the public that would like to speak? public comment is closed. >> moved and seconded. >> on item 9, breed. >> aye. >> campos. >> aye. >> kim. >> aye. >> mar. >> aye. >> yee. >> aye. >> item passes. >> thank you. >> one more item. >> item 10, t-third phase three, concept study and this is informational. >> and we have mr. mason. >> and thank you, commissioners we will try to keep it brief. and this item just on page 67 of your packet. and this is the manager of our interagency team and acknowledge the excellent work by the transportation as well. and perry, and joshua swifty

and our consultants. so as you know as the central subway comes near completing last spring, it grew to work on the extension to make use of the tunnels that are completed and possibly preserving the right-of-way along the corridor and the transportation of the board at the urging of the commissioner chiu and we are pleased to share you the results of it today, and i will turn it over to the alignment. >> thank you. >> and welcome, and my name is gardi and that is what we will see today and we can move on it quickly and the concept alignments, and what the columbus avenue and up the street and over on the beach street and the one way loop and so that we forced it in the three but there are three different alignments, and the next slide? >> okay. and out of those four corridors we looked to the scope of work at all subway and subway

surface alignments and powell street had some more actual alignments there because we look at different ways to turn the vehicles around and the runway loop turns them around and services them and because we need to do the extra space and so we divide up the 14 and we found in the process as we were going through this, because of a suer line that was printed in the 80s, along (inaudible) to the alignment of that they were not fees able and we can determine that already at this time. the cross section here shows kind of the overlapped view of the grand from about 100 feet above, to i don't know, looking here, and 100 feet below and it shows that the consultant and you are building it deeper to build to the better ground and you can see what the stations actually in the 5060

feet down, and doable though. looking at this specifically and the liqifaction and the earthquake and 2100 and they both offer the challenge and initial review by the consultants was that these could be the testing and design and engineering and techniques that should be able to take care of that. travel lime estimates take away from the busy slide is subway twice ases fast, the surface, three to four minutes from china town, and to the immediate north beach station to a station at the end of the line at conrad square. travel time comparison, and the purple line and that is the route of 30 stockton and depending on cal train to the fisherman's wharf and we

estimate that it will be 14 to 17 minutes in the same area. >> and sure. >> with that large improvement in the transit travel times this extension that attracts a lot of riders, and we estimate the trips on the line and that is 55 percent increase with the line, and but a quarter of those trips are new and so those are people taking autos or others means or not making the trips and remaining trips are folks coming from the over crowded lines to better balance out of system and improve the performance of the other lines up in that neighborhood. and serving out with the rider ship increase was the subway will be able to handle it and this shows that the peak element does not increase in the trips and that is due to the nature of the demand in these neighborhoods and you can see that no red or the upper red lines that is will be sufficient to support a capacity while the line is planning to run 2.5 minutes by

2030. as part of the study, to analyze the land uses and the development section of it, and so these are mature neighborhoods with only a few soft sites in the quarter mile and really none of any size within a quarter mile to north beach, and using this analysis, our strategic economics recommended the dropt value increases. and they found several tools to be used to obtain the bonds for the project but none are going to pay for it in full and also found that with the limited number of sites, and changing the designing height limits will increase the revenue. and you can see that these tools could contribute from $10 million to $200 million from 5 to 20 percent of a project. that brings us to the capitol cost. (inaudible) who did a feasible

and constructionbility repaired and each of the concepts based on a national data base but adjusted for san francisco and these are not inflation adjusted. but these drivers of the cost of these, are the number of stations and the amount of underground verses surface construction and in the cost ranges from 400 million from the shortest route to the longest underground concept and you will also notice that they are twicing of the costs and but may notice that they are twice as fast, and so, a two way, i objectsingsing tension is estimated at about 500 million for a partial surface but about 900 million for a full underground option. and we will use that underground option as an example to see how it compares and i can see that it ranks firmly for the highest category, as defined by the fta

