meeting of the municipal transportation agency board of directors and parking authority commission. good afternoon, director. staff and members of the public. we thank you for joining us. this meeting is being held in hybrid format, occurring in person at city hall. room 400 broadcast live on nsf.gov tv and by phone. please note that beginning march 1st, there was a full sunset of the emergency ordered provisions that suspended certain local meeting laws and a time limit of ten minutes of remote public comment has been set and noticed for this meeting. the phone number to use today is (415)!a655-0001 access. code 26638999497. when the item is called, i'll star three to enter the queue. commenters will have up to two minutes to provide comment unless otherwise noted by the chair. please speak clearly, ensure you're in a quiet location and turn off any tvs or computers around you. we thank you for your cooperation. places you on item two. roll call director henderson. here. henderson. president director

hinsey. president kinsey. president director. so present. so present. director kahina walking right in. thank you, chair. ekin right in time here. egan present. we are expecting director hemminger. although however, director yekutiel is not expected today. you do have a quorum and for the record, i note that director hinsey is attending this meeting remotely. she is reminded that she must appear on camera throughout the meeting and in order to speak or vote on any items places you on item number three the rigging and use of cell phones and similar sound producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. the chair may order the removal from the meeting room. any person responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone or other similar sound producing electronic devices places you on item number four approval of minutes for the september 19 meeting. director hemminger directors. are there any changes to the september 19th minutes? seeing none, please open public comment for anyone in the room

and seeing none. let's go to the remote place at this time we'll move to remote public comment not to exceed a total time of ten minutes. members of the public wishing to comment should dial star three to enter the queue. each speaker will have two minutes. no speakers close public comment colleagues. is there a motion and a second on the minutes i move. second, please call the roll on the motion to approve the minutes. director heminger heminger. director henderson. henderson director hinsey. hi director. so i so. i. director kahina. i kahina. i chair ekin. hi. and i thank you. the minutes are approved. places you on. item number five communication actions. i have none. moving on to item number six introduction of new or unfinished business by board members colleagues. is there any new or unfinished business today. director kahina

, please. hello, colleagues. i'm sorry i wasn't here at the last meeting, but i did have something that i wanted. to say to the to the team and propose to the team. i am quite interested in understanding safe parking sites a bit more, and i'm hoping that we could possibly get other presentation or an item introduced on the agenda to try to take a deeper dive on that as as a team and really understand what are the components of safe parking sites, what are some of the challenges that we're seeing? i know there have been a few pilot projects that have happened in the city over the last few years, and i just wanted to get a better understanding of that. and so this is more of a request from the team just to see if there's support from from us generally to see if that's something we want to explore a bit more, to try to understand that a bit more. and it could be maybe asking some guidance from staff to see if they can co

present with hsh to possibly take a deeper dive on that. but just wanted to pose that to the team and see what what we all thought about that. madam vice chair. i would be interested in that pen pending that it could be co-presented with. i think we would need them for, for an item like that. so you. thank you. director hinsey. i think i'll just relay that just to convey some of the nature of the previous conversation at the last meeting, which was sort of which which started out, i think with the presumption from this board that the solution to the challenges on winston was more safe parking sites and that the guidance that we received from emily cohen at hsh was really that they they don't really see safe parking sites as as much of a solution as permanent housing. and that's really what they're striving for. so where our

conversation sort of started with how long would it take to establish a safe parking site? and that would be a timeline for sort of a delay of implementation in she guided us that that wasn't necessarily the way that they think about it. they think about like a three month timeline for transitioning people into more permanent housing. and that's why we sort of anchored our our delay on the three month time horizon. absolutely i agree that permanent housing is always the solution that said, i do know that at our curbsides and our streets across the city are seeing an uptick in rv parking. and oftentimes we are asked to enforce our sticks. and i would love for us to develop a carrot and figure out how we could be part of that solution. we have of definitely a unique perspective when it comes to parking. we have a better understanding than i think any other agency as it pertains to parking. and that's that's something that squarely we understand more than anybody

else. and i think it we would be a valuable asset to that discussion. and to be able to shape whatever policy comes out of that. if there is a policy that is going to be established, it's more aggressive than what's already in the books. but i think it's part of the purview of this team to really understand what are the solutions out there, what are some of the challenges, challenges that we're seeing on the ground? what are some of the challenges that other sister agencies are facing so that when items like this come to us, they've come to us in the past multiple times in different variations that we fully understand. and what are some of the tools at our disposal so that when we are giving guidance to staff, our proposing next steps, it's an informed decision that we're making. colleagues do you have any other any perspectives on this item? director so please. i wanted to talk about something else, but it's not this so okay. i don't

have any comments with this one. okay uh, director tomlin, i'd love to hear your perspectives on on this and sort of the inter-departmental coordination and what feels like a right next step. yes. so, so sfmta staff provide a strong support role to in terms of identifying potential sites and helping to design from a traffic geometric standpoint how they might work takes the lead in determining sites and arranging sites and making them work. so if it is the interest of the board and the chair, i'm happy to invite here to learn more or if this is more of a specific interest, we can also go do it outside the context of the board, either in the form of a memo or an individual briefing, whichever is the preference of the board. yeah i think having an item for the full board to, to listen to

and to be able to and to get public comment on, to, i think that that would be great. and i appreciate that we've acted as a supportive of play, the supportive role in the past, and so curious to see if there's any way we could be of further support or if what we're giving already is enough and seeing how we can help create a better solution for folks. thank you, director tobin. thank you. vice chair kahena. i'm thinking about she did mention that there are very close that they've been looking for years for sites and they have they're down to two and they're very close. so it might be that once they have identified a site that might be like a timeline to think about inviting back to the to the board for further conversation. yeah. oh, it's not okay. okay so that we can talk about that and follow up. absolutely. yeah, that would be great. okay, director. so please. i just want

to have to share what i just went on friday this past friday in. it's my first time visiting our one of our divisions. so i went and visit the kirkland divisions with julie kirschbaum and i wanted to just to share with everyone, mine and my fellow board of directors that i felt that there is so much love and community in that division that was just incredible. and i wanted to give some appreciation to some of the staff that were there that actually took their time to show me around how they operate and how the muni busses got clean and refueled. so as malay, malawa, he's a curriculum maintenance assistant superintendent. um, and amy alvin, i probably say your name wrong, sorry. and deputy senior operations manager, transit management and also theo atienza

, assistant division manager with the flynn division. and i was just there and i was really stoked to see that the leadership in that division is leader by compassion. instead of armor leadership. and that's i'm so happy to see there's like an appreciation board of all these custom items, appreciation through 301. they actually posted in there and publicly show appreciated that every single operators dedicate an actually does matter and it is highlighted and spotlight and then even there was like a 30 years retire chinese operator show up he brought this ginormous cake to celebrate three d honorees for september a systemwide operator, david chow systemwide runner up operator moe birhanu and operator of the month, laverne johnson. so it

was just a very nice way to see everyone, even though it's so hard to make your shift and committed to on time, on schedule and also help each other to back up each other's operation, making sure the muni run on time. but they also squeeze their little time here to celebrate each other and i just felt that it's very important to appreciate everyone in our department from from engineering to planner to administrator all the way to operators and maintenance staff. so i encourage many of us maybe, you know, come with me next time or you are ready seeing it. i will continue to see more. i just have i have a really great time and i just want to share that. thank you, julie. thank you, director. so. well in in keeping with your early

commitment and leadership and your board role, i want to i want to announce a couple items as colleagues. these are two committee related announcements of the board. so we have currently an ad hoc train control upgrade, project subcommittee. and this is to oversee the train control upgrade project, which is around looking at the contract approach, the schedule, the cost system, vendors applying lessons learned from other major capital projects to this system, control train control upgrade project, which is really around ensuring timely and effective service in our muni metro light rail service. i'd like to appoint a director so and director henderson to serve on the train control upgrade project sub committee with director hemminger. this is going to be a very significant capital investment for agency. it's i've been reassured by director kirschbaum. this is one of the most significant and important capital investments we can make in our system to ensure on time

effective light rail service, which we've already seen very significant improvements in reducing the amount of significant delays. we've all been very pleased to see those data and this is a further investment in that vein. so i would be very happy to have the service of my colleagues on that committee. and i don't think we have a specific date set for the next subcommittee meeting. but secretary silva will work with you all. thank you in advance for your service and then the second committee, i'd like to announce and colleagues we spoke about this at the beginning of the year at our workshop. we asked each of our colleagues to speak about their priorities for 2023, and vision zero came up from almost every board member. i haven't forgotten. next meeting, i'm going to ask you all to share on your priorities and i'd and so i'd like to create formally the vision zero subcommittee of the board. and just in recognition of the continued public health crisis that we face with traffic fatalities and serious injuries

on our streets. i'd like to ask on this one, i'd like to ask director hinsey and director hemminger to serve and i will volunteer for the time being to chair that committee and i'd like to probably look at rotating a chair ship of that committee as well. and that committee will look at implementation of the vision zero action strategy, continuously monitoring the vision, zero best practices and ensuring the board has a very clear understanding of the barriers that staff face in implementing our vision zero action strategy and that we are doing everything we can to help eliminate and overcome those barriers. so that's the announcement i wanted to make. any comments or questions from my colleagues before i open it to public comment. director so. um, it's my honor to serve in many more capacities, so i look forward to work alongside with, with my fellow directors, steve and domenica, to make sure that we can bring our fleet into to

the state of the art situation. oceans. thank you. thank you, director. so. okay, if there are no further board member comments , i'll open it up to public comment for anyone in the room on the new and unfinished business items. good afternoon. it's going to have to do the job. i mean, i don't know. it's a good job, but. you must get out of the movie you are in guys. you must absolutely get out of the movie. you are in. you are dealing with an emotional disorder based on a wrong kind of education. some people have been using this wrong kind of education with the emotional disorder to get a delusion of grandeur. you are victim now of this emotional

