that they simply joy that and meet the community and friends and about be about the lighter side of city people are more engaged not just the customers. >> with the help of community pavement to parks is reimagining the potential of our student streets if you want more information visit them as the pavement to parks or contact >> good afternoon, everybody. if i can call this meeting of the sfmta would you please call the roll. [roll call]

>> assuming i didn't miss anybody, you have a quorum. items prohibition of sound-producing devices. the ringing of a user cell phone or pagers are prohibited at the meeting. any person responsible for one going off may be asked to leave the room. and cell phone vibrate causing micro phone interference so the board requests they be turned off. item for approval of the minutes of the october 1 regular meeting and no one has turned in a speaker card regarding the minutes. >> thank you, directors, do you have copies of the two sets of minutes, if there are no comments, i'll entertain a motion. >> motion to approve. >> second. >> all in favour please say aye. >> aye. >> my opposed.

ok. item 5. >> all right. mr. chair, i have no communications at the moment. new or unpublishe unfinished bu. >> board members, if there's something you would like to address now, please do so. >> i had some leaders in chinatown bring up the issue around -- i know that there was concerns generally about the delay and the subway and concerns about things we can do to mitigate and one of the proposals they're pushing forward was for lesser parking late-night in the garage at a flat rate. i know that is something the department has been considering but i was asked by steven lee on the entertainment commission to bring that forward before the board. interpret are they were looking for something and talking about after 6:00 p.m. between that and 2:00 a.m. or later because a lot of people who come into chinatown come from outside of the city. >> without objection, can you

can coordinate on that with the entertainment commission. i'm not sure it's a board item yet but see if it's something you want to address at the staff level. that would be wonderful and report back about your progress. thank you, directour mcgwire. any further new or unfinished business? bless you, my fellow directors. on to item 7. >> thank you, director's report. good afternoon. i will troy to make this quick as the chair said we have a long meeting today. there's quite a few things i want to update you on. last week we experienced several serious service disruptions on muni. monday morning. a circuit break err on the in bound side of the subway. it lasted for 40 minutes. our mobile units had to tow the car out of service and we since had to replace the defective battery in that car.

a drain that has had a history of problems had a malfunction blocking out that service and we had a 25-minute delay and we had to deploy bus anxiousels to and from church street. we have taken that vehicle out of service for a thorough diagnosis so it won't cause that problem again and two experienced a loss of power and they were damaged overhead context and you will see the overhead wires at church and 16th which is a significant delay on the j ex we had to run bus shuttles for four hours. we tried to emphasize the communication to passengers and these are pretty tricky delays as they occurred in the high ridership we'll learn about

keeping those off the rails during rush hour if possible. another street fatality occurred since our last meeting. this one occurred on october 6tn evans. a southbound driver was speeding across the centre line at hunters point and struck a northbound vehicle head on and the driver in the new york -- te team has been out there and we'll refresh and make the centre striping dieter to alert and and that stretch of road. the next day there was a single driver and the third avenue and that crash the driver who appears to have had a non traffic related medical condition struck a parked car.

and died. finally, there was a serious injury crash on october 13th, sunday evening. a driver was fleeing a hit-and-run collision and struck several vehicles along the corridor. the last crash involved the driver crossing over the opposite direction of traffic and hit another driver head on. it was not a fatality but a serious injury. yesterday at 3:30 p.m., there was an injury collision involving a cable car. a truck driving near the corner of washington, on washington street between jones and tailor collided with a cable car. none of the injuries were serious but five people went to the hospital and we have an investigation underway with that incident. and two weeks ago, we experienced a tragic death of a taxi driver.

two of his passengers visiting can fran from chicago were killed in a head-on collision on highway 101. the driver of the other vehicle is also killed. san francisco department of public-health has been on site at sfo to provide assistance to other drivers who may be struggling with this loss. he was a taxi driver for quite a while and we extend our sympathy to those involved and are affected by this loss. moving onto the chase centre. for a month of chase centre, we've been really pleasantly surprised with the level of ridership on muni to and from the events. the rail ridership has been averaging 3500 patrons a game and has gotten as high as 5700 during a couple of the preseason basketball events. the basketball games are getting more transit ridership than the concerts. bus ridership has ranged between 200 and 1100 per day.

