this would improve safety at 25 locations near schools and others key intersections. once they have settled on the locations. upon completion of planning, which would be at the end of june, mta would provide us with a list of locations as well as the basis for the recommendation.

the next request is for the construction phase of the marina green bicycle trail project. this would leverage congestion management agency block grant that was awarded by the authority to dpw in june of 2010. this project would construct a 1.5 mile path with a separated 12-foot class one bicycle facility and a six-pedestrian walkway. this is on the north side of marina boulevard between laguna an alliance. i can direct you to -- in your package, not in your enclosure -- page 109 of your inclosure. does give you a diagram. is a very engineering looking diagrams but it gives you the locations along marina boulevard. in the improvements include a separated by campus transistor -- facility, pat resurfacing

intersection, safety improvements as well. and one other thing to note, with this product there is ongoing coordination that dpw and mta's are doing with the community planning process. this is in regards to 57 parking spaces along the three-block state that -- between baker and scott. it would allow for an existing conflict between vehicle and non vehicle users but the project as designed would not preclude the removal of any parking spaces in the future. that would occur as part of the planning process. this planning process is required for a permit that was granted by the bay area coastal commission in 2008 -- commissioner avalos: actually, we have a few questions. we lost an opportunity to do it

earlier, so i thought we would wait until the end. please continue. >> the next project is a broadway streetscape improvement project. this is for the third phase of improvements along the corridor. this is also leveraging a cma block grant awarded by the authority in 2010 for construction of the corridor between attorney and battery streets and it includes pedestrian scale lighting, street trees, and also paving, which is also funded by the cma block grant. it would allow for interrupted improvements. i am free to take any questions you have appeared there are also agency staff available. >> thank you for your presentation. commissioner kim? commissioner kim: i had a question back to the signal contract. by the way, happy to see we are

getting new traffic signals. i was curious as to what side his 16th we are referring to. is it the north or south side? marshall elementary is between 15th and 16th. i know they have been working closely with them on the traffic calming area. >> i am going to invite someone from sfmta to address your question. >> this is an odd intersection. there is in north legget and a south leg. our intention is to make that one intersection. >> can you explain how that works? >> @ 16th and cap, we have in north legget that is about a block away from the bart station. the south legget is about 100

feet to the east of that. our intent is to signalize that intersection. we have done that before successfully pinned up so both sides of 16th street? one side is closer to the school, the other side is by the victoria theatre. he will be signalizing both sides? how does that work? >> we are a beneficiary of a lot of these odd prints because we are in san francisco. it is a low bed offset. right now, there is only one crosswalk under the walgreen's. there is no crosswalk on the other side of the street. when you are going northbound on cat street and you get the green, you would be able to get all across marshall and vice versa from marshall to the victoria site. commissioner kim: with sixth and mina, i know this is something the residents have been

advocating for, but is this a stop sign -- signal? can you tell me with a flashing beacon is? >> and flashing beacon is something that we are considering at locations where the intersection needs does not rise quite to a level of a traffic signal. we have successfully employed one at sunset and your budget. if a pedestrian presses the button, there is a flashing beaten that alert drivers that a pedestrian might be crossing. >> is that similar to what we have in front of city hall? >> it is similar but the one in front of city hall is embedded into the pavement whereas the flashing beacon with the pole mounted off to the side or in the roadway. commissioner avalos: that would be a yellow flashlight? >> yes. commissioner kim: my next

question goes back to the presentation of where the crosswalks that we have completed -- where is the list and our packet? >> that was on page 83 of the enclosure. 85 of the enclosure rather. commissioner kim: thank you very much. commissioner farrell: questions for you on the marina green bicycle trail. one question around the timing of it. obviously, the america's cup is coming into town. coordination around that is important. something else i did not notice before reading through the package, you mentioned parking spaces. could you talk about that? that is a hypersensitive area. there are not enough and there

is talk about taking some away. >> the construction contract would be awarded in the spring but construction would not begin until october 2012, so it would be following the america's cup event. construction would then be completed by march of 2013, in advance of the 2013 finals. commissioner farrell: i want to make one point that has not been made publicly. the mountain dew tore has talked about coming down to host fleet week. that would be the two weeks after . i totally appreciate you are doing it between the 2012 and 2013 races, but please make sure to account for that. if that comes, that will dominate the marina green and surrounding area. >> absolutely. in regards to your question about the parking spaces -- 57

spaces located between the marina green trail and the marina harbor. it is a three-block segment between baker and scott. if you have your diagram, which is on page 109 of your enclosure. it is on marina green between baker and scott. it is those three blocks west of marina green but before lyon. commissioner olague: are we talking --commissioner farrell: what parking spots are we talking about? >> i believe they are on the north side of the street.

