less in which he describes as an astonishing moment. i don't know who is responsible for this and thank you. this site is about 1200 kits a month. -- hits and month. we have a schedule programs through the end of the year and we plan to apply for another grant for next year. we also have put brand new landscaping in the holiday plaza. we are working with a number of city departments on that. these accomplishments that i have shared with you are a fraction of the work that we have been involved with.

we have great partners in city departments. finally, we asked for your approval, this is approval that would like to be made for the management plan. this is staffing and staffing hours and responsibilities.

we would like to think supervisor chu for sponsoring a resolution. we look forward to your support and moving it to the full board with recommendation. >> [singing] do not go trying union square expansion don't change anything there i like it could now, fixed it up

i like union square just the way you are you will always be the same old union square that i knew. what will it take for you to believe in me take the money in the jar. i like you just the way you are, union square >> some of these songs should not see the light of day again. would any other member like to comment?

a motion to approve and with recommendations. we will take that without objections. >> item number8, ordinance appropriating $9,035,065 of a certificate of participation series 2011a, to fund multiple capital improvement projects in the department of public works and the mayor's office on disability in the general services agency, office of the city administrator, and placing these funds in the controller's reserve pending issuance. >> good afternoon. this is an administrative process the board authorized the

issuance of the 48 million certificates of participation to do the street improvements as well as the access improvements. also, we have the issuance of resolution supporting the supplemental appropriation but in this case, the project improvement was already in the budget so there was not an accompanying supplemental so we missed at in the delivery costs which would fund the reserve fund, catalyze interest them -- capitalized interest. we also are looking for changes in market rate conditions. this would be specific and adjustments would be made by the comptroller's office to change projected numbers this is the administrative process and i apologize for not having it come with a package. >> thank you.

>> let's hear from the budget analyst. >> mr. chairman, supervisor elsbernd, as indicated on october 26th, the board approved an ordinance authorizing the issuance of $48 million of the certificates of participation to finance various street improvements as well as the disability access improvements. as is indicated, $38 million for the project costs on the street improvements have been appropriated in the current year budget. what is before you is the $9 million to cover the financing costs and all of the related financing and issuance costs to when the cop's are issued to pay

for those. the one remaining piece is the $600,000 which was estimated for the project costs for the disability access improvements in these legislative chambers. the appropriation has not yet been approved. as i've indicated, the 9 million is just to pay for the issuance costs for the $48 million of the gop is that your previously approved -- for the pop's that you have previously approved. >> thank you. if there are no questions from the committee, we can go on to public comment. >> [singing] this world is awfully big and you are so very all along.

you've got the help from the mayor's office you have the help, you are going to take it love is all around, no need to wasted. you are not going to waste it, you are going to make it after all you will have to handicap make it with all the help from the mayor's office and after all >> thank you very much. if there are no other members of the public, we will close public comment. a motion from supervisor elsbernd, to move forward with recommendation. is that the last item? >> thank you for your service. >> we are turned.

please stand by. please stand by. please stand by. so 03 executive directors report. >> since our last meeting on

october 14, we continue to make progress. an excavation package is ongoing. how the court pallia architect is 20% complete with the documents. the request for qualification for the design build construction services trade package was advertised october 4. we received responses to the rfq. we have a value in the responses and will be sending out a notification next week. we have also issued a notice to proceed for the utility relocation contract. the first reconstruction meeting was held on october 21. with respect to the second and third utility relocation visits, we expect to issue those on november 9 with the fourth one being issued november 6.

at the terminal we are expected to complete phase two of the terminal for operations to commence around december 11. i did want to mention with respect to rider request on the benches, we have increased this about 15%. we have all so requested five more benches with armrests for phase two, when it opens. this will result in a 62% increase in the number of benches at the completion of phase two. with respect to the rest rooms, in conjunction with finishing up the face to work at the terminal, we are investigating various options to provide restrooms while also maintaining and addressing the safety concerns we have had. i expect to come back to the board for an update on the various restrooms.

we have also met with the mayor's disability council. we looked at issue is focused on access for personal with disabilities for completion of the phase two temporary facility. with respect to the rail design, we continue to coordinate with caltrain and high speed rail on all aspects. we recently completed a bay bridge corridor study that i wanted to present to the board. we recently completed a study on behalf of the tjpa and transit. we administer the contract for a total cost of $350,000. cambridge systematics and other organizations worked on this to assess future highway situations in the corridor and to see if current systems could work

affectively. now i would like to ask tony to present the results of the study. >> thank you. this is the first look at what traffic conditions will be like in future years as traffic grows. we also took have a look at market street traffic to see if we could start cleaning that up. in the bay bridge corridor right now, in the morning, peak hour, we push through about 42,000 people from the east bay to san francisco. about 18,000 of them are on board. 22,000 coming across the bridge. -- bart. in the future, these are the

projections that we get. population in the east pay increases. -- bay increases. population in san francisco also continues to increase. our projections, cambridge gave us the over all travel projections for the bay bridge corridor. if you look at this chart, the capacity of the bay bridge in the four-hour peak period, 36,000 vehicles. the demand is 37,000 vehicles. that is why we have this big queu in the mornine in the morn.

