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american people you got to the park merced agreement taking them over to the west side of the street. the idea here was to look at it building upon that side park merced plan as it stands solves the access plan but not the speed and reliability. so i'll quickly walk you through the steps we started by establishing goals for the work the big focus was on speed and reliability of transit improving the access and the safety of non-motorized vehicles in the corridor. during the first stage of work we developed several different ways to get over in the northern part of the corridor and the same with the south. we shared that during our first
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round during february and got great feedback and learned some of the idea were unpopularity so we spent the summer trying to understand the performance against the goals. when we came back and did our second round of outreach we completed an evaluation and compared two options to form the highest alternatives of the bridge and taking the underground from approximately st. francis cycle through park merced and traveling over highway one and a bridge connecting to randolph street. some of the connections improve the reliability of the m and also a lot more capacities on the line we've enable 3 and 4 car train services that is a
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benefit that ripples through market street. also big improvements to the safety distance across the street appraise for places where pedestrians cross the street and prove the quality of life. i mentioned we did two rounds of outreach we reached the stakeholders from all the parts of corridor from west portal down to the o m i and worked the 3 landlords on the west side of the street. generally a lot of support and questions we're not making decisions but we will continue to work with the community on the questions and subsequent phases. that talks about the costs which is, of course, generated a lot of questions this is a potential cost of the project on the order
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of 5 hundred million capital confidence showing some of the considerations is the savings and operating costs that will be generated in the traffic time. thinking about the potential to leverage existing commitments to looshz and sf state has committed presidential 2 million and there's more work to be done with the value of increases looking at value stunts and the last chapter of the report includes a list of potential work and we're not asking for a decision today definitely moving forward to that spending the money today. did want to note that phasing is could start with the bridge and do the subway later.
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so that brings me to my last slide the next phase of work is still before environmental review. at this stage we transfer the leadership to sfmta. that will take us past july of next year to do the study report this is a caltrain's facility and diverse time to answer questions before we enter the environmental control phase. you've approved the prop k. i defer to the chair how he wants to proceed with the partners remarks >> we can probably squeeze them in but be as brief as possible and i have a number of cards to
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call as well. i see bert from park merced and others >> i'm jason from san francisco university i'll be brief and support my support my gratitude to the staff for leading this collaboration. >> good morning commissions i'm bert i'm here representing park merced. the park merced long-range plan was for the inception of the study we've been supporting this study financially and prarpgs in the sessions. the adaptation will be transformative for the west side of the city improving muni operations and pedestrian safety i'd like to thank the gentleman and to chester fong and tilting
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and others and the mayor's office for their tireless effort. and to the neighborhood and stakeholder we're collaborating to get this done. thank you, commissioners i urge you to adapt this 19th avenue study >> i see cynthia from the galleria. >> we wanted to acknowledge the wonderful leadership this collaborative are partnering has had and thank you for the opportunity to participate and want to see solutions and improvements and will continue to support the project. >> so with no other partners speaking let's open this up for public comment. i have a couple of cards (calling names) and anyone else who wants to speak please come forward >> i'm katie work with the west
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side group. i wanted to thank liz as well. i have 3 points to make first of all, lots of outreach was done including with residents in our area. and as part of one of those outreach sessions we conducted a very inform survey i wanted to say that 70 percent felt neighbors support of tunnel. going through our area the reason we got together was some of the options were unpopularity so it was a good way to that was a prospective bridge through our neighborhood that turned out into a tunnel that made people support the project better. the last piece i wanted to mention as well as someone who lives in the neighborhood we see the traffic and pedestrian
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safety issues everyday the offer crowding on the train it was clearly designed for a system or ridership one hundred years ago and if we're going to make the tunnel do it right and get an underground station. and if we're going to spend the money do it the right way and improve the safety situation and the ridership situation for everybody. thank you >> thanks. mr. goodman >> well, you mentioned that tunnel thing was starting on ocean avenue the reason community members opposed it was talking about the tight it little streets the issue on the overhead you have 4 we're trying to look at the congestion this is tip towing through the tuesday lips this is not going
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to solve the 189th avenue turn issues you're going to have more congestion you've ever seen before sf state university had an m u for one million if something was in the ground and started. the same thing happens here with the park merced tail track and the future planning if we don't get this up front they're looking for studies and analysis and i think there are some, you know, adequate minds here looking at that but the problem they don't look at it i'll show you quickly i gave the drawing to peter albert it shows connectivity. you don't have the length in the system i can get you a copy myself if you don't have
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connectivity you don't look at the bio county transit and you're not solving the problem. we're bending for a developer to do what they want for the project which is $7 million. so, please look at this sincerely and do not just look at certain neighborhoods it effects disproportionly the park merced area >> thank you. >> yes. glen rogers again. when they originally came up with the plan of the skyway for the young streetcar they didn't include the fact there was going to be 2 or 4 rows of trees quite at all that would be at least 20 or thirty or 50 feet high
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>> sorry about that. >> the skyway would never be viewed even when there was a streetcar on the sky way. it's disingenuous and create a hedge that would block it so the public would not be invented by the bad view. i was present when the 1953 bridge was built in my neighborhood. i have to tell you it took forever for that thing to get built the traffic jams that occurred were tremendous. that's nothing compared to what happens in my district when k - this is built. san francisco is ged with the
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research they have a good lawyer and good case. this project enters a quiet and peaceful community that causes blight and noise it didn't go through park merced creating a loop system it's a dogleg system that didn't priority in my opinion enough ridership. also it produces city kwauns for the largest community in san francisco. park merced has been recognized by many prestige organizations as praise worthy and historic interest. and lastly the management has offered low rate housing to properties in manhattan. this project went out of business and at the end they were charging the residents there 3 times the market rate.
