grateful and part of it and i would encourage us to please move as fast as possible on the quick build initiative. >> thank you, very much. next speaker, please. >> todd minor. nancy. jean cow. alice, rodney paul. >> hello, i bike or scoot to work everyday. we have in front of us a unique opportunity to solve safety, congestion, equity and connected to this issue all at once here today. in order to make the city safe and serve the greatest number of people with the limited street space we have on market street, we must plan in a way that projects and prioritizes our bikers, scooters, walkers and transit users. we can incentivize these by building for them and that's what i encourage you to vote for today by voting yes on this initiative. we have fallen far behind our

cities in europe, asia and latin america and they are banning cars in the city centre next year and they have already banned cars in the entire urban core the first sunday of every month and they ban cars on 75 miles of road every sunday. we have familiaren behind these cities and we have the opportunity today to join them and set a new standard at home. please remember your commitment to the people. >> todd minor. >> hi, i'm jean the gored president of the san francisco bicycle coalition. i support this project and i hope you will approve this project for the necessary safety and transit improvements and approve more projects like this in the future. thank you. >> thank you, very much. next speaker, please. >> todd minor.

alice. rodney paul, brian, johnathan gaybats, matthew blayne. ian armstrong. olivia. >> hi, i'm brian, i'm the president of the 1400 mission street board of directors. which has car access currently off of tenth street. and i've had a lot of concerns for my residents reaching out to me. i should mention that we are a fairly unique project in our city. we're 190 units of all affordable housing created by the mayor's office of housing that was built two years ago. and i've had a lot of concerns from families and people with disabilities about continuing car access since the western variance was added to this project. people are concerned that only being able to access by detouring multiple blocks around

to 11 th 11th street and takinge jog to tenth street to access our homes is going to affect their everyday lives and be able to make it harder for them to move their family to and from the schools. and we're just -- >> thank you, time is up. next speaker, please. >> rodney paul, johnathan, matthew blayne, ian armstrong, olivia ganbone. >> i'm matthew blayne and thank you for sitting in this room listening to us. i live on 14th street for a decade and i've been hearing about the future of market street coming since that time. so i would just like to be sum or thsupportive. staff have done an amazing work and this will push cars around to places like 14th and

tenderloin. not just for cars but bicycles and pedestrians are effected by the overloaded cars and frustrated cars so i believe the staff is aware with this and follow through with this. thank you for your support. >> next speaker, please. >> rodney paul, johnathan. tory carter. >> hi, i'm zan. my husband and i have been here for over 10 years as a bike coalition member. thank you so much for everybody who has put in so much work to bring us here today. i have a nine-month-old and i can't wait until she can bike. my husband rides to work and i ride as much as i can. it's fair a wife and mother are climate change and i'll get call from the hospital that my husband and the future daughter

were hit by a car so thank you for supporting this and make san francisco a place is this is better at climate change and keeping my husband and i my daughter safe when we bike. >> thank you, very much. >> next speaker, please. >> is rodney paul here. johnathan. olivia ganbon followed by stephanie, tory carter and if there's anyone else downstairs, please come up into the room if you wish to speak. >> while it's tempt to go give you both two minutes, the rule is one minute. >> the market and very glad to be here and we are moving forward with this and as i think about it, this isn't about bike lanes and transit lanes and this is about the kind of city we want to be and who belongs in this city and who has access to

this city and who feels safe here. who builds for her and all the people not building it for cars and i encourage you to move forward with this project as quickly as possible and consider other car-free spaces in our city. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> stephanie. tory carter. brian hoffer, rick lobsher. >> hi, everybody, i ride my bike everyday on market street several times. i'm going to try to recreate the feeling of what it means for me to be cyclist riding my bike on market street. have you heard the earthquake last night. i don't know about you but it left me scared. i could be dead if it were stronger. what is it going to happen again? that's how i feel after i had my best accident on market street so you guys cannot do anything

against the earthquake but you can change and do something on market street. please let's do it before i can die. >> thank you, very much. >> next speaker, please. >> is tory carter here? brian hoffer. elias. rick lobsher. jessica jenkins. >> the floor is yours. >> to the board of directors greetings. my name is tory carter owner of a african american business owners, professional business owner and i am in full support of this project. under the condition that you consider working with other african american business owners with the services as well as the contracts. i thank you. >> thank you, very much. next speaker, please. >> brian hoffer, rick lobsher, jessica jenkins. >> hi, i'm jessica jenkins.

