and but it is traffic that flows from the park prosido boulevard, through the prosido on the way to the golden gate bridge, do you know? >> what the bridge is part of highway one. and it connects to the interchange with prosido parkway as it approaches the golden gate bridge. but that is, if i am understanding it correctly, that is not the dethank detour, it was reconstructed under phase one and it is completed. there are some traffic or lane adjustments that are being made to the approaches to the golden gate bridge as part of phase two construction, but those are construction phasing activities that, the really is not, you know, other than the fact that phase one itself is serving as a detour, that is the only facility that constitutes a detour on the project but what

they may be referring to is the fact that one of the ramps was closed at the beginning of the project, and it connects northbound one to southbound 101 and that will remain closed until it is completed. >> 2016? >> we expect the traffic shift to occur in late 2015. and the january 2016 date, and the substantial completing and that sort of for everything and the actual traffic shift to the facility should occur, late 2015. >> thank you. if are there are no other questions, let's open up up for public comment and is there anyone from the public that would like to speak. >> thank you so much for the update. >> could you call the next item it >> item 7, recommend allegation of $146,825 in prop k funds, with conditions, to the department of public works for sloat boulevard pedestrian

improvements, subject to the attached fiscal year cash flow distribution schedule and the amendment of the relevant 5-year priorityization programs and this is an action item. >> thank you and we have a staff presentation. >> good morning, the prop k request, and to leverage the highway safety improvement funds to construct the pedestrian improvements and (inaudible) and to the avenues as shown on the screen and also on page 14 of the attachment 6 of your memo and this is really much needed and influence on it and as you know, pedestrian safety is a very high priority. and to treat the high history. and in fact, after, the transportation authority approved, the design andal location project for this in march of last year and the

collision occurred near forest field drive which was part of the location, and post. and resulting in the death of a high school student. so, that intersection has been expedited with non-prop k funds and completed in september. so the park includes two remaining intersections. but the scope increased to include additional (inaudible) and extensions at ever glade avenue and also upgraded at the 20th avenue. and this will be completed in august, in coordination with the pedestrian safety project and if you have any questions, i am happy to answer and also, dpw representative is here. >> thank you, commissioner yee? >> this is not actually a question, this is a comment. i just wanted to come mend the efforts on slope boulevard. when the grant came in from i

forget where, it was a federal or a state frant? >> highway safety improvement. >> right, when that came in, the original, complete date was in my view would not be acceptable and it was projected to be finished a few years out and we wanted to thank the fta for being willing to sit down and expedite the project. and even before, the tragic accident of the student dying, so, and because of that, it is just it was even expedited, quicker. and so, i am going to come mend you folks for being able to do that. >> thank you. >> and if there are no other questions, let's open this up for public comment, is there

anyone from the public that would like to speak? >> good morning, commissioners, my name is jakie sacks and a member of the cac and we did not hear this, because we did not have a meeting in late, because of the holidays, we did not have a meeting last month. and we did not actually show this item completely and so we did not take any action on this item at all. we did not. we decided not to take any action at all. so we didn't do anything with it. thank you. >> thank you, and i wanted to thank mr. flanagin for being here as well. >> thank you. >> i am bob flanthot and we heard about the dangers of the officers from the police department traffic companies while it is the prepared safety task force and i am glad that you are getting this. please go ahead and do this and seek more funds. >> thank you. is there any other public comment? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> colleagues, could we move this forward without objection? >> thank you.

>> could you call the next item. >> 8, recommend allegation of 13.1 million in prop k funds with conditions to the san francisco transportation agency for preliminary engineering and detailed design for the transit effectiveness project subject to the attached fiscal year cash flow distribution schedule and amend the of the bus rapid transit muni metro network 5 year program. >> good afternoon commissioners, and i am just going to give you a brief overview and john hailly the director of transit is here to give a detailed presentation and this starts on 81 of your memo, and it is a request that you saw in november of last year, and this is coming back to the committee after a deferal in november and thes a 13.1 million dollars request for engineer and design staff to advance capitol improvements in that portion of the transit