and that is cost per trip. and so the project will be competitive to obtain federal mixed, and but there are many projects in san francisco. and so it must first find the place in the local priorities and the match for the funds could come from a variety of sources including those valued capture mechanisms or i mean that the local transportation measure, for example, prop k, extension, and the other contributions like proceeds from the joint development of a site above the station, and may return to paul to talk about the other issues. >> north beach which is a point on phase two construction and that is where the tunnels will extend to pull the machines out without having them come out in the middle of columbus avenue and we will just keep the machines going and fortunately the environmental process has been stretched as far as it could and that was not feasible and the machines have been taken out and they do have a

lease on the site through may of 2015, before any activity can go forward with construction of anything on that particular location. and we also have a right of first refusal if they are willing to sell but we have not any indication that that will be happening. and so what this shows here is if a station were to be built here there is significant impacts to this neighborhood. and the cost to do a station initially was looked at along the other alternatives of 350 to 500 million dollars, the more expensive one will have less disruption but take longer. >> we want eded to do even though we are not going to do a recommendation and it was a simple process of 7 different categories if this probably better than average or average which will get a 0 or a plus or weak around that issue it was given a mean us and these are

not weighted in any manner they are all equal, which will change if this were the valuation. and the out come, was that the two subway on the shortest going up columbus and scored the highest and this is reasonably well, and now, all of the surface alternatives scored less and probably the reason behind that was that we are looking at issues of investment and service reliability and once it is underground and operational, and it should really not have any problems with it and, also, a disruption to the communities during the construction and operation will be less. we can go over the last slide actually. these are the next steps, this project was the blue arrow going out and it is feeding information into a transportation plan up date which is managed by the group to feed into something that mta is working on to call a

capacity and which is looking at short and long term investments including upgrading and making changes to the existing system as well as capitol investments for future con jeks and that study, is feeding into the mtc or the core capacity, for san francisco. and which is due out, later in 2015, at the beginning of 2016. >> thank you, commissioners that concludes our presentation and we are happy to answer any questions. >> colleagues any questions? >> could i just ask about that columbus avenue site that he kind of went through quickly, that was going to the theater site and it looks like the owner is preparing to build 19 units of housing but the mta have the first right of refusal, if they decide to sell, could you talk about how that impacts this proposal? >> briefly, having a large open site anywhere near a major

construction site, and since north beach is a dense neighborhood, if either, the met and which is actually less disruptive is used you will have a place to stage, somewhere in the area and having that piece of property, when someone makes the staging east and her might actually have the consultants group that makes you having a less amount of grout on the columbus and powell streets to build the actual infrastructure underground and not having another location in that area that is opened to allowing the staging will cause a disruption and will have more impact on cost. >> and the project over all? >> you can compare this to the emphasis between the china town construction site today verses the union square, construction site today, and china town is mostly off street and the road remains open, where the union street requires the road to be closed for a extensive period

of time. >> and i just thank you for the thoroughness of the study, and i will have to look at the cost benefit and it seems like it is providing benefits but what strikes me is that a half billion to 1.4 billion price tag and although there is sources of funding that you have identified, but i have questions about how it impacts the other priorities for the city as well. but thank you. >> and that is one of the next steps is looking at this in the context of san francisco's other priority and it we will be happy to keep the board informed of all of the developments. >> so i see no questions for the colleagues and open it up for public comment, we have one card, and anyone else from the public come forward to speak. >> good morning, commissioners my name is bruce agget and i am a member of the central subway group, and sf next stop.org and the board member and

transportation met in the neighborhood association. on my comments today are endorsed by both groups. first, we want to thank property ject team from the mta cta and planning department. the extension provides a complete extension of neighborhoods on the eastern side of the city from visitation valley to the fisherman's wharf and the access of prospective job applicants to jobs. the hotels room to the center to provide the capacity to meet the demand and ultimately reduces traffic con jeks and improving the pedestrian, and bike safety to transition into a more sustain able livable city. we support the next steps