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so this is the history. thank you >> thank you, mr. rogers. next speaker >> good morning. i'm henry i'm here to voice any support of the feasibility study with one transcript on the avenue some not where the m lines are at there are a lot of students who ride the 28 everyday during the rush hour there's congestion in the north direction and if the questing right-of-way were there it would improve where their ride the m or 28. that's one thing i ask the feasibility study to consider >> anyone else who would like
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to speak. seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor yee >> yeah. i just want to make a comment about the process of seeing the ta and mta as partnership come together on this. when they first went out to the community it was in draft form and there were options for several. was interesting to watch the public or lynn listen to the public initially when there was a fear that decisions were already made they continued to give their comments and input to the create of the process when it came back the comments that were made were listened to and the adaptation of the next duration of the plan was more to the liking to the majority of the people.
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i went to several of the public meetings and saw day and night the meetings and in terms of the process i would hope that the effort that was made from this process could be also done with other promotions throughout the city. >> thank you supervisor yee. we're joined by john avalos as well. supervisor avalos >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to note i certainly hope that we continue to communicate with this community and i was certainly interested in finding of finding out more about connectivity that was raised and wondering if there's any comment from staff >> so regarding the question of
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connectivity we did do a little bit of an analysis of expending the ocean view to daily city bart on page 70. and we draw up a potential line up from oxygen view to daily city. the best way to do it would be peel off the bridge and elevate in the middle and as you start to land you'll have to elevate again, it's quite a bit of aerial structure we have 3 hundred million reported. there's nothing we're doing to preclude that as a future extension but we have capital costs which is a large potential agreement of the project we think the focus should be in the immediate term. i thought about it and i certainly hear about the
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connection to the daily city. i think people love bart because it's fast and reliable but we are trying to make the m ocean view like that. it depends on what you're desire is but some people choose daily city bart because it's fats faster and we're trying to make the m line like that >> thank you. >> a question along those lines if we are talking about the m line going to daily city bart we're talking top of a portion will not be going down this area so i think we want to make sure that the randolph corridor don't lists services. >> let me clarify is decision
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that was middle-income made in the park merced plan some trains would go to the tail track in park merced and tuner and go downtown and some trains will continue to randolph so the current plan under would be not every train going to randolph but also a more service provided in the future. i think it's an interesting question is there a way to counterfeit the speed and reliability of improving the existing connection to the bart station >> yes, if we're excluding the train going to daily city we would see less service and frequency potentially for people on either line right now we don't have anything going on in
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daily city but we'll use the corridor to get on the m line to downtown in a quick way. we want to make sure we're still maintaining a level of service people are using that line >> other comments. i wanted to say i'm sorry mr. roger we already closed public comment but i want to say the 28 line that dbe's north and south on 28 line to sf state as mr. pan raised increasing the efficiency and the use even if north, south corridor is an issue as we look at the results of this study. i don't know if the corridor was from is it fair to say cycle to pretty much the ingel side but i hope we look at how to maximize
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the transit along the north, south corridor that goes up to golden gate park to park presidio boulevard sometime in the future. so colleagues, any other comments? then we have an action item before us is there a motion? >> moved and a by supervisor yee. >> supervisor avalos. supervisor london breed ask absent >> supervisor campos. supervisor kim. supervisor mar. supervisor yee. this item passes >> thank you and supervisor breed has left the meeting and we're joined by supervisor avalos. we're going to item number 9 now. call the next item >> item 9 presentation of draft strategic analysis report on
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local and bike models. this is an informational item >> we have the newly clean-cut michael shorts. >> i'm with the planning section. i know we're running short on time. this is not in your packet we're protocols we're passing and we're distributing them now and to anyone on our website >> can i open up real briefly. back in september i asked for this report to be done we started our pilot program and but it's under the jurisdiction ultimately but there could be other ways and places it's going to find it's ultimate home a
