tv Government Access Programming SFGTV April 13, 2019 5:00am-6:01am PDT
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we're restoring weekday services. we'll have a mixed fleet for interim period. we'll have some diesel trains out on the corridor. we have plans to even expand that beyond what we're contemplating today. we'll have tenant service today, ace, capital corridor and freight operating on the corridor. they'll be able to run underneath the wire. we are in construction today. on the left, that's some of the infrastructure putting in the poles and the foundation, the far left hand corner is picture the tunnel in san francisco. on the right-hand side, those from pictures of the brand new electric trains getting built now in salt lake city. recap where we are with the schedule, this is a project that's been in years in the making. we started construction in 2017.
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we expected going into final system in testing a inhave electrified service for people to enjoy and ride in 2022. with that, i'm happy to turn it over to sebastian unless there's question about this portion. >> good morning directors. thanks for having me. i want to present to you briefly on the cal caltrain business pl. although it's called a business plan, we're looking out pretty far into the future in the next 20 to 30 years to think about how the system can grow and change as our board adopts the long range vision for us and we'll develop a detailed business plan. we're touching on a range of different topics if this planning effort. lot of work which i'll present today looking at service options, different ways that the railroad with grow and change
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and ways we can operate our trains. we're also doing lot work with the 21 local jurisdictions we run through on the corridor. looking at separations, community impacts and benefits. finally with stanford's help, we're undertaken organizational review which is looking at organization, service project delivery as well as governance. we're hoping to have this wrapped up by the end of calendar year. we're aiming to have the board make big picture decision on the corridor. somewhere in the summer of 2019. that big picture vision really is a vision for growth. casey mentioned, we are in the process of electrifying. growth and change are already very much on the agenda for caltrain. we know there's a lot of change
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coming in the corridor. the question is really, how much change and how much growth and how will that growth manifest. we're asking these questions in part, we see our trains are getting full today. there's a huge amount of land use change in the bay area and in particular in the caltrain corridor. the graph on the right shows what's coming. these are the projections in our corridor. we're looking at sort of of 40% increase in human density around our stations by 2040. we know there are lot of those folks who want to raid rail. we're going to be much more connected system here in san francisco with the downtown extension with bart and san jose, connections through the state of california. we're looking at a much denser and connected corridor. we did little bit of unconstrained modeling. if we had bartlike service, how many people might want to ride it?
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the answer appears to be a lot. we carry about 60,000 people today. if we had frequent bart like service, the model we'll be caring 240,000 people. that is comparable to what bart does today. from there, we've really looked at options for growth. those are options that build on all caltrain's existing plans and commitments. we have a baseline version of growth out in 2040 we're looking at finishing electrification pross and making commitments to high speed rail. we developed a couple of additional options that try to push the envelope, what would look like if we wanted to provide more service. these are essentially representations. fairly detailed representations of peak hour service for each of those service options. showing one hour in one direction of service on the corridor, starting at transit centre in the north.
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this is a representation of 2040 going down to gilroy in the south. the baseline is really lot of the service and schedules we've been working with for the last five or more years. it reflects full electrification of caltrain and high speed rail program. not whole lot more than that. we've also developed a moderate growth scenario that looks at what if caltrain added couple of more trains. we got up to 12 trains per hour in the corridor. we have caltrain looking at 15 minute express pattern and local pattern. we tried to push the envelope look at how much service we can fit on the corridor. we went to 16 trains per hour. this pretty much maxes out the existing corridor. there's not really much more we can fit on it.
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as part of this effort, we've done some analysis working with staff from the city and county of san francisco to j.p.a. and high speed rail regarding how some of the service can work and operate at sails force transit centre. we've been working with the tjpa and incorporating the latest things they have. in general in the baseline, we believe that all 10 trains per hour can fit into the sales force transit centre. we're continuing to simulate these plans now. we've done these in planning explodes. we'r-- modes. there are some tight moves. we'll be looking at that closely. similarly, in the moderate scenario, we're looking at total of 12 trains. we organized those trains to make them work more efficiently. with that, efficient, organization, we believe all of them can serve the salesforce
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transit centre. we're working on simulations to dig in that. when we get to 16 trains an hour per direction, just planning level analysis, it's pretty clear not all 16 trains per hour will fit in the single sales force. based on that, if we were to get to situation we were running that volume of train on the corridor, the last four trains would need to go to some facility for functioning. there are some potential conflicts in merging those trains back in the mainline. we're fairly confident there are solutions to work around there. that's what the northern terminal would function like if we get to 16 trains an hour.
