to do that here either. Thank you.

>> thank you very much. Any further public comment? [Please Stand by]

. >> I'm really pleased to report

that it continues to be a very

good way to set ambitious

targets.

I also -- you hear from me a lot, but the work that's being

done is really by the incredible

people in the transit team, and

in particular in the transit managers who have really

embraced this approach to the service which I really appreciate.

In this 90-day plan series, we had five initiatives.

That in and of itself was a lesson learned.

We tried to reduce both the number of the initiatives as

well as the number of actions under each initiative so we could go much deeper into the process.

We focused on safety, service

reliability, subway performance,

lrv4, and the chase center. >> thank you.

>> and as you can see, the

metrics that we were measuring our performance against for the most part showed very strong improvement.

We did have a challenging month

of July with collisions.

That's the 71 you're seeing there.

But I'm pleased to report that although it wasn't ready at the

time that we produced this

report, the August number is

showing us tracking back down. We currently have only 46

preventable collisions in

August, with about another 20 to

be graded. So I do expect we will be below

our target there as well.

In each area we accomplished a tremendous amount.

The emphasis on safety, we had eight actions.

Here we're really focusing on

areas that we have complete

control over.

So things like pole-on-pole

collisions, which we've reduced

to almost zero since we started

focusing in this campaign.

In this particular 90-day cycle,

based on operator feedback, we

added a candy cane stripes at

the top of the pole to add enhanced visibility for operators, so they know where

their poles are and make sure they're on the right wires. We also completed something that

we started something two cycles

ago on sideswipes to make the back of the vehicles more visible.

You can see in the center photo

we now have the hazard striping

on all of our vehicles.

Side striping is on the significant number of our vehicles. We brought it down from safety to communications to transit.

The third area we focused on was yard collisions.

Our rail yard is particularly

green and extremely congested.

We were having issues where vehicles were not realized that

other vehicles were encroaching on the dynamic envelope.

Working with our safety group we

changed how we monitored things

in the yard to give people extra information when things are

parked in a way that you can't

move a vehicle.

On the service reliability side,

we did make continued progress

on operator hiring.

I appreciate vice chair borden coming to the ceremony and

having the opportunity to see

the diverse workforce that we're building.

We also implemented the route

changes on the 27 bryant, which

is a project that you approved a couple months ago and we were able to get on the ground very, very quickly.

And then we also in this 90-day

period, not only did we accept

24 new 40-foot coaches, but we

completely retired our E.T.I.

fleet which is our oldest and most unreliable fleet.

So we continued to have month

over month continued improvement

in our vehicle maintenance.

I'm just so proud in how staff

has really approached and

embraced this idea of a preventive maintenance program

with less and less maintenance

being necessary.

On the lrv4s, we set some key targets.

As you know it has the tremendous potential to address

our biggest issue in the subway,

which is vehicle breakdowns.

It was initially not performing as anticipated.

We identified five short-term

goals petitioner this program,

increasing vehicle availability,

addressing the couplers that

were preventing us from operating two trains. Also safety design based on operator feedback as well as the

fact that we are not able to

send vehicles to service because

of flat wheels and hitting the emergency brake button.

We met all of these targets.

As of friday, we'll be taking

acceptance of the last lrv4 vehicle.

We still have two that we had accepted previously, but we put

them through the ringer.

They were really our test vehicle.

So they're still at SIEMENs

getting the enhancements, but we

will get the 68th vehicle on friday. We will have an opportunity to

thank the staff in sacramento that have been instrumental in building the vehicle. We have been working in the first week in November bringing

you a change order that we believe will further enhance

performance by addressing the

flat wheels and also starting

the long lead time items like the seat redesign which will

allow for the compression of the

schedule and allow for earlier retirement.

We are still having one

performance issue, but it is significant.

That is with the hydraulic power unit on the brakes.

The act impact is the brakes get

locked up and we cannot move the vehicle without the assistance of a mechanic. We certainly have 13 vehicles on

hold because of this. We are working through the

mechanical issues. Siemens is entirely responsible for this.

Everything that is being done is

being done under warranty.

Our focus now is getting it done

as fast as possible.

I really believe it's the last

hurdle we have towards these

vehicles meeting our expectations.

This is a snapshot of our vehicle availability.

We've been pretty consistently

delivering 150 vehicles a day,

which is more vehicles than

we've ever had out in the system

and is about 30 to 35 more than

we had 18 months ago.

We're going to get even better. In the next 90 days we expect

these numbers to continue to

release, as we release vehicles

that are on hold for flat wheels and this brake issue. One thing I should also add

because this came up as a

question when I presented this

to the board of supervisors.

as you can see in this slide, we

also are back on our reliability trajectory.

We had a low of almost 3500 miles between breakdowns at the

beginning of the summer.

We've more than doubled that.

So we're seeing 7700 miles between breakdowns.

That has not come at the expense

of the breda fleet.

That fleet continues to see

small increment improvements in reliability. It's still a vulnerable vehicle for us. It still continues to be

expensive and difficult to maintain.

We're not gaming these numbers.

It's not that the lrv4s are not

doing well and breda is also not.

We want to make sure that both

vehicles are available and

reliable.

Our third initiative because to improve service in the subway.

This very much continues to be a work-in-progress.

We shared with the muni working group a presentation last week

on where we think to go with the

train control system.

At vice chair borden's

suggestion, we will be bringing that back to the full board so

you will have an opportunity to

see where that's going long term.

But there's still a lot happening in the short term.

One of which is enhancing and improving our use of service management tools. We also in this 90-day period

got the embarcadero crossover

back up and running.

We can cross trains over in both directions.

we have removed the legacy wiring system which was making

it go out of correspondence with the automatic train control system. So we're having a lot of success there.

In fact, Dr. Heinike, you missed this, but at my last briefing

one of the incidents I shared didn't have to be a major

incident because we had a train

that was broken down and we were able to go completely around it

through the use of this enhanced crossover.

>> I'm not sure that a breakdown

made me happy, but thank you for that. >> happier.

We are using the crossover to

help manage gaps in service.

It's not a panacea because it stop s

stops service in both

directions, but if we have two coming at the same time and one crossing over quickly and

sending the other out to the

pocket is a good option for us.

Also as we talked about, we will be experimenting with turning

the j past embarcadero as

another way of trying to reduce

congestion in the subway.

We did see a reduction in major

delays in the subway, but I

think we could all argue even one is too many.

We had three over the last four or five weeks.

The first was a signal violation that locked up west portal and

did not allow us to move trains

in or out of the subway.

The second was a pg&e power outage.

The pg&e power out age

age -- it

impacted several of the sfmta network sites.

Most of our networks almostally

switch to alternative pathways,

but unfortunately a few of the segments didn't. The old operation control center

where the train lives, it

actually has multiple fiber links, but during that shutdown

we lost access to them.

Over the next 60 days we are

working and already had in the

works adding a fiber link that

will go from the T.M.C. To the old train system. The reason we had the service

disruption is we essentially lost the ability at the T.M.C. To see trains.

We needed to send staff to west portal in order to be able to manage that impact.

And then the third issue was a

switch that got with stuck in

main -- the main direction.

So we were able to send trains

to west portal but not on church

and devos.

We were able to get staff there

to throw the switch manually

until we made the repair, but it did create a service disruption.

The key to preventing service disruptions is what we saw in

this 90-day plan.

Our maintenance away group had

only one action item in this 90-day plan.

That was to work together across multiple divisions to take

advantage of the early shutdown.

Track maintenance, overhead

lines, signal maintenance, our custodians which deep cleaned

all the center platforms, our

mechanical systems which removed

barrels essentially on the

platform that had initially 15

years ago been used by the fire

department but had become resept

resept -- receptacles.

We had up to nine high railers

in the system every night, and not one night did we have an

issue starting up service.

I am incredibly appreciative of the staff.

I think the numbers speak for themselves.

We replaced almost 4700 feet of

overhead wire.

If you recall in April we had

that major 12-hour subway delay

because of the defective splice.

It raised the question for this

board and others, why do you

have splices in the subway.

Part of it is when you only have

two hours to string wire, you

can only string a splice's worth.

They reduced 30 which reduces our vulnerability. More than 1500 backup batteries

were replaced in the relay rooms.

Relay rooms were cleaned that hadn't been cleaned before.

We were able to clear our cpuc.

A list of key findings on the track system.

So really, really important work that happened.

I'd also say that about a month

later last week we finished the

cable car gearbox.

The cable car team took the same

approach that our maintenance

away team took. While the cable car was shut

down and we were doing that complicated gearbox project,

they took the opportunity to fix every other issue that they were aware of in the cable car system, whether that was painting, whether it was

replacing parts, whether it was upgrading things that needed to be upgraded. so the entire time that the

capital project was underway, work was happening throughout the system, taking advantage of

that time, and putting in long

lead time preventive maintenance items.

Then the last thing that we

accomplished over this 90-day

period, it was truly an example

of our one agency connected was

the chase center.