disorder. like most people are, by the way, you can't use critical thinking with a mask on. i'm sorry. it doesn't work. you must get out of the movie before it's too late. so what you are talking about. i'm sorry. i inform you that it is not the future. none of it. vision zero means that you have zero vision. so it's explains itself. you need to get out of this emotional disorder. the reason why? it's because your intelligence is affected. so now your level of intelligence is too low to not lose your consciousness within it. understand, without consciousness, human beings needs a consciousness. consciousness is a tool against self destruction. it's easy to understand, but you must. it intelligence works with emotion . you must get out of this emotional disorder. you are pushed in. and now this is not

the future for any part of the city. in san francisco, in the world. okay thank you. next speaker, please. hi there. my name is aaron brewer. i'm a local business owner. i ride a skateboard as my primary means of transportation. i also teach skateboarding for transportation and after school programs in the mission. and i'm an advocate for small wheeled mobility of all varieties, including wheelchairs and walkers. i've been coming to meetings like this for the last year asking the mta to create a position for a director of small wheeled accessibility such that all transportation planning include requisite affordances for low turbulence mobility by users of these various modes and in proceeding with your request for a vision zero subcommittee, i would request that there is a member of that subcommittee specifically focused on small wheeled mobility. i'll speak more during public comment about

the recent sfmta involvement with the dolores hill bomb. i'm director tomlin's involvement with the placement of botts dots that are an anti skateboarding form of architecture that have no precedent and no proven record of success, which resulted in the death of a cyclist after they were first placed. but i'll come back and speak on that later. so just to your point about the subcommittee would like to see a member of the public involved with that. thank you. thank you. next speaker, please. oh, okay. seeing no more in the room, please open remote at this time. we'll move to remote public comment not to exceed a total time of ten minutes. members of the public wishing to comment should dial star three to enter the queue. each speaker will have two minutes. first speaker . moderator for speaker.

hi, this is stacy randecker and i just want to thank you for creating these subcommittee. rs it's nice to hear that there will be special focus. i hope that the train subcommittee will focus on light rail prioritization so that they always have. maybe that's what it is all about, but that they will be placed ahead of vehicle travel at all times so that transit would be as fast as possible. and about the vision zero, i'm not sure what the one commenter was saying. i'm on the fence about vision zero. it has been so disregarded by the city and. there's no movement in making our city safer, more pedestrian and cyclist friendly

and skateboard and anybody that's outside of a car, we're all on the same team and we're not. nothing's happening. it's so or it's so slow or it's so disjointed that it. so i thank you for creating the subcommittee and i hope that it will bring some more speed, um, to, to resolve it. and, and could you please ask the board of supervisors why they no longer have vision zero subcommittee? the last meeting was in september. of 2020 with and when norman supervisor norman yee left, so did the subcommittee. or at least there's no record of there being another meeting. so we really need more focus on this. thank you very much. thank you. no additional callers. okay, let's close public comment and please call the next item places you on

item number seven, the director's report. okay, director tomlin, thank you. i'm going to first call up julie kirschbaum who is here for a special recognition of her team . i'm really excited for this one. good afternoon. julie kirschbaum, the transit director . i am here to recognize some of my favorite people on the transit team at and to take a minute to just reflect on in the last ten months or so where we've been running ing really an incredible piece of, of infrastructure for the central subway and that infrastructure would not have been possible without hundreds of people at the agency and we had a chance to celebrate it. a lot of different pieces of the project team came in real time. but because the transit group is kind of continuing to

passionately focus on all of the work that still needs to be done to make sure that the subway is safe and reliable and can work for generations to come. i also wanted to really highlight that the transit agent, the transit staff that made up the rail activation team, the rail activation team was led by terry fahey, who's going to come and talk about the different staff that led each of the roles i had been in my job about three months when albert ho, who was leading the project at the time, came to me and said, we need terry. and i said, that's nice. pick someone else, because terry was running our entire maintenance of way infrastructure team at the time . but the reason that albert wanted terry is because he was one of very few people at this

agency who has a deep background in day to day maintenance. a deep background in engineering and in a previous life had a very deep background in construction in and you really need all of those pieces to work successful in the role that he was in and making sure that everything that was being implemented was being implemented in a way that we would be able to operate and maintain it. terry began putting together the team that was going to help him do this work. some of them also gave up their regular day jobs and were dedicated to this. some of them did two jobs or in some cases three jobs. and what they all had in common in is that they tackled problems as collaboratively and that they were problem solvers. and i think if i had to describe them

in one word, i would say that they are all doers, which is really the culture that we're trying to build within the transit division at sfmta. and it doesn't really matter if i kind of espouse big words. it's the people that you're going to meet today that are actually carrying that out and building teams that are supporting each other, collaborating with each other every everybody that we're going to honor today. they all see the big picture at any given day, any one of them could have stepped in for terry at a decision making meeting and understood their role. and also understood how all the roles put together so i want to introduce terry and then ask him to introduce the rest of our honorees. thank you, julie, and thank you, director. oops can

you hear me. members of the board. thank you. over the last four years, the transit division made an extraordinary commitment to opening the central subway. we temporarily assign not only the most senior person from maintenance away myself, but also the superintendent of signal maintenance, a key technician from traction power group, a senior maintenance manager from the lrb four program, the head of the mechanical systems group, the head of the station operations and track maintenance and a track maintenance supervisor. there were many others, including train controllers, operation inspections, operations, inspectors, service planners and trainers that played important roles in bringing the system into service . i cannot mention everyone who played an important role in the

start up, but i would like to mention a few notable contributions. first was dave harbin. he is not here today, but he does not like ceremonies like this. so. but. he's the superintend of the signal maintenance group. he came on board or he actually came to san francisco in the 1990s. you'd never know by looking at him. but he originally worked for alcatel on the automatic train control system at and on the muni metro subway. and after the commissioning he joined the sfmta as an electronic maintenance technician. and that was 23 years ago. he has been in charge of signal maintenance since 2014 and he worked together closely. we and we have worked together closely ever since he came to the central subway project in late 2019 on a

special assignment providing invaluable oversight to the installation of the train control system in the subway and the surface interlocking and traffic signal coordination along for street from king street to bryant, he helped implement critical changes to the original contract to allow reverse running along fourth street, which now can allow or can support single tracking in the subway. and in the case of an emergency. so he was also critical in testing out the system and identifying and eliminating bugs in the software. and i think you see the results so far. knock on wood, our systems running fairly reliably. sonny kw i don't know if he's here today, but i'll i'll recognize everybody when they when i finish. but sony was has been with the agency since

2015. he came to work on the central subway project on special assignments in late 2020 to provide oversight to the construction of the traction power system. he helped us work through many thorny issues related to the installation and commissioning of the traction power equipment. every day he was present overseeing the construction of substations, making sure that the contractor was performing their work up to contain cracked and code requirements. this was particularly important after the fire incident in 2022. in june of 2022, shortly before we opened at folsom substation at ibm, he greatly improved the inspection regime and ensured that the qc process was followed as closely as possible and effectively made any. enriquez, who is not here today, manny was in charge of the train testing

portion of the project. he's been with the sfmta since 2006 and the lrb of four teams since 2015. he had been in instrumental in the commissioning of the siemens vehicles and this experience with testing trains in atk's territory of the muni metro subway made the commissioning of the atc's at central subway much easier to accomplish this work behind the scenes. his work behind the scenes to arrange vehicles and support personnel for testing and special events such as the visits of speaker pelosi, secretary buttigieg and the mayor breed freed me to focus on ongoing work towards the goal of bringing the central subway project into service. jasmine charles, who is not here today either, but she has been with the agency since 2009 and the head of station operations

since 2020. at the start of the pandemic. nick, like manny, she was instrumental in arranging support personnel for testing special events, training, life safety drills for the cpuc and san francisco fire department. she arranged for inspectors, operators and other transit operations personnel to support the start up of the subway with a clear understanding of overall operations of the system. she did an excellent job at briefings with the fire department and the cpuc in providing answers on the spot, demonstrate ing to both organizations that we were ready to start service as john becker , who is here today, john began working for the agency as an engineer in 2008 and moved to mechanical systems group in the transit division. in 2013. he had one of the most difficult assignments for the operation start up. he was supporting

inspection and oversight of the central subway project and he was doing his day time job as the head of the mechanical group . he also. you know, pretty much doubled his equipment inventory during the process of the central subway elevators, escalators, hvac, fire alarm systems and emergency ventilation. fans. the addition of the central subway was sorry, the difficulties we were having with elevators and escalator issues at the opening of the central subway are not attributable to him. that responsibility 80 should be owned by the control center. nonetheless, he has managed the maintenance group, the maintenance of his position at central subway without complaint, and there has been steady improvement on the reliability front since the opening. much of the improvement

can be attributed to his persistent, persistent efforts to correct defects in the system . jessica garcia. jesse prepared the service plan and transition of rail operations to central subway. she helped with soft launch start up and revenue service by conducting runtime studies to establish the best schedule rule. she helped with operator training plan and reviewed how the customer wayfinding and information systems could be improved. and she developed several operating strategies before settling on the current service plan. travis richards joined the mta full time in 2013 and joined the project briefly or not briefly. nearly a year in january of to 2019 and worked for nearly a year before moving to the service planning group, helping me get started with the rail activation, documentation and

planning. at that time, he's currently working in the scheduling and safety services in 2019 over a ten month period, he helped establish the rail activation process. he i'm sorry . he returned to the project in 2022 to help keep service planning group prepare for operation. as for start of service, working on runtime studies and different strategies on how to run service is finally phil plevin. phil is here today. phil has been with the track maintenance unit since 2007, became a laborer and supervisor, a labor supervisor in 2013 and finally tracks supervisor in to 2017. he came to the central subway in 2020 and was enormously helpful in filling gaps with his startup team. needed performing track