i biked with my 5-year-old with his own bike for a few blocks. it takes a lot of bravery on both of our parts and skills way beyond his years on his bike. and also the rarity and shock of seeing a child on his own bike. it creates a protective barrier from us that we're really -- it's scary. and market street needs to be car free and many more spaces and they ned to have what we should have what any reasonable city should have which is children riding their bicycles to school everyday. please, approve this project and let's kickoff like making more of our streets for kids and seniors and disabled to get around easily and safely. >> thank you, very much. next speaker, please. >> rick. >> i'm rick president of market

street railway non-profit advocate for your cable cars. we support every aspect of the better market street programme and spacing the streetcar stops farther eliminating private automobiles on market and building the traffic loop at mcallister to speed f line service and add more service where needed. we oppose removing the western variant from haze to goff. why? when the only lane is the track lane you are guaranteed to see regular delays of muni street cars and buses. the fact is, red lanes have always been under enforced. you are going to need that for bicycle overflow too in the future. we'll detail our concerns in an e-mail to you which hope you build it quickly. >> lawrence lee. zoie, those are the last people who have turned in speaker cards whose names i haven't yet read. >> hi, i'm elias is i think this

project is awesome. i want to see it get built. i don't have much to say that hasn't already been said. biking on mark set scary. taking muni is slow and tedious. i've been waiting for this thing for years and years. maybe some details can be improved but i think it shouldn't be a reason to delay this. i hope that projects in the future like this don't get delayed so much. that's it. thank you. >> thank you, very much. next speaker, please. >> ma lynn walker. lawrence lee. zoie, and those are the last three speakers on this topic. >> hello, my name is ma lean walker and i have been commuting on market street for 10 years and i want to express a lot of gratitude to the city of san francisco for how much better it is to bike today than 10 years ago. and it's so amazing to see how

that has created so many more people on their bikes and feeling safer. so i really hope that we can see even more of that in the future and i want also to tell a story about my previous home city which is in sweden where we cut off all the streets for cars for one day and when obama was there for a visit and the air quality got 53% better which is amazing. so this has to do a lot with not just being able to commute to work but also the air we're breathing. thank you. >> thank you, very much. next speaker, please. >> lawrence lee followed by zoie. >> hi, i'm lawrence lee. from spur and i'm also the citizens advisory committee. so spur has long championed the vision of market street as san francisco's grand boulevard and a great civic space. over these years, we've held countless numbers of forums and

dialogs and recognizing that it's getting more crowded, more people are getting injured and killed, more people are bicycling and we have a climate crisis. old market street is failing us. let's fix it, including the western variant and it disrupts the status quo and make it safer and implement vision zero and make it more efficient and net zero carbon emissions and prioritizing alternatives to the private automobile. thank you. >> thank you, very much. next speaker please. >> zoie, kevin carole. those are last two speakers. >> good afternoon. i'm zoie. i'm here as a board member of walk san francisco, a member of the bike coalition. landscape architect by profession. and and a resident who lived in market street within 20 years and worked within a walk of market street and still do.

i have two teenage daughters that go to school a block from market street and they get around by themselves on their own and it's important to me that market street is safe for them to walk. i want to thank you for all the incredible work that's been done to date. i want to support -- i want your support in making it come to fruition. my family and friends, peers are all part of the 500,000 people that walk on market street each day and they will all benefit from this vision. >> thank you, very much. >> that's it. ok. >> next speaker, please. >> kevin carole. the last person for whom i have a speaker card whose name i haven't read. >> thank you. my name is kevin carole and i'm the president and c.e.o. of the hotel council of san francisco. lifelong resident of san francisco and i'm a major user of public transportation and obviously walking in the city as

well. i want to thank the m.t.a. and the d.p.w. for the work that's been done on better market streets. we've been involved and our council has been involved and i've been serving on the citizens advisory group for the last seven or eight years with all the work that's going on so i want to thank everyone who has been working on this and market street and we think it should be returned for a incredible avenue for the city. one question we brought up and i want to thank the m.t.a. for working with us on this is one of the changes is changing on ellis street from stockton to and converting that back to a one-way that would go westbound and we have a couple hotels that it's going to cause pretty good inconvenience so the mta has agreed to take that first year to look at that and make sure it's going to be something that can workout but thank you very much. >> thank you, very much. >> great. >> that's it for speaker cards. >> we have read through a lot of