To be able to deliver 13 events

with transit on day one meeting

kind of our best and most optimistic expectations for when

we were up and running was incredible. It wouldn't have been possible

without the support of every

kind of aspect of the agency.

There was almost no group that

didn't touch this project.

We are very excited.

Our next big challenge will come

when the warriors themselves open.

We want to make sure that all of

the principles are there.

Pedestrian safety is highest

priority, get people to the

games in sustainable modes, maintain hospital access to the

people who need it most.

Working together, we've really

seen that plan deliver.

We will continue our next 90-day cycle.

We're currently taking the time

to digest and debrief what worked and what didn't work in this plan.

We will be developing final

actions by October 25 and

starting off a new plan November 1.

We also are complementing these

90-day plans with what we need

for the medium and longer-term

visions for the system.

for example, our only action

plan for the subway in the next

cycle will be to develop what we

collectively think needs to be

our two-to-three-year action

plan to truly address the subway.

The train control system is very much needed.

It is going to be critical to

reduce delays from anywhere from

20 to 25%.

It is five to seven years off.

We believe that san francisco

deserves a working subway now.

We will be bringing in some consultant support to make sure

we block off staff time to set

up what is not just the next

90-day sprint for the subway,

but what we're going to be doing

over the next two to three years to deliver excellent service. Thank you. >> thank you very much. Is there any public comment on

this item.

>> no, Mr. Chair, there is not.

>> anyone like to speak in public comment on the presentation?

Seeing none, public comment is closed.

Directors, I have a few

questions and comments.

>> thanks for the update.

I'm curious if we have any preliminary data in terms of the

breakdown of how people are

getting to the chase center, in

terms of if they're walking, biking, using transit.

I'm wondering if the bundling of

the muni pass into the ticket has a behavioural effect we could learn from. >> we would be happy to follow up on that.

But we are I believe carrying

anywhere from 5,000 to 6,000

people by transit alone.

>> okay.

>> the slide that I stuck on is the one that -- the summary of all the standards, the performance standards. I don't know if that's easy or

hard to get back up.

What struck me is they're all outputs. They're really not the outcome

that we're after, which is hider ridership.

I know ridership is influenced

by a whole bunch of things

besides what you do.

I think it would be useful to track the ultimate outcome with

these every month or 90 days. So they bear some relationship to each other.

It would be good to see the good

stuff you're doing is having x

effect on the system in terms of ridership.

>> we would be happy to add that.

What we're seeing general trends

where we've made investments and

making transit more accessible

through muni pass.

As a system, we're basically stable.

That is bucking national trends,

but we'd like to see it grow more. I think that particularly as we

see some of the benefits of the

increased rail capacity as well

as get some of these subway

issues under control we will see

higher ridership. >> thank you. Good presentation.

At our last policy and

governance committee meeting, we

did dive into the numbers of the work that was available.

It was impressive of all the

things you were able to get done. I think it was the vice chair

that recommended that we do that as frequently as staff feels it

is needed so we can get ahead of these problems. Some of the things they

addressed are things that will

prevent subway shutdowns or mishaps.

>> what was so heartening to me

when we debriefed on the work is

the staff pointed out that even

though we had so many different teams working and competing for

space and resources, what they

said is nobody ever raised their voice.

Everybody works things out together. There was a really strong kind of partnership and team approach

to this work, which is what

we're trying to build across the agency. This was a great example I think

of the kind of culture we're

trying to create. >> very good.

So a few things. First, when I challenged you to

do this when you first came on,

you took it on and have done it ably.

Let me start by saying thank you.

I as a rider have seen an unquestionable improvement in the service and the communication that I've experienced down in the subway.

I certainly agree with our earlier speaker that you have grace under fire. Thank you for what you're doing

and to your team for these results. It speaks to you and your leadership. One of the things I asked for at the beginning is every time we

have this report we have the

average metric of the average

trip time between the two points.

I didn't see that in your slide presentation.

I don't think you're trying to

obfuscate it. Please, next time that you're back and the time after that

that you're back, include that slide. >> will do. >> thank you.

Number two, on major delays,

glad to see them declining.

Appreciate one of them was out of our control and appreciate

one of them was on a saturday

morning and somewhat isolated. Let me ask about the switch problem, is the work we've been

doing in a place -- I saw one of

the line items was six switches that had been replaced.

Does that sound like the right number?

>> so we've replaced three

switches in the subway going

from analog to digital.

Two of them were at church and

debose where when I first took on the chief transportation

officer role we were having

complete breakdowns on what felt

like almost every three or four weeks.

We really haven't experienced

issues to that scale since we

put the new switches in.

This particular incident was

more signal related, but it is --

>> I understood it has we had a

hard time throwing the switch. This was a different type of switch problem?

>> the way we mitigated it was

by going down and throwing the

switch manually, but the ultimate issue was electrical. >> is that an issue of the

switch being old and needing to

be replaced? >> no.

>> what was it an issue of? >> I don't have all the details in front of me, so I don't want to speculate.

>> again, with my thanks for the improvements you've made, switches are clearly an area

where if the people on the ground know the switches best can tell us what preventive

measures we're going to take, that is going to help mitigate major delays.

Hopefully in your next report

there won't be something about a switch.

If there is, be forewarned I will ask the question what

you're doing so this doesn't happen again.

>>> finally, we're going to have more vehicles, that's great.

We're not going to have more track.

We're going to have the same amount of tracks accommodating more vehicles. I want to understand how we're going to mitigate the traffic.

Are we going to be moving to

three-car trains in the subway system?

>> yes, I do anticipate that

when we complete the -- when we

activate the crossover at west

portal, we will run a three-car shuttle in the subway.

>> she said when we activate the

crossover at west portal. That's like christmas morning for me. Thank you.

I will look forward to that. I will be there to watch it from

the little stairs at the top. That brings me to the other point about how we're going to accommodate these more trains and that's the choke point.

As best I can tell, correct me if I'm wrong, the west portal project is a success? >> yes. >> congratulations. I take it the plan is to keep

that in place and keep it as it

is. Embarcadero, you've got a

crossover where you can use it for breakdown mitigation.

Are we going to use that to

mitigate the choke point at the pocket? >> yes.

>> when will that be up and running?

>> we are using it for that purpose. >> I heard that.

Is there a plan in place for a

more regularized way to mitigate the backup?

>> not at this time because we believe it will increase not decrease the congestion. >> you talked a little bit about the j church turn, and I understand that.

That brings us to the third

choke point in the system which

is the interface between the

vaness point. So I would suggest that we think

about ways that we can mitigate that choke point particularly in

the rush hours.

One idea that is floating out

here is whether we would have at

certain times people transfer

from above ground to the station

to avoid the choke point coming in. There are other ways to address this.

as any rider knows, that is a

place where you'll see

significant backup as well, and that's because you have

obviously five lines coming

together on one track.

I appreciate the continued

efforts on the different choke points.

I think we need to look at van vaness. One idea I realize that's controversial and we're not adopting it today, I would appreciate if you please

consider, would be whether it makes sense at some point,

particularly on the j which is

closer to church station to have

folks transfer down to the subway to avoid that additional traffic into the tunnel.

>> we'd be happy to evaluate that. Thank you.

>> I have nothing further.

Sorry to be so long-winded, but

you know this is near and dear to me.

On to the next item.

>> item 13, amending transportation code division ii

to extend an existing transit-only fast lane on fourth

street from howard to folsom streets and eliminate a time-limited transit-only lane

between howard and clementina streets, make environmental review findings and approve

various parking modifications along fourth street between

market and folsom streets and on

an adjoining segment of jessie street as part of the fourth street.

>> I am a transit planner in the

muni forward group at the sfmta.

I'm also the project manager for the fourth street transit improvement project.

This is a muni forward proposal between fourth street on market

and folsom.

The two ideas, one restore and

improve a transit-only lane that

existed prior to construction. Two, improve connections between

buses and a future subway system

at folsom. As most of you know, this is

just one of several steps we've taken recently to reduce delay, which is one of our busiest transit crossroads.

As you probably know third and fourth street are one-way

streets with buses connecting chinatown and neighborhoods in the southeast.

In February you approved a similar project on third street

which is now under construction.

When we return chinatown buses to fourth street as part of subway construction.

In July you improved changes to fourth street. And now we are here to talk

about fourth street closer to market.

All of this is taking place as

surface construction on the

central subway winds down. Construction equipment was removed from the away just a few weeks ago.

We can now put in place a permanent traffic configuration on fourth street. This is all taking place against

the become drop of continued growth. I'm sure you all saw yesterday that the lawsuits against the

central soma plan were finally settled.

So this is just a photo of what

currently happens to our buses and, more importantly, to our

bus riders whenever there's

traffic on fourth without a bus lane.

You can see one, two, three

buses here as well as a paratransit vehicle.

Now, as I mentioned before, there was previously a transit lane on fourth street, but it had a few problems. It was shared with traffic at intersections.

At howard it turned into a

part-time only lane, and it

ended at folsom before clementina.