effectiveness project recommendation and i would also include, spending for the staff to perform out reach around those staff recommendations capitol projects and at least, these physical improvement includes things like best bulbs, and to speed up the transit vehicles and in front of you is a fact sheet that was handed out at the meeting and it was available it the back of the room and on the website. and it shows a map of the recommended that would be funded through the project and so the november meeting there were a couple of meeting that came in discussion from the committee and our members of the public. and mta appeared to address, those questions, and it is regarding more details on the tep, as well as the scope and recommendation and benefits and the questions with how this prop k request for the larger tep recommendations and how the segments were prioritized and also the questions about the

out reach strategy and so with that i will introduce john hailly and he can give the presentation. >> thank you. >> mr. haily? >> good morning, mr. chairman, and members of the board, and thank you amber. briefly, we are here as amber indicated to seek your approval, to advance some 13.1 million in prop k funds, which we view as the seed money or the money that will bridge money that will help us to begin the process to improve the quality and the reliability and safety of the system. and secondly, to respond to some questions and concerns that you have raised regarding our approach to doing all of this. so, with that, if you don't have any questions, i will briefly walk you through, some

highlights. and again, this is for us, a very exciting opportunity, as amber indicated this has been a long process, so some five years in the making a very comprehensive process in looking at the entire universe of our system all 75 of the roots, and made a series of recommendations that tries to leverage the strength of an integrated transportation organization like we have to move the project forward. i think that again, that is a brief description of the process, that we followed, comprehensive extensive throughout the city. i think that it is important to know on this one, that what this is all about is really beginning to systematically both improve the service, starting with the key corridors but also, to institutionalize

or anchor those kind of processes in the way that we do businesses and the sfmta and first of all what were selected in front of you to move forward first represents some 400,000 daily trips out of 700,000 significant course of our riders and those are high ridership and the corridors and also, we focus on travel time, the single biggest complaint that we hear from our riders is why does my trip take so long and i have an example that i will hand out regarding the 8 acts that we will show you when you apply the eight principals that we point out to the one root and the benefits that will accrue in terms of travel time and so it is both the focus program to hit on a high percentage of riders, and improving the travel time, and then, also, this builds on the

groundwork that has already been laid with your support and cooperation. and reliability and the single biggest cause of the delays in the muni system and mechanical failures with your help and support in the last 18 months to two years, we have moved forward with a very ambition and both the fleet replacement and component over all and rebuild the program on both the buses and roughly, and so we are committed to doing that as part of that effort and so then finally, most importantly, sfmta was recently one of a handful of major systems that were selected for a focused audit on its equity practices and where it went to and the words root went and where the riders are and how the levels of service on each one and i am pleased to say, that the federal transit administration

had no findings, in fact we were 100 percent compliance in terms of our existing programming and what, what that means for us going forward is the intent to built off of that commitment and there is a program and our rider ship and our service levels stand the test of equity across the system. so, with that, the other part of this, is part of the review and we are talking today about what i have described as seed money or money to start the process rolling, so that when we complete the community process, and the community review process, we are ready to advance these initiatives certainly in all of our institutional lifetime and secondly, it goes hand in hand with expectations that we will begin a process that we will look at the service plan and

not just the levels of service, but excuse me, but that this program that was called the transit effectiveness program, will result in the regular service increases across the board. so, these, or this is why this has been so important to us, so important to the city, one of the reasons that we appreciate the support and why we are excited to begin the process, to transitions from the planning into the implementation phase, and today, again the 13.1 that we are requesting is for some 4 million of that, is designated for the community out reach and the remainder is to begin the process to take or to design a taylor or a customized list of fixes for each of these corridors to improve the service and reliability. and there is a sampling of where the money will go right there and there is some, you

know from a planning engineering phase, group one and group two referred to as a selection of routes and they were both high rider ship routes and again, the focus there will be of a total request of 13.1 million, four million in and of itself is for community out reach and the biggest number is for detailed design of that in the remainder of the focus is on preliminary engineering of the fixes for each of the selected corridors. and in terms of the public out reach, effort, we have gone through and are prepared to go into greater detail with the concepts that we are following, but right now, in the months ahead, we have the series of meetings schedule, along with the corridors. and sort of an ex-sentive out reach and part of the process that we want to follow is to go out and present concepts, and

