the timeline for the l l.b. >> it will keep the same timeline but swap the fund. >> okay any other questions or comments okay. seeing none thank you any public comment on item 8? all right. seeing none, public comment is closed all right. can we take that without objection? item 8 passes unanimously >> item 9 major capital projects i yerba buena improvements project this is an informational item. >> thank you. we have eric cordova. >> good morning, chair take the opportunity this item starts on page 1013 i have a short presentation regarding the project and let me go ahead and start we've gifted the project

in two one is the yerba buena project and the seconds referred to as the west side bridges it was important to note we've worked jointly with the transbay joint powers authority on all the thought approvals with caltrain and the costs to be railroads by the federal and state and tida you see a photo simulation of the completed project right now if you're driving from oakland to san francisco to get ouch of treasure island you have to take the off-ramp on the lsd we're building westbound on and off-ramps on the west side so if you're going towards treasure island you'll take the off-ramp on the right side and a new loop

on ramp to go ahead and go to the city westbound before you hit treasure island and merge. >> as i indicated we've been working for the last 8 years for the environmental approve by 2012 this credits the transportation authority board for over $49 million we received from the federal and state governments through federal highway bridging fund and state proposition b funds $26.53 million plus we're happy to report the expenditures are over $26 million and the professional change orders are looking good less than in essence 2 percent two to three percent in terms of the change

orders zee a team that is proactively managing that and the golden gate has been quoted the contract was tracking 13 percent we believe we'll meet and exceed the goal. >> a little bit more details on the constructionists we're 54 percent complete foundation and column contradiction is almost 80 percent complete the weather has helped us the warm weather allowed us to work to the winter months it is really a series of 5 bridges that is making the on and off-ramp structures bridge a was the actual deck was completed in that regard false work is erected in bridge e the westbound off-ramp 90

percent complete i have pictures that are really telling the story bridge d the westbound off-ramp is false work is being erected and happy to report we've moved the west building i'll have more and right now, we're on schedule to complete the project by august of 2016 just some pictures i want to go through quickly westbound as i indicated this is in essence if you go to san francisco from the island this is the point to merge on the concrete area and the light poles will be relocated to the right we bridged that that's good news in that regard this is me stand on the what is referred to bridge 60 feet up in the air this looks at

identically point to the new expansion this is the largest bridge out of the 5 and is at a point to go ahead and build the bridge deck it's a c of climates out there now as you can see basically that is a bridge looking east showing the column work that's completed and this is a one of the final pictures i have just the columns behind the area the entire area referred to as quarters one is historic so bottom line we need to stay out of there and preserve it making sure that all of the pile driving and the concrete construction work and foundation work has begun on without damage specifically.

>> as i mentioned previously quarters 10 was a residence for navy personnel and part of the vial documentation process it was deemed historic and now in the national register in late january we basically went ahead and relocated it quietly in the night down a windy narrow radio we had to do that to make sure there was no impacts a couple of pictures a large structure and now in place what's referred to as the clipper area as also there's challenges that lie ahead and just want to list and go through them quickly our intent to complete the work by 2015 to make sure we have met

the false work erection for this project san francisco bay bridge in caltrain it opening their new bike and animal facility and we're coordinating to make sure the bikes and animals are brought safely to the island franklin there's in an active construction zone in that regard there's changes to the sides and joint caltrain is requesting we're identifying those challenges and they have long lead items we have to get the final approvals quickly d b gold compliance met the goal as i indicated and finally a reminder u.s. coast guard they have

strike restrictions to stop traffic less than 5 minutes from any location so that concludes my presentation. on the ramps this is all the work that's going on on the east side of the island i want to shift to the west side of the island the west side bridges this is an aerial photos those are the brings that led to the westbound on ramp on the west side of the island as well as the are the tie into the eastbound as you're traveling from san francisco to treasure island that left off is right in this picture there and what we have are 8 bridges that are symmetrical deficient and 5 of them will be

retrofitted i want to talk about our preliminary efforts in the last few years. >> the soil there is it has issues there's unstable issues that is a helicopter view look ating the bridges there's been problems with the soil those bridges are old they're built in the 40s so in that regard i'll go through a couple of pictures to give you an existing condition of the bridges and let's talk about the concept we originally developed actually started in 2010 first step working through the caltrain progress for the federal approval those were prepared and approved in december of 2011 as i indicated previously we were going to

replace 3 bridges and rieftsd 5 we've received the environmental approval in december of 2012 as we went ahead and studied did engineering in particular, the soil analysis we realized it was going to be an expensive project with an inherent risk it would require expensive construction and you see the steep hillside construction frankly when we started to we were the bidding community we found that frankly not a lot of people want to bid this in terms of meeting the federal requirements we prepared the analysis