By contrast this would provide a full-time transit lane. It would be separated from

traffic and colored red to improve compliance. Now, this would require us to

extend the two lanes of through

traffic that currently exist

down fourth street as far as folsom. We could maintain capacity for turning vehicles reducing friction.

And traffic modelling has found there would be little impact on traffic.

This would save us about one minute in the peak. That's over a distance of 2,000 feet.

That's a savings of 15 to 20%. We are also proposing some changes to stops. Currently they are on every

block, which is 600 to 650 feet apart.

We are proposing to combine the

stops into a single stop on the

near side of folsom next to the subway station.

This would be on the same block

as the current howard stop. This would be well within our

stop spacing standards.

we are also proposing to make

some changes to curb use. This is because the proposed changes to traffic lanes would allow us to add substantial

loading with little impact on on-street parking.

Notably we are adding more

commercial spaces between

mitchell and howard.

There is less loading capacity

there than you might think.

While this is a reconstruction

project, we are not looking to make pedestrian improvements. However, we are proposing to

reduce the roadway to two

through lanes of traffic between

market, mosconi center and the

future subway station.

>> when you say two lanes, do you mean two lanes of all traffic?

>> two lanes of through traffic for private traffic. >> thank you.

>> I want to talk for just a amount object our community engagement process. We conducted about 20 stakeholder meetings.

Here are a few of the things we heard. People generally appreciated the

need for transit lanes.

They understood that.

They understood the logic of

locating a bus stop next to the

station.

For quite a long time there were

two lanes of total traffic. They also told us they got construction fatigue.

So they appreciated this was

only a restriving proposal and

not a full board construction project.

We did make a couple of changes

in responses to proposals we heard.

we relocated passenger loading zone rather than fully removing

it in order to lengthen the turn lane.

We also restored a taxi stand

that had previously existed in

front of musconi west.

Here is a quick summary of the legislation. Just to reiterate.

This project is about restriping

the roadway to improve the bus lane, which will also provide some benefits for pedestrian safety and for loading. And we are proposing some

changes to bus stops. Here is our implementation time line. Pg&e is planning some construction that would delay us from doing everything right

away, but we are hoping to make most changes if you give your blessing today by the end of the year or shortly thereafter.

As with all of our red line

projects, we would collect data

and stop changes would be

delayed before the equipment is removed.

That concludes my presentation. I'm happy to answer your questions. >> very good. How many public comments do we

have on this item? >> two.

>> without objection I'll go to public comment and then we can

have questions and feedback. If you wish to speak in public

comment as before, you can line

up over there and we'll make sure you get heard.

>> good afternoon, directors. Cat carter.

I'm here to express support.

We have our office at fourth and folsom, so we're personally excited about this.

This is a major connecting corridor.

This serves tens of thousands of riders.

I think I saw it can be 20 buses an hour at peak periods.

Many of those riders, the ones

heading down to the train are now waiting more years for the central subway.

The more we can increase service, the better for everybody.

We're also excited that there

was a transit lane there ten years ago or more. I remember that.

Now a transit lane means red paint which will improve compliance for everybody. We think it's been well thought out, the community engagement

has been great, and we fully

support it. >> good afternoon.

I also urge strong support of this project.

There is already a painted bus lane in the first block of fourth street.

I see it being violated all the time because the other lanes

back up, cars go into it, and

the cars go up it.

When it's a solid line saying bus only, people don't notice it. If it's red, people notice it a lot more. I strongly support that.

I would also urge you to look at symptom stockholm street.

We also have other painted bus

only lanes that are not red. There is not a messy

intersection leading into it, but those lanes should be red as well.

i think you need them on curney too.

But the paint is already there,

you just need the color.

I would like to express my disappointment in the double

right turn lane proposed for howard.

That's a lot of space for cars

and I see in one place there is

a car lane converted.

You lose some road width because the bus lane gets wider.

So we have a parking lane with I

think two through car lanes, a

through bus lane and two right-turn lanes. This is one of the biggest

streets in soma and our city.

There is clearly plenty of width

width, so let's make some space

on this street for bicycles and pedestrians as well.

>> thank you very much.

>> herbert weiner. One concern I have is that

removal -- the consolidation of

bus stops between howard and full so many street, that's a

long block to walk.

I realize you're doing it in the interests of speeding up the buses, but you're also going to

have a concentration and loading time.

So the loading time is going to

offset the benefits that you May have.

It's also a hardship on those

who are aged and the disabled.

Constantly this board places the

aged and disabled at low priority.

We deserve as aged and disabled people, we deserve the same

respect and attention as bicyclists.

The second thing is, with the

transit-only lanes, aren't you concentrating more cars in the

other remaining lanes.

It's congested as it is on the way to the bridge. That's going to create a

hardship on motorists, who also

deserve equal attention, by the way.

Everyone should benefit from

M.T.A. Policy, and that clearly

is not the case at this time. >> I'm very much in favor of this project, but I don't think it's quite enough.

Here is a video from third

street taken earlier this week.

A bike.

Here is e-scooter, e-scooter,

bike, bike, jump bike, skateboard guy.

They were all excited about the

30,000 jobs, 30,000 people on

e-bikes and scooters, they need a space and lane. Both third and fourth should have something.

Maybe what I suggested, which is

a full green lane used for all these materials. We could do it.

You could take that parking lane out.

You could put rubberized curbs. I don't want to delay a good transit project, but we need to do more.

There is a huge hole in the soma plan.

This is the map of proposed projects.

There is a huge hole, there is nothing there.

Those are seven lanes, basically freeways for the highway.

I work on bryant between second and third.

Cars drive 50 mph on that

people in our offices and the

number of the blocks there are for office planning.

There is no -- we just wait

until it stops down there.

It's just like -- people have

been hit at second and bryant.

There's improvements coming, but I don't think enough.

In fact, they turned the two

left lanes that were

unencumbered. I wrote a whole thing in that article. I'm going to be one of those

people that comes to these meetings and is angry and sad. We need --

>> your time is up, sir.

You're welcome to come back to every meeting. We look forward to that. Seeing no further public comment

on this item, public comment is closed.

Directors.

>> I mean, I support this.

I'll say I think it's great, but I also feel a lot of -- I

support a lot of the comments

about what more can we do? It would be great to be -- I understand construction on that street. I live on that street.

I try to walk up and down it quite often.

Those sidewalks are super narrow in a lot of those places. It is a trafficy area.

So this is great what you have now, but I would love us to look

at ways that we can prioritize other modes other than

automobile traffic on that street.

There is just a lot of other

traffic on that street that we

should be paying attention to. >> I'll echo that. This is great. I'm so glad we're going to save

the bus riders time on this.

They really deserve it.

they're doing the right thing, taking public transit and this is for them.

It's fine, car drivers dpet to

keep lanes, but we need to do

more for the bikes and the pedestrians.

This is a good win for transit riders.

Could you -- I occasionally bike

on howard through fourth.

I feel like it's such a wide intersection.

There is a scramble at that light. >> there is technically not a scramble.

They're all-way walk faces, but it's a technical distinction.

>> I mean, I feel like it works okay, but it is such a long crossing distance.

I believe right there on the

corner, is it a senior living --

>> that's correct.

>> and the merry go-go --

merrymaker -- we need to look at

taking a lane away and widening

the sidewalks temporarily.

Construction fatigue, great,

let's use the jersey barriers.

>> we have a motion to approve that will not cut off discussion. Is there a second? Very good.

>> I think my questions are along the same line.

So if I'm reading your schematic

right, on fourth street we're

going from one parking lane to two?

>> it's a little bit complicated there.

The park and loading lanes come and go.

>> I'm just saying that's what

your schematic shows, we go from one to two. For example, on the east side between mission and howard --

>> why didn't you give that to

the bikers? Why do we need to be adding parking capacity?

>> putting in a continuous bike lane honestly is not something

we analyzed in a lot of detail. It's something that we can

certainly go -- all of these

comments have a similar thread. I do want to state pretty

clearly that this isn't the last

bite at our apple.

This was a fast-track project with the completion of central subway construction and the roadway.

We wanted to be able to restripe

in a way we thought made sense.

Now, the central soma plan

doesn't include bike lanes on

third and fourth.

What that plan was going to

remove a large majority of the parking.

I couldn't tell you exactly what

the blocks would be.

There are some odd pinch points. The way we're striping that

right now is a right-turn lane

and two through lanes of traffic

and permissive left of those two lanes.

The dimensions are -- there's a

little bit of room there we could squeeze? A bike lane.

But it would be a tradeoff in a variety of ways.

>> I'm sure it would be.

Everyone wants their own

dedicated space on this.

We're trying to used bicycle use

and discourage automobile use. I guess on third street you're

going to two dedicated right-hand turns.

You say you're going to segregate that for the signal for pedestrians.

Did you consider making a

scramble of the whole thing? >> at which intersection? >> I guess this would be third and howard -- >> fourth and howard? >> yes.

>> it's currently an all-way walk face. We are not proposing any changes

to the signal timing.

>> why not make it a real

scramble instead of a pseudo one?

>> it's a pretty big intersection.

