because this constitutes m.t.a. institutional piracy, which has faint echoes of the 16th and 17th century with the exploration of medallions. maybe there should be a skull and cross bones flag flying somewhere, thank you. >> thank you very much. >> mr. gilbert he is the last person who turned in a speaker guard. >> always a pleasure to see you. welcome back. >> thank you. disconnect. a while back, maybe two years, i brought a rag in that i had loved the door to the elevator at munimobile at civic centre, and i thought i would bring it to the head man, it would drop down, and the door would get cleaned, and the frame would get cleaned. the door has not been cleaned

since that time. i was thinking about getting another rag and wiping it down. disconnect. a couple of weeks ago when they were saying goodbye and getting booted away, i want to couple of drivers that i knew and i asked them what would happen, and they said, he wasn't part of the munimobile establishment, and what happened is he got disconnected from what was happening on the rail, it didn't go up to you. i agree with him. i think he fell on your sword. i believe what is happening to the cab company is they are being shafted, and that was the mayor's office. let's leave this alone. we have got people who can make a whole bunch of money on uber and other ridesharing companies. let me see if i can remember the third one, i can't.

i would like also, before we go, real locks -- simple wheel locks the only old buses have them. many of the new ones don't, so, you know, for some of us, it is important. and thank you. >> thank you very much. any further public comment on item number 9? seeing none, we will close item nine. >> this is your consent calendar all items are routine unless of member of the public or the board want to sever the item and consider it separately. we have not received a request from the republic -- the public or any member of the board to sever the items. >> okay. i gather from that there is no public comment on item ten, as well. >> correct. >> motion to approve.

>> second. >> does anyone have any questions for staff on these items? there has been a motion and a second on the consent calendar. all those in favor? and eo posed? the consent calendar passes. >> item 11 is amending the transportation court -- code to approve all the parking and traffic modifications, designating blues owned intersections are prohibited with intersections i which turns against our read or stop signs, are prohibited intersections with one direction of traffic should be required to yield to another. intersections with which traffic should be required to stop and it is eliminated and multiple terms can be made from more than one lane, authorizing the city traffic engineer to reclassify an existing class two bike lane for cycle tracks or protected bikeways, approving certain corridors on the vision zero high injury network, or the sfmta can install adjustable project installations, parking

or traffic modifications, or other safety improvements, and authorizing the city traffic engineer to stop install tollways on four corridors. >> if you ever get sick of transportation, you could be the person who reads the disclosures on drug adds. [laughter] >> she would have to speeded up. >> my favourite one is the one that says don't use this project if you -- product if you are allergic to this product. help make our city saver, please >> in case that wasn't all clear , i will give you a quick walk-through in what has been a conversation over several meetings about how to accelerate the delivery of the kinds of street safety project that we all know we need to reach visit -- vision zero. back in march, we know the mayor challenged us to develop policy requiring our staff to move forward with your team his -- near-term safety enhancements. we are now at the point where i have a policy to bring forward

to you today and your staff is asking you to adopt it. i may also recalled there have been three issues in this conversation. there has been our own pivot towards doing more projects like what we did on howard street this spring, like we did on valencia street, to emphasize the projects that we have done without a big, complicated pouring of concrete and resetting of curb lines, but rather using the tools we have to get things done quickly, getting resources, both in-house and under contract to get that done. the last piece that is coming before you today is streamlining our governance and approval processes so we have clear direction to get those projects onto the street. again, as a reminder, the current practice is we bring projects to you through an exhaustive multi monthly, multi year public outreach and we have an all or nothing conversation about how we will legislate this

, and then we go into a multiyear process of contracting , bidding, and awarding, and pouring concrete. the quick build approach doesn't take away the board's responsibility to decide what the ultimate design or ultimate organization of the street is, but it also says, we don't need to wait month-to-month, in years two years get proven, effective tree -- statements on the street we know we have a limited palette of safety measures that we go back to again and again, parking protected bike lanes, high visibility paint, the quick hit post you see on the street, these are the things we know we can get on the street in a matter of weeks, and they are reversible, all of these things can be put in place without taking away the ultimate decision over the permanent design of a street.

