that could also be included in the list. for two of the three installations, the court has worked directly with the black rock arts foundation, and there's a couple of members of that here today that they speak to it. for the third, with the city arts commission, there are also a couple of other organizations the port could work with to showcase the bay area's harden talent. thus far, the port has not provided substantial funding. the port also places all major responsibilities for art on the sponsoring organization, as is typical of the agreement that i described a minute ago. funding remains the biggest challenge. the port as a partner in the placement of public art has its greatest asset being the availability of, a waterfront locations, which can make a name for many artists. that said, with the commission support, staff will work to find our to present to the commission, which was showcased the waterfront from both the

america's cup 34 and the port's 150th anniversary. any comments you may have on that is appreciated. there is an attached resolution for your consideration for the extension of the rocket ship. if you have questions, i will be available for that. thank you. >> thank you. may i have a motion? is there any public comment on this item? >> i am the president of the board of directors for the black rock arts foundation. i want to thank the port, the commission, and the staff for giving us the opportunity to work with artists such as david to present our work and help develop communities and create opportunities for artists from our communities. dan was right. raising the money is challenging in these times, but we have a very strong community that has been stepping up to the plate, and we are confident that going forward we can continue this process. we have a lot of other installations throughout the

country and other states, and we have a very strong track record, so we really want to thank you for this opportunity. we want to look forward into the future to look at some of these other potential sites to work with your staff and the court -- the port to further present works of interactive art that developed strong communities. thank you. >> thank you, and thank you for bringing art to the port. is there any other public comment? >> i just also wanted to thank all of you. i really think a city can be judged by its public art, and it is really essential. so thank you very much for participating. >> all in favor? resolution 1162 has been approved. >> item 10b, informational presentation by the staff of the san francisco municipal transportation agency regarding

a 1-year pilot by share program and proposed by share locations on port property. >> good afternoon. i am here today to give an introduction to the bay area by share program. this is just an information presentation. no action is required today. staff have been discussing this program, which is funded for one year, and is being led by the bay area air quality management district in bands of the leasing and rfp for selected by share program operator, the port has determined location criteria for the station and has started agreement discussions -- or started discussions about an agreement for the program. staff suggest that the bike share stations should avoid leasable areas and revenue- generating areas and avoid bay conservation development commission dedicated public access areas in these corridors

to promote the success of the program, suggest that the bike stations be near transit stops, neared job sites, and adjacent to the city's bike lane network. using this location criteria, we have determined four locations for the program to date. once the program is under way, there may be a demand for additional docks at the given stations and staff believes that we can accommodate additional growth as long as that growth area does not infringe on dimension location criteria. does not impact leasable area, etc. since the bay area air quality management district will hold the program agreement with the selected operator agreement program and will be the main point of contact for the program for the bay area, staff recommends having a memorandum

of agreement with the bay area air quality management district and having a property agreement with the selected operator, and the agreement would cover maintenance, liability, and insurance. to respond to the proposed schedule for the program, which is to release the rfp this fall -- actually this week. it is ideal, but we would like to move forward. and start the program-bring next year, we will be coming back with the final locations for the program and the proposed agreements with the bay area air quality management district and the selected by a share program operated. next in this program approval process is briefing the tenants that are adjacent to the proposed by share station -- bike share station and the bay conservation development commission. the program has received ceqa

determination from the city's planning and environmental division, and the program has been deemed exempt from ceqa. if the program proves to be successful after the one-year, the selected operator will come back to the port commission and seek renewal of its agreements and potentially expand the program with additional stations. i have invited into a staff to give an overview of pike share,n general, what it is, and during this presentation, feel free to interact with any questions. i am available for any questions.

>> thank you, commissioners. samper sister municipal transportation agency. i am the project manager for the bicycle sharing project in san francisco. i will give you a presentation on our presentation in the air district's pilot program.

commissioners, you have this presentation on the screen in front of you. what i am going to do first is give you an overview of what bike sharing is, talk about the concept, technology, " working with typical of administrations in the program, and then i will introduce the specifics of the original pilot. then i can wrap things up by talking about a couple specific examples of locations on the waterfront that we have been in discussion with with port staff. first of all, what is bike sharing? it is similar to car sharing, but it uses bicycles. it is a membership-based concept which offers bicycles for short-term highere. one of the main differences from car sharing is you can return a bicycle to a different point from where you pick it up, anywhere within the system.

this is not a new idea, but something which has gained a lot of popularity in the past five years as technology has come down in cost and we have been able to implement systems for more cheaply and incorporate a cellular technology, radiofrequency id. it took up in europe recently, starting now in the united states, but the biggest growth you are seeing is in asia right now. as i mentioned, this is taking off in the united states. montreal was the first city in the north america to have a large third-generation bicycle system. there is another system in washington, d.c., denver, minneapolis, boston. coming soon will be new york, a vancouver, and chicago, all online to launch in the spring or summer of 2012.