The signal timing -- I would

want to speak to our engineers to be absolutely sure about this, but I think the signal timing would be a challenge, particularly given some of the

high volumes of turn movements.

We got this comment about dual right turn lanes.

The way soma is configured as a

system you have all these large right-turn movements. You have these movements depending on the one-way configuration. It's not necessarily that we

want to give all the space -- in

and of itself we don't want to

give all the space to do that.

At howard we had a strong interesting friction with the transit lane.

We want those vehicles not to be

in our lane.

At howard -- from fourth onto howard, we went out and

collected some volumes and it

was over 500 vehicles turning

right, so a tremendously high number.

>> I know we can't do everything

at once, but we hear the answer that we're going to do that later quite a bit.

It seems to me we have to start turning the corner and doing the

stuff now that we're going to do

later.

For what it's worth, I think

you've heard from three

directors more or less saying the same thing. I guess I just hope -- I don't

see too many more of these items coming back with that answer. >> I will say that this is a

little bit of a unique case just because we didn't want to

have -- after the completion of

construction, we didn't want to

have a temporary configuration

for six months or a year or go back to what was there before,

which would be the default setting. What was there before frankly didn't work very well for anyone. There was a certain element of haste to this project. I won't lie to you.

We moved through it honestly a

lot quicker than we do with a

lot of these projects.

We purposely made a decision

earlier on and you can say this

is going to be primarily a

restriping project than a full-on construction project. >> I would agree with my colleagues to say we have the

opportunity to widen sidewalks

and incorporate more modes.

This area does have a ton of pedestrian traffic as well as people on different modes. It's really hard because of the amount of congestion on this

street to have a chance to get

in there without causing more suggestion.

>> I certainly appreciate the push of the board to do more.

i think the staff all agrees

with that.

As was also mentioned, we want not missed opportunities.

If you choose to approve it

today, this board will have

approved a number of project s s

building bike paths, done.

As some evolves and the streets

will need to continue to evolve,

but we have boot strapped and

built a transit lane and network with your support.

Every time you've supported it, we've definitely heard that we want to make sure we go back and do more.

The build out of soma and

central streets plan, all of that points us to get these streets into the final configuration.

We have the opportunity to get this transit plan into place. That is why we brought it to you. >> thank you. That was a very good presentation.

I plan to support this. One of the things I appreciate about your presentation and just

to provide a counter point, not necessarily a disagreement to

what was said, there are counter balances. This is a corridor straight to

the highway, at least on the south bound traffic. There is going to be attracted

private vehicles to that.

Every time we pinch down on these, there are spillover.

People still need to get to that freeway.

I realize the idea is to reduce private vehicle traffic. If you create pinch points,

you're going to have dpraeter

red lane and other infractions.

I'm an advocate of these carpets and doing these things in the future. What I appreciated about your presentation is we wanted to do this now.

It factors in some of the

counter balances that we need to look at as we made these changes.

I appreciate that, and I hope going forward that you've

certainly heard the correction

of the board that there's some favouritism of these.

Really, the whole goal of this

thing is to get this thing moving quickly.

That's my goal for these red carpets.

So with -- yes, please. >> just two things.

I just double-checked our goals

and I think our goal is 80% sustainable node share by 2030.

That's only 11 years from now.

I think we're at 55% right now.

It does seem like there's a heck

of a lot of space dedicated to cars.

I will just say it doesn't seem

to me a double right-hand turn

for vehicles is the best

practice for bikes and scooters with no dedicated space.

That makes it an awful tricky navigation of that intersection. I want to hear why that planning decision was made.

Was that planning decision made

with your colleagues.

>> as was mentioned, we recently

improved a high-quality bike

facility on fifth street. When I was here talking to you

about third street, we are constructing what is going to be a terrific protected bike lane on second street.

the central soma plan did

envision providing bike lanes on third and fourth. In addition to removing a lot of

the parking and unloading, it envisioned removing auto tariffs of the turn lanes.

I hear you about dual turn lanes. I want to make clear to everyone that we're very careful when we

do that that we separate the pedestrian movements in order to maintain safety.

I hear the desire for a bike lane. It is something that we could do that would just be at the cost of various elements.

We are going, by the way, just

to be clear, because I kind of

moved through the previous design.

What you had at the previous intersection and what the street

will revert to is four lanes of

traffic.

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>> I'm here to present to you a project that has been negotiated through a development agreement.

3333 california street. Before you today our actions associated with the transportation components of

this project can sensing to the development agreement on

transportation development matters and this includes approving the transportation

exhibit and authorizing the director of transportation to execute the D.A. On behalf of

the sfmta. The other actions are approving or adopting transportation

related findings under ceqa and the mitigation and improvement

measures.

And finally improving street changes to support floodplain reconfigurations and crosswalk creation. My colleague from the office of economic and workforce

development is here with me and she will come up and give you a

high-level overview and I will come back and walk you through

the transportation component.

>> good afternoon, chair and members of the board. I am a project manager for this

project in the office of economic and workforce development.

My office, with the strong support from supervisor stephanie, and coordinated negotiation efforts with multiple city departments to

ensure this project supports the community. This represents a significant contribution to the efforts to add housing, particularly affordable housing, in all parts

of the city. The project sight is located on the current ucsf laurel heights

campus california and presidio.

We recognize it is walled off by

this brick wall for much of the perimeter. The proposed project is the mixed-use development that better connects and opens the

side up to the neighborhood by

creating a network of accessible public pathways through the site

from all directions and will preserve the existing green line

at the as public open space. The redesigned a land-use

program will include 744 residential units, 25% of which

will be permanently affordable units.

35,000 square feet of retail floor area designed to extend

and enhance the lower shopping center, a 15,000 square-foot

childcare facility, 857 offstreet below grade to be a killer spaces that will include

car share spaces and utilized --

utilize stackers at a mix of class one and two bicycle

parking spaces totaling at 830. The developer oast -- hosted over hundred 60 community meetings to allow the public an opportunity to engage in discussion about the project. The proposed development agreement includes the wide package of community benefits and -- in exchange for a 15 year vested entitlement period during which the project sponsor will build out the project. The benefits in the D.A. Are specifically targeted to the neighborhood and are appropriate for the smaller scale of this project as compared to many of

our other development agreement projects.

The benefits are the on-site affordable housing, that would

be reserved for low income seniors, both a mix of rehabilitated and new public open spaces, a large childcare

center with 10% of the seats reserved for low-income families

, enhanced commitments with participation in the workforce develop and program, and negotiated fire department department auxiliary water

system fee and streetscape improvements, which my colleague

will go into more detail.

Thank you. >> now onto the transportation details. The environmental review of this project found the project has two significant impacts on transportation and calls for these to be mitigated.

The first is the transit capacity impact on the 43 masonic line.

To address this, there is the

potential capacity impact, the project will fund a transit capacity utilization study after the first phase of development. M.T.A. Will review this study and make sure it is done to our

standards.

If it exceeds 85% threshold and the load point, in and the

project is responsible for

paying its fair share to expand capacity on that line.

The second impact that is being mitigated is on vehicle miles travelled associated with the

retail component of the project.

To address that, the project is required to reduce or not

provide quite as much parking associated with the retail

component as it initially has proposed.

The environment to process identified several improvement

measures that we are suggesting that the M.T.A. Board integrate

its conditions of approval and the planning commission in their

actions to suggest that these

are conditions of their approval

there is driveway abatement action, scheduling and coordination deliveries to the site mac and loading, monitoring , and if needed,

loading management. Within the transportation exhibit, there are two components.

One is that the project is going to provide more transportation demand management than the code

requires it to, and the second is that the project is going to

improve pedestrians' conditions in the area by reconfiguring

slip lanes.

Because the project's initial application with the planning department was submitted before the introduction of the T.D.M.

Ordinance, it was required to only fulfil half of the requirements that otherwise it would be required to buy code and through negotiation, the project is committing to instead

doing 75% of those measures and it will do so through deploying

program that improves the measures that you see here.

Some are physical amenities

walking and biking and card share taking. There are amenities that support

deliveries to reduce those trips associated, grocery trips or furniture buying trips, those

kinds of things, and amenities

that support families living car

light or car free lifestyles. There is on-site childcare at affordable housing. They will do communications

including multi-mobile space finding and residents and visitors in realtime transit information. They will unbundle and price

their parking and have a coordinator to deploy all of these things and make sure that they are in compliance with what

we are expecting from them. To enhance pedestrian safety around the project, the project is including a number of bold bouts and these are circles in the map and itemized in the packet.

As well as reconfiguring two intersections which is southbound presidio, the right turn on from masonic southbound masonic with a right turn onto

westbound euclid -- this is all articulated at a conceptual level in the just rotation exhibit.

In addition to approving the

transportation exhibit's conception of this, there are

modifications that are before you today to support these.

We are asking you to legislate a number of toe away no parking

zones that will be needed to daylight around to those bold

bouts and also the action to create the crosswalk.

All of these lead to the reduction of 14 parking spaces

that currently exist.

I want to note we have received

a few concerns in the past three days related to this project and

I want to address them. You might hear them in public

comment but I want to relay them

and tell you what we think.