so there are four aspects of the action that we are bringing before you today. a clear definition of what a quick build project is, a modification to division two of the transportation code to delegate certain authority to our city traffic engineer who is a senior staff person in my division who oversees much of the legislation that comes before you, some clear ground rules with accountability and transparency so we know, when we say project is reversible and we say something is a quick build and we say something is temporary, we know what that means, and a list of explicit approvals of the next generation of quick build projects that we will execute over the next 12 months. starting with what a quick build is, key thing here is that these are temporary materials, irreversible and adjustable. we want to get things out there fast, we hope to get them right the first time. if things don't work perfectly in the field, we can move paint around and move posts around, we can move parking metres, we can retime traffic signals. they are also temporary in the sense that we can have them in

place for no more than 24 months by the end of that period, we challenge -- we know what we need to do for you for what a permanent redesign of the street is, and have processes underway to get that redesign moving. the transportation code amendment in the legislation today would move the approval of certain aspects of the street design to the city traffic engineer on hi injury network streets, that is a limited number of streets, 12% of the streets where over 70% of fatal and serious injury collisions take place, you will see some of the lists here on the slides. none of this affects the fact that the board of supervisors does retain the ability to review appeals of certain decisions by this board. we're not suggesting we change that, we are not touching division one of the transportation code at all. you have been really clear with us that any process by which we

speed up the delivery of projects ought to have accountability and transparency, so where we are saying that the quick build projects will still have a public hearing, will often integrate the public hearing in some way into ongoing outreach efforts for these projects. all the projects will be on the list at the end of the present -- and of the presentation. we want to make sure that there is a formal process by which people can come to an open house , but give on the record comments that we consider in our design. and then there is the accountability to do as the m.t.a. board. we are suggesting that we be required to come back after 24 months, rather before 24 months with some findings around whether or not the build project is achieving the safety goals that we set out to achieve, and we use that to inform the

decision you will have to make about the ultimate major construction activity and design of the street. so there are some quick build projects, and these are in our vision zero strategy. these are streets where you have already taken action to define what the ultimate design of the street will be. these will look familiar, many of the robust conversations we have had here over the last nine months are on this list. we are saying, let's not wait a year or two for us to bid and award a contract for these things, we want to get there this spring and summer and get these things quick built. we don't want to stop there, we also want to continue to add projects on the hi injury network, on streets where we are already engaged with communities in design processes to get more quick builds done, and so the two that you see here, you will see two more projects that we have already committed in public that we will make changes this

year, then there's five new projects, projects where we have been engaged with communities, and we want to accelerate our delivery of the quick build aspect of these projects. these are all hi injury network streets where pedestrians and cyclists are especially vulnerable, and the quick build -- getting a quick build project in the ground this year or next year could be the difference between saving someone's life and not saving that life. that is a quick run through of the decisions before you today and how it fits into the water conversation we have had by accelerating these critical vision zero projects. >> okay. i understand courtney mcdonald from supervisor haney's office is here to address us on this item. mr. mcdonald, if you will, and in respect to your schedule, we'll hear from you and then continue our discussion. >> thank you. good afternoon. my name is courtney mcdonald with the district six offices. we just wanted to be here to thank you all so much for

considering these changes to the transportation code. thank you to the board and the sfmta staff. our office he is in full support of changes we need to make to code to improve our hi injury network and make our streets more safe, and we are really appreciative that so many of the corridors in district six especially, the howard street corridor, are on this list. both for 2019 and 2020. we urge your support, and please let us know how we can continue to support you in these efforts. >> fantastic. that may be the shortest supervisorial aid statement we have ever received, and we really like those. the senator is correct. mr. maguire, is there anything else you would like to add before we go to direct your questions? folks, we have 11 public commentors at least, so at this point, if we could focus on questions for mr. maguire, that would be fantastic. are there any questions about this project? seeing none, we will call for