outlined to incorporate the datings and findings in the various places mixed in the presentation and last, berecommend that the city may be planning or the real estate department investigate the opportunity to obtain the rights or the potential for the future locations for the samples that we just mentioned. and this is important, as the opportunities potentially exists today, which can minimize the future neighborhood disruption at the time of the construction thanks so much. >> thank you. for your support of transportation throughout the city as well. any other comments? >> thank you, and very briefly, i have yours and that could not be quite as eloquent and the only thing that i would like to take to your attention and the loop and from my experience it is a safety issue, because you have got the single down in the west in the central subway, you have two bowls and so if anything happens, you head to one of the cross passages and you head for the other tunnel

and you exit. and so, as long as there is a single bowl, you should be, and you should not be studying that any further. >> thank you. >> next speaker? >> i had no idea this was going to be on the agenda, but it just shows the support from the neighborhoods, and the people at large, that take the subway system, that are in support of the expanding this t-line and fisherman's wharf and i hope that the commissioners will take the next step from this report and move it forward. thank you. >> thank you, anyone else, like to speak for the public? >> public comment is closed. >> thank you, for this great informational item >> next item? >> 11, introduction of new items. >> so colleagues any items?

>> public comment, anyone from the public that would like to speak. >> mta, just to clarify, something that i said earlier, we are planning for a race track --. >> that is what i thought. >> okay. >> sorry. >> thank you. >> any other comments? >> public comment is closed. >> next item? >> item 12, public comment. >> we have chris wall. >> i just wanted to change the subjects a little bit. and commend commissioner yee and commissioner campos and the voters of san francisco for passing prop a&b and senior and disability people still are not riding muni for free. the aoe lks leks is over and we need to get moving on this and i know that the mta has a meet ng january that they are going

to talk about it. but with he need to move this forward. seniors and disabled people need to ride muni for free. and the voters, passed it with the mta wanted and put this on we are still suffering and the city is very expensive and thank you. >> thank you. >> any other comments? >> public comment is closed. >> next item. >> item 13, adjournment. >> meeting adjourned.. >> really happy to have you all here the other great thing about

to brag about in san francisco we have a great mayor, i is that in part as a resident i live here my family is here i work here but also in particularly as the transportation director we have a mayor that understands the infrastructure understands transportation and design understands how these things are important to the quality of life we have here in the city and to the economy of the city he understands us number one in part because of is the public works sdooshg which is a great pedigree my own bias i was one, too i was the city administrator amongst among the architect of the capital plan that is institutionalized in the city a process we combifrpt and investing in the city critical

assets that's a successful program and it was really does mayors sense then city administers of the importance of the infrastructure the bones of the city and the design of the city that has gotten the plan in place and successful as it's been and further as that was not enough last year mayor ed lee accountant a task force to look at the infrastructure out of the process they've recommended $3 billion of new local revenues to invest in the transportation system not only to accommodate all the growth the cranes in theization i sky but to invest in our core system $3 billion of new revenues i can imagine it being the transportation

director in a city and the mayor comes and brings together with $3 billion to invest in the transportation city it doesn't get much better than that fortunately i don't think he's on the market we're happy he's our mayor please join me in welcoming the mayor of the city and county of san francisco mayor ed lee (clapping) >> thank you for that kind introduction everyone good morning. welcome to san francisco. >> good morning. >> actually, the last couple of weeks ago people have being coming up to me and saying are you i say yes, sir. i'm travis to i'm mayor travis for a few weeks anyway, i want to say

thank you, ed very much fewer leadership not only as our director of transportation by certainly the president of nah 0 could i'm thrilled you're here in the city i know you're about to see if not a lot of the things happening in our city we want to make sure that the themes that you have for the conference about cities and innovations and mobility can be sdeementd so while you're here please make sure you do all you can too walk and bike and take ride sharing obeying be careful on the upper deckerers but i think you've already and if you haven't i encourage to go down 0 or to our transbay center this

