mr. chairman directors you have quorum please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones, please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room meeting room responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar sound-producing electronic devices. item 4 approval of the minutes for motion to approve and second >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> opposed? the i's have it. ms. bloomer ladies and gentlemen, because of the interest in item 11 we're going to go immediately to item 8 the and come back tends and do the director's report and the other things mr. chairman. >> we need to advise folks there is an overflow room and standing

is not allowed so anyone standing needs to go to the north light court. >> plenty of time to come up and speak everyone needs to go you need to leave the room if you don't say where a seat and people back there, too okay. >> so members of the public if you could please make your way to the north lighted court members of the public who are standing please make your way into the north light court. >> we'll not start until you do okay. >> yes. he's okay. >> go ahead. >> and okay. >> okay ms. bloomer citizens counselor advisory report a. >> good afternoon chairman.

>> i want to present the motions that we adopt on our september 1st meeting. >> the first motion is that the magnifying cac urges the mta to work with the infrastructure rec and park department to put in a crosswalks across martin luther king drive those motions has to do with with the presentation on vision zero that we received at the meeting next motion whereas the mayor's executive director directive on achieving concession calls for an analysis of targeted improvements to improve safety for amongst others seniors and people with disabilities therefore the mta cac

recommended that expended expanded enforcement including the requirement to parking control officers site all on site with no exception and not just in response to complaints 9 enforcement of sidewalk parking agree central element of vision 2025 r vision zero plan and third motion on the subject since the california traffic safety credits 80 percent of collisions for driver inattention especially cypress the sfmta cac urges the distransacted driving be added to the focus on the 5 next motion cac urges the sfmta and r pd to evaluate the conditions for bicyclists at all intersections in all city parks

finally the mta cac recommend that the agency strive to graduate enough drivers from the training program in advance of training programs in advance of planned service requirements. >> that's it. >> thank you mr. chairman members of the board questions or comments thank you for your thoughtful recommendation and mr. chairman consent calendar commission. there will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission, the public, or staff so requests mr. chairman in member of the public has asked a consent calendar item be severed. >> motion to approve. >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> that motion carries if you item 11. >> for the amendment of the transportation for the transit between 1 avenue and 46

well-being westbound adapting the monitoring the program for the conditional of approval for the traffic modifications along the muni tara very well transit corridor you'll not read today. >> good afternoon. decorations sharon kennedy the transit manager of the sfmta okay. so figure out the - >> there we go as terryville is a corridor is one of the highest ridershipship over thirty thousand riders a day a distinction of being one of the foe transit corridors or lighting corridor in the country that allows them to ride in a space this picture in front of you people on and off the train in the street that is 19th street we have to go to get off

the train for the hospital aside from the l there is also reliability issues and travel time issues with a portion of line it stops essentially every block a .32 block stretch and at average stops every block and steps a little bit less than two blocks and one stops every block in 2018 there will be a major rehabilitation and city repair project along the corridor they're going to be replacing infrastructure underground and as well above ground and underground will be water and sewer when we are proposing they put it back with two transportations goals in mind with the vision zero goal of up

to zero pedestrian death by 2024 the projects i'll speak on is related to those issues 7 or 8 years ago we establishment the planning phase with the environmental process and we heard about what can, duplicate with the l and moved muni forward the implementation false of the program and last september did a survey to make sure we reaffirmed what we heard along the corridor and our own data there is liability issues and people are concerned for their safety on and off the train and a medication of infrastructure things like the rail a lot of noise when the train is here basically reaffirmed.

>> with that, information we developed a proposal that has elements go budgeted into 5 or 6 seethes safety, 40 o 40 0i8dz to approve the safety along the corridor as well as pedestrian goals we're not concentrating on the job on transit but the wider vision zero goals and proposing pedestrian safety improvements along the corridor and third the transit reliable traffic signals and lanes have a pedestrian benefit and then stop removal i'll get into in a minute like i mentioned we started did process last september with a small group focus group and held a number of ways and different types of outreach pop up over houses and regular open houses

anyone in the community can come and worked with the supervisors and small group meetings and did a 126 thousand mailing telling people what is in the project and how we got to what we are and we at the meetings did spanish and cantonese speakers available as well as the approved material and through the outreach we've heard a lot of things people like and not like if you look at the table notice we basically have changed all the elements to some degree based on the community outreach i'll go into detail on several of these but touch on these one traffic signals we had proposed 11 stop signs some overflow room

were proposed to replace the stop signs with the traffic signals that allows the train to move a little bit better through the corridor and but we heard a lot of from the communities that traffic signals didn't fit with the community especially so the revised has 5 and 11 traffic signals are property from 20 east so nothing west of 28 and want to talk about accessibility if you are a person that has mobility issues the l is a tough line there are over 36 places where you can assess the train on and off the train is we had originally proposed based on engineering work with our mac and be accessibility services a group of mta to put two key

stops along the corridor and there was another location that we needed to make work we worked through engineering issues and added a third location so we're proposing 5 locations along the corridor so i wanted to get into a few more specifics on some of the larger issues one is safety this map shows where people have been hit in the last 5 years on and off the train that's 23 people and 46 people have been hit on the line in general and we're proposing 40 hours of transit stops but the proposal is much more than that we have 32 block increase or sector along terryville and proposing improvements at 23 blocks for pedestrian safety and by the time you put that with the projects we're working on we

