and applied to the deficit for the upcoming budget cycle. surplus will be assumed to bring down the gap that the mayor's office needs to close in the budget submission that is good news we want are happy to help with that. we have a management research that we got permission to establish to protect us when we have big federal and state revenues that come unpredictably in time and amount so we have that reserve in place. the balance is $92.1 million. that is unchanged from what it was at year end 16-17. that is available to us should we have future problems. then this report also assumes that we will make the full. we have the option to transfer up to $25 million of funds per

year into the ehr project when we can afford to do so. since we have a net positive balance we are assuming we will transfer to that to project. that is the same assumption we used when we proposed the budget initiative for the ehr project at the last hearing we are on track to do that. then lastly, as i said, we have some actions that we are putting in place to tackle the $7.3 million of projected over spending. i think we will be able to do that by the year end. that is the short version. i think we are in a positive report. we have somethings to work on. overall it is a positive balance and we are in a pretty good place, big picture. i am happy to answer questions or hear comments from the commission. >> commissioners comments?

questions? commissioner chung? >> not at this point. i think this is great that we finally see behavioral health as being reported the same after having them merge for so many years. i think this will help streamline the reporting definitely. >> right. certainly we also comment that the public health division aside does help in understanding what the support is for the ph.d. >> that is one we wanted to clean up for a long time. >> thank you for that. any further comments? if not. i know the finance committee discussed with mr. wagner some areas four clarification, but he

is satisfied with the report, also. thank you very much. no public comment? >> we can move to item 11. the other business. commissioners a note on the calendar next meeting are your elections. any other comments or questions about the calendar? >> comment on the calendar? we have any suggestions or comments on the calendar? if not we can proceed to the next item. >> item 12 is report back from the february 27th meeting. i believe commissioner chow. >> within open session the committee reviewed the standard reports including the regulatory fares which they responded.

no new surveys since the last report. hospital administrators, patient care services and hr reports. during the medical staff report, the committee approved changes in the urology rules and regulations anesthesia privilege list. in closed session it approved the credentials report and the minutes. any questions? then we can proceed to the next item which is consideration of adjournment. >> next item adjournment motion in order. >> so moved. >> second. all those in favor. this meeting is now adjourned. thank you.

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for me i think district eight is different than other districts because of the castro, right? that is really the birth place of lgbtq civil rights movement in san francisco. it's historic for that reason. it's a great district because it's very diverse. you have booming night life in the castro, a lot of families, we have an amazing array of parks, rock climbing wall in glen canyon is super cool. it was the first facility with a rock climbing wall. the book stores are treasures, charlie's corner is unique. >> charlie's corner is a children's book store but so much more, community space where care takers and children come together over storytelling,

books, it's a gathering center. i am charlotte and we are at charlie's corner on the corner of castro and 24th. the type of books we carry at charlie's corner range from prenatal to young adult, 18. we have musical books, art books, all built around children of course. history, nonfiction, we have a wonderful picture book section. >> i love going to charlie's corner, number one, because you can find a whole range of books. my kid loves to read books. >> i always envisioned a space like this, surrounded by children's books and storytelling. we offer storytelling four times a day. we do curate well, we do a lot

of time reading, researching, beyond the story time, it's going back to picking out a book, helping someone find the perfect book, unwrapping it and sending it off. there are people from all over the world and that's what i find so exciting. you see that every day in our story times. it's literally a melting pot. >> more and more families come into the district, whether it's the castro, strollers every where in the valley and tons and tons of kids in glen park now, with the canyon and a great library. >> i describe it as this village, i tell people i live in a town but i work in a village. >> one thing i really think is great about this district, it's a safe district, it's a clean district, it's great for kids, it's great for families and has a bit of wild life in it, too.