inspections, coordinating the opening and closing of clearances for the project, and maintaining security at the portal entrance for the for train testing and service planning stages of the project. don't need anybody to wander into the subway. while particularly at the start, they were not used. there was not constant traffic in there, so it was quite dangerous. he made he made sure that the clearances were open properly. the gates opened on time and prevented people from wandering into the portal. these were essential tasks in an efficient and safe start up of operations. so i would like to close my remarks by saying that i'm immensely proud of how we brought the central subway into service. although although the project was late and there have been cost overruns and there is still work left to do, it was as about as successful launch as you

could reasonably expect. and it's it was a lot of work. i had experience with the startup of the third street light rail system and that one did not go swimmingly at. and i learned a lot of lessons on that front that you have to be prepared to go into service and you you don't go into service until you're ready. so anyway, thank you for your time. went a little long speech making is not my. yeah so. first i think i have one more thing i wanted to say, which is i think our biggest lesson learned from the rail activation was that we did not start soon enough. and it is so important for transit as the ultimate owner to be really hands on and involved in our capital projects. so terry will

be leading the engineering pieces and the activation of the train control project really starting from day one so that we can ensure that the kind of vision of the capital project integrates the needs of the operations and maintenance team from the very beginning. so come on up, everyone. thank you. thank. thank you. while we're distributing awards, i'll also chime in all of these awardees are being awarded today for their work on activating the central subway, but they all come from home divisions. each of which is under staffed and under resourced. they also

exemplify the culture change work that we are trying to create throughout the agency. they were successful in activating the central subway for the same reason why they're being successful in dramatically improving reliability throughout the muni system. they are creating a culture that is rooted in collaboration and clear communication in in thoughtful strategic risk taking and understanding how the entire system works. this i couldn't be more proud of them. and i'm using this group as the model for how we work to change culture throughout the organization. i think you know that in the last citywide community survey, muni was the only government service in san francisco that rose in voters esteem. um, and voters are routinely acknowledging the fact that we're seeing greater reliability throughout the system than i've seen in my 30

years of writing muni every week this is the team that has created that art and they've created that in part by being really thoughtful about how we take risks, that we don't take risks when it comes to safety, but that we have to take risks when it comes to delivering good service. our infrastructure is antiquated and in many cases dilapidated, and we need to move really, really quickly to fix it. and that means sometimes when you work to go to fix something, that something else breaks or something unintended happens. and when that happens, you don't hide the problem. you communicate about the problem. um, and in fact, you communicate in advance to your bosses. and we communicated in advance to their policy makers about knowing that stuff might go wrong. but that we have a contingency plan and that we know what to do when stuff does go wrong and stuff has gone wrong. but this team has recovered from those problems. extreme effectively, and has allowed us to dramatically advance the state of good repair

of our infrastructure. that is in turn allowing us to deliver better service. that is in turn helping to deliver trust to the voters of san francisco that i hope will in turn turn into the capital dollars that we truly need in order to allow these folks to do the work that they really want to do, which is make the whole system really work. so thank you. can i take a picture of you guys holding your appreciation, like right here? it's very important to me. i love the central subway station . i love it. it's very obvious. i really love it. thank you. oh, flip your award around. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you for all the service that you do. thank you. and just on behalf of the board, i will also so just thank you all for coming to work every day for your

diligence, your persistence. this was a project not without significant challenges. i imagine there were some serious maroor tal dips along the way where you felt, are we ever going to finish this thing? and you kept your eye on the ball and you you knew it was possible. so thank you for your service and your dedication. congratulations on today's recognition. also, i gather we're not the only ones to be recognizing you, and there have been some very significant awards recognizing this project. so congratulations on all of that as well. and pass it along to your teams and finally, in addition to just being able to go out and ride in the central subway, which i would hope is a bit of a reward in and of itself, i want you all to recognize the institutional knowledge that now sits with each of you on how to overcome these challenges and how to execute on these kinds of projects. you will make yourselves available as we continue down the road with some other very significant capital projects to share what you have learned, because that's a remarkable accomplishment and a remarkable sort of gift that you take with you all of the learnings from this experience.

so thank you again, please, one more round of applause for our awardees. thank you. okay director tomlin. all right, let's continue on the director's report. i'll try to be quick. first up, i want to start with some good news. so as you all know, downtown san francisco has one of the highest rates of work from home of any city in the world and one of the greatest loss of downtown commuters that has dramatically impacted both muni as well as bart and other agencies. ridership we had been anticipating that muni ridership would plateau given the slow rate of recovery of downtown san francisco, but that is turning out not to be the case as we are pushing out our updated ridership numbers by line and by day of the week every month. and i want to report on at least our august numbers which are available at sfmta comunidade.

so first up are our overall systemwide ridership has reached 69% of pre-pandemic levels. this is close to what, for example, new york is experiencing and it's a 6% month over month increase since july, average daily boardings have increased steadily throughout the system, but particularly for lines that don't primarily serve the downtown. we currently have ten bus lines that are about at or exceeding pre pandemic levels and you'll sense the pattern. it's 49, venice 37. corbett 22. fillmore 40. rapid nine. san bruno 28. 19th avenue. the 48 quintara. the 12. fulton the 29 sunset. and very interestingly, the nine san bruno, the 90, san bruno, all route. and i also just want to call out our superstars, which i believe have at least as far as we've been able to tell, the highest rate

of ridership recovery of any transit lines in the united states. and that is the 22 fillmore at 123% of weekday ridership recovery and a whopping. 153% pre-covid ridership recovery for saturday. and the 49 venice at 140% weekday and 139% saturday. so again, what we are seeing is even though downtown transit ridership continues to be low because of a loss of downtown commuters, as the team's investment in making these lines faster at frequent, reliable, clean and safe is pushing ridership up on a neighborhood and neighborhood to neighborhood basis. far greater than we were getting pre-covid. and this simply shows, i think, that the investments that the team is making in muni forward and muni speed and reliability projects are paying off far greater than we had ever dreamt possible. i'm

hoping that our october numbers, which will reflect a full, full month of school commuting, will also continue to show this trend. and i'll update you as soon as those are out. we tend to push the new data out about a week or two after the month closes. i also want to talk about some other good news, which is our community engagement awards for the central subway and potrero yard modernization projects, our public outreach and engagement team has won an series of awards from the international association for public participation. the central subway won both the national diversity inclusion and culture core values award, as well as the national project of the year. reflecting upon the extensive engagement that we did particular in chinatown, both in language and with community, to develop things like the plaza at

the station and the activation program for that, as well as a whole long list of other things. and of course we can do more. we can always do more. but this association has been reflecting that we're doing more than anyone else is doing. similarly the potrero yard project won the general project award and again for the work that we have done, code designing that project with community, including what would be the ground floor uses as well as how to make housing work on top of it. so congratulations to deanna desantis and the entire poet's team for their incredible work on both of these projects. i wanted to also provide an information update on a charter amendment that is being proposed at the board of supervisors. so on september 19th, supervisor asha safai introduced an amendment to the san francisco city and county charter that would require the mayor to

affirmative approve certain mta budget proposals. the amendment is also co-sponsored by president aaron peskin. it would require the that the mayor approve in writing any changes to muni fares parking meter rates and hours and days of parking meter operation. currently see you all as the mta board. i have sole authority over setting parking hours, meter rates and transit fares as the board of supervisors does have the authority to reject fare increases with a supermajority of seven out of 11 supervisors, the mayor and the board of supervisors also have the authority to reject our two year budget as a whole, but they can't address individual line items in our budget. since 2007, you all, as the board of directors, have had exclusive jurisdictions over decisions such as muni fares and parking meter rates stemming from prop a

, the charter amendment is now with the rules committee at the board of supervisors. if it's approved by this committee, it would then need to be approved by the entire board and then it would if it is approved by the board of supervisors, go to the voters at the march 5th election. so i just wanted to give you that update, also give you an update that this is walk and roll to school week, which is an international event. we are currently partnering with walk sf and the san francisco unified school district in order to support the thousands of students across san francisco in walking, biking, scooting and otherwise rolling to school safely throughout this week. it is, of course, a fun and healthy way to get to school. it's also a way to address some of the significant traffic congestion and safety issues that arise around schools as as parents drive kids and drop them off at school. for more information about programs in your

neighborhood or your schools, you can go to walk eff.org slash , walk and roll. next up. and if andrea can bring up the photos of last weekend, i don't know how many of you made it out, but last weekend was muni heritage weekend. this is an annual two day event at one of my favorite things to do is director. that is a collaboration between sfmta and the market street railway museum as well as market street railway. it has incredibly strong support and thousands of volunteer hours from throughout the agency, but particularly in our vehicle maintenance division. and i'd like to really call out lewis guzzo for his long standing support in not only delivering muni heritage weekend, but also keeping what is the largest fleet of operate able historic rail and bus vehicles in the world, and most of which we trot out into

service, provoking great joy among the population. we also this year got an unprecedented level of attendance. we believe , in part due to a lot of additional advertising that we did in partnership with market street railway, including in language tv, public service announcements. it's in chinese and spanish language media outlets, along with various other event listings for families. i was out there most of saturday, talked to people who came specially to san francisco from all over the country and indeed all over the world. just to ride our amazing muni fleet. indeed, it was a weekend of a great deal of joy. finally i want to close on a more somber note. you all already know that california's senior senator, dianne feinstein , passed away last week. and we

want to pay our respects to her for showing a brief video clip about her role in san francisco's trans history as mayor of san francisco. dianne feinstein saved the aging cable car system and led the campaign for the rehabilitation of the entire cable car system in in the early 1980s. she was also instrumental in bringing historic streetcars back to market street, in part as part of the cable car reconstruction program. san francisco and muni would not be what they are without senator feinstein's contributions. and so in her honor, we would like to show this video created by market street railway. ended both the cable cars and their city were in trouble. the cable system was just plain worn out and the city had been shaken by the assassins actions of mayor mosconi and harvey milk. again, a woman stepped up to lead thrust into