touched 31 directs on the corner with pedestrian safety improvements in support of vision zero wanted to just go over the boarding islands so people know what we're talking about people have different ideas in this case what is showing up on the top 23 on terryville and the bottom is a new island that was conducted open n judah they allow and support not getting into driveways their descend where the boarding island will be and allows for emergency responder issues and mountain ability we've heard a number of other ideas besides just the boarding elements and many of these are

great and excited to it is stuff we're adding to the proposal for the boarding islands the 3 workers enforcement, education and engineering you know the boarding islands are an aspect we're adrc to the enforcement and education aspect working closely with the merchants in the corridor to educate people during the pilot i'll talk about that more in a minute and working with the terryville police department area has been excellent she's a strong proernt of vision zero and already started enforcing in enforcement campaigns at 19th street and stewart for the people and she's going to working closely with the pilot period you'll talk about additionally at the pilot locations very visible presence

on the street one-half already heard from the community a great idea of adding led lights to the back of the train so had the doors open hey people can tell i better slow down and those lights are flashing we're putting these on the train and rolling out in the next several months so even though the original proposal included a one for one parking basically parking trade off obviously the trade off roving the off-street parking parking and replace those we're proposing to lose with the boarding islands and still concerns from the merchants loading on the street in front of their businesses we developed a criteria to look at locations where maybe a full boarding island was not the initial needed step so we looked at 3

things in this criteria one that nobody what have been hit in the area in the last 5 years so no history of pedestrians being struck, two had to be a few a allow number of lighting we defined three hundred in a corridor that's a super low number so for the day not per hour but three hundred per day and that's basically that space can urban design used for loading by politically the criteria 5 locations in bound that will support the criteria the basic ideas when you look at on the 23 people that were struck getting off train 22 were in the out bound direction getting off the train is more dangerous than on we're proposing this pilot to maintain

the access for the businesses but also for safety goals many of those ideas you'll see other than the screen are coming from the community the flashing lights on the back of the led and increasing the budget strikes we're increasing that by 4 times the size and look at it went to the state of california and got lane markings i was talking about this was a unique situation let alone california letting people off in the street in the california traffic control and asked for permission and say stop ahead a train loading area and doubling the size of the sign it says loading

area during the mrirlt like i said a enforcement working closely that the terryville pd and getting the information how to drive around the boarding loading and unloading trains the real crux the evaluation is compliance right now state law that you have to stop behind a train that has open doors and only it out of 3 drivers do that 6 of percent are complying with the law and 35 percent not the idea to increase inclines at the locations and so over the next of months we'll be looking at the inclines 4 how to drive up the compliance with the goal of 90 percent in go six months those locations are boarding island locations now for the location that are

not in the pilot we are proposing this early implementation clear zone idea basically, not wait until 2021 that boarding islands are offered those are not as good as boarding islands not to be in the clear zone not offering protection if someone is not paying attention they can drive there it, it is paint but gives that break and allows people to get off the train they don't have to worried about a car at the last minute by the way, there is a picture in the lower part of slide that shows this is implemented on the sprsh line we've heard from the community they want everything as a pilot we're not concerning this a

mrirlt this is full implementation your locations we're proposing and boarding islands we come through right now like i said trying to get the pedestrian safety but those are not pilot locates from our stand point they - that said, of course, there can be and will be monitoring with that tweaks we can make and changes to the design going through the process but not calling those a pilot. >> so shifting gears a little bit to stop spacing as you can see there's an bar chart here the far left bar is l stop station on the surface and seven hundred feet per stop on average comparing that to the far too bars one the far too local and

the 38 local bus service is popular with the bus lines both have quite a bit further distance between the average stops than the existing l with the proposal i'll go into more detail in a minute with our proposal we're still going this is the second bar we'll still be nine hundred 20 average feet along the corridor our substantiated is one and 50 feet we're allocate bear minimum the the threshold this is a average that begs the question of the out liars from the small distance that people have to walk 3 or 5 hundred spacing i'll show 13 hundred feet between 22 and 26

and so 13 hundreds fiat like i said, the substandard is 15 hundred excuse me - and out of there are 15 stops we're proposing to retain along the l out of those 8 will be below our nine hundred threshold we're talking about relatively closely spaced stops and referenced other places around the country portland notice has 3 thousand physically on average between the stops a local example mta has about 35 hundred fiat continue those stops, of course, you know we're not them and never recommend 3 thousand feet but point out that as an example what other cities have done this is a map of the actual locations the blue dashlz represeboardings

the green circles are locations one-half originally proposed to remove through the community has to retain and then the red locations obviously are the stops we're proposing for proposing to remove. >> and then shifting garners one time to lastly the transit only lane i know daily traffic along the terryville is fairly well when you look at the cross section irving and two lanes both of those street have more traffic than terryville and additionally talking with the transit operators that drive this everyday and deal with people coming in and out of lanes they come up to the stop

signs and wait for two or three people that stop and start again with one and 80 people on the train imagine that is not comfortable for the operator a transit only lane offers more extended space and improves the reliability of line and has a pedestrian safety in the space so but we have heard under from the community and as well as the supervisor we know that people are worried about an additional drive to the side streets and so we're planning to work and evaluate this over the next 6 months what happened to the side street traffic so don't is a level of service on terryville go down we're looking at evaluating those ideas as we implement the transit lines.