the highest ridership on that was the elton john concert. we have had no issues with customers being -- getting fair tickets or anything for the proof of payment. your muni ticket and your warrior's ticket seems to work smoothly. it's too early to speak about the revenue impact of this will be but, we're seeing on average over 30% of the patrons going to the arena riding on muni. that points to the success of the ticket bundling initiative. for one year beginning on october 21st, our partners at the san francisco department of public works will be constructing phase 2 of the street scape improvement project on jefferson street and that is going to impact muni service in fisherman warf and they're going to loop back at pier 39 for the

duration. construction and the shuttle bus will serve the missed steps further on in fisherman's warf. it will have wider sidewalks and bike parking, landscaping, public seating and i' improvementsens hanceing the transit experience when it's done. and recently we've received several requests to improve curb space. the area founded by division, an area mixed destinations and it's a unique part of the city. we're going to apply the holistic approaching parking management and curb management we've applied in other parts of the city and relaunching an effort that we had underway a few years ago called the northeast mission curb management project. the goal is to come up with a plan that addresses the parking and curb management needs of all stakeholders with reasonable

regulation zoos on street parking is available to meet the commercial demands and yet the streets are safe for all users. we'll be having an open house coming on october 21st at 8:00 a.m. at the atlas cafe at 3049 mission and staff will hold office hours and have lots of creative drop-in events to this unique p.d.r. area and that concludes my report. >> thank you, very much, directour mcgwire. is there public comment on his report? >> no, mr. chairman. no one is turned in a speaker card regarding this. i will advise the audience there's an overflow room and it's the north side court so people cannot be standing in the room because of the fire codes. >> seeing no public comment and no one coming forward on the report we'll close public comment. any comments or questions for directour mcgwire. >> thank you. >> pardon me. i wasn't sure if you had public

comment. >> do you want to speak mr. director mcgwire's report? >> sure. >> on the report? >> no, that's what i was asking you. if it's on this report, no. i'm waiting for public comment other than his report. >> i will make sure you know when we have public comment on items not on the agenda, mr. brian. >> thank you, sir. i didn't note it on my card. >> please get a speaker card. >> she's going to count it against your time, james. you better sit down. [laughter] >> thank you. thank you mr. mcgwire. i just want to add to the chase centre discussion to remind everybody the other board that i sit on cal train runs a great service to the new chase centre and one of my fellow board members on the other board recommended to steph curry who was late for something when he tried to drive he should just hop on cal train and get there on time. also, more for the public's benefit. i know we talked about this before but it's been a few years.

when we have a collision between one of our revenue volkswagen like a cable car or a bus and a private automobile, we do go after that driver and that driver's insurance company for money to pay for the repairs for the vehicle's correct? >> yeah. i think it really depends on the situation and that's why i said that we have an investigation open right now. we do what's called a six-hour investigation when there's a crash involving a rail vehicle. it does involve our partners at cpuc so we need to figure out where the culpability is and just what happened. because i don't have those facts i'm not sharing that now but when we do, we'll pursue revenue. >> anyone else. if i may, thank you for the transparency on the muni delays or the metro delays that we had and my understanding was the communication protocol was followed relatively well or as

well as can be under the circumstances. thank you foray attention to that. my question is this, were all the of the vehicles involved breta vehicles? >> i do not know the answer. the problematic volkswagen is an old car. >> yes. so when mrs. kirsh baumgartner gives us the report. >> terry fayhe can -- >> hold on. if you can speak into the microphone. >> i'm deputy director of maintenance standing in for julie. the answer is yes, one of the first vehicles that entered the crossing of 16th was a lrv4. >> the reason i ask is just this, these things are going to happen. i know you guys are monitoring and reporting and we appreciate this but it's important for the public to understand that in those three instances, these

