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producing and ira this meeting live to the public every time we meet go ahead and start with roll call >> commissioner lee commissioner joseph commissioner vice president moshoyannis commissioner perez sxhoorg commissioner tan and commissioner frost is excess we have a quorum. >> great the first item is public comment for any item as it relates to the matter of entertainment commission you do not see currently agenda list any public comment on the issues we should be concerned about i don't see any item 2 review and approve the minutes from april 2nd commissioners, i wasn't here i'll abstain but i'm happy to

entertain a motion. >> i move to approve. >> is there a second. >> i was here last week and i want to reflect i was present. >> if we can include that in the top section of the notes any other before we take a vote. >> just a point of order this is the 7th i believe our meeting was april 7th not second. >> in the agenda oh sorry so everyone is clear your motion it to approve the minutes of april 7th correct. >> okay. we have a second with a correction on that matter commissioner lee commissioner joseph

commissioner vice president moshoyannis commissioner perez commissioner caminong commissioner tan abstain i was absent that motion passes all right. move on to item 3 commissioners your permitted will be in the last half of the meeting and guests here to report out on this from the late night transportation working group i know your executive director reported out director king. >> thanks you guys for listening to more in depth of the report i've been talking about for sometime, i that you guys would be pleased we started a road show lecture and at mta today and i think liz from the transportation authority is going to do handle the slide deck or part of that and then

benefit is here from oewd to give you framework and expect supervisor wiener so we'll begin without delay and wedge jim into this. >> great good evening benefit with the office of economic workforce development one of the xheerners of the transportation group along with director kane i mean at the end of february we realized our report called the other 9 to 5 advertised a with my raking effort to identify the needs and challenges of the diverse group of folks that take transportation late at night and early morning to map out

recommendations and in still those recommendations into steps when we first talked about this issue i think both jocelyn and i were if the late night entertainment industry the number of people and the types of work they do for transportation is far broad so in addition the restaurant and bar workers we're talking about early morning workers as well backers or the product market all sort of folks in addition to hotels generated and security guards when you look at the industries and different people impacted by the late night and early morning transportations it's polishing we got a diverse group of folks worker group to

the table i'm pleased even though we have councilmember bonin people from the different agencies at the table all the groups small businesses labor it's been a collaborative and group effort i'm pleased with the report and support that put everyone involved that continues to provide in this endeavor so this report represents a first milestone step for us not the end of the work just the early beginning when liz presents the slides you'll see the types of work we mapped out in terms of it this slide and the entire report is available at life night life.org we have another pages this is our vision for late

night and early morning vision informed by all of the stakeholders we spoke with as well as the many people who participated in our survey that we launched as part of our fact finding process that was available online in paper and in english and spanish and chinese and shooting for 5 hundred responses we end up getting over 28 hundred people interested in and caring about the access to late night and early transportation in the morning in terms of digging into the meat of the report probable time to invite up liz from the transportation authority appreciate all the work the transportation authority does in support of this work thank you. >> good evening, commissioners liz brison a senior

transportation planner at the transportation authority as a background some people often have not heard of the sf mta agency we have a role in the planning and funding of transportation we serve as the counties fields task action we administer prop k the we're up to one hundred million dollars a year to fund the transportation improvements by the voters and we coordinate san francisco with the rest of the region and we report to the board of supervisors as our board so it is really in that role we were asked by supervisor wiener to come in and play the transportation role with this process with ben and jocelyn with the stakeholders so. >> can it interject supervisor

wiener walked in do you want him to go go ahead of you. >> why. >> thanks for being here thank you sorry i wasn't here earlier you guys are started. >> we're efficient. >> we were at the mta board earlier that is great we're not just putting out a report and let it collect dust open the shelf but making sure that all the decision making bodies especially the transit agencies understand what the representations are so you know we as you know better than i do we need to support night life in san francisco we've been working hard to try to do that in a lot of different was and to move away from the idea of night life

life as problems to be managed but important to our culture and economy we should experiencing for years i've talked about this the trials and tribulations of people getting home and voiding drunk driving with the working group we've looked at the troubles that the workers have late at night and troubles getting to work early in the morning and late at night we have a lot of work to make sure that we're not a city we assume that everyone goes home and 7 o'clock at night we said this is a twenty-four hour city i want to thank the commission for

their participation jocelyn as terrific and the transportation authority and all the transit agencies and the unions and the employers and everyone else that came out and made this report a reality the good thing we're seeing improvements with the mta announcements that is going to go enhancing the out service later this year and with the implementation with the bart. >> muni the overnight transit line we're seeing nor initiative products but our ride sharing services to help people to get to and from work this is very exciting and we are all going to work hard in the short term and long-term to implement those recommendations thank you for your collaboration.

