>> okay. if i could call this meeting of the board of directors to order. ms. bummer, will you call the role. [role called >> mr. chair, you have a quorum. please be advised that the ringing and use of cell phones, and pagers, and other electronic devices are prohibited at the meeting. any personal responsible for one going off in the room or ringing might be

removed from the meeting. so we do ask that you put your cell phones off because vibrations do cause microphone interference. so turn your devices off. item four, approval of the minutes from the february 19th regular meeting. >> okay. i as sume ther assume there areo questions from the board. seeing none, we close. is there a motion on the february 19th minutes. >> motion to approve? >> mr. chair, item six, introduction of new or unfinished business by board members. >> chairman: board members, anybody have any new or unfinished business. >> i would like to introduce a motion to continue the conversation about affordable howf.

housing. there is possibility, potentially in the future, of pursuing development at crusuo yard. i just want to make sure we're keeping an eye on our contribution to the city's affordability challenges. is one. do you want to do the second one now, too? >> chairman: please. >> we spoke at our workshop about operator recruitment challenges, and i want to know if you can do an update on how the work is progressing to increase improvement and meet our hiring goals. >> chairman: director riskin, we'll leave it to your discretion on whether to bring it back. please do address both of those issues at a future date? >> i'd be happy to do. >> chairman: any further items? i know we'll get our next report on metro issues. i will say, so that the

public knows, we're keeping an eye on this. that there have been certainly some service improvements, but we had an issue with the train control system, obviously the other day, and an issue with the embarcadero station, and hopefully those will be addressed in your next report, and we'll see the same metrics thametrics. and i think that takes us to item seven, which is your report. >> good afternoon, mr. chair, and members of the board and public and staff. i will speak a little to some of the muni service issues as an interim, so you don't have to wait two weeks. before i do, i want to ask tom mcguire to come forward, to recognize the city employee for his outstanding efforts in support of vision zero. >> good afternoon, tom mcguire, sustainable streets director, and i'm here to ask you to recognize one of our

colleagues in the department of public health, devon morris. since we adopted vision zero at 2015, this board has always urged us to make sure that all of our efforts are data-driven, and devon has been at the core of using new and incredible ways that have proven to be a model for every city that has adopted vision zero. he is focused on improving the quality of traffic collision data. he has built good working relations with different departments, the san francisco police department and the california highway patrol, and published a traffic collision data base called trans base. to make it easier for the public and our staff to get information about crashes and to map that data. he has done the diligence

and hard work, finding duplications, and working through the mess that collision and crash report data can often be. extensive use of geographic systems, and he developed the a analytical tools to create what you hear about, every time we come asking you to support changes to our streets. devon's professionalism and responsibleness is only part of it, and we're lucky to have a public servant like him on our team. i would ask you to join me in recognizing devon morris for his help. [applause] >> data people are known for their public speaking, and so we expect something grand from you. >> yeah, so i'm actually a developer. and public speaking is not my forte.

so i don't have any prepared remarks. but thank you for the recognition. as it is a team effort, i would like to thank all of my colleagues with the p.d.a., and police department, and the department of public works, who have helped me throughout this process. so thank you. >> thank you. on behalf of the city and the agency, we appreciate all of your work. this is -- i know at some level it is just data and development, but what you're doing is saving people's lives, so thank you for doing that. [applause] >> so staying on the topic of vision zero, i want to acknowledge that last friday, here in san francisco, was a tragic day on our streets, and it capped a week that saw five serious collisions, which as of today left two people dead and at least three more seriously injured. so just to walk through those. on last wednesday,

february 26th, a westbound driver fatally struck cho chang, a 64-year-old woman who lived in the richmond district, as she was walking across california street at 18th avenue. it currently being investigated as a hit-and-run, and the mini video unit is providing some additional support to the p.d. as they search for the driver. last friday, the first of four, starting at 1:50 a.m., a driver drove the wrong way down a one-way street at mccallister, and the driver struck a tree and remains in critical condition. and a little afternoon, a 38-year-old man walked out of the hospital driveway on to the side, and he was hit by a driver and remains on life support. that evening a driver on mancel street crossed over the dividing line and struck a car heading in the opposite direction. it was a head-on