bicycles are typically -- there is actually a wide range of bicycles in the system, but i will focus on the system that will likely to be found here in san francisco. these are very advanced systems. the bicycles are designed from the ground up as public bicycles, so they are designed to be left out in the public realm. they are unisex-type step through frames, internal gears so there are not many parts that can be broken, lights which run on generators, keep shining once they stop, fenders, seats that cannot be removed. as well, all the parts on them are proprietary and are designed to be removed only with special tools.

they could not be put to use somewhere else. the actual stations themselves consist of individual stocks that a bike in gauges into and locked securely into. typically, there is a kiosk, like a atm system, with a touch screen pat, perhaps with a solar map, for power. we will be specifying an rfp here in san francisco. these are essentially portable and modular, so they can be expanded or moved across the street. two guys pull up with a small boom truck, dropped in on site, and it does not require any external power hookup.

as i mentioned, there is the kiosk and a map panel. this slide shows an example of the golden gate park in 2009. that is when the station is being lifted off of a truck from one of the industry leaders, coming to demonstrate this from montreal. it is being dropped into place. the bottom slide on the left -- as i mentioned, you can drop them off anywhere within the system. they do not all magically end of where you need them to be, so what the vendor does is rebalance the bicycles. bicycle need to be rebalance to get optimum distribution throughout the system. part of the system is also a back end website, call center. that is where the dispatcher is, mainframe computer, which talks

wirelessly to the individual stations. operators of the system know where the bikes are at all times. there is a lot of data collected on the use of the bicycles and the behavior of members. for someone like myself, i look forward to seeing a lot of value, how the people are using the bicycle's. >> you can tell where the bicycles are at all times? >> they will use radiofrequency id cards. something like a clipper card. you know where they are locked up. we are requesting that they also have gps chips in them. my sense, from a cost standpoint, that should be doable. the users of the system. as i mentioned, is a membership- based system. even if you are just a day

member, you can be a member. the main focus is on short trips. the idea is to provide bicycles as a first or last mile in your trip. basically, looking to get people from transit to their ultimate destination. members need to be 18 years or older. you do need a credit card. an interesting bit of trivia that we found in a couple of cities we have been tracking, the safety record of their users. contrary to what you may think, people who are members of bicycle sharing tend to be safer than average cyclist. talking about pricing, this is something which is a to be determined -- which is yet to be determined here in san francisco. you can have a membership or an annual membership, or anything

in between. an example on the right. that is the key fob from the london, barclays byte system. -- bike system. user fees are typically not the largest source of revenue from the system because generally once you're a member, the first half an hour is free. the pricing structure is discouraged -- discourages people from using the bicycle for more than half an hour. the first 30 minutes is free. what that means is, you are to rent a bicycle for four hours. that would cost you $40.

by contrast, if you were to rent a bicycle at the waterfront, you could get a much more comfortable, lighter weight bicycle for only $30. the pricing of the program is intended to not compete with the businesses we have that are doing great things, renting buys a goes to people on the waterfront. -- bicycles to people on the waterfront. just a bit of history on bike sharing in san francisco. it was a priority of gavin newsom. i have been working on this project for a couple of years now. now that we have a grant, we are able to get going. it is now also a big priority of mayor lee. we are happy to have his support. we have that technology demonstrations from industry leaders four or five times now, so we are familiar with the

technology. the two pictures there are from civic park plaza from last december. the one on the bottom is golden gate park. a little bit about the pilot project i am involved in. the over all lead is the air quality management district. together, with the valley transportation authority in the south bay, caltrain, the county of san mateo, the city of redwood city, we applied for a grant with the air district being the grantee. we were having to get a $4.3 million grant. the air district will also be putting another $1.3 million of their own money. then all of the local partners are bringing in various amounts of match and in kind staff. this is just to show visually

all of the participating jurisdictions lining up along the caltrain corridor. our plan now is to launch in spring 2012. the overall pilot is 1000 bikes at 100 stations. half of those are coming to san francisco. we have identified a pilot direct service area that stretches from van ness down to the waterfront. and from mission bay in the south as far as pier 39 in the north. station placing will vary somewhat more throughout the introductory area, but we are aiming for more less one station every two to four blocks.

this shows a map of the proposed pilot area. i think i've said enough on that one. aside from this pilot area, 500 bikes, we feel san francisco should be able to support a system of six or seven times that. maybe 3000 bicycles, immediately. but to determine beyond the pot and where we would go with like sharing, we did a city-wide suitability and analysis. we looked at 11 different factors. parks and into the bikeway network, to transit, tourist sites.

