recommendation. >> for those watching and you on page 96, attachment 5 with mini project description, you can add to this if you need, from market to division and bryant from 18th to division streets. we probably need to change the project name so it is a little more descriptive. >> okay. division and what? i don't have it. >> on market. ninth from market to division and on bryant street, from 18th to division street. >> okay. that will explain. >> in terms of the tep i think the placeholder is essential. the tp under eir is about six months under schedule. it is a big undertaking, something we are very supportive of. but one of the messages to the voters was we want to deliver the projects.

if they are ready to go, they are funded first. there are strict projects on the line. if like in prop k if we have programs in the fifth year and the sponsor doesn't come in the board can say you have a good story, we will let your funds rollover or could program them to other eligibility projects ready to go. the timing is also very good. we are about to embark this year on an update of the five-year priorityization programs, covering fiscal year 14-15, the next five. that is picking up the tail of prop a. we will be able to complement in two categories, the biggest opportunity are the rt, tps category and prop k where we can have the ability to advance a lot of funds if there are projects ready to go. same thing on street repair. may be able to advance funds to backfill the projects. >> thank you.

>> colleagues, any other comments or questions? commissioner kim? >> i apologize for being away from the meeting. could you discuss -- maybe you already went over there through various attachments. i see there is a request for eddie ellis traffic calming. could you talk about that a bit more? >> that was -- that is a one-way and addal improvements. the reason it was not included is we realize the overall funding for that whole set of improvements is in flux pending what might come out of negotiations with cpmc development. and in the future i think if there are -- the entire project isn't fully funded or in the next couple years, one thing we have been thinking about is taking particular steps of the overall project, maybe splitting it up, going from

there, seeing there might be a place for one of the smaller sets to be funded with future prop aa funds that are available. >> i think there's a lot up in the air over the next couple months with what you deep as might be potential funding for eddie ellis and little saigon. because that project has been in the work for years i feel very uncomfortable not prioritizing that. mcallister is another priority i would like to see, but that is a newer project. just -- i'm worried. little saigon has been a priority for the community for years and years. i would rather move forward with that and look for funding for other aspects. newer projects through those types of developments. that just some of my initial thinking. i really want eddie ellis to happen. i'm not confident in some of the upcoming events over

the coming months. i'm repeating myself there. with the west plan, which is something that came out of the transportation authority study, is that something we are looking to down the road? >> so we are recommending funding for something that was included in that neighborhood transportation plan, mid-block crossings at seventh and eighth, submit bid the authority. we have been in discussion with mta. they have agreed to be the sponsor and internally developing a project and schedule tol -- schedule to deliver and other authorities as well. >> thank you. >> finishing up on ellis and eddie, attachment 3, the authority submitted a bunch of projects because when we do plans we have to work with implementing agencies primarily and make sure they take ownership. ellison eddie will follow up. one of the other points is estimate was around $6 million, a big bite.

maybe we can phase or backfill so we will follow up with your office. >> okay. let's go ahead and open for public comment. >> good afternoon, committee members. my name is tony moran with san francisco park and rec. i would like to say how excite wed are to have the project corridor considered and speak to the prop a funding. currently mancel is a four-lane highway that cuts the park in half. it does not provide pedestrian or bicycle -- any type facilities. the proposed improvements will include a road dike

that would reduce four lanes two, adding curb, sidewalks and pedestrian lanes, bicyclists and transits. improving safety to two intersections in the park and include landscape and lighting improvements. i have a project summary to provide community members at their leisure. not sure how to give it to you. thank you. this proposal is the result of community im property during the assessment workshops which we held in 2010. the community had a lot of concerns and three other roadways in mcclaren park. we are currently working with sfmta and dpw on project funding and project implementation. as a team we are intending to go back with the proposalal. in closing i would like to