collision. the crash killed one of the drivers, 44-year-old gerald gracebotch, who we understand was a teacher at san francisco state. and at 7 p.m., a person walking in the crosswalk was hit by a driver driving on jackson street, and was seriously injured. now, this is just kind of preliminary information publicly available that we know. obviously the police investigations are under way, and we may learn more. in the meantime, as part of our engineering rapid response protocol, our sustainable streets division engineers have gone to all of these locations and immediately there are some things we're doing, such as updating the signage at california, leavenworth, and the mancel locations, as well as daylighting on the corner of divis and jackson. and as we learn more about the details of the crashes, we'll add other

safety improvements as they become evident. also, yesterday morning, a muni vehicle struck a 96-year-old man walking near west portal. thankfully, as we understand, he is not seriously injured. but, still, obviously a bus striking a 96-year-old man is cause for concern. so we've placed the operator on non-driving status while we try to determine what happened there. so a very, very bad few days. and just as a reminder, i don't think you members of the board need this, but to re-emphasize for the public, that vision zero is premised on the idea that even one traffic faltlity on our streets is unacceptable. we believe that every one of these is preventable, and we don't consider these crashes to be accidents. since vision zero was launched in 2014, we've implemented more than

230 miles of safety improvements, initiated more than a dozen public awareness compaigns, and the police department has issued nearly 175,000 citations focused on the most dangerous driving violations. part of that data that we were acknowledging is data that helps us understand what types of driving behaviors are most likely to result in serious and fatal collisions, and that's where the police department has been focusing their enforcement efforts. so clearly there has been a lot done, but events like last week remind us that that's also clearly not enough. last thursday, as i had indicated to you before we would, the city released its vision zero action strategy, which is a document that includes commitments from 14 different city agencies, charts a path to zero deaths by transforming our streets, reducing dangerous driving, and connecting the response to

traffic deaths to our city goals around equity, climate change, and affordability. and it also reaffirms the city's long-term commitment to vision zero, and for the first time extends beyond standard engineering and education actions, needed to achieve vision zero. this is some of what we shared with you and got your comment and support on at the board workshop back in january. so we do want to ensure that tragedies like this don't go unnoticed or unmentioned or unresponded to. and they do demand that we all recommit ourselves, as a city, not just aus as us as te agency, but all of us in the city, to recommittee ourselves to getting to zero, and asking the public to join us in making sure our streets are safe for all who use

them. so more work to be done. on a lightly related note, i wanted to give you -- given that speed is one of the -- i think it is the leading primary collision factor in serious and fatal collisions, an update on speed bumps, which we might have seen an increase of in the city, which there are various versions of, speed humps, raised crosswalks, and recently we approved a large number of them, including 50 in direct 11 alone, as part of a traffic calming initiative we have been undertaking with supervisor safai. and we installed 86 devices, and this first month we've installed 54 devices in 40 locations, and we anticipate another

207 devices at 130 locations. it is a lot of numbers, but it is to say there is a lot that we're doing in, and generally in response to requests from our neighbors and communities to slow down traffic on their streets. meanwhile, additional applications for traffic calming are increasing, which is a good sign, which we know clearly represents an appetite on the behalf of people of the city to make their streets safer and get people to slow down. so encouraging signs there. the chair did mention the muni subway performance, and while we'll have a more formal update at the next meeting, as we will each month, i did want to acknowledge that after going almost two weeks without any major service delay, up until last thursday, we did have a number of issues. and as we know here, it is

great that we had two weeks, but transit folks know you're only as good as your last commute, which right up to this morning we had a few that weren't so great. so just to give you -- to share with the public a few that we had, last thursday morning, from the start of service until about mid-morning we experienced two different automatic train control failures, which created -- the main gist of which meant that all of the trains had to go through subway operating in manual mode, which means the through-put of the subway system was very slow. and in order to keep the trains from backing up, we turned some trains at the portals, forcing people to have to transfer on to the trains that were running. we were able to troubleshoot the issue with very kind of bizarre

and unusual issues, something we had not seen in two decades of the train control system, but, nonetheless, took some corrective actions to get the system back into order, but also to work with our controllers to try to prevent recurrence. and we did put out a note to riders later that day, acknowledging what happened, letting them know we're doing our best to reduce the incidences of such issues, and really trying to be as transparent as possible about them. the following day, around 3 p.m., we had a 20-minute delay at embarcadero station, when an operator had inadvertently caused the train to freeze up while trying to regain ough automate automatetive train control. there are areas where we can reacquire communication, but in this