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as i mentioned, we are moving from planning out dynamic simulations that looks at how the facility works. we want to make sure we're planning and it's robust. that work is being done with full transparency and input from high speed rail as well as tjpa staff. we'll be engaged in analysis systemwide storage of maintenance needs. we talk about the north terminal whether it's at fourth and king, that affects how we move trains around during the day and how they are stored. that's a system wide conversation. as we think about how system grow, we're looking systemwide how the maintenance need to change. that's a program of work that
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will get more detailed and continue probably for some tame. lastly, i wanted to highlight that we have done demand projections now we use the model to model corridor. that's when we found works best. we have projected demand on all of these scenarios. this graph just shows weekday demand for caltrain ridership. it was around 60,000 today, updated figures for electrification in 2022, we're looking at about an 20% increase. when we go to the downtown extension, we see 25% increase as we our system gets access to the core of economic activity and jobs. from there, depending on the different scenario, we're growing 161,000 at the base layne up to about 210,000.
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we're excited about those number. it presents a challenge to us, there's some potential crowding issues we're looking at. as we're moving forward, one of the things we have to think about is not how many people could fight on train but how many people will make the choice and pay to do so. generally what we're using a as a standard going forward is 135% of seating capacity. if the u.s. commuter rails the rule of thumb in the past been one rider one seat. we see today that people are standing on caltrain and paying to do so. we do think standing is part of the future. we think that's a pretty good place for us to land for now. here you can just see, ridership
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projections with that capacity constrained adjustmented. adjustment -- -- adjustment. just a few key findings. i won't go through these in detail. we do think that when the d.t.x. comets online and our train starts serve, that will be a major ridership increase to caltrain. will strain our capacity as well. just a few specifics about how we did the modeling in san francisco. we did assume surcharge. i know that is part of the current funding plan for d.t.x. we coordinated this through the staff. we consumed $3 surcharge starting in 2020. which is about $2.50 in today's
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dollars. that's what we model. it does depress the ridership slightly. generally, we also think there's some other changes in san francisco that can affect raidership. one thing i say, sort of unknown for us is exactly how people may use the d.t.x. within san francisco. our ridership projections largely capture people as they use caltrain today. one thing we know with bart in san francisco, there are san franciscans who may use it like a subway to get to one part of the city to at. that type of ridership isn't probustlprobust -- probustly can our projections.
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lastly, just to emphasize that we are moving towards a decision point by our board in the summer where they'll be asked to selects one of those growth scenarios a long range vision for caltrain to build towards. that's a decision that won't just be made on what the service looks like. we have raidership estimates. we want to provide a complete picture to the board so they can make a fully informed decision. the business plan, we have a website for folks who are interested this project. it's caltrain2040.org. it's a great resource for people who want to follow this process. just to emphasize, we have been doing lot of outreaches as part of this process. outreach with stakeholders and
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pier agencies. we have a pretty robust staff group that meets regularly. we're trying to really engage our partnerses in this work. i'm happy to take any questions. >> director reiskin: from a process stand point, i want to commend situatio sebastian and m for this thorough process. i appreciate that. on the substance of the business planning from my perspective as the city transportation detector, i'm looking at the current state of the streets of san francisco and 101 corridor, looking at the piece of growth that's already happening now and already happen in the bay area projections for 2040.
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it leads to inevitable conclusion that the high growth scenario is what the region needs. i'm hopeful that this bright mind who can solve the 16 train per hour issue at the transit centre. i do think that the burden for the decision and supporting and funding the decision should not fall just to the caltrain joint powers board. this is a regionally significant, if not state and nationally significant issue. i think it's really the region beyond just the caltrain board will need to be able to get behind supporting that vision. i say this, my concern when we start looking at the numbers, look, little overwhelming relative to the resources caltrain board. we all have an obligation
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throughout the region supporting the future of the region being ail to get this level of train service to move up and down the peninsula. i look forward to the next steps. >> it's been a ton of work since this was launched a little over a year ago. to achieve the growth scenario that are being modeled, one of the things that is would inhibit that, in term of trains per hour is the issue of crossing and separationings. that doesn't make the number smaller. it makes it bigger.
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can you speak to that? i had the opportunity to be on a panel over the weekend and made some transitional comments saying, the city are wanting more services but they want it on their terms. they want someone else to pay for it. that doesn't work when we're talking about a region. we have to work to this together. there's a follow-up question to that. >> the issue what happens on corridor is a huge one. on the corridor that cal drain owns, there are 42 crossings. few look down it gilroy, there's another 30. we're in the process of putting together all the capital costs of investments that will be required to support any these service visions and the cost of addressing separations.