because that project cost was something we wanted to see if we could lower and minimize the risk of construction and frankly, we've done just that we went to the analysis study that exclude the contractors as well as engineering experts they are recommendation to shift hillcrest road to the north and frankly push the roads into the hillside and build a tiered retaining wall this will approve the retrofitting and tida it will require additional jerry and an environmental analysis but the good news we over all project cost lore we see it $66 million and we believe that the contracting community will

be very anxious more of the contracts to bid the job just the pictures here show what's in right the shifting to the north this is a cross section showing where in essence we're going to build one bridge out of the 3 by shifting the roads into the hillside more retaining walls thirty to 50 feet high at this point. >> this is a breakdown of the cost overall for the project those basically are separate bridges in essence we're taking 8 bridges and working with the state in terms of funding for each bridge individually and basically at the power point we have the fund and we're working with the future allocations for the major phase money and finally this is a breakdown

of the federal funding $58 million plus from the federal 6 point one from prop b with the tida match approximately $3. million plus toy above extended $6.3 million on the engineering services and the environmental work also happy to report we're actually right now meeting the goal and take into account about a 14 percent for the are interim work we do schedule that lies ahead is to go ahead and perform the additional environmental analysis that is what we call the new va alternative should be completed by march of 2016 and the at the end of 2016 to go ahead and start construction in

march of 2017 to the important to needed we'll not start construction on the west side until the east side is done also conflicts reconstruction of the down and off-ramps on the east side of the island those ramps have been closed for a long time some folks may not remember they're there we'll complete by the spring of ri so we'll start in 2015. >> feinstein i've indicated challenges meantime you want to reopen documentation it is important to go ahead and do so and meet all the requirements of ceqa san francisco puc is as busy as any agency they've been in their lifetime we want to make sure we gave me them early with the

waterlines project and starting to evaluate alternative construction delivery methods that we'll see whether or not their feasible and bring to the committees and board in the future we learned add lesson on the ramp project is that the birds don't know what month of year when it's warm they start nest so we envision an early contract on the contract that was a delay because of bird nest issues that concludes my presentation. i'll be happy to answer any questions. >> thank you for you thorough presentation. >> commissioner christensen. >> i was occurs about the aesthetic and environmental impacts of the two choices we're certainly seeking in the presidio a modern preference for

low profile and integrated roadways so up until the parrot of retaining walls i was thinking the preferred approach would have visible and environmental improvements what happens to the sizeable retaining wall. >> the virtual impact analysis will be the key document we've prepare i'll envision there will be aesthetic treatments we'll have to implement has part of the project and caltrain has done similar retaining wall work on the one side of the island and match the topographic. >> any other questions seeing none and i think tilly chang.

>> i want to thank our folks and the entire yerba buena team this project a complex and in addition to managing the top graph and the actual job they've been able to corridor with the other promotions tida and others in the first phase of yerba buena housing and in addition the caltrain is taking down the bay bridge and we are coordinating with eric mentioned the mta and reporting with the touchdown of the bike and pedestrians later this year i was pleased when a job like this is complicated and even in the middle of the night i want to commend them for a job well done

we were on time and budget and continue to be on the budget. >> thank you and seeing no more comments from the commissioners all right. opening it up for public comment this was an informational item and next. >> informational item introduction of new items. >> seeing none we'll proceeded to general public comment any members of the public want to comment seeing none, public comment is closed. next item, please. >> item 12 adjournment. >> thank you. this meeting is now adjourned

>> good morning everyone. i want to thank you all for coming out here on a beautiful winter morning san francisco. i am ed reiskin and the director of transportation here and we're gathered here to talk about safety in the streets of san francisco, and the reason that we're talking about safety in the streets of san francisco is because everyday -- well, not everyday, but every year we have people dying in our streets just trying to make their way across town and last year the city leaders came together with our community and decided that we were no longer going to tolerate, we were no longer going to accept the fact as a reality that people have to die in our streets every year just

making their way across town so the way that we manifested that is by the adoption of the city that we're calling vision zero. what that means for us is a goal to eliminate all traffic fatalities in san francisco by 2024. it's a very ambitious goal. it's now those city policy and it's really a statement by the folks who are here and many others in the community that we're no longer going to accept the fact that people have to die this way in san francisco, so with the adoption of vision zero what we want to talk about today was moving vision zero from a goal and policy into action, and that action is being driven by many of the leaders who are standing up here with me and they're being lead by our chief executive so please join me in welcoming the mayor of the city and county of san francisco,

mayor ed lee. [applause] >> thank you ed. good morning everyone and welcome to our dpw yard, yeah, a lot of memories here, a lot of memories of a lot of garbage, a lot of things but i want to thank muhammad and the public works for allowing us to use this site, a site where a lot of infrastructure is the center of everybody's work, but it's also because infrastructure is what we're doing today in the whole city of san francisco on a very high level, and this is why we have a lot of departments working as ed said on this vision zero and make sure we implemented it in the most aggressive fashion that we can. we have a lot of projects identified and we're no longer talking about twe're in the mode of