the mayor's office by tragedy. dianne feinstein led her city through a challenging decade, confronting issue after issue, including a seven month cable car shutdown in 1979 for emergency repairs, as many people feared the cable cars were reaching the end of the line. but mayor feinstein wouldn't let that happen. she broke ground on a complete rehabilitation of the cable car system in late 1982, after successfully winning federal funding for most of the $60 million cost and personally raising the rest from the city's corporate community, she demanded high quality and speed and got it. the completely new system reopened with its traditional but renovated cars just 20 months later, ready to run for another century. she said. as as if that weren't enough during the cable car shutdown, mayor feinstein supported our nonprofit's proposal for a trolley festival

using vintage electric streetcars on market street to provide an alternative attraction. it was so popular, she extended the one summer service to five summers, leading to the permanent f line, attracting as many riders as the cable cars by linking the castro to the ferry building and fisherman's wharf and since, as california's senior us senator, dianne feinstein has delivered her hometown billions of dollars in transit funding, including for the cable cars, a hero through and through. that concludes my report. thank you, director tomlin and colleagues, are there questions or comments on the director's report today. director hemminger, please. thank you, madam chair. maybe a question in in memory of mayor and senator feinstein. jeff, on the question of this heritage

day that we had and the fact that you were drawing people from around the country, i think you even said around the world, are we getting enough out of that resource force and out of those vehicles? i mean, there are people, director, so clearly is one of them who are just facets hated by transit systems and vehicles and history and all the rest of it. and i wonder whether we ought to look about instead of doing something like that once a year, do it once a month, use it as a way of introducing the subject to people as well as attracting more visitors where we need them. that is a great question and one that we have been exploring long. as you know, we've been in crisis mode for the last three and a half years. we're feeling like even though we remain in somewhat in a crisis mode with regard to our medium term and long term

funding, we're starting to stabilize and to be able to take on larger, more strategic questions like how do we best market ourselves and how do we best support san francisco's economic recovery? it is clear that the muni logo and muni service and our history are deeply appreciated, both by san franciscans and by people around the world, and that we could probably do more to leverage that, both in terms of marketing our special services, but also in terms of merchandizing. and we made a small breakthrough in the last couple of weeks on that . i will be hopefully delivering some more news soon. we're we this is becoming top of mind for us in part because of the necessity that we support the mayor's priority of doing everything that we can to support the brand of san francisco and to support the city's economic recovery. well, thank you for your your

diligence on that. and i hope we can hear more about some progress soon. also, a quick question about the charter amendment and i know we can't campaign, but we can take positions on measures. i believe . and are you going to be prepared ing an item to bring to us about a potential position on this measure? well, i'll defer to the attorney on staff's role with regard to ballot measures. yeah, that's not typically staff should not be using staff time to advocate for or against particular ballot measures. i'm not talking about advocating. i'm talking about informing us to take a position which i believe we're allowed to do. what we can do is work with director tumlin to come up with the appropriate communications

as related to education. an as you've mentioned. okay what what ballot are we talking about? what what march of march of 23. okay 24. sorry so that's coming up. yeah okay. thank you, madam chair. thank you. any other comments from my colleagues as okay, we'll open it for public comment for anyone in the room on the director's report. i have one speaker card for barry toronto. good afternoon. first, i know it's not part of the report, although i just want to thank christina silva for everything. she is wonderful and i'd the next thing this charter amendment that you know, you

have to realize you're not elected officials and i think the supervisors are getting pressure from their constituents and as a result of that, they're feeling their hands are tied because you make decisions that impact their constituents. and particularly in certain districts. and there's a equity involved. and you kind of want to be involved with equity, but you don't really walk the walk. and so and so there's a difference of opinions. and if you don't want to bring the board members of the board of supervisors who have to answer to the constituents because they're that's who they vote for , then then this is where it it comes to a situation where they want to change some of the ways of how you make your decisions and what decisions you make. so i'm sorry i came to that, but i'm definitely going to support the charter amendment because i

am. i job you you guys make decisions that without even really knowing how our taxi industry works. so so, so without going any further because that's not part of the director's report. i want to say that video is great. and i think that she should be honored for her her work on the on preserving the cable cars. thank you. is there any other speakers in the room. this is very tough . very tough. okay you can't do anything. you must accept it. you have no future if you keep going because it's only lies. lies brings only problems. you can you cannot produce anything positive from lies. it's against the reality you must rise to the level that reality shows you. it's facing you. otherwise

you're going to go die unhappy, ugly, and you won't be back. and your children are going to pay for you. that's the problem. it's the rules of existence. guys, you can't lie forever. you can't play with fire too long. at some point you get burned. so you have to go back to reality. get out of the movie. you are being used as puppets by a systems that doesn't want you happy and nobody else. the problem is going to fail because reality kicks back on the name of conscious ness of existence. you have to step by step. do you understand? try as hard as you work as you want. it won't work like you are doomed to fail all the future is different, not less. technology. all this, it's stop. by the way, tomorrow you turn off your cell phone at 11 a.m. and you make sure it's away from you. it's my advice. next

speaker, please. okay. seeing none in the room, could you open the phones, please? at this time, we'll move to remote public comment. not to exceed a total time of ten minutes. members of the public wishing to comment should dial star three to enter the queue. each speaker will have two minutes. moderator for speaker. hi this is stacy randecker, the charter amendment is very disheartening to hear about and i hope that legal staff will look into the creation of sfmta. my understanding is that it was set up established to be a political and so it this is in direct violation of how i believe sfmta was established. the heritage idea of i love that of doing that more often. and just annually, but maybe quarterly so that it still remains special.

and you could possibly do seasonal decorations or things like that. but very cool to think about merchandizing it and getting muni out on a broader basis and possibly for even generating tourism and maybe differentiating fares during those those days for the heritage line vehicles, if you are not a san francisco or bay area resident. welcome role to school. i would love to hear about creating school streets. this is something that other cities in europe have done. they make the streets car free. either temporarily or ideally as in paris full time, 24 over seven, and that they could serve as an anchor for this connected network with no breaks that we are the active transportation plan is supposed to deliver for us. 30s we really need to be thinking about how to limit motor vehicle traffic and what

better way than keeping making safe ways to school every day not just on a special occasion on. thank you. thank you. no additional callers. okay we'll close public comment and please call the next item places you on item number eight, the citizens advisory council report. we have no report places you on item nine, general public comment. members of the public may address the board of directors on matters that are within the board's jurisdiction and not on today's calendar. i do have some speaker cards, barrie. toronto. tom radulovich okay. before saying bye, it's the first time. that's it guys. you need just to, to wake up. it's easy to understand. i was first. it's okay. i'm going. look, that's it, right? is it clear? okay. try your best. we're all together to be happy. okay. that's my. my mission. i don't want anything else. okay. thank

you, mr. toronto. next speaker, please. have a good day. try your best to everybody. try your best. hi. good afternoon. he's not jordan davis, but it's close anyway. inside joke. first, i would like to say, hey, i'm going to get a little loud and then i'm going to calm down this agency is one of the worst incompetent agencies in the city and i'm saying that because we didn't have a cab stand for the castro street fair, we didn't have a cab stand properly set up for hardly strictly bluegrass. i want to say mister tumblin, please resign or please find out why these people can't do their jobs properly. okay, now i'll calm down and explain. so we they gave us between 22nd and 24th streets avenues and that is

useless. so we all boycotted. hardly strictly bluegrass. we all did as cab drivers. it was useless because thank god that the portola festival was set up a wonderful taxi stand with big signs, a wonderful spot, and everybody, we took cabs, not everybody, but everybody who loved taxis took cabs and that was great. but i want to let you know, nick chapman, who's a wonderful human being, he works with special events. he told me park and rec was involved with that. why aren't there more better liaisons with them? gertrude is a gretchen rude who works for your agency. she does temporary signs. why doesn't her job involve checking in and seeing if the signs matched the purpose of the signs? so the signs said ride share spaces on fulton street. that's what they gave us. and that's what the website said. so there's so many

different issues involved now. i don't know about time. i want to say i participated in the in the in the color curb on friday. what a joke. we got to find out. and you should ask why paul kania was fired because there's so much disorganization in that department. it's not even funny. it's not even funny. that's your time. thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. yep. thank you. hi. board members. luke bornheimer just under two weeks ago. 56 days after the valencia street center bikeway pilot officially started, an 80 year old man was killed on valencia and the design of the street, including the center bikeway, contributed to this preventable death. i urge you to direct staff to create a curbside protected bike lane

design for 15 between 15th and 19th streets and update the agency's design for between 19th and cesar chavez from 2020. i also urge you to direct staff to formally explore design for a pedestrianized valencia street for as many blocks where it makes sense and will benefit local businesses. i'm i'm here on behalf of the supporters of the better valencia campaign who have sent nearly 7000 emails to you and other policymakers calling for valencia street to be pedestrianized or have curbside protected bike lanes installed on it immediately. these supporters who are growing in number by the hour are urging you to take immediate action to make valencia safe for people, better for business and more effective for sustainable mode shift and climate action. i urge you to direct staff to complete to create a complete design for curbside protected bike lanes on valencia street, as well as to explore a formal design for pedestrian valencia. separately, i urge you to direct staff to implement a citywide no turn on red policy immediately and

approve the policy yourself as a resolution or an amendment to city transportation code allowing turns on red is an outdated policy that makes streets more dangerous and stressful for people, and implementing no turn on red is proven to make streets safer for all people, especially children. seniors and people with disabilities, but also car drivers and passengers implementing no turn on red citywide will make it safer, easier and more comfortable for people to cross the street as well as make our streets safer and more predictable for drivers . i urge you to direct staff to implement a citywide no turn on red policy immediately and approve the policy as a resolution or an amendment to city transportation code. thank you. thank you. next speaker, please. good afternoon, directors. tom radulovich with livable city. i wanted to talk today a little bit about placemaking. we mentioned it in the context of the valencia project. we heard it come up in context of the acp active communities plan. sorry a few