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that is the biggest item. san francisco has, i think, only couple of accurate crossings. what we'll be able to do in the business plan is frame the need and talk about that in relation to the kinds of benefits that this service can provide. i think previously on the caltrain corridor, lot of the conversations around crossing have beency by city. they've been framed very rightly and importantly as traffic and safety. they haven't been trained as projects that maybe unlock a transformative level of service. one of the things we're trying to do in this plan and coming out of the plan will be to frame the need and talk about maybe the strategic approach looking at this is a corridor-wide issue. how we can works a corridor to find funding and find ways to
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make these projects cheaper. that's a substantial body of work and it's a body of work that brings billions of dollars in costs. >> vice chair gee: it's necessary to achieve the model, high growth, even the moderate growth in the presentation. the second piece that goes with that, if the region is not able to get behind substantial grade separation program, other part is the sensitivity analysis to the turn time in the salesforce transit centre. when you're dealing with the public, you get on the airplane all the time dealing with loading is not an exact science as well as if we're not global to grade separation in substantial part of the corridor. as soon as that happens, your model how fast trains turn
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doesn't work. would suggest to me a backup location to store train whether it's fourth and king if needed to keep -- there's not enough room when somebody happen -- something happens on the corridor >> caltrain perspective is something will be needed at fourth and king. what that looks like and above ground and below ground, it's something we're excited about working with the city of san francisco and promp property owo understand options and trade-offs. as you point out in delay situations, we know that we're talking about a terminal for a very active rail service. we have to be able to find that. >> as this continues, to my colleagues in san francisco, i
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don't know the answer to this. the question i have, do all trains have to go downtown? >> i don't know the answer to that particularly with the plans for south of market and the development out there. do all the trains all time -- i don't know. i don't know what the right answer is. >> i appreciate the comments. the grade we should be striving to meet this demand is a good problem to have in the region. with regard to this question, we will be working together, m.t.a. and agency and others on a citywide transit master plan and corridor study. just get it going. reallily to answer this question, i think as far as
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d.t.x., the demand wants to distribute from that point as well downtown corridor. there's couple of markets. perhaps three markets. there's statewide, there's the within region market that caltrain brings. it's interesting that we find at least in the bart numbers from a few years ago, bart was turning about 10% ridership within the city. over 70,000. this is not nearly as extensive as bart. you make a great point. we want to work with you on this question. i mentioned from the high speed rail, high speed rail authority recognizes in their business plan, service needs to get to transbay and transit centre and that's the intent. the role of that station still
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to be worked out. it's a good question director gee. we want to make assure i -- sure it works for passengers. finally on the question kind of a specific question to the demand projection. did you look at regional buses perhaps on express lane or any kind of scenario for the overall corridor for caltrain. not just looking at caltrain by itself? >> i did assume some level of services and projects in place.
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i will get the details. >> director lipkin: certainly from a high speed perspective, our goal by mandate from the voters to get our services to salesforce transit centre. sebastian in your presentation, you did a marvelous job throughout this process. part of that excites me for kind of looking at the history of the corridor little bit, there was electrification plan for the corridor for a while. we're kind of at the point where that moved forward. the next layer on top of that, how we have high speed rail to it. that's what we're going through on the clearance and with the extension of d.t.x. to downtown. this is the next layer on top to look for long range of vision. continuing to see that evolution
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and upgrades coming in overtime. it's an exciting process that you laid out for the region and certainly we're very supportive of continuing to work with caltrain how the entire system works. thank you. >> thank you very much. i think you would say, we are growing. the numbers are high. the high scenario probably where we need to look at. thank you. >> you have two members of the public. we have mr. patrick and mr. lebron. >> jim patrick from patrick and company. i like to go back to my shoe. you remember the shoe.
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we shot ourselves in the foot. we are going to shoot ourselves in the foot again. we heard this presentation he talk about moving the envelope. we need to move the shoe, not the envelope. the envelope is not doing the job. ever heard of a tunnel under transbay? 20-year plans what will the ridership be, what would the riliership be? number two the corridor. we're talking about the corridor. they have a monopolistic right to that corridor. why can't caltrain go underneath. how about stopping at the treasure island? how about stopping if emeryville? what about stopping in alameda. what about stopping in oakland. you're making a 20-year plan. you need to push the shoe.
