the item. this body approves every few years but includes a prioritization methodology for the categories in the project were they all work together. it is supposed to have a five- year project list with full funding plans. today this item is about the traffic coming category come in this is one of the categories where prop k provided the first able funding. the authority has a long history of this. in 1998 be a story -- the authority board adopted a strategic analysis report that was developed in close coordination with the mta. that laid the foundation for them to develop the traffic coming progralming program.

we will give you quick overview of the item before you. most of offices have been briefed on this, but because of the extremely important role that prop k plays, you will have a final call on approving the traffic to shift the focus between the local traffic calming projects and school tracks in light of the next five years worth of programs. >> ben stepa. i will do a brief overview of the allocation request that is before you today, and mike sells very well due representation in state of the current program. -- mike salbury. this is a request to about your weight the trevaluate the traffg

program, and looking at the way products are delivered to the community. we give an overview of the history of the traffic calming froprogram, but it does have three tracks. what is the local neighborhood track that is delivering speed reduction projects to local communities and local streets. there is a track that is currently used to fund the participation in larger part arterial projects. the final track is the school track, which is providing local map funding. the effort that mta is undertaking is really rebalancing the program to focus on newly-identified city objectives in terms of

pedestrian safety. as you know, the mayor recently set up a pedestrian safety task force, and that task force did some analysis, and we gave you the methodology in the analysis and it is in the package for you and stuff to look at. in that analysis, the majority of high-injury collisions is bound to be on arterial. so this is really an effort to look at the traffic c calmin calming program in to sef we can use resources to look at those issues on arterial. this is not totally reviewing the program, just rebalancing the program. in terms of the request itself,

the project will begin in march of this year and end by january of next year. it does require a small amendment to the five-year prioritization program to create a new project to allow for the funds in this specific project. in the projects that will be funded out of this program after the request will have to be preceded by a comprehensive amendment to the entire five- year prioritization program, so that would be something that comes before this committee, and you would understand how the new a valuation effects the five- year prioress stati prioritizat with that, i will turn it over to mike for his presentation on the whole program. >> migood morning, commissioner. many of its mike salibury. as staff has mentioned some i will give a brief overview of the program prior to the

decision about the allocation. this slide, if you have the information printed out in front of you, this outlines the goals of traffic calming. improving pedestrian bike safety, increased driver awareness, and prevent shifting the problems from one street to another. maintain access, and also include education and enforcement efforts. this is a brief history of the traffic calming program. the program has been up and running for a little over 10 years. we agree this is a great time to take a look of the program and make sure it is meeting our needs as efficiently as possible. we have up to threthe tracks.

local streets, arterial streets, and school streets. the number one goal is safer streets for everyone, and ultimately we want to make the streets more conducive to bicycling and wafflilking. i will focus on the local streets track. we've received over 500 applications. i think this demonstrates strongly the demand throughout the city prior to the program. before funding was even available for meaningful work, we are ready had 135 except and applications. right away we have high demand for our work. -- we already have 135 applications. the reason why the number is a range of 5-8 is we have those that work on projects that shift according to demand at the time. this is to give you an idea of how the staffing is. we split up into three teams.

we have staff allocated whether it is a traffic calming, pedestrians, or bicycle traffic. there is an application process, and we analyze the request to determine if it meets the warrants for traffic calming. our goal is to address the worst, most severe problems first. that is the living document and the ships according to incoming requests. i am not board to go through every box, but this is giving you an idea of what the process looks like. i think the process has a good foundation and is very thorough. traffic calming evoke strong emotions from people so we want to make sure the process is as thorough as possible. this is in the five-year

prioritization plan documents, too. this is once we initiate a traffic calming study. these are the various steps along the way. meeting with the community, a technical analysis, and other cities prior to construction. timeline for developing local and area-wide plans. much of the time is spent waiting. you submit an application. if your area is not the worst in the city, we have to deal with the most severe problems first. it may take awhile for your problem to rise to the top. many times it may take years before your project its in the queue. once that happens, it takes about 16-18 months. it may take two-five years' time. this is to give you an idea of the various area-wide projects around the city.

total cost implement all of the measures as $27 million. more demand than resources of this particular moment. this is a visual. you feel like there has been such a late in demand or current demand even for traffic calming, that given various limited resources, that those requests are piling up. we are completing projects that we think our quality projects. we want to make sure those are focusing on where we have the most needs. that was mentioned as good and it is for seeing if we are completing projects in the area of most need. so in this allocation we are requesting there are various areas we want to address. our program is strong and filled with other best practices. this is the last slide.

