had been operating have removed their scooters from the city sidewalks. we did at the, when we had our announcement on may 24, made available an application for a new permit that we developed and that you authorized at i guess it was our may 1st sfmta board meeting. the applications for this first pilot, you'll recall restricted the number of scooters and companies, due date for that for those applications is 5:00 p.m. on thursday, june 7th. and we'll review those as expeditiously as we can, and with the hope of being able to qualify companies for permits by the end of the month. i will just to manage expectations from our experience with previous similar permit problems, it took a lot of back

and for the between our staff and the permit applicants to get the applications in a state of completeness such that we could consider them for a permit. so the end of june is a target, but an optimistic one in my mind. so in tandem with the new system, established a 12-month program, basically what to do going forward relative to the public interest in terms of continuing as is, expanding, terminating, we hope to learn a lot during the 12 months. successful applicants and issue permits so we can bring, allow that service to come back but in a safe and responsible way and give us an opportunity to evaluate it. so, that's the latest with scooters. it's been a very lively public topic. there are a couple of things,

today is election day, i hope everybody voted. there are a couple of measures on the ballot, both state and regional, that are of relevance to transportation in the city and california. i'm not going to go over them, i would encourage everyone to vote today. i did want to know, this was a request to another inquiry, i think also from our vice chair with regarding next bus performance, and generally given the age of the system that it is performing as it should. we did have some issues at the beginning of may that may have been what you and other riders noticed and basically what happened was that we had a problem within our overall information network that was caused by a software loop that brought portions of the network down. and that, things that ride on that network include the nex bus

system, some of the traffic signals connected via the city fiber, includes some communications systems, and camera systems. so it had pretty widespread did not immediately iifyhe root cause but recognizing since we did not identify it it could happen again, we took some steps to essentially mitigate that, or minimize any damage and in fact, the next day we had another, another incident, but much, much smaller in scale because of the steps we took. so we are bringing in somebody from the outside to do a full evaluation of our network. there are some aspects of our network architecture we were in the process of addressing, and we think some of those ep use might not having been addressed yet may have been relevant in this outage but i do want to assure that even with the inconvenience it caused and the problems it caused, there was no time where there were any safety

issues in the subway or elsewhere, almost every system we have either has a back-up or fails in the safe mode. so, it was mostly an inconvenience issue and we'll continue to work to make any changes we need to make to our i.t. infrastructure to make it more resilient and resistance to any such outages. moving forward, june 16th is a big day for muni. it is in part because it's when the general sign-up goes into effect, an opportunity for all the transit operators, every couple of years, to choose to work in a different part of muni, and often we align changes that we are making to that sign-up period. so, a few significant things are happening as a result. one is that we'll be putting our new creek motor coach facility,

bus operations and maintenance yard into service. we will -- the first new bus facility for this agency in more than three decades, and it's one that if you are riding cal train you can see as you pass over the creek. it's state of the art facility, 8.4 acre yard, solar panels on the roof, it will house 120 busses, and most importantly, it will be a much better work space for our operations and maintenance staff, and a facility that will allow for more efficient maintenance of the busses. there also is a community room there that will be open to the public. and so we are just excited to have this new facility. the reason why it was needed, by the end of next year, we will have expanded the fleet by more

than 80 busses, including some 40-foot busses replaced by 60-foot busses, so we had been outgrowing our existing spaces so this, getting this new facility into service will be welcome. part of that, what that will support are service increases that will be going into effect as authorized by this board and approved in the budget. and formed by the muni equity service strategy, a number of muni lines getting service upgrades on june 16th. also be adding service to muni metro rail during peak hours, with really across the board there will be more frequent service, longer trains in some cases. some of our express lines such as the one ax and bx, will have increased frequency, the 9rs, 9

rapid to 60-foot busses, and again, a number of different muni lines that serve our equity strategy neighborhoods will see increased service. many of these service increases will go into effect this june, some will go into effect later in the summer, and as part of this work, the historic street cars which were moved out of the cameron beach yard when we did the rerailing of the green yard, the facility down at balboa park, will be now moving back to that cameron beach yard, back to their home. and then finally, also on june 16th, we will fully, more fully start at the transit center. we have been piloting the five local service there on weekday 7 to 7, but starting on june 16th, the bus, the muni bus plaza, on the ground floor between beale and freemont will be brought up