were caused by aging vehicles and we're on that we have new volkswagen in place. thervehicles in place. i want today clarify these were the older vehicles involved, particularly when the vehicle was the cause of the problem. >> right. the incident was 16th and church. >> very good. >> it was not related to the vehicle. >> thank you. >> the next thing is this, i'd like to adjourn today's meeting in memory of mr. ahmed and ask that our directour of taxi services send our condolences along to his friends and family and his colleagues in the taxi business. i was very upset to learn that news when i woke up that morning, not just that two visitors to our city died, which is terrible enough, but someone

who dedicated his life to moving our visitors perished at no fault of his own trying to get visitors downtown during the evening hours. i'm very saddened by that. i ask that you extend my personal condolences to his friend and i'd ask without objection board members that we adjourn in his memory today. seeing no objection, we'll do that. mrs. boomer, next item, please. >> advisory council report mr. chair there's no report today so you are moving on to item 9, public comment. this is an opportunity for members of the public to address the board on matters that are within the jurisdiction of the mta board of directors you but is not on today's agenda. >> how many cards including mr. brian's do we have? >> i don't have one for mr. bryant. i have one speaker card. >> who is that? >> john par. >> mr. par, you have two minutes then mr. bryant you have two minutes. >> good afternoon board of directors -- my name is john par.

i affectionally live in an area which i call jurassic park. you folks watch tv. one of my favourite shows on netflix is called "stranger things." it divides humanity into two world's. the normal right side up world and the other side of the world which is called the upside down world. nothing is normal in the world called the upside down world. mind you stop at 31st and judah is part of the upside down world for over 100 years. this is my 12th visit to discuss this matter. on 31st and judah commuters can meet their doom by simply leaving or entering a light rail vehicle into an open street. this is complete insanity. other cities do not consider this normal. it's upside down behaviour. i ask the work order approved by

sf muni and sean kennedy's team that this work be executed immediately and without any further or needles delay. it's minimum work. second, at some point in the near future, a capital budget allocation of $12 million be made to the street corner of 31st and judah so that finally in my lifetime and in san francisco's lifetime, the outer sunset experiences the delight of an elevated light rail transit stop. and return us to the right side up world. thank you. >> thank you, very much. mr. bryant. we didn't make you wait that long. >> thank you, sir. today i want to have a discussion about other matters but today i want to discuss the issue of the placement of lyft bicycle facilities that you've placed down in the communities.

well, you know, i understand that you probably have some financial agreement with lite but i want to make this clear to you when folks like the people who are on evans and the 1300 block of evans go to park in the morning, and there are absolutely no parks available, that is a problem. there's a problem because when we have not been notified by mta or lyft or whoever pro voids that services, it seems to be a position of disrespect. i've noticed in my community where i live which is bay view hunters point community, there are several these facilities that have been placed in our community and if you just give me a moment to let me know who is your communicate or or

distribution of information, i would be really happy to have a conversation because they have not met their needs of meeting the community. i think that if you are going to place bicycles in a community that is strained in receiving services from the transit system itself, i think that you should come out and you should come directly to the works that live there work there and pay taxes there. >> thank you, very much. anyone else on public comment items not on the agenda. mr. winier it wouldn't be an item 9 without you. please, step forward.

and a few blocks up the hill from where i live, and congestion pricing is one way to and now that plan b has been vetoed by the governor i encourage you to go back to plan a and make another car free space on this very special and allow everybody else to walk in the main start of the street instead of a little seven foot wide staircase.

let's have that space be for people not cars. thank you. >> thank you, very much. any further comment on item 9. seeing none we'll close that item. i will confirm with our directour, it is illegal to ride a scooter on the sidewalk, is it not? >> yes, it is. >> if you see someone riding a scooter illegal leon the sidewalk you are free, if you wish to take a picture of that and report it to the scooter company all of which have pledged to help us enforce that rule. is that also true? >> that's true. >> very good. thank you. ok, next item, please. >> clerk: directors, you are at your consent calender these items are considered to be routine unless a member of the bother, a minimum of the public wishes to severe an item and consider it separately. mr. chair, i have not received an indication a member of the public wishes to have an item severed. i have received a request from staff to officer under 10.2 number d and i through m. >> sever for discussion or sever