There has been the concern about

whether it is safe to install a crosswalk at presidio and pine street.

We do feel this is safe. The intersection is being shortened.

Fees are being reduced by the reconfiguration of the slip lane and the proposal would include daylighting at the intersection to create visibility for oncoming drivers.

The intersection is busy but not an unusual intersection in terms

of volumes or grade or geometry

and our policy is that where there is signalized intersection , we should have a

safe pedestrian crossing.

There has also been concerns expressed about limited visibility and challenges with

the fire credit union and the project's driveway adjacent to it.

It is not ideal to have two driveways immediately adjacent

to each other, however, our review indicates that drivers entering and exiting both driveway should have adequate visibility to each other and the

curb lane on presidio is wide enough to allow drivers to edge

out enough to not only see the other drivers, but also the

approaching traffic. There's there is also concern about the block of masonic and

the masonic bush intersection and fire department access. I want to make clear that the

proposal would retain the three

lanes that the block of masonic

still has today.

The fire department has been involved in reviewing these designs and they signed off on

this configuration and so they

did not express concern about emergency access.

I also want to note that as the

project moves forward, M.T.A.

Continues to play a role in reviewing and providing input on the engineering details. We will absolutely consider things like no turn on red's or

additional red zones or other minor operational adjustments

that make sense as the details of the engineering and drawings

become more evolved and robust.

I want to note that our lead

safety engineer his pleasantest

present to answer any technical motions -- questions that exceed

my expertise.

There is one additional concern. I understand a letter was submitted today that M.T.A.

Cannot act on this item and I

wanted to confirm that I checked

with the city attorney's office and the office of environmental

planning, environmental review

city planning and they confirmed

that the M.T.A. Board May take action. The planning commission has

certified the final E.I.R. As adequate, accurate and complete.

No appeal of the E.I.R. Has been filed with the board of

supervisors unless no appeal hearing has been scheduled at that time.

Until an appeal has been filed and verified, all city departments can continue to

review and approve the project.

The planning commission adopted findings in a statement of

overriding considerations and

approved the conditional use permit for the project and also

recommended approval of planning

code amendments for special use

a district and the developer his agreement to be formally adopted by the board of supervisors.

I do want to make clear, any legislation adopted today is contingent on the approval by board of supervisors of the

special use district.

In authorizing the director of transportation to execute sfmta

's consent to the D.A. Approving the transportation

with it, including the T.D.M. Increase in the slip lane configuration and approving the

ceqa findings and the mitigation measures, and approving the

street changes, I apologize that there is a result clause that

did not make it onto your resolution.

So should you decide to take action in adopting this resolution, you would need to

amend it to include the language and resolve that the M.T.A.

Board resolves the various modifications that is set forth

in the items above. >> thank you.

>> I am available for questions.

And also, the team is here for questions. >> very good. How many public comment cards to be have? >> you have three. >> very good. Directors, without objection, we

will go to public comment. Great.

Please come forward. Who is the speed -- first speaker?

>> bill cutler.

>> Mr. Cutler, welcome. >> good afternoon. My name is bill cutler and my

wife and I have lived in lowell

heights one block from the side of the proposed mixed-use development for over 45 years. We have seen many big changes to

the neighborhood, some positive and some negative.

This proposal redesigned the traffic flow on presidio avenue,

which will severely affect the ability to navigate the streets of the district. It is one of the most disturbing

the high density of the proposed project will increase traffic flow and contribute to the loss of parking.

In a neighborhood where it is already almost impossible to

find adequate street parking, even for area residents with stickers. The project will take away 200

not metered parking spaces and surround a 10-acre sight on

laurel street.

And that is -- that is parking that residents and businesses need to desperately and a severe

impact on our communities not even address in the E.I.R. The more disturbing, contrary to what you just heard is the effect that these changes will

have on the local fire department. Station ten borders the proposed development on the opposite side of the street. I recently spoke to the firefighters who worked at that station and they were taken by surprise when I asked them if they had an opinion on a new project because they had never even heard of it.

This in spite of the fact they

will be responsible for

protecting 744 new housing units , new retail, and a nine story building which is proposed

that -- then they explain the

city is putting speed bumps on many of the blocks surrounding the firehouse, preventing them from getting around quickly enough to respond to emergencies

in a timely manner. This is all before the right hand turns from california

street onto presidio avenue and from presidio onto euclid.

>> thank you very much. Thank you. Your time is expired. Thank you for participating today.

Next speaker, please. >> very good. Welcome.

>> thank you.

I'm President Of the laurel heights improvement association. We e-mailed a letter of

objection today and I also have a hard copy for your file. The board of supervisors has not yet heard or approved the

rezoning, the zoning changes or the development agreement that are necessary for this project

to be approved under a special use district and under a

development agreement that would alter the usual affordable

housing provisions in the code. The planning commission only

recommended that the zoning changes be granted by the board

of supervisors and I believe that the M.T.A. Member indicated your approvals could only be contingent because of the lack in the special use district

approval and the B.A.'s approval on board.

All of the transportation demand management program and parking project modifications are parts

of the proposed project that conflicts with the existing

zoning applicable to the site mac which not have been changed yet. So it would be premature and unlawful for this board to actually approve any of the

agenda fight -- 14 items

including the development agreement and I don't believe your resolution states that it is contingent. Also, the traffic changes were

evaluated pursuant to a final E.I.R. And statement of overriding considerations that are inadequate under ceqa and our association will file an

appeal of those items by the

deadline, which is October 7th this board should continue that item until after this appeal is heard by the board. Some of the grounds for inadequacy are summarized in our letter and they will be set

forth in the appeal. in brief, the project would have

a significant impact on historic resources and the E.I.R. Failed to identify and describe feasible mitigation measures

such as use of the historic

treatment guidelines for the historic resource and alternatives were feasible that were improperly rejected. As to traffic -- >> thank you very much.

Your time has expired. >> good afternoon, board of

directors my name is rowan and I

hope you are enjoying this brief detour into walks -- what looks

like a planning commission. Nothing gets san franciscans more upset than trying to vote about housing. There is little that gets me

more upset than these lanes.

I'm sure you are aware that they

are extremely bad for pedestrian safety and they encourage cars to speed through right turns. There is an impressive number of slip lanes around the perimeter of this project.

In fact, the corner of euclid and masonic has three of them. When I looked at the plans, I had to take a second look at housing.

The project proposes removing

the lane that is at the corner

where the project meets the intersection. Good for them. I support that you should do it.

I would also call on M.T.A. To remove the other two. The fact that we have slip lanes

in the city is ridiculous. Finally I would call on, even

the developer to do this, there is one slow plane that is adjacent to this project perimeter that they are not

proposing to remove and that is the one at california and presidio. That is the one that will see the most pedestrian traffic because that's where all the buses are.

If you are taking the 43 bus to

go to and from the housing at

this project or to any of the mixed-use space, like all the commercial spaces along the

california street, you will be crossing the street once or maybe twice where the slip lane

exists, and it also feeds into speeding cars speeding through the right turn right into the

crosswalk that was mentioned before. It is dangerous because of

traffic too fast. The way that you make this car slow is not by giving them a

right turn that they can make at

40 hours -- 40 miles an hour.

>> thank you very much. >> I would like to reiterate

everything that was said, but also at the following.

There has been a total lack of

due process in this hearing.

There have been no notifications I have come down here and spoken

several times with issues

related to this project. But also to testify against the way this project was put

together.

This is a basic due process. Thank you. >> thank you very much.

Next speaker, please.

>> good afternoon, directors.

I am a campaign coordinator on staff at the san francisco bicycle coalition and we were

here to provide support of the 3333 california project on behalf of our 10,000 members.

we appreciate the group's commitment to making sure

bicycling is an accessible mode for the future residents.

In particular, the over 800 bike

parking spaces, the dedicated rental suite and bike storage and repair facilities that will make bicycling a very easy choice for people who will be

living there.

We are making sure that our shared mobility options are available for the shoppers, as well as the resident in the new commercial space. It is an important part of the

development and we are happy to see that bike share facilities

have been planned to be implementing along with the laurel and california intersection. We are also happy to see the

changes on the street level, in

particular, the new island that -- at masonic and euclid that

will slow traffic down and make this dangerous intersection

safer for people who are walking and biking.

We want to say thank you to the group for continuing to engage with us on our members on the impact of this project and we look forward to it moving

forward and breaking ground soon >> very good.

Anna. >> -- very good.

Next speaker, please. >> herbert weiner.

I am not an immediate resident

of laurel heights, but I do take the one california that

intersects in that area. Now what I'm really concerned

about is the ease of transportation that is going to be affected in this project.

this project, by the way, will

be 15 years in the making. It could be potentially 15 years

of inconvenience. Also, with the elimination of parking spaces, they will create

more traffic congestion and this

has to be carefully wait.

I suggest you not jump at this, that you consider this a very

carefully because this could be

15 years of chaos and confusion

and inconvenience for the residents there. It is really not in the public interest to do this.