speaker cards and some people did not respond. either they left or they did not have a chance to attend. if it's the first that's fine. but if it's the second, i want to make sure if your name was called, or you turned in a speaker card and you have not had a chance to speak yet, please come forward. deputy, thank you for all your help today. as always, it's appreciated. with that, we will close public comment and move on to directour discussion. i do want to clarify, i mean, we're having fun because it's a nice day and i was joking about the vote. i am one directour i do not vote for the board and there's no pre ordained conclusions and please don't take my comments as suggesting otherwise and with that we'll move onto the discussion of this. are there any questions for staff? we'll start with questions? yes. >> if we can ask you to

transport yourself up into the director's chair, well done. from there answer questions that vice-chair board and others have. >> i have a couple questions. one was about the issue brought up around fourth street and the alignment of the stops. like because that is a mid-block spot, not close to the corner and in general, i mean, if all of us have been on buses when you shouldn't have maybe run to catch the other ones, why didn't we move it up. >> if i could ask take the question. >> hi, i'm brittainer with the sfmta. regarding the stop at fourth street, we have very limited space in the roadway and we're working around all of the bart portals and so it was not possible for us to install an ada accessible transit stop in

the centre and have a sidewalk level bike lane and accommodate the portal so in order for us to accommodate all of those things we needed a rapid stop at fifth street and however, hearing the feedback regarding the spacing we did modify the curbside stop at fourth street to make it a little bit longer and we plan to monitor how people are using transit transferring to central subway and we will make adjustments with that curbside stop in the future after central subway opens. >> and then i also started looking at between it's between seventh and eighth, but the f9 and 9 are why we didn't move it closer to the intersection as opposed to what is in the middle of the box there. it's just wondering for a better alignment. so we have placed all of the rapid and the local stops close to each a civic centre.

it's also close to the bart elevator that is there so we wanted do maximize that and we had to work around the portals which are near the cross streets. with the portals at eighth and seventh we were able to shoe torn in between the introduce blocks and centre access to the bart elevators. >> you mentioned the transfer station, can you talk about how that works? because in talking about this new stop spacing, you mentioned the five is a rapid route in the future, they would get off their stop at civic centre and only walk about the lengths of a bus zone and a crosswalk in order for them to switch to any of the

local buses that would be in the curb lane. >> ok, great. i think that answers. >> let me just say that there's no need to artificially bifurcate this between questions and comments so if there are comments you'd like to make on the project go ahead as well too and other directors ready your questions and comments for one combined approach if you will. >> i do have a couple questions. maybe you can point out a few of the loading and passenger loading zones like for example i know on market street for example between van ness and now they're poles up between the bike lane but people are getting into ride shares coming out of those businesses and so, where are we going to put safer example like a passenger loading zone to direct people and from close to the crosswalk. i just want to, i think we didn't really get to look at that and i'd love to understand how it works. >> i mean, i'll hand the microphone over to christina because she was able to pull the

tool you talked about earlier and she can answer that question. >> yes, so, first of all, and this is where you can get off the centre boarding island and then walk around to a local stop if you need to transfer to one of the local lines. i think we mentioned earlier in the centre will be the f line and the five and the five r and the nine and the nine r. so that if you need to take a 5 and you don't care if it's a 5 or a 5r you are the one stop and due have to look at both locations. let's see. we also talked about the -- this is the turn by turn web based map. the green point shows your starting point that you can move around the website and then the

red is your destination so you can see how your route would change based on better market street changes. and then what was your most recent question? >> it was about a location. you may point out some of the passenger loading zones and the commercial loading zones and more passenger loading zones the commercial is probably a little easier because it's not as many -- you have already the base for people who already deliver on market and most other people are not having their deliveries on market streets. >> there are 200 additional loading zones on the side streets. that includes both passengers and commercial loading and part of quick build we'll install our implement 100 of those additional loading spaces so you can see them. they're not colour coated on this map but there are maps on our home page where you can see exactly where the loading zones are and it's part of your legislation.

so again, i'm on our website better market street sf.org and on the home page, you can find links to the loading zones, i'll pull those up in a second. generally i just want to look for and express my support for this project as a person that lived in haze valley and biked down market street to work. i was many times almost pinned between two commercial vehicles and a bus and a commercial vehicle. in the morning and between that and the tracks which are great because our f line goes on. there are many days i almost bit it in the track and to be able to be off those tracks will be helpful. it will mean so much safer for everyone to cycle and walk down market street. i know it's always really especially at nighttime a really scary thing biking home if i