for removal? >> remove it from the agenda? >> ok. does anyone have any objection to remove those items from the agenda? seeing none. is there any public comment on the consent calender? >> no, no one has given a speaker card. >> this is wonderful meeting so far. >> approve remaining consent. >> all in favour of the consent with the items and they're described removed and anyone opposed. >> moving on to your regular agenda. item 11 approving the better market and adopting findings and a proving parking and traffic modifications associated with the project. >> ok. i'm not sure there's many people here from this and area. >> i've awaited eight years and i might as well wait another

hour. the appropriate miss wise and. >> thank you, chairman, members of the board. victoria acting director of sustain act streets. we're here today to share a proposal for really once in a generation transformation of market street. this is our busy street when it comes to transit. when it comes to biking, when it comes to people walking. it's also a vital corridor with countless businesses, historic buildings everywhere and frankly evolving land uses and not to mention that this street is home to so many of our civic events. commissioned in the mid 1800s and designed by market street has always been a key transit corridor including horse-drawn street cars and cable cars and electric cars and today hybrid diesel buses all kinds of transit. and so, what we want to make sure today is that the street continues its important role in the city and that it better

serves our existing and future users. so, to that end, teams from multiple city departments, in extensive consultation with stakeholders, community members and different experts developed a design that carefully balanced all the modes. it also creates infrastructure, absolutely critical, it brings a unified look and feel to the street and perhaps frankly most importantly, it will bring safety improvements to the street. half of the city's top 10 intersections for injury collisions are in market street. half, so, today the team will share with you the full concept for the 2.2-mile project. what we will also share with you is our plans for the build we plan to implement as soon as january 2020. it makes market street car free. it will improve muni service and enhance safety immediately. to lead the presentation i'd like to introduce christina, the

project manager for better market street the former m.t.a. employee she works for public works who is our partner in our project and she will tag team this presentation with mta senior engineer, brit tanner. >> good afternoon chair board members. i'm the project manager for better market street and i am joined today by brit tanner from the sfmta. as you know, market street is a city's busiest pedestrian bicycle and transit corridor. it's the pro mere cultural civic and commercial boulevard. it is also the backbone to our muni system. and yet we have safety challenges for all modes. there's no dedicated bicycle facility east of eighth street. our infrastructure is aging and reaching the end of its useful life. our transit stops, curb ramps

and sidewalks do not meet current ada standards and we need to improve transit reliability and travel times. market street is on the city's high injury network. each year there are an average 100 injury collisions that happened between stewart and octavia and the top five highest injury intersections in the city are on market street. we know that 75% of injury collisions involve people walking or biking. on the state of our infrastructure, most of the infrastructure needs to be repaired or replaced. including all of the traffic signals, the track, the overhead system and the traction power that feeds it. as you can see in this photo, the asphalt pavement is worn and needs to be replaced. the sidewalks are hard to travel along. the curb ramps don meet our

standards and street lights are sewer and our water lines and communication lines all need to be replaced. to address all of these issues, better market street is a full reconstruction of market from building phase to building phase. between stewart and octavia. it will be implemented in phases. phase 1a market street between fifth and eighth. and the f loop. this is a diagram of the proposed project. starting at the building phase where we're providing five feet of front age zone for tables and chairs. at least 10 feet for the pedestrian walkway, a furnishing zone which will contain all of the street lights, trees and street furniture which ranges between six to 10 feet. a separation between the furnishing zone and the sidewalk level bike way of two feet providing a detectable separation. and also some buffer space.

the bike way, which is at sidewalk level, and made of asphalt, is typically eight feet wide. and there are four feet for the buffer between the bike way and the roadway. scooters and skate boards will be allowed to use the sidewalk level bike way. i would now like to introduce brit tanner from the sfmta to present the transportation and transit improvements for the project. >> good afternoon. i'm brit tanner a senior engineer with sfmta and the lead for this project. i've been working on this for eight years also so i'm excited to bring think to you. we're showing you a cross section of what market street looks like with better market street. we're still keeping four lanes of traffic, two lanes in each direction and as we mentioned already, market would be car free east of 12 streets. what this means is that we'll be able to make the centre lane

