structure there and integrate with bus stop. >> so everything else is fully funded. >> yeah. no small thanks to our director for that. >> that's great to hear. the time line with that overall? >> so the timeline and i guess -- chester can you help me? thank you. i need a little coaching here. there is a timeline here in the following slide to where we would like to be complete with design by this coming spring and advertise in the summer and get going with construction mid to late next year -- probably not late. >> who is in charge of that?

>> we have a principal planner and tim chin and myself. i'm on the money side. we have a few other team members throughout the district that work closely with the director on this. >> thank you. so the project manager's name? >> steve capler. >> thank you. >> he's joined me today if there are questions about that. there is one more element that is included here and i can address if you're ready. >> go ahead. >> that is the weigh staging and signage and we have approved by this body a million dollars of life line funding for this project which we have a tentative date of february to go to the bart board to award and weigh funding and signage and

we like you and want to work with the community groups and the supervisor on this and we want to prioritize balboa to move ahead -- amongst the first stations to go there and the funding has been identified. the one down side of the recent bond sales the life line funding didn't come through so bart has to identify a solution to cover the million dollars for a short time until the state sells sufficient funding. >> great. what i see conceptually is great and we have been in communication with bart and i think there are a lot of elements that will work for folks and moving quickly and making sure the fund suggest available is key and i appreciate the work being done and i know the director from

bart is very helpful on that. >> played a very key role yes. >> that covers the bart elements i was going to cover before sf mta comes up and with that they are here to talk about their components. >> thank you very much mr. morgan. >> okay. thanks todd. good morning chair avalos and commissioners. i'm going to report briefly on some other improvements that we expect to deliver in the next few years. generally came out of recommendations from the balboa park station capacity study. todd was already talking about of course the pedestrian bridge and walk way that is in the center of this slide, but you can see there are other

improvements for bringing the station area that will improve safety, accessibility and comfort and convenience. here are the key tracking improvements and starting in the upper left. we have the weigh finding signs. bart is going to be putting some on their property but of course there are needs for the overall station area to help people make transfers, to help them find neighborhood attractions. you have a handout i believe that includes a couple of maps of proposed locations right around the station area within one to three blocks where we intend to put in signs. some of those will go in hopefully by the end of december, so there's also

need -- >> i actually took a tour with ms. walton last week. we had the signs going to go -- yeah, i think it's a good plan with that and i am glad to see it's going in so thank you. >> also need for weather protection, especially in the bus boarding areas, the transit plazas on geneva avenue, both sides, so we are planning shelter canopies to help with that need. there are needs for improved lighting, and we are working on the pedestrian scale lighting. that is the sidewalk and cross walk entrance and lights closely together. important need to widen

sidewalks and improve accessibility, widen the sidewalks on geneva avenue, the bus loading areas. ocean avenue also has some problems with curb ramps and this image is showing where the sidewalk has a significant cross slope problem. we're going to correct that. >> what's the plan for that and how soon? right now it's inaccessible. >> yeah. that should be done within the next about two years completed. we have life line funding which is for corridor improvements and used for those accessibility improvements. >> thank you. it's on ocean but on san jose as well where it's inaccessible sidewalks and ramps that are actually very

dangerous. >> right. so i think san jose crush ramp improvements are done by the green yard rail project and fully funded. our board is going to be approving the contract this afternoon. moving on to -- speaking of that contract one of its key components is a new accessible boarding platform on san jose for the j and the k where people are now boarding in an area that is very close to the tracks. it has major safety inaccessibility problems so this will help address that. >> are those tracks actually going to be moved? right now there is the bench point i put on the screen last week at the board of supervisors meeting so the tracks moved and the poles

taken out? is that part of the project? >> we are moving to move the poles to remove the pinch points. there isn't enough room to change the track alignment. it's so tight and part of the overall big squeeze, but that is something i will talk more about. >> great. >> finally on this slide in the lower right flashing beacons. with more people walking on ocean avenue on and from city college and crossing with high speed traffic and a flashing beacon should be funded to make it safer to cross that off ramp. >> the way they're crossing right now is called willy-nilly. >> hopefully we can take care of that. so chair avalos you were talking about the problems --

we're calling the k j walk way and go between the san jose geneva northwest corner and the bart mezzanine entrance, and you can see those poles in yellow. it's kind of hard to make out, but there are three poles that create the pinch points. one is already funded and designed to be moved and we're working on concepts to take care of the other two besides putting in other measures that would separate the pedestrians from the tracks. like a very low berm with flexible posts and discourage people from walking next to the tracks. they won't need to get as close anyway because they won't be getting on the j and the k at that location