case, it resulted in a 20-minute delay. on saturday, we had a signal violation which locked up the switch at west portal, which is kind of a safety precaution. but it caused a 40-minute service impact. we have been working a lot, not just with the operator that was involved in that, but with all operators on rail signal compliance. it is something we've been working on for quite a number of months, including with our partners as the labor union. and finally, this morning we had a few miscellaneous delays, nothing major, but it caused slow service coming inbound for a little bit during rush-hour. so still work ahead. we will have our acting transit director come back in two weeks with a more formal report. but i did want to acknowledge that challenges were made, and we're doing our best to both address the challenges and to communicate well to riders and be as transparent as possible. a couple of other quick things.

the 16th street improvement project, which you approved last year and is designed to improve transit reliability and transit time, while addressing safety for all users of the corridor is about to get under way. it is new traffic and pedestrian signals, and we got a call from way back in the p.e. d. days that ultimately this will be how 22 filmore will get to mission bay, and the part of the 22 that goes up into petrero hills, will be substituted by another line, so 22 will been a strong cross-town route, connecting from mission bay into the mission and up through the filmore to the marina. phase one of the project is the eastern end of the project, which is from petrero east all the way to third. and that is the phase that

work is starting on now. they'll be working from west to east in order to accommodate other construction work. and this phase is expected to be complete in a little over a year, in the spring of 2020. work on phase two we expect to be advertising soon and have that go into construction this fall. we are -- in order to leverage the funds that we have for construction in the city and minimize construction impacts, we are also partnering with the p.e. c. to replace some old underground water and sewer lines, and after this is done, the street will be completely repaved. and so we'll have a safer, better-functioning, more transit priority street when the work is done. givini haven't given an update about parking garages in a while, but i want to make

you know that the parks project is now completed. nine garages with three more under construction. so we're about at the half-way mark. and notably, even though it wasn't an initial goal of parks, we've seen a 72% reduction in break-ins over the past year. and that is because in addition to the enhanced revenue control equipment, the garages have improved lighting and signage, and additional payment options that offer the higher level of security for credit card transactions, but there is cameras, there are intercoms, and along with the lighting, we think the whole package of improvements is contributing to the reduction in break-ins, which is great. what was the original intent was that -- and what we're seeing at the garages where these have been done -- is that the

operations at these operations is much more efficient, allowing vehicles to exit because there is not a cue for folks waiting to pay for a cashier. efficiencies are also reducing overhead expenses at certain locations, that in the past were manually intensive to operate. and we're getting much better and much more real-time data from our garage operations. the new equipment went live at the japan center annex garage, and the post-street entrance of the main japan garage yesterday. so, again, we don't really talk about it much, but good progress being made on our parking garages. and then, timel finally for me, i wanted to note sunday streets -- the 11th year of sunday streets kicks off this weekend. it will be on saturday -- not on saturday, that would be saturday streets. it will be on sunday,

march 10th, from 11:00 to 4:00, on valencia, with activities hubbs between 14th and 16ths, and 24th and 26th. as you know, sunday streets is a program of the non-profit "livable city," and it is presented with the m.t.a., the department of public health, and the city and county. more generally, the annual event -- or the annual season of events reclaim car-congested streets for community health, transforming them into spaces for everybody to enjoy. the routes are one to four miles in lengths with lots of fun and free activities prprovided by local non-profits, community groups, and small businesses. i do want to note -- i know we've heard a lot about and from small businesses, but they're an intergal part of "sunday streets," and they help ensure that merchants

benefit economically from the influx of patrons that "sunday streets" provides. there have been lots of lessons over the years on how to make that. and we also know that typically about 85% of the participants are from san francisco. about half residing in the host neighborhood. so it really is something that is serving our folks locally here. the first one is here in the mission. another one in the mission in july and two in the excelexceler. and june in sunset, the golden gate park. and south of market in september, the western edition. so a robust season, and hopefully the skies will clear for this sunday. finally, i want to ask our director of communications to come forward and present some work that she's been doing with regard to a request that we received to commemorate the work and life of rosa

parks. >> okay. good afternoon, board, director reskin, and the public, marketing and communications and director for s.f.m. t.a. you may have heard shamann walton and at least one other constituent -- >> can you turn your microphone up? i believe people are having trouble hearing you. >> okay. so supervisor shamann walton and at least one other constituent suggested that muni follow the actions of a few other transit agencies across the country by honoring rosa parks and her historic protest against bus segregation using some of our vehicle ad space and space on our vehicles in general. and we appreciated this idea, and actually thought it was a really great time to come forward with some ideas on recommendations for your consideration.

