births so as to minimize crossing of ferries in the bay. so the gate, a, would be looking at the north bay, destinations that we either controlled. and gate e, to the south, golden gate would continue to operate where it does now and they have been talking about rebuilding their facilities, and gate e, would shift to f, and ewould become the treasure island ferry, so e. and oakland at f and g. becomes ans larry birth for future south bay uses so they are located as much and they are looking to have capacity to essentially triple the ferry operations, or the numbers that exist today. >> we think that this is an exciting development and something that terms of everything else that we are talking about in terms of the water front. i need it in terms of the transportation and the congestion issues that we are looking at down the road. >> thank you. >> and also, congratulations on

the completing. >> i know that a lot of work has gone into that and a lot of people put a lot of time into that and it is a good use of park bond funds. >> thank you. >> i want to go on the proposal acting on the ferry plaza, this one question that i would have and i am not sure who to ask this of, but in terms of increasing the number of people at the site how would that impact some of the emergency access that we might need, access to, i know that there is a... right there. those sort of things, has that been accounted for? >> i can answer that. i mean, i am here on saturdays and we have actually had to bring, full, fire trucks to the back plaza during a full saturday market and so we have about 20 operation teams back there, but i think that is definitely a scenario that we proposed to weed out during the key pivotal situations. i know that it seems very

seamless when we have the issues. we have had a small electrical fire back on the structure during the saturday market and we were very easy to get the vehicles back there and the people react accordingly. >> thank you. >> and over here on the south side would be maintained as it does, and jane and her crew are very good about making sure that that is in an open access way. >> thank you. >> okay. thank you. >> item on the consent color. 8 a approval for a representative to san francisco port commission to travel to houston, texas to attend the break bulk america's conference. item 8 b. request authorization to expand foreign trade zone three 3. alternative site framework service areas to include additional bay area counties and to amend foreign trade zone number three. and 8 c, request approval of the resolution of approval

section 3.15 of the lda defining force majuere and the recommending that the america cup project director and the city risk manager purchase owner's delay. >> 8 d. request of approval fiscal year. >> so moved. >> second. >> is there any public comment on the resolutions? >> no. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> number 1270, 1271, 1 12* 72, and 1267 have been approved. >> item 9 a information presentation and the status report on the america's cup people plan. >> good afternoon, president woo ho, members of the commission i'm diane with the

ports planning and development division and i just wanted to give a brief introductory remark to the presentation the bulk of which will be provided by peter albert from the municipal transportation agency. it is very fortuitus that monique and they have been planning for the transportation demands for the last year by having both of these events coinciding on the fleet week weekend. it is a great opportunity to test out the transportation enhancement that has been incorporated into the america's cup people plan and peter is going to share with you today. not only just kind of the outlines of some of those elements, that really relate, most directly to the embaradaro

water front but what have been the refinement of the experiences last month during the august world series and how we are cuing that up for october. one of the most key changes in refinements in the plans have to do with trying to create more pedestrian and bicycle accommodation along the ambarkadaro itself. >> fleet week gets really inundated by cars and people. this year with the people plan, hopefully the plan will improve to the fleet week as well as the visitor and it includes closure of the right-hand northbound lane among the ambarkadaro so we have more room for buy cyclists and pedestrians and protecting the businesss that need to get into their facilities over the weekend and to carve out the

operational space needed to accommodate the three crews calls that we also have that weekend. we are just going to be buzzing. so, with that, i wanted to introduce peter albert and he will present his powerpoint. thank you. >> thank you, dianne. >> madam president and members of the commission, peter albert from mp a and a little background on the people plan, this document is one of a dozen or about a dozen plans that were required to be prepared or at least agreed to be prepared between the city and the america's cup event authority. clearly transportation was one of the biggest sources of optimism and maybe anxiety about what we could do to make sure that the america cup experience is a positive one for san francisco. >> we have a huge advantage of getting out ahead of this, almost 18 months we have been working on this plan. the original people plan drafted in march, we refined it