weeks ago. we were glad to hear it. i think it's really important. i mean, we're coming up on campaign season and it's just going to get squirrely and squirrely in this building as everyone's looking for position. ang i think there's this false dichotomy that's being presented of, you know, you can be responsive to merchant concerns or you can be safety focused, right? and i think that the kind of painful to watch the way that valencia went down because we were saying no streets first and foremost are places right? they're destinations. they're streets in a city. should be places that people come to. and they are secondarily places that you move people through. so placemaking is really looking at streets as destinations. so we think that this agency can thread the needle. you can have we can have this mode shift, we can have safety and we can have vital and thriving commercial corridors. if you develop more confidence in the place making arena. wanted to highlight today the importance of this one way to two way street conversion. i'm not going to talk about you know, amsterdam or paris. i'm going to talk about cities like

dallas, mobile, alabama, indianapolis, oklahoma, west palm beach. they've all gone big for converting these one way car sewer streets in their downtowns to two way streets. it's not because they have really powerful bike lobbies in those cities. i'm totally familiar with the politics of those cities, but, you know, they're not super bike friendly cities. they did it because it's good for business. it is good for safety. but it's really, really good for business. it creates better places, slows down traffic, makes transit routes more legible, makes bike routes more legible. it has a zillion benefits. this agency's been particularly resistant to that. we're sort of becoming a standout out in the united states in terms of this one way to two way revolution. so we'd urge you to figure out ways to do that, including using the quick build project. i have ideas about how to do that won't cover them in two minutes, but maybe at a future meeting. thank you. thank you. any other speakers in the room, please? another speaker card for matthew sutter. hi, aaron bridgewater

director, dublin in and summer of 2020, you tweeted that two pointless deaths at the annual dolores hill bomb were the reason for implementing raised ceramic dots in the northbound lane on dolores. this being a chosen dissuasion tactic against the event in the future in the spring of 2021, in the middle of the night, a 47 year old cyclist rode over those dots, lost balance, hit a car and died. as far as i know, mta has not pursued any follow up to that starting in late 2022. ross green, an aide to mandelman and police captain gavin mceachern, both reached out to mta to open talks about expanding the anti skateboarding architecture on dolores in the northbound and southbound lanes with the explicit purpose of leaving no gaps through which a skateboarder could pass without experiencing potentially deadly turbulence. in both cases, you were not secede and did not weigh in for months. the discussion about dolores carried on over email and off the record meetings. tom mcguire was only at the beginning and was unsure of who was supposed to manage the project. most of the mta discourse occurred between

ricardo olaya, mike sallaberry bryant wu jamie parks and damon curtis, none of whom who claimed whom claimed leadership in the matter. jamie parks wrote he was confused, feeling that this had been discussed for a long time and the concern with rumble strips or any other materials that intentionally make skateboarding impossible is that skateboarding is allowed under city law. and dolores, if a skateboarder legally riding on the street were to injure themselves, they could have a strong argument that we knowingly placed a hazard in the roadway. bryant wu and mike salisbury had a back and forth about whether it is possible to adequately stop and yield on a skateboard. wu said it isn't. salisbury reported retorted with blog articles illuminating or enumerating known techniques. mike salisbury wrote he was not going to sign a work order that puts dots or any equivalent on the street and that is meant to deter skateboarding and could cause crashes. ricardo elia said . jamie and i already discussed with tom what the issues are, and i think we should stop writing emails about this. in late june at the work order was issued and accepted more dots were added. warning signs were not that were specified, were not posted in in early july, the hill bomb took place with no

advance outreach from the mta or sfpd to the local skateboard community or any of the quote, old guard to which you claim to be in touch with in 2020. without getting into time and resources still being spent. that is your time. okay. thank you. thank you for your comment . next speaker, please. okay no additional speaker cards. thank you. please open the remote. at this time. we'll move to remote public comment not to exceed a total time of ten minutes. members of the public wishing to comment should dial star three to enter the queue. each speaker will have two minutes. moderator first speaker, can you hear me? yes, go ahead. my name is marcello fonseca. i'm a long time member of the taxi industry . i just want to remind you that at the medallion sales program, um, is a human tragedy that can only be blamed on the mta and the city of san francisco and the real victims are the medallion buyers and all medallion holders who are

lawfully acquired their permits under prior rules. whatever action you're you're taking on the lawsuit that came out of the failure of the medallion sales program, please think of the real victims, not only about you and the credit union. thank you . thank you. next speaker. hi, this is stacy randecker and i want to talk about valencia street center running lanes are the wrong solution. drivers don't read signs. they read the road and those drivers have injured many. and killed one since the implementation of the pilot. just what, two months ago. city all over the world. pedestrianized merchant corridors. but we have none in

our city has one of the most environmentally conscious, wealthy and well-educated citizenry in the world. and we have no pedestrianized merchant corridors. valencia is one of the most vibrant and rich corridors in the city and again, this is a city with no pedestrianized merchant corridors. why you talk about traffic study, they're just as silly as they measure the status quo, which just reinforces the current modes. you can't measure things that don't exist. are you surveying eight and 80 year olds about what they want? they don't even know what options are available because it's too damn dangerous to travel even short stretches, let alone the entire city. is it about delivery cities around the world with pedestrianized streets have solved this. they pulled deliveries. they had a deliveries available at certain times. it drastically reduced the shopping center traffic and frees up once congested streets

for pedestrians and cyclists. you can have special access for deliveries and discreet hours or overnight or by appointment. our city is facing a $291 million deficit. it's very costly to do what you've done and i truly believe you do not care. it's time to try something bold and it's time to try something new that will make valencia safe, vibrant and inviting and that is car free. make valencia car free for people. thank you. thank you . no additional speakers on line, but i did get another speaker card for in person. namdev sharma. my name is nnamdi sharma speaking on behalf of purchased

taxi holders. mta exaggerate their surveys about our income, which is absurd. without you must enforce rights here to pick up airport passenger at long term parking in san bruno city because skytrain is available to take your passengers to the long term parking at the other airport like los angeles on aereo, atlanta. i've seen in the atlanta i took underground subway, which takes five minutes, then walk to the long term parking, five minutes, passenger take and no one regulate those rideshares drivers pick up by self because they come to their designated place. but citizens are allowed to pick up at the airport. atlanta, not ontario. not los angeles. okay you must require permit for every rideshare vehicle to pick up at the airport. new york city improved taxi business. new york city reduced the price of medallion to $200,000. no more $1 million and bailed out all taxi drivers.

none of the rideshare vehicle allowed to drive without tlc in new york city and airport, we are bleeding to death. we are not stupid. we understand everything. you created this mess. please bail us out of medallion payments. please clean up this mess. try to be nice to us. thank you. thank you. that concludes public comment. please move on to the consent calendar . director is that places you on item ten your consent calendar. these items are considered to be routine and will be acted upon by single vote unless a member of the board or public wishes to consider an item separately for all speakers providing public comment, please identify which item number you are speaking to. item 10.1 approving various routine parking and traffic modifications listed as items a through to i in the agenda that concludes the consent calendar. okay, colleagues, are there any

comments or questions on consent calendar items? all right, i'm going to open public comment for anyone in the room on the consent calendar to. okay. seeing none could we would you like to comment on the consent calendar? mr. dolovich okay, let's open the phones, please. nope. at this time, we'll move to remote public comment not to exceed a total time of ten minutes. members of the public wishing to comment should dial star three to enter the queue. each speaker will have two minutes. no speakers. okay colleagues, is there a motion and a second, please. so move second all the roll on the motion to approve the consent calendar. director heminger heminger director henderson. henderson. i director hinsey. i director. so i. so i. director kahina. i karekin. i ekin. i thank you. the consent calendar is approved. thank you. please call the next item places you on item number 11 amending

transportation code division to section 601 to designate a full time transit only area on hyde street between mcallister and market streets and approving traffic and parking modifications as listed in the agenda items a and b. thank you directors. i've loaded my presentation on. i didn't share it. how does this work? do i. okay. thank you for having me today. thank you for having me. can you hear me? i don't think it's working. is this off? okay

good afternoon, directors. my name is jessica kuo and i'm a transportation planner in the transit priority group. i'm the project manager for this hyde street transit lane project that . and so this project is proposed on two blocks of hyde street between mccalla and market in the civic center area. we identified this project as a need because these two blocks see slow bus speeds averaging five miles per hour, and it's one of the busiest transit streets in the city. we see busses run every four minutes, serving nearly 13,000 daily transit riders that connect to many san francisco neighborhoods and regional transit. the bus routes that travel along these two blocks include three golden gate transit routes and three muni routes. the 19 polk, the 27 bryant and the 21 hayes of these

muni routes. the 19 and the 27 are key equity strategy routes serving high percentages of people of color and people from households with low incomes and our intention is to be able to deliver on these transit lanes ahead of the asia-pacific economic cooperation summit. the conference, which is happening in mid-november. and we expect this transit lane to reduce bus travel times by about 20% or more and to improve bus reliability. and so this is the proposed transit lane between mcallister and market streets. critical loading and permit parking is retained on both sides of the street and it's on the west side between fulton and market streets, where we would be removing for commercial loading zones to make room for the proposed transit lane. the agency is also considering a transit lane north of mcallister street as part of the hyde

street quick build project and that is going to come to the board for your consideration in in two weeks on october 17th. we want to make sure that this piece that these two blocks is approved today so that the shops can implement these two blocks ahead of apec because transit volumes are much higher here. like i said, it's a bus every four minutes versus a bus every 15 minutes. farther up north, north. so we have conducted extensive outreach since last fall in coordination with the hyde street quick build project focused north of mcallister street. major components of this project's engagement and outreach strategy have included mailers, pop up events, text and email updates to more than 20,000 subscribers. virtual open houses and engineering, public hearing and design workshops. a multilingual survey in six languages and we have conducted direct outreach to local institutions on the two blocks and key neighborhood groups. so each of these institutes actions