and since february has passed, and black history month is over, we're looking forward to the next month, which is women's history month. and we think that that is a fitting time to celebrate and honor some of the courageous women who have helped transform the way we think about equity and the use of transit, including a specific honor for rosa parks, and i'm going to talk about both of those now. so for the rosa parks' tribute specifically, we're thinking, how do we celebrate this historic barrier-breaking contribution that rosa parks has made as a civil rights icon? she is one of the most closely associated names with the fight against racial discrimination on transit. and just to remind ourselves of the story, in december 1955, mrs. parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger and move to the back of the bus and stand, which is an action of defiance

that touched off a year-longmonlong montgomery bus boycott in alabama. and it ended with a supreme court ruling that segregation of public transit was unjust and illegal. she paid for the bus service across the country, and her role was obviously pivotal to the civil rights movement, and she has been called by congress as the mother of the freedom movement. so international icon, nobel peace prize winner. and we're proposing we do a little more than mark a seat for her in the front of the bus. we're proposing we do a campaign that talks about her honor and also encourages the public to ride. so we use it as an opportunity to remind people of the freedom that rosa parks has brought to -- and the equity that rosa parks brought to bus

service across the country and also here in san francisco. i'm going to show you some creative in a minute, but because we always like to do a little more, we thought we would take it further and talk about some of the other civil rights pioneers and what they did right here in san francisco. and these are some stories that you may not be aware of. on one of them, almost 100 years earlier than the actions of rosa parks is the action of a young african-american named charlotte brown, right here in san francisco, who fought public segregation on our city's horse-drawn street cars. she was trying to ride -- she actually did ride, one of the omnibus railroad company street cars, one of the predecessor companies to our public system. and because of her race, she was refused a ride on the street car. but she didn't just stop and accept being not allowed on the vehicle. she actually went to court

twice, and she won. the second story of another perhaps more well-known civil rights pioneer is the noted african-american entrepreneur mary ellen pleasant. people may know or remember mary pleasant, mamie pleasant, as she was known because she had a similar experience in the 1860s, where she was refused a ride on one of our street cars here in san francisco, from a company that preceded the public system. and she also successfully challenged segregation, and she took her case all the way to the california supreme court, and she also won. these two women helped to change california history by helping to make our system more equitable, and in the system we're having today, and we're still focusing on equity in the system even to this day, in the way we schedule our rides.

finally, we would like to go back again and do something we did a couple of years ago, which is to honor another trailblazer, maya angelou, and she has been hailed as san francisco's first black female street car conductor. she has written about overcoming racism and sexism by tenaciously standing, you know, in the halls of the h.r. director at the time to get a job with muni as the age of 16. and she wrote about that in her book "i know why the caged bird sings." we would like to make this a full campaign with rosa marks as our lead and honoring her, and also talking about some of the other women who have been trailblazers in his area. we would like to get your thoughts on what this creative might look like. okay. so at least for the first part of the campaign for

rosa parks, we've kind of done some treatments, and the other ones would follow on. all towards the end of the month of march. can you hear me on this one? >> yes. >> so this is the first one. a more traditional look at rosa parks. and you can see the hashtag "ride for rosa," encouraging ridership. if i can move this one down. rosa, in her later years, and then... -- can you see thene this one? those are the three treatments. we would appreciate any of the board's thoughts on these campaign ideas, as well as anything you'd like to add on to

creative. >> okay. >> chairman: please, director torrez. >> i want to thank you for moving on this commemoration of an incredible, spirited human being. we were members of the same church, first a& ein los angeles.e. and my children got to know her. she was always gracious, always lovely, and always quiet and unassuming. you can see that was bien lying belying a courage that was just unfathomable to most. thank you for what you have done. >> i think this is a fantastic idea. i love the idea of taking it one step further, and instead of just honoring rosa parks, but honoring other women. i love these. i can't wait to see them all on the buses. the hashtag on there is you're going to get a lot