in september. and now, what we are learning if this needs to be a living document, because the changes to the conditions, the experience that we had in august and how we prepare for this coming week and how we prepare for 2013. these are the things that really shape the plan and make the plan more responsive to the needs. >> i start out with a lot of reassurance that what we saw in august was tremendously helpful for us in doing the planning of transportation. it actually, frankly a big relief. what we saw, was more numbers coming in august than people conventionally thought were going to happen and without the headaches of parking and congestion, and robust use of transit, and a robust use of bicycles and the valet parking for the bikes and all of the things that came together in the plan to do the heavy duty, i would say that it is helpful but there are a lot of lessons that we have learned to be more ahead of the game in october and what we are going to do is run through the experience and talk about where we want to go

in october and then i will be happy to answer the questions as well. there is only 10 slides in this and i will go through them quickly. you may have seen the numbers, the crowds were estimated at 150,000. >> 40,000 people in the marine agreen and the coverage was 20,000 views on you tube and 2900 storis in 1,000 outlets just talking about the race and what they meant to san francisco and how they went over. so the idea that it is an event for the bay area, but it is playing out on the bay arena. a little clever pun here but really the images showing how photo genic san francisco ended up being a backdrop and how attractive the races ended being for the people who are nominally interested. >> it was rewarding for all of the work that we did with down to making sure that we had

enough parking control officers, traffic managers and bus drivers and the cooperation that we got >> the enthusiasm came from the sailors and non-sailors alike. there were no significant complaints from the neighborhoods. we worked closely with the neighbors especially around the marina and the areas that we thought that the impacts would be greatest. the groups hosted the many conversations and did a lot of advanced planning on their own that helped to work >> we have benefits that came to the districts and very unusual back-to-back positive reviews about our service >> what we have learned is to make sure that the events that come out in october. >> we need to make sure that

these are safe. the comparisons of the cup and the international sporting event, this is the third largest international, hundreds of thousands of people come to the america's cup. we treat it as a safety event in so many levels. we want to make sure that we can improve the awareness of connections. you are trying to go from your bike to your bike valley parking facility and even the cab stands. we want to be sure that the way that the signage and helps the people to find the locations and it is tricky bh we find the site from marina green to the little marina green. and marketing promotion, a big positive, we have a prosure now. that we are going to be passing, and we have a whole 30,000 of them being printed right now. they show you how to get to the site on transit, how to get to the sight as a bicycle owner or a renter.

they recommend satellite parking and if you want to drive we want to encourage these facilities that the people can make the shuttle or the walk. but still not so close to the site that they add to congestion and parking problems. we want to make sure that we build on the success that we had making this event more accessible. we did a lot of work with the mayor's office. to make sure that there were accessible seats set aside and pathways to the seats compared in the transit worlds and we are continuing to improve that. >> some of the things that really helped me work are within an mta, one of the most novel is the creation of the incident command. the idea that we are going to create a network headed by metaloa who is a veteran of the police department now at mta who makes sure that she knows who is in response of minutemy service planning, the minioperations and dealing with

traffic management and out reach and promotion people, the service planning people. she has us meeting on a weekly basis to figure out what are the legacy that we learned from august that we need to carry over and what are the areas that we need to correct? this is an extraordinary week that we are going to be seeing. this is only a partial list of what we know is going on fleet week. 49ers game on sunday, the giants should they... they are in the playoffs. it depends on how much the home games are here but this is all happen ng san francisco. blue grass, a big draw, we need to keep people safe. italy an fair. the same weekend. the cruise ship visit we have been working closely with the port to make sure that we understand those logistics and get out ahead and we steer the bikes and not in the midst of

the activity and all of this means that we have gotten out early with the promotion and the advisory campaign. we are working with employ ears and we are working with the tenants of the port to get the information about what is happening on the water front and when. the idea of the embarkadaro right lane is as much of a safety issue if anything. it is not just a bike facility so they are not competing for the sidewalk, it is also an emergency vehicle access lane, that ends up being important, if we see congestion that we have seen in the past, it gives the ambulances and the fire dependant * >> so we have also worked around out and do we have enough parking control officers, police, traffic managers we, have a plan for not only how many there are but where they will be stationed and how fluid they can be. because the reality is that we don't know the day-to-day issues until the day happens and knowing that we can move