wasn't with a crowd of people and sometimes it comes back late from a event after work and it was a little scary. less traffic at least. but a little scary none the less. i do think it's a vast improvement and i do -- i haven't dug into all the different things that the transit riders talked about but i want to make sure that we are making sure that where we can align stops with intersections and other bus stops, and move them and not create conflict that's obviously a priority but i'm supportive of this project otherwise. >> thank you. >> so i have up on the laptop the loading maps and this is on the website under better market street loading and there are maps by neighbourhood so if you are interested in civic centre or mid market, there's a pdm and

that shows the loading zone and detail and they're both existing proposed just taking a minute to load and so, you can see the new loading zones, the new commercial loading zones are here in yellow and then the new passenger loading zones are shown in white and they're on haze and larkin and existing ones have a red outline such as these on ninth street. this is the legislation before you today. >> great, thank you. >> all right, directors. >> thank you. i have questions on three topics. bike lane capacity enforcement and project delivery and so first question is, have we

planned for what future growth and cycling scooter use and other low carbon mobility loads will look like if we're wildly successful. i'm just back from london and their cycle super highways are at capacity now and they're at 63% sustainable mode share and they want to go to 80% by 2040 and we want to go to 80% by 2040 so let's make sure we're planning for enough capacity if we're successful and i want to hear how you went through that issue. >> we have discussed the bike way width in great details. our typical width is eight feet and that's the maximum that we can squeeze leaving two lanes in each direction. so, it does allow for a bicycle to pass another bicycle or for two bicycles to ride side by side. but if we all know, we have pretty big platoons that ride down market street. so, in the event that we outgrow the bike way, sort of the next spot is the curb lane which is less than ideal but we do have

bicycles that can ride in the curb lane and like i said, we've tried to maximize the bike way width as much as possible. >> then we're back into leap frogging with buses. >> if they're in the curb lane they would be riding with not just transit but delivery vehicles. >> ok. >> ok. so i just -- i do see this problem happening. i think it's a great problem to happen. we're going to get there pretty soon so i just want us to think about how we're future proofing this design. >> it's a challenge. >> second question is on enforcement. we heard a couple public commenters talk about enforcement. especially as we ask commercial vehicles to drive across the bike path and park out of the bike path. i'm anticipating possible lack of sort of behavioural alignment with our goals here and parking in the bike lanes so i just wonder if you can talk about how we'll enforce and make sure these high-quality bike lanes are not just going

>> goes hand-in-hand with education. we have been doing a lot of outreach to delivery companies already and working with them on explaining how better market street will operate and how it will function. we are restricting deliveries in the peak direction, during peak hours. on the south side of market or inbound, delivery vehicles will not be allowed to make any delivery during the morning commute. and in the north side, or outbound, deliveries cannot be made during the afternoon commute. we continue to work with them, to educate them. there is a large component of education and enforcement as part of quick build as well. so, of course, once the project is implemented, we do have funding in the quick build project to include additional p.c.o. his along the corridor to educate and enforce the parking or loading zones. >> and the second question on

private vehicles, how will private vehicles be made aware that they can't do that? what will be the penalty for private vehicle traffic on market? >> it is a moving violation. it would be enforced by the police department for the vehicle driving along market street. they will help to keep intersections clear. i'm not sure if we stated that clearly, but all of the cross streets will be open. vehicles will be allowed to cross market street. we will rely on our enforcement to keeping an intersection clear cars will not be able to turn while cars are waiting to turn. do you know the penalties? >> goes without saying we will meet closely coordinating with traffic companies to make sure that they are enforcing that. and in addition to education, they will be coordinating. it goes without saying to make sure people know and see the

can't drive on market street. and monitoring and justifying that based on what we are seeing >> there's coronation with the various map companies. that coronation will be relatively simple and they have coordinated that they can program this change. >> yes, along with tea and see who can also geo- fence there at ups. >> last question is on project delivery. i think this is on all of our minds. the public is very excited. we have also heard comments about why did it take so long to get here. i have concerned we will then take until 2025 to do phase i without even talking about phase two, the continuous protected bike paths all the way down to the embarcadero. i just wonder if we can reflect on the lessons we have learned on van ness, perhaps, or other project delays and lessons learned and how we can get this on the ground more quickly.