even whip the small increase that is projected in traffic, we end up with a demand of 43,000 vehicles and a capacity of only 36,000. what will happen is the queue at the bay bridge will get really big. we are also dealing with whole corridor. the whole corridor is getting more congested because of more demand. right now we make about 15,000 trips. 42,000 trips. we actually have capacity for about 50,000. we have increases in bart

capacity. in bonds us up to over 60,000. but in 2030, 2035, we eat up almost all the capacity. the point of the study was, in the interim as capacity becomes more important, we want to make sure buses can get through because it is in fort -- important to fill out that capacity requirement. we are looking to push through another 20,000 people per hour. we know bart can take a around 10,000. the transbay transit center has a capacity of almost 20,000, but we have to get the buses there. right now, caltrans has put

together a very effective system. our model, we mimic what caltrans did. the measures that they took were very successful with the current level of traffic. the question is what happens in the future. there is a metering flight which holds the traffic backed so that traffic does not exceed capacity of the bridge. the metering lights are activated around 6:30 every morning. the queue starts spilling back about three-quarters of the way back. as you can see, the hov bypass extends beyond that.

so the question is, is that going to work in the future? just a few caveat on what we did not study. these are all conceptual ideas. there do not seem to be any fatal flaws to the design, but by no means have they been thoroughly analyzed. congestion pricing in our forecast is not considered. on the other hand, bart capacity is also not considered. travel models do not assume that bart has a capacity limit, so of the model keeps on dumping people on to bart, even if they cannot handle them. at the same time, we have not induced traffic.

as far as people using it to its capacity, that has also not been factored in. basically, we modeled out in the system. it is about a 24-mile model that goes from 580, the 80 split in albany, and then down on 880, past the open, beyond the bay bridge, the central freeway. we worked with caltrans to find the parameters of the model. this is just a microbe simulation model. you will be able to see the output. we also monitor the traffic in

and 80-block area from market, embarcadero, fifth street, to just beyond the bridge. we have lots of queueing problems in the afternoon. for the bay bridge corridor, we want to measure these on pieces of performance. caltrans policy is not to allow congestion beyond the junction, what we call the macarthur maze. they call it the distribution center. this and reallocks up and you cannot get anywhere -- area locks up and you cannot get anywhere.

finally, the last measure we had was reliability. we did not want any simple transit trip to take any longer than 14 minutes. the first thing we did is we build a system model and calibrated it against actual positions. we matched the existing conditions. now we have this video that shows 2035 what the traffic will be like on 80 and the toll plaza. it is going to start at the 580/80 junction in albany. it is going to fly over the toll plaza and bridge. as you can see, traffic is

running pretty well. no problems at the merge. we are about to pass university ave. and as we come up to powell street, you will see the traffic begins to bunch up. >> what time is this? >> this is a clock in the morning. -- 8:00 in the morning. as i tell my east bay

compatriots, a weekday morning will look like a saturday afternoon now, which is traffic as far as the eye can see. a different color cars, by the way, we calibrated this model by payment type, so there is fast track, tolls, pools. i think pink is a fast track. i do not remember what the others are. >> so we are coming across the new ramp near treasure island. coming across the bridge.

the bridge is pretty free- flowing because everything is held back at the toll plaza. we do not seem to have any problems at the ramp here. the bottom line is, when we did the measurements, and the future here conditions without any improvements, it failed. we looked at a series of improvements that would mitigate those traffic congestions. essentially, we look at extending the hov system in the east bay. we look at extending it at the west ramp. we also looked at a contra flow lane on the bridge itself. that would basically be a movable barrier that slides over to one side in the morning,

where you take the northern most lane and convert it into a bus lane. if we decided to pursue the hot network, that might be an idea. we could also put trucks on it. we measure 1000 vehicles out of the queue at the toll plaza, but exactly how we do it requires more discussion. so to actually make it work in the design of the transbay terminal system, we need to do some improvements on the essex street ramp and that will allow vehicles to get into the new

transit center reps. the good news is it does not affect the current design. cost estimates for the improvements. these do not include contingencies. including contingencies, near $250 million. again, requires more study. this slide goes through performance metrics. under current conditions, everything is working fine. there is an occasional case where there is a stall, things break down, but on the average day, the system works pretty well. it continues to work well until 2020. then it starts degrading. in 2030, we get degradation where every one of our performance metrics fails. we get congestion all the way

back to the distribution structure and slow transit speeds across the bridge. we looked at just changing the metering rates, which is generally what caltrans does on a saturday when traffic is really bad. you are pumping more cars onto the bridge. that reduces the gridlock in the distribution structure but degrades bridge travel significantly below standards. so we looked at two improvement options. the only difference is the hov lane on 580. we reduced congestion at the toll plaza and increase transit speed at both gates.

the summary is, basically, the corridor is approaching capacity. we know we have to push through another 25,000 people. bus service to the transbay transit center will need to meet our goals and we need to look at improvement to make the highway system as effective as possible. we want to reduce the queue on first street, essex street. we did various models. that is the area. our desired outcomes is to push the queue back to where it does not extend beyond folsom and howard. we also wanted