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hybrid between the m t direction and questions about whether we have government entity with the regional level that needs to get worked out and as we see the pilot projecting program i asked for this study to be done to get a handle on the different choices and not to thank the transportation staff and michael sworts >> the chair puts it exactly right this is a perfect time and the first part of this presentation i want to show this first muni rail listen this is germany gary when this was one public transit agency. today, of course, there are 27 different transit agencies
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different operating proprietors they expedite with the agencies. a simple trip from the core of oakland your riding 3 different train systems and paying 3 fairs taking an hour to get there and paying more than $7 for a one way trip. this is some of the issues not growing in a cooperated manner. why am i talking about that we're at this stage we have one system that's working and trying to expand it we have this unique opportunity and the commissioners have been interested in this traufb and hopefully, we'll do it in a way not to undue challenges in the future. as the chair said how do we get
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from where we are today to we have biking in the region and helps you to connect from the transit system. i'm not going into bicycle sharing but very quickly it's important to frame it as an extension of the transit system. it number one has the connection in the outer districts but it is pulling people out of transit into the congested downtown so it's helping transit and it could be a much anymore cost effective way in planning a now a railway line. as the chair said the air district is the lead right now.
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this incrimination recommends the sfmta fund to have 5 hundred bikes in san francisco and a thousand through the system. we've learned from the pilot there's more than 90 percent of transportation is in san francisco it's a good place for bike sharing and as mentioned the organizational structure of the permanent structure is under deliberations and this is the best time to have the conversation. another thing to emphasize is recreational bike sharing is good for san francisco and a strong bike sharing in san francisco will be good for the region. and see the nature of the f ar
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there's two key indemnities the first is the infrastructure and good afternoon, everyone. how local the administration and transportation will be done vs. a centralized model. everybody don't their own thing a nate's that's not the thing to look at we want to see the standards here. on the other extreme is the air district the regional district controls the funding to make sure the system st. is moving forward and the hybrid model in between there the second access is who's going be to operating open a local level. there's examples of this around the country the nonprofit administer we spin-off the nonprofits who goes out and operates it. the second one the same
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nonprofit administering but a private vendor who operates it. and then there's a totally private model which is what new york and miami have done you allow them to go into a private entity to make sure it's meeting the context >> who is in new york and florida. >> is it citibank? >> yes. citibank. >> i'll be the ultimate operator bay keith from the sfmta who is the project manager for bike sharing in san francisco, california answer your questions. >> and mr. schorts in mexico city is that nonprofit with the
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private sector partner; is that correct is are they in mexico city. >> my impression is that mexico that's right that is a private entity that's operating it with strong government oversight. even when it's totally private there's a entity whether you're going to charge for the space that has parking spaces or car right-of-way is donated by the private sector. >> and that's private nonprofit in mexico city or a distinction between - my it's a slightly different structure but that's right it's a private nonprofit
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it's eco b.c. who won of their missions is to operate it bike sharing system i should note we're a union structure to do the recreational bike sharing into in the washington, d.c. area and the boston area those are the publicly administered models where a private vendor operates the system. and so the way we evaluate the model vs. public and private the 4 main goals from this commission as well as the public which are the ability to expand rapid in san francisco that is the critical mass and have it become a viable form of transportation as well as fats sustainability. one of the key questions is the
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sponsoring question one of the sporpz is private sporpz and whatever private sponsoring is quite a bitly distributed so that's an advantage for that one and the other to make sure that the cooperation and understanding is where the value is in the spoerp. so this is again saying if one key thing the clipper card you'll be able to use the same fair structure it will cost the same in one area you'll be able to use it in other places to not pay another fair. >> just around the use of clipper there has to be a law change to use the clipper in the system that's
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