of twitter snaps of people in front of that and recognizing that. i think it is really good. it is a great educational and outreach program. i fully support it and i think it is fantastic. thank you. >> i'll chime in and say it is fitting for women's history month to do this at this time. so it is great that we can also use that in our messaging as well. >> thank you. >> chairman: thank you very much for moving this along. >> and that concludes my report. >> chairman: you saved the best for last. >> i did. >> chairman: start with train delays and end with rosa parks. >> you a good teacher. >> chairman: okay. do we have public comment on the director's report? >> mr. chair, nobody has turned in a speaker card -- >> chairman: we have one. come forward. take your time. >> good afternoon directors, howard strest.

i would like to speak to the problem of subway problems and all of that. you're working on it it now. you get off the surface problems fix up, and all of the mechanical problems fifixed up, but you still end up with the problem of how many trains you can put through this subway at any given hour. you should all know there is a limit. it is hard to define limit, but 40 years ago, i made a stab at it working for a contractor with muni. and muni was talking about putting in metro, single car trains. and i said, that's silly, it won't work. so i went home and using some calucos, i predicted the meltdown that would happen some years later. i'm not happy about that, but it worked. muni went on and realized they had to have two-car trains. and so now it is the kind of thing that you should know on midday and a

weekend, you run only -- what is it, 30 trains per hour. two-minute head way. you have a roaring subway. everybody is happy and everything moves. you try to do 36, 38 trains an hour, things start to happen. we are passengers, who don't cooperate too much. they hold the door. all sorts of things happen. people come down to the subway platform in different modes, and all of that, and you can't respond well enough. the cuing theory kind of predict the problems you'll have. hopefully the new cars will be suitable for en route coupling. the system was designed for that. i used to watch the guys do it there on west portal station. it was almost like a bile biological act. they were very careful about it, but maybe it wasn't good enough. >> chairman: thank you. we have new trains that

will be doing better. thank you for your time. anyone else on the director's report? seeing none, well close public comment on item seven. move on to the next item. >> mr. chair, there is no one here regarding the cac report today. moving on to item nine, public comment. this is an opportunity for members of the public to comment on issues in the jurisdiction, but they're not on the agenda. we'll start with john parr, followed by christopher peterson. >> chairman: very good. welcome. >> thank you very much, board of directors. my name is john parr, i'm a graduate of new york university, and a senior level of fordam university. i've been in the san francisco bay area in over 20 years working in high-tech technology. yes, i am truly a real new york kind of guy. but i have a big heart for

san francisco. i'm speaking on behalf of the community of the -- of what i have referred to as the lost, forgotten world. i call it jurassic park of the outer sunset. we are seeking a capital investment from your team of between $1 million and $3 million to create the first of its type, which will require a major paradigm shift, according to mr. thomas coon, who wrote a deep essay and book about this subject. we want a modern, 21st century, above-ground station on the corner of 31st and judit juda street on the starting point. it is interesting. the type of station i'm talking about exists in san jose, perhaps, portland, oregon, and definitely exists in south

market today. these are fantastic design stations. we wish to end what i have deemed a practice that i refer to as station inequality. the forgotten world receives hundreds of thousands of concert-goers for events, like the outside land festival, and there are people lying in the streets, near the stations when his happens. perhaps some of the larger huge corporate engines, like "live nation" rhondellesnerhondelles can a feo help your organization pay for it. this is just a matter in my mind of public safety. >> chairman: the next speaker, please. >> christopher peterson, edward mason, and howard stresner. >> my name is christopher peterson. i would like to thank

m.t.a. for looking into opportunities to incorporate affordable housing. thank you for asking for an update about that. i request that the update include consideration of a broader range of options. in particular, constructing affordable housing above many of the surface parking lots that m.t.a. owns. some are very busy, so having some built entirely above. some are lightly used, considering converting them entirely to housing. two parking lots that i think would be good starting points would be the two at lakeside village, one at ocean, and the other ocean and 19th avenue. in my observation, those parking lots rarely have more than just a handful of vehicles. i did submit a p.r. a. request, asking if there are any documentation about how heavily they're