to full operation, which means it will have in addition to the five, it will have the 5r, the 7, the 38, and the 38r, so those changes, those busses which are all currently terminating at the temporary terminal, outside, about a block away, will now be coming into the bus plaza. this is being done in advance, the bus deck, the 25 treasure island bus, as well as a few other more regional lines will be fully operational, and that's when the center willful i open. but since our plaza was ready so and so were we, we did not want to wait so we are taking the opportunity to start service there on june 16th. and last note on muni service, back late last year we were authorized by the california

public utilities commission to put our, the first of our new light rail vehicles in service. we, the first car we now he more than 20 cars that are here and authorized for service. many of them are being used for training and maintenance and burned in, but you'll be seeing more and more of those out on the lines, particularly after june 16th and just a few weeks ago we got authorization from the cpuc to run two-car trains, additional certification needed for that, but we have received that and tomorrow the first two-car train will be entering into service. so, another big milestone for the new train procurement, and you'll be seeing a lot more bus and train service starting on june 16th. that concludes my report. >> thank you very much. director. directors, questions or comments? vice chair? >> i have a few, but happy to wait for public comment.

>> no, go first. i'll move to public comment next. >> thank you for looking into the nex bus thing, and appreciate the response and the litany of many things we covered. on the derailment, kudos to the team and the safe response, and i was on the system and it could have been worse as far as system impact. understanding the derailment was caused because of a pump on the air bladder was left in the enter mediate position? >> yes, it was not apparent because it allowed for a slow leak. >> ok. and can you tell us what steps we have taken to make sure that doesn't happen again? >> yes. so, additional checks into the maintenance routine, to make sure the valve among other things is checked.

good news is on the new cars, they don't have these air bags, so this whole kind of configuration will not be an issue on the new trains. but it's just, it's additional steps in the maintenance process that we are taking to make sure to reduce the likelihood something like this recurs. >> the training course for the children is an amazing idea, good for you and for peter for doing that. and you know, sort of reminds me of conversations i've had with my own children and prompted the question i have which is what do we tell our drivers about, you know, how, are they, do they have any special responsibility to look out for children on the bus? i assume the answer is no, but if we are teaching the children to sit near the driver or make some sort of contact with the driver, i don't know, but it would seem to me we should involve the drivers in that conversation, the operators. so that they know what we are telling the children so that

they can react to it. i think beforehand and give us input and maybe say that's not something i can take on or may interfere with my safe operation of the vehicle, but more importantly, just so they are aware. because i think it is absolutely critical and i certainly have told my children this, that you know, any instance you can sit near the operator, and if there's a real problem, ask the operator. but i think what peter is doing is wonderful. i would encourage us to use our outreach team to go to schools, particularly middle schools, you know, where we are really educating people for the first time, and i would -- i would encourage you with peter to involve the union and the operators together to get their input so they know what we are saying, input on what we are saying and understand the responsibility that we are teaching to our children that they have. >> yeah, absolutely. and i think engaging the operators in this process is a great idea. if you like our marketing and

communications director could give you a little bit of what we are doing currently in our schools beyond that, so it should be helpful. >> sure. she and i have ridden the bus many times, haven't we. >> very true. good afternoon, directors. candies su. each year for the last two years we have put on program rising middle schools with sfusd, called middle school step-up, and that program, happens in the spring, or around this time in the end of school and then the fall, we help teach children who are going to be going into middle school or at middle school about how to walk on the street safely, follow the traffic signs and ride muni. and that program has had a good

response, gives us a chance to share safety tips with the children and the teachers and also tell them about free muni for use as well. one of our messages is not necessarily to sit next to the driver, so i think if we were to incorporate that more formally, we would absolutely take your advance to ensure that our operators are aware of that messaging. i think in this particular case this was an individual response made to kids who were talking about feeling uncomfortable. >> ok. and so well, that all sounds wonderful. there are a lot of other schools outside the unified school district you could reach out, and from my own personal experience, liberating effect for middle schoolers and high schoolers, i grew up in l.a., and you had to wait for your

