concepcion all the way up to the california oregon border. they will meet on july 16th. i wish it were open to the public. jay -- send me a note saying that the website is a science geek's del i have to check it out and it's very cool. if you surf or you want to sail, you can find the water deapth, temperature, tides, where they might be buoys. ad living a little bit off the notes, i wanted to say is special thank you to commissioner adams and director craig morales i think his name is an editor of the (indiscernible) iw dispatch,

which look like this and has been covering the port of san francisco. the april edition covers tuition or commissioner adams' trip to china. we really appreciate commissioner adams breaking all of these news out to some of our partners of iow and gives an opportunity to celebrate and to share with them as well as with francisco and others. it was a great day. >> i want to acknowledge mike and -- local 10 because they participated in that. >> mike looks great in this picture, right mike? it was hot, and great fun. next, the last in my executive directors report is talking about the opening of the 34th america's cup event schedule to

kick off on the afternoon of july 4th. they will -- and on july 7th, the first actual racing, ron robin between -- australia, and -- an announcement by artemis racing that they will stay in the competition despite the tragedy. as a result they will need more time to come up to speed. fortunately there were a lot of extra days for racing in both july and august so the event authority has said that they will move some of these round robin races around to allow artemis to get back in

whenever they deem to be ready. artemis does not know how soon they will be ready so the event authorities not as precise as they would like to be. we are very pleased to be able to move forward. we are looking forward to the opening event and we are looking forward to being able to host our international visitors and domestic visitors for the event and to that end i want to invite carli paine (sounds like) to give an update of the people plan. she is the tdm manager for sustainable street and strategic planner for the san francisco municipal position authority also known as the traffic geek, right carly? she is having it all in her slide, that was brilliant. (sneeze)

bless you. >> thank you so much for having me. it's a pleasure being here. i am carly payne from sfmta, here to give you an update on the transportation element of the city's reparation for america's cup events this summer. you no doubt have heard a lot from our agency over the last year and a half. this year we are updating the people plan for the 2013 events. the basics, so you know, are staying basically the same. there are some key changes this year. we are working off the same goals, building on last year's

successes, revising and redesigning as appropriate based on input that we heard from our partner agencies and community stakeholders. the key goals continue to be the same, or the guiding principles. number one is always public safety. making sure that all users of our transportation system are safe and accounted for. the second is we want to make sure the environmental sustainability, strategic adaptability is a really critical one as you just heard. the schedule is changing even now. our plans are designed to be able to shrink and grow as needed, both in terms of the different demands that are projected throughout the scheduled events as well as moment to moment making sure that we have plans and the structure to respond to changing needs even on a day

but we have a specific plan. finally, we want to make sure that all of this work is successful for the events but laying the groundwork for positive legacy for the city to explore challenges that we may not have taken on previously and to lay paths forward for longer-term improvements for all of us. so the key differences in this year's events are sight and venue changes. last year the primary viewing location was marina green and this year also marina green and piers 27 and 29. this is a strategy put in place in advance, last year to turn out to be critical. one of the positive legacies

that we already incorporated and institutionalized at sfmta to handle large events and be involved in planning and on the ground to respond to needs and demands as they arise throughout events. while in 2012, there were two real peak weekends, one was very big, this year we are having three months of sustained activity and some of those events are what we consider peak but no days as big as october 6 and 7. you may recall that that we can have not only the america's cup event but also fleet week, giants' playoffs, we just anticipate that kind of intensity this year.

the people plan lays out a series of strategies that can as i said grow or shrink. we are working with the america's cup event to identify light, medium and peak days, and scenarios for services that would correspond with each of those so that we can at least prospectively trying to get a handle on the level of service that we need. additional key differences from last year is that there are a number of improvements that are in place that were not necessarily designed for the america's cup but will help us ensure that people are able to walk and bike and take transit successfully to america's cup. as you know the jefferson public round first phase is about to be completed and that