used. and i was told somewhat surprisingly that there isn't. but i think, especially for lightly used parking lots, such as those, those should be prime opportunities for the developments of affordable housing. thank you. >> chairman: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> edward mason, followed by howard stresner and then brian hopper. >> good afternoon, edward mason. i'm submitting written comments for the meeting. here is a summary of the february 2019, noi valley commuter bus reporter. it double parks and idols on 24th treatment, street, creag unnecessary pollution, and vehicles passing, creating safety situation problems. we drive 36150016, and

stations and idols on the 25th street shop. and muni passengers must street board and pass around, creating unsafe situations. since november 2018, license 35a 24k 2 partially occupies the bus stop at 24th and church, and partially blocks the traffic lane, creating unsafe situations. these commuter bus plans and safety and pollution violations continue. this is unacceptable price for the neighborhood to pay to accommodate industries in adjacent counties. and as you well know, i continually monitor this situation. and, you know, august 14 is going to be five years since this plan went into effect. and we continue to have all of these violations continue over the duration of this pilot plan and the

current plan. so i submit my comments for incorporation into the minutes. thank you. >> chairman: thank you very much, mr. mason. next speaker, please. >> howard stresner followed by brian ho hopper and then nick casener. >> good afternoon. down here it is asking for a progress report on a large and small project that you guys approved. the first one is 19th avenue, to fix up the 28. you voted a couple of years ago now to have less bowls, and the project had to be held up to be done at the same time as the street needs to be repaired. well, the street really needs to be repaired. it is really a mess. and now i see the trucks going out there and sprinkling a little bit of pebbles and a little bit of black tar, which really doesn't last more than a few weeks. so i don't know what is happening with that. this would be a great project. it is going to be near

b.r.t., and perhaps even better than b.r.t., in some ways. when you couple it, it would save time, and with the signals and all of that kind of stuff, even the cars won't be hurt that much. they still have two and a half lanes. you don't lose the whole lane. accept they can't box the buses in. and you'll have much better performance on the 28 and it would be a great service. and a few less stops, too, and that's great. the other little project i wanted to talk to you about, one i use almost as much -- i never calm here tcome hereto talk about the stui use hardly, but this is the 5r, which is a great line, it speeds me along to get from presidio drive. you said you would improve moving from a near-side stop to a far-side stop. so a month or so ago, i saw them fixing the

electrics on the near-side stop. you'll have to do it on the far-side stop. i don't know what is holding that up. these things can be adjusted slightly, carefully, and all that. you approved it, it was supposed to happen, and nothing happened. so once in the years i'm going to school on that bus -- the bus needs a light. >> chairman: thank you very much. >> can you let us know what intersection that was, the near-side, far-side stop. >> presidio. >> presidio. thank you. >> chairman: any further public comment. >> brian hopper. >> my name is brian hopper, i'm a san francisco street artist, and i'm addressing two events that occurred in 2018. they were street closures on beach street between hyde and larkin. the first one was the rock and roll half marathon, which took place in april,

and blocked our selling spaces for that weekend, saturday and sunday, which is during spring break. which is a key time for us to sell. the second event took place in november. it was the golden gate half marathon, which did the same thing, the weekend of november 4th and 5th. now, previously, these are after parties for foot races. previously, and including one which took place in february, the after parties have been happening down on the jefferson edge of aquatic park, going west from hyde street. i wonder why this can't be corrected in the future? thank you. >> chairman: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> nick castner, kyle peacock, lisa fisher. >> my name is nic castner and i live on milton street and san francisco. and i was very excited to

hear we were finally going to get bike share in glen park, only to find out that the station approval has been pulled because of some loud neighboring voices. i wanted to remind the board that streets don't just belong to neighbors adjacent to the public right-of-way, but they belong to anybody who uses that public space, and people passing through matter as well. this city as climate goals and zero vision goals, and we will not reach them if we do not follow through in our bike-share projects. also as an employee of the san francisco unified school district, i want to let know we support bike-sharing adjacent to schools. and the reason our district approves them because they improve sight lines particularly at intersections were kids might be crossing. i urge you to let this project and all of the glen park stations move ahead in glen park and everywhere else in the