thank the agency staff, sfmta and dpw for much needed support during the process and thank you for your time and consideration of this very important project. >> thank you. thanks for your comments. next speaker please. >> good morning, elizabeth stamp, executive director. we are excited this is moving forward. we were a big advocate for the proposition into include funding for pedestrian improvements and transit improvements. we advocated for its passage as well and it's been a long wait so we are excited to see it moving forward to fund projects. one concern is nexus with pedestrian safety is not totally clear on all of the

projects being put forward. as folks mentioned it is a small pay as you go source. having that go toward allowing countdown signals along high-injury corridors throughout the city makes a lot of sense. those are the corridors that the mayor's pedestrian safety task force has identified where over half all the serious and fatal injuries occur, where people are getting hit by cars in the city. so we can really focus by just looking at that 5% of streets where the most injuries are happening. it is not totally clear to us that that is occuring with prop aa. we are concerned if some of projects advanced are shifting over to prop k funding that reduces the funding that prop k can provide that only prop k can provide for planning, for doing walk first projects and other high priority areas like sixth street. we are excited this is moving forward but do request a little more information about the

scoring on this and how it applies specifically to pedestrian safety. also to transit reliability we have concerns that the tep projects are not in here. that is a pedestrian issue as well. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. morning, commissioners. i'm jackie fax. i'm a member of the citizens advisory committee. i was one of the three individuals that was appointed to work on this -- this initiative passed by the voters, the aa. this sort of thing. i strongly urge you to go through with it. as far as the drift in

signals are concerned, one thing i brought up at the last cac meeting is you should go out to 19th and teravel and cross the street on 19th at teraval, that sort of thing. that signal gives an individual like myself enough time to safely cross the streets. some of these other intersections i get in half lane of traffic. the stop sign goes up and starts telling me i have to rush the street. sometimes we have nine seconds to cross the street that. is nothing. as far as the aa, i worked in that edition and i strongly urge you to approve it. thank you very much. >> thank you. are there any members of the public who like to

comment? seeing none, we will close public comment. so this is just the draft presentation so we will have the decisions before us later this year. but i want to make sure we follow up on some of the concerns around linking, especially around pedestrian improvements to the real concerns that are out there around pedestrian safety, where the high injury areas, making sure we are doing homework on that, as i'm sure the ta is doing. colleagues, any other comments or questions? okay. we can go on to our next item. >> 9, update on pedestrian signals. information item. >> chief deputy. melita. i'm here to give a brief presentation you should have. at the july meeting, which was very timely, we funded a lot of pedestrian signals from prop k and proposed from prop aa.

the commissioner asked to speak to. the goal to speak to the city and how they are prioritized. [ indiscernible ] >> thank you for coming in and responding to that request in the last transit and programs meeting. it is important to get in terms of our showing equitable distribution of the count down signals. >> appreciate your time. melita velasco. i'm here to provide an over view with the count down signal projects within the city to. briefly touch upon the status of the signal installation, the city is a pioneer in terms of the count down signals. we started in 2000. i understand new york

started in 2011, just last year that. is something we are very proud of and continue to do this rewarding and safety-related work. our goal is to add these pedestrian countdown signals and automatically ready when we put in new, they are by default included in those kind of projects. of course count down signals is one measure that we are implementing as part of the mayor's safety strategy. i can touch more on that a little later. this shows a swath of the city that shows in green where we have pedestrian count down signals installed. yellow is where we have designed and planned count down signals the next couple of years. where you see in dark or half dark is where we have more

locations where we do not have them at all. we do have some that are -- you see half green and half dark. that means that at least some of the legs have count down signals but not completely all the way around. >> this is the part where you cross the widest part? geary versus 7th? >> that is a great question. that dove tails to the next slide that shows how we prioritize signals. we look at the nearby area, seniors, schools, commercial districts. one of the main things we run into is how good the conduit is, signal hardware is, are we easily able to add pedestrian signals. we look at requests, also look at which countdown signals are missing, just