them around through an incident command structure to be from this place, a half hour ago to this place in 15 minutes is part of our planning. now, one of the big lists that we are giving fleet week that we have not seen before is the tremendous amount of cooperation that we are getting in the region. golden gate transit, cal train, all of these regional providers are offering more service to carry people, it is not just once they are in san francisco, we are intercepting them in hayward, in luxburg and giving them that tras sit so they are not bringing the car close to the city. we are marketing that at the airport so the people can make their plans to come to san francisco and know that they can hop on and not rent a car and actually be part of the foot traffic and the fun of the america's cup. and then we are also doing a very big tdm transportation demand management, if you are an employer that you want to be sure that your employees can get to work, we are telling you

to use these transportation services they are not just for people watching races, they are for everybody who needs to go from one part of san francisco to the other. there is a lot of discussion about the lane treatment, so october 6 and 7, a saturday and a sunday, we are taking the right-hand lane north of washington to bay. carving that out for bikes and for wide enough for emergency vehicles. and then, what happens is when it comes to bay, we divert that bike traffic, west association that it bypasses the heart of fisherman's warf, so it serves the crews activity and give them a shortcut to the marina green. >> it move the people safely. the people do come in the building, such a huge hub for tens of thousands of people who will be coming and from that point they are working their way north. what we would like to do is not

mix the bikes and pedestrians. because both volumes of peds and bikes are slowing if we believe that it is the event that we believe it is. >> the barricades and the barriers that we are putting in place have brakes at every driveway. humans will be able to use their intelligence to make sure that if people need to have drop off and delivery, they will allow t that is the beauty of working with the parking control officers who are veterans of these kinds of events. we also manage and accommodate the crews activity which is happening in the same weekend. >> so this is the schedule. i don't think that i need to break it down. i am sure that you are aware, put it into perspective the real races are next year, these are the preraces, we have america cup finals september 2 to 22nd. what shifts for us and we are paying attention is that the center of a lot of the activities moves over to pier

2729 f, for me it is a easier area to serve by transit. one of the legacies that we have seen in august is the historic street car that was running from cal train north along the water front all wait to the warf. there were 8700 people that as i understand the feedback, rode that service, that could be a permanent part of san francisco's legacy if we work and if this works out well for moving people from ball games, let's say to the ferry building, to the warf. they will be riding that service again in october and look at running it again in 2013. other programs that we hope to use cliper card even more. comprehensively, having all of the transit providers accessible by one simple card and so that a tourist does not have to dig in his pocket and get in those cars and large numbers out before they get to san francisco. those are the campaigns through next summer. the jefferson public realm we

are tracking that to make sure that it is under construction and that it isn't in the way of all of the pedestrian ans that are coming. but it actually helps them strategickly go to the park so they have a wonderful experience from the street car, from the public realm to park. the warf is one of the projects that we have tracked they seem to be coming on-line to make the pedestrian experience more than not just convenient and safe but also more beautiful. but we are also looking at completing the marina to the fort mason bike ped trail. even though the america's cup headquarters will be at 2729 the green will be programmed in 2013 and we expect the visit tores there as well. here is an image for the 2013 village. and 2729. there is an image of 3032, it will become an important, destination for the people who love to watch the boats being assembled and put in the water. it is what is going to be happening in october it will be

happening again in 2013. and again, it is right on that eline, and the initial service to go to the ballpark now and we will be marketing those as options to get there. >> before a jump to questions, i do want to make a comment about planing for feet week. we took this seriously and we realize that had it was a great opportunity to help fleet week and give them all of this advanced planning on transit and transportation options in the marketing. >> they have built a brochure and we are actually looking at the third and a great connection to the pure 80 for the people who want to see the ships. >> we are doing it for a candle stick, event. we are getting the most efficiency out of that rail line as it goes past pier 80. any questions on where we are and where you would like us to go next. >> is there any public comment?

>> seeing none, commissioners, sorry. >> >> sue, hester i want to follow up on some comments that i made at the planning commission. i live my office in union square, which is one of the other venues. and i didn't see it up there. and union square and the... are often looked as overflow areas and viewing areas. and we have to be sensitive to the fact that we have not got a lot of people that are trained to manage pedestrians. when there is an overflow crowd

in urba buena last week, and when there is construction under way on stockton street, the grand subway, the disruptions caused by them back up the street. and they are back up the street particularly with the pedestrians. i would give me right arm if the city would train effective people to control pedestrians. around voskony center last weekend it was horrible. because the pedestrians were out in force, in such force that they just crossed market street when they wanted to. they crossed the adjacent streets when they wanted to. and there was no one there with a whistle blowing to control pedestrians. we have about a year, to get up to speed. and if we do not use the time