city. thank you very much. >> chairman: thank you very much. next speaker. >> kyle peacock followed by lisa fisher, and then alec garson. he is the last person to turn in a public speaker card. >> i am kyle peacock, with a residence on third and fulsom. i came out here at the last meeting, when we were talking about the third treatmenstreet improvements that were passed. i want to remind you about the conversation about improving bike stations. and the ap improvements foimprovements --since it seemee was a decent amount of interest in what that would look like as a project, i'm asking the board to order a study of what the options would look like for a one-way bike lane or a two-way bike lane down the length

of third street north of the bridge. thank you. >> chairman: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> lisa fisher, followed by alex garson. >> i'm actually also city staff, part of your climate resilience team, but i'd like to be clear i'm here at my own time because i'm also a resident and a parent at delores fuerte elementary school. i support not only this bike station, but all bike stations. to recommend this complex network throughout our city, and do work with community members about, you know, some local and localized considerations. but i do not support protracted city or community processes that hinder our collective responsibility to address our mobility, climate, and affordability challenges. as the supervisor from

this district reiterated last week, we are in a climate emergency, and i really support and applaud m.t.a.'s commitment to our 80% sustainable trip school. in addition to the greenhouse gas benefits, biking is the cheapest, most efficient way to get around san francisco -- no offense to muni. and the bike stations should co-locate near schools. 60,000 to 70,000 vehicle miles are travelled every day with parents getting their kids to school. and they're often trapped into a car solution for getting to their own jobs. and finally, we need to demonstrate to the citizens of san francisco that the city can implement climate and mobility action in an expedient and thoughtful manners, and remind residents that curb space is public. and across every metric, dozens of bikes are without a doubt better

than two or three cars. thank you. >> chairman: thank you very much. >> the bike share station is an item on the agenda, which is item 11, and will be discussed at that time. so this is general public comment for items not on today's agenda. alex garson is the last person to turn in a speaker card. >> i'm alex garson. i come here with the suggestion of vasting increasing the pace of new daylighting zones and intersections. and to use bike routes as part of the solution. daylight is essential for making pedestrians more visible when they are crossing the streets, and so that cars slow down at intersections, and we have more safe crossings for people who take a longer time to cross. this week's tragic injuries are a reminder of the work we need you all to lead. i'm in japan town frequently, which has a lot of seniors, and

noticed the nicely painted zones. however, they're often violated by large delivery trucks that use it as a loading zone. it would help keep the visibility benefits of the daylighting, and preventing large trucks from preventing visibility. there are many similar intersections that could benefit from this approach. the current on--street on-streee routes have situations. some have it next to their businesses only to have it indefinitely delayed because someone on the block was louder than them. on-street bus routes should increase the amount of bike racks in the city. it is ridiculous that someone can have multiple cars and not have a public hearing about the space they're going to use. there is the case of a car collector, using the

on-street sections for the cars. thank you for your time and consideration of these suggestions, and thank you for your service. >> chairman: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> mr. chair, that's the last person to address under general public comments. >> chairman: would you like to speak on general public comments? >> yes. >> chairman: please, come forward. now that we have that clarified, we will speed up to number 11 as soon as we can. that takes us to number 10. >> yes. mr. chair, this is item 10. all items are considered to be routine unless they wish to sever the item and discuss it separately. no member of the public or the board has indicated an interest in severing any of the items. >> chairman: well, that's a refreshing change. seeing that that is still the case, is there any

public comment on the consent calendar? seeing none, is there a motion on the -- >> motion to approve. >> chairman: is there a second. there is. all in favor, say yea. >> yea. >> chairman: all those opposed. i'm making good on my promise to speed up to number 11. >> item 11, the discussion on the bike share out reach process. >> hello, board members. my name is adrian lerner. >> chairman: adrian, we realized we got to you fast, and the fact you got ready that fast, we appreciate it. it is all yours. >> it is honor to present today. i'm the bike share

manager. before that, i was the lead for the agency side of the outreach team, starting in fall 2017. so this specific effort about bike share outreach is something i poured a lot of thought and energy into. this presentation will discuss the robust outreach project we established for bike share stations. i would like to share a personal confession from the start. i was a bike share -- i wasn't a believing, an believeri was wrong for a number of reasons. i think it is crucial for climate goals and better transportation for san francisco. as always, we need to be thoughtful in delivery on how we implement it in our city. that's what we're here to talk about today. so why bike share? a brief review of why bike

