vertebra. my daughter was protected by the bike trailer. i ask you to protect our children. at this stage there has not been given sufficient consideration. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> thank you, board and thanks to the mta staff. i am here today as a mom of two at san francisco friends school. i bike commute to and from the school extent for wednesdays we walk with about 10 kids. one day i carpooled six kids to the school in a mini van. i am supportive of vision zero and the bikeway and i commend all of the work of those in the room and the staff getting it where it is now. like many other parents for the changes proposed i am concerned

that adequate design considerations focused on bike traffic and things like a crossing guard which the school requested but was told it wasn't possible our moving the carpool to clinton park we were told it wasn't possible. as others said smarter people in the room can figure out better than we can haven't been added to this plan. i also feel like we want this to be a successful model for the im implementation around the city. lit's approach with belts and susintenders so it is -- suspenders so it is a model for other places around the city. thank you. >> thank you very much.

next speaker, please. >> georgia williams brat. is she here? no. devan brady? mural mcdonald. >> thank you to the board. i live one block and i bike on valencia frequently. i am in favor of this project and strongly opposed to delay. any delay will just increase the possibility of more life-changing injuries like described here. i strongly urge the board to make this pilot happen also kin it all the way to mission street, and i think fulsome street is a great month ticketed -- protected bike lane. i have not heard of anybody hurt

on that lane. people get off the bus and get to the bike lane esly. it is not a great safety concern. i wish that some of the streets are fantastic. more consideration could be given to closing it off to cars entirely. >> next speaker please. >> i am mooreial mcdonald. i bike valencia street daily as director of public affairstor skips scooters. as a cyclist and citizen i make a decision about when to ride my bike or get in a car based on safety. i have to weigh my desire to

bike and too get exercise and the benefits with that against feeling afraid. once in a while, i feel afraid and get in the car. i don't want to make that choice every day. i want to feel safe when i make the ethical and healthy decision to ride my bicycle. as somebody excited about the movement in the new mobility space. i see a future with many more individuals in the coalition of road users that need protected bike lanes. this can't come quickly enough for the safety of those currently riding bikes and those newly considering getting out of cars and adopting smaller lighter vicks that need protection.

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>> they do it all the time in market street and valencia. people just want to get to the outside. biking is extremely dangerous. it is like a slalom weaving in and out of uber who are jerking over in front of me. i almost hit 11 time but again i was able to swerve. we have to be alert. we are always alert. we are especially alert around

children. please approve this project and consider extending the length of valencia. thank you for your time and attention. i appreciate your service pic i understand you don't get paid a lot. thank you. >> thank you for all your work with bikes and caltrain. picnic speaker, please. >> is. here cloth. >> good afternoon, commissioners i am a bicyclist who occasionally rides on valencia and i am from the netherlands which was mentioned earlier. everything he said about this design was right. i think the only thing he got wrong was the notion that people will be dropped off by car to go to school. that is crazy why we do that. i have never been dropped off at school by my parents in a car because they have better things

to do and because everybody bikes there or walks. it is an obstacle course. there is double parking everywhere. it is not uncommon for there to be three double parker seen anyone block, which is crazy. these changes are long overdue. they are fantastic. there are mixing zones involved. it looks like there is an intent to say it does change those and i would repeat the call from the other speakers to bring this to the length of valencia. as for kids having to cross the bike lane, i would like to point out how pernicious the notion of cars is as a default mode of transportation. kids have to cross car traffic and we would put a crossing guard there peerk we do that as a reality that we accept. cars are infinitely more dangerous to the lives of children and any human then bicyclists are. i think we should put a crossing guards there.

we should put a speed table there. we should take measures to slow down bikes and make it safe. but i think we should not pretend that bicycles are more dangerous or knew when we allow cars to take over public space. i wish people got more worked up about that every once in a while >> are you all here? >> thank you for the opportunity to share with you today. >> we hope they will be able to bike themselves to school. since we live in the mission, valencia street has been part of our commute and our oldest is in preschool. i do not love biking in san francisco. especially valencia street. there are times when it is extremely emotionally and mentally exhausting to be on