>> i look forward to watching these kids in this neighborhood grow up and new kids come in and meeting new people from all over the world because that's what we're all about. ♪ ♪ >> supervisor peskin: good morning welcome to the transportation authority meeting for today february 27th. mr. clerk, if you could call the role. >> clerk: (calling roll)

we have quorum. >> supervisor peskin: we have a motion to excuse commissioner safai made by commissioner breed and seconded by commissioner stephanie. we'll take that without objectjectiobjec objection. i'm going to talk about two issues we have been discussing here at the ta with increasing frequency, transportation network companies and driverless vehicles which have significant overlap. at the january meeting, we had a

presentation of our tnc regulatory landscape study that staff outlined the regulatory arrangements. one of the findings of the report, the regulatory fees, tnc like uber and lyft pay to the commissions was a subject of an action proposing the rate on the state agenda a week later. uber and lyft wanted fees reduced even though there was no data to justify the decrease. the san francisco tna and i wrote opposition letters why we believe it is another give-away to companies unwilling to work with local governments. despite the ta, los angeles's department of transportation,

all giving strong testimony at the february puc meeting, the state puc acted to lower them from 0.33 to 0.25%. while we managed to prevent them from reducing them lower to the original staff recommendation 0.2%, we remain disappointed and determined to pursue the right sizing of fees and enforcement given the congestion and public safety conflicts we see on the streets. if the cupc is unable to perform the regulatory sector, we urge them to give it to locals like san francisco who will. the message is clear, let us manage our public streets for the public good. in a related development, i was pleased to see the city attorney's announcement that lyft has agreed to allow transportation experts such as

transportation authority staff to look at the data under the agreed to protective order rules. it's long overdue. i hope uber will join soon as well. for far too long our constituents have dealt with congested streets, cyclist issues, double parking and muni stops. coupled with lack of adequate background checks and reporting by tnc's, discriminatory pick up practices, the regulatory system has clearly failed the public. i'm hopeful the data can at least scale back the number of vehicles on city streets. as for driverless cars, you all saw the california department of motor vehicles announced the final regulations they have developed for driverless vehicles. the dmv will give permits for testing and deployment in april.

subject to permit conditions, including the requirement to coordinate with locals on law enforcement interaction plans. while this technology could lead to less cars overtime, the future impacts are uncertain. the permit process appears to be dominated by self-certification procedures, as a result and based on the past, we are concerned that local coordination and input be taken seriously and not just be a check the box exercise. we must also ensure that the dmv and california highway patrol are equip with the necessary resources to play their effective role and hold them accountable. i'm glad we're setting up meetings with first responders to get ahead of the operational issues that will inevitably arise. questions must be answered quickly, like how do you pull

over an autonomous vehicle. who will be given access to the black box in the event of crash. how do you report collisions and who is accountable. additional emerging technology will pop up, including the latest, private stationless motor rised scooters. i'm prepared to introduce division one to create a permit requirement as we have for stationless bicycles. for any company aiming to place these in the public right of way. and to create conditions for that permit to minimize potential harm to the public. we have heard other cities where the scooters have dropped. in santa monica it has had hundreds of criminal stops. they have raised over $$15 million and expanded to los

angeles and san diego. it is important for us to get ahead of this so they're not blocking our downtown sidewalks and so we can be sure they come with a plan to distribute them in communities of need. i look forward to further discussions about how to anticipate the emerging technologies going forward. in january the bay area toll authority voted to place regional measure three, the traffic relief plan on the ballot for 99 days from today. this proposal to increase the tolls on the seven various state owned bridges except for the golden gate bridge by different fees. the revenues would be used to fund transportation projects and programs that aleave congestion in the bridge corridors as detailed in senate bill 595, consistent with requirements, the board of supervisors, our

board of supervisors passed the resolution to put it on the ballot here in san francisco. all the other bay area counties are expected to take similar actions by the end of the week. including 4.45 billion for transportation capital across the region, including san francisco priorities, half a billion for new bart cars, 325 million for downtown extension, muni vehicles and facilities and includes 60 million per year to help support regional bus and transit operations. finally colleagues, in an effort to truly get at the widening gap in our transportation task force, i will be introducing a tnc tax at the board of supervisors this afternoon to finally ensure that a sector that had profound impact on our public streets starts paying their fair share. other sectors contribute to the general operating budget of the