this was a permit issued by the big coastal development commission for various improvements along the area and maria part of a renovation project. this was a conditional permit. the word does not have to be completed prior to the construction of this project beginning. as for the outcome of that

planning process, it could've cannot be integrated into the dpw project. commissioner farrell: so right now there are no plans to take these parking spots away as part of the plan? i have been coordinating and spending time with rec and park about the harbor renovation and how that is affecting surrounding neighborhoods. especially the people that use the facility, the parking spots around their impact our neighborhoods in a big way. i just want to make sure there is coordination going on here and there is no separate needed to take these with i was not aware of. >> there has not been any decision. i will bring your comments back to public-works that and recreation and park department's staff. commissioner avalos: when the byrne also station was shut

down, what was the original plan for that? now we are looking at fitting it into our long-term plan of our muni system. just background information. >> i actually do not know if -- i assume it was intended to be reenergize when it was damaged in 2005. i can find out more details -- commissioner avalos: basically, it was a plan to restore the substation and make it work with the system so that it would be part of that extension. i know this allocation is not emblematic of all the work is being done across the city. i have to speak up.

i do not see anything that is in my district that is part of this. i know there are many other applications that will do similar work, but i feel there needs to be another way of balancing equity. when it comes to district 11 pedestrian safety measures, we had a presentation at the full transportation authority last month. a lot of work was being described in our district and was not actually in our district. and then there was a lot of work being described in the graveyard which serves more of a citywide function. there are a lot of funds being allocated. i would like to consider that not part of what is necessarily district 11 and we can have investments in pedestrian safety. we are going to have a light going in. there was a woman killed in 2000 a crossing the street. that is a problem that exists along many parts of alemany. that is a hot spot around the

city. also on mission street. it took four years to get that might put in place. that is just how things crawl in district 11. our district gets passed over other things that seem more urgent to the rest of the city. we did not have the kind of economic activity in our district but we have lots of residents that live there that need the support to cross the street safely. to the extent i can work with this committee and with the tsa and mta to make that happen, i feel a great loss if i cannot contribute to a greater emphasis on supporting pedestrians in my district. we have huge concerns and people have been hurt recently. just a note of caution. >> your comments are well taken.

i would offer to meet with you. we have sponsors come in when they're ready to move forward, so the best place for you to get a look ahead is that the board adopted a five-year partition program to see what is ahead for the district. in many places they have placeholders. there is the general category and the ability to bring something forward in a particular district. in the next month, we have a lot of opportunities where we are counting on the board to engage sponsors about what they want to move forward on. commissioner avalos: thank you. if there are zero ono other ques or comments, we can go on to public comment. >> supervisors, some months ago, there was a supervisor who was

here, no longer on this committee, i believe she is from district 4, and we were talking about traffic lights and traffic calming. i, myself, have filled out forms and sent to the respective departments for traffic lights. one in particular is on san bruno and -- years ago i put in four applications. when the supervisor was here, she, herself, stated that people put in an application, and after that, nothing happens. so we had some deliberation and the transportation authority,

the people that come here sometimes to give further information said, okay, they are going to have a process. the woman who gave the presentation stated that the list was on page 23. i found on page 32. the package that we got. first and foremost, we have to streamline the way we present. and you have mentioned if you look at this list and you do represent your district as best you can, and we citizens appreciate that, we see practically nothing from district 9, as far as san bruno is concerned, which gives this city millions and millions in taxes.

i am going to take this matter up directly with the director of dpw. i will take the information to him that and provide information to mayor edwin lee that we have seven traffic lights within san bruno and sultan. as long as the government gives a dollar to the city, some things have to be done. if due diligence is met. now, one of things we have to keep in mind of the demographics. we have senior citizens, young children that need the based safety for their constituents. mr. chair, i ask you to look into this. thank you very much. commissioner avalos: thank you.

next speaker. >> andy thornley, bicycle coalition. we have lots of projects. at $105,000 is a great investment. on the marina bay trail, staff has made a great case for it. the enclosure lets you know how important this is for bike and pedestrian traffic. i was out there on saturday weeding and america's cup bike tour. we showed them how we wouldn't move all those bodies when the america's cup comes to town. it was crowded with humans, but not about cars. the parking that is part of the conversation here is not public parking. it is dedicated to slip tenants at the marina. ostensibly it is for their use only. if you talk to the neighbors, you will find that that parking

is often abused by folks commuting in from outside of town. the neighbors across the street would rather that parking was not such an attractor of trips. the public process we are talking about was a condition of the permanent than the bay conservation development committee put on the part project. the promise was by the end of 2012 a public process would be carried out to talk about what we do with that. [inaudible] doesn't seem like the highest and best use. we are willing to have a conversation with the community. i want to emphasize to this committee it is so important that somebody owns the community process. right now, i'm not sure which agency will carry out those conversations with the stakeholders. we need to nail that down and make sure we have it, and for that because by the end of the year, we need to go back to bcdc and say we talked to the neighbors, we are going to keep