high alert the entire duration of the ride. not only because it is myself on the bike but also because of my two precious kids. every time we bike in addition to the regular negotiation of the vehicles next to us, the bikes behind us, the doors being opened cat dealing with a double parked cars is very challenging. we have a large and heavy electric assist bike which is difficult to manoeuvre. there are times when there is a double parked car and the traffic will not let me move over. i have to come to a sudden stop, which is dangerous for those behind me on their bikes as well anything that can be done to create a safer condition for me to bike with my kids, i would really appreciate it in this city. i want to enjoy biking with my kids and not have it be something that gives me an anxiety attack every time i go out there. i want to feel like this that he values and supports us decisions we are making. the improvements on valencia street will hopefully be a step in the right direction. i'm encouraged to see the improvements being presented here and i hope they are just

the beginning of the plans and that the roads will be safer for my girls when they start to bike in the future. if i have another couple seconds , i will show you my girls on their bikes on the overhead. [laughter] >> there is no sound but they are screaming, hi daddy! [laughter] >> thank you very much. that is adorable. i love their unicorn horns on their bicycle helmets kick. >> good afternoon, directors. i'm a resident of the mentioned and i know valencia street pretty well. -biking there every day for years now and have been very involved in this project and know it very well. there's something to note here is that valencia street has been known as one of the most dangerous streets for biking in

san francisco since 2008. it has been a decade that we have been dealing with this danger. this is not being rash. sfmta has been slow to move this forward. we finally see urgency to make our streets safe. i respect the parents, but it is a perceived danger that they are afraid of. it is not an actual danger. valencia street is an actual danger. we can't keep giving -- kicking the can down the road and say we will delay. if i thought there was a reason to delay this to come to a better solution, i would be in support. i'm always complaining about designs and this is the best design going forward. this is the only feasible design the parents think there is another option but this is the safest designed for everyone. what we need is enforcement and we need to ensure everyone -- cycles are being careful and that students are crossing properly. i would also like to add that we need a sense of urgency about climate change. everyone forgets that just watch what weeks ago, your kids could not be outside. we are dealing with climate

change. the greenhouse gas emissions from transportation in san francisco are increasing. we know we have an issue with parents driving their kids to school. we can't keep kicking the can down. we have to have a discussion. your kids may be slightly more dangerous crossing the bike lane , but not any more dangerous than driving them on the highway and not more dangerous than what we are doing with ignoring climate change. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> thank you for your time, directors. i appreciate it. i live in the city. i bike by valencia every day. it is a frightening nightmare. i support the enclosed bike lanes from market to mission. one of the things, we blame the t.n.c. but there is also all the restaurants on valencia who have runners. they park their cars and they leave the cars and run and get their food and come back out. what we have is a public subsidy

for a private enterprise. we are paying for these businesses. ironically enough, it is the same thing with the french school. it is a private enterprise. is not a public school. it is 33,000 a year to go there. i would suggest they hire people to ensure the kids can get through the bike lanes safely. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is john cabot i am a current resident and former resident of d9 and i work with livable city which puts out sunday streets. i commuted to work on valencia street for quite a while, and i have to say, it was always harrowing to have to swerve

around all the t.n.c. and everything that just happened on a day-to-day basis and that is me as an abled bodied person. i can't imagine what it's like for a youngster or someone who is navigating this street for the first time. as a representative of the city, i want to say we fully in support -- fully support the fast tracking and improvements on valencia street. we would like to expand this out to the entire corridor. working as sunday streets for the two years that i have been there, it is amazing to see what we can do when we put people first on valencia, and when you see the kids out, learning how to ride a bike, but you also see folks writing and everyone is coming out and supporting and

people before me have talked about how this is how it happens when you put people first. people come out and enjoy these spaces. i fully support the improvements i will be there when these improvements are on the ground to help make sure that the kids can get home safely. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello. i am a year mission resident. i bought my first bike when i moved to san francisco at 24th and mission and i have been riding my bike almost every day since then. the first time i was hit by a car was ten years ago. in front of all el toro. the second time was five years later in front of a pizza joint around 25th and valencia.