muni only. meaning there would not be a bus and taxi lane like it is today. taxis would be sharing the curb lane with local buses, commercial vehicles and paratransit. we have a bike lane, continuous from octavia to the ferry plaza. typically as christina described it's eight feet wide but we've had to make design modifications. so what this graph is showing, on the left side, where we have a curbside transit stop, we have narrowed the bike way to about six feet wide to fit in that curbside transit stop. with the bicycle way going behind it. on the right side, where we have a centre boarding island, we have maintained the sidewalk level bike lane at about eight feet but that buffer space is eliminated. however, throughout the whole corridor, we're still maintaining that street life zone which is a buffer between the bicycle space and pedestrian free zone.

i'll go through the other transit stuff. >> that was the fastest this project has moved. [laughter] >> we're done. all right. so, we've spent a lot of time and part of that eight years has been trying to workout all the design details. one thing we're careful about is maintaining commercial look access so loading can occur on market street but we want to minimize conflicts with people biking on that sidewalk level bike lane. with the bike way, we determined that it's best if we retain the loading bay's concept like we have today where there's designated loading spaces on each block but we've brought it up onto the sidewalk and created a flex zone and there's a cross section and this space is

16 feet wide and leaves enough space for commercial vehicles to get up onto the sidewalk on a one-foot curb. the commercial vehicles can pull over to the side and there's enough space for us to maintain a clear space to be bikes to get around the commercial vehicles. we want to minimize the times we have commercial vehicles crossing the bike space. and so we're pairing this design with commercial loading restrictions. so the morning when bikes are going downtown we have no loading on the south side of the street and similarly in the evening we would have no loading on the north side of the street. if loading needs to happen during those peak hours there would be additional loading spaces on the cross streets. muni service will see an improvement with this design. combined all of these changes will improve muni service increasing travel we are extending the muni only lane and

we woke tend it all the way to main which is where we have the most buses running in any street and i don't know why there wasn't a money' in the first place and in addition to keeping the taxis out and because there would be lessor no bikes in the curb lane and we would encourage the curbside service as well. we have the slain with rapid service with the f and the nine and the nine are and the five and the five and the remaining routes providing local service every block in the curb lane. on the bottom left i'm showing you what it looks like in the centre. they're about twice as big as our current transit stop in the centre and they all provide a wheelchair ramp access to the f line unlike some of our current transit stops and and the local stops on the bottom ryan are

designed to minimize conflict between people biking and people accessing the transit stuff. we have used railings and shelters to carefully channel pedestrians into two or three marked crosswalks across the bicycle way at each of the stops. and these crosswalks will have yield triangle zoos that peopled to people accessing the transit stops. those unable to make the walk, would be able to transfer between the rapid and the local at civic centre where we have closely spaced the rapid and the local stops on purpose. i'm doing something wrong with this pair point. i apologize. another exciting element of better market street is the f loop. we have much more demand for riders -- for service on the f

loop and between fisherman's war of and in order for us to provide more service and fisherman's warf we're adding a turn-back loop allowing the trains to come on to mcallister and turn southbound on to charles which is an ex tense of seventh street and turn back and head east. during the daytime we will double or service and maintain going out to castro. and we've been we have tracks on streets and we have agreed to only run daytime service so that hotel guests are not impacted by the trains at night. car-free market. we've been hearing a lot about that. this is where i will go into the details about that. we are restricting private vehicles from using market street from 12th to stewart and

in both directions except for eastbound from 11th to tenth and from drum to stewart and those two exceptions, which are shown with the green arrows so we can main local access to the buildings on those blocks. commercial vehicles, air transit and taxis would still be allowed to use market and of course private vehicles would be allowed to cross market. if you are on stockton, you can just continue on to fourth street, golden gate goes to sixth street. you are just not allowed to turn on to market within the red dash areas. there's a higher level of restrictions proper posed around van ness avenue which is shown with a different dash pattern on the left side of the drawing. and that area we are also proposing to restrict commercial vehicles and that's an added level of restrictions which i'm going to go into on the next slide. we will be adding more than 200 loading zones for both commercial vehicles and passenger loading on the cross streets so that we can have safe