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you don't need to push the envelope. i would reject this plan. ask them to go back to their board, rethink little bit more about moving more people, more effectively. get off the corridor kick and get on moving people around effectively. we missed it. don't shoot ourselves in the foot again. thank you. >> that's a tough act to beat. i want to talk about he said and the comments i made at the board meeting. high speed rail authority was working to get a experience terminal at fourth and king. i brought to board commission,
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that clearly clarifies the bond act that determine it's a transbay and not fourth and king. having said that, the same ruling says as long as they don't use bonds, they can build whatever you want to build. going back to this. interest. you got to attract for 12 trains. only way you can achieve that is to start think being what you're doing with the d.t.x. and your approach on second street. right now, it's burning half the transbay box. it's a problem.
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first problem that you have to address. director -- at that point in time, you will no longer need three tracks on the approach to d.t.x. for the same reason bart need more than two tracks in and out of market street. this is where you need to go. you have to start planning not just for the redesign of the d.t.x. but across the bay at the same time. very quickly on the backup
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solution, you definitely have an opportunity if it's proper design, to turn trains around in brisbane. then you can have a full bus bridge to make the connection to downtown. i testified and asked for resignation that this is not possible. it's a high speed rail design. nothing to do with caltrain. >> that concludes your agenda for today. >> chair nuru: we are adjourned. >> thank you.
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>> good morning. welcome to the san francisco seventh annual walk-to-work day. my name is jody. i an amexective director of walk san francisco. i am grateful for all of you know matter if you live in the city or commute in the city. thank you for walking the walk this morning. a huge thank you to the number
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of city officials who walked in all the way to city hall from all different areas of the city. (applause). supervisor fewer walked two and a half-miles from the richmond district. [applause.] supervisors brown and haney and mandelman as well as mayor breed. every day it is part of every a long journey. the ability of walking is so powerful. it makes us healthier, it is good for the air, climate. it connects us to each other, and it grounds us to our communities. today is purely a celebration of walking, and everyone who walks.
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the beauty it is all of us. at walk san francisco we firmly believe that san francisco can and should be the most walkable city in the united states. [applause.] we are not quite there yet. our major street like market where over a half million people per day walk is one of the most dangerous streets in the city. on average three people are hit each day across san francisco while walking. sadly, already this year we have lost six pedestrians and one person riding a bike from traffic violence on the streets. we are ready for things to change. [applause.] we are ready to end-all severe and fatal crashes in san francisco.
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we are ready for san francisco where everyone of every age and ability can get around safely and easily and affordably. we are ready to show the nation san francisco is putting people first and what it is possible to do when you chase that goal. i believe our city leaders here with me today are ready to commit for the vision for san francisco. one person committed is our mayor, london breed. (applause). she is a vision zero champion pushing the city to fix the most dangerous streets and fast because she understands that lives depend on it. she is pushing hard to bring quick fixes to our most deadliest streets and has taken a stand on some streets that usually don't get the treatment they need like sixth street and
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taylor street. [applause.] she has helped secure fundings for a major project we are working on now, better market street. [applause.] her leadership is saving lives. please join me in welcoming madam mayor breed. . >> thank you. first of all, i want to thank walk sf for not only coordinating today's walk-to-work day, but mor more importantly the advo cassie they do to make sure we are accountable to adjust the streets so people are safe when they walk and move around the city and county of san francisco. let's be clear. when we make improvements to add
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dedicated bike lanes, when we make improvements to do daylighting and the things that we know that changes the infrastructure of the streets, it is about public safety, it is about keeping people safe. we have to continue to remember all of the lives that we lost because we haven't moved fast enough. the seven people that we lost in our streets this year alone is seven people too many. we know that when we delay with bureaucracy, when we delay with process, we know that means the delay could involve losing another person, which is why these changes in what we need to do to make our city safer, more walkable, more livable for all of us is so critical.
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[applause.] i spend a lot of time all over san francisco, and often times, when i see in terms of elder ofl elderly people trying to get across the street. we need to make those changes as well. we need vehicles to slow down, and we will be stepping up enforcement in this city. [applause.] how we move people around is so critical, and what that means is there are people walking, biking, there are people driving, and the only way we are going to get to a better place where not one more life is lost is if we make sure that we look out for one another, we make these improvements, get people to slow down. there is tons of work to do, and i know this board of supervisors although we don't agree on
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everything. we "glee" the i agree the improo make san francisco safe is something we can agree on. we will get the job done. thank you all so much for walking to work today. [applause.] >> it is my honor to introduce board president another vision zero total champion. >> thank you. i want to say that we need to change the culture about walking in san francisco. walking is not a privilege to walk safely. walking should be a right to walk safely in san francisco. we need to change that culture. i want to thank walk sf not only walk sf but all departments involved to try to make our streets safe, whether it is enforcement, engineering, education.