since then, i still get those anxiety attacks so often that i will not ride my bike or be terrified to ride my bike. luckily, now i get to ride on harrison street in the soma. they have a wonderful protected bike lane. i saw this morning they are adding folsom street coming back both of my rides are safe, but anytime i think about going down particularly to 24th and valencia, i used to think that 24th bus and the taxis were bad ten years ago, but it is a nightmare now with cars picking up door --dash services, and stuff like that. as much as i am filled with anxiety, i think about other early -- other differently abled people or kids who do that path. i have seen more and more kids writing really fun bikes on valencia street. want to hear about the parents of bicyclists, i get that anxiety again almost like when i

got hit. it makes me terrified for what happened. when i was hit, both times the cars pulled into the bike lane and nudged my bike. both times i was okay. i am one of the nonreported statistics. i loved what happened on the bike lanes in the soma and i can't wait to see something happen like that and valencia street. >> next speaker. >> hello. my name is rick. i live in bernal heights. on a volunteer in the bike coalition for the last ten years more than ten years, actually. this year my wife and i went from having two cars to one car. we did that because we want to reduce the carbon emissions, and we want to reduce the amount of traffic in san francisco. we write everywhere accept my wife will not ride on valencia.

it is too dangerous. i wrote here today. and i wore my bright yellow jacket. it is don't run over me yellow cat because i have been run over before. i know what it means to have your life out of commission after being run over by a car. not by a bike, but for me it was a bus. i've been hit by a bus and a car i think that greatest danger is of cars and buses to pedestrians they don't have any business being on the same streets. on my way here, i met a window washer who carries all his supplies in his pocket on his bike. he is trying to set up a fleet of window washers on their bikes that is what we should be looking towards. on my way, i dodged four cars and was forced to move into the traffic and this is a huge problem. it is a design problem, and it

is a political problem. cars run this city and we have to get rid of the power required to decide how we will do everything. this summer, i spent time in copenhagen, and amsterdam, and they know how to do things. i heard it from the other speakers. it is safe to ride their. when i came back here, i felt like i was returning to a third world country. it is time that we enter the modern era and that we have infrastructure that supports the future of transportation, which is pedestrians and bicyclists, not automobiles and google buses >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> afternoon, directors. i am a new resident of district six. i moved here about six months ago. i live on top of the eighth street improvements and i use folsom every single day to

bike about a mile to work. every single day, i passed several crossing guards that protect children crossing the road and bike path and to the bike lane. i think a similar solution could be found here. i really do want to ask our friends at the school to stop stealing my agency. we are trying to pay us close attention as possible, and i would argue we are more vigilant when we are not so close to moving vehicles. why the haste? it is ten years before we start seeing even worse ramifications with climate change and doing everything we can to get more people who don't look like me to use bike lanes and use active transportation modes to get around the city which is worthwhile. this is a world-class improvements. i look forward to writing it does riding it.

>> yes, put that down and s.f. gov will turn it on. thank you, s.f. gov. into the microphone, please. thank you. >> thank you for letting me speak. i am representing my two daughters. i wanted to argue before you today about proportionality, and this is my daughter, lod -- elodie and she has been writing basically since she was born. this is her today. she rides on valencia. we turned west on 25th.

she rides on the sidewalk. >> right now i can jog along side of her and she is not even four years old yet. she probably won't be able to bike on valencia. what i submit to you respectfully, is proportionality proportionately how many more kids will be protected and will be biking on valencia street as this project goes forward versus how many kids just aren't on the street right now, that's all i have to say. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> s.f. gov t.v. thank you.

>> hello. my name is jim. i have lived and biked in the southern half of san francisco for nearly 20 years. i'm here today with my daughter, and apparently my assistant as well. she is a fifth-grader which is four blocks away. her brother, who you can see there, is a second-grader. we have been moving a cargo bike on valencia street since oscar was one. there are many families using the bike lane. i suspect there are more children who are users of the bike lane then there are crossers of it. i understand that parents at schools on their stretch don't want the children to cross bike lanes. it is clear to me these parents are not self entitled millionaires driving gas guzzling s.u.v. is. they clearly care about their safety and their employment.

i believe that with traffic arts crossing, it should be safe. may be -- we have made our point with traffic arts crossing, the lanes should be safe. a guard can make cyclist stop as children cross. i am happy to volunteer as one of these cards and i'm confident i will find other children's children's parents to do it. many would probably volunteer for this as well. vision zero is an excellent goal but is only meaningful to the extent that we build the infrastructure to make it happen the mayor clearly understands this peer changing streets requires compromise between different stakeholders and also requires that drivers change their habits. i have not heard why all these parents have to drive. many of them who probably take public transportation or bike. i think i heard mr fitzgibbon say he will not bike because he doesn't feel safe. >> thank you. thank you.