public comment. you are not off the hook yet, don't go anywhere. >> okay. , two minutes apiece on this item, please. that doesn't mean you have to use all two minutes, just an option. >> good afternoon, directors. my name is kristin and i make unity organizer on staff at the san francisco bicycle coalition. i am here to show my strong support for the proposed quick build policy before you. this policy brings a change the way the make changes to high energy -- injury corridors. seven more people have been hit and killed on our streets, most of which have been seniors. this policy cannot come soon enough. i want to take a moment to highlight one area where i think we can do better with this policy. guaranteeing that these quick build projects are accessible for seniors and people with

disabilities. as we move forward with this policy, we must make sure accessibility concerns pointed out by the senior disability pedestrian, safety work group are addressed. i want to assure you that all the concerns and principles that the group has extensively laid out are completely in line with the recommendations of the san francisco bicycle coalition. we have and continue to actively work alongside senior disability action, walk s.f., and the workgroup to figure out how we can all make sure every protected bike lane is fully accessible to everyone. we truly believe accessible protected bike lanes are possible, and are ready and willing to make sure that all quick build projects meet agreed-upon guidelines. i look forward to continued partnerships with these groups and the sfmta so that these necessary safety projects benefit all, especially our most vulnerable populations. i hope to see the approval of this policy to make sure city projects truly serve all who use our streets. thank you.

>> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, directors. i'm with the san francisco bicycle coalition. fifteen people hit and killed this year in a five months. it is almost one a week. i feel like a broken record coming up here, but it really bears repeating that traffic fatalities have reached an epidemic level in 2019, we have not seen this before. that means back to back vigils for seniors in the tenderloin, frantic calls with police and families, it means fear while riding my bike. many times i've come to this board asking for a transformative change to make our streets safe. today, i am really excited to be here to support the transportation code amendments that will lay the foundation for that transformative change.

the quick build policy proposed today really is game changing, in my mind. too many times the city's ability to make streets safe for everyone is caught up in unnecessary bureaucracy, as people continue to get hit and killed like we have seen this year. so fundamentally, changing the approvals process for lifesaving street safety projects along the hi injury network, we can streamline resources towards those corridors, prevent deaths and injuries on our streets, rather than react them as we have been for the past however long. his approving today's proposed amendments, it really is a great first step, but it is a first step. it is a mechanism to build projects more quickly. we need to execute that mechanism. we have identified seven projects on top of the other ones that are already in the process and we are committed to

building this year. we need to work quickly on those projects and move onto the next batch. that is how we prevent future lives lost. thank you. >> thank you very much for this and for all your work. next speaker, please. >> hi, good afternoon. first, i would like to thank you for your service to the city. secondly, i don't want to be here, this is not my field, this is not something i have been involved with before. in the last three months, completely by chance, i have been a bystander at two different fatalities on our streets. it is not okay. there is no time to waste. i am a physician at ucsf. every day the hospital, we go to try to save lives and it pains me to see people die on the streets for lack of easy changes i will use a ratchet analogy and say if you were diagnosed with cancer, you would not wait six months or year or two years to start treatment, you would want to start now, that is what we need to do here. we know it works, we know we can

do to help people, save lives, especially the most vulnerable, especially seniors, especially people with disabilities, especially children, and we need to do it now. i strongly support this amendment think -- >> thank you. >> hi, my name is stephani. i have been in the city two years. i'd like to or three years. for the last seven years, i have seen a big change an increase of ridesharing companies, and the increase of more bikes, electric bites, electric skateboards, jump bikes, it is not safe anymore for cyclists. in the last two months, i have been hit i a car twice, i was

doored by a car, but i was luckier then the last cyclist to die on howard and sixth. i was happy and sad to see that change was made, sad because somebody had to die before the change was made. i am asking for more bike lanes before one of us will die. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, directors. i am with senior and disability action. so i am part of the senior and disability work pedestrian safe group at the vision zero coalition made up of senior and disability action, independent living resources center, the