city and need for revenue to manage local issues has never been greater. it is an exercise in equity and i'm looking forward to gain your support. that concludes the chair's remarks. >> clerk: public comment? >> supervisor peskin: seeing none, public comment is closed. next item please. >> clerk: executive director report, information item. >> good morning commissioners. my report is before you and pleased to follow the chair's excellent remark, thank you for placing it on the ballot here in san francisco. we're excited to see if the voters agree that these are critical transportation projects to help prepare us for the future. staying at the state level for a moment, the dmv work that the chair mentioned, we will continue to work under the group with their own enforcement groups as well as pd and fire

and california highway patrol and members of industry i believe who we need at the table to cooperate in developing the law enforcement interaction plans. turning to another funding topic. senate bill one, i wanted to report that january was a busy month for a number of the agencies around bay area, seeking sb-1 funds, this is a set of programs that was passed -- by the funding package last year that includes congestion relief and local partnership program and other funds. we put forward mission bay ferry landing, jefferson street and better market street projects. the largest of the pots is the transit and inner city rail program. we saw $10.9 billion in need as expressed through applications for the pot. we're going to continue to advocate for the vehicles and extension funds for downtown to

meet current and future needs. we want to thank at the state level, david shoe, he introduced a spot bill for us earlier in february in the 101, to seek administration for the potential lanes should the body decide to pursue in the future. this is for the totalling authority, similar to what was included in sb-595 for it to be extended. no decision has been made but the bill helps us to be a part of that policy conversation, should those two other counties continue to make progress on the managed lanes in san mataeo and

other aspects in this corridor. and i wanted to talk about the regional agencies kick off of the futures planning effort at m.p.c. you'll see later on the agenda, our own connect sf update that corresponds with the regional effort. every four years our agencies try to look forward into the future and take land use and technology and other types of demographic type forecasts and create a long range plan to help us navigate all the known and unknown trends. this could include manmade disasters, economic booms and busts and even things such as political volatility around revenues and funds for transportation. i look forward to the presentation later today and your feedback on the work. this month they are beginning outreach on their efforts,

futures project, an 18 month series of events looking at the trends and trying to prepare the region to navigate them as well as using that as a platform to identify projects and investment priorities. we'll continue to work with them and together with the four agencies you'll hear about later. the outreach is robust, conducted in english, spanish and chinese. there will be pop-ups, state holder feedback will be possible through multiple means, including text surveys and a like. we'll keep you updated as it unfolds. turning to local, the lifeline call for projects is now out. i want to thank staff for getting this out. this is the source for low income residence and addresses gaps and barriers through equity, analysis and other needs assessments. for this cycle we'll prioritize

projects that support communities of concern. since this is one of the few funding sources we can use for the purpose. transit operators are the only recipients and applications are due march 23rd. for more information go to sfcta.org or contact april smith the project manager. we have other outreach, including design outreach workshops. this fast evolving era with technology and policy moving at rapid pace, it's important to stay connected and keep the dialogue up. i they we have made clear what our hopes and expectations are and that's a good way to engage with industry partners and other agencies grappling with the complexity of new technologies and hopefully the benefits they bring to our city. the muni equity strategy is

underway. you have seen that through notifications through your offices and online and other outreach that mta has been doing. this is the final phase of the 2018 service equity strategy. this began in 2013 actually under a prior county-wide plan and mta's own strategic plan, focusing on eight equity neighborhoods and making sure we close gaps and improve conditions for those most dependant on public transportation. mta has administered general surveys and received quite a few responses and will recommend to their board and plan to come to our board as well to brief you all and the public through our board. please stand by...