you did a great job. >> hello. thank you for the chance to speak to you. i am a d5 resident in a strongly support the approval of this project. i ride my bike or a ford go bike every day around san francisco, and often on valencia street. biking is beneficial to our communities because unlike cars, it does not emit pollutants that are noxious to our health, it does not emit greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change, it is healthy as a form of exercise, and it relieves congestion on our roads. when i asked my friends why they don't bike in the city, they say because it is dangerous. it is dangerous. we have heard many stories today about how dangerous it is. we need more protected bike lanes like this one to make biking accessible to everyone in san francisco. the more protected bike lanes that we add, the more bikers we will have, and the safer our streets will be. as for the school, let out a

crossing guard in front of the school like we do for crosswalks and intersections with cars. thank you for your time and consideration. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> hello. my name is diane. thank you for allowing me to speak today. i am a member of the san francisco bicycle advisory committee and i am a bicycle safely -- safety educator. i have been writing in san francisco and in this continuous has just carried for almost 20 years. and my observation is valencia street has become much less safe with the advent of uber and other rideshare companies. i ride literally every day. i ride to my day job, i ride to teach, and i ride more errands and for recreation. my observation is that people who walk, people who are on

bikes,, in people and vehicles are distracted. i know that the sfmta is largely an infrastructural organization, but i think it is behavioural change that would go a long way and i continually advocate for more education of people who walk, people who bike and people who are in vehicle so they can use infrastructure more safely. infrastructure changes happen regularly in san francisco and nobody is educated on how to use them properly or safely. i don't like this being a pedestrian versus bicyclist, versus car driver situation, and people tend to be very territorial about the areas that they think that they own. car drivers don't understand when bicyclists are in the bike lane on valencia that to pass a double parked car, you have to go into a traffic lane which cyclists are able to and they don't understand that and they

get angry and they act aggressively. i am not necessarily against this project, but another thing that i observe is that less than 50% of the time, people crossing in a crosswalk or midblock on valencia or any other street look for traffic going their way they are looking at their device and looking somewhere else, but they're not looking for traffic. that will happen on this pilot project because there is nothing -- >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> lauren followed by ivan. those are the last three cards that i have. >> thank you for your time today i live and work in the area. i commute valencia every day. i am scared and it doesn't need to be that way. i am scared for myself and scared for my daughter and scared for my husband that he may not come home one night. we need change now. i support the project now and i support the extension of the project down the street. thank you.

>> next speaker, please. >> hello. i am ivan. it has been a long day. i will try to keep this quick. quick is how i want this to go. i want the changes on valencia to be implemented as quickly as possible. i could tell you i have lived there for 20 years since before the bike lanes went in. the bike lanes that went in over my dead body that the director of the m.t.a. of the time said. i don't want them to go in over a real person's dead body like they had to do on folsom street. the bike lanes happened overnight. it was truly only after two people were crushed by trucks and we don't need a tragedy like that on valencia. let's get these lanes in now on a trial section and all the way down and as quickly as possible. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please.

>> if we have anybody else who hasn't spoken and would like to, if you would line up to your right on the side of the room. do we have our last speaker? >> herbert weiner. one condition i would like to have the pilot project is that the bicyclists in this area walk their bicycles on the sidewalk. that would be legal and i think that's a fair exchange, and it protects people who walk on the sidewalk. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> hello, my name is jj. i live on valencia street. i will keep this short. i commute every day on bike. every day it is dangerous. i have friends and my fiancé who would like to bike, and they say it is unsafe.

i can't disagree with them. i have seen the bike lanes work on folsom and i feel really safe there. i would like the same sort of safety afforded to me on valencia street. thank you. >> thank you. i think we have one more speaker >> good afternoon. i am a 30 year resident of 23 rd and valencia. i bicycle at the bike lanes regularly. several times a week. i too take videos as i go and i would love to show them to you today. i think the ones that have been shown to have made a point. i hit a person when i was on my bicycle on 14th street bike lane not too long ago. i hitch them. it was an uncomfortable moment for both of us. that is what it was. two months ago, i watched a truck right took a bicyclist on