arts, walk s.f., and other groups. we have come together because every year, the majority of traffic deaths on our streets are seniors and people with disabilities. we work to support streets that are safe and accessible for all. we believe that we together can create streets that work for everyone, including bicyclists and pedestrians. unfortunately, some of the new protected bike lanes, the design sacrifices the needs of seniors and people with disabilities. what issues are we talking about we need to have buffers that are wide enough for someone who is in a wheelchair. we need to have safe and visible crossings for people with disabilities and seniors to get across bike lanes. we need to clear, accessible pathways to the curb for people who are parking and loading, and we need multiple access points to transit to make them workable for people with all kinds of disabilities. i ask you to ensure that accessibility concerns are addressed in each project. we appreciate the commitment

from the m.t.a. to meet with the work group and work through some of these issues. i want to ask you today to make sure that you come up with a way to formalize ways to ensure access as you move forward to move these projects along to save lives. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> good afternoon, my name is susan, i am a member of walk san francisco. i have been living in san francisco for almost 50 years, and for all of that time, i have been walking all over the city, both for pleasure, and is one of my major means of transportation san francisco is a great walking city in many ways, it is beautiful, it is lively, it is varied, it is easy to get from place to place, and it is great exercise, but more and more over the time i have lived here, it has turned into a very dangerous walking city. i live in north beach, so every day i go through the intersections of columbus and stockton and columbus and

broadway. the embarcadero has long been one of my favourite walking areas. i am regularly on market street, and many of its neighboring cross streets. these are all parts of the hi injury network. every time i cross those streets , i feel i am taking my life in my hands. i have not been hit by a car yet , but i have had several terrifying near mrs. three people i know have been hit by cars. vision zero has been a san francisco policy for several years now, but every year, people are killed, and hundreds of people suffer serious injuries in a car and pedestrian collisions. why are the city and sfmta allowing this outrageous situation to continue? why is it taking so long to make things better? the quick build amendments are one small step that would help make some improvements quickly. i strongly urge you to pass these amendments. thank you.

>> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> members, as i speak on this very important work, it is personal. in the early 1980s, i rode a ten speed bike frequently around manhattan, i'm not referring to manhattan in kansas, but an island in the city of new york that has half the geographic area of san francisco and about twice the population, and writing that bike on crowded and famous streets such as avenue of the americas and broadway, on an almost daily basis, in the days where we didn't really have bike lanes and other things that we have today, so today i stand before you, over 35 years later,

in this place that has many similar characteristics to manhattan that i just described, and i'm so -- i'm sure some of you have been too. as i have just started riding these jump bikes, the big, red bikes that you see outside and little red scooters, and there are some blue ones that i saw there, and hopefully we will have the big five operators bring there is in soon. i can't emphasize enough the importance of this. i enjoy writing down the green carpet lanes, as it is hard to navigate the area in soma and the financial district, and the area around the transbay terminal, because i want to be able to ride these two wheeled vehicles that i rent safely, so it is important we be nimble and practised in it being able to

respond to the challenges of creating a safe environment for all who traverse the streets of this great city. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> so 15 pedestrian and bicycle fatalities this year. each one entirely preventable. we have that power. i'm here as a walk s.f. advocate , pedestrian, who loves the city, a parent of a teenager who uses munimobile, to strongly support transportation code amendments to bring the quick build safety improvements we so desperately need here. we know that driver behaviour like speeding and reckless turning, and distraction, are epidemic in san francisco and elsewhere. we know we have a proven, affordable engineering solution that we can implement right now.