driver's license, but wonderful to see what the drivers say and commit to and thanks very much for that. sidewalk bicycle riding. thank you for addressing it and putting it into the social media and training and all that. i suppose one of the responses to that is going to be that's all fine and good for the responsible people who pay attention to social media and go to the training. and i would encourage one, i think it's a small further step which is simply signage. i suspect our planners know, i certainly know where i see people ride bicycles on the sidewalk more than other places. it tends to be on one-way streets where they can't ride with traffic so they ride up the sidewalk. i see that on post street all the time, pick an example. i don't think it should be based on my personal anecdotes, but to the extent our planners know where we are getting citizen feedback on where there are

particularly hot spots of sidewalk bicycle riding, that might be a very good place for a sign that says you can't ride the bicycle on the sidewalk and cites the code section so folks know and not just the bicycle riders but the pedestrians know that sidewalk is theirs and it's ok for them to tell someone riding a bike, hey, that's against the law. appreciate everything you said you would do and encourage that as one additional step and then finally on scooter regulation, good for you for moving forward so quickly. i think when that program left this board, we left an awful lot to both the companies and to staff, and here is the general idea of what we want out of the program. so i would appreciate a report back as to how that's going and it can be through the director's report or however. but i think we'll want to know how the companies are sort of

responding to some of these, how they are meeting them and how you are prioritizing the permit. and i don't mean to air it out in front of the board, but an important safety issue and something we are doing quickly. so asking for a report how the companies are meeting the challenges, i would appreciate that. >> happy to. by the time we next meet, we will have the deadline to receive the applications have passed and we will know who submitted them and how many we have and what the kault -- quality of the applications are, and i the time we next meet may be in position to issue permits. >> criteria have not been set forth, one of the things i'd be most interested to see is how we are faring on that.

>> and i'm sure other cities will be watching the electric permitting process. director hsu, comments or questions? thank you so much for the report. fascinating to hear about the increases in service, the new rail cars, i know these are things really making the system overall much easier for everyone to use. the children on muni presentation was fantastic and i really look forward to continuing to work on how we are going to flush that out. great thing to teach the kids how to behave civilly and safely on the system, a lesson a lot of the adults could use as well. so, having said that, we will move on to public comment. >> we do have several speakers, an opportunity for members of the public to address the board on matters addressed by mr. riskin only, not on matters of the jurisdiction of the m.t.a., that would be item nine.

so alita would start, and herbert and then terry. >> alita dupre for the record. good report, a lot mentioned. i'll weigh in on scooters, i just got back in. and i hope that we can get this program on the road. i've been watching these meetings. scooters of which i don't really have much experience with i believe can help me as a person with disabilities needing that last several blocks or quarter mile. i hope that we don't make assumptions about scooter riders, but i can say myself that when i ride scooters, bikes, etc., i wear a helmet. i perform pretrip inspections. i ride in the street, in the

direction of traffic and i obey all traffic controls. such as required by vehicle and traffic law. i've been doing that for 45 years. i don't remember the last time i rode a bicycle or a scooter on a sidewalk. certainly not going to start because it's unsafe and i'm not going to hurt my reputation in that. i would hope in the permitting process that we can be objective and not have personal feelings and acrimony. if they comply with the laws it should be issued. we are not going to ban rental car companies if people speed and do things they shouldn't in rental cars. i have a driver's license and i am a responsible driver. my driver's license is from nevada. last time i checked, it's valid in this state as in all 50 states. thank you, good report.