valencia street, and i will say that the sound of a bicycle being crushed under a truck is not one you soon forget. so i would recommend that we not worry as much about the bicycle pedestrian interaction as we do about the car interaction. the cars that come in and park in the bike lanes to do drop-offs is really dangerous. it is just really dangerous. i no longer bicycle in the bike lane, i generally bicycle out in traffic. i can go as fast as the traffic. i am not slowing of anything down, and it keeps me from having to go in and out, and it keeps the cars from having to go in and out in the same way. very often, people will rush and erase me to the red light. that is a common thing. it is part of what you live with but with the situation as it is now, all of these different cars coming in and out of the bike lane, it is really, really dangerous and i recommend in

support this initiative. thank you. >> thank you very much. i see no more public speaker -- i see, did you already speaker? please come up. one more public speaker. if there is anybody else -- this will be our last public speaker. >> thank you for letting me speak. i am in support of the protected bike lane. i have a four month old and a 4 -year-old. right now, as a mother, without a protected bike lane, my ability to bike is a lot more decreased. i think for parents with children, it is really important , and i want to make that comment to you guys. >> thank you very much. congratulations. you had the last word. public comment is now closed. before i turned to my fellow directors for questions and discussion, i want to thank all the speakers. i think it can be a really emotional topic when we are talking about safety, and everybody did a really good job

of being really respectful to each other. i really appreciated to, because a lot of times these conversations can't devolve. thank you very much for coming in and thank you for being respectful. if we could have you back up, i am sure we have questions and concerns from board members who would like to start us off. >> i will start. i saw you put in the boarding island which is an interesting initiative. as a possible, or do we consider sensors or flashing yellow lights for when you've got close to those locations where we are expecting people to cross quiet it is -- is it possible we could add that to the project? >> i will talk a little bit about the treatments that we can use. i will let kimberley talk about the specifics of a flashing light. i think it's really important to note that the design of the island is something that we take really seriously in terms of how we are treating interaction between cyclists and pedestrians we have built in a number of

design features to make that a safe interaction, whether it is by putting a railing along the south or marking the crosswalk, including signs, marking for cyclists that they have to yield and something that we do routinely as part of these projects is continue to tweak the signs on the markings after the initial implementation. as an example, when we did the eighth street protected bike lane a couple of years ago in front of the holiday in, we did a loading zone there. the implementation is we went out and tweaked it. and then it didn't work exactly as we wanted. so we tweaked it again. at the end of half a dozen iterations of when we put -- where we put the markings on the signs, we found something that works. i am confident that with enough work, we can also find something that works well. whether or not that is flashing yellow lights are a variety of science. i don't know. we are committed to working on it until it is functioning the way it is supposed to. >> i was just talking about the reflective ones that are on the sidewalk.

i guess, just related to that, the notion of crossing guards, and i think -- i mean for the most part, we are talking about a limited period of pickups and dropouts in the evening and the morning. people do come at other parts of the day, but i don't know the process for crossing guards. i know we don't really oversee them. but is that something that we could do here? this might be a question for the director. i remember we had an issue for funding for crossing guards and it was kind of complicated. >> yes. >> i can address that briefly. so we actually do employ over 100 crossing guards through our school crossing guard program. there is a guard stationed at the corner of 14th and valencia today which is not directly in front of the school but it does serve children who are going to certain schools in the area. i think the idea of providing some kind of human presence,

especially if this was approved when it was first built, would be a very good idea. crossing guard is one option. a parking control officer may be one option. we have people who are very skilled at managing the flows of pedestrians and keeping them safe in the streets. i think there's a lot of options for that. >> these things -- i think we could still incorporate them with the intent in supporting the pilot today. >> absolutely. >> i guess, the other question i had to, is there a reason that people can't travel or stop on the park caught one of the things that came to my mind as if i was concerned about conflicts, i would come down either one or go up a different streets. i used to live on pearl street so i'm very familiar with around there. is there any reason why people cannot do pickups and drop offs on those streets? >> yes. we did speak with the school

yesterday, and we are working with them right now to take a look at other opportunities or pickups and drop-offs. >> i think that that seems like -- does two streets are not very highly travelled. i think it seems like a viable option for people who were concerned about that conflict. i think the board is a creative solution to the situation and it is thoughtfully done. i was surprised to see there was so many people concerned about the conflicts. i spend a lot of time and valencia street. it is surprising. i understand why we can't do the corridor at this time, but being on the evenings on valencia street and watching people stop in the bike lane nonstop, and people almost getting adored, it is absolutely unbelievable. there is a natural conflict that resents between does exist that between restaurants and businesses. they need to get their goods. there is no where to park. they end up in the bike lanes.