>> can we have a soak person up here in case we have comments ac ladies. >> great job we need it. >> i want to say we're going to have to continue it to the advocacy to the transit agency i think there is energy but that can quicken dissipate and particularly with bart they want to do the right thing but very have so many amountal challenges to make sure this stays on the radar to get the second transbay built for twenty-four hour bart service. >> thank you supervisor wiener. >> ladies you time to come back up. >> okay. so if he can get the slides back up i think he did a

great job of explaining what the mta was to take the vision as articulated by ben and walk it through a planning process to see what transportation exist and how to move forward the report itself includes those main sections i encourage you to take a read as you're able to you can't cover it all 15 recommendations and 5 proposed next steps we want to continue collaborating on we're in a scoping period to define the budget for the next steps we expect them to happen so i thought i'd start with the interesting finding with the late night travel we were able to learn through some analysis of do not the first slide is our

attempt at quantifying how many people are traveling duran during the late night hours 2 hundred and 50 people on a late night less than on a weekend bus that's a lot of trips 7 percent of total daily trips equivalent to trips by the giants games of the trips more happen during the 9 to midnight than the midnight to a.m. hours it is interesting with the midnight to 5:00 a.m. prominently regional about 2/3rd's of them we also looked at the mode of transportation of those trips and learned despite even though drop off in transit service during the late night hours there is 20 percent of people relying on transit even during

those early and late night hours this is for the important lifetime transportation needs sometimes the only choice and people use it during those hours you heard in the remarks of the supervisor and ben thinking about the needs of late night contact not only the partygoers but the people floreses e employees in the industries that work during the early and late night hours we looked at the no objection and compared it and maybe up to moderate income of 52 thousand 25 percent of daytime trips happen - 25 percent are of the income level and twice as many in the night

time hours ben mentioned the survey there were several questions all to highlight one from the night life life asking respondents what the major issues effecting their travel choices during the late night hours the number one was the lack of all night bart service with several others reported as a lot or effecting the choices including 9 infrequency of buses and the longs travel times or waiting for the bus or the lack of availability of transportation and lack of security when riding a bike or walking as well as waiting for the bus and tail off from there to based on the survey as well as the input from the working

group as well as the testimony at the procuring that kicked off the process we summarized the major categories one has to do with availability and coverage that has to do with public transportation and where and when you can ticket and speed and reliability of transportation and third to travel safety as well as personal security and the 4th area related to information how easy it is to fidget what choices and the final cost and equality in terms of the choices during those hours so on that first area of availability it is definitely one of the big ones we produced this map to try to understand how transit service covered by time of day the top map shows

san francisco the bottom the relocation and the left hand a 8:00 p.m. open a.m. and midnight from left turn there is less demand at night but pretty drastic to look at those maps something else i've learned and particularly as you see how much of the telephone to 5:00 a.m. there is a noticeable different amount auditorium service provided locally versus regional in the san francisco network it could be improved but actually covers the city maybe more or less a quarter of a mile and runs thirty minutes all night long and nights as well as weekends in comparison the two ways to get out of the city between after bart hours and our

one transit line and trans line they run once an hour's hour during the week and although transit is piloting 18 minutes. >> so on positive side there are some updates totsz late night bus network that are about to happen the first, the partnership to supplement the bay area service area it is picking up at 24th street and bart station it is running at 20 minute frequencies instead of 20 minutes and they added another line on the right is a map to the addition that it it has approved

the funding this includes the one 08 goes to thirty minute frequencies and this other a new addition it adds thirty percent more service to the muni network and adds additional hours 0 it seems reliable that is very exciting but the other thing we've learned awhile those are great credential improvements no one has taken a step back to look at the region bus prerogatives to see what is - the original all nighter was put together in 2004 when the bridge toll was approved and funded since then not really much as happened in considering whether there are modifications that