and set up any debt needed and update the debt strategy from the cash flow needed, for the larger projects. over the next two months, we'll reach out to your offices to schedule briefings with you and your staff about this fro ses and how you would like to weigh in on the use of these sales tax

funds over the next five years, we look forward to that work as well. turning to project delivery, thank the deputy for capital project and his team, peer review of the technical questions related to the cal train extension projects, question of two versus three tracks for that portion that leads up to the station itself as requested by chair peskin. so we have convened a host of a strong panel of experts, as well as stakeholders from multiple agencies, cal train itself, high speed rail, planning department and other land owners in the area to try and sort through multiple reports that had analyzed these questions and so good news is, we plan to bring a report back to you in march that reflects the consensus that we are hearing, i don't want to

preempt that big news but we are making really great progress and consensus emerging, so we look forward to bringing that in march. thank the participants for their efforts input and contributions to the collaborative process. finally, thank our finance and admin team, for the workshop. this is our disadvantaged business enterprise and our local business enterprise outreach workshop to ensure all of our contracting is as inclusive as possible. on february 22nd, hosted a workshop with approximately 60, 70 attendees and brought together the prime consultants as well as the subcontractors to learn how they may connect with one another and what's coming up at the transportation authority and the treasure island management agency work program. and appreciate san francisco public works, m.t.a., m.t.c., and cal trans as well.

so great feedback and we look forward to doing these on a regular basis. thank you very much. >> chairman peskin: any questions, commissioner kim. >> supervisor kim: when you talked about the lifeline program and the application opening, could you tell the commission some of the priorities for sfcta for the grant funding for the lifeline? >> thank you very much, commissioner kim. reflecting on what i'm aware of, not as aware of all the needs. i know the sfmta in particular has an interest in closing some equity gaps from the equity strategy that they are conducting right now. they want to close late night service gaps as well, some of the owl network around town. in the past they have used the funds to do work in those types of corridors that serve, for

example, the overnight market and s.f.o. to city corridor. let me let anna maybe add to that. >> thank you. to your question, commissioner tang. this has been a very erratic -- >> commissioner tang is not here. >> i'm sorry, commissioners kim. i was thinking i need to type an email to commissioner tang. >> this has been a relatively erratic funding source, this is the smallest pot of funds we have had available to program to projects, and one of the very few funding sources we can program to operating projects. so, we have prioritized funding projects that provide access to and in communities of concern and she highlighted some of the platforms that we expect projects to spring from. so -- that's -- >> mainly around filling gap services in certain neighborhoods that are prioritized as he can with it at

this neighborhoods, is that what i'm hearing? >> we are not sure -- prior equity strategy identified some gaps, so i would assume they are in the top priority. we are not privy to all their analysis. >> i was asking for -- i know the applications have not gone in yet, wondering what we are prioritizing as the lifeline funds. >> sponsors are the only ones eligible, so we do expect to receive most of them from sfmta. >> and not part of your report, but very interested in the regional discount pass that m.t.c. is studying and curious what they are pushing or advocating for with our regional partners. i think it's an incredible opportunity for us to provide our low income transit riders a pass that would work regionally

through multiple operators and provide more smooth transition. we know that many low income riders depend on multiple operators to get to work, so i would like to hear the work and what we are advocating for on behalf of the city in that program. >> we'll be happy to bring that back to you, thank you for your leadership at m.t.c. on that question. as we know here in san francisco, muni m.t.a. has a very good discount program, and coming in to create the means-based fare program. so that is being worked out. happy to report back next month. >> right, thank you. >> chairman peskin: any members of the public who would like to offer public comment on the executive director's report? seeing none, public comment is closed. could you please read the consent agenda. >> items 4-8, consent agenda, 5-8 approved at the board meeting and considered for final

approval. remaining items are considered routine. staff is not planning to present on the items but prepared to present if desired. if a member objects, any of the consent items may be removed and considered separately. >> thank you. any public comment on item number four, the february 13, 2018, minutes, seeing none. public comment is closed. move to move the consent agenda, a roll call, please. [roll call vote taken] we have final approval. >> chairman peskin: next item please. >> clerk: nine, update on the