we have to stop these conflicts. when we talk about the number of people who have died, it is really critical to figure out. i am commending you on these items and i am eager to see how they will work. i am excited. i think if we can come up with the groups that we have been talking to her around some around safety for the pilot that we can look at, obviously some education with students at the school, kids will run. they will not be looking. this is -- the human presence is going to be really critical, and then the flashing lights. will we be timing -- will there be any timely -- timing related -- we are not adding a cyclist late, but will there -- cyclist late, but will there be any timing where people -- >> the question i believe is asking how we will be slowing down cyclists. >> if there are people there back sometimes i bike.

and if you try to go as far as you can through as many lights as quickly as you can you do get a bit of a head start -- head start. are we looking at making sure that we are slowing people down as they come onto the block of valencia? is that it even possible to do that,. >> at the intersection, they will be receiving signal separation. cyclist and right turning vehicles will have their own separate phases. our team is working to the timing for the intersection as well as taking a look at the intersections within the project within the area of the school loading zone, cyclists will be encouraged to slow down because the bike lane is a little bit narrower adjacent to the islands essentially it would encourage cyclist to go slower and also potentially go single file in that area. >> can we do sensors related to people and the light because i

don't know if it is possible. in the times when there are a lot of people on the boarding island to, it would make sense, or a lot of people coming in at that time if there was a sensor that could sense the people and slow down that timer. i don't know if that is possible i know sensors can do all those great things. [laughter] >> we will be sure to take all this into consideration as we are working through our signal timing design. >> to be clear, we know that this project has been under works for a long time. it seems very fast for everybody else, but it is not fast enough for people who cycle on valencia street, quite frankly. when we talk about over 200 collisions, it is hard to say that we need to wait longer for collisions to happen. i guess, the important thing to say is that this is not the end or working with schools. we are looking for ways to make it safe in the process. that is the point of the pilots. it is to see what works and

doesn't work and tweak it before we roll it out more broadly. i do commend you on that, and i think whatever we can do to work with the school around the crossing guard, the flashing light, and using those two other streets, where there will not be the bike lane and boarding islands for people who are super fearful, and maybe do that with the younger student and all the older student, i don't know. it is something to think about their -- something to think about their. >> thank you for all the hard work on this paradigm supportive of the project overall but have concerns that were expressed by the parents and i think that those are valid. so whatever we can do to make them happy i think would be ideal. i feel like we are not that far apart. could you talk a little bit about some of the things that were asked for but we couldn't do, media sounds like the crossing guard, or a p.c.o. it may be an option. >> yes, the project manager is

aware that there is a loading rail outside of the school. the school felt there was not enough space for loading so we have made some other adjustments to the design to make sure we are providing a little bit more loading space. >> like widening it? >> on the block of valencia which is just north of the school, there are two spaces that are available that we're going -- we will have open for school pickup and drop-offs. we are also taking a look at the loading zone on the other side of the street where millennium school and an unseen greek orthodox cathedral are located to see if we can extend the times for the passenger loading to provide additional spaces as well. and another request that came from the school was to have a left turn restriction coming out of the park. it goes eastbound towards valencia. there was a request to restrict the left turn during pickup and drop-off times to help with the flow of traffic. is something that is included in the legislation brought here today. some other things are working on today are the crossing guard to

take a look at that. we are also looking at additional loading zones in the area to help us -- help those operations overall. >> are they okay with the crossing guard, i feel like if that were my kid, i would want peace -- i would not want a stopping just a crossing guard and a stop sign. that is where this is really critical. you don't want to impede the bicyclist going through. the other piece that i think about is eventually we will see a lot of electric scooters as well. that is a whole different ballgame when you have people who are renting a vehicle or are not familiar with the road design. that is where you need a live person to make sure that they stop the bikes and electric scooters and give priority to the five and six -year-olds. >> we have heard the concern about having a crossing guard or enforcement out there. our team is taking a look at that to see what we are able to provide. >> can we commit to that in some capacity so they know that they

will have some kind of relief when this gets going and it is not just mayhem? >> yes. we can commit to that for the first two months after construction and use that two-month period to figure out what the right to use of the human presence to regulate the flow of bikes is. we certainly can commit to crossing guards or some combination of that. >> i think that would be great. >> thank you. anything else? >> r.h. >> i want to thank all the parents who came out today. there are two issues i am very concerned about. first of all, i support the mayor and her leadership in this whole area, and the staff, and i know how hard you all worked on its. you are dealing with little ones these bicyclists have to be slowed down at the school site. and i travelled that road all the time to get to work to oakland and i know and i see how fast some of these cyclists go.