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thank you for all of these departments that really are kicking it up for us. [applause.] i really -- it is not enough to walk one day and have a little rally. it is about doing things all year around, getting changes done. we need to join together. we need to tell the state to let us have automated speed enforcement. i don't know what is going on outside of san francisco, we want it here, we need to send a loud message to the legislators to say we need it. the other thing we are going to do, and i am writing to the legislature for a local ordinance to make it safer than it is now, i want the quarters to be daylighted. when you cross the street the cars can see you. i don't know why we are not
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doing this now. we need to do it now, not tomorrow. join me to make san francisco a safe place for pedestrians to walk. thank you very much. [applause.] >> district one supervisor. >> good morning, everyone. i just want to give a shout out to all of my folks in d one who walked with me this morning. in fact we made great time. we stopped for a doughnut. this is a great way to start the morning. you know, on a more somber note, i have had two fatalities in my district within one month of each other. seniors, older chinese women in crosswalks. ththe infrastructure is importa. people need to slow down and pay attention when they are driving. i have been telling my residents that all of the time. i want to give a shout sought to
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the san francisco police department for beefing up the traffic unit. it is about enforcement, also. we don't like a ticket. this is saving lives. deputy chief red mon is there. we have been working with the chief to bring enforcement to the streets. i think people are getting sloppy about driving. we have a lost of congestion. my husband and i are walkers. we walk all of the time. when i hear about another pedestrian being hit it could be me or any of us here. pay attention. let's walk off. let's keep ourselves healthy by walking. it is something everyone can appreciate that we can do. i want to say thank you for coming out today, especially many, many thanks to walk sf. thank you. >> district the five supervisor
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brown. >> thank you. i want to say this is a great birthday present. thank you everybody. it is my birthday. i don't know where are the balloons? i just want to say i think a lot of my colleagues and mayor breed have said how important it is to have the pedestrian safety in place so we can walk. i am a walker, and one of the things that i think when we are walking and anybody that is a walker, you will understand this. we have to train in san francisco to be walkers, safe walkers. when you step into the streets, first thing you do is catch the eye of the driver that stopped at the stop sign. make sure they are stopping. if they are turning, catch their eye. these are the things we shouldn't be worrying about. we should be able to step out when the light is green for us to go, and for me i want to talk
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about the positives of walking. i walk through parks from eight ash bury. i will walk through buena vista park. then to alamo square. as i walk through my district, one of the things i can say is walking makes you feel so good especially in a place like this. it is absolutely a booster of your mood. i want to make sure, though, as we move forward, you know, and i'm thinking about this because it is my birthday. we are getting older. seniors in the city we -- our count down lights don't give us enough time to get across. when we look at these things, look at ways to help people get through the city and walk through the city and be safe. thank you everyone for coming.
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>> supervisor of district 6. >> happy walk-to-work day! let me start out with a confession. i walk to work every day. i live just a few blocks from here on high street. i have the privilege of being able to walk to work every day to city hall. as supervissor brown said it is the right way to go to a building to have that time coming to work and also walking home each night. we left late last night and i was able to walk directly home a couple blocks from here. i want to thank all of the folks from district 6 who walked in today. a special shout out to save passage. it is an organization through the tl cbd. every day when i walk into work
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they are there. not just protecting me but looking out for all of the kids and families as they walk to and from school every day. this is a community effort. we have a lot of work to do. sadly there have been a number of pedestrians hit in district six a few blocks from here on golden gate and leavenworth a woman was struck and killed by a car, and unfortunately there were a number of others since then on the same street who have been hit. i want to say we can't wait. we need to make immediate changes now. we need to, first of all, deal with crosswalks, daylighting, slowing traffic, actually making real changes in the streets, getting past some of the one way streets and absolutely enforcing things around uber and lyft and
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other bad actors to keep everyone safe. thank you. we are in this together. let's keep people safe. thank you. [applause.] >> thank you. now, i would like to welcome supervisor of district 8. >> good morning everybody. so many politicians speaking. i will be brief. we had a fantastic district 8 walk. district 8 folks, make a little noise. we were joined from supervisor mar's office in district four and stephanie came with us as well, district two. i think all of the districts in san francisco there is no day late around this issue. we are committed to vision zero, we need to make the streets safer. we need more enforcement. i was pleased earlier this year
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to pass along the climate emergency resolution. we all know there is no strategy to get us to saving the world that does not get people out of their cars. it is absolutely essential that people bike, take public transportation and walk. we also know there are so many -- one death -- any death is one too many. any severe injury is one too many. i will say i think having a board led by someone the personal experience in norman yee. the survivors and friends of those who died or have been severely injured in the crashes are most effective advocates. it is meaningful and powerful to have that leadership in city hall. thanks everybody who walked this morning. [applause.]