quint street-jerrold road project, information item. >> mr. cordoba. or miss tang. >> hello, just by way of introduction of this item through the chair, just wanted to provide some background to the board. some of you may recall this project, some may not. the quint jerrold connector road is a larger effort to bring a replacement cal train station to the bayview. following the closure of paul avenue, one of the lower ridership cal train stations closed in the early 2000s. the community came together and had a series of meetings for alternative station and landed near oakdale and third, the oakdale cal train station site. it was not clear that we could build a project there, that it would fit, that the ridership

would work out, but in the sales tax plan, we were able to initiate feasibility studies that did confirm a conforming cal train station would here, and the need for access to be preserved and maintained into the south bay with the job opportunities down the peninsula. so, we endeavored to develop this station area concept with the community, with cal train and local agencies, and the bridges in the vicinity of the site needed to be replaced, 100 years old, quint bridge and jerrold bridge needed to be replaced, and what design we would choose to maintain not only the safety of the bridge area but potential for the future station. i wanted to provide that backdrop at the time in 2012, we

decided this body decided to use 20 million out of the available $25 million that cal train had for a berm, berm design was going to be affordable as well as wide enough to accommodate a future potential platform for the station, however, the tradeoff was it would close access on quint street. in recognition of the impact of that, we identified a potential mitigation to create connector road, a detour road to connect motorists around this area through the jerrold underpass and preserved the circulation in the area. now, at the time we knew there were risks to that work because this quint connector road parcel was owned by the u.p.r.r. railway, and it's a difficult endeav endeavor to do, working with the railway, and we did work hard on the plans. now the point many years later the sale of that parcel has

actually been made to a private entity and eric cordoba will pick the story up from there. >> good morning, commissioners. we have been leading and coordinating the efforts with the real estate division to try to obtain and purchase the land in question. let's talk about the road itself. two-lane connector, very simple, lighting, landscaping and sidewalk that we are planning to ultimately construct. a little more history here. we did pursue and the city planning department prepared a mitigated negative declaration in august of 2015. there were engineering and right-of-way funds allocated in september of 2015 to the tune of over $2 million. conceptual design completed in fall of 2016 and as executive director chang indicated, negotiations with u.p. railway over three plus years of trying to negotiate to purchase the

land, unbe known to us, and to the real estate division, they basically sold it to a private entity 1880 jerrold avenue, manager partner by the name of trans metro, who the city knows and has a good working relationship, that was done in the summer 2017. also in that regard, they actually very quickly set up a concrete plant which is in violation d.b.i. issued a notice in that regard, so that's been stopped. and since then, though, a lot of activity in terms of discussion with the private report owner. and they have indicated in essence a willingness to allow us to start the environmental testing we need to as required per the environmental document, so we are pursuing that right now. we are going ahead and working with our consultants to go ahead and come up with the planning and get them out there to perform the appropriate archaeological testing, as well

as hazardous materials testing. survey crews out there, spot checks on utilities, due diligence for the engineering work we need to go ahead and this will inform the appraisal. ordered an appraisal. so moving positively in that regard. so, even though the bad news is u.p. railroad sold it but ultimately we have an entity we are working with a little more collaboratively in that regard. so, what lies ahead in terms of future abbing -- activities, come up with an appraisal, that will inform the overall cost in the summer of this year and hopefully negotiate a land purchase by the fall. we anticipate having to come back here in that regard to go ahead and give you an update once we have an appraise al. as part of that, that will also -- the costs have gone up,

it's been a few years, i think the challenge here is pursue the funding and plan later this year and come back with implementation plan. so that completes my update on the project. >> chairman peskin: thank you, and thank you for the briefing you and other staff gave me earlier. is there any questions or comments from commissioners? are there any members of the public who would like to testify on this informational item? please come forward. >> good morning, commissioners. chris wadling, district ten representative of the c.a.c. i have been involved in this project since it began and our community when miss chang came out to speak to us.