>> so to wrap up today's legislation we have two categories pedestrian safety and transit reliability but the projects we're presented today represent pretty much a vastly different proposal than a year ago bans the community concerns this balances all the various needs not on the street rirlt well and you know 49 wins vision zero pedestrian boubz and the traffic enhancement so early implementation and the pilot we're looking at probably mid january before that will happen and like i said a 6 month period of looking at things during if time and evaluating how things are working with the trade off

of the 5 locates and then the full project goes under construction right now anticipated or planned to go into construction early 2018 that is roughly a to year structural go window for this project so that's all today unless there are questions. >> thank you members of the board any clarification questions if not two members thank you to representative. >> i just mr. kennedy one quick question the captain has talked about you can you elaborate on the involvement of police and fire and what they think of the details. >> the fire sf fire department working closely with deputy chief lombardi to look at the plans for the boarding islands

that meets his ideas and specs and there are comfortably with that and went out with 25 frermz and apparatus on the street and tried it out and made design modifications and their comfortable with the design of those islands as if it allows for mid-town should there be fires in the intersections and so the pd they we have meeting for every task internally and they're at the meetings not having any issues at this point and since then reached out to terryville specifically and they've been nothing but supportive and like i said started the enforcement with 19th street and where the most accidents i daresay i'm

interested and xiefrtd to get it going and rolling that outline to the full corridor in concert with the rest of the corridor. >> so thank you for the good presentation i know we'll hear in the public two quick questions along the stopgap between 22 and 26. >> in the in bound. >> those radio flat blocks to the best of my knowledge and you'll get our chance. >> number two on the enforcement issue when you showed the picture it remind me of the school bus is it possible to have a stop sign or device on the l l r v when the law says the driver is to stop. >> we have technical concerns

ranking from when you go through the tunnel it might get ripped off. >> a sign lit up. >> the sign for the l l v that will be able to do that it is quite a bit different than a school bus they go over the curve and let's people off on the right-hand side the travel lane so cars are going by on the left side and it is different from people standing in the street. >> i know director nolan the steps are down and if there is a lit flashing sign on the back the train not illuminated before you'll get more drivers attention. >> we're looking at that and actually that was the very thing i think that led the community to ask for the flashing lights

on the doors but adding the sign will be a good thing. >> any represent. >> yes. mr. chairman from commissioner sanchez and supervisor yee's office are here. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon i'm ashl i'm ashley legislative aide you've received a letter from her i'd like to start by thapg the small business owners who took time to talk about this proposal your office like to thank sfgovtv staff that conducted community outreach and finally to the sfmta board of directors for the testimony of those here today, this project has the potential foreign the 4r50ib89d and pedestrian safety for our communities are priorities for our office while an overall saving time other residents don't want the stops

removed this is an opportunity for pedestrian safety and the impacts go small businesses all of those concerns are valid we must move forward with the proposal that benefits as many community folks as possible and talks about the robust process after several large community members of the committee your office working closely with the staff to look at focus meetings and brought together stakeholders small business owners and represent of the people with disabilities and represent from the pedestrian safety and bicycle advisory community block by block over a series of meetings for the boarding and signals and parking and transit only lanes and stop consolidation after those meetings sfmta adjust their pilot program and notified 16 thousand folks to the zip code that is a link to an online web

nor overall we were pleased with the process and community members spent hours not that i'm aware of folks and most of issues with the board of supervisors island and traffic signals and traffic signals i'd like to touch on all safety is non-negotiable that terryville is part of a network supervisor tang is supportive of the island along terryville street we working closely with the merchants and supported them in many, many ways and want to see those businesses thrive given the configuration boarding islands will assure the safety of boarding passengers supervisor tang asks that sfmta conduct a comprehensive parking study along terryville street some have no parking meters and

addressing - this comprehensive parking study can restore the parking spaces. >> sfmta staff also proposed a pilot programs that is to educate people on when passengers are on and off the train we ask for a ask commodity solution no substitute for safety our office will be that's a great question the outcomes closely and supervisor katie tang would like to see the stops along the route we'd like to see a proposal that has for all muni passengers regarding the transit only lanes we're pleased that sfmta has reduced the number of traffic lanes, however, we don't warrant

the traffic signals and only the traffic lanes will improve the lanes supervisor tang has requested to see data on the transit lanes cause traffic congestion supervisor tang would like to urge sfmta to work with the merchants to look at the communication phase and timelines and other relative information to the residents regularly to residents to adjust the infrastructure work when complete we know you have a difficult sidewalks will not pleas everybody but thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> charging listen from supervisor norman yee's office. >> i'm the legislative aide to supervisor yee. >> thank you for the communities coming out and mta