you will have to have a live person there or some other means by way of slowing down the bicyclists and protecting the children there as they are crossing. i encourage you to continue to work with the school or schools to find out a negotiated plan that can help in those areas and keep parents judge of mind at ease as a figure out how to deal with the situation. we are a city and we have to get along together but we also have to be protective of each other. thank you again. >> thank you. anything else? >> i have a couple of -- one quick and detailed design question. that is for the couple segments where we have floating parking or the parking that is protecting the bike lane, can you discuss the path of travel that somebody would take from the car to the curb? i know in the past we have had consensus in the way that they

can access the curb from that parking. >> would i be able to project this slide, i will ask the project engineer to come up to walk you through the curb ramp design for that. >> okay. >> i am an engineer with the project. as you can see, this is really hard to see. this is a little easier to see. this is what the school loading will look like. where i am circling, we have this icon that represents the curb ramp. so at all of our parking spaces, there is a minimum 5-foot

accessible path next to the parking spaces. and each of them should connect to a curb ramp. they will connect to the curb ramp. if it doesn't connect to one meant block, it will connect to one at the corner. for these parking spaces here, it will connect to the curb ramp at the corner. for the parking spaces here, it will connect to this curb ramp. we will have an accessible ramp that connects to every single parking space. >> can you show the one that has the parking spaces on it because i know it is hard to see. i just wanted to -- thank you. >> we can try and pull a better image. >> the other point to make here is that the project is adding six new programs as part of the design. we did go through the design with the accessibility staff to identify where new ramps would be needed and where they are needed we are adding as part of the project. >> great.

>> we can sense the more detailed image to you specifically. >> thank you. i appreciate that. >> thank you. that is a really important question to bring up. >> yes. >> just one more thing. just to make sure that i am thrilled we can put someone out there to help for the first two months. we want to make sure we can keep working with the school and get them happy. i know the vice chair has kids who are the same age as mine. we both really get it in terms of what the parents are thinking through this. we also support the safety measures as well. i think that it is really important to try and get to a place where everybody feels like they are benefiting. the school will benefit from a lot of the safety measures overall. we just want to make sure that piece of them getting across isn't a source of daily stress for the parents, and fear for the kids. it could be done. >> this is a design that folks may not be familiar with. we are also committed to having an educational aspect of the

project particularly when the bike wait opens to all users are familiar with how to use this, rather whether it be a cyclist, or a parent trying to access the zone, or to someone driving through. there will be an educational component to the project as well >> goods. thank you. directors, thank you for your valuable inputs. there's almost nothing left for me to add to that but i will add it is to reiterate some of what we are --dash we have been hearing from the public on the board for making the kids crossing the active bike lanes safe. we will say one of the parents use the term belt and suspenders we will do everything we can design wise and human intervention -wise during the pickup and drop-off times to make sure that those kids are safe when they cross the bike lane. i also want to reiterate what one of the cyclist said. when you cycle in the city, you are pretty much ready for something to get in your way at any moment and i know because i bike in the city. you're almost just always ready for something.

when you know there are little children, you are being extra aware of it and being extra careful of sudden movements that little ones might make. bikes can stop quite quickly in a situation like that. we will go for the belt and suspenders of extra signage, having the p.c. over a couple of months, and i understand you are looking into working on the surrounding streets to maybe facilitate drop-offs on those on guerrero and clinton park, and whatever that third street is that i can't remember. fantastic. those are things that the board would appreciate a report back may be in written form or gesturing the director's report as it goes on. especially for the two months of the p.c.o. might be there. and whenever you have to go out to reengineer other little fixes if they are needed. other things that people brought up that i thought were really important are the ideas of scooters. we do have electric scooter is continuing to use our bike lanes we need to start thinking of them as bike and scooter lanes.