>> thank you, next speaker, please. hebert, and terry, the last two speakers to address you on topics raised by mr. riskin. >> i would like to comment peter albert on a splendid effort with kids that they utilize public transportation safely. but there's one question that's very important. who is going to protect the kids from rogue bicyclists on the sidewalk? that is very significant. and i think steps have to be taken for that. i have this a situation where i did, i told a cyclist he was riding on the sidewalk, he wheeled back and told me if there were more bike lanes, there would be, he would be using them and not riding on the sidewalk. i responded if there were more houses there would be less burglaries. the same twisted logic. the point is, he was disobeying

the law he should have been cited and there should be citations for people who ride the bikes on the sidewalk. there are responsible cyclists who do obey the law, but people who disobey should be cited and should have a citation. furthermore, for more responsibility for cycling, they should pay for a license. motorists pay for a license, cyclists should pay for a license, too. the payment for the license should go to m.t.a. so, this is simply a form of regulating public transportation and i compliment the board on cracking down on the scooters. the same is applied to the bicyclists. thank you. >> thank you, mr. wiener. next terrific. tarek mamood, the last person. fill out a card, please.

>> taxi driver. talking about the motorized scooters, the pass through on the road in front of the cars, zig zagging, any direction, comes in front of the cars in such a way that looks like we are one tenth of a second to get into accident. the bikes are already causing us more than enough trouble. one-third of the city streets are taken away by your bike system. we are dealing with that traffic jams and these scooters, the approval in the past have to scoot. i have called two times, when the scooter went through the red lights and they came in front of the taxi and we say you are blocking the way and they show you the fingers. so, with that scoot, going through the trouble already and you are adding motorized

scooters, which are all over on every road, where do you want the cars to go? hrow them in the pacific ocean? try to find a solution, these scooters should not be allowed, but ok, you are going to get a few dollar for the tax revenue and you will approve them. but that approval is going to hurt all the public who is in the cars, on the road and accident will keep happening. you are not looking that way. these roads are not designed for the next 100 years. we are all right at the extreme of the situation and please find a way not to allow the motorized scooters. thank you. >> next speaker, please. david hooper, followed by tom. >> good afternoon, commissioners. and director riskin. david hooper, serve as the president of the new mission terrace improvement association, a neighborhood on the j line

south of 280, alongside balboa park. i could spend five minutes talking about how much i appreciate the effort at muni, but what i would really like to draw to your attention, something that director riskin mentioned about the historic cars going back to cameron beach yard. prior to their removal, they had been like all rail or trolly service lines, on church street and san jose avenue, between there and cameron beach yard. the j line occasionally has challenges regarding service. switch backs at 30th street or glen park leave people stranded. even with the best of efforts to try to get them close with the follower picking up the folks. i would like to know whether the historic cars on pull in and

pull out trips from cameron beach yard and to it will be in service when they are on the j line. i say this in part because i was also an operator at muni in my career there, and it's dear to my heart. i would also like to say thank you to peter, robert and his crew. >> that's a good question. if we could have a staff member get back to him on the question, that would be fabulous. >> tom gilberte. etiquette seems to be the big word here. or lack of it, or we have to design a new etiquette, whether it's following the permit plans to get your scooters on the street and then where to park them. there was one in the elevator at van ness, inside the elevator on the street. it's -- it's a lack of

etiquette. and we have to, you are going to have to design the etiquette. it's more efficient, drops not in a bus zone, nothing near a corner makes sense right off the bat. we have uber and lyft etiquette that needs to be developed. bike etiquette needs to be developed. scooters etiquette needs to be developed and all moving vehicles and all squeezing the streets and the sidewalk. i think the key word here is etiquette. with, and you guys are going to have to establish it, thank you. >> thank you, mr. gilberte. >> madam chair. the last one for topics discussed by mr. riskin. public comment is closed, we will move on. >> moving on to item 8, advisory counsel report.

i did not see a member of the c.a.c. present to address you to, so move on to item 9, general public comment. this is an opportunity for members of the public to address the board on matters in the jurisdiction of the sfmta but not on today's agenda. james patrick, followed by alita dupre. >> hi, jim patrick, patrick and company, san francisco, the office supplies business here. pass these out to the board if i could, please. >> please put them down. she will share them with the board after the meeting is over. she will share them with the board after the meeting is over. so they are available to the public as well. >> all right. owner of 90 tacoma street, and call your attention, which i have passed out, a resolution which you people passed in march