loading for people who want to get to market street and we have a number of changes just outside of the area that are complimenting this package. first, we have two streets that were converting to be two way. again to maintain local access and that is jones and sphere for their first block away from market street. and we're also proposing to make ellis one way, away from market street for two blocks from stockton just like it's already one-way westbound and that is allowing us to reduce congestion at the intersection of forest, ellis, stockton and market and also do some additional place making and pedestrian safety improvements at that intersection. we're proposing to add additional turn restrictions from eastbound market on to valencia to deal with issues with cars turning right there and bikes coming quickly down the hill. and also from mission on to stewart in order for us to make market car-free starting at

stewart. i have to learn to not press the down arrow. >> we have restrictions coming out of the city planning department's pub planning process and the pub is looked at all the developments of coming into the intersection near van ness and 5,000 units and expected to be one block within this intersection so the planning process developed these proposed and it takes of the advantage we have much less of this point and we have six and seventh going west past van ness and we've accounted for the

value widen and significantly and ensure we can retair rada that bike lane. >> wove to make it muni and taxi only and remove the curbside lane. private vehicles and commercial vehicles will not be allowed to travel eastbound or westbound. this allows us to move the westbound turns to the west side of van ness to both our transit stops are on the west side allowing us on the eastside to make a great improvement to connect bike boys and also it allows to sim not fight and i will prove the f-track but it's called a y track on 11th street to make the track which is there more efficient.

to see the benefits and we have a package that will implement in january in january of 2020 including market market car free from 10 street to the east with expending the lane and and painting safety zones and the most dramatic is the battery bridge where you have a slip lane on to mark wet no private vehicles. as part of the quick build implementation we will include the two-way conversion of jones street and the one-way conversion of ellis which we will make sure that we're aware of what the impacts of that has as well as some additional turn restrictions at la ven see a for bike safety and turns at mission and stewart that i mentioned.

we'll turn it back to christine a better market street project manager. through out the project we've had a robust community engagement process and we've had five rounds of community workshops and open house and we've held hundreds of stakeholder meetings and we have an active community working group who has met over the past eight or nine years. our website up-to-date and we have a turn by turn web map that shows you the change in your travel patterns given better market street changes and we've done surveys and mailings and multi lingual posters and we've held tabling events and also a pop-up at the strand theatre. we've received several comments

and letters and which provide input and feedback from the community. we've heard strong support for our project goals and as well as the separated sidewalk level bike way and the car-fr car-froe market. and having the narrow the pedestrian area and bike way where there are bart and muni portals, loading zones or transit boarding islands. there is also discussion about the conflicts at the sidewalk level loading zones and concerns with more see vehicle access around market street. we have received input on the design itself including the separation between the sidewalk and the bike way. the photo and the bottom line of this slide shows our study at pier 38 this past sum tore identify a detectable separation materials and we've received input about the locate of our loading zone on side streets.

we've received numerous comments about the surface transit with regards to stop spacing, 85% of transit riders surveyed support walking further for faster transit. we've also heard concerns about the rapid stop spacing in the centre lane and connection to central subway. this has resulted in a local rapid transfer points at civic centre station as well as a modification to the curb lane stop at fourth and market. with regards to the f-loop we've heard support for operational benefits from the waterfront and fisherman's warf area but this is us modifying the stop location and exploring noise-reducing designs and construction techniques. with regards to the vehicle circulation in the western

variance, there's been concerns about a less district car route due to the car-free zone as well as the new one-way on ellis between stockton. there's been concerns about transit operations with only two lanes near van ness and market. this is our environmental review schedule and project approvals. we started our environmental impact report in january of 2015. just last thursday, october 10th, the planning commission certified the e.i.r. for project approval we held a public works hearing last friday and our directour approved the project this morning. today's m.t.a. board meeting and then because we have federal funding, we will also be getting federal environmental clearance and we have an environmental assessment, which is underway. and we expect the final e.a. in early 2020. also part of our implementation,