like the chair mentioned. sometimes we have count down crossing the major street, not necessarily the side street or vice versa. if this is where the signals are crossing major street that does receive priority from our priorityization tool. we look at the corridor, is this the only intersection that doesn't have count down signals. that receives a point to help us prioritize the locations. the key thing happening now is with the paving projects throughout the city, it is a great opportunity to coordinate to put down conduits, put down signal hardware that eliminates us having to disrupt neighborhood twice. two, it also makes for savings in terms of the paving project, not necessarily having to be installed by a stand-alone

signal project. >> this shows our current status in terms of countdown signals, about 1,200 throughout the city. about three-quarters have signals all around. we are working on the pie chart that shows where we don't have countdown signals, or some that have partial. we have 55 that i mentioned is in the pipeline under design. plan to be installed within the next couple of years. the challenges with these countdown signals is that in order for us to be able to add countdown signals at these existing location, the conduits underground need to be in good condition. where we run into a lot of problems is that they are not. they are either rusted out, they are full, there are all sorts of challenges

presented to us. though we have the strong desire to add pedestrian signals, we always run into this, the older parts of the city where the conduits have been there 50, 60, 70 years. the other issue is we don't want to dig up a street that's been recently paved within the last five years. another challenge is where we have some sidewalk basements where it is really tricky. sometimes very costly to try to put in signal hardware when there is nothing underneath the sidewalk itself. the other challenges, even if the conduits are good, the signal hardware are not good enough, or reaching the end of their useful life that count down signals may not be able to be supported by the existing signal hardware. it is not unusual for a project cost to be around $200,000 to $300,000 to add signals. that does include curb ramps or signal hardware

that needs to be included as part of the upgrade. >> is the it ever we are putting in a signal that isn't a countdown? that is -- >> no, no. >> every signal we are putting in will be a count down signal. >> yes, sir. all the signals have the count down feature. we do have a special type of pedestrian signal called the aps, accessible pedestrian signals. these are mostly installed at selected locations. their intent is to aid the visually impaired, communicate to them when to cross the street such as through audible tones, speech messages and vibrating surfaces on the pole. the aps are primarily used where we have traffic volumes, special signal phasing, complex geometry or wide streets that make

it hard for visually impaired to use these behaviors. those you will see around the civic center, the aps signal. >> the plan, when is that expected to be complete. the ones that are yellow on this map? >> again, we are showing as planned the aps signals we will install the next couple years. those are underdesigned or signal shops are installing those at those locations. we prioritize where these units are installed. we use intersection geometry, schools, community centers, senior centers, transit hubs and where we have special or complicated signal phasing, that is another factor that we consider and of course requests as well. so currently we have about

129 intersections where we have aps. using the priorityization factors i mentioned in the last sliez we prioritize those that rank highly and implement those as we get funding. in the next few years we have 29. seven of 29 were requested by the public. finally the countdown signals are one tool out of comprehensive set of tool box measures to improve pedestrian safety. other measures that we are looking at are enforcement, high visibility crosswalks, special pedestrian phases or scrambles, flashing beacons, sidewalk bolts or extensions, red zone visibility and other measures out of this 66 locations the pcs is just one of those. 66 action items recommended in the strategy and pcs is

one of those tools. that concludes my presentation. happy to answer questions. >> colleagues, any comments or questions? thank you, mr. velasco. appreciate your presentation. we go to public comment on this item. >> i know i was a little ahead of myself before, but this item is brought in front of the citizen's advisory committee in a meeting last week. i told the gentleman that just spoke that he should look into the -- as far as the count down signals are concerned, he should look into the -- look at the intersection of 19th and teravel, crossing 19th at

teravel. going forward from the gas station toward the safeway. because that is the only light that -- being one that has to use a walker have walked a little slower. that is the only light i can actually safely cross the street without being hit by a car. this sort of thing. there are some intersections where i told him i get one to one lane of traffic or to the curb lane and all of a sudden this -- the hand goes up, this sort of thing. sometimes i only have like five or six seconds to cross the street. and it is dangerous. i have a lot people that don't walk as fast as i do. take that in consideration. as far as the count downs are concerned, we should have someone in a walker or