i know it is a funding issue, but there are other mechanisms. you have heard from the public that they want this. >> right. our biggest challenge is funding we have funding for phase one a and we are working on phase i be we know that phase ii will be fifth to second street, so extending all of the improvements including the sidewalk level bikeway east where we don't have a bike lane today. we are working closely with m.t.a., public utilities commission in the transportation authority and even m.t.c. to identify funding at federal state at regional level. that is our biggest challenge right now. >> of course, revisiting and making sure we have resources allocated to complete the design of the project on public works in the m.t.a. side. and in terms of the lessons learned, the utilities and what happens with this covering some of the things underground. and i think this particular project, we are in a better

space where we have been doing some preliminary work to see what is underground, to see if we can mitigate the netiquette -- negative impacts we have seen on the van ness construction schedule as a result of that. >> last comment. i just want to say this is the kind of project that makes me proud to be affiliated with the sfmta. it is bold, it is transformative , it is 100% on our city's goal. i'm struck by how many of the commenters wanted this adjusting in the beginning with car free spaces all throughout san francisco. this is about the kind of city we want to be. i just want to echo that call and say very clearly to the hard-working sfmta and public works staff, please bring us more proposals for creating carvery spaces in the city that can help to prioritize walking, cycling, transit use and other city variables. thank you. >> any other director? >> first, i want to command the project team for doing such incredible outreach. in particular, i want to highlight the work you did with

the mayor's office on disability , particularly around the sidewalk level bikeway, which was a grave concern to the disability community initially. you guys did a great demo at. thirty-eight where you had different things so people with different types of disabilities could test out the barrier and the different sidewalks. i'm excited that the mayor's office of disability set in a letter of support for this project. other people have expressed concerns about the stops. it means a lot to me that the mayor's office of disabilities behind this and we haven't heard concern, at least from the people i have talked to in the community about this. you have done a great job of balancing the needs there. i have a question about the 27 bryant impact. i know in the sequel document it is kind of left like we will figure it out later, but i suppose the project -- i support

the project. i want it done as soon as possible. i am wondering if maybe we can get a report back on our plans on the 27 bryant and mitigating the impacts to that line. i don't know what would be the appropriate time, but sometime early next year maybe? >> great. and then i think the final comment or question i have is about another thing that the transit riders raised, which is the curbside bus stops and the pedestrian crossing the bike lane. what does that look like? i know you said you will put in some paint on the bikeway to inform bikers. i am just wondering, will we be monitoring that to make sure that that is going well, and if necessary, add more stuff to make that work better, i guess? i do think it is important to make sure the curbside stops are accessible to all of our transit riders.

>> yes. part of better market street is to clarify where people walking and biking should be and our transit riders. the transit stops will be both wider and longer to accommodate people, especially those in wheelchairs. what we're doing for the curbside boarding islands, you would have to cross the bikeway to get from the pedestrian area over to the transit boarding islands. we are providing clearly marked crosswalks with truncated domes to identify were people walking should enter into the transit boarding island. we are also providing railings along the boarding island, similar to what we have today, to also help direct people crossing the bikeway, and also letting bicyclists know that people will be crossing the bikeway at these locations. i put up a slide on the laptop on the proposed munimobile

service which also serves -- shows the boarding islands. the one on the left is an example of a center boarding island. you can see the railing is, the additional shelters that are wide enough for seats. it also has the many high platform for getting onto the f. line. the idea there is you would enter the center boarding island from the crosswalk, which will have a traffic signal there, and then enter into the center boarding island. the photo on the right, or the rendering on the right shows a curbside stop. you can see the crosswalks there the bikeway also narrows behind the curbside stops, also signifying that cyclists should slow down as they passed this area. and you can see where the crosswalks are and the bikes that are coming through. >> great. >> i guess i will add that i agree that we need to be really careful about making sure we

have strong enforcement both for blocking the bike lane and as well as the cars crossing market to make sure that we don't have people, you know, we don't want buses in the red lanes to be stuck behind cars that are trying to cross. that is it. thank you very much for all your work on this. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i have two questions and two comments. the first question, returning to this issue of utilities, my understanding is that when we rip the street up for the bart tube, we learned a lot about what's underneath there, and we retained that information. so now we have a lot of as built drawings and the like so we shouldn't be duplicating then this. is that all true? >> it is. a lot of the utilities were not just identified, but also relocated as part of the bart construction. we know where those are and we know a lot of what is under our

streets. there are some conduits that have been abandoned since then over the past 40 some years, but we have done trenching recently to identify or to see what is under there. so it -- we are constantly trying to monitor or investigate what is under our streets. we do have a pretty detailed and congested utility map that will be in our construction drawings subcontractors will have access to that. we also have a pretty lengthy notice of intent and final preliminary plans that we send to all the utility companies so that they are aware of our scope of work. we also notified them of any conflicts between their infrastructure and our project. >> that is good to hear. the second question is about the cost and i think the first time i heard about this project it cost a lot less, too. now that it's up to $600 million , it begs the

question for me about the procurement method and i guess this is probably a rubicon we have probably already crossed, but my understanding is the project, the first phase of it at least, is designed with the traditional approach. i do think, just based upon my limited tenure here, that a lot of the trouble that we run into is the fact that we want to control the design so we hold onto it, and when we do that, would basically hold onto all the liability that adheres to that design. if we did something like design build, the idea there is to shift some of that responsibility and accountability to the contractor now you obviously are going to pay a higher price for that in all likelihood, but if you can succeed in shifting that responsibility, i think in the long run it will be better. was there any point at which you considered design build for this project, and if not, why not?