will enable great walking to aquatic park. fort mason, marina green path is underway multimodal. pier 43 promenade will enable visitors to see the bay. improvements to embarcadero will make safe crossing to -- we have done some infrastructure improvements along the e line, switches and other kinds of minor fixes which will make the e line work more successfully and bike sharing will be launching in august. so in updating the people plan we also looked at at enhanced

transit, learning from last year. will be running the e line on specific days and we will have the shuttle type service between the marina and pier 27, 29, this is very much like the 30 x service with a little couple of tweaks, also a marina market shuttle similar to the 47 express service and extra f line service which we are calling the market pier 27, 29 shuttle. additional service, goldengate transit is adding the option of local service so picking up and dropping off within san francisco which they traditionally don't do -- shuttle service at the presidio also adding local service and we have been working with our

partners, ferry partners,

we know that at this 3point it is likely to be something in september only, that is the peak of the peaks; the question now is will it be

out just on weekends? or upon weekends and the week in between? one way or two way? all of that is being evaluated. there are major complications with all of those in your executive director did share with me your interest in seeing one-way bikeways on both northbound and southbound and i have shared this with a bike planning colleagues for consideration. there will be valet bike parking both at marina green and pier 27 and 29. we are also doing a lot to make sure that all of these strategies are well understood and communicated to visitors.

we are developing maps and brochures and working with the hotel and visitor industry to make sure that visitors know about all of these great sustainable transportation options. we are working with the region on a special 511 america's cup page. we have a whole host of ambassadors. we are working with the sfmta ambassadors and america's cup ambassadors to make sure that they're all crosstrained on transportation issues and can keep people safe and going to the right places. finally lessons learned from last year applying this year

and looking forward, really engaging partisan advance and making sure there is ample time for input and review, not just a local issue even though all of these events are happening in san francisco we have regional partners that we have been working with closely also public and private community. environmental review, strategy we are using in other projects too, already a legacy for us. we are using polyp project to test effectiveness. i already mentioned the special events team and how that has been successful. we are already seeing the experiences with the america's cup leading to legacy strategies in our planning. for instance sfmta is partnering with the port on a couple issues, the regional transportation

agency. evaluating transportation strategies along the embarcadero which will include bicycle access. and your forward calendar is item of the waterfront trust petition assessment which takes a lot of information and strategies that have come up in the people plan development process and looking at how do we apply these needs and strategies that we have tested out the longer-term transportation demand and development along the waterfront. with that i will be happy to take any questions. again thank you for your time and attention. >> thank you kelly. we do have public comments. >> i'm sorry, my bad for not having finished before. i want to recognize commissioner katz for the idea

to have this item and for you carly for coming today. now, -- i'm done, i promise. >> we have public comment. bob isaacson. i'm sorry. that's on the next item. is there any public comment? on the people plan and america's cup update. >> thank you for presenting. also thank you for acknowledging that he would make sense to have bi-directional lanes so people don't ride bikes one-way and not have a way to get back safely. a question. last time we did not really

start -- i don't know we are calling it the embarcadero lane to the ferry lane. >> what is being considered now -- thank you for asking that, i did omit that -- from washington to pier 27, 29 only. >> and then, there will be the ability to adjust. as we look at days. the schedule is changing literally as we speak with adjustments and the louis vuitton challenge. how quickly can we adjust if we get alerted to potential needs to expanding efforts or putting some other action items and to place rapidly? >> we have the capacity to --

shift resources kind of on a moment by moment basis. for instance last year and the date october 6-7 weekend we had several enhanced transit lines in service and it turned out one of them, and forgive for not recall which one, was being used heavily in one of the others wasn't. because we have people on the ground and really great communication and key point people who were authorized to make decisions we quickly reallocated vehicles to go on to the line being used heavily so we can do that, and it was seamless to visitors, users and customers. we do have that capacity. >> and then -- i don't think we'll ever see the october 6-7 traffic

although i'm hoping that the giants will be back in the hunt this year, i there any other for foreseeable big, multi event days at this juncture? >> we do have an overlap of other events but nothing that is costing us to get anxious. >> and the last time for the challenge races, the world series, a lot of the activity was concentrated in one spot instead of a focal point. this time it will be all along spread out from marina green to pier 27 and probably some down to 30-32. my sense -- and this is just

again without knowledge -- given that we are expecting a significantly larger crowd to come and watch the races, spread out all along the waterfront, have we thought about that and made adjustments for that in the public transit? >> one of the challenges that is different from last year is connecting -- is providing service between 27, 29 the marina green. working with goldengate transit, their lives will be key to providing that connection. we have negotiated the ability for them to drop off and pick up. the challenge on us and them is to effectively communicate to people that the services available. we are working with them and with our respective communication departments and media outreach teams to make sure that is clear. the f line shuttle is also going to be a critical component.