with the new san jose platform. >> that walk way is used by people coming up geneva and to bart and the place with the lowest slope and if you have a wheel chair or stroller that's the only way to go. >> right. that presents a dilemma and best for safety to close it off but exactly as you're saying that is the level part that people need to use. another area that we're dealing with and the ocean view platform. right now the northern most stop when you're coming up from sf state and the ocean view is -- sorry, near niagara, near the lower left

corner. the image is distant from the bart entrances. it has safety and accessibility problems. it's not visible at all from the bart entrances. the station capacity study recommended moving that one -- that final north bound stop across geneva to basically the middle of san jose avenue, and we are studying that in more detail. it would have some major advantages for safety and accessibility but there is a lot of issues. things like driveway way conflicts. >> >> your hawnd out also has a table going over the status of the fast track improvements. wondering when are these improvements going to be

delivered? the green is showing going through detail and final design and being constructed and you can see we have a number of them they're under way. they're due to be either delivered within the next year or the next two to three years, and the red star is showing work that is under way right now. >> just a quick question. >> yeah. >> we have the way finding and transit signs next to muni and we have canopies going up. is there any way to link those with the canopies that are being planned? >> yes. >> and when do we expect that to actually happen? i have 2013 -- end of 2013 the canopy is completed and the way signs and is that when we expect to get the next muni --

>> the canopies actually going to take longer the green area is showing when they're completed. however we agree with bart we're not waiting for the completion of the canopies and depending on the funding to put in the next muni and next bart signs, at least on a temporary basis. they can be attached to bart building on the north side and wall on the south side and get that in in 2013. >> what part of 2013? >> i think that will be a question more for bart. what i heard was more towards the end of 2013. >> thank you. >> so you can see on this slide the jk platform is pretty near term. the walk way in the m line terminus move. that is a

little more challenging. we need to get that done soon, but a little bit of study further on that. some other improvements to be completed shortly. new traffic and pedestrian signals on geneva and visibility improvements at san jose and geneva and the sidewalk widening on geneva, both sides of the bus loading areas. the final slide i wanted to present. we heard about the conflict between the storage and maintenance needs, and the use by thousands of travelers and of course right there with residential neighborhood, so the upper yard which is our satellite light

rail storage yard historically is now recently it's been used for employee parking and that is in the red outline. we are looking at how to make that available for conversion to a transit village probably along with the bart kiss and ride roadway way to the west and that is in line with the balboa park station area plan that the board of supervisors adopted that calls for reusing that site as a transit village with affordable housing being a high priority, maybe support retail. a lot of potential benefits for example in increasing the transit rider ship and the station capacity study looked at the transportation feasibility of

that, and found that it would work well from the transportation standpoint. there have been a number of other studies under way in terms of the potential land uses. i'm not going to get into that. it is a challenge for the sf mta to meet the needs for increased rail vehicle fleet, but we are committed to being a good neighbor and are looking at improvements that our other major storage yard, the muni metro east, to take care of that, so we can get along without the upper yard and that can be used for neighborhood and community friendly uses. this afternoon our sf mta board is going to be consider a

resolution to support in principle the sale of the upper yard to support community and transportation goals, so that is my presentation, and i know we will have q and a shortly. i just wanted to mention that we have senior managers from the sf mta are available for q and a. timly, deputy director for strategic planning and john hailey, the director of muni and transportation and maintenance available. thank you very much. >> just real quick and the walk way and the terminus. when we do expect those to be complete? >> we're hoping to get that done in the same 2014-16 period. we don't have a commitment yet.

they're under actively under conceptual design and analysis and it's high priority for us. >> and funding for the projects? is that o bag? >> right now they're worked on with the prop k funding and we can say o bag as a potential funding source for the actual physical improvements, but they can be pretty substantial multi-million dollar improvements. >> so we haven't actually found the funding? >> that is not nailed down but that is high priority chair avalos. >> thank you. >> okay. sure and i think chester is going to come up and wrap up. >> just want before we wrap up give a quick update on a different study that the authority is currently conducting. we see a lot of