have had specific feedback about parking and loading that we worked with in partnership to address. these include the asian art museum, the heart of the city farmers market, the orpheum theater, the main branch of the san francisco public library. and you see law, san francisco tenderloin community benefit district stakeholders have expressed interest in extending the transit lane north of mcallister, and that is being considered through the hyde street quick build project act. so generally the community has been supportive of a transit lane as long as parking and loading needs were met. so here's what you're voting on today. we are proposing to establish a bus, taxi and right turn only lane on hyde street between mcallister and market streets, where transit volumes are the highest on hyde street. like i said, this would remove for commercial loading zones on this block and the other yellow zone spaces and the white zone on the east side of the block will remain. this is between

fulton and market and between fulton and mcallister. we're not touching those permit parking spaces either. here are our next steps today, these two blocks of transit lane are up for your consideration and if approved, we can quick build this transit lane immediately to help benefit transit riders where bus volumes are the highest before apec. and i do want to be transparent that given how time intensive it is to install red colorized nation and the backlog of field crews that the crews have to get in before apec, we have to start with a non colorized transit lane and we do appreciate that the urgency expressed by advocates and community stakeholders and it's still a priority for the agency to paint the transit transit lane red by mid 2024 next year. and i do want to note that the hyde street quick build improvements focused on the six blocks of hyde between geary and

mcallister street will be coming to you for your consideration on october 17th. so thank you again, directors. and i'm happy to answer any questions you might have about this project. thank you for your presentation. i have director hennessy in the queue for questions. thank you, madam chair. and a i think most of my questions were actually for the quick road team and which i understand they're not they're not there right now, but i think maybe jamie or tom could answer them. but i did have a question for you. since you're up there, does i think it is that i know that you've been working diligently with the part of the city farmers market to accommodate their loading, their loading needs in spite of the removal. and i know again, that item will be before us later. but if you could just give us a

little preview of course, without going too much into the item. yes. so we have been working diligently with the heart of the city farmers market and my colleagues at the curb management team has been preparing a lot of legislation that will be coming in the october 17th meeting. and so i believe they are. well, i don't know if tom, do you want to speak to this and you may not be able to speak fully since i don't want the city attorney to yell at me. good afternoon. tom maguire, streets director. and i've gotten the nod of approval from city attorney to say this. so there's a jessica is presenting this work to you now because it's imperative to get the trans-atlantic place before apec. in two weeks. we will come back to you with a comprehensive pedestrian and traffic safety design for the entire six block stretch to geary, which will

include curb regulations that have been worked through with the heart of the city farmers market and other stakeholders on hyde street. so normally we would you would have the transit curb management and livable streets team all seen from the same songbook, but the urgency of getting that the transit plan in place before apec is the only reason we're doing that. but yes, we've worked through all those issues and we have a curb management plan for hyde street that works with the farmers market and you'll hear about it in legislation on the 17th. yep. and then we got a letter from the community request and of course i've been working extensively with the streets team, so i know the intention is to proceed to construction of the quick build. once that heard. but i think that if you could confirm that that would be that would be helpful. all sorry, what? could you say that again? what did you want to confirm? i think that the community wanted to know that that project, that the quick build will be is slated for

construction in shortly after we approve it. yes. the quick we are not delaying the quick build at all. we're trying to accelerate both projects. it just happens that the quick build, the high street quick build is on a separate approval timeline. correct. thank you. and then i think this is more of a question for tom and we'll get into this this more next week. but it was in the letter from community since it the concern was around this particular segment is traffic calming around the fulton plaza area for larkin and hyde and fulton and hyde specifically requesting some pedestrian scrambles or around the larkin area for yielding to increase, yielding to pedestrians et-cetera with the heart of the city farmers market. so i think these are

things to file away for from we next two weeks from now hearing . but if you want to speak to that in the context of this item , sure, i can try to address it quickly. jamie parks, livable streets director with sfmta. the quick build project on hyde that you'll hear in two weeks does have comprehensive pedestrian safety improvements throughout the corridor. it but it may not include all of the recent community requests around fulton and around the farmers market. so that may have to be considered separately if there's additional pedestrian safety improvements we need to do for the farmers market. yeah, i think that would be that would be good. and all in all, check with the team on that after approvals because i think with the high volume of people at that area as well as the hopefully increased customer

load for the heart of the city farmers market, i think that traffic calming around that area , additional traffic calming around that area would be needed given that the item is only the transit lanes, i don't see a issue with these transit lanes. so chair, you can i make a motion after public comment to approve the project enough. and after your discussion. thank you director hensley. that's helpful. we'll go to other board members and then and then comment. director so please, thank you for the presentation. i constantly wanted to ride the number 27, but i'm also really confused when i'm in that corner. it's like feeling really

dangerous over there. it's just there's so many things going on. so i'm really happy that some thing really triggered the urgency of improving this particular the rail, really dangerous intersections crossing the west side of san francisco to the east side. but i genuinely is a little bit disoriented from your presentation when you were showing a site map and then just a sectional diagram about these busses and cars and but then you mentioned something about west side parking. i mean, loading spaces. can you explain to me where they are? because the plan doesn't really show. yeah, i have a reference slide that i can pull up in case it like i would like to see graphically if you can illustrate what you are describing, what you're proposed to do does this graphic so here is the plan view proposal. all

that shows the on the top is the existing condition and on the bottom is the proposed plan view. zoom in. oh, i would think like no, i mean, i think really zoom in these little spots that she was thinking. i mean, i can press so somewhere tap. yeah. but it's not going to be large enough, right? like it's those spots that i want to see how big you are. yeah. this is a very. it's very. anyway, would, would , would that be. i might take a phone and then i'm going to zoom in because the, the thing that you're talking about is really just that that block right. where you have the high street. so this is this is high street and it's two blocks. so the north arrow is to the right is pointing north. okay and so the

west side is where the red lane is on the in the image below. and that's where we would be implementing the transit lane. okay and it's two blocks. so the block at the top is mcalester to hyde between mcalester and fulton. and then at the block below is between fulton in and grove in market and it's on the block between grove and fulton where we're removing for commercial loading zone spaces. so where do people load their goods? if you're removing them? so currently the institute options are shown here include on the so on the bottom is east and so on the east side is the going from top to bottom. we're like left to right is the federal building. and then the orpheum theater and the orpheum theater. did site very specific

loading needs because they come in too low for big productions and they did site that they occasionally use the four yellow zone spaces between fulton and grove across the street from where the orpheum is. but we've also confirmed that in practice , a lot of the people using those spaces are parked illegally and we have helped address the orpheum's concerns directly by helping them find more optimal loading areas elsewhere so that their trucks can pull in directly down to where they have a loading dock on the east side of the street. and so. so the across from where the transit lane is proposed and the parking that is the permit parking spaces between between mcallister and fulton streets will all be maintained and

revised for clarity and for vendor operations on fulton street via the curb management team which will come to you in two weeks. on october 17th. and the area that you propose to do in in front of asian art museum. do you mind explain to me a little bit on these? so currently it's only for yellow zone. well it's for permit parking spaces right now next to a temporary bus zone because that parking has those permit spaces have not been there for a while because of the construction by hastings and as soon as that temporary bus zone gets restored to the other side of the street, backed by u.s. law, it's going to bring back more spaces, more permit parking spaces for the vendors that will use it on fulton. so with the

new red carpet, how, how, how how is it going to what is it going to be coming? because i've seen these little diagram look like big busses on your bottom right hand corner there. like you have, you allow the loading truck to do off loading and unloading in the new proposed plan. so between mcallister and fulton, it's parking at the curb and then the bus lane and then general traffic lanes and then below it transitions over to just the bus lane on the west side. and then travel lanes and then the loading happens on the east side, but parking only for trucks, right? so so loading

loading for the orpheum operations and passenger loading for when people get dropped off for shows. i'm really unclear. i'm talking about the area in front of asian art museum. i'm not talking about opium. okay. so in front of the asian that there's parking, but i'm seeing trucks in the diagram. but it's really tiny. i could be i could be seeing things. yeah so in front of the asian art museum is it's a, it's a bus, a temporary bus zone right now and next to for permit parking spaces is for only trucks only for farmers market permit parking so they can load in and out. okay. well i really do hope that i really trust that you have reached out to all the people that are the stakeholders here and then your signage will be impeccable and highly communicative because this sounds like a very intense it's i'm looking forward to see

continue improvement. and also enabling a faster transit corridor here. and i can ride number 27 easily. so i'm not objecting your proposal. i just try to understand better with hopefully a little more clear graphic illustrations. so we don't have to get into this next time. thank you. understood and dr. hemminger, please. thank you, madam chair. first question, would we be doing this project without apec? we still want to be able to deliver the transit benefits quickly. we at this very busy transit street and so it still impacts us over nearly 13,000 transit riders and we are really focused on delivering the reliability and travel time improvements quickly. is it fair to say that this project i mean, that the apec conference sort of moved this project up the priority list, though? yes, that's right. so we would eventually be doing

it, but maybe not so soon. and just to be clear and unlike director. so i like the one that has the one for the dummies. yeah. well, that it takes all kinds. so so we're going from three travel lanes to two. right. right. correct and the busses are slow now presumably because there's a lot of auto traffic in the same corridor. yeah. yes they have to leapfrog that to straddle the lanes and leapfrog double parking and the transit lanes should help with compliance. transit lanes will not reduce delay in the corridor. we're reducing delay for transit and we're sort of transfer, easing the delay to the automobile. right. we did conduct traffic counts and modeled traffic and we did not

find impacts to traffic. really i would think you'd want impacts. i mean, if you're really trying to reduce the transit delay, don't you need to impact traffic? so part of what we're doing here is extending the work that we've already done on eighth street, two blocks to the north. so you'll recall during covid, we put transit only lanes on seventh and eighth streets, taking streets that were previously three traffic lanes, making them two general purpose lanes and one transit lane. so the, the less impact on hyde is because we're simply mirroring that and correct me if i'm wrong, i'm mirroring that cross section on the other side of market street. well, on any event, that's what your model said, right? yes. our model did not show impacts to traffic. i