>> not that i'm aware of, but it may have been discussed early on i know then now his be rt is being constructed using -- i know the van ness be rt is being constructed using a general contractor, which is a route we didn't want to take. we do traditionally do design in-house, and that has been our approach for phase one a. and for construction, design bid build. in the past, we have only done a low bid, which meant whoever is the lowest bidder wins the bid, but public works has started doing best value contracts which take into account meeting at minimum qualifications, quality of work on past projects, references, and so we are considering best value for phase one a. we haven't started design -- well, we are at 10% design for the full corridor. we have not started detailed design on the future phases so that is a conversation we can

have. >> maybe that gets back to director ekin's commented that if we are really looking at this project from end to end, it is not just the first phase and it is not just too late in my opinion to start thinking about a different approach for the second and third phases that might dramatically accelerate them. at the same time, it means you lose some control over the design. you have to give some of that to the contractor if the contractor is going to take on the risk. but right now, in my opinion, we have held onto the design and held onto the risk, and that is not always the best place to be. the first comment, and colleagues, this went right by you because it was so small, but the profile of the project, and i don't know if you can get that back up on the screen, the two middle lanes are described as munimobile only, and that seems sort of self-evident, but there are other transit operators

operating bus service in san francisco, and i think if we are going to paint something on the street, it ought to say transit only and not munimobile only. i know that might complicate the service delivery a little bit, but people want to use the bus. they really don't focus on the logo on the side. that is one urging i would make. >> can we just ask about that? i am soup -- i assume the intent for the middle two lanes is if there is a different bus that they would get to use the middle two lanes. it was not the intent to exclude them. >> they are allowed to use the curb lane. the intent is only of the center lane for the f. line, the five, the five r., the nine, and the nine are. >> is your proposal that we would amend that? >> my suggestion would be that whenever legitimate transit operators of a public service wants to use that lane, they should be able to use it.

now that will require, perhaps some coordination between munimobile and those other operators. that is what is supposed to happen. that is what the public expects is that we can make that kind of coordination occur. >> to get the change that the director wants would require an amendment to the current proposal. >> yes. change to the legislation that is before you. the way that it is written is munimobile only. >> okay. >> i would rather not be the guy who slows down the train here, but at the same time, there ought to be some appropriate instance while we are delivering the project over several years that we can consider that to change, which i think does make sense. finally, let me describe why i will vote for the project, and i think in a very short phrase, we have been designing our cities around the automobile for about 70 years now in the united

states and i think it's time, it is probably well past time that we give some of these other travel modes a chance to grow and coexist. that is why i will be voting yesterday. >> wonderful. thank you. i will take that as you were not making any amendments to the current proposal. >> no. [laughter]. >> director torres? >> i'm unclear as to what you are including. >> just other buses. my understanding is in the corridor, i don't know whether sam tran his operates in the corridor, i think a.c. transit might. amtrak does, and i think they are being treated differently under the current proposal. >> all of those transit operators are allowed to use the curb lane. >> i understand. >> amtrak has a couple of stops, a.c. transit runs at night and some trans operates on two blocks. who operates on market?

>> a.c. transit has an l service we have reached out to them and they are not interested in being in the munimobile lane in the center. we have also been in coronation with golden gate. they're happy with being on mission as they are today. they find our market service, i believe -- i don't want to put words in their mouths, but our market service is quite frequent we have 60 buses in our when we are fully built up in each lane, and if we were to allow other services into that lane, it would end up delaying munimobile i think the curb lane is going to be far improved with the removal of private vehicles. so i think that it is a -- an appropriate way to treat the service. however, you guys are the directors. >> this doesn't include ucsf? >> if we were to legislate as a bus only lane, it could be used by any bus. a camera never the exact limit, but any vehicle that is over 15