Thank you. >> thank you very much.

Any further public comment on item 14?

Please come forward. >> hello. My name is victoria underwood. I sent you an extensive letter with coloured pictures.

I live directly across the street from the proposed project at california and presidio

avenue and I didn't put together a speech, but listening to some

of the comments here about the

slip lanes and also about the

traffic, coming up high and turning right and having to turn left either into the new

development or the san francisco fire credit union, and nobody seems to address the amount of traffic. It is like a freeway coming up high.

Coming up over the rise that you really can't see, and then turning right and immediately having to turn left. So what happens? People are trying to figure out which driveways they are going to use. Everyone says it doesn't matter

because that driveway for the project is already in play, but it is not operative.

Nobody uses it, so it is going

to change how the strap -- the traffic flows, and then you will

add a crosswalk. So they're coming up the rise,

people are walking across the street, and everybody is going

to be queueing back down the street.

It is going to be M.S.

It is a freeway. Right now during the rush hour, they barely make it out of the

intersection to go up masonic, and then you will take that laying out.

As far as the rightmost lane for california, I think probably if you talk to the fire department,

it is a must.

They could not make it around if

you bolted out and you eliminate that. The two goes through there, as well, and many of the buses that

are going back to the overhead

line, I call it the barn, but presidio and gary use that fairly regularly.

It is important to keep the traffic flowing. >> thank you.

>> thank you.

I don't see any further public comment. Seeing then, we will close

public comment and turn to

discussion and questions.

>> I would like to ask an issue to make a public comment. I got really confused about the schedule today. >> no problem. We will let you do that. Let's start this right. If you could set the clock, and we will ask you to state your name and you have the floor for two minutes. >> thank you. This is not related to the agenda item. Is that okay? >> very good. We will finish the agenda item and then come back and I will

reopen -- this is on general public comment? >> yes. >> I will reopen item nine.

>> thank you.

>> we have close public comment on item 14. Directors? >> I have a couple of questions about the slip lane issue.

This is not the project problem,

but did staff look at fixing

more of those issues and why

they did not decide not to?

This is not a situation that the project is creating.

>> I will ask jane to come up. >> members of the board, my name

is james and I am with sustainable streets division. The project is proposing to

remove two of the split lanes.

The one at pine and presidio and

the one at euclid and masonic. Thank you. >> thank you very much. >> directors, any other

questions?

>> I had a planning commission question. I don't know if her world will pretend like we are planning commissioners about the

development itself.

Who is it going to be? Okay.

Come on up. As I read your little or

performance here, it is about

700 units, it is about the same number of car parking places and

about the same number of bike

parking places, but the parking

is on bundle so it is priced.

Is that true? >> yes. I am going to call the project sponsor up to go into the details around that to answer

that question. >> my question is really about

city policy and I know parking requirements for housing development is very contested

ground, but is this development exceeding city policy? Is it doing something different?

I am not aware that every proposal is unbundling parking

and pricing it?

>> the planning code requires that all residential parking is unbundled. It does not require that an nonresidential uses -- the

parking associated with residential use is the unbundled

this project is unbundling both,

so what that means is when commercial tenants sign a lease for the nonresidential space, whether you are a retailer or

whatever it is, you May not get

within your least ten parking spaces that come with it.

You can choose to rent those spaces on a monthly basis or

whatever it is, and then the parking pricing for the non

residential component means

within our tedium ordinance that

says essentially you can't structure the cost of that

parking so there is a discount that incentivizes you to just buy it for a month at a lower

cost then you are buying it daily or hourly.

That is what they have agreed. >> the unbundling or the separate charge does not apply to the bike spaces.

>> correct. >> bike parking, as far as we know is free.

I'm sorry for any confusion. >> good to hear.

It is great to see you again. >> good to see you. >> I just wanted to chip in on

the collection of the crosswalk. I'm a regular user of that route and I would agree that I think

the difference there is there is a pretty significant change of grade on your way up that hill

and I would encourage the staff to think about whether some kind of additional mitigation, you

just put up those flashing lights, you know, on masonic near fulton, something like that

to alert the drivers when they

can't see them, especially at night, that there is someone in

the crosswalk. >> as we move forward towards the more detailed engineering designs, will be happy to think

about what additional

modifications are needed. Those are not the kinds of things that we would need to

bring to you, and also we are not at that point. But point taken.

Absolutely. >> thank you. Thank you for the presentation.

I just want to say yes, reconfiguring those sub-strains is a good idea for pedestrians in the area.

I lived in that neighborhood for quite a while. Anything that slows the cars down through that streets will be great. To bring it back to things that

we kind of do have under our purview, as this project goes

forward and I hear the neighbors are concerned about the parking and the traffic and the parking

during construction, we will, I

assume, continue to monitor that area and apply any parking

management relief that we can to help them. Whether it is changing over two more metre parking or adding more loading zones with a retail

in the area, that is within our purview as this project goes

forward. >> correct. >> thank you very much.

That's all. I would propose a motion to approve the amendment.

>> okay. We will do that first. There has been a motion on the

amendment which was suggested.

Is there a second? >> second. >> all those in favor -- any director discussion on the

amendment? Seeing none, all those in favor

of the amendment say aye. >> aye. >> any opposed? That amendment as part of the

package.

>> are we approving the entire item? >> second. >> did you have any comments on

the ice and before we vote? >> no.

>> May I ask a few questions? One of our fellow citizens said it was his impression that the fire department was not consulted on this.

I heard you say the contrary in your presentation. Can you confirm that the fire department was consulted on this

and is checked off on this design? >> yes. We have a signed document from

the fire department. When the city does our design

review, the people who are doing the review from of agency are

not necessarily the front line staff. >> understood. You think the disconnect as the firefighters in the station didn't know that the department

has signed off? >> that would be my guess. >> great. This is a question more for

council and one of our very respected residents associations

have suggested that this action might be unlawful.

My understanding is it is not unlawful as long as we're taking it contingent on the other approvals, but when someone of that stature makes that claim, I wanted to make sure we have addressed her concern and that

we are acting appropriately. >> sure. Deputy city attorney susan

cleveland homes to the chair, I think that steve mckenzie raised two points. One is that your actions today

needed to be contingent on the actions of the board of

supervisors, any resolution of the clause does provide that

your actions will not take

effect until the effective date of the board of supervisors actions, and secondly, there was a claim in a written letter

about perhaps a pending appeal of the environmental impact

report, but under our local law,

chapter 301, other city agencies other than the board of supervisors can continue to take

interview projects up until the clerk of the board has verified an appeal and scheduled a hearing on the matter. It is our understanding that that has not happened at this

point so you are free to act today. >> thank you very much. And then my final point, I was

going to ask you about the electrical on the plumbing to

really take it outside our scope

, but I did get a laugh out

of cheryl with that. I have a concern about that

intersection and the crosswalk there. There are a lot of factors.

What you said was our general policy, when you have a normal signalized intersection, would like to have crosswalks.

I like to say, I don't see that as necessarily a normalized intersection for three reasons. One, it is a metered street, street, so you have traffic

running at a faster impact --

any faster pattern than it normally does. Number two, there is a grade there.

So it is going to be harder. There are steeper grades where we just don't have crosswalks because we are worried that cars

can't see the pedestrians in certain intersections on turk street.

There is a third factor, which is simply no because I know that street.

My kids used to go to school near there. The sunshine. Late in the day, that intersection, you are looking right into the sunshine.

It becomes more difficult to see i certainly plan to vote for

this proposal, but if we

identify something and just two

board members who happen to be familiar with the intersection, and some residents who know the area come and tell us all that this is something that we need to reevaluate, let's reevaluate it before there is an incident. I think we need to go back and

look at that as an agency and if that intersection is going to be

less safe, do we need an alternate crosswalk, no

crosswalk, what will we do to protect? I will admit that is partly informed because there is a school and a bunch of community

activities near there. I would ask that you go back and look at that intersection and make sure we are being proactively safe and not reacting to something tragic later. Okay.

With that, we have a motion and a second.

All those in favor of the item 14 as amended please say aye.

>> aye.

>> thank you very much. To the residents, I hope you

heard director brinkman's

notation that there are all these follow-up things that could be done and you should contact our staff if you need to that.

At this time, I will reopen

public comment for item nine so

that our friend who asked to be heard as an accommodation can be

heard. Please come forward. If you would, tell us your name. You have two minutes to tell us what you would like us to consider.

>> hello.

Dear sfmta executive board, I am addressing you here today is a wheelchair user and san francisco resident who has struggled for years with the discrimination, ableism, and

abuse from staff and munimobile drivers. It is not uncommon for wheelchair users to happed -- have to wait for three or four buses every single day at the

same stop just to get home or to get to the doctor. Many drivers will not pick us up

sibley because we are in a wheelchair.

Other times they yell, the next

one because drivers claim buses

are too fuller too cramped, especially during the hours of 4:00 P.M. To 6:00 P.M. I have heard catch the next one from drivers so often it should become one of the prerecorded

messages on new P.A. System. This has been my experience on multiple bus lines with multiple drivers and it is clearly a systemic problem. In the past couple of years, I have had to file have a dozen A.D.A. Complaints to ensure my

rights -- my right to board buses.