the parking, we are growing to do something with it. to not let us put from that period it is important we do not get to the end of this year. it is also important and we try to carry out the conversation and come to a decision quickly because we have the opportunity spend this money once here that is really important. what to put this project out and do it right and to the extent that we are going to relocate the parking let's do that before we do the work that we are allocating this money to pay parking utilization from my observation is very low. this beautiful saturday maybe three cars there were using those 50 spaces. let's make sure somebody as the conversation and let's finish this wonderful project in time for the america's cup. thank you. commissioner avalos: thank you. next speaker. >> i would like to discuss an item for the broadway reconstruction project where you will be removing three trees and

replacing them with 25 new trees. i view this as an inconsistency in policy. at the same time, you are planting trees annualizing monday, on the other hand, you are relinquishing trees back to the property owners and san francisco. i think there needs to be a fiduciary duty in ethics to be diligent and responsible to consider all relevant information to be informed and understand the complete financial consequences of the policy proposals as they relate to the city's financial condition and to consider the bottom of the financial ice burke in relating to these trees because we cannot have everything we really need to make choices. there also should be a price analysis done on the $10,000 for one year of maintenance. even if you allocate 10 minutes per tree twice a month, 4 15

gallons of water for a year, the rate has to be well over $100. i find the estimates of $10,000 for maintaining 25 trees in a two block area very expensive. this is not an unknown problem. i addressed this issue eight years ago at a citizens advisory committee meeting for the transportation authority. at that time -- i cannot recall if it was prop b or prop k funds being allocated for street trees. representative from public works basically said i do not want the money because i cannot maintain the trees. that was the position. was the attitude of everyone to take the money and plant the trees. so then we now have articles from 2008, urban forest as a potential branch out, and it discusses the fact of the plan the parma is expected to come up

with a funding mechanism. 2009 article, understaffed department struggles with tree upkeep. so my question is, why are we obligating these funds and not making certain decisions relative to the long-term care of these trees? if you cannot afford it, do not plant it. it is called the bottom of the iceberg. nobody wants to look beyond what the real issues are. $10,000 to plant trees is peanuts. but it is really the bottom of the iceberg that you are really in getting yourself to. so i request that you really take a good, ethical look at all the facts involved in this before you move forward and proceed fourth. commissioner avalos: thank you. >> as part of the annual call for projects for the prop k

program, dpw is requesting street tree maintenance funds. we will be digging deeper into this issue in coming back to the committee next month with more information. commissioner avalos: thank you. any other member of the public that would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. do we have a representative from the mta here? i have had an experience recently. it was noted by andy that there was striping and pain and how he also sounds something about spending the money once. i was writing down alemany street where it had recently been strapped by the mta, by the paint shop. the lines on alemany street were crooked, very crooked. and they were appealing. yellow markers that were in crosswalks.

white stripes for the bike lanes. i call the director of the mta. he said those are temporary stripes. they are not permanent. i thought, if there are temporary, the reflect poorly on the mta that the strikes cannot be more stable to stay in the ground. they are action and not straight. they were egregiously crooked. i cannot imagine why we would actually strike twice the same place, why would we even consider doing a temporary paint on our main thoroughfares? do you happen to know what the procedure is for striping our intersections, is that a common way that we have to go over toys to do it? it seems extra costly to do it that way. >> i understand the concern. a lot of utilities and other city departments also work on our streets, so i would imagine

this temporary tape, if it is what it is, was done by somebody outside of our paint job. i can make sure that it is restored properly. commissioner avalos: it is alemany between silver and ocean avenue. i would even go further to check other parts of it. that was the part that i wrote recently. ok, colleagues, any other comments or questions? motion to approve? without objection. item 5. >> recommend support for the draft plan bay area transportation investment strategy. this is an action item. >> good morning, commissioners. this item begins on page 35 of your package. what i will be referring to is an enclosure that you have.

probably the most dense power plant project i have ever seen. they did a great job of taking a complex project and boiling it down to user friendly terms. transportation planners have done outstanding work on this. they have reached out to folks in the public, our deputy director for planning, and they have also reached out to other big cities like oakland and san jose, which is critical here those areas of shared urban core issues that are different from the rest of the bay area region. it has been great having that coalition. i will not go through all 31 slides. this is a shortened version to give you the highlights. first, the context. we are talking about plan bay area, and the long reach transportation plan for

transportation. guides how the region will invest transportation money over the next 28 years. the total amount available is $277 billion. these numbers are huge, so do not worry about it much. more important is the relative size of things. in the overall picture, local funding mix of more than half of all of the brt revenues. this is enormous. the federal share shrinks every year. all of the local funds are considered committed. there controlled by a voter mandate or by various ports. most of what i will talk about today has to do with the small piece of the rtp, the flexible funding. 67% of the overall funding is considered committed. the truly flexible money that the nutrition mtc just released on april 6 as this $56 b