we will be converting the pilot between goff and 12th street into a pilot for better market street. this means adding or raising to a walk level which is six inches high and the separation and we steady last summer anstudy last. quick build to begin january of 2020. the pilot project will be next spring or spring of 2020. we'll advertise the construction contract for phase 1a in 2020 and we hope to begin construction in either late 2020 or early 2021. and we expect construction of the first phase to take two

years. that would be followed by construction of the f loop which is scheduled between 2023 and 2025. the schedule for constructing future phases is depending on securing additional funding for the project. we've also received a lot of concerns about construction impacts to businesses. we are working closely with m.t.a., puc, office of economic and workforce development and other city partners to develop a construction mitigation plan which would include our marketing campaign or signage and embassadors to help direct customers. incentives for our contractor to complete the work ahead of schedule and direct business support, a project office wheree people can receive services. having strategically placed staging areas that do not

disrupt people trying to walk along market street. a detailed muni transit service plan including f line replacement and transit improvements on mission street. a little bit more on the funding of better market street. to date, we have secured almost $144 million for planning environmental review, design of phase 1a as well as construction of phase 1a. you can see from the slide that 106 million has been secured for the construction of phase 1a. the over all total project cost shown on the slide is $604 million which was based on a 10% design of the full corridor. funding for phase 1b has been programmed in the two-year budget and five years capital improvement programme which will be coming to this board early next year. we're also looking for additional funding which could come from federal state and

local sources. shown here including fta, one bay area grant funds, regional measure 3 and possibly even the tnc tax. to review the board actions for today, this is a summary. you will be approving the better market street project, adopting the seek wha ceqa findings and e mitigation monitoring and reporting programme. you will be approving all of the parking and traffic changes that are proposed for market street from stewart to octavia and you will be amending the transportation code division to for transit-only lanes. thank you. >> thank you, very much. how much public comment do we have? >> 66 people have turned in speaker cards. >> of those 66 people, how many folks want to see this project approved quicker?

[laughter] i can give you a rea really easy to have it approved. i would not have brought this tie vote if i didn't have four maybe more votes to approve this. this is everyone's hall so if you would like to speak, you may. you will have one minute each. when your name is called, please lineup over there by mr. gilberty or the camera so we can -- tom, raise your hand again. you can't block the door. thank you. i have one minute each to speak on the better market street proposals. are there any clarifying questions for staff before we go to public comment which i would like to do before we have our discussion. if there's a burning question that you think will inform the public comment, please ask it. >> i just would love if you could just show on the website there's an interactive map to walk people through it. i think that it's hard when people are talking to visualize

exactly and maybe you can just point out some of the additional loading zones and the intersections that are changing. because i think if people can see it, it's a better conversation. it helps with people's comments as well. i'll ask a question while you are getting that going. you talked about mitigations during construction and you mentioned a bunch of city agencies but were you working with the bcds and all of those people because it's not so much just the customers but the delivery people and the loading of the delivery and all that sort of stuff for the businesses and the public will figure it out. the businesseses need to figure it out. >> i should have mentioned our community partners. we're working with the chamber of commerce and the cbds and other business groups. business organizations along market street to make sure that we have their input. the chamber of commerce has been supportive but they want to be a

part of the discussion moving forward and part of developing those support services for businesses. it doesn't look like we have an internet connection so i don't think i can bring up the website. it is available on bettermarketstreet sf.org and if we get an internet connection i'll pull it up. >> would you call the first five names, please. >> clerk: ron mcgill, christopher peterson, james bryant, jim morshell, amber castleburg. >> i'm ran mcgill. i chair the better market street working group and it's a stakeholders. they are all representative and have been pretty much since they asked me to chair the first committee in march of 2011. we're finally there. i appreciate the fact that you want to move this along.

i do too. i'm not going to be here much longer to see this happen. move it along. >> thank you for your service. >> christopher peterson followed by james bryant. is mr. peterson here. >> i songly support and going forward this project, how can you ensure that the construction proceeds as quickly as possible. again, that's repeated problems. it will raise serious problems and buses have to be diverted off market during the construction and the plans for how that will be happening as far as i can tell why nebulous at this point so i hope you push to ensure that those plans ensure that those detour is done

as efficiently and hopefully for a shorter period as possible. >> mr. bryant. >> james bryant, jim, amber and. >> james bryant and i'm here to discuss with the you and first of all i support the project and second of all i want to make this clear that the new director, whoever that is, along with the board members you must understand the african american business community and part of this project. it should have emphasis having our community partners and our community.