we know san francisco is a wealthy, progressive city who people look at as a leader. we need to be leading and not reacting to these tragedies. we need to pass quick build amendments, we need to be they the humane, progressive, person centred safety that we are capable of being. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> hi, my name is ed, i am a member of walk san francisco. i would like to thank you for taking time to listen to our comments today. i appreciate your hearts are here, and i just want to tell you how important these changes are. i enthusiastically support the proposed transportation code amendments. i live at fifth and balboa, and suffered an ankle injury a

couple of years ago that opened my eyes to how difficult it can be to walk. i am pretty able-bodied, but on the california corridor that was mentioned, on one day, i was nearly hit by two cars within an hour, and that is just one corridor. when i broke my ankle, i found i couldn't get to golden gate park , i was trapped within a four block area. these amendments are truly important. i don't own a car, i am a frequent pedestrian like many people in the city, and i think we need all kinds of changes, but i mostly think that we have great traffic engineers in the city. they know what to do, they know what kinds of changes we need made in terms of the paint, the striping, the lights where they need to be put in. these are the people with the fingers on the pulse of the city , and we need to empower them to make the changes. if i were a family member one of the 15 people who have been killed this year, i wouldn't

want to wait until you all had a chance to review all the changes , i would want the experts making the changes right away. i urge you strongly to pleas make these amendments. thank you. >> thank thank you. next speaker, please. >> last two speakers. >> i'm david walton, i am a resident of 16th avenue san francisco, and i thank the board for letting me speak. i want to give you some positive feedback. i am a bike rider and i am very heartened by the proposals that mr. maguire has mcguire has submitted, and i think, as someone who is felt -- who has felt frustrated over a number of years, and i'm new to this process of coming to the board, i want to give positive feedback that it seems great, it seems like change will take place in a timely fashion, and we really appreciate your hard work in this area. thank you. >> thank you very much for saying that. next speaker, please. >> less speaker. >> good afternoon.

my name is jody, i'm the executive director of walk san francisco. i want to thank you for hearing this item and thank you to the sfmta for bringing this proposal to your board. we are very well aware that vision zero, the? is ticking, and our goal of limiting traffic fatalities by 2024 is going to be here before we know it. we still have a long time to go. we have already lost ten pedestrians. our tenth pedestrian was last week, which is ten way too many. meanwhile, there are over 100 miles on the high injury network that need to be redesigned to meet our needs, and we believe that every mile is going to need to be touched in order to reach our goal of vision zero. so we support very strongly, and enthusiastically support this proposal, and changes to the transportation to streamline the quick build process. these amendments are going to

empower our smart and capable sfmta engineers to their their jobs efficiently without any unnecessarily -- unnecessary hurdles, let's move that along. i do want to echo charles' statement that this is step one, and we do need to start looking at other ways we can be putting these pedestrian safety improvements on the ground quickly. we are very supportive of the fact that there will be a 24 month period of assessment and evaluation before we get more concrete changes on the ground. the vision zero coalition, the group of 35 community groups, will be meeting this month to put together a proposal for the next priority projects to be continuously adding to our quick build a list. thank you, again. we do ask you to pass this legislation. >> thank you very much. any other public commenters? anyone else? you will be the last speaker and we will close public comment.

>> herbert weiner. one question, to what extent is the traffic division of the police department consulted in formulating these proposals? and that is all i have to ask. >> thank you very much. okay. directors, any further questions for mr. mcguire or comments on the proposal? >> i just wanted to pick up a couple of the commentaries. can you address what our proposal is to ensure accessibility of the quick build projects, what sort of policies and processes will be in place to make sure our engineers are using guidelines and consulting with the community on these designs? >> that is a great question. i am glad to have a chance to address that. the first thing i want to say is as many of the speaker said, we want to make sure that we learn from the previous experiences we have had. we know that some of the earlier

protected bike lanes that we installed didn't meet the expectations for accessibility, and we have been doing a lot of work to fix those. we also had a terrific design shred a year ago that resulted in some practices that were already implemented within sfmta , and we will get more formal findings out of that very soon, but we are really treating what we learn from that process, and even what we learned from some of the previous bike lanes we have done as a chance -- we can get these quick build right the first time and design accessibility into them. i will say that the spirit of the quick build is it is and a trip -- iterative process. if we don't get things exactly right the first time, we are working with paint, posts, and things we can move around. if we don't quite have those loading zones in the right place , or we don't -- we somehow haven't gotten the buffer at the right width, we can go back very quickly and make those changes. [please stand by]

and put it under city traffic engineer approving. we're taking the existing code and moving.