17, 2016. it says, and i quote, paragraph x, i copy to you, establish street closure except for emergency vehicles and bicycles at all times. natoma street from second street and 100 feet. that includes my property. that means, let's see, only emergency vehicles and only bicycles. what about customers? what about cars? what about garbage pick-up? you are essentially taking my property, called in verse condemnation. i just found out about this recently. i've included a map, which i sent -- which is included for you, which shows this. this also says that you are going to only go in 100 feet. 100 feet on this particular proposal, which you pass in

2016, is not sufficient. it goes 125 feet for a new designed road. i'm sorry you don't have this map to look at, i think it's reprehensible. what are you going to do with the 25 feet? it seems to me there's no money to build it. i don't know what you are going to do with it. you need to explain to me. i believe this is a process of inverse condemnation. the constitution calls for remuneration if it happens. i'm happy to work with the staff to come up with a plan about this. i would like the issue to be brought back at the next board meeting so we can try to deal with this. as a property owner, not a big guy, a small guy, trying to do business in san francisco and access to the property, i don't think it's right. thank you. >> thank you, mr. patrick. mr. riskin, could we have a member of staff reach out to mr. patrick and start the process of discussing this?

>> mr. patrick raised it at a meeting recently and asked staff to explore and follow up on it. >> alita dupre, followed by tom gilberte and herbert wiener. >> thank you again. thank you for continuing in the position of chair, along with director heincke as vice chair. it's good to be back. i did ride muni today in the new rail cars, enjoy them very much, i like the sidewalk seat configuration, helpful to me in being able to get up and down in the cars. so, sideways seeds are a good thing, i hope that stays. embarcadero, i noticed a table where, with a money box, where old style transfers were being sold, and it boggled my mind

with the clipper office across the way and a law enforcement person there, and wondering if we are better served having a law enforcement person watching out for passengers rather than guarding a box full of money not weighed down with anything, when we have the clipper office there. i'm glad that we got the new fare boxes in, because i am playing the 90-minute rule on clipper when i buy a single ride ticket and now on the same sheet of music with the transfers. so, to sell tickets in the station unguarded is a very expensive and unsafe way to do business and i don't see a historical preservation or business standpoint in doing that, especially with all the conversation about building clipper and i went to the clipper meeting yesterday, it was very enjoyable. it's important we keep up with the times. looking forward to the new fare structure, we will get with the

price differential on the passports and we can get that on to the clipper card and the muni app. thank you. >> thank you, mr. dupre. next speaker. >> tom, herbert wiener, and the last terry. >> is the overhead working? there it goes, yes. ok. this is a pretty, a simple drawing. it's a platform at fillmore and chestnut going north on fillmore. this would be chestnut. it's a new concrete middle of the street platform, and this

would be where the yellow crosswalk for the street traffic would go by. bus would be coming this way on fillmore, and i was there and the narrow part is where the bus stopped. and i figured waiting at the post, at the pole where it's wider would be a better place to extend the ramp. and the bus just drove by after it picked up the people down here at the bottom. this is all one color, the platform is all concrete, there is no red on the edge, it's a kind of a nice drop. it's very dangerous right here, and since the color of the curb is the same color as the platform, which is the same color as the rim on the street. if you get dropped off here by a ramp, you have a chance of

rolling off. if they were to move this, by a post, where it's wider, and mark it with blue handicap paint, so this way you have a chance where you roll off the ramp, you don't roll off the curb. i don't know how this is going to affect all your other platforms. the other part of the platform, this is street, and the street has a curve to it to let the rain go off. the platform would be much better if it was level because the bus has a slant to it, because it's -- we need to make everything -- >> thank you. thank you. mr. riskin, could we have staff follow up on that? >> herbert wiener, and tarek mamood. >> herbert wiener, i take the

one california bus, one of the show piece lines of m.t.a. now, the service has been so irregular. i say a bunching of five coaches at 10:00 in the morning, at night, when i take the bus at the embarcadero spot, sometimes the bus is missing. sometimes i have -- and not only that, california and van ness avenue i had to wait a half hour for the bus because there was a missing bus. now, something is going wrong with the internal operations. the basic problem of muni and what spark the the transit effective project now known as muni forward, late, missing, broken down busses, and never really been addressed. the elephant in the room, instead, there had been removal

of bus stops, cutting back on service lines, removal of busses to the billions of dollars and overshadows the basic question, and even though this project may be completed, the basic question will remain. so, something has to be done about the internal operations. hopefully the bus signs will improve because they give faulty information. but basically internal house cleaning is more important than all the glitz and cosmetic work that is being done with muni forward. thank you. >> thank you, mr. wiener. next speaker. >> good afternoon, directors, tarek mamood, taxi driver. san francisco airport suspended roughly 1,000 drivers last year. suspend for 24, 48 hours.