these are some of the areas we want to address in the current effort. what we want to do is check the current best practices around the nation and see how we can rebalance the effort so we get the most bang for the buck. commissioner cohen: i was wondering what the traffic calming work you are doing around the state, i was wondering if you were in contrast with the state -- is the work being done to get there? >> certainly. we of stuff that is working with dpw to identify overlaps. -- we have staff that is working with dpw to identify overlaps. >commissioner cohen: i was

curious if you find one part of the city of with a greater need for traffic calming. maybe it is where the streets are more narrow. north beach is a little bit older. if there is any way you can add context -- >> sure. one of our goals is geographic and it would cost to the city, but we try to identify where the most issues are. in the past we have found a lot of traffic calming issues in the south and southeast part of the city, and also the middle of the city. what we're finding when you look at the safety directive is a lot of places are havinhappening ona few key arterioles. we're trying to rebalance where

we find the most applications in the most identified collisions. commissioner cohen: i assume this application is under your web site? under which tab? >> sfmta most livable streets, traffic calming. we will be putting the application process on hold. we want to match the application process. we're going to communicate that through your office as appropriate, through our web site come in current applications that we have. commissioner cohen: when will you open a back up? >> probably later this year is when we will have a better idea of where we're headed. commissioner farrell: a few questions.

as the representative of district two, there is not much color and no indust color in dit 3. can you talk about that a little bit more? >> it may be a blessing that we do not get many requests from your district, but we really are applicant-driven. we do not seek out the projects, they come to us. commissioner farrell: fair enough. the second question is, when i hear the word rebalancing, you're taking from peter to get to paul. that is inherently the case that someone will lose. i know one thing that i do a lot in interaction with my constituents is try to be responsive to them. as we know on the board of supervisors, parking and traffic is at the mta, we cannot dictate

anything really. we can advise, just come in traffic calming is something that is a big deal at times. things that i do not realize or stop does that have time to realize, it is no one -- staff does not realize. it strikes me this is moving away from that are being able to address those concerns. i hope is this is not we're going to stop doing that. my question is, how are we going to continue to address those issues? i do not want to be faced with an instance where there are cars are buzzing down my street, making it almost got run over if that happens every week. i am sorry, there's nothing we can do about it. >> you are correct, there will be a shifting of funds, but there will still be a local program in place.

our department is always able to respond to these requests. we will be a front that there will be less funding for local streets and more of a shift to arterial is where we see a lot of collisions happening. we want to be transparent about that, but we will still have a local streets program. commissioner farrell: i am all for getting more bang for our buck in pedestrian safety, but what is the magnitude? are we going from 5 to 1? if we cannot get anything done, that is born to be a problem. ." that remains to be seen, and that is what the process will help us determine. >> i think you probably all heard from constituents that the program right now is very frustrating as it is. it is very frustrating for stop on our side, too. i think you'll see a number of fte's devoted to traffic calming

rise as a result of this, because as we rethink the program, were over half of our severe and fatal head collisions happen on 7% of our streets. it is very obvious if we can focus more of the energy there, we can have a very big impact. we can probably avail ourselves of a wider array of funding sources. as we take a look at how the real problems are -- as we take a look at what the real problems are, and we tinker with a program to people do not feel hopeless and they get clear messages about -- right now the message is you might qualify five years from now, because we're problem is not the worst in the city. it might be better to really give people a transparent and clear way of when they will

qualify, rather than saying we to the q 43 or four years. we're trying to make the message more clear. -- rather than same weigait in e queue for three or four years. we will be coming back to this group at least three or mofour times to talk in detail. we do not want to be in that position more than you do telling people there is nothing more that we can do. commissioner farrell: i think it is great. clarity is terrific. generically hearing it, it is a frustrating process, and i appreciate that from staff, but if you're going to take more money away from it, then it strikes me will only get worse. i hope that is not the case, because that is certainly a big deal for me.

we will look forward to this the future discussions. i want to make sure that is considered as a huge priority going forward. >> absolutely. we would not take any kind of action or solution until we all agree that was the right direction to go. commissioner avalos: i am all for empowerment, and as a supervisor i feel not very empowered when i get presented many real concerns people have a around safety around parks in intersections that are not necessarily arterial, that our local, and i feel responsible to respond and have solutions in place, but do not always feel they are there. i know this is a dynamic process and it will continue, and we're really looking forward to working closely with you in planning solutions. commissioner olague: i share a lot of the concerns that commissioner cfarrell and

avalos raised. i know was some point, it was mentioned we can go to the website, and i do want to look at district five, because whether it is a community meeting or meeting in office, most of the constituents's concerns directly relate to traffic calming, i think. not the majority, but a big percentage. i would like to see what is in the pipeline for district five. most of it is constituent- driven, but concerns keep on coming up, the same ones come up there might be times when i might want to request something or engage in some dialogue with you all based on what i am