it's not our intention to create more exposure. the idea is to create less exposure for bicyclist and pedestrians. we can't do the protected bike lanes quick build style if we can't orient the lanes at the infrastructure. >> is there intuitive traffic flow? >> we expose pedestrians or b e bike -- bicyclists to more traffic. >> we had this at policy and governance last week. i know vision zero continues to be a process and staff is looking for ways to speed things up and the mayor's been an advocate and almost every

citizen's been requesting. at the root of this is bad driving and we can blame uber and lyft and until we dial down the traffic and car traffic we're going to continue to have to fight it at the engineering level. i'm glad we have such smart staff at the mta to continue to make changes but every driver needs to follow the rules and needs to use their turn signals. the ban on right turns on red could be a good start but we have to remind every person we know who drives a car in the city to be safe and quit killing our people. i intent to support this. motion to approve and thank you.

>> we've asked to move forward on things and people need to understand how they work in a quick forum. in terms of safety i was wondering with the most recent accidents we've had happen, what have we learned? we've had all these terrible fatality. we're doing everything we feel like we can do in some instances not enough. i wonder, what are we taking from each of the lessons. i know in some cases we're doing projects listed here but what other things are we taken away and when i was in new york, vision zero science were everywhere on the taxi cabs and screens. we had even a cyclist run into something. everyone's speeding through life. i feel we need to dial it down and get the pace slowed down and feel we ned to do more in --

need to do more in that space. i was impressed every i looked on busses, taxi cabs and billboards there was a constant reminder to slow down. we live in a world where everyone's in a hurry and they're distracted. i feel if we keep at speeds we are going and it will be problematic and in talking about enforcement because that's another thing that helps a lot. a visual presence even from it's traffic control officers helping in the high-injury network areas even if we can target it for rush hours and rotate. something in that strategy. it's not really on the plan but i'd love to figure out how we can do more of that because i know the visual presence makes a difference and gets people to

slow down. >> all good comments and questions and touch on engineering and enforcement and education. you asked about what we learned, one thing's that's heartbreaking this year is they're on streets like howard and gairy need to be changed quickly. we're not getting to them quickly enough. the energy behind quick build is getting it right the first time and save as many lives as we can. that's the biggest learning from this year's unfortunate state of

crashes. >> we need an update on the education efforts and the tactical level than the broad what you saw in new york. it's a good topic. >> we talked about there's a competition with students and maybe around vision zero and walk to school. i don't know, tee it up nor fall. until people realize that everyone else points the finger at someone else but everybody is susceptible to behaviors that lend to the problem. i believe seattle has a reward

program but this is the bold and innovative kind of thinking i was hoping for when i requested this and thank you for your time and we're hoping to see more of this. any further comments. all in favor of this proposal please say aye. anyone opposed? all right, go get them mr. mcgood wire. >> clerk: approving bike lines on 20th avenue between lincoln associate with the 20th avenue project.

>> good afternoon, i'm nick smith and i'm the project manager for the 20th avenue neighbor way project. it's a two-mile largely residential corridor that runs from golden gate park down to stern grove on the south and passes through three commercial corridors. it's also a major north-south bike route. this project would support the city's vision zero goals to eliminate traffic fatalities and serious injury. a review of collision data shows 20 injuries from 2012 to 2017 with the majority involving pedestrians and bicyclists. i do want to make note the highest injury location is on the intersection the irving street i'll talk about in more detail later. this say neighbor way project. the goal is to create a

low-stress active transportation route to connect schools, parks and commercial corridors. currently it sees traffic volumes and speeds above what is preferred for the corridor. the project proposals are based around reducing speeds and cutting through traffic particularly from 19th avenue. the project went through an extensive outreach and meetings with schools, churches, the people of park side community group and outer sunset merchants association and door to door and two public hearings. we have heard support for a safer calmer 20th avenue and a received messages including today. we have also received opposition from the outer sunset merchants association and merchants on irving street primarily related