>> the outreach was terrific. the coordination between planning your staff and the whole hub process was excellent. i'm glad i showed up in the old man commenting to the planner photo that you showed. i'm glad that you went with the western alternative. it's an improvement and the outreach process was better for having been able to get that into the plan and interesting to see and the article about 14th street closing to traffic and how it had unexpect and no problems and it's for the same here. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> amber jeff rick and representing nature in the city

today. as you know last time, market street underwent major development and trees were planted and we're excited to see that it's a part of the street tree pallet because the western swale butterfly has used and will continue to use market street for habitat. we want to encourage the city to key prioritizing wildlife, habitat and biodiversity in all of its plans and we want to make sure that the city prioritizes, planting planters when they can be supported and we'll continue our advocacy efforts and fundraising efforts to make sure that this plan also includes wildlife. thank you, very much. >> thank you, very much. next speaker, please. >> hello. my name is jeffrey pinrod and i represent nature in the city. i would like to follow-up to

amber's comments sharing a strong term strategic goal for our tigers on market street project which we are seeking a partnership with the city, bart and corporate sponsors to bring to life the vision of living roofs on the new can pees that are being built over the transit entrances on market street. in closing, we would like to ask for your assistance in finding city leadership to champion this partnership we're proposing and we recommend moving forward with the better market street project. thank you. >> thank you, very much. next speaker, please. >> welcome. >> hi. i made a -- i want to suggest

since there's 66 people, maybe you could give us an e-mail address that we can e-mail so i would leave now. >> ok. if you would move the microphone closer to your mouth that would help us to hear you. thank you. so you can e-mail the bored and i've told folks about comments and if we want to speak on this item, now is your chance to speak because we'll be voting after it and we'll any e-mails will probably be received after the vote. i will tell you -- >> we know how you are going to vote. >> thank you, sir. >> god bless you. >> one thing i wanted to mention the mission street and it's really crowded and congested so i was thinking i doubt you want to move the 14 over there but you could make inbound on mission and out bound on howard

street. they're both one way streets and it would help. >> very helpful, sir. thank you, next speaker, please. >> welcome. members of the board, thank you my name is morgan bell and i'm speaking in support of the better market street project. i'm here because $132 for blocking a bike line is ineffective. people in companies who is afford $132 hold up the rest of the us on the bike lane or the bus all the time. as someone rides extensively in the new bike lines i wish we could revoke loading beyak cease for those who dissard the bike line but i just dressed up like harry potter and i don't have his magical powers. the companies don't care how many tickets they get. consider graduated parking fines for repeat offenders. i am inspired by supervisor haney and mayor breed who work together to build bicycle lanes

with unprecedented speed. please extend carrie instructions as soon as possible before we lose anymore lives. thank you. >> thank you, very much. next speaker, please. >> harold findley. kevin stall, stephen sears, neil patel. >> we know cars introduced danger any time they're allowed to operate. we know that they shred the fabric of our cities. both physically and human mobilities is restricted and creates social hostility with conflict on them. we know everything is ba bad abt it. we look at other streets of our city and it's inverted and the cars are viewed as more important than the safety of all being other people. we need to invert that backwards and pass this measure and make market streetcar free an street.

>> thank you, very much. >> kevin stall, stephen sears, amman deep and neil pa tal. >> good afternoon, my name is kevin staal i am the pedestrian safety organizer at the central centre collaborative close to market street. i am with my colleagues here and i organization is in complete support of this project. many of our clients who live in the tenderloin use market street for their important daily lives going to school, going to the store, going to work, et cetera. and they deserve to feel safe using market street either walking or biking and this project is way overdue and needs to be done sooner rather than later. so thank you very much. we are supportive. >> thank you. >> steven sears, neil patell. pete you are strauss, hiedi