and this is really the reason why i asked to join the c.a.c. while i'm encouraged by the comments, i will take it i'll believe it when i see it approach to this. we were told despite built as a transportation company, trans metro is more a company that is described as having a lot of real estate holdings that also has a couple of shuttle busses. so, this is a company that the city knows and i hope we can figure out a way to get the land back from them without too much extra money. the land was cost a little over a million dollars, and the road roughly 5 million, that was in the budget, it's looking like it's going to be maybe 3 to 4 times that now, the numbers we were given at the last c.a.c.

meeting. also asked mr. cordoba to work with the p.u.c. and the c.a.c. for upcoming land use and projects to impact all parts of the bayview. roads closed for the next ten years off and on and access to, and within and out of our community is severely impacted by all these projects and we don't have a lot of major roots, so bay shore and 3rd street are the only ways to get out of the bayview and getting around some places is becoming quite difficult. so, i appreciate you taking the time to listen to this, and look forward to further on this. thank you. >> chairman peskin: and your chairperson has his eyes on this matter. is there any other member of the public who would like to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed and we will file that item. next item, please.

>> clerk: update on the connect sf vision document, this is an information. >> chairman peskin: miss mickel. commissioner tang's favorite subject. >> good morning, chair peskin and commissioners, linda mecel, i'm joined with doug johnson from the planning department also involved in the multi-agency effort. put this into presentation mode, excuse me. ok. so connect sf is a multi-agency partnership to build effective and equitable sustainable transportation system for san francisco's future. and the purpose is to align our agencies through a ground up

process to identify our long-term transportation projects and policies. the program has three-phases, the first of which is a 50-year vision. that is creating goals and objectives that will guide phases 2 and 3 of the process. phase 2 is about the projects and policies, we need to achieve the vision, and phase 3 is about the policy and action oriented documents to codify the projects and policies. update to the county-wide transportation plan and update to the element of the general plan. the project includes three streams of outreach. yellow is the public, the green is the futures task force and the blue is the connect sf multi-agency staff, and we are in the first big bubble there, the long range vision and we

will work through the three streams through 2021 when we finish up our, the transportation element update and the county-wide transportation plan. so, we -- since 2016, we have conducted a lot of outreach on this project. we have gone out and had 125 focus group participants, over 5300 survey respondents, and went to over 60 organizations to speak directly with them, and we definitely want to know if there is any other people that we should be talking to, so please let us know. the issues that are guiding this process, we are calling the drivers of change. these include both givens, as well as uncertainties and those are things that we are not sure what trajectory those issues will take. we are leveraging the work of our inner agency working groups

that are looking at topics like emerging mobility, climate change resiliency and tilly mentioned earlier, future trends or drivers of change. this visioning process involved exploring different plausible futures and the inherent tradeoffs between those different futures. and this slide shows the overwhelming support for the building bridges scenario. it was identified by both the public, the futures task force, as well as the focus groups. so our vision includes five goal areas. those are equity, economic vitality, environmental sustainability, safety and liveability, and a fifth goal added as a result result of engagement called accountability and engagement. and i will ask you to refer to

the fact sheet online at connectsf.org for more information. but i will say the three main points, high growth focus on equity, and strong civic engagement and government alignment. so what's next? we are already starting our phase 2 which involves looking at our transportation needs, figuring out what our needs will be to reach the vision, and then we will look at transit corridor study and streets and freeway study we will figure out the projects and policies needed to get to the vision. and then later we will go into phase 3, which includes again

our policy and action-oriented documents, the san francisco county-wide transportation plan, otherwise known as sftp2050, and transportation element update. with that, i'm happy to take any questions. >> chairman peskin: any questions from commissioners? seeing none, i have one speaker card from mr. ted olson. please come forward. >> my name is ted olson, third generation san franciscan, and sit on the task force of connectsf, and chairman of the transbay joint powers authority for the transit center. so, i'm very interested in this

proposal. i would say a couple of things to all of you that number one, it's consistent with and coordinated with vision 0. so that i think is extremely important. number two, we need to continually, even though this is planned for 50 years, we need to continue to look at it and that's in part of the plan, certainly at least every five years, we need to have an extension of cal high speed rail across the bay to stockton. also planning another tube for bart. senator feinstein has talked of another bridge across the bay. so, all of these things will have to play into the plan because the plan is considering this as a regional asset and a regional center. beyond that, of course, we have things like sea level rise and

other things. so, it is a very forward-looking plan, and it includes additional focus as years go on. thank you. >> chairman peskin: thank you for your testimony mr. olson and your engagement. any other members of the public who would like to testify on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you for that update. are there any introduction of new items, colleagues? seeing none, is there any general public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. and we are adjourned.