The hearing process is a biased joke. Your so-called neutral hearing officers employed by you,

routinely make a case in defence of the driver or ask incredibly

leading questions to help the drivers defend their discriminatory behaviour. Your staff is routinely denied

me access to public record, lost

video footage, unplayable copies

, ignored e-mails, forcing to repeat myself through sheer exhaustion and pain, cancelled

my hearing, as well as changing

the A.D.A. Hearing policy on the fly without explanation or printed rules.

The more I ask for my rights to board buses, the more drivers and sfmta staff have become adversarial and retaliatory towards me.

My experience shows the informal policy of sfmta consists of

bullying, harassment, ignoring request, denying information, manipulating, and intimidating disabled passengers until we

give up from the pain, fatigue, and bigotry of engaging with sfmta. I have spent hundreds of hours engaging in your processes for disabled people, but your staff is no interest in making changes for improvement.

I am hoping you are interested in proving this.

>> thank you. >> I'm leaving this here for you today. >> thank you.

Sir,, sir, please stop.

You can turn in that list.

We treat everybody the same. >> I ask a reasonable

accommodation -- [Indiscernible].

>> how long is your list? >> it is 30 seconds. >> very good. You have 30 seconds. >> thank you.

Quarterly turnings for drivers

to take signal and an appropriate way, these training

should be led in part by seniors and people with disabilities. I volunteer my time to work with

your staff or such trainings. A complete reworking of your broken A.D.A. Hearing process. Three, increasing the amount of buses during peak hours so disabled people can get home and

not sit on the sidewalk in pain or able-bodied passengers board fine. Four, a commitment to providing public records and accessible way.

This includes making public video footage available in a proprietary format such as mp4

so it can be used on regular computers without issues. Thank you for listening to my concerns today. I hope this port can see how bad things are for disabled people and will take actions towards improving things. >> very good. Do me one favor, please.

Leave that list of bullet points with Ms. Boomers so we can circulate it. >> happy to do it. >> thank you.

Very good. Item nine is closed.

We will move on to item 15.

>> good afternoon.

, members of the board.

I work at the empty traffic routing section. We are working with caltrans, the county transportation

authority, the mayor's office, supervisor ronan's office, supervisor walton's office and others to prepare for an upcoming project to replace the

U.S. 101 deck.

Caltrans bay area director has

come to today's board meeting to give you a briefing on the project.

I will be available afterwards to answer any questions or other

matters that I can.

>> thank you very much.

>> good afternoon. I am the caltrans bay area director. Today I would like to present a project that we have been working on for several years now from a construction standpoint,

it is a very simple project that

is replacing the northbound and southbound bridge decks on the

existing village.

But from a traffic standpoint,

it is extremely complex. If you May remember from southern california, about ten

years ago, there was a large project on the 405 called

armageddon. I joke around with my staff and

say maybe this is number two.

I would like to present the project to you and some of the issues surrounding it and some of the mitigating issues that we have implemented or are

implementing.

The project is located where the

junction of 101 and 280 comes

together. If you are familiar with the area, there's over 240,000 vehicles that travel along this

stretch of 101 every day.

It is a very congested area. The project is to replace the

existing bridge deck. These were constructed back in 1950. We have done some minor repairs to the bridge deck, with the self-loathing so the original bridge decks that have been

there -- they are aging and need to be repaired. >> you are talking about all bridge decks?

>> there are two in particular.

>> thank you.

This is the actual location. the northbound and southbound

directions need to be replaced.

As you can see, we do have corrosion.

It was built in the 1950s.

We have various concrete areas on the bridge deck. We have done repairs to it.

The decks need to be replaced. Right now we have proposed a draft scheduled to complete this

work in July of 2020.

This would be a draft worst-case scenario right now.

We are looking at detouring

traffic from northbound down onto bayshore and bring them

right back on the on-ramp back

to 101, and then we would replace northbound within the

first 90 days. We would shift the southbound traffic to the northbound deck,

and leave the northbound traffic

on date -- on bayshore for another 90 days and replace the

southbound 101 deck, so a total

of about 16 to 18 days to complete both decks.

>> you have our attention. >> yes.

Again, this is a worst-case scenario where we would do each

bridge deck individually. We are going to work with

several of our bridge contractors that we work with

you were at the state, to see if they have any innovative methods of speeding up this work. And other option that I have

asked my team to look at is perhaps closing the highways for five to six days and getting it

all done at one time. >> first of all, thank you for

being here. Is the repair project, I'm trying to think of alternate routes, and maybe you have already planned this out, but

just in my head, is the repair project south of the crossover to 280, at least as far as

southbound goes?

>> there project is 280 that flies over the top of it. >> but on the other direction

there? Okay. In any event, let's go back to

the calendar.

>> correct. So we would be doing some

preliminary work for the first five days between the seventh

and the 11th, preparing bayshore for the detour it

northbound and the 101. Currently northbound 101 and southbound are three lanes in this direction. We will be getting that down to

two lanes on bayshore. There will be a significant backup of traffic on the northbound direction.

We are estimating that will be a

little over 6 miles of backup. It will be in addition to the typical delays we had there. >> we -- would you anticipate that we would operate beer sure in its normal consideration, or

will we stop cross traffic on bayshore and that sort of thing

to facilitate the three-way flow >> we have been working with

sfmta very closely and our local partners. We would be putting jersey real

or k. It real to block off certain movements along bayshore

so that is a continuous movement we are also looking at providing a shuttle service for the

community residents who live in that area to get to one side of bayshore to the other side. We are looking at bike options and different options for how we can provide some type of

normalcy for the community and

the residents in that area, as

well as mitigating traffic congestion through there. >> so you have been incredibly polite and I have not been polite to you. I keep interrupting you because

I find this so interesting.

I promise we will hit you with questions.

My apologies. >> as mentioned, this is what I consider a worst-case scenario schedule.

We hope to reduce this timeline

significantly. We have been meeting with several of the san francisco

county supervisors, we have been meeting and collaborating and partnering with lots of the stakeholder groups, this is, in

my opinion, it is beyond just communicating what the stakeholders in the community and the residents, it is including them and that is our next step. To begin to include the community, the neighborhoods, the residents in the area as to this type of work, and to get

their input on to how we can do

a better job, and facilitate

their needs in this area.

I mentioned, the project site is at the interchange.

We're looking at an estimated 6 miles of delay. That could have some impact on the san francisco international airport. We are working with them as well as partnering in communicating

with working with them on the discussion with how we move

forward with this project.

we have also, we are

implementing some transportation and assurance strategies in the area. I mentioned the shuttle. We are looking at bike and

pedestrian access and providing more inclusion in mitigation for

that, as well. This is a list of some of the partners we have been working with.

Recently we planned on extending that partnership group, and looking for other options on how

we can increase part service, munimobile service, ferry service, and others to new

people, and into other modes of transportation during this

period of time. And that concludes my presentation.

Out be happy to answer any questions. I'm sure there will be some. >> is that any public comment on this item?

>> yes, must -- one person.

>> would you like to ask your question? >> it's fine.

>> come up. We are not putting a bike lane

on the deck.

>> no, no I am not asking you for a bike lane. [Laughter] I would like to live to see 30 and that will not happen if you

do that.

I just wanted to point out there

are apparently some more plans then is alluded to in addressing

the issue itself for how local traffic would be handled.

I want to point out to you that

the deck repair project -- I would like to point out to you that the eight bayshore bus does run on that part of the freeway and that needs a very good plan. It sounds like there is more going on the scenes that is being presented today. I would like to put that in the forefront of everybody's minds.

We do have those buses on the freeway and those buses are

packed. >> very good.

Any further public comment? Seeing none, public comment is closed. I thank you will get a fair amount of questions. Take that as a complement.

>> I have a lot of questions.

This is exactly where I live. If you're coming from the freeway, first off, it is the

worst -- it is a very dangerous exit. If you are coming off of 280 and

you want to cross over, already that is the worst chokehold of

trying to get over to cross. If you were on the 280 and

trying to get all the way across a 101. I'm worried about the diversion of the traffic. You still have this to 80 traffic, and then all that

traffic is spiraling through.

There is also a bike lane on

that segment, it is already a very dangerous thing to navigate I'm really wondering how you will really work with the community and do outreach. You said you talked to the supervisors and I heard nothing about it. I'm really worried about the transits. We will need a lot of transit

improvements for the buses, and

just the fact that we really don't want people driving because it will be a really terrible impact.

I want to know how you will pay for that, if you will pay for additional shuttle service and part service to get people

around because it is going to be extremely difficult.

I know that it is July, but it

is still a time when you talked about S.F.O., tourists, and people coming into the city.

I want to learn more about your plans to pay for the additional

transit and the rerouting of traffic, the P.C.O., and police

protection that we will probably need. I also want to understand how you will do that engagement and ultimately what your plans are

because the way that 280 and 101 come together for you to get

there in the first place is super dangerous and that needs to be fixed. >> I would agree with you that the whole entire area is completely congested with no

work going on and it is getting worse.