suspended 200 this year also. one driver sitting in his car for one hour, terminal to terminal, waiting for a ride, after getting tired he came out of his cab for two minutes to stretch. they called him in the office, and suspended him for 24 hour. then the other person, when the officer approach, ok, we don't suspend you. so are we kidnapped, are we their employees? what is the situation and why m.t.a. is sleeping here? apply the m.t.a. rules which is not correct. you gave them in writing to apply these rules. 1,000 people suspended. you have to wake up from from your seats. going forward, there are so many suspension which have taken all the freedom of information, the documents and all of them, so

much fraud in the documents. we need your sfmta, to get up, get his department staff and get involved. samantha, not good in this. they are rude with their own drivers. we, as everybody knows our industry is getting crushed and on top of that, this is happening. now, coming to the further up, south, not working there. a report, several town hall meetings, she could not get -- one person behind this report. so, why you wasted money after 25,000 to get the report. we have so many issues, so many problems, can you make a -- commit meant on these problems? >> thank you, next speaker please. >> madam chair, the last person who has turned in a card for

items not on the agenda today. >> general public comment? go ahead and come forward. welcome. >> my name is eric, i'm a tenant at 90 natoma street, i rent from mr. patrick and i support his earlier comments. my concerns are the same. just general access for regular deliveries, trash, and customers. that's it. >> thank you very much. any more public comments? seeing none, public comment is closed. we will move on. >> madam chair, the consent calendar. items are routine unless a member, and 10.2j with no right turn on lombard street from hyde be severed and considered separately and no other requests for severance.

>> thank you. directors, a motion to approve consent calendar, minus 10.2j. consent calendar approved and now 10.2j. >> no right term from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., ellie miller hall is the first speaker, representing supervisor stefani. >> great, miss hall. >> good afternoon, ellie miller hall, legislative aide to supervisor stefani. collaborated with the transportation authority and the sfmta for years of study, contemplation and review in proposed methods and proven

solutions. this is a pilot measure that will be tested as a tool to redirect traffic and calm the area. the measure is a direct response to concerns from neighbors and particularly the residents of lombard street, to continued efforts to calm the area and liveability for all residents. >> thank you. muriel angle, and then robert angle. >> they'll put it up. you can go ahead and approach the mic and start speaking. >> good afternoon, i live at

1215 lombard street between polk and larkin. the most steep part of the street before going down the crooked street. this picture was taken on may 28 about ten days ago. you know, things have changed on lombard street. when i moved there 35 years ago there was already traffic from tourists wanting to go down the crooked street. at that time maybe a block of cars waiting. now we are at ten blocks of cars waiting to go down the street. this is what happens when we have cars idling for 45 minutes to an hour to get down crooked street. this is not a situation that's been unique, it happens 2 to 3 times a year now, which did not happen 4, 5 years ago. we have had meetings trying to control the traffic but no solution has been taken. so, concerning your proposal of no right turn northbound, what's

going to happen is that the cars idling on hyde street. i understand why you are doing it because of the cable car. the cable car cannot advance. the thing s the cars waiting on hyde street are now going to line up with the lombard people. and you know, i mean, we are just waiting for something to happen. this -- the fire department did come after 3, 4 minutes. but the car lit up again. ignited again and that was 45 minutes later and the fire department did not make it as fast. they, they got there, but you know, it's just a matter of time, really. so, we realize that for legal reasons you cannot forbid public access to a public road. but maybe the most important thing i believe is to control the traffic which is getting really crazy. you can, for instance, i mean, put a red and green stop and go light like they do when you want to access, you could put