wheelchair cross the street to see how long it actually takes them to cross the street before you put in the second -- i added another ten to 20 seconds to the lights. he said he would look into it. thank you. >> thank you very much. any other members of the public like to comment? we will close public comment. question on that. mr. velasco, how are we ensuring there is a standard length of time to cross to allow for our diversity movement in terms of speed? >> we did review and send an electrician out at 19th and teravel once we received that complaint. we did find out it was operating the way it should. given that she has voiced that concern again we will take a look at that location again and make sure it is timed correctly. we do time for 2.5 feet per second walking speed to get a pedestrian across all the

way through from curb to curb. that is better than the national standard. we will look at this particular location again. >> okay, thank you. so this is information item, so we can go on to item number 10, the next item. >> 10, san francisco municipal transportation agency transit fleet management plan, information item. >> good afternoon. maria lombardo. chief deputy. with sfmt and long range planning will give a brief presentation. you should have a power point. this is a long-standing deliverable from like well over a year ago when this board had to take an urgent action to award about $7 million in prop k funds to the mta for the targeted system overhaul project. this was because, in part, midlife overhaul like major capital maintenance of the vehicles hadn't occurred as

would have been ideal and service was being affected. it is also something is authority has known since the prop b sales tax was in place. perhaps the single most capital invsment muni was able to do that provides something for the riding public with this fleet. this proves the capital investment and importance of maintaining vehicles properly so they operator reliably through the end of their life. a good taxpayer benefit and benefits the riding public. we have known through our 5ypp the mta was working on the changes to the street plan and taking i want consideration the changes in the effectiveness project. he will give you an overview with procurements in the next five years. this is also teing up part two of an allocation the board approved in july.

this was an initial allocation, about 400,000 for -- it was called then the navi replacement but in normal people, replacing older diesel hybrid electric motor coaches. mta expects to come back probably next month for initial down payment on procurement of those. with that i will let dart come forward. >> good afternoon, i'm dart. i'm manager of the long range planning with smta. i'm here to give you an over view for managing the transit fleet within the city. the presentation before you is made up of components from our most currently fleet management plan, which was arrived in april 2011. our 20-year capital plan, approved by the mta board in january of this year, and the five-year capital improvement program,

adopted by the sfmta board in april of this year. as maria mentioned we are at the beginning of replacing our entire transit fleet. this is a good time to give you context for requests coming before you in the coming months and years. i will give you a quick overview of our fleet. the purpose of the plan, how we estimate the number of vehicles that are e choired, estimated capital cost and where we are going from here. so mta has over 2,400 vehicles it owns and operators. over 1,000 are the transit vehicles that are the subject of this presentation but there are a large number of other vehicles we manage and

maintain. most significantly there are other support vehicles, like for rail, maintenance staff and the like. so the transit fleet management plan is our 20-year look ahead to understand what vehicles we will need to provide the service demanded in san francisco. it also identified what investments are needed to deliver that service in terms of the fleet. this becomes a basis for a number of long-range documents such as san francisco transportation and regional transportation plan. one of the big changes that we are beginning to implement is a new strategy in how we procure our transit vehicles, especially the large number of buses that we operator. right now the way that the

schedule has been for several procurements is we buy all the buses at one time. we get somewhere between 450 and 500 buses at one time. while there are some efficiencies gained by this strategy in terms of the costs it does mean all your vehicles are brand-new at the same time, aged at the same rate and tend to experience the same types of failures at the same time. this is demonstrated in the graph here, showing how the average vehicle age of our bus fleet has sitting peaks and valleys, depending on where in that life cycle we are at. >> just a question. we don't typically -- we don't always buy new vehicles. sometimes we buy vehicles that are restored, is that correct? we just bought some diesel flight from one other county in the past five years or so. >> a number of years