mean, given the fact that this project is has moved up the list because of this conference, could we institute it on a temporary basis and then check back and see whether it worked? and whether we need to keep it? yeah, we will certainly monitor it, especially since we can't even colorize it in red right now. we just want to be able to deliver it quickly via white paint and try to get those benefits in sooner. i have to say you've anticipated me because that's my last question. now you got to tell us, why can't we get red paint on the pavement until next year? it's very labor intensive. my understanding is that the shops are very constrained and there's a huge backlog of work that we're trying to get done before apec and it's just it's just very difficult to be able to colorize it right away. oh, i mean, you've sort of built a brand with the red lanes and it's a shame to me to just go

out there and do something different in this one case and not just find some more red paint and a couple of painters apex a month away and our painters are fully subscribed. and so the treatment out there is going to be white paint, not red to start. yes. and that's actually typically what we do in a project simply because the constraints around red ification are greater than the constraints around white stripes. that's what we did with the temporary emergency transit lanes as well during the pandemic. we did stripes or something, didn't we? so we've taken a variety of approaches depending upon the capacity of our teams. the you know, our workforce capacity. varsity is one of the greatest constraints that we face in terms of rolling out all of the good work that we're doing, whether it's transit priority or vision zero, it's i don't know, it's just sort of astonishing. we can do white paint, but not red. but i'll take your word for it. thank you very much. thank

you, director. just just to be clear, uh, the white paint that you see on a non. we're not painting the lane white. we're putting white markings down as we would in a red transit lane. that is helpful, tom. thanks. yeah. so we're not we're not putting white paint everywhere. it's going to be an asphalt coverage that says bus only, but if you put like white stripes next to white stripes, you'd have a white lane. yeah, i'll stop. i'm sorry. yeah okay. director henderson, please. thank you, chair. i have a couple of questions to take. i have some questions around the signage i think that this switch , because it's happening so quickly, i just want to make sure that do you all have a plan for sort of additional communication? because i think that the challenge a lot of times is that drivers and people who use their cars are not necessarily keeping up on the

day to day of what mta is doing. and so in order to minimize the confusion around this white bus only lane, are there additional signs or are there something some way that you can communicate to some of the to the public that this is a that this change is happening just so that it's more clear, especially to drivers who are needing to make that right turn so that they are first safe, obviously, and then also so that they're in the right part of the lane to make the turn. certainly we have extensive education and awareness campaigns that we deploy through our comms team to ensure that just to do our best to ensure that people are aware of these changes and in addition, i know the parking signage has already been updated through the curb management team to just clarify the signage and they will replace the signs as needed once they revise the curb regulation in the next two

weeks. okay and then and maybe you can share about this, i'm not sure, but is there any additional once you make this change is there any additional enforcement that happens if there are, for example, double parking in the bus only lane now or, you know, folks who are used to the lane being a place where they can kind of pull over real quick and do some loading or unloading is there additional enforcement that you anticipate that sort of stepping up during this period, especially leading up to apec? i'm. so, so realistically, director, with apec coming, the best tool we've got to enforce this and other transit lanes is the forward facing cameras on the

busses which are able to which are able to write tickets for people who are parked in transit lanes. we are going to do our best to protect the streets that are approaching the highly congested parts of the city that will be impacted by apec, including streets like hyde street with parking control officers to reduce double parking and keep traffic moving smoothly. but we will be very, very resource constrained because so many parking control officers will be working in the actual event itself. so the forward facing cameras are the best tool we've got. okay. thank you. i think it's i think it's important to make sure that we make the right the right modifications to the street to ensure that the that the traffic flow safely and efficiently. we i also think that there are some , um, we just need to make sure that where there are these immediate changes happening that we sort of somehow ease into it,

i think a little bit for, for people to get used to it. and so i hope that you can consider that as part of the enforcement . i get that that it's illegal parking today or if there because it's commercial loading. but i still think that there's some need to sort of ease into the enforcement a little bit for people because this is so quick . so hopefully you can consider that my last couple questions are just around the outreach. i'm curious, i saw the photos and i appreciate it. looks like there was a lot of community outreach and input and i was just wondering if there were groups that you anticipated hearing from that you didn't hear from as much during your outreach process, or did you do you feel like you were surprised by anything that came up as you were talking to the public? i mean, i mainly just appreciated how the public just feels so that there's a huge sense of urgency to deliver this project

quickly. and not just this transit piece on these two blocks, but also on the hyde street quick build piece focused on safety. and, you know, i agree. i live in the tenderloin and i i'm a resident here. i don't just work on this project . and so it's i was not surprised by what was said. and i do appreciate how people want us to do more and we really are just doing the best that we can with within our constraints. and so are there any wishlist items that you can't do because of those constraints that you would do if we had all the money in the bank? am i allowed to speak to that? or i mean, is there something that came up that was like everybody, me, everybody was in favor of this, but we can't do it right now either because of the time constraints or because you know, resources, staff and money. yeah. all i know is that when i go out and i see our shops implementing on the street, it's just such a hard, thankless job. and i just appreciate how they're out there

working as hard as they can to deliver our projects because i'm just a planner. i'd be nothing without them actually implementing the plans that we come up with. okay, thank you. thank you. chair thank you. director henderson. director kahina, thank you so much for your presentation. appreciate all the slides and all the different graphics as well. um i did have a question. i think it was jamie that mentioned this, but there was a similar to in similar vein about what the community asked for and weren't able to get out of this project . there was a comment about fulton specifically, and i think there was some you might have mentioned something about some pedestrian safety improvements on fulton not being able to be incorporated in this version of the project. and i just wanted to give you more space to speak on that a little bit more. just to give us some color of what those requests were for and what were some of the some of the community feedback on improving pedestrian safety off of fulton

specifically? my understanding is that because the farmers market got moved from the un plaza over to the fulton street space, that there's a lot of concerns about about people crossing fulton street to get to the market and i know one of the things that we can do when we submit our work orders is to refresh the crosswalks on the street. my understanding is that better market street will also be building a pedestrian bulb at grove and also creating a new crosswalk that has been in demand and should help with pedestrian safety to and this is my neighborhood. i walk here all the time and i know what it's like to, you know, come through and then be scared by a speeding car here, too. and so we will definitely monitor and propose additional improvements as needed. this is not the last time we're going to be here on this two blocks of hyde street.

great. and i think part of what may be helpful is to really think about some street treatments that we could incorporate on the crossing. so, you know, as we think about the next iteration of this project, really try to spend some time thinking about the feasibility and also the ability for us to make that crossing safer. i think that's fundamental to ensuring that, you know, that community space and in many ways it's a community space for folks that are using the farmer's market. it gets activated seasonally. you have all these amazing institutions that are there that folks have safe passage between one part of the street to the next. and so that's i think that's one of the things that i see missing in this iteration of the project. and so when it comes back, i would love to see some more effort and some more focus on that piece of it, because i do think we're missing the mark on that one. and there's a lot of potential there to increase the safety for folks going from one side to the next. and there's so many different folks that are using that street, that

intersection that it really does need a space for pedestrians to be really focused on. so whether that's, you know, a painted crossing or, you know, a mural or whatever it is, that might be something that would be really attractive to folks and to really designate that space as a safe zone for pedestrians. but i definitely want to encourage staff to really focus on that particular intersection. um i think it's great that we're limiting turns and that we're expanding on the work that we did on eighth street. and i think this is great. so i fully support this project and i appreciate all the work that that you and the team have put into this. thank you. thank you. director kahina so i just want to thank you for bringing this project forward and for all the work on it. i'm reminded of a graphic that i really loved when we approved the geary project, when i just really see this as about sort of aligning the use of our streets with our city's

goals. this is a transit first project and that i don't know if you all remember it, but that one showed sort of the amount of street space on geary pre project dedicated to transit was about 3% and 97% of the street was dedicated to private vehicles, even though 37% of the people on the street were using transit. and the project brought that into greater alignment. the project got allocated 33% of the street space to transit, sort of aligning street space with use of the street. so i just i really love that graphic. i thought that was a really clear explanation of what we're trying to do. and i presume there's something along that line. there were a lot of people are using this street in our transit vehicles, but they have very, very little street space supporting that choice. and we're trying to further support that choice to encourage use of transit. so just the question i wanted to ask is a little bit bigger than this particular project. and it's just, you know, we've all sat on busses stuck in traffic. and so and so there are, i imagine, and you

all have it in your mind sort of a series of traffic hotspots around the city that that we all know are kind of frustrating moments of you're stuck in traffic and we're fixing we're proposing to fix this one. and so i just wondered, maybe it's julie or tom. i don't know who wants to hop up to address this. but if you can help us, the board understand what is our sort of thought process? is there a threshold of traffic delay after which we say, you know what, that's what we really want to identify these two blocks. and that's how i remember we did fourth street near the fourth and king intersection a couple of years ago, and that was really identified as a specific spot. can you just help us in the public understand how you decide and prioritize where to fix these hotspots? great. thank you for the question. good afternoon . director sean kennedy, transit planning manager and you know, we have a we have the muni forward program, which does big projects, corridor level projects, and those are picked and basically prioritize based based on ridership and where

where we have a lot of service on the street. we also know that that there's a lot of other lines that kind of fall through the cracks. hotspot locations specifically. and so we started several years ago doing what we call the top ten hotspot locations. so we come up with the list of our top ten locations in the city that is not based on ridership or volume of transit service. it's literally based on how slow it is from getting from one stop to the next. and so it's really a minute look at at where we're seeing big delays in the system regardless of how many people are riding on other service or how much service we have on the street. and so this one for the 19, obviously, we rose very high. that's going, you know, as was said, less than four miles an hour on this segment. so super slow speeds. and so that's that's why it rose to our to our attention. and initially, you know, we have a top ten list. we've done our first round of top ten improvements. we've finished as part of the title program and now we're moving on