so list sit public feedback and integrate and include the feedback into those comments and i would say, to jump ahead for a moment, but, excuse me. this direction on one of the things that we want to highlight in terms of a real line in a process, that we followed, was what the recent improvements to the five and to five l, we have had and an out reach session, and two, actually, and we had public hearings, on the process. and we made a number of changes, even after we started it to reflect the feedback that we got from the public. and everything from location of stops, and everything to excuse me, adjusting shelters, and park and the impact on parking. and so part of what we would present this as, not only then the... >> mr. rily, mr. breed has a point. >> okay. thank you. >> i am glad that you mentioned

the 5 l, because we ran into some obstacles with that. and we submitted those and they were corrected. and one of the things that i was hoping that we do, and in any process moving forward with the extensive amount of support that is being requested for out reach is that we look at the mistakes that we made with the 5 l and we tried to address those things in advance. and specifically, there are two senior developments, within close proximity of one of the removed bus stop stations. and we were told that they were contacted, but we don't know if they were or weren't. but the more that we are talking about the population especially, yes, we can have meetings at the mta and yes, we can have meetings at the community centers. but, i do think that it is very important that we go above and

beyond in the out reach process. to those particular developments where they house primarily seniors, because it is difficult for them to get around in the first place and since i wanted to just know that in the five, of the case of the 5 l that was corrected and i was happy about that and also i do appreciate the fact that we may not cover everything. but the ability to maiblg changes in order to adjust to some of those major changes that we are proposing with the system in general. and it is definitely important to me. so thank you. >> you are welcome. >> and i just wanted to thank sean kennedy for his work, and this is a great case study because of, i think that the baker street stop was reinstituted with input as an example but i liked how mr. kennedy and staff came to the richmond district as well and listened to many seniors and others, and were flexible about

taking that input and integrating it into the plan as well. and so the five limited is a great example, and i think of the mta's example to have out reach and have that impact the way that you implement and i appreciate it. >> campos? >> thank you, mr. chairman. and i apologize but i have to step out of the meeting but i do want to before, you complete your presentation, i just want to thank staff, for all of the work that has been done and to echo the comments of my colleagues, mr. kennedy and others that have been doing this, and i was impressed with the level of community out reach that is being planned that has been done and i do want to get a specific copy of the plan that has been written for this effort. and the one thing that i want to under score is what i said at the meeting with the staff, i do think that it is important for us to reach out to certain communities, and the senior and the disabled community being a key community. and i would like to get more

and input from them in terms of our my orty and the facing of this and i think that it is important to speak to young people and to include the school district and in this discussion. because i think that you know, their plans long term whether it is an assignment or a dramatic placements, might have some relevance in terms of what we prioritize, but other than that, i want to thank you and i appreciate also, the emphasis on the lingual communities because that is really important to make sure that they are a part of this process and that they understand, what is happening, that they themselves have a say, and in the priorities, thank you. >> thank you. >> commissioner kim? >> i am just to add on to commissioner campos's comments. and i want to concur on the out reach and the process that happened for the 5 l and the tp process there and it would be great that if before the next

full commission hearing next week when we finally vote on this item, we could get a sense of the community out reach that has been planned for the full tp plan. and so, i did sit down with sfmta and know that they are committed for doing a robust process and i think that is the primary concern in feedback but i will continue and what we expect the plans and programs committee back in november was just insuring that there is going to be a good process, because i think that there are all of these concerns and questions about the tap and some that might be justified and some that might be addressed through this process. >> thank you, mr. haily. >> i will just leave you not for an over kill, but i think that it is important that as we go from concepts in to reality, that i will leave you with sample of the 8 x, and show you where we would apply some of this 13 million in seed money

and want example of one of how it saved travel time. so, i will leave that. thank you. >> mr. chairman and the committee members. >> thank you. >> so, colleagues? with no other questions, let's open this up for public comment, is there anyone from the public that would like to speak? >> ibob plantrol i came to subject to thal le indication for the recommended out reach contract and the over allal location of money and this past saturday, the contractor had a first focus group for seniored and disable and no one from the mta cac or from the transportation, or the council was on this. and the concepts proposed were mun dates and trite and not specific to our con stit you

entcy. the larger issue is what is ignored here, the tep cuts out stops. and that is often said, overly to help to speed up things, for years i have been asking mta, everything now, supposed to be data driven, where is the data of how it will effect the senior and people with disabilities and how it will effect the increases of collisions for pedestrians who have to go a block or a block and a half and they don't have it, they don't know how to get it, they don't have time to contact other agencies. and it is a process, of avoid, evade and deny. on those questions. and frankly, i am going to make this a political issue. all of you who campaign, recite the mantra of diversity. but when it comes to people who are weaker, less mobile than you, all that you say is let's talk. and you don't hold mta's feet