staff for the efforts to our office and lastly, thank you to the sfmta board of directors for all the concerns could i i'm here to read a letter on behalf of supervisor norman yee dear sfmta board of directors i'll writing for the terryville project as a supervisor of the district 730 stops in particular that are located in any district and effect my constituents the 19th avenue in bound stop and the 15 avenue in bound stop my priority has been pedestrian safety and i was encouraged to hear sfmta proposals to address the corridors, however, with any transportation project of this scale it is circle to consider and address all the concerns all voices in our community and in may i met with merchant and community and the sfmta to understand their concerns about

some of the proposed changes i also walked the corridor with community members to hear their concerns after meeting with all parties i felt to reach out to sfmta and continue to ask number 1 keep the 19th avenue to mitigate the congestion and alleviate the parking challenges and number two the 17 avenue move it to the far side location to allow seniors and people with disabilities to assess the safeway and consolidate the platform with fewer businesses effected and third keep the 15 avenue in bound stop to maintain the safety for the pedestrian safety i was glad that the sfmta reevaluated it in bound stop and after consulting with the san francisco fire department sfmta decided to accept any

recommendation for it in bound stops on the understand, however, my suggestions keeping the 19th avenue stops and 15 avenue stops were not accepted owe irregular the sfmta board to reconsider those recommendations i'll condominium to pedestrian safety maintaining accessibility for seniors and people with disabilities and supporting small business owners therefore i urge the sfmta board to allow the early implementation proposal to be included and a 6 month pilot program for the sfmta schizophrenia re-evaluate and have community input before decision. >> ms. bloomer. >> yes. mr. chairman we have 60 members of the public to address you because we have members of the public who have in the overflow room i will call 5 speaker cards at once so when

people in the overflow room hear their name are amble opportunity and time to come up stairs the first 5 speakers (calling names). >> is julia quan here. >> good afternoon. >> hi there so my name is julia a student at cc sf and a member of the compelled exuberant and african-american center person i'm here it because i oppose the closure of terryville my mom we take the l i grew up in the sunset district and probably taken the l over

nine hundred times and i get off think 28 and terryville at the post office i have my laptop and dog and struggling i can't imagine walking i'm aable button something can't imagine something having to go through the same thing that would be crazy to me so my whole 20 years of living on the earth i'm dedicated to giving back in need and want to speak out for the elder i really want to focus on you know helping those who are not able to walk the one or two blocks i could walk 60 blocks but not for those it is

difficult and hear to emphasize with their voices today. >> (clapping.) >> excuse me - if we could refrain from commissioner hasz and allow people in the overflow room room to hear their names (calling names) and good afternoon board of directors i'm ralph i'm a resident and homeowners for over 35 years on the lower between 28 and 29 avenue where mta will have perpendicular parking on terryville resulting from the removal of parking spaces first of all, i want to say that i appreciate the work that mta work staff has done in the proposal i am a public servant and work for the puc and appreciate the work but on behalf of the residents on any

block i want to express our opposition for the parking space proposal i've driven by the streets and in the neighborhood their person direct or angle parking is installed and found it difficult to navigate especially long vehicles sticking out and other parallel parking on the opposite side and had to white time for the traffic on the other side to pass if i as a driver find it difficult to navigate the streets with perpendicular parking it is right now my wife and i have to slow easy out of our garage not able to see the ongoing traffic before our car clears the parking area if we

have this this will create a dangerous situation for the garages for the perpendicular parking installed we'll interest it r have to back up beyond a parked vehicle to get a glimpse of ongoing cross traffic and only have a short distance to back up until we hit the parked cars on the other side. >> thank you. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon and hello, i'm elizabeth live on 31 avenue for generations and my daughter is a third generation of terryville commuter this is one of the stops property for removal and we would like to i know the - they talked about the distance the next stop being

close and it is actually 2 blocks the street has different names because of boulevard i sent you a lengthy e-mail 4 bullet points when the n judah line was reengineered 20 years ago i don't know how many of you remember that but basically killed commerce on those stretches of n judah and those streets are dead zoned that certainly is in empathy with the merchants on terryville and the second point a lot of this is an effort to save 2 minutes within west portal but those people that are at the stops and other speakers spoke lovrnt those people still needs to board and brard it takes time so you send

people 4 to 6 minutes and a i'm a daily terryville commuter they still have to board and still need to get on the big place where savings are made at west portal an egregious delay getting in and out of tunnel thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> (calling names.) >> good afternoon. >> thank you. >> i'm a president of the merchant successors and the people for transit i'm also a residence of terryville street on behalf of the my association i'd like to request a not make a

final rulings today we've spent a lot of time working on the issue many meetings with sfmta about our pilot program please allow the entire prelims to be a pilot program like the streets for 6 months to evaluate this change and after 6 months have several meetings with the community to see a joint design with sfmta we had a question because we know boarding island is including safety and it is very important to us but many things we can do i have not seen mta educating our residents our riders or drivers we should be educating children and adults so tell them you know how to ride and watch out and posters should

be in school on the bus and maybe recorded announcements should be used for people getting out of the car to watch out those things are not being done and flash lights and lines on the streets many things can be done and having a platform of over two hundred parking spaces we have about the long walks the people will not go to shop on the streets businesses will fall and jobs will be lost and - >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> thank you. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon. >> hello i've had a small business an attorney value and