>> they tend to come up here and drive right up to the vehicle and in and out of their car and into the victim's vehicle, i would say from 10-15 seconds is all it takes to break into a car and they're gone. yeah, we get a lot of break-ins in the area. we try to -- >> i just want to say goodbye. thank you. >> sometimes that's all it takes. >> i never leave anything in my car. >> we let them know there's been a lot of vehicle break-ins in this area specifically, they target this area, rental cars or vehicles with visible items. >> this is just warning about vehicle break-ins. take a look at it. >> if we can get them to take it

with them, take it out of the cars, it helps. >> if you frequently travel before i van ness i might be surprised van ness will goodwill go the first transit corridor to have brt as more frequently known the goal to get conveniently van ness and geary boulevard one of the most reliable transit systems in the country van ness avenue is a major connecter between potrero hill and mission on the south side of san francisco correcting connecting us to the marina and state highway in the financial with the western edition

neighborhood it is mostly residential a lot of the geography of van ness the rain that is wide it was uses is a firebreak in the 1906 san francisco earthquake a lot of building occasion that helped of hoped to stop the fire from jumping van ness had a light rail or sprash separating and along geary 0 when we came to the question of how to address the needs on haven because of its cost effectiveness we have found in the brt system with the new vehicles. >> the new mr. secretary is a change we will actually have transit in the middle ♪ the far legal unit and a broadly prom >> one of the reasons it is in the center a was it is an clouf right-of-way a set of pedestrians will cross from the

sidewalk to the middle of the street a. >> to move the reliable along the corridor with this travel time had been signifying reduced we think the ripped will go from 16 thousand a day in that portion the corridor up to 22 thousand and we'll have those beautiful new one like this one. >> with the dedication of the signal and lighter saying that between stops we were able to estimate a .32 improvement in travel time and a 50 percent reliability improvement as a result. >> we're pitting u putting in a up to date modern system of new thirty foot high light fixtures and pedestrian lights on the same pole again inviting a comfortable environment for pedestrians. >> it has become a 3

dimensional street project. >> the water that is my understanding under the ground and the emergency firefighting water system month will be replaced and new street lights and traffic lights and the paving and stripping the trees both in the medium and on the side. >> the main core of the project goes from market it lombard that's where we'll be replying the sidewalks. >> there are a number of trees that need to be replaced and they will be additional new planting. >> we're planting a lemon gum that gets to be 50 or 60 feet tall that comes over the offer head wires that wee when we get done van ness it will look like a new street it will visit fresh new looks like the grand

boulevard again. >> we're going eliminating left turns off of van ness into the side streets and places the left turning traffic backs up the traffic and upgrading the signals to the mini traffic will flow more smoothly and traffic impacts as we execute the construction signed we're working to minimize these but impacts that will likely shift the traffic up franklin and we'll pick up the traffic. >> right now that looks like we're skeleton to start in march ever 2016 are of our construction. >> in the past people prospective of bus traffic that go unreliable and noisy and very fluting we're here to remake the vehicles are on the streets and with the combination of the brt

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>> good afternoon and welcome to the san francisco historic preservation commission of wednesday, march 7, 2018. i'd like to remind members of the public that the commission does not allow for any outbursts or objections of any kind. lastly, please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. [ roll call. ] we expect commissioner hyland to be absent today. members of the commission, first item on your agenda are public comment. at this time, members of the public may address items before the commission ept