they really could continue to explode in our city. the notion of so many unreported crashes on valencia street is really sobering. especially when you hear that a lot of those unreported crashes might be from our neighbours who were undocumented and fear getting involved with any sort of public hospital or police officer. that is really sobering to me. again, climate change. we just had a horrible example of why we need to encourage people to not drive as much. those days we had to spend wearing masks and trapped indoors were horrible. everything we can do to help the world not contribute car emissions to climate change is great. i want to do a shout out to the friends' school. they have a good transportation demand management program, and although there are -- i don't know how many kids, there are 500 kids going there. from what i understand, they have some of the best carpooling

transit biking and walking rates in the city. a really big shout out to that school for being a partner in doing this and making sure that they have as many children not arriving in private automobiles as they can. thank you everyone for your work on this. thank you, directors for your remarks. do i have a motion to approve class. >> so moved. >> second. >> any opposed clot hearing none , this is approved. thank you for coming out. i really appreciate it. why don't we take a short break before [laughter] >> that is not how i was going to introduce the item. writes. this was not a recessionary kind of conversation. we were charged, as you recall, by mayor breed to focus on and accelerate improvements in muni service. about three months ago, we responded with a list of actions

, short, medium and long-term that we proposed to take in order to meet that call. three months in, we wanted to report back to you. we also set ourselves some targets that we were aiming to meet. we wanted to report back to you and the public on how we did and what actions we took, how we did relative to those targets, where the work ahead was, and how we are looking at this going forward. our acting director of transit is here to expeditiously walk you through a high-level summary of our report out on what we have been focusing on the last three months and what we are looking at going forward. >> thank you. welcome. >> good afternoon. >> as managers of san francisco 's transportation system, we have no more important role than providing

transit service that is safe, reliable, and equitable. muni is woven in two every fabric of our san francisco community and it is critical that we deliver excellent service to meet our agency and our citywide goals. this summer, i don't think we lived up to that target, and as a result, our service delivery was not as high as it should have been. we did feel systemwide impacts for both our bus and our rail customers. part of why that happened is we were taxing the system in a very unique way. in addition to our ongoing need

to replace operators for hiring and for promotion and retirement purposes, we were also training on new technology, including our radio box, our farebox, we had an m.o.u. mandated general sign-up where operators had an opportunity to transfer from bus to rail, which also comes with a high training buried burden, and we were bussing major rail lines where for every two car train, we need three or four bus equivalents in service. so that is how we got to this point. as we look to the future, muni will be increasingly important. the city will grow to over 1 million people. the need to carry people efficiently and safely is going to become more present.

despite the different performance, i am still confident in our overall plan to deliver excellent service and build on the improvements that we made over the last five years we are one of the only systems in the country that is bucking a really negative ridership trends our ridership is stable and where we made investments in transit priority in larger vehicles, we are seeing a significant ridership increase. things like equity first planning, free muni for youth, seniors and people accessibility , transit first streets, the greenest fleet in america, north america, actually those kinds of things or what i think will continue us through the next several years of investment and improvements. among those, one of the things i'm most excited about is we will continue to talk about the fact that muni is currently the

greenest fleet in north america. that is coming from a very different point where we were four or five years ago, and we had what -- we have one of the oldest fleets in america. as ed indicated, to keep us on track, and i think as a strategy to develop some really ambitious near-term targets, we developed the agency improvement plan, including the actions we identified for the current 90 day cycle. we have been focusing september, october, in november on delivering this work. it was a very effective management tool. we had weekly meetings where we checked in with people on their progress and where we identified where people were running into barriers. i do think we achieved some things that we hadn't achieved in the past, or maybe would have taken a longer timeline to deliver.

we also wanted to hold ourselves to measurable outcomes. that is one of the key things that i will report on today. we wanted to get our service delivery up to 90 6%, would ultimately, this number has to be 100%. that is critical to reliable service. we also wanted to reduce gaps on both the rapid bus lines and the metro lines. you guys will hear me start talking a lot about managing service gaps. what i am talking about is reducing the amount of unexpected wait time that somebody might have on the bus service. if you expect the bus to come every ten minutes, does it come every ten minutes, the reason for that is that san francisco has a lot of unpredictable congestion and delays. so i'm not that confident, for example, on the eight bayshore that i can say, on any given day , it will take this amount of time to get through the 101

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