we are hoping a lot of people will walk and bike as well. we saw last year, and saw on the 4th of july and if it's nice like today, people will walk. it is a beautiful place to walk. >> is there a way to expand it? people are coming in on caltrain, bart or muni with their bikes. it is not easy to get onto washington at that junction. >> a be happy to follow up with more information on our bike planners. given all of the other competing needs for the embarcadero and roadway space,

this is a piece that can be done safely, and within the kind of design work that is possible. i'm going to get back to you with more details. i don't think that was a super satisfactory answer. >> and then, again, last year we had the world series. this time the louis vuitton cup and challenge, in theory this will attract more people to the races. i working with the event authority to get a better sense of how many people are coming? >> yes, they have given us numbers i will defer to jane tullivan. >> hi, jane telephone with the

office of economic development. the original estimate was 3 million, now down to 2 million. >> compacting the louis vuitton challenge and maybe we'll see different numbers for those races spread out through july and august. >> we'll have real data at the end of all this and match our projections with reality at the end. >> thank you very much. >> is that 2 million today? >> over the course of the three months of the summer. >> san francisco has about 4-6 million visitors in the summer anyway, it's a significant jump. >> i'll start at a higher level and go down a bit.

in terms of the protection i will be touristed now during the last world series, particularly in the october peak, how many people we were experiencing that weekend? >> i don't know, i'm sure someone knows and i can get that for you also. >> okay, and then i see three different levels you mentioned local, regional level from around the bay, and from the lou vuitton and finals, the mix of out-of-town visitors is going to be much higher than in previous event because this is kind of the crescendo moment. i would like to know whether we know out of the enhanced transit that you mentioned, the goldengate bus, presidio,

bart, the percentage of peak days. >> it's hard to parse out what was attributable to america's cup versus everything else. bart had one of the highest ridership days in their history. we heard reports from the ferries that they had high ridership than normal. (indiscernible) >> and just to mention the only other thing that i know if that weekend is the 49ers opening season game on sunday. not necessarily going to the specific area of the america's cup but anytime there is a game at candlestick the traffic north-south gets backed up. that will impact whatever

happens because the game is going to start at 4:25 in the afternoon. i think you want to factor that in for that we can because that would be the opening weekend for the final. the other question is, given that we do think that they will be more out-of-town visitors i hear and see your shuttle from market street to marina, but what about union square? with the private operators have shuttle services because these are people who may or may not know how to use local transit. they could ask their hotel concierge, but will there be shuttles to where most tourists will congregate? the usage demand will be different than what we have seen in the past. >> two parts to that. one is that the america's cup event authority is running shuttles themselves that they

are operating and charging for and they are keeping us informed about them. and -- i don't think that their service routs are firmed up yet, but they are primarily looking at people who are from out of town who want me be more comfortable -- >> i am aware that there is a vip service. i'm talking about the average tourist staying around union square or some of the area needing to get somewhere. they have very customized service but that is for a very small group of people. >> and then our -- our transit service i believe one of the routes that is a shuttle between -- let me go back -- i think the marina pier 27-29 shuttle there is a variation on 30x.

there is a conversation kind of looping in to union square. the other part is we have worked with sf travel and the hotel council abaca medication strategy and making sure that the concierges have all the information to know how to direct people not familiar with our system. and making sure that the america's cup ambassadors are going to be throughout the high visitor population like in union square, part will be human communication. >> you mentioned satellite parking. hopefully there is thought about how people go on the satellite parking to the various venues.