hearing from constituents. where do i get a list? do i meet with you? do i go on liline? >> as part of our application we did put together a list district by district of all the different applications we have it. there are ripped out five different places they could be, and we can provide that to you. we have one for each district. just a little over a month we received $2 million to move forward with implementation, so implementation will not stop. that will be continuing. we're planning to make good on promises we are ready made and move forward with community process and implementation of speed bumps and other things of that nature. implementation will be continuing. we will figure out how we could traffic calming a little bit better and then we will open up the process again from a bridge towards the

end of the year. certainly, we are always open and available to talk with you about traffic issues in your district. >> you have in your package in front of you all of the traffic calming area wide plans. it has a map of the city-wide, map for each of the planning areas, table that and edifies each of the traffic calming solutions identified in the area wide plan, and the current status of that, down to the speed hub level. commissioner olague: that is the level of detail i was looking for. commissioner avalos: if there are no other comments or questions from the committee, we will go on to public comment. >> a good morning, again. and the parkton with the san

francisco bicycle coalition. regarding long-term bike planning, to state the obvious, as more people are bicycling, parking will be more important. we support the mta boss modest allocation request to do some master planning on that. we look forward to the supervisors' committee later this week to take a supervisor at avalos' measure to allow commercial buildings. on traffic calming, we are supportive of this as well. we are most supportive of the process of the mta developing a strategic monitor system. previously, citizens would come and complain about and material -- an arterial. arterioles and now be regarded as something it has in great need. this great need of a rebalancing

interests, we are going to serve more people and help more people and save more lives if we can get some attention on the arterial. so there is a little bit of equity there. also, those are the streets were often bicycle and transit trips are happening. we want to hit multiple policy objectives. let me dwell on that for a second. to commissioner cohen's point about prop b, i hope this will put mta in a position to make sure we combine multiple funding sources, opportunities, so that we do not just drop in and do traffic calming or a bike project, but that we do a complete street projects. further down the agenda, we will be talking about the one bay area grant and the move to blend the money and to be smarter about it. i am looking for to having traffic, and come forward as a

piece of larger projects. we spoke about second street last week. that is a poster child of the kind of project -- commissioner avalos: thank you very much. >> commissioners, at the previous meeting, one of the commissioners, carmen chu, brought up the topic of how applications were forwarded to the mta and other agencies, and how the determination was made as to how money was spent. i heard a couple of people come here and say everything is going to come to a halt, and they are going to revisit what they have on their list. i would like this list to be posted on the website so that we can review this. what is happening here is, as

much as the constituents of san francisco -- and in some areas, we have a focus groups that understand planning and other things. as we submit these plans, we do not have any idea of how it will be implemented. if you have a road, avenue, and you talk about it, but it does that have a lighting, and it does is not incorporated, you see something is missing. we need to have it and holistic approach. at the last meeting, you heard about what was happening at second and folsom st., what was going to happen on cargo way. there is no way you can address putting a bicycle track on cargo way with millions of vehicles

flying down the street. this determination is made by some people who think they are smart, but again and again, -- literally, it is a slap in the face of constituents. we can talk the talk, but we better learn to walk the walk. we need to put that on the website to interact with commissioners. commissioner avalos: thank you. next speaker please. seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, this item is before us. motion to approve from commissioner kim. seconded by commissioner olague. without objection. thank you. next item please. >> item 7.

regional transportation plan/sustainable communities strategy update. this is an information item. >> good morning, committee members. i will be presenting this item. this is an update on the regional transportation plan sustainable community strategy. we provided updates to this committee several times over the course of that process but i recognize there are several new committee members here today, so i will give a bit of context before going into the update. regional transportation plan, rtp, is the long-range transportation investment policy for the nine-county region. it died out federal, state, regional discretionary funds are distributed within the area. there is $60 billion expected to be available in the next 25 years, and rtp sets policy for that money goes. there is a new context with this rtp as a result of a state law

that was passed. senate bill 355, that requires the transportation process to be linked with a land use and housing process, in order to achieve goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and planning adequate housing for the region. the process has been going on for over a year already. key milestones related to transportation, the first one was a year ago, when mtc ask for project ideas from the nine counties. we hosted that process here in san francisco. the second process that is now wrapping up is an assessment evaluating each of those projects against our goals for the planning project. we now have the results, and that will be used, along with other considerations, to decide the preferred in business strategy. moving towards the preferred investment strategy is what you want to touch on today briefly. the project performance assessment is something that mtc conducts for all of the projects

that are seeking discretionary funding through the regional transportation plan. there are two components to it. for the projects on the more expensive side, greater than $50 million, there is a quantitative where the impacts and benefits are quantified and compared against costs to calculate a benefit to cost ratio. and then a qualitative look at how the project will advance the 10 performance objectives of the plan. the goal of this planning process, testament, is not to read all the projects under consideration. rather, it is to identify out liars. on a high performing out wire side, let's make sure as we move into the preferred investment strategies, these are included if there is a financial way to do so. on the low performing side, it is not an automatic you are out of the rtp, but let's look more carefully at