is under construction and he'll hear it and feel it as we do our central subway we'll been working hard to get those promotions those are historic projects for our city and the transbay scienter you've read we tinder to have electrical caltrain from our high speed rail from the state of california we believe that is important to our entire region to get it done and glad to be working with governor jerry brown to make sure we're investing properly i'm excited for this conference because we have got to brightest mind in transportation and say thank you. i also want to make sure i give a shout out to the mayors from the cities our from any get a chance to work with all of them they either point you or

hire you i want to thank the other mayors when we get together we have an important committee of transportation we're also sharing the best practices and ideas things that cause us to work together on a national level it is great to have chooment the transportation concert all of us go through the experience of learning everything to run a great city when our working they national level you don't forget the potholes but where all the challenges are in the city i think this is going to be very, very helpful and san francisco is very proud to be one of the 40 cities certainly in california that has officially

endorsed the national good morning, supervisors and give a shout out you're making a great impact (clapping) and i want to take a moment and thank our supervisor in my district supervisor scott wiener it was him that supported the legislation to make sure we enforced the mat could guidelines i want to relocate edward reiskin who is serving as the president of the nah could we've had a chance to work with our leadership and former leadership give a shout out to janet for her leadership as the past nah could president and underful in new york in mayor michael blossoming burger my daughters are in new york you've got to take care of them we know that streets make up 80 percent

of our picking up pun realm we have to take care of that and we've got important propositions but as you go around the city not only is it a transbay center and central subway work we're doing take a look at what utilized to be fridays before the loma prieta earthquake and we had them in chinatown along broadway if you take a look at it and ride through them you'll see popular projects that includes housing and multimodes of transportation along omaha and the we had all freeway rams making all those crossroads exciting and wonderful especially important because literally this month is the 25 mini of the loma prieta earthquake and we've become a

stronger city since that time we're also trying to make sure our cities are saving this is a huge responsibility of all mayors and all the transportation experts in this room safety on our streets you don't know how it hurts to hear news reports of seniors crossing streets and getting hit by motors or a bicyclist turning a corner and getting hurt or pedestrians not looking both ways we're educating peep in various los angeles's no matter what color the light is you could be dead right we're here to educate our traffic to slow down and people to be much more aware but ultimately within this room your street designs are

going to be of great help we have the very big investment in our city and proposition this november that summits it part of that $3 billion that ed was mentioning the first $500 million in a appropriations of $300 million will be focused on making sure our streets are designed and signal listed and signage to get to zero death our vision zero is a serious goal we're united about preventing the death and fatalities along our streets so thank you (clapping) so i can talk on and on all morning you have wonderful panelists this morning i hear that the form staff are heading up agencies in los angeles and

you've got people from all over the country here to share a talk to i'm excited i want to know what your talking about and what i think is the best approaches i'm a mayor that want to make sure our cities are successful we can't do that without successful transportation to me transportation is the great equal legislators the mayor and i have talked about the income and equality and all the challenges we have about economics when you get to transportation and certainly for our city you'll ride a muni bus or trolley or the bart and standing right next to a ceo of a billion dollar corporation because people need to get things done and we have transportation that units them all throughout the city this equal legislators gets people to

work and families and gets them to giant games particularly the world series you'll see a little bit more orange because we're early celebrate rants of halloween i hope you'll take in the celebrations we expect to villaraigosa a lot of fun but please know which you have a mayor that cares about the work you do thank you for having our conference here in san franciscoyour conference here in san francisco >> good morning, everybody.

welcome to beautiful delores park. this is a long time coming. back in 2008, voters approved a clean and safe neighborhood parks bond which allocated about $14 million to improve this incredible park. our goal together we are going to build the new dolores park that is going to be built to last. it is going to retain all of it's important features, all of it's historic qualities, all of it's essential beauty. but yet be built with the idea that this is whenever people come. >> we are going to be renovating all six tennis court's, replacing the basketball court with operations underneath so the staff has the ability to maintain the park. we are completely