or 20 passengers would be able to use it. >> all right. anything else, director torres? >> no, thank you. other than to say that you are correct. the senators from northern california destroyed our public transit system. [laughter] all those damn freeways and doing away with our rest stops. it was destroyed and public transportation never came back until just recently. i am glad we are doing this. i am in favor. >> thank you. director brinkman? >> i will be super brief. thank you so much for the work on this. i know this has been a multiyear process and it will echo the public in thanks. i will director just echo the director and say let's just have this be the first of many car free streets we have in san francisco. we will all probably be astonished by how fantastic this will be when it gets done and we

will be chomping at the bit to do more of them. thank you to ed riskin and matt ford. was he here when he his -- when we started the work on this? has it been that long? i think it has. [laughter] you are right. this took way too long. thank you to the chair for continually championing this and bringing it up multi- times every year to remind us how important this is. i look forward to supporting this and i will even make a motion to approve. >> there is a motion to approve and a second. if i may take a moment of time before we vote, thank you for that. that was very generous of you. i don't know if this is the happiest day of my life, but it is definitely on the list. [laughter] as i said downstairs, this will not just be a better market street, this will be a magnificent market street. it will be a magnificent market street because we will be doing exactly what director torres just urged and prioritizing

modes of transit that need to be prioritized. we will have the aboveground subway for our bus lines. i personally favorite being munimobile only, but understand the concern that is being raised we will have similar priorities for bikes, for taxis, and for pedestrians. this is a wonderful project. i don't want it to end at market street. i will not be astonished when this is a success. i'm expecting this to be a success. i will be astonished if this is not a success. and planning on that success, i have, as you know, already asked our director at the next retreat to give us the options for the next few streets so that we can start assuming that this will be a success and plan for the next streets that will prioritize transit and pedestrians and bicycles to the exclusion of private cars and bring us into the 21st century as far as transit and mobility go.

so this will not just be a magnificent market street, it will be a model market street. we will have other market streets throughout the city as we go. obviously with key study and input, this is not something to be taken lightly, but let's not wait to see if this will be a success. it will be a success. let's start building for the future. now on the topic of waiting, i don't know whether this is for you or miss wise, but we have waited too long. 2025 is too far. have you ever seen a project of this scope, with this amount of impact on the city so uniformly approved? so uniformly supported? this is not even at the controversy stage anymore. this is what folks want. my understanding is that maybe it is in a bit of the design work, but really this is about

money. so let me just ask the question. why is it going to take until 2025 to get this done? is it because we don't have the money identified for the various phases? the final phase is beginning in 2025. >> thank you for that question, director. that is one of the biggest challenges that we have. that is correct. we are going to work really hard and are going to figure out how to find the funding that we are missing to deliver this project, and accordingly, also reprioritize staff resources to make sure we can deliver it as fast as possible. i could not agree with you more. we need to move faster and we will do everything we can to do so. >> is there something you would like to add to that answer? >> the issue of schedule has a couple of dimensions. the first is i don't want to lose what victoria said in her opening parts of the presentation, which is we will be quick building this, more or

less immediately, in january we will be painting the new bus lanes, we will remove all the private traffic from market street so by the end of january 2020, the operational conditions that we are legislating and agreeing to today will be in effect. it is a question of one to the cars leave market street, the answer is january 2020. >> i appreciate that. we put pressure on you to do that and i'm not suggesting that all of this is moving too slowly , but i am happy this will take place in january, i think we will see the short-term effects and benefits to that in january, but this is a grantor project, as you know. i'm gathering from your response that you don't disagree with me. i seen this agency move lots of money around. i've seen this city move even larger amounts of money around when there is enthusiasm and prioritize a show for something. there is here. i haven't heard from any major constituency.

it is almost astonishing how well supported this is. it is not just supported because it will be beautiful and there will be trees on market street, although that is nice. it is supported because it will save people's lives. i guess what i would say is i think i have the support of the board on this that there is a real urgency here, and if i will say this, for my six months or many on the board, if you come to me with a new capital project or some new spend, i will ask you the question, can we spend this on market street instead and speed that up? i would ask that you ask your partner agencies in this to ask the same question. it is time to move this along and i would also ask that you think very closely about what the director said, which is changing my thinking a bit, that if there are widths -- ways to bid this and contract that will speeded up, let's really look at that. >> maybe i could suggest that you have been mentioning this

retreat, which i guess comes up in what month? >> february. >> january. [laughter]. >> like i said. >> next time i will ask the right person. [laughter] can we have at least a couple of different ideas on a funding plan for better market street at that meeting, too? >> excellent idea. >> i hear the direction loud and clear. we will leave no rock unturned here. >> also please communicate that direction to the partner agencies, and if their boards or the constituencies to whom they report feel differently, please let us know so we can make an effort to convince them otherwise. okay. directors, anything else? we do have a motion and a second if there is no further discussion, i will call for a vote. all those in favor of the this item please the aye? >> aye. >> any opposed? okay. unanimous. congratulations, folks. [cheers and applause]

