and people walking and driving there is a preference to have bicyclist separated so there is no chaos in trying to share the right-of-way and safer for folks that way. on the pedestrian safety side, the city with again community partners went through an extensive process to understand where a pedestrian collision is happening and why are they happening and what can be done to fix those. we know that about 60 percent of all pedestrian accidents happen on six percent 6 percent of the city's streets. so they are very heavily concentrated and we've done a whole analysis to show the specific engineering types of improvements that can be put into place to make things safer for people trying to move around on the sidewalk or crossing the street. this program, if fully realized would fund

those improvements. just in terms of the bond itself, as i mentioned there is a bond on the ballot in november, proposition a. the majority of the funding goes to vechlts -- investments and making muni services more reliable and more accessible and safer for people to access. because much of the investment makes changes to the right-of-way to protect muni to allow muni to move without having to move in and out of traffic, it also allows for changes on the street that make it safer for people to board muni and also make it safer for pedestrians in that area. things like the bus boarding, the pieces of the sidewalk that kind of bulb out for safety

improvement and reliability improvement. the other funding in this bond would go towards achieving the city's goal of vision zero which is a goal to reduce traffic fatalities to 0 by 2024 and really would put the majority of funding into pedestrian safety types of improvements. the bond itself does include a number of accessibility improvements. there is a heavy focus of the bond for elevator improvements at the shared muni downtown where the sclat -- escalators and elevators are. if that elevator is out of service and someone in a wheelchair has no way to

access that station. to provide elevators there and another component of the bond would be to fund the audible count down signal. if other measures were to be improved in the future, the key stop would be standed more robustly. as the city does paving, the city is required to implement curb ramps. if funding is identified for paving curb ramps something around a thousand per year depending on the level of funding provided. there is basic repair work that needs to be done to the existing ada accessible stops and locations that would also be funded through this. we did complete a study in

2013 to look at and you maybe familiar with this already, but to look at as we expand the key stop program where the most appropriate locations for that. there is a new key stop being put into place this year at 28th avenue and judea as the tunnel project. that is coming online and those types of improvement would likely be contingent on these other sources coming into being. i have mentioned the separated bike ways and i also wanted to reference the work that's been done. i believe there's a presentation to this group a couple months ago on accessibility guidelines for bike ways and it's a critical component of making sure that the entire system is accessible to all users to making sure as we provide safety for moving around

in different ways we are not limiting access for people who need to get across the street or have a transit pick up. that would be a design component going forward. and, i did want to just mention on the service side, the muni conducted last year a is survey, it was very expensive. 22,000 people participated. it was an on board rider is survey to give us an understanding of demographics of immune easy rider ship. what the is survey told us that people of all backgrounds, all income levels take muni. with that being said, a disproportionate number of muni's riders are very low income. in fact 25 percent of muni's riders earn less than $15,000 per year.

so very very low income. so, taking that into consideration the mta board has started to look at ways to make muni more accessible from an income standpoint. we had a pilot program in place offering free muni for youth and low and motion tion moderate income use to expand the program to people up to age 18 just this past july and were now in the process of also in krorp -- incorporating students in the unified school district who stay in the program until age 22 so they can stay in that program and that's going to be going to the board of supervisors very soon. they asked to come back in january to consider expanding this free muni for low and moderate income folks

for seniors and people with disabilities that is something they expressed a great interest in doing. we'll be brieng bringing that back to them in the next couple of months. that closes for me but happy to answer any questions. >> thank you very much for your presentation. are there any councilmember questions. cochair zarda? >> okay. councilmember harriet wong? >> hi. thank you for your presentation. i was wondering for the transportation 2030 project, so how did they select your committee? >> the mayor's task force? the mayor's office was, the mayor's office determined the participation on the task force as the mta. we helped to staff the work

that was done there, but the participation and wh specifically was part of those 45 people was determined by the mayor. >> did the bring that to the attention of the mayor's office on disability at all? >> yes, in fact jeff johnson was part of that task force. >> chair zarda? >> thank you for participating in this council. earlier in this presentation you mentioned during the key investments through 2030 you mentioned the roads through transit and safety you mentioned an analysis done regarding how the money

should be allocated in each area. is this analysis available to the public and if so how would we have access to it. >> yes, there is two different websites. one is called sf transportation 2030 .com. and on that website you will find all the background information on the transportation 2030 program including the bond report for the bond that's on the ballot now that list the projects for the bond and also on the planning department website which is sf planning .org. there is a web page to the transportation task force which was something of a separate effort. so all of those background materials, all the plans that were reviewed are all linked there. >> great, thank you for that.