We are looking at a lot of other alternatives. We are looking at using P.C.O. And paying for that.

We are looking at mitigating the shuttle service.

We're looking at paying for a lot of additional mitigation factors.

We are looking at adding additional part trains,

munimobile buses where possible, and other transit modes.

We are looking at paying for another ferry service that goes from the san mateo area and to

san francisco to move people out of other vehicles and modes of transportation. we will be paying for that out of the project cost.

In addition, we have put a

disincentive clause into the project. If a contractor finishes early, so if they have an incentive to finish early, they will get what

is considered -- to finish the

project quicker and do it faster if they take longer, they will

pay a much larger -- larger disincentive fee and a delay cost to the start. -- to the state. Most contractors do not want to do that. They will look at innovative methods to look at any possibility of using the latest technology to complete that work as quickly as possible.

That schedule that we are providing, 18 days or so, that

is the worst case scenario. >> so related to that, I would definitely reach out to the chase center and the giants because all of the traffic coming into and from those stadiums will be directly -- go directly into 280.

It is going to be, if you are not already talking to them, you need to talk to them right away.

>> we are speaking to them.

>> we will probably need to up

our express buses, as well as

our express 51, 70 for both chase center. We might have to do that on joints days just to get people over in the area so they can

think about -- can you plan to talk about how to mitigate light

and noise? Will you be working 24/7?

>> that is the idea so we can

get the work done as quickly as possible. we will try to minimize the

noise in the dust as much as possible.

Because it sits down and almost

like a small canyon, that noise echoes up into the potrero hill

area. >> I have been there and done noise studies. I have personally got up there to witness those noise studies. Just with the average traffic, right now with no construction,

it is approaching 80 decibels or above that. The noise is an issue today

without any construction.

It will continue to be an issue. Our goal is to get in and get

out as quickly as possible,

minimize the disruptions to the community, minimize the disruptions to the traffic, and

complete this job.

We know the project has to happen.

As we mentioned, it is a relatively simple construction process. The complexity deals with the traffic and it deals with everything surrounding the location.

>> can you talk about -- do you have a timeline?

I think about the farmers' market, the flea market, that all happens right there. Is a lot of things that has to happen right now.

Can you talk about what that plan looks like? >> we have been communicating

with the farmer's market and the businesses in the area. We have been working with them. We are even going to mitigate some parking for the farmers'

market and we're looking at a maintenance station in that location and we're looking at

possibly providing a group of parking spaces to help them out.

As we do this project, we will

reconfigure the boulevard for

the traffic, but we will also reconfigure some of the

sidestreets that go underneath to provide two way traffic and

bike and pedestrian access to

safely provide the movement of bikes and pedestrians.

There's a lot of mention by the public comment. There is a lot going on behind

the scenes that I didn't mention here because it is extremely detailed and I just wanted to give you an introduction to the project. I'm more than happy to come back multiple times and provide more and more details as the project

becomes to fruition and when we have more details of exactly what we are going to do. I would be happy to do that in the future. >> I would like you to come back

and talk about with a chance to

talk with staff and talk through all the different mitigations around transit and what we actually need -- will have a better picture of what the

schedules are for things going on and to what the deeper dive into whether or not the farmers' market will be able to function if there is a lot of dust and noise going on and all that sort of stuff. If you could come back to us with the update on the plan for

those, and then we can publicly

notice another hearing. The general public didn't show up because they don't really know about it. I live in the neighborhood and

don't know about it. There's a lot of moving piece parts. I recognized this needs to be done and I would love to hear about the other parts, especially if you are going to

make it safer, the 280, the 101 interchange area, because whenever I have to drive on that , I feel like I am going to

die crossing over and it is horrible. I always think, I don't know how

a bicycle rides up this hill. Sometimes you see someone when you've got these cars. I would love to understand that portion, too.

What are the next steps because

that whole area is quite unsafe. >> you can be -- I would be happy to come in person and meet with you if you'd like an update on the project. We can do that. >> great.

We would love to hear your plans for mitigation and community

outreach and a timeline leading up to things, even when you are starting to dupre prep and all that sort of stuff that we can

start to see as it starts -- as

your schedule lines up. >> did you have something you wanted to add?

>> I did. Good afternoon, tony. You have a tiger by the tail

here. I want to ask you a couple of questions to draw an analogy to one of our usually favourite

projects in the new bay bridge. One lesson we learned, and we

had to close a facility several times during construction, full on closure, is that if you leave one lane open, people will line

up for 20 miles to use it. In response to director borden, I thank you said that you are

going to work 24/7, but I thought your presentation you indicated you might leave one direction open while you work on

the other. >> that is the worst case scenario if we did it

consecutively. I am asking my team to go back and look at the fact. I know on our bay bridge we had multiple full closures of the

highway for multiple days at a time, but I think from a traffic perspective and from a community

perspective, it was much

welcomed. >> I would strongly encourage you to consider that option because generally, if you're going to screw up somebody's commute in one direction, you will screwed up in the other if you are going to get them in a different mode. That was one point.

The second, as you know, we had,

in one instance, a role in and roll out procedure where we build a replacement structure

and rolled it in over a weekend.

You probably don't have the geography here to make that work

, but I do wonder whether

you are considering some kind of precast option where they just track these suckers in and hoist

them up, instead of taking all of the time of casting it in place. >> we are. We are looking at abc

construction, where they constructed off-site and then

bring the actual flat and place them in place. We were also looking at, is there anything they could do where they could roll in the whole deck, and the configuration, the geometry of the location, it is problematic to try to do that.

[Laughter] So I am looking. We are talking to contractors to see what type of innovative ways they can actually construct this

faster and get it opened quicker >> no matter how innovative it is, it is going to be a significant amount of pain for

several days running. As you have heard already, the

question about the detour plan and about mitigation and about additional transit service to the extent that that is feasible , I think that is all

going to be prime time material here.

>> I agree. >> thank you. >> I will say I am an optimist

and I remember ellie -- L.A. Armageddon.

Everyone should just stay at home. >> don't say that. [Laughter]. >> I know this will be disruptive, but this is work that needs to happen.

You are out not just a year, but a good amount of time. I'm confident that with a lot of

messaging, similar to end the bay bridge needed to be closed

down, it can be managed, and it is infrastructure work that

needs to be done and the public will understand.

I'm most concerned about the public transit connection to

ride buses. Everybody is going to be carrying a lot more passengers,

as they did it during the car armageddon in L.A. Public ridership went way up. That is the part that we will

have to be ready for anything we can do to mitigate to make sure

it is not disrupted.

Other than that, good luck. [Laughter]. >> thank you. >> we look forward to having you back to tell us more. >> I will say we did hire a

professional marketing and outreach consultant to help us with the messaging and get out

there to the public and to the media. We're looking forward to getting

that word out.

>> I hope it is multilingual. >> absolutely. >> we have addressed one of the three points with that.

Thank you very much. Next point on the communications , as I think

someone pointed out, it is obviously an access point to the city for tourists and people coming in from the airport to aren't tourists.

I realize you have chosen this time because school is out,

there's more -- a greater likelihood people are on vacation because it is the 4th of July and the weather is most conducive. I get why you have picked this time, but it is also time when we have a lot of visitors coming

to the city, and that is a harder base to communicate with

because they don't live here, so

I would encourage a very serious outreach with the chamber of commerce as to how we reach

incoming people, especially the airport, how we offer up part,

maybe for free, or at a mitigated cost with investors

there to help people get on bart bart is very good for the frequent traveller, but someone using it for the first time, it

takes a fair amount of explanation. We're going to welcome people to our city and cut off one of the

major freeways, let's see if we can really work with bart to have a communications plan to

get people off the planes, into downtown where we want them to have fun. That would be point number one

of emphasis, as I view it, on communications.

The second thing, if you do it this way, you have no chance to test it because you are doing it

all at once. Not to put you on the spot, but if there is some benefit to testing this with some prework that you have or something where it would be beneficial to shut down for a little while and we at least run the program in cooperation with the agency to see if it actually works, you know, for six hours are eight hour period is the way we wanted to, let us know because that is a good way to learn a lesson that we maybe able to put in for the full closure. If there is no reason to shut down beforehand other than the test, it is probably not worth

it, but that is an idea, and of course, we will collaborate with you if you want to do that as we

set up our tests and the

roundabout path, if you will. Thank you. Very, very helpful presentation. Hopefully the next time we hear

from you, every citizen of san francisco will have some

knowledge of this and we will have the same results that we had in L.A.

Thank you very much. Thank you for sitting through our meeting to do this. At least we offered you lots of air conditioning.

[Laughter]

We are working on that. >> Mr. Chairman, since a closed session that was scheduled is not occurring, that concludes

the business before you today. >> okay. As I mentioned earlier in the

meeting, we are closing in memory of our fallen cable car

operator and I would ask our secretary to send the

formalities to his family, along with our condolences. Thank you.

We are adjourned.