share. it is in accordance with our primary policies, and also vision zero for safety efforts. the board of supervisors approved the contract that is currently in place. there is a number of public benefits. we received a large number of e-mails in ramp up to today's topic. a lot of them expressed passion for them. to summarize them, bike share is helpful accessing transit, especially when access is closed. and it offer it contributes to public health and safety, and reduces parking stress. i'm especially keen on this point, and it is especially important to highlight bike share isn't for everyone. we don't expect everyone to start riding. but even if you don't, you

still benefit it from how it offers your neighbors or visitors, or anyone else, another option to get to where you are. we've seen the public embrace these benefits. since the system launched, we've had over two million rides, and the last month, despite the rain, we have broken our record for trips per day four times. the system is really booming at this point. the system overview, since the slide was kind of adopted, we have actually launched a couple more stations. we're almost half way to our full goal. our target is 218 bike systems. here is an overview of the broad strokes for a station outreach, and i'll goat into eacgo into these in gt detail. there was a planning effort, and before public hearing, at public

hearing, and then after public hearing. we engage all of the relevant stakeholders throughout. if a specific issue is identified after public hearing, it is possible that it goes back and begins together, and if they feel comfortable, we move forward with the permit. throughout this entire time, all feedback is considered. we make no distinction between comments in person or e-mails or over the phone. drilling down, before public hearing, there was a system planning effort originally in 2016 and 2017, and that included over 30 meetings throughout san francisco. but more specifically for every site, we do a lot of different outreach, ramping up towards public hearing. we do door to door outreach to adjacent property. we neighbor associations and merchant groups, and other nearby institutions, especially groups identified by the

supervisor's office. whether they be transit, school safety, or other bike-related improvements. and, finally, after we have talked to a large swath of folks, we move forward, if we're comfortable with the site, we move forward to public hearing or we go back to the drawing board. specifically in advance, in advance of a public hearing, there are on-street postings that are posted near the site. that's the basic standard for our engineering and public hearing at m.t.a. above the public standard, and something i help to implement, we send mailers to all of the owners and renters affiliated to any address 250 feet from any proposed station. and notification for any station could vary from 20

to 1,000 mailers. and we check in with the supervisor to find out the feedback they have received. oftentimes when they send us something initially, we'll kind of respond and the last word will be, i'll go tell my supervisor about this. for example, in the glen park station, that is commonly used, we've been in close communication with viewpoint visor sha shaham'shaham. and then we do a final reckoning to see if there is more needed in response of feed bangback. we can look into what that feedback looks like, in terms of what we do end up

considering. by far, the top two issues are usually about parking and station eth thesks. aesthetics. and then there are safety concerns and congestion as well. and sometimes people change their minds. a propert funding property may change their mind. maybe somebody who originally said they liked the idea, and later, down the line, they changed it. and in our feedback we receive proposed alternative sites. and it often shows why they suggested an alternative that might seem like a better option, but it is actually in feasible. one suggestion we frequently receive is why don't you just put it on the sidewalk? lots of people propose sidewalk stations instead of the on-street stations. one thing that comes to mind is accessibility.

and utility covers. and sometimes it is identified as a secondary identification site. so there is a delicate balance in how we cite all these things. when we implied from the public about feasible alternatives, we typically get to responses, depending on the stakeholder. some say this is a really hard job you have, good luck. or they respond by being upset and calling us names, and saying we're not sincerely listening to them. that makes me a little sad in my position because it means they don't feel listened to unless we agree with them. in some cases we can't even technically agree. we're an engineering framework, so we can't agree with them. but in a city that is fabulously inclusive, like

san francisco, sometimes we have to agree to disagree. we need to document all sharing analysis and continue to be responsive. thank you for letting me present. >> chairman: okay. board members, are there any questions for adrian? >> one clarifying question before we go to public comment. thank you, great presentation. i know there has been a lot of discussion about the proposed bike share location at vandel and chenry, and the memo received, i think it was in january, said that the f.m. t.a. did decide to approve the permit. so that one is not blocked or stopped, it is just progressing forward? >> the permit was issued for that station. the m.t. board came back with inquiry. so we've been closing that idea, and hopefully the culmination today will be closure of