weight -- waiting signs. >> that was the clock putting you off. robert angle. >> the last person to submit a speaker card on this matter. >> thank you for the opportunity of speaking on the same subject. i also live at 1215 lombard street, been there since 1982. the recognizing the situation we can't deter tourists from coming into the area. it's a matter, i think, of having traffic control officers at the different intersections. what's occurring is when this heats up, and these cars catch on fire, this last situation, we were able to photograph. what occurs is the car could have continued rolling back down the hill of lombard street and where all the tourists and the other cars were watching the

fire. fortunately, the fire department put a block in front of it but sometimes they don't come that quickly when the cars catch on fire. so, really more of an issue of public safety to deter cars from waiting in line as long as they do to go up lombard street up the hill to larkin and then over to hyde and down the crooked street. so, i don't know whether it's your jurisdiction, but needs to be greater control to deter them from waiting in line for 20 minutes to 40 minutes going up the hill. signs should be put up that it's a 2-way street. we have very aggressive drivers who believe them jump the line and go to the top, causes further congestion. there's no signage at all about that it might take 10, 20, 40 minutes to get to the crooked street and something the committee should consider. so thank you for putting this on your agenda and coming up with recommendations to help out. thank you.

>> thank you very much, mr. angle. mr. mcguire, quick question on this one. we have been getting emails regarding the traffic back-ups and i know anybody who travels on lombard sees those traffic back-ups. could you just speak briefly to what the perhaps larger plan might be or further discussions going on? >> sure, i would be happy to. as ellie said, supervisor stefani and before her, supervisor farrell have been working with the m.t.a. and the san francisco county t.a. to come up with traffic management strategy for the crooked street. some short-term suggestion, including this one before you today. we have also been ramping up the number of parking control officers, every weekend from june through october. we have p.c.o.s stationed at both the top of lombard street

and the bottom, in direct 2 and 3 to move as quick as possible, reduce the conflict of impacts and vehicles and pedestrians, and reduce the impact on the cable car. in the short-term, the signage and the p.c.o.s are one tactic. the transportation authority came up with an series of longer term recommendation, including a series of recommendation, a polling strategy, travel management to reduce both the cueing and the number of vehicles trying to go down the crooked street. >> motion to approve? i hear a second, all in favor, aye, opposed, hearing none, this is approved. thank you very much, mr. mcguire. madam chair, regular calendar. >> if i can just ask one.

assume as we are looking forward, we have two neighbors from the community who have suggested signs about waiting time information and signs about two-way traffic that those will be considered in the overall plan of -- >> we can certainly look at what signage options may be upstream, further west on lombard to deal with the issues of the approaching vehicles that are waiting and causing problems. >> item 11, amending the transportation code division ii, article 900, to amend the residential parking permit program, designating or modifying residential parking area, no more than one permit issued per household and two to a single address, a waiver up to four permits for health care

workers, childcare permits, eliminating the petition process currently required for childcare parking permits, one transferable permit to a resident licensed to operate a family childcare home for use by a childcare provider. work in the home and exempting vehicles with a valid permit from payment on the street parking meters located in the r.p.p. area. >> thank you. >> hi, good afternoon. kathy studwell, the residential policy parking, or parking policy manager in the sustainable streets division. we are here today to present you a package of reform measures for the residential permit parking program. we presented to you an initial package of forms back in october and since then you have approved

two of those measures, i'll go over those in a moment. before i get into -- thank you. before i get into those proposed measures for reform, i want to give you a little bit of background and the rationale for why those reforms are needed. you've seen this before, and actually you have seen several of the slides earlier presentations, so i'm going to go through them very quickly. since the establishment of r.p.p. area a.a., and area e.e. in dog patch, we now have