make sense it is time to take think outside the box 0 project that is one of the recommendations to design both what might be due with the existing amount of service hours to better serve where the displaced this is a changed in the region in the last decade, and, secondly, to fine what additional service might be desired by the stakeholder i repeat after me really building the best way to move forward is to define how much it costs implementing it that much easier and then in the very long term the vision of the working group and the i certainly share a desire to one day have twenty-four hour rail service the reality it will not happen anytime soon there is a real

condition that exist that every rail system needs to close down their track at night to do essential maintenance other cities having happen to be lucky built more than two tracks to close them and do the maintenance awhile having other tracks operating but for whatever reason it didn't happen we're stuck iowa we have we're asking the transit operators to develop a documentation perhaps if not been able to do twenty-four hour any time soon maybe anything to provide one hour later just some of the times and what capital improvements may be necessary to be able to do that but while it is certainly long term i'll say

it is exciting that this regime is still reconsidering a second transbay people talked about it for sometime but a real study it is being lead by m t c with 9 mta, ac transit and bart and sfmta and the conflict and we'd a looking at the capacity 83 and really daytime needs we need nor capacity in the corridor and our muni system but there happens to be a nice opportunity for the needs of our daytime to support the night time service this study as $2 million of fund that will be the earlier engineering work needed to launch the long process but at least it is something real now instead of just a conversation i'm excited about that i didn't cover all the

recommendations because of time their summarized in the 5 next steps the first thing i covered refreshing our all night bus service the second one thinking about things you might do on a particular street or night life district where stakeholders might audit the corridor and come up with improvements that are feasible and work with the city to move forward with the ideas the city will provide a - the third recommendation for a campaign to better communicate the services they can be a little bit challenging the course to establish what we're calling a transportation monitoring practice to get the things we've identified as needs and come up with a great recommendation we didn't have

enough data to understand what the root of the problem and therefore what the right solution and the final recommendations that ben and jocelyn will continue meeting that the working group to take the work from the document to the changes in the industry thank you. >> thank you. i think our commissioners have comments. >> commissioner joseph. >> i have a couple of questions first of all the information campaign is so necessary and this transportation working group hat put together i didn't have an idea of the services i've been living here for 3 decades 3 questions why did the tracks need to think maintained daily. >> i'm not a rail operations expert they do the grinding of

the tracks to prevent dearrangements. >> and they know this because it is done other places or a standard. >> the- it's called a maintenance window every rail system has to provide a maintenance window but role that's why we want the white paper as it stands bart as an explanation on their website why they don't provide longer than hours of the time the system is closed most of the time is not actually time spent doing the maintenance time spent pouring down the rails and getting the trains out of system and powerfully down the rails and get the vehicles to the location and finally doing light work it is something like 2/3rd's of the

time doing the actual maintenance i'm a transportation planner don't do the transportation but bart is struggling that challenges because the region is dir the good investments you need to make it so showing it's age their biggest interests are in providing making sure the service we already provide continues to be provided in the future i think everyone that rides bart regularly notices it is not as 1r50ib8 and i get it the other thing ou were talking about the extra toll that was put in places for the busses other people i incorrect you said there was something added - >> oh, so in 2004 the voters of the san francisco county and

other san francisco bay area county voted to increase the bridge toll by one dollar. >> right of the late night buses if do you know first hand if you said you want to invest whether they'll be utilized in the same way they were years ago but do you know if they're still unit ever their entry into they not run with an entry ridership and if so where's the money. >> the sfmta metropolitan commission and their wing it's called the toll authority i think it is called administrator the program and set different criteria i think that is you know a farebox recovery ratio you need to continue the

services is it depends on the fees and they were cut from the program baselines they're not counterfeiting the standard my understanding the rest of the funds are reprogrammed to the all nighter buses so it telling they ended up with money for services that are more productive that is actually operating and okay. thank you. >> commissioner vice president moshoyannis. >> at a couple of points you mentioned muni ryder as it goes through the evening at 12 or 3:00 a.m. and after midnight is it marketing drops off but in response a new line that - one thing in reading the map the t line i feel as more and more

venues in south of market the dog patch is going to be the big area where a lot of late night clubs will exist i've not heard much in response to that is there anything you can say about that line in particular. >> well, i think isn't there a my understanding was each muni rail line has a muni rail bus i can't say for certain but what i suggest it to apply that question to our recommended next step to refreshing the late night and early morning bus service returning we were trying to frame all the needs of transportation that is whether with the more specific transportation happened that's a part of city where the land use