47th avenue for 20 years i want to urge to delay a final vote until the pilots i want you to consider the enormous impact on the community that doesn't want the changes live and work on terryville and are with all due respect to mr. kennedy no enforcement thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon, sir. >> hello my name is mr. shower llgd on terryville for 26 years i know the neighborhood intimating this is kind of like everything is going baugsdz we need to put the proper signs or

signals flagging out on the back of the streetcar that should have been done years ago the street should be marked so people know when and how to get on and off every part of plan didn't make sense because you have transit only which is impractical for this street and have signal lights it make a business district illegal to jaywalk and destroy the feeling the place taking out stops for people is not a benefit for the neighborhood because all those stops saves a little bit of time to take them out that is ridiculous okay. so almost everything in the proposal and make sense except for putting a sign on the back of the streetcar and marking the curve the roadway somewhere where people get off

the temporary island is a bad idea for mta sneaking through the final proposal mr. kennedy said they wanted to do that has a way to implement the whole thing this pilot thing is in the meant to be an option we're getting screwed we're told we're going to do this anyway and the final plan not collaboratively with the community almost nothing he mentioned is exactly what we did equipped for the flashing lights other than that we've not been left hand two. >> (clapping.) again ladies and gentlemen, we need to hear the names called

(calling names). >> my family owns oceanside sheet metal and seven years in business i want to say that we've worked closely with the staff of mta shawn kennedy and thought we reached some kind of an in between we have not the process the small businesses will get harmed they will we are the trees that make this escape viable for the communities are we good morning, and welcome to the regular meeting of the cut down one by 1 and mission street is a good example i'll asking that the early implementation i'm hearing 6 months and 6 months why can't the early transit lanes limitations the parking the whole thing be evaluated i'm asking to not put a stamp on this thing let this thing run

through 6 months now i'm the one that came up with the lights on the train i'm on inadvertent they're used in the medical field and i've got a lot more ideas i am came up with and working with mr. haley he's the one that adapted this idea i'd like for you to consider what we're saying and to really please feel what we're going through thank you. >> thank you 234e79 >> (clapping.) >> and (calling names). >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. my name is nancy i'm the author of open ed in sundays examiner about the

trust between us today you have the option to domestic violence for a safety experience those on terryville you can postpone the prelims for the actions listed in item 11 in favor of enclosing a pilot program for the plans the letter sent to those in zip code 94156 told us the will pilots will be evaluated for 6 months and if successful the board of supervisors islands will not be necessary and the impacts to the transit only bike lanes will be evaluated for the necessary adjustment in the mitigations for the first place this the perpendicular will be proposed without traffic guidelines in brand new changes to the side streets must be adds

for evaluation and made a commitment for a pilot program went up deserve to have unresolved issues work out before you do the changes proposed and evaluation is period for the mta plans is meaning also, if you right thing to do them we'll only you believe your sincere if you have not signed off the execution of proposed traffic modifications and chances to the transportation code keep your word and louse allow us to - pressure us into a prematurity mta project that forces us to fight each other let's work >> (clapping.) >> >> next speaker, please. >>

(calling names). >> mr. chin not here. >> okay elizabeth - then (calling names). >> good afternoon. >> hi i'm elizabeth rogers i've lived on 21st avenue between terryville more than 25 years i'm 71 years old and had physical issues over the years one of the benefits of living in the wonderful neighborhood has been the l terryville a block from my house i'm speaking in strong opposition to the removal of out bound transit stop which i call the colonel sanders stop on 22 avenue i frequently come to the civic center so for the music events and come home between 11 and 12 on the l terryville if i'm forced to get off on 19th avenue i'll not or

getting off others 24th street do i have to go in the dark to get to any house the option i can drive to the service center and drive to west portal and take up some of the neighborhood parking there this is not a grateful at this point either this is just not an option for me i'm very angry and i think the suggestions so for putting often the lights as a signs on the back of bus are great i'm a former teacher when i get off the street and look at the cars it usually gets me off the bus don't close down the stop thank >> (clapping.) >> >> next speaker, please. >>

(calling names). >> good afternoon good afternoon i'm ellen i live on 22 avenue and i'm a career san francisco san francisco unified school district teacher this is the death of terryville street in its final approval now let's try the 6 month pilot program and keep all the stops and do nothing permanent we have hills not a straight shot but on 22 after the hill works fine we don't need that boarding thing that is in the middle now i can stand in front of the shop and look to my left and see coming up the hill the coming to 22 in front of kentucky fried chicken see the l coming down the hill

to have that concrete thing in the middle will not help and most people choose to wait in front of the stores and safely walk out to the muni the 24 avenue idea really i wish because i get off anothers 22 avenue about midnight after the opera house i barely make it down to the hill to my house it you eliminate that stop i have to go to 24 and trudge up a hill by a dark acre and take any chances of trying to get across the street to home we don't need bulb outs they're other ways to give good handicap assess please do not approve this we'll keep it as the past 4 two years when

i rode thank you >> (clapping.) >> >> next speaker, please. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. my name is berry i've been living in the sunset district since 1978 and bought a house along the a block along the l line in 1990 i've been a rider of terryville for the last 56 years it is amazing this project talks about transit liability and being able to speed things up for people i've never had a problem with getting down when i had an office on market street never a problem how many minutes i might save if you know this is just not a factor in many ways i look at this project as enormous enlist to the developers that are