31 r.p.p. areas. 25% of the geography. 155,000 eligible house holds, in other words, households that can purchase permits and in those areas, 80,000 on-street parking spaces that are restricted with r.p.p. they make up about 28% of all on-street spaces. so, why does m.t.a., why is m.t.a. interested in reforming the r.p.p. program? well, since the r.p.p. program was established back in the mid 1970s, the city has grown in population by about 180,000 people and projected to continue to grow by another 180,000 people over the next couple of decades. parking management is key to the

agency's initiatives to achieve the goal of the transit first and sustainability policies, and as such, it's important to bring the r.p.p. program in sync or in line with those policies as well. so, residential parking permit evaluation and reform project began back in 2014 with a robust and comprehensive research program assisted, we were assisted in this by an international transportation engineering firm by the name of arab. after extensive research we embarked on a two-year public input process, over the course of 2016-2017, we did extensive public outreach, helped us to identify key issues as well as the level of public support for those issues.

then in 2017, we developed a set of potential policy reforms, evaluated those, and what resulted what we presented to you last october. this is the sample of the area j, area snapshot. and basically it illustrates the results of all of our data in that it illustrates the results of our parking utilization data, our household survey data, number of spaces, number of permits issues, and the residents living in there. again, it was arab that helped us put this together and with their help, we produced

one-of-a-kind comprehensive evaluation of a residential parking permit program. so, after the research as an i said, we embarked on public engagement, we began that in 2015 with our presentation to you in november of that year. and we continued that, sorry, we continued that with several more meetings and workshops and all, we had six open houses, 11 community workshops, 12 workshops with business and neighborhood associations. 15 meetings with our bernel heights and dog patch communities. three rounds of briefings with members of the board of supervisors, two focus groups with neighborhood and community leaders, three presentations to the citizens advisory council,

two to the policy and governance committee, numerous of updates with thousands of subscribers to the email list and dozens of postcards. so, out of all that, we came up with a number of key issues that we felt needed to be addressed through this reform project. the first one that we identified is really the demand for parking in residential areas is greater than the available number of spaces and much of this demand is generated by the residents themselves. the second one is that there needs to be alternatives to the r.p.p. or need to be able to look at other tools for managing on street parking in these newer a typical residential areas or mixed use areas. and third, we need to fill a gap in our support of families in terms of permits for teachers and caregivers.

and so again, very briefly, through our trends analysis and our existing conditions report, found that we are issuing in many cases more permits than there are spaces, sometimes 1.2 to 1.5. and through our parking occupancy study, we did 19 routes over 12 different neighborhoods, and found that on most blocks, occupancy is greater than 90%. this is a map of telegraph hill. oh, i want to go back. and then through our household survey found that despite having residential permit parking, residents are still finding it difficult to find parking over 40% expressed that they have to look, more than 15 minutes for parking and end up parking more than four blocks away. so, in some, you know, through all facets of our research,

finding the demand for parking far exceeds the availitynd residents are still having difficulty. the next two slides address our next issue, which is finding other ways to manage parking other than r.p.p. this is a slide that you've seen before on the dog patch parking plan. this is a typical residential area. this one is in the inner sunset, you can clearly see that residential uses are clearly -- easy to put r.p.p. on the residential blocks and metered parking on the commercial corridor. however, most of that new growth is going to be captured in areas that are currently commercial and industrial. mainly on the east side of the city. typical areas like this, the dog patch, which is absorbing most of the growth at this point in

time, and you can see the residential, commercial and industrial development, sometimes exists on the same lot. so you can't, even though there is residential development there, you can't apply r.p.p. without also engaging the businesses and their needs. so, as a result of this analysis, the public input, we presented to you this set of proposals back in october, and since then you have approved two of them. first you approved the elimination of the requirement that schools have at least 15 teachers in order to qualify for r.p.p. permits, and established two new r.p.p. areas, aa and ee, in which the transportation code was amended to limit the permits to one per person and two per

household. and then we did additional outreach, part of which was mailing letters, notifying folks this is to all r.p.p. account holders, about 54,000 letters. notifying them the proposed changes, inviting them to an open house, and then as a result of all this and our discussions with you in october, we decided that three of the initially proposed reforms were not needed at this point in time. so that leads us to today's proposed amendments. so today, the first three proposed amendments are really about making straightforward adjustments to the transportation code. the original ordinance establishing r.p.p. had a definition for residential area, the original traffic code had a