also, on the issue of meeting the needs for 2030 and so forth and road improvement and pedestrian safety and increasing the muni availability rates, what factors have you taken into consideration that are coming up now or in the past years, for example, the increase of t and c vehicles on the road and increase of buses coming through more frequently, going out to mountain view and so forth, how has that being taken into consideration. is it more to continue the same route or has there been some discussion about different alternative ways of reconstructing some of the roadways or putting in measures to allow the buses to flow more quickly because if there is more vehicles added there i don't know how much money they can throw at the same thing. i'm curious what kind of ideas were

discussed? >> it's a really interesting question. i wish i knew what the next new thing will be. the t and c, i couldn't anticipated that. who knows what will come in the next 15 years, but from a very basic standpoint, you have a limited amount of street space which we do, we are bound by water on three sides. there is a limited amount of space. so we have a certain number of people trying to move through the street. what becomes important and this is really just a physics question is how many people you can fit in which ways. when you put people on a bus. those 75 people on a bus is taking the space of two or three cars. you have as many as 75 people, maybe 60 is more ideal. but you have as many as 75

people and in those three cars you might have three people. from the broadest standpoint, the way for the city's transportation system to really function over time would be to, for some folks are always going to want to drive or need to drive and that's completely fine. but not everybody can be in a vehicle at all times or the system will shutdown. the key is really to make the alternatives to driving feasible and attractive to people and that means that muni has to be more reliable. it can't take so long to get from the outer shut -- sunset to downtown. it's not feasible to spend an hour-and-a-half to get where they are going often times. it needs to be less crowded. we have a director on our board who uses a wheelchair, she talks

about there is traffic and crowding. she gets through with more space to get on a bus. those investments are critical or people won't want to make that shift into the form of transportation that actually from a physics standpoint allows everybody to move effectively around the city. >> my follow up to that, i'm glad you were able to put it in a succinct form. is this part of task force moving forward or a separate task force being done to exam what can be done for alleviating the stress. it's sort of a catch 22, you have to make it quicker that means you have to get rid of the cars. is there anything that we as a council can do in working with the department in anyway possible just

getting the word out about possible meetings coming up. what can we do? >> i would absolutely love to take advantage of that offer. there is a lot of work that mta does on a daily basis to sort through these questions and there will be different opportunities to engage certainly as part of transportation 2030, this bond measure, that first recommendation that came out of the task force but there are other components of this program that will take another few years to see implemented and we very much want to engage a really broad base of stakeholders in terms of considering how and if to move the rest of that program forward and would really appreciate working with this group on that. thank you. >> thank you. >> i just have two questions: one is financial and the other is practical. the financial part, on the recommended funding sources page will be the bond that you are trying to get

passed by voters in november and the additional bond in 10 years. although first bond be paid off by the time the second bond is being issued? is that the plan? you retire one and bring in the other one? >> right. the city has and this bond, the mta is not trying to get it passed we are not advocating for anything, we can't. but the city has a program called the capital planning program and there is a capital budget that is a 10 -year budget. that budget identifies the infrastructure needs and paid over time. the city has run a general obligation bond for years. in 2006 the city adopted a policy that says we will not issue another general

bond debt until we address the old bond or until san francisco grows enough so that property tax rates can remain constant. >> you mean level? >> right. >> okay. the other question is about elevators in downtown. why can't we add more elevators. it doesn't make sense to walk five 5 blocks to find a muni rate -- elevator that works. >> that is what we are trying to do. >> thank you. we'll move to public comment? is there any comment from staff. >> i still want to say something. i think a suggestion is do you need to be some kind of social awareness out there or some sort of advertising where people that drive their cars need to know that in 15 years we are

going to have a million more people and more cars on the road so if they are going to drive their cars to have more paengz -- passengers in their cars rather than just one. i think there needs to be some sort of social awareness just to let people know that. >> yeah. thank you. >> director johnson? >> just a quick comment. thank you so much for your presentation. it was a very comprehensive and clear description of the process that the committee went through. there are so many worthy projects that are bundled into this list of recommendations and the second elevator at the muni stops on market street was definitely one of the worthy projects that i helped to advocate for because of the need.

i wanted to build a little bit on the comment you made about paving and curb ramps to provide a little bit of context . for the last three years 3 years we have had a paving bond and over time when you look at the number of curb ramps built for paving and under the ada transition plan, it's 3-1. meaning the paving plan builds as many curb ramps as we do from the curb ramp construction. that will be a great benefit. >> thank you. >> all right. we'll move on to public comment. i have bob plant old.