building those condominiums at the end of the terryville line so you can over those people that minutes time savings this is crazy every other individual that had their stops removed is now going to take extra time no matter downtown or west portal or the safeway i'm afraid as a transit advocate that people will change to someone indicated to ride rather than taking public transit as mr. kennedy was saying frequently the train stops ever block excuse me - every other block and you're going to do you believe that to 4 blocks being the average this is crazy it is discouraging people from riding transit and the last 20 seconds the comment you want to put in the transit

only lanes that's absurd we don't need them i'll waiting to see the back up on 19th avenue as people wait for pedestrians to >> thank you, sir >> (clapping.) >> (calling names). >> good afternoon, board. >> can we get the microphone down there a little bit? good afternoon >> good afternoon mta directors director reiskin and staff i'd like to thank you for your well-thought-out community outreach and discussion on this controversial project i'm joanne the director at the mayor's office of disabilities and represent the concerns of many seniors and people with disabilities particularly the mobility and visible impairment recently my

office had a number of instances of pedestrians were let off in the streets and impacted by car - careful car drivers one of them resulting in a minor incident and breaking their - you can imagine how close and terrifying to get off the bus where you'll make that home or not and i was a former commuter of l terryville and having two stops for the entire corridor is not exactly what the integration mandated i'm encouraged to see the assessable stops more than doubted with this project even if it means i would have less

parking unfortunately, i understand this is not a popular position but like to urge you for your full support of this project and your vote today for the benefits of seniors and people with disabilities one small note when evaluating the consolidation and avoid the hills that will impact the seniors and disabilities thank you for your >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon. >> hi good afternoon. i'm a resident of sunset of the first and fifth grader and my family lives off the line a bicyclist and taxpayer this project this is a pilot project not go far

enough we need to install all the boarding islands on the l in fact, the project itself should be implemented just to be in compliance with the mayor's driveway that requires that high injury corridors should be safe as possible and the installation of all the boarding islands meets this requirement i hope that essentially any children will soon us the terryville to go to their soccer practices and i'll be a parents reassured a boarding islands that he has a safe place both sons can cross the street and go to their stoifts i've heard the protests about the loss of parking spaces and on the car related infrastructure however, i hope that communicating committee or the mta will think better about that

in terms of implementing all the stops and make sure this water down plan didn't essentially we're listing essentially lives we're talking about the parking spaces verse the people getting off trains you urge you to make our streets safely not only for myself and my family but people that purchase the hopes homes in 2, 3, 4 >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> (calling names) and good afternoon. thank you director i'm scott i work with livable city we work on land use issues including supporting small businesses and creating housing and open space and better transportation i'm a daily transportation rider i'm here on behalf of livable city

to ask you to forget this project with the boarding islands on all l stops as an individual i recognize this is a passionate issue for residents for merchants and terryville users i want to feel safe when i step off the train and want to be safe when i hit the boulevard or eat i don't want to worry about about my disabled mother and know my family's and friends that live along and near the line to be in danger as a policy advocate i view the projections all over the world and see what works and fails that terryville is a high injury corridor people are injured into a traffic lane and accidents happen this way i know that 3 out of 4 people go

by transit and not by car as well as walking and bicycling i know that you and the mayor and several other agencies have committed and adopted vision zero but yet to eliminate the traffic injuries you know the boarding islands work paint and signs don't work they're a failure of a compromise that will result in collisions and injuries we shouldn't be he relocating parking spots with improved safety mta staff we look to the boarders leadership thank you. >> 234e79

(calling names). >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> hold on one second. >> okay good afternoon board members and staff thank you for having me, i'm with the senior and disability action how long i've been in the city 38 years until i afford the relents i'm familiar with terryville and many of the members are familiar with terryville and many members don't go down terryville not assessable so for them to hydrologist at 19th street and terryville a lot of members that won't go counsel there it is dangerous so we're quite happy well, we're happy you're taking the first step and making terryville more assessable we need more platforms we need

more accessibility yes. that will cost parking spaces and their needs to be figured out how to do that what we do need taking away stops not that's one of the main things we've fought i fought for years first with the mta stops are very important for us a lot of people can't walk more than a block the definition of paratransit not in you walk 4 blocks so taking away stops you're taking away accessibility and providing another hand didn't workout that well, we support 24 first step but as a step and a pilot idea very good little details to work out never get it right the first

time. >> next speaker, please. >> (calling names.) >> good afternoon. ms. rogers. >> good afternoon directors i'm alice rogers with the vision zero coalition and also a resident the south park and south beach and commends you for looking at the highest quality pedestrian safety improvements and encourage you to go forward with those including all of the board of supervisors islands it is just two important that all of the residents of terryville stay alive and the shorter at the terryville stores can shop there and stay alive i'm a resident of south park and central soma and what this is to me we know from the waterfront transportation assessment that more than 25 percent of cars are

very congested streets in south beach are from the neighborhoods we need our neighbors to be encouraged to take transit and want that transit to be safe and reliable and want it to be fast >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon. mr. wong. >> hello good afternoon i'm here to support the l attorney value safety improvement i basically lead by 46 and rivera so for me to get on the