improvements happening around the station. we want to pull back and step back a little bit and look at the circulation around the station has to do with both the freeway and the station has and i280 be and what other ways can we change the circulation so we can improve some of the way the modes are mixing at the station. that's the primary goal of the study here. we're are looking at something in the midterm and implement within 10 years. the status of that study. we did assessment of existing conditions, and we are starting to develop our preliminary concepts. i will give a hint of those today quickly. we're looking at these program elements in particular and just trying understand what is happening with these elements around the station and trying to figure out if there is a different way to mix them. in

particular we're really looking at how cars access two and from 280 around the station at this interchange. we are looking at how buses get to the station and where they're boarding passengers. we're looking how pedestrians board and where they go once they get there. we are looking at as people are arriving by private car and we call it kiss and ride and look at those pat -- patterns and some include looking at the area and the interchange and there are six ramps in the area where you only need four to have a full interchange. are there ramps we can eliminate inference and physical traffic.

>> >> >> and if we do that then what does it allow us to do in terms of relieving some of the conflicts with pedestrians and buses? it's not that we close the ramps all together or repurpose them and restrict access and allow only buses to use some of the areas or vehicles dropping or picking up passengers to use those areas. we also have our eye out on if we do retain these ramps then certainly at least one of them should be redesigned. the 280 southbound off ramp to ocean avenue currently allows vehicles to speed on to ocean avenue without slowing down. if we retain that ramp make it a t intersection so cars have to stop for pedestrians and finally we're again looking at is there a different place to have the passenger drop off and pick up

activity? currently it's on geneva and kiss and ride lane and if we move it around and less conflict with the buses stopping to pick up passengers on to geneva avenue. in terms of next steps we do want to continue refine our concepts and we think we be ready to share them with the committee later this winter and we will have a workshop and the balboa park cac. after that we are evaluating the concepts in spring and summer and looking at these impacts and how does it affect the bike and transit activity in the area. we would like recommendations by the fall of 2013 including cost estimates and implementation plan. okay. then stepping back from that study and just looking at balboa park activities

overall some things to look out for upcoming is the first balboa park cac meeting. it looks like it's scheduled at the beginning of 2013, and we just heard some improvements are moving through construction in the immediate future and there are funding requests for additional improvements and o bag application submitted by sf mta that will be under consideration of this board in the next months. that concludes the presentation and i am happy to take questions or direct them to other staff. >> thank you and i do appreciate you're coming together to present today and my colleagues for being here as well to hear the needs that we in district 11 and seven and 10. so what i

would like to propose been public comment jeremy pollack is the point person and we have the cac here tawking during public comment and we will have reports back on many of the projects presented today in my office and we will come back to this committee as well in the next year to talk about progress made. okay. thank you. colleagues if no comments or questions we can go on to public comment. this item is open for public comment. please come forward. >> good morning commissioners. my name is dan waiver and although i'm appointee to the new cac i'm the acting director of the ocean community benefits district. i wanted to point out the reconfiguration of the exit

ramp from 280 freeway to ocean avenue is a critical part of our long range -- for us long range 10 year planning process for ocean avenue. the freeway is often makes many people on ocean avenue's retail district feel they're on a freeway ramp rather than on a neighborhood street. reconfiguring that ramp is going to create land. that land should be not simply ignored as a forest of trees which it is now but part of a major planning process based in the community to figure out the best uses for that land in order to deal with dividing or separating off the freeway mentality with the retail district neighborhood situation, and we're trying to

organize the planning process, but i think we really need to work with the city on this. another reason to do this process if we don't the surplus land created is sold off to the highest bidder by cal trans and that is not appropriate and city college has an important role to play here and they most likely will be the people that inherit this land but we shouldn't just give it to them without understanding of what they contribute to the situation in the larger community. thank you. >> thank you very much. any other member of the public like to comment? >> robert [inaudible]. i just want to irnd score when i hear long-term and midterm plans and we don't do anything now that prohibits doing the right thing

in the long-term so i am concerned about movements that prohibit us from doing the larger version in the long run so i am certainly hopeful that our bart representatives and sf mta folks are camping out at each other's door steps with these improvements so we don't make a bad mistake on this and prohibit us doing the right thing in the long run. thank you. >> thank you very much. if there are no other members of the public we will close public comment. and again i want to thank bart and the mta and cac for your work on this, your presentation and look forward to continued dialogue about the station, and we can go on to our next item. >> new items. information item. >> any items? seeing none. open it up for public comment.

we will close public comment. our next item. >> public comment. >> this is general public comment for any item not on the agenda. okay we will close public comment. next item. >> adjournment. >> we are adjourned. thank you