to parking reduction in the area. so in terms of what we're proposing at irving, we would be removing three parking spaces for pedestrian visibility as well as two more from converting angled parking to parallel parking for bicycle facility. we don't take parking removal lightly. we try to minimize it but because 20th and irving is the highest traffic location in the area it's the highest number of pedestrian injuries and important to provide adequate visibility and space for bicyclists in the area. i want to say though that in response to the concerns we've been hearing and talking with supervisor's office we have committed to working with our parking group to relocate two zip car spots at the intersection that's not part of this proposal but we're working on that we can. with that change, there would be five parking spaces reduced from the measures i mentioned but

we'd gain two general meter spaces so in set at irving -- so in total the park reduction would be three spaces. we believe the proposal strikes the appropriate balance between the needs of merchants, pedestrians, motorists and bicyclists. it includes speed cushion to discourage through traffic and they're similar to speed humps but can accommodate emergency vehicles and uphill buffered bike lines to separate bicyclists from uphill traffic and the bike line swaps side of the road at cantara. converting the angled parking from front of end to back end so drivers have visibility as they pull out of spaces and two

circles to facilitate u-turns from 19th avenue because it has left-turn restrictions traffic heading southbound will head west on the side street and drive on 20th for a block and turn head east. so by putting in traffic circles which creates more predictable movement for u-turns we hope to reduce the amount of people driving on 20th avenue to make that movement. and not mentioned on the slide but we're proposing a new bike signal at the park and a separate effort to install a flashing beacon at judah and work win -- with partners and if approved we'd install striping and cushions and bold out would be constructed.

>> i information you have a busy schedule. >> directors, thank you, sfmta staff and thank you for the presentation. i'm a legislative aide in the office of supervisor gordan mar here to urge you to approve the project. we know many of which he change proposed are common sense solutions to long-standing problems not unique to this street but we want to see the solutions move forward on this street. in particular i wanted to call the extension of daylighting with the entire length of 20th avenue in our district. it's something we're thrilled to be seeing move forward and would love to see daylighting move forward in other intersections across the district. one thing we wanted to note

about the project which nick made reference to in terms of finding a new location for the two dedicated zip car parking spots, on the issue of neighborhood outreach. we appreciate the number of events and many efforts that were made to reach out to stakeholders and residents and merchants however we wanted to make note in the comprehensive consolidated summary of comments received by sfmta by the public, there were no concerns listed about the project despite the fact we heard many concerns from our constituents and from our merchants and found them readily able to be shared with us. so we're happy to see the

concerns addressed along the merchant corridor and we urge the importance of outreach to stakeholders and projects and urge you to support this important project. thank you. >> thank you very much. directors, any questions for staff before we go to public comment? director eaken. thank you very much, mr. wright. i appreciate it. >> can you address pedestrian safety and circles? it's my anecdotal experience removing stop signs and more circles creates more problems for pedestrians. can you explain the thinking there. >> i heard the same issues pedestrians have with traffic circles they're applicable where

we have stop signs for one direction of traffic and yielding to pedestrians in the other discretion. they're at locations where they're all stopped controlled currently. we are salt lake city designed the circles -- we have designed the circles to ensure cars are not encroaching in the crosswalk as they make a u-turn movement. we don't believe those concerns will apply to these circles. >> and you're keeping all the stop signs in place? >> yes. >> is the reason 20th sees higher speeds is because of diverting traffic off 19th? >> people are clearly trying to avoid 19th avenue and they're the ones generally speeding the most. yeah, we're addressing both issues. >> i recently heard a comment from someone who does training with vision and blind folks and traffic circles are particularly

difficult because the sound of traffic isn't in the expected direction pippen courage staff to make sure we've done proper outreach to the blind community and any adjacent areas considering traffic circles. thank you. >> are we moving more towards that? i notice more have traffic circle and we didn't previously have them? is that the new thinking and direction for pedestrians? >> eight of -- a lot of time we do them for traffic timing. cars have to physically deflect and slow down. in this case the primary purpose is for u-turns. as it applies to the 20th avenue project, it's pretty unique in that we have this u-turn we're trying to facilitate. i know generally when you see

