two of the complaints during that month were directly related to city issues events. additionally our office has received two request for accommodation for accessible pedestrian signals known as aps. with that, i would like to give the council some background of those signals. those that came out of the draft of the public right-of-way guidelines, those are released in november of 2005 but are not yet publiced as the final rule which means those guidelines are not yet enforceable. it was adopted by the access board by the independent federal agency that promotes equality for people with disabilities by ensuring access to fully funded facilities. the current signal failed to provide communication known as

effective communication. the walk, don't walk signals don't satisfactory that criteria. we have seen son of the signals which are the visual signs of pedestrians and the rapid ticking noises or other tactile indicators that are used at those crosswalks. the sf mta has a problem by which a member of a public can request at a location. that is prioritized what is called a safety and access tool. there are many variables that an evaluator must look at recommended an installation as well as what type of aps should be installed. those could include push about the -- button devices and rapidtext and vibrator tones. once the person has requested

aps, mta will provide that person with the following information. a preliminary prioritization score and preliminary test for the intersection and other that were requested and whether or not any work is being planned at that intersection and whether any aps will be installed within the next three years 3 years and the name of a phone number with a contact information. if you would like to request installation of aps intersection you may submit a request by phone, 415-701-2311 or you can contact our office, the mayor's office on disability 415-554-6789. please have the following information available. the intersection you are requesting for the aps installation,

your name, contact information, and the format in which you want to receive a response to the request either by phone or e-mail. if you experience or witness a disability access issue in a city facility or program, please call our office at 415-554-6789 or 311. that concludes the report. >> thank you and thank you executive director johnson. our thanks go out to our friends at it for doing our website. all right. next on the agenda is transportation 2030. we have alicia john baptist staff of san francisco municipal transportation agency. >> hi. good afternoon. i'm lisa john baptist here to talk about a program called transportation

2030. so, for most of us who try to get around san francisco we can find that experience to be somewhat stressful. we know that our streets, many of them are cracked or have pot holes. anyone of us who take muni find it unreliable, crowded, slow. the average running speed of muni at this moment is 8 miles per hour. it tells you something for people trying to move around the city by bicycle or foot or wheelchair, we find that there are a number of safety concerns. there are almost 900 pedestrian accidents each year, a hundred are severe or fatal. in the last year 2013, 24 pedestrians died. there are a number of concerns that the city is trying to address

with respect to the transportation system today. keeping all of that in mind and taking that into consideration, a year ago in 2013 mayor ed lee called together a transportation task force and he called it transportation 2030 task force. there are about 45 people who served on the task force and representative of variety of interest and backgrounds and number of policy makers and officials as well as transportation experts, finance experts and representative of large and small business and transportation stakeholders as well. that group met for about a year and looked at given where we are today with the state of our transportation system and all of the plans and strategies that have been developed over the years by the city in coordination with communities and stakeholders, what is it we need to do to make our transportation system work. both today and looking

forward to 2030. and that forward look to 2030 was important because as we look around the city, anybody who has stepped outside has seen the number of contemporaneous and number of buildings going up we see a population increase, growth in employment and we are anticipating as a region for another million people to come to the bay area in the next 15-20 years. about 200 ,000 of those are expected to reside in san francisco. to consider where we are with being able to take care of our transportation system and move around safely today we have to take into consideration the fact that there are going to be more people trying to do that same thing going forward. the task force looked at what needs to be done to make things work in the next 15 years. the task force did folks primarily on infrastructure.

so there are of course questions of how do you operate the system, but with the infrastructure being such an xornt important component and the way the operations work, they felt that should be the primary focus. so, after about a 10 month or so process which i should mention carla was a member of the task force as well, the task force identified in total a need to invest about $10 1 0000 000-0000 and that is with a b in the city's transportation system over the next 10 years. the good news is that out of that $10 billion, there is $3.7 billion identified revenue coming to san francisco to invest in the transportation system, but that clearly leaves over $6

billion of need that somehow needs to be addressed. and just to give a sense of how it is that we are in a situation where we could be in need of $6 billion, the types of sources that have traditionally funded transportation system improvements funding comes from the local, regional and state and federal level. at the federal level, the primary source of funding is the federal gas tax. that tax has not been increased since 1993. the purchasing power of the dollars raised through federal gas tax has declined dramatically over the past 20 years and the highway trust fund where that funding resides is in danger of going bankrupt shortly. the state level, funding has been very unreliable, there is peaks

and value ley. only 6 percent that san francisco makes into the the transportation system comes from state sources on average. the city does have a local saelz -- sales tax which generates about $75 million a year for transportation investment and it has been a real critical source of funding adopted in the 90s and funds the majority of the transit program, for example. but it is clearly insufficient to meet all of the needs that we have with respect to the transportation system here. so, with all of that, taken into consideration, the task force reviewed on the order of 30 or so different potential revenue sources to start to figure out how to close the

gap of $6 billion in need. they ultimately recommended four different funding sources taken together if each of these were to go forward and be approved by the voters, each would require voter approval. they would generate about $3 billion over 15 years, so meeting about 50 percent of that unmet need in terms of investment into the system. one of the things that is likely to happen if san francisco does generate significant additional local funding is much greater access to other types of matching money either at the regional level, federal level and state level and in fact when the task force completed this process, the metropolitan transportation commission which is the regional body that directs state funding to local jurisdictions came forward and said, okay, if san francisco can

really generate these funds, we will provide matching money of over $550 million timeframe for the local level. what the task force recommended the first is $500 million general obligation bond. that is only ballot for this november. the second was a restoration of the local restoration of the state vehicle license fee to two 2 percent. so the states vehicle license fee was at two 2 percent about 50-60 years and reduced to 5 percent under the schwarzenegger administration and this proposal was to reinstate it to 5 percent in san francisco and keep that

funding generated in the 1.5 percent differential to invest in the transportation system infrastructure improvement. that is not on the ballot at this point. it for consideration for the november 2016 ballot. the third recommendation of the task force was for policy makers to consider an additional half cent increase to the local sales tax that would generate about $75 million a year as would the vehicle license fee increase and the fourth and final recommendation was a second gentle -- general obligation bond of $25 million in 2040. so 20 years after the first one. in terms of whenever this funding would go, this was something again when the task force met they really looked at a lot of work that

had been put together by city agencies and community partners over the years to understand where the priority investments are in the transportation system. one of those that was identified was road repaving. that's something that really doesn't matter how you are getting around san francisco if the roads are pot holes, it has an impact on your ability to travel. it's also an area where we know that the cost of keeping the roads in decent fair condition, is much less expensive than trying to fix something after it has really deteriorated. so if you are paving a road that is in fair condition, it cost about $350,000 a block. if you are paving a road in poor condition, it cost about $1 million a block. so that san francisco can raise it's street to fair, the city would be saving a lot of money in

that routine maintenance. the second critical area is in transit. muni does provide about 730,000 trips daily. so very critical component of sort of congestion management and people's ability to move around the city but faces challenges. the transportation 2030 program would direct muni that would allow for improved travel tierjs -- times. improve reliability, newer vehicles, cleaner vehicles and more stops, those types of things. finally the other key category identified for investment is in safety and these are pedestrian improvements, separated bike ways. we find that preferred both bicyclist 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

who 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 unti