platform i need to drive myself 7 bus stops in order to get do the wayside park at the zoo it is basically a switch back and not equitable as far as equal rights to braid any bus stops every other passenger can board so i want to proposal to go forward and as far as the boarding islands i'm in favor of that because what was said about the blind people not able to see the cars i've heard through friends which are blind that ask me they get

hit because they can't see where the cars are approaching so, so having those board of supervisors israel will certainly help there was another thought but i forgot anyway, i want more assessable board of supervisors 0i8d for the people with disabilities thank you >> . >> next speaker, please. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon. >> adam greenfield transit advocate i remember i got off the l line on terryville i couldn't believe i was crossing a street to get

to the sidewalk it seemed like madness i'm happy 24 project is going ahead and ask you to be uncompromising vision zero is official san francisco policy and there is no, but after safety safety is an absolute we need transit and boarding islands and concrete island at every stop we need to add amenities make them more pollutant i think that terryville can improve that has a place to gather and attract people and local businesses too so i urge you to don't compromise on vision zero, don't put the lives and safety of people at risk let's go for the best we can get

>> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon ms. indicating. >> i'm ms. casey petitions over 6 hundred drivers that don't want the stops eliminated today, i turn in another 4 hundred for petitioning every can i i have to delete the removal of l terryville and add terryville buses immediately to speed up the rush hour i ask those petitions urban design sent in an e-mail to you after many riders told the staff from 2 to 3 minutes they saved it was ensignificant so for the hardship staff tluldz that the time salesforce would allow for

greater recovery in the system but - there were two projects in the tunnel that saves time without conveniently the l riders using we suggest you use the 12 minutes to be covered from details without effecting the l riders by removing i ask you don't vote final approval today but instead approve the early implementation this is as a 6 month pilot keeping our l stops like delores and want to add that removing the stops with the safeway they'll not have to walk harder and people they'll have to walk two blocks favorite

they go downhill to 19th street and walk that dangerous intersection with their grocery bags and the staff - >> thank you . >> (clapping.) >> and margaret (calling names) >> (clapping.) >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> my name is margaret i support keeping all the l terryville stops when you take into account the extra time to walk the extra bloukz you've lost the salesforce your spending the money and causes a hardship for seniors and disabled don't vote final approval today as a result of january 2017 early implementation of so many boarding islands and no physical

construction costing millions of dollars the terryville has a unique opportunity for the changes prior to the construction of 2018 as a result i ask the early implementation be approved on is a 6 month pilot program like last month on delores street keeping all the l stops the 6 month pilots give the communities and mta to experience the proposed changes and evaluate what works and what didn't prior to the construction of 2018 after the 6 months we've proposing that the mta conduct outreach from supervisor yee, supervisor tang and pops and save our terryville stops and other communities members and help us to conduct the outreach the goal to develop a revised project to better serve the needs of terryville to be brought back for final approval it is hard to get it right

before spending $20 million of taxpayer money. >> next speaker, please. >> (calling names.) >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. my name is a lynn miller i'd like to read you some of the public comments submitted from residents that cannot attend this meeting today i frequently shop at the safeway on 17th street and terryville and observed any resident carving large loads of groceries on the terryville safeway if this stop is removed those elderly and other residents handbag at risk for falling and suffering injuries ways they will have to walk further with their heavy loads of groceries. to reach the l terryville stop

lots of elder people including my own family members depend on those stops especially at the 1 i bought any home especially for they 76-year-old mother she is has arthritis as several people around the neighborhood and i'm sure not the only one depend on this bus stop >> if stops are removed many of the elderly families and tloerldz will not be able to do their shopping or buy items for the house few people can manage carrying groceries walking blocks or holding a small child is shoppers at 17th street and

safeway will have a had a right time please listen to those comments thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> (calling names.) >> good afternoon. >> i'll be using the overhead. >> okay i'm here in support of postpones the decision and bring it to the board this first overhead is included in the packet the consensus this survey is the most accurate and 57 percent say a more reliable trip and 10 percent safer on on and off

trains and 7 percent other this is because the community seize terryville as a safe street and bewilder on the high injury network okay second okay what the - okay. the mta is punted saying that dph develop a network bans a perplexed formula this agency priority the data to the department of health it is based on the 12 criteria where crash profiles and density the criteria are night life be viability and alternative signaled intersection and complex sdprshgz and mid block collisions and high-speed volume and pedestrian crossing begins

signals and outside of crosswalks and unappreciated o go unpredictability behavior by the low agencies issue terryville should not have been included isn't high injury network thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> (calling names) >> good afternoon i'm susan on 22 i'm in the middle of where this plan will be affected i'm opposed to roving our stops and hope you'll postpone the final discussion i'm on the l for 19 years and take it down for several days a week one thing i see constantly is a lot of people will take the streetcar to avoid having to walk uphill or avoid pushing kids uphill i'm