to the fire about how this is going to hurt. seniors and people with disabilities. >> how it will effect us. you are favoring the many and ignoring the vulnerable. by going ahead with recommending both the fullal location, but also thal location, for the out reach subcontractor that is the problem. >> thank you. is there anyone else that would like to speak? >> mr. flanagin? would you like to? >> i would just, i would just

like to say that the things that i have seen on the buses and on the streets like the bicycle riders riding on the sidewalk, and when the taxis come up to have somebody that is mobility and to come on to the sidewalk, the wheelchair can't get on the sidewalk because of overcrowding bicycles. and overcrowding shopping carts. and i would like to have it safe for the these kind of people when they get off of the or out of the taxi and, out of a para transit vehicle. as well as coming out of the

bus, as well. it disturbs me a little bit when i see the problem and i fry to help the individuals that have half of the problems. most of these people have vision impairments, or most of them have other impairments. but, i would like to, i would like to see some improvement, on the sidewalks and streets, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> is there anyone else that would like to speak? >> hello there commissioners my name is jakie sacks and commissioner kim is in a

november meeting, and the meeting before, was, and this item was brought up. when we first heard about this item, and the item was brought in front of the city and the city, and they are here and he said,, and i totally agree with him and he said that it is not increasing service, it is decreasing service. and they are taking it and they are not taking it into consideration. and they are swing in the brave yard and the people that worked after 6:00 downtown, the people that work in hotels. in bars and the people that serve food and food, and the people that are coming in from the airport. and that take bart what want to get to their hotel and come ng late at night and come home, and take bart to the station and get on the muni and they want to get to it, and they did

not and, they totally ignore the senior disabled community, and the people, the people that work after 5:00, and i have spoken out against what is they are trying to do because it is not, it is not helping service, it is ruining service, everything was running fine before december 5, 2009. but they cut service, and they stopped service after a certain times and because the people have to, and the people go to sleep at midnight, but there are other people that work all night long and work the different hours and they don't take that into crar ration and they totally ignored, the mta totally ignored the hours of testimony that i gave and other drivers, and people from the union gave this sort of thing and i think that is totally..., take that into consideration and do not approve this item. >> okay. >> like i said a couple of months ago. >> thank you, is there anyone else that would like to speak

from the public? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. and actually amber, from the ta. >> just a clarification in response in the comments, this allocation request is just for the staff and i believe that the consultant contract that he was speaking about was already awarded with the different sources and so this is only frontier stuff. >> and i want to weigh in and say that the whole goal of the transit effectively project is to increase service and to really, i think this is a really to the out reach and taking that input to implementation. and i think that the public distrusts that has been mentioned in the public comment is not just the staff this time but in october and november, i think that the mta is really being self-critical about that. and i think as commissioner kim has recommended, to have very

clear implementation plans presented here, and keeping us as commissioners in the loop and the ta as well, is something that the mta is committed to, and i think that sean kennedy's work is a great example and the 5 h limited but there are other examples of the vulnerable populations that were committed to do and increasing it and the better system of functioning of the transit system in the city. and i did want to also say that i think that my expectation as a chair of the committee is that we would have regular if possible, monthly written updates and a occasional presentations that really keep us, the transportation authority, commissioners in the loop on the key projects of the tep and as i mentioned earlier, the implementation plans that are clearer and possible to delivered to be our office and to maintain that level of out reach that has been talked about in this meeting and, some have suggested in the previous meetings, continuing the effort that the mta and the others

have done with the bilingual out reach to the immigrant speaking populations that may need that additional bi lingual materials and sensitivity as well. >> commissioner breed? >> i know that you are all schedule to come back with information about how out reach is going within the next six months. according to the information that i have. and i want to make sure that that is accurate. correct? >> there is a plan to come back and do a presentation at plans and programs about the out reach efforts. and i want to reiterate how important the out reach efforts are to me, especially because what sadly happens is you know, some people come back after the fact, and they did not know anything about it. and i understand that we are not going to be able to always get to everybody. but, again, i