>> i'm bob plant hold and i will talk about this plan and the task force. i'm going to be raising questions because people need to learn more and to think. you saw in the presentation 20 percent of immune easy riders are 55 or older. the population over all there is 18 percent of us that has a disability. 15 or 18 percent maybe seniors. membership of the 45 people on that task force, we've heard carla johnson. one other person was appointed but almost never came. so two people out of 45 to represent 20 percent or more of the city. nobody from the para transit councilman from amongst you folks from adult adult services

from the committees, nobody from the committees was a part of this. there is some statements made about the benefits of some of the funding proposed. the elevators, we all agree there is a need for elevators. but i pointed out and nobody yet has responded. the stations are owned by bart. it's their property. muni is a renter. typically a tenant doesn't give a landlord free improvements. i have general asking is muni getting a rent credit. silence doesn't build confidence. another thing is millions of dollars on canopies at entrances. the claim was it will reduce wear and

tear. when you walk on the street, anybody can throw anything on the para pit. anybody can drop anything on the escalators. it doesn't make sense. you saw a diagram on muni. you have to realize some of the proposed funding would then make for separated bike ways. that means that every muni passenger would now have to leave the crosswalk into the street to board a bus. every muni passenger. that's not the case now. now the 71 inbound, 521 outbound, you board at the curb a. it wouldn't happen under the proposed for this plan. hundreds of thousands of people ride the muni erd. everyday. is this consistent.

it also funds pet to cut out bus stops to make us walk farther. do you think this benefits us or is this an ploy? >> next howard chat ner. >> okay. good afternoon. first i echo bob's comments. he's very knowledgeable. he

really knows what he's talking about. the clock hasn't begun yet. at least not that i can see. i try to use meany whenever i can but there is major disability access problems which has only worsened in the past decade. it's impossible to get through muni during rush hour. some bus line-ups have been limited at all together. part of problem is that powell and montgomery they let you off in the alley in a dark platform. back in the 1990s about the need to have safe elevators. no plans yet to do that on montgomery.

of course the muni elevators smell of urine. in may i was in naples, italy and went to a metro station there, grant it, it's new, but you can eat off the floor. that's how clean it was. it all about more money and more money. nothing about the cost side, nothing about how well run or poorly run is mta from a financial standpoint. i was at a meeting at haight street a few months ago where mta was trying to pose their vision for haight straight in the face of people in the neighborhood there were transportation engineers and planners and about 5 or 6 federal -- from the planning

department. many people way over staff. it's all this presentation is about more money and more money. nothing on looking really seriously at how things are run. mta's budget keeps going up year after year with nothing to show for it. in the past year it's increased to $945 million. the amount going to access, that's about $170 million increase in four 4 years. but the amount going to access is i -- accessible services. i'm not going to vote to give mta a $500 million blank check. thank you. >> thank you. is there any other public comment on this item?

>> good afternoon, honorable councilmembers. my name is arnold wong. when we heard about the transportation task force we followed it carefully and attended some of the meetings and were surprised that 21 of those members were government employees, many department heads, many reporting to the mayor, about 11 were from the business community. so very lopsided. no neighborhood people, no advocates from your community and week before this report came out we wrote a letter to them and predicted what their findings would be and what their recommendations would be. we said you are going to recommend a $500 million bond, new transportation taxes and a vehicle license fee. well, we were close.

there were two $500 million bonds. so the whole process actually everybody knew it was about funding. but yet this report, what's the funding in this report? only 49 percent of it goes to muni which is i guess okay for some people. but the bond measure is even worse. the $500 million general obligation bond has $500 million interest according to the controllers statement. 1 billion in debt but the property ordinance doesn't even guarantee that money will be spent on anything related to muni or anything related to disability. any bond contracted that you and i sign says money maybe allocated to, not shall be allocated too. it's essentially a blank check. what do we think it's really going to be spent on?

well, probably cost over runs. muni has every large project according to 2011 audit has major cost over runs and also the project mentions implementation of transit effectiveness project. essentially the philosophy of tep is to move neighborhood services to rapid corridors and we have already seen that. we have seen the higher speed buses, but where did that come from? it came from the elimination of bus stops and elimination of routes, the shortening of routes and less frequency of neighborhoods. so all the people who live in neighborhoods that need to get to the major feeder lines can't do it. so what has happened? muni rider ship has declined

from ten 10 years ago. the only top sixth of declined. >> thank you for your comments. we will now take a 10 -minute >> thank you. we are reconvening. for the next two agenda items, when making public comments we ask you to do the following. please be respectful to the presenters and do not ask questions directly at the presenters. they are not going to answer your questions here, please meet with them after the meeting or after the presentation or go out in the hallway to talk to them there. the time limit will be

reduced to two 2 minutes as we are running a full half hour behind schedule. now to agenda item no. 8. lyft accessibility. we have emily castor. >> good afternoon, my name is emily castor director at lyft. thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak to you about lyft. i want to be clear about the fact that i come here humbly, not just to speak but to learn and hear ideas about the council. we are a driven company and focused on helping cities and we are always guided by the community feedback that we receive from people who live in those cities and by our values. lyft was founded with a vision to expand access to safe friendly reliable transportation using the resours