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>> director of the sf m.t.a. please. . >> morning. happy walk-to-work day everybody. it is meant to be a time to remind us walking is the best form of transportation. it is the best way around the city. it is fun and enjoyable especially on a day like this. it is good for you in terms of personal health and health of the city. it is good in terms of congestion and emissions. it is the best way to get around, and we see as our charge in making sure that the streets are safe and inviterring so that people see walking as a more viable option for more trips, not just on walk-to-work day but throughout the year. to that end we are working closely and furiously with our partners at public health, public works. police and fire, planning and all of us working with community
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leaders and supporters to make the streets safer. the urgency from the mayor and board of supervisors is shared by the board of directors. we have the message from our city leaders that we need to do more and better and faster. i accept jody's challenge that we make san francisco the best walking city in the country. vision zero's goal is to eliminate traffic fatalities by 2024. every death is tragic. we are working to make the streets safer. we will help truly make us the best walking city in america. thank you for coming out. happy walk-to-work day. [applause.] >> i would like to welcome the director of the public works. >> good morning.
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walk-to-work day is one of my favorite events of the year. not only do i get to meet people i don't see all of the time we get to talk about what is going on in the city. more importantly it is very, very important that we embrace vision zero. the live ability of the city and making sure the sidewalks are safe. coming soon change is on better market street to bring a new streetscape will make walking better all over thety. we will make our city much more walkable for everyone. i am proud to be in partnership with sf walk. from public works we will do our part. thank you. [applause.] >> i want to congratulate you all. what a beautiful day. thank you walk sf and thank you
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communities for supporting what we do. my bosses are the 11 members of the board of supervisors. we have been working hard for about 30 years. we are really proud to distribute your voter approved sales tax fund and vehicle registration funds that go to to projects voters approved to improve safety. we are backing it so thank you, voters. also approving measure 3 funds for walking and biking, a partnership to make our streets safer. thank you very much. [applause.] >> before we close two quick things. i want to give another round of applause to all city leaders that walked today.
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[applause.] >> i would like to highlight sf police department deputy director, environment director, m.t.a. director and mtc commissioner and college board member for joining us this morning. [applause.] also from phil king's office. thank you. it takes a village. finally i would like to invite one person who understands safe streets in a deeply person way. jenny's mother stepped in a crosswalk in 2011 and was hit by speeding car. judy survived and she and her children eleven would lives
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forever changed. she is a founding member of the sf safe streets. it helps tell their stories. this group is made of survivors of loved ones kill by crashes on our streets. join me in welcoming jenny. [applause.] >> i am jenny. some of you may know me through my mother's story. iit is not easy to tell or hear. eigheight years after being hite was suicidal. she thinks her children are evil and plotting against her. we live in a state of fear and hopelessness. this is what a severe injury with can look like. there are more than 500 severe
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injuries on san francisco streets every year. when i share my story i hope people will understand and demand safe streets. today i want to say i am looking to each of you and the city leaders behind me to do everything in their power to end traffic violence on our streets. we are all pedestrians and all deserve straight streets. thank you. >> thank you it is a beautiful morning. i appreciate everybody coming out bright and early. thank you so much. have a wonderful walk-to-work day. [applause.]
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in this san francisco office, there are about 1400 employees. and they're working in roughly 400,000 square feet. we were especially pleased that cleanpowersf offers the super green 100% clean energy, not only for commercial entities like ours, but also for residents of the city of san francisco. we were pleased with the package of services they offered and we're now encouraging our employees who have residence in san francisco to sign on as well. we didn't have any interruption of service or any problems with the switch over to cleanpowersf.
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this clean power opportunity reflects that. i would encourage any large business in san francisco to seriously consider converting and upgrading to the cleanpowersf service. it's good for the environment, it's good for business and it's good for the community.peaker c copies of documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon will appear on april 16th for the supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> call items 1 and 2 together. -- issuance of mortgage revenue bond not to exceed 77 million for
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