we put all of these factors together on one map, and we have this over all which shows the northeast corner of the city which would be the most suitable areas. darker blue would be the most suitable. white areas are least suitable. this really confirms for me the original choice of the pilot area. you may notice mission bay is conspicuously white. we attribute that to the fact that there is more than enough going on in mission bay to support bicycle sharing. at this point, we are doing out reach to other agencies, and we are working on figuring out

where the station will be placed. preliminary spots are fairly easy. we need it to be near the caltrain station, at the ferry building, bart stations, the temporary transbay terminal, where the golden gate transit buses are, picking up and dropping off. aside from that, at large employers and a large job attractors where there is a lot of retail activity. again, what is important, other than hitting the specific spots we need to be is the spacing. if someone wants to drop off or pick up a bike, they can do so conveniently. the stations themselves will be located in the public right of way mostly, so on the sidewalk where there is room, or in the street, like some of our bike

corrals. we are familiar with that idea because we have put the bike racks into the public right away. where it is not right, we may negotiate with private landowners. a quick overview of the project schedule. we plan to release the rfp this fall. we have a draft that is close to being done. this week, it will be going to caltrans for review. this is a federally-funded project, so they need to review the parker documents. we intend to select a venue and contractor by the end of next year and give the vendor 5 to six months to manufacture the bicycles, deploy the people, and launch, hopefully for bike to work day in may 2012.

it is a one-year pilot but there may be some staggering of launch dates up and down the peninsula between the different partners. after 18 months, the project will close out for the purposes of the pilot and federal funding, and then there will be an evaluation. there will be one done by the metropolitan commission, and one done by the air district. next, we are continuing to hone in on where want to put the stations, dealing with the port, dpw, redevelopment agency, other city agencies as well. we are reaching out to individual businesses. even if we put it in the public right of way, we want to do so with the cooperation and invitation of adjacent businesses. and we are doing public out reach.

as discussed, we will be working on selecting a vendor. we have been working with ports have to identify spaces along the waterfront. i just have a couple of slides talking about two in particular. we have four which we have identified to date as likely spots. the first is roundhouse plaza, on the west side of embarcadero, pier 27. it is difficult to see here, but the blue box here is the bcdc corridor. at the very bottom, there is a green rectangle. that would be the actual station itself. these are closeups of the site. the yellow outlined in profile is meant to represent the

station itself on one hand, the upright pieces being the kiosk and solar mask. the other part is the method panel. -- map panel. this particular spot the not have many issues, is near the bar station -- bart station. the other place we're looking at is on pier 40. there is the yellow rectangle in the middle. that is where the station would go. and there is up close again. -- there it is up close again. that is the space it would take up. the station themselves are about 6 feet wide. they are modular, so we can

expand them to be as long as we want this one is about 40 feet long? a minimum of 40 feet to 60 feet. there is a little bit of space behind the station which we need to accommodate for entering and exiting the station. that is all i have for you today. happy to answer any questions you have. >> we do have public comment. andy thornley. >> thank you, commissioners. you will not be surprised to hear we are very supportive of this pilot. i want to point out, this is not for cyclists. folks who have bikes right now have bikes. bike sharing is marvelous because it gives an option to folks who do not have a bicycle

but want to make a quick trip. it is a great taxi substitute, a great muni substitute. no date on muni. let's say i am here, i have a lunch date in palo alto. i can make a 10-minute trip to the station, ride the muni, and then make it to my lunch. i would not think of myself as a cyclist, but i would have made a trip. if you have been to paris, barcelona, minneapolis, you may have tried one of the systems. they are wonderful and growing. it really makes short trips convenient and sustainable. density is the key. to the extent that we have a pilot, we want it to be a fair test. there is no point in throwing out 10 stations a mile apart and saying, nobody used it. you need to have those stations close together. in paris and london, the rule of

thumb is you need to be able to see the next station. when i get done with my trip, i do not want to have to walk 1 mile to drop the bike off. so the ports of participation in this is important, density is as well. to the extent that mta is looking at four locations, that is probably a minimum. i appreciate this is real estate, this is an encroachment issue, to some extent, but there are answers to all of that. i am glad to hear that staff is resolving these issues. it really promises to be a huge success if we do it right. i just want to make sure that we all think about how to to do it right. again, this is not for cyclists. this is for people. there are a whole lot of people that need to move around, especially to port properties. i hope that you will give this your fullest regard and support

it as it goes forward. >> thank you. is there any other public comment on this item? commissioners? >> your objective is to displace cars. since you mention being close to the transit centers. you are going to have people who used to walk 10 minutes ago on a bike for three minutes. would that change if you are trying to reduce cars and emissions? i read somewhere that that was one of your objectives. so you are giving people who use the transit already an easier way to get to where they need to go to, versus increasing or decreasing people using public transit. my second question is related -- i understand it has been successful in other cities. is there any feedback from san francisco public, in terms of ow