concerned about the loss many stops for the neighborhood and concerned about the huge collaborating this will have on the rest of neighborhood my street is for parallel and perpendicular and on one side and diagonal on the other i'm concerned about the additional traffic and concerned what will happen to any merchant when their parking spaces are taken away i personally have cakes over hundred people in my neighborhood and neighbors and transit riders my businesses people thirty businesses i part news between 32 and 15 the stop at the 1 should be left it is on a 2 -lane street absolutely no traffic nun all of people i've

spoken to have opposed to this plan i got this tripping over a broken curb so if you have is plenty of money to spend please spend it on streets that's where it is needed. >> pardon me we're joined. >> by carmen chu so ms. chu to come forward and offer thoughts >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon to the mta board first thank you. allowing me to speak i want to number one appreciate the difficult job you have i know that any changes that the mta proposes not one that is easy nor is it often easier to be able to balance the needs you currently have and thank you for supervisor tang's office and raising some of the concerns of residents the riders and the businesses today, i am come to

speak not as a supervisor, of course, but i come to speak as a private resident that has observations and concerns about the proposal first, i do want to say i support your decision to have pilots and i'm glad you heard the local businesses around the proposals you're taking efforts to evaluate how those are working before the intrusive measures i want to implore you in gather not having the solutions before you've seen the pilot and evaluate its effect fines that its been a long time coming to build trust with the community the reason you've seen so many people there are is trust with the mta and the community to make sure that their thoughts and concerns are heard and really take into account in our proposal i also want to make sure that

the mta is moving forward to evaluate parking conditions not only on terryville in a comprehensive way but the side streets you've suggested a series of mitigations to deal with parking issues and traffic flows i know there mayor another options that are valuable but yet to be evaluated i have a century time that supervisor tang shares with us already on one street i live on is a passive choices they they avoid streets there are traffic bumps i want to make sure if you're putting in a permanent proposals whether perpendicular parking you think about what the impacts to those pedestrians are in those streets one of the areas you're proposing for 90 degree perpendicular a school dianne

feinstein public schools to make sure we're not 3e78d them bit addressing perpendicular parking i implore you that you really think about the mitigations think about less than intrusive options for the community and finally i'll close by saying the transit only lanes i know we've put in in place we've seen the muni trains blocked i'm not sure that terryville streets it one of them and finally working hard with the businesses and residents and community terryville streets i think people are used to hearing merchant talk about the loss of parking and what that means it is saying i hear that no big deal we can mitigate that we have for a long time structural to provide the vibrancy and the traffic on terryville that helps to support our businesses when they're coming and saying they

will be impacted i hope you look at that we've been struggling with that and with that, i hope you'll take our commitments into consideration thank you >> (clapping.) >> >> next speaker, please. >> (calling names). >> >> next speaker, please. >> is ms. clark here marry p moving on. >> yeah. my name is bevy clark i appreciate. >> what's our name and leslie clark i'm a community member of mac which is the muni accessibility advisory committee those proposals such as terryville is presented to us

prior to them submitting these requests from the mta we have many different types of disabled people whether their blind or hearing whatever people are in wheelchairs although this might be a somewhat inconvenience to people of the neighborhood we can appreciate that, however, the additional stops for terryville are needed and needed badly for the disability community and accessibility those are concerns and we will appreciate you thank you very much. >> thank you, sir. >> next speaker, please.

>> (calling names). >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon hi. >> i believe we've talked about the vulnerability on 19th street and terryville the dangerous corridor on the line and the busiest stops on the line and in between 17 and 22 take half of the people that have to move to 19th street and getting one thousand people a day to a total of 2800 people on 19th avenue now i've seen people how many people does it take before the board of supervisors islands get two crowded i've seen people bounce on market street when the board of supervisors islands are

cross-out they don't hold a lot of people 28 hundred people everyday is a lot for the board of supervisors islands to handle the whole program niece more and more evaluation - had thousand of people come out to dianne feinstein school they've learned not a lot has changed the plan was done in place and felt like we were stick there. >> now i'm in a design community i know the value of talking early to as many stakeholders and end users as we can we actually have more signatures on the petition than in the initial plan stakeholders are us the taxpayers. >> and i think if we had a

reevaluation even a revote of bond measures that gave money we might have a different outcome so i beg you to re-evaluate thank you. >> 234e79 (calling names). >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> my name is andrew i'm a former resident of terryville and a daily transit user and yeah, i'm in support of installing boarding islands at all l stops along terryville yeah. as a daily transit user i have many stories about any experiences all i can laugh about what is not laughable the leaves lost and the injuries happening

so today, i'm here to urge you to don't compromise the vision zero. >> we need to rewrite stories and tell narratives of pretty much how sfmta has created save pedestrian environments thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> (calling names) >> herbert wiener. >> we really need deposits bus stops will create hardships and walking along distances and travel 7, 8, 9 notable will i for seniors and disabled this is a war against the weak and removing parking spaces will cause congestion on adjacent streets there are presently difficulty in parking traffic

will increase on those streets to the inconvenience of neighbors and in addition businesses will be adversely impacted the board should not giver this final approval at that meeting and instead of a six months pilot project with full evaluation if the community in my opinion there should be a medical finding which this board has not instituted and it should regarding the effect of walking longer than distances on seniors and the disabled you should do this this is a melanie it and consistently grgd this this should not be implement without full consultation with all the utilized services and not tilted towards one group to the danger of another