traffic circles in other projects it is something we are looking at more and more more the traffic calming effect. >> maybe you can elaborate on the car share and what supervisor mar's aide said. >> there's two zip car spots and they're always referred for zip car so they always have a red curve. in a sense it does take away some availability for parking for people who want to come in and stop quickly. the stops are pretty well utilized and zip car allows people to have those cars to have a reduction in impact. because it's such a parking heavy corridor and want to mitigate the impacts we'll find a location that is just as convenient for people who want to use zip cars but in a less

quick turnover location. >> will they turn into metered parking or uncontrolled park >> any further questions or comments? if not i'll make a motion on the proposal. >> hello, directors people a community organizer on staff at the san francisco biker coalition. the project brings necessary traffic calming measures to 20th

avenue which serves as a major north-south route. over the past two years, there's been multiple community outreach events and open houses for the project received strong support from neighbors. the project includes improvements like uphill bike lanes and flashing beacons and a bike signal at lincoln to provide access on a street with a high number of speeding cars. these additions provide critical safety improvements and make it more accessible. we've only begun to address park connectivity and must remain committed to exploring paths through stern grove and golden gate park to create pleasant routes for those walking and biking in the neighborhood. we cannot lose another life due to a drawn-out public process. i look forward to the approval of the project in order to make

20th avenue a more walkable, bikable neighborhood street. thank you for your time. >> thank you very much. >> marcia and david walton the last two speakers. >> i'm the owner of the taco shop at underdog at 19th and irving. i wanted to address a few points. i strongly consider the board to delay approval of this project. i think there has to be a little more consideration in what's going on between lincoln and judah. it's probably one of the most contentious areas. just some data on parking. i know it's contentious and people get angry at the board about parking. for my business doing some analysis from irving to judah it was nine spots and now seven. we lose about $100 per spot for our revenue. over a year, we're talking

almost $300,000 my business and surrounding business is losing. that's the difference between me staying in business and not and there's three empty stores and i may be another apartment -- casualty. and i'm there 12 hours a day and from lincoln to irving there is a lot of deliveries, there's a lot of bars and restaurants with large box trucks delivering kegs and food product. there's a lot of third-party delivery companies uber eats and door dash that double park and this proposal reduce the size of the street from irving to lincoln and honestly i know i love all the safety talk and in for safety, i think this particular piece of the corridor makes it more unsafe. i'm not a traffic engineer but

it's what i see every day in the corridor. just the last piece and that's it. >> and i sympathize with the parking and i would rely on mr. mcgwire to come up with a solution to cycle cars more quickly to residents can have parking access and keep stores

in business. i apologize i missed input into the decision making but i wanted to make quick safety comments. at the intersection at 20th and taraval is dangerous. there's no stop sign similar to what happens at judah and 20th. coming to 20th from wawona is a blind entry. it sounds like you're going to work on that. when you leave lincoln there's a blind intersection with people walking that pedestrians could get hit and the french school at ortega 20th going north on southeast side of 20th ave probably needs a passenger pickup zone because there's a long line of double parking when the school starts and ends. thank you for your time and my input. >> thank you very much. any other public comment.

ms. boomer has no more cards. is there anyone else who wants to provide public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. if we could address the question about notice when a business tells us they didn't get the notice i think it's important we describe the notice procedure we gave for the project. >> maybe he can talk if anything we're doing around loading. there's an issue around loading and double parking if you put in bike lanes and people are parked in them that's not helpful. i don't know what's being done for loading issues. >> good afternoon, chair, members of the board, matt laske, mta. i've been involved in the project a number of years. i think we're at two years now.

we had an extensive outreach process. and the speaker was not informed i guess. we did speak to the outer sunset merchants two times. and they were generally supportive of the project. we talked to businesses affordable housing we talked to businesses informing them and we did two public hearings which we normally don't do. we usually do one. we did our best effort for the outreach. unfortunately not all members of the public learned about the