>> item 12, directors, authorizing the director to execute three contracts, one with new flyer, one with be why d. coach, one with pro terra for the procurement of a 40-foot low floor battery electric buses. >> where are you all going? do you not care about bus contracts? [laughter] >> special tools with options for additional coaches from each contractor. mr. chair, there are no speaker codes for this item. >> okay. mr. maguire, how would you like to proceed? >> my colleague will present. >> thank you. if it is too loud still you may wait, otherwise you may proceed when you are ready.

>> good afternoon. i am the project manager at sfmta in the transit division. i am also the project manager for the electric bus pilot program. this can be achieved by acquiring the purchase of a gradually increasing percentage of zero emission buses as part of the bus. remained with hundred% bus purchases being zero emission by 2029 with the goal of achieving full electrification by 2040.

in may 2018, under your leadership of this board, we passed a resolution to begin procuring zero emission battery buses to replace our electric hybrid vehicles starting in 2025 , with the goal of achieving 100% electric vehicles by 2035. please note that this commitment exceeds the goal of achieving statewide zero emissions by 2040 sfmta has been one of the foremost national leaders in pursuing sustainable, reduced and zero emissions transit vehicles. >> san francisco government tv? >> sfmta has operated zero emission electric trolley coaches for decades. in 2007, we adopted the hybrid electric buses.

in 2016, we incorporated the engine start stop feature on our hybrid buses to reduce emissions and noise. earlier this year, we launched a green zone pilot program. this is when one of our specially adopted hybrid electric buses enters a designated green zone. g.p.s. device triggers and switching to battery mode only. as part of this resolution that we adopted in 2018, one of the commitments for sfmta was to conduct a battery electric bus pilot program. we intend to run the pilot program for a period of over a year, at least a year, and we intend to test battery buses from three manufacturers. they are the leading battery bus manufacturers in north america at the moment. there are several reasons why we are conducting this pilot program with several

manufacturers. not only are we going to compare those buses side-by-side, but we are going to compare them with our hybrid buses and trolley buses, and then the pilot will be used to evaluate the performance, reliability, operate ability and maintainability of battery electric buses in our unique operating environment. there are quite a few numbers of new manufacturers that i have -- that have entered this market. we want to make sure that we are not just testing bus technology, but ability for the manufacturer to build quality, safe, and reliable buses. we will incorporate many new features and next generation system interface and the pilot. this is a perfect opportunity for us to test that as well. and then we will use the experience gained in the pilot program to develop sfmta's

future procurement strategy to realize the goal of fairly battery electric buses by 2035. in closing, i want to say that in addition to helping the environment, buses have the potential to make buses quieter, a more comfortable experience. the battery electric buses will bring lots of jobs. our number one goal is to provide safe, reliable and sustainable service for writers. the battery electric bus program is an important step to realize a goal of full electrification by 2025. thank you. >> thank you very much. is any public comment on this item? >> there is no one who has turned in a speaker card. >> all right. mr. gill bertie, so patient today. the floor is all years. >> thank you. how long do we plan the life of the street?

when we repave it? how long do we expect it to exist in a smooth ribbon before it needs to be redone? the reason i bring that up is because their sections of market and van ness right now that would be a wonderful test ground to quiet buses, not to the exterior sound of a bus, but the interior sound of a bus. we have all these new buses that came on and on van ness and down at union, doughnut chestnut chestnut, as they enter into market street, they just rattle so awful that the bus driver can't hear of what's going on in the bus. you can't hear what is going on next to a person sitting next to you. can we check that out again? it is ridiculous to have buses that make more and more noise on the inside of the bus than the outside of the bus. please.

thank you. >> thank you very much. anyone else on this item? seeing non, public comment is closed. directors, any questions or comments? >> thank you. just a few questions. i'm excited we are doing this pilot program. i know that some other cities have tried out electric buses and have been disappointed. i'm assuming since we have a full complement of new buses already that if we get these buses and they turn out to have problems, our writers are not going to suffer, i assume, while we work out the flaws are any flaws that might exist. >> absolutely. that is the reason why we are doing this pilot. a very systematic approach. we want to test it. we will test them on some of our toughest routes to make sure they are operation ready before we deploy them into service. >> good. and the maintenance impacts or scenarios to that, do our