implementing these programs and one thing that came from the advocates that are here standing here along with the many departments as well in this collaboration of health, of public works, of mta, of the police and fire departments, of our disability advocates and division of the mayor's office of disability including the community based advocates is that we need a continued sustained very serious education program, and this is the principle reason why the california truckers association is right here today with an example of their rigs and their commitment to working with us, the entire private sector and the utility companies and others working with all of our departments with a program that is designed to focus on at least for the next two years a very deliberate effort to look at the

way our urban large vehicles are traveling and going in and out and through our city and neighborhoods. this is important to us because we realized that at the very start that while there maybe in terms of numbers of collisions less each of those collisions are very severe whether you're a bicyclist a walker or a senior or a family that if you're in the unlucky situation of having engaged with these large vehicles your chances of coming out of that is going to be very, very little, and we realize that this is one of the most important things that as we are experiencing a very strong economy in san francisco with all of the developments, not just downtown, but in our neighborhoods, people rehabbing their homes, small businesses rehabbing and from fires and other disasters or the local neighborhoods or in the

downtown corridor this is very important. i know supervisor kim this is one of the most important things she said to me as we experience large number of accidents in the last couple of years that we have to make a much more serious effort. all of the advocates said the same thing so it's been my personal objective that we had with mta and dpw lead this effort with police and others and not just to slow down traffic, not just to get congestion out of the way, not to decongest the boxes but we also have to make sure that all of our utility vehicles in the city whether they're driven by dpw or ecology, whether a trucker delivering their goods or picking up goods, whether it's ups, fedex or whether it's the large truckers that are

coming in in to go to safeway and lucky and it is farmers and the produce markets and others that we all go through a very specialized training. today we're announcing a large vehicle urban training program, driving training program that we will ask there is a special certification, special training that is conducted that is embraced by the truckers association and others that we make sure this training program adheres to the special needs of a very congested urban setting like san francisco. this is what vision zero recommended. we are implementing that today. we are requiring all of our truckers be they city employees or the private sector go through this training and make sure that the drivers themselves understand how to go through a very congested urban setting and pay very close attention to the

pedestrians, to bicyclists, not just having the right to go through a light, but taking the extra precaution just as we have been training our pedestrians. doesn't matter what the light color is anymore. you've got to look both ways. you've got to understand that people may not be paying attention. the congestion in the streets and intersections are so high and people are distracted with so many things we've got to pay attention to a higher level of safety in the city and that's why i endorse this effort. i am proud of all of the departments to begin doing this in a very deliberate way and we launch this program with a strong aggressive education program that should last a long time. truckers and others change all the time, schedules change all the time but the safety has to be at the highest level and as you're trurning corners as you're going down the corridors

and out of construction sites or into them or at the store picking up or delivering each of these situations has the ability to hurt someone, and we want to everyone to be that much more aware. police chief just told me we're lucky. the month of january we've had no fatalities pedestrian or otherwise due to traffic that. is a good start. [applause] just a start but it is a good start, a start that we're proud of and we need to repeat that over and over again and february and march and all of these months will continue this very strong effort but if we do this education right, if the drivers of these large utility vehicles pay attention even more we have that better of a chance to have this record continue throughout the other months. if we have the strong coalition of people

working on the next idea and supervisor we commit to the next idea as well to continue this effort we will have a safer arena in district 6 and so much construction and delivery is going. good economic activity is not to be krit suicided but the lack of paying attention to safety has to be criticized and educated and has to change. this is a commitment we made and it wasn't just any kind of a campaign slogan. you know we're putting serious dollars into this to honor the voters investment of over $500 million in our transportation, $300 million of it will go to redesign our streets and alley ways and all of the other areas where people are going through to begin but we start by saying let's renew the driving ability of large vehicles where people really if you encountered them

in a negative way you just don't have a chance so it begins with the drivers themselves saying we're going to committee -- commit with the city. we love this economic time but we're going to honor life in this way and i want to give thanks to the california truckers association with this and they're going to help us with all of the others in the city and lead the way with the proper training and i want to say thank you to ed for your leadership, to muhammad for your leadership as well, and let's not only enjoy these economic times everybody but let's pay attention to all other things that keep our city successful. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you mr. mayor. this large vehicle driver training program was not just recommended through the vision zero process which involves many stakeholders from both within the government and outside. it actually initiated originated from the

mayor himself and towards the end of 2013 when we had a number much serious and fatal incidents in our streets, and again as the mayor said it's a small number of incidents that involve large vehicles but they tend to be disproportionately sever and fatal and after a rash of those and completely in supervisor kim's district that the marge charged us with developing this program and with great cooperation from the california trucking association, from the teamsters, from people locally here and ups and fedex and others we developed a model program for the country, something we're very proud of. there's maybe not a whole lot of issues within city hall that have across the board unanimous support but vision zero is one