well, to augment the pedestrian control, and as a pedestrian, i know that you know, it helps to have people whistling to get you back on the curve if you need to be back on the curb, but market street is... and around the center, it is a horror and while the construction is going on stockton street it is particularly a horror. no one has responsibility as far as i can see with controlling pedestrians and so peter, that is my plea and you all are in charge of a large part of it. the word has to go out to the entire city family, that we need better traffic control and this means a lot of pedestrian control because (inaudible) are interrupted and buses are interrupted on market street a lot. thank you. >> thank you. >> is there any other public

comment? >> okay. >> commissioners? >> comments? questions? >> i think that we certainly have our work cut out for us this coming weekend. but my sense is if that works it will make the america's cup in 2013 look like a piece of cake. >> one thing that... yeah i would be curious about as was pointed out by the prior speaker, we do have a number of tourists in town and will there be any steps taken to try to focus on the pedestrian safety issues >> the incident command system is going to be monitoring how well we do with this super, event that we have in october. we do have sessions planned for post october. 2013. and make sure that we staff up. i think that the big thing is staffing up in positioning.

and so the short answer is yes, we watching this as lessons learned as a legacy. i think that the great opportunity is how fluid we are and making sure that we are smart with where we wanted to dispatch people and where we needed them to be. between now and october that is the focus of our conversation. >> mrs. brandon. >> thank you for the presentation, and i have a couple of comments and you have worked hard and i appreciate that you do this in the living situation because i think that we go from experience to experience and we learn. and so i did have a couple of questions, one i guess for the port in terms of the cruise ships coming in. are those cruise ships aware they are carries passengers that are walking into a huge city of events and so on the one hand it is positive. but on the other hand that not shocked when they come in. >> yes, the deputy director, yes, good question, we are going to have two large ships

pull turns after 35 on saturday and sunday. we have reached out to the cruise lines, months ago and did a couple of things, a, we informed them of the activity on the water front and part of them were of the marketing standpoint they thought it was great because the america cup races will be under way and when they depart the big, white cruise ships will be sailing right by the race course. that part was great. in terms of logistics, we talked about the cruise lines, mike and my staff, john davy went to the cruise lines and requested that the vessels not be stored in san francisco, so all of the large semitrailers, full of food and provisioning that normally would take place on two days has been moved to san diego at another port ocall and we have taken those trucks off the road and they have notified the passengers of the impact and slightly altered their embark and disembark schedules to allow for the

cleanest working the ship. so princess is on board, that is our biggest customer, they are aware tf and kind of excited about it and they are aware and the passengers are aware >> good, because their passengers may have some of the best viewing right from the ship. >> you might mention the docents. >> we have a team of greeters in st* that come in and greet every ship and hand out information and maps and information to the passengers looking to find out where they should go and what is to be seen. we have the disney wonder in port this afternoon, here on an over night call, it is at 4:00 or 5:00 in our volunteer passenger docents do hand out maps and point them in the right direction so they can spend their money as quickly as they can. >> i do have some questions, i guess. i did not hear you mention ferries? in terms of extra ferries coming? >> good question. the ferry, lines are... and

peter knows better than i do. i will let him answer, there will be plenty of ferries and we are actually trying to get the water taxi up and operating for a special service between pier one and a half and christie field during that race day. so ferries will be... yes. >> thank you. >> peter albert. we are working with we are work withing golden gate. * *

>> because the weekend, the time when the buses have more reserve because they are more heavily used during the commute period. we have figured out what buses need to run, to accommodate for the fleet week and we have to accommodate the extra buss that go out at golden gate park and now we are down to which types of buses and where they are going, we have room with the

light rail which is good because they need it for the tshird and also the ball game and the historic street cars, we are down to know what kind is serve the e, and how many need to be rehab taited and need to be running by october and how that comes on-line. and so the answer is, yes. pretty detailed service plan getting us prepared for exactly this kind of extra frequency, on these few days. >> and this service more or less like a express that you go straight from point to point and it is a regular stop at every two blocks. >> one line will be served as a limited. it will be the 47. the opportunity is that the people can try what it is like to have a limited service from the civic center. the other buses we will run the basic service. in august we tried augmenting other lines with the limited o