to our next next round of top ten. so you know, very successful program so far. most of these are done with paint, so they're not, you know, big capital projects that that require a long time or a lot of work to do. it's identification in identifying what the treatment would be based on what the cause is. and then and then getting out there and getting something approved. this is really one of our larger our ones that actually needed your approval to move forward with changes on that. and, you know, i think it's been successful enough that other agencies are are also doing it, which is always a good sign when people start copying your work or how you do stuff. i know san mateo is doing it. you know, my home, home, home transit district in washington, dc is also doing this, this type of thing. so you know, really excited and this is really one of our first ones. like i said, that we've brought before you all. but hopefully you'll be seeing a number of these in the future. so you know, once again, smaller based, but really time to benefit as much faster. and for more detail

on our past work, you can go to sfmta.com/hotspot dots. there we go. okay. thank you. yeah i'm in favor of this project as well. and i just i'm always thinking about how it feels to customers to ride our service. what is the experience of human experience of when people choose to ride transit and do they feel that we're investing in them? and do we feel do we do they feel that we as the government care about their experience? and i personally feel when i ride on a bus and it moves along swiftly, that that is a signal that the government actually cares about. my transit trip and whether i have a good experience so that that means a lot to me that we're investing like this. it is a very tangible experience. and the numbers on 49 van ness certainly play out that people love the experience of moving swiftly and not having to sit stuck in traffic. so thank you for your work on this. i'm going to open it up to public comment at this time. oh director, so sorry. i have one. one more. um thoughts that was eliminated by

my fellow directors. um, these are a really amazing, really quickly deployable project and it's a quick build. is this i would see that these are like pilot projects, right? so they're not exactly permanent, like my fellow directors have mentioned. so do you have any leeway to kind of look at if the result actually is what you're envisioning in your engineering and planning? and then if not, would you adjust them? i just wanted to also in light of understand help me understand, also help the public understand these are starting to be like a temporary quick build or quick, fast project. but then it's great because then we can quickly actually utilize it and deploy it on the street. and then so we have a grace period

to learn if that's actually what is achieving ■the result that yo , as a traffic planner and engineer anticipate. and if not , do you go back and improve them? yeah, generally we always have an evaluation plan and if we see that it's not working, then we definitely want to make it work and improve travel times and reliability. well, yeah. how do you do that? like, do you you give yourself three months or six months or like three years. so well, i mean, we can we'll continue monitoring day by day, month by month as the data comes in. yeah. thank you. good afternoon. director sean kennedy once again. so, yeah, we typically look at six months, six months of data on before or after basis. and, you know, there's a lot of that can vary. i mean some corridors that you might have a lot of changes on maybe we look at it over a year

basis or if we're looking at working with our good friends at caltrans, maybe it's a two year pilot period, but so we do it does it does vary to some degree . so this one we would look at more like a six month. and that's one of another reasons why the red paint, you know, red, red thermoplastic is not just red paint, it's red thermoplastic. so not only does it take longer to put down, but then we'd have to grind it out if it's going to come out. so this is, you know, just the white paint on the on the edge markings that says bus only. that really helps, you know, with the pilot period process. as far as you know, if we if we decide to change it or move it or make some adjustments to it, it's not as much work to modify. okay so with this one, when we approve it today, then you will monitor it through all the way through christmas with all the fancy show that happened around the opium theater and then come back in like maybe march or april and let us know what works and what doesn't. so this is this is an actual approval action that we're asking for

today. so we won't be necessarily coming back for you, asking for a final go ahead. but but but we do do every every, every six months. i give a muni forward update on on what we're seeing, what we've accomplished, what we've put in place and how it's looking. so, you know, that will be added to that discussion. and if we've made changes, we'll we'll let you i'll let you let you guys know. and if we if we make any changes, obviously, that are that are that need legislation, then of course we'll definitely be back. but it but at this point, we're not we're not it's a pilot inasmuch as we're always making changes and always looking at what we're doing and modifying if needed. but you know, this is we're asking for an actual decision today from you all right. i understand you're asking your decision, but i'm just asking for follow up accountability on what we're actually there's a difference between on design thinking and then implementation and then looking at user feedback. yep.

so totally agree to make sure we have that full loop and the public are fully understanding that. completely agree. that's great. okay. thank you. thanks okay, let's open to public comment please. for anyone in the room on the hyde street transit lane, i have a couple of speaker cards. barrie. toronto tom radulovich. well i am. i'm going to be positive for this public comment. so of course i want to thank everybody involved with this for including taxis because it's going to make it easier for us to serve people going from north of market to south of market and to the airport. the big picture is, though, a lot of cars still use this because remember the golden gate avenue going to the freeway is closed during the day from

from from leavenworth jones. so it's so anyone who's going to want to make a left turn from hyde to golden gate has nowhere to go. okay. because it's closed. leavenworth is closed. the golden gate is closed. leavenworth. so you have to go back up and then figure out how to get to how to get to jones and etcetera. it's a lot more cars involved with that. so one of the you know, the big picture is, is you have to do some mitigation measures. but the thing is, is that the busses should not have to be stuck in traffic trying to pick up people at at at the next to the library and then try and merge back into traffic. so this is this is a great move, but it should have started at golden gate. in fact, i believe there is some arrows that actually tell people to merge at golden gate, at hyde, to move over to the lane because i think it's a right turn only

lane. now at mcalester, it's a right turn only lane. so i think you should bring it back to the golden gate. the only thing is, is the orpheum the orpheum has has matinees. and so the double parking on the east side of the street could mean it's only one lane travel lane because the double parking by the tnc is can be atrocious for the matinees. so we have to work with the orpheum and give them the space when they unload their shows. but at the same time help them keep the white zone clear for the for the passenger pickup. thank you. that's your time. thank you. next speaker, please . good afternoon. i'm jaime viloria. i'm a resident and co-chair of the traffic safety task force. i'm here in support of the proposal for the full time transit only lane on hyde street to mcalester and market with caveats. um, first off, thank you to jessica co, jennifer molina and mta staff has been working with the

community on the high street. quick build. um and thank you for reading our letter from the task force, but i do want to reiterate several points from it . i know the next meeting will cover the entire hyde street quick build, but i would like to emphasize there should be some implementation for the transit lane and the entire plan this and then also ensure evaluation before and after the red transit paint is done. there's also concerns about bottlenecking north of mcalester. if it's not done entirely. and also if you do the whole thing rather than piecemeal, this will build trust and show care and strengthen staff credibility, because we've seen plenty of examples where changes can be made seemingly at a whim without proper engagement. if the city can fast track for apek, we should be able to do the same for equity communities like the tenderloin. what better way to show the world we are world class city by doing fast and effective? also, the concerns on the pedestrian safety on hyde street. thank you

to the directors for elevating that. um. you all beat me to it . but you know, i really want to echo that urgency. ac and traffic safety task force will be spending time to observe the area and continued work with mta. thank you so much for your time. i look forward for the full hyde street quick build hearing and two weeks and seeing it implemented soon and quickly . thank you. next speaker, please. birx your mic. all right . tom radulovich with livable city. we're here in support of this project and the implementation of this project at the tenderloin is a great example of a neighborhood that actually contributes very little to the problems created by the transportation system. it's a very walking and cycling transit oriented neighborhood. it is one of the most subjected to damage from our automobile based transportation system. so projects like this that

prioritize routes like the 27 that are used by communities like the tenderloin are very, very important. so we're glad that this is before you and we urge you to support it. it is it is a huge equity step up. it's a transit step. we always support transit priority, but i think inequity communities that have really borne the brunt of bad traffic engineering, frankly, it's really, really important. the other thing is this is a multi modal project. it's a very important safety project and at least it showed up on the slides and i hope it's part of it. but at grove and market and hyde, they would add a crosswalk on the leg from the library to the orpheum. now that's a really, really important place now because we closed called it the burger king plaza entrance to the transit station. everyone getting off transit to get to civic center, all the performing arts institutions, everything going on at civic center. you have to cross at that intersection unless you cross up at fulton. so it's a really important site, walking thing. and if you're like me today coming up, coming from downtown

and you want to get to grove street, which is one of the least bad places to cycle in civic center, because most of them are bad, then you have to do this really weird turn to get onto grove. this will allow folks to get on to grove. so if you're cycling coming up, market coming back the other direction and it'll make it safer on market because what happens is traffic it's a one way car sewer right comes down. hyde there's a blind corner because the orpheum, they whip around right into that crosswalk. so adding the crosswalk where there's better visibility is a huge safety improvement. so because this is a transit priority project and a bike and said safe bike and ped safety project, we urge you to implement it immediately. thank you. thank you. next speaker, please. afternoon, directors. my name is cyrus hall. i'm here to voice support for this early movement on the hyde quick build in the form of a transit only lane for mcalester to market. i ask that this board support this early movement and that the board asks staff to ensure the transit only lane will go all the way to

eddie in the full build. hyde regularly sees traffic congestion from the entire length of gary to market during peak hours. riders deserve fast and reliable transit along this entire stretch of hyde, staff says this particular project is urgent because of apec. i want to note that apec is a once in a decade event for this city, but that riders take transit every single day in the city and that we should be moving with this level of urgency to improve routes for communities like the tenderloin and for everyday riders across the entire system . um, the more that we can provide reliable routes fast routes, just like director tomlin said today, we can make sure that our bus lines see improved ridership across the city. it also gives us operational improvements as we're facing an operating deficit over the next three years, maybe more, depending upon what happens. we have to take capital action to ensure that we can do more with less in terms of our operational resources. as the iterative

approach laid out in this project plan transit only lane creation followed later by painting the lane red when resources are available could be extended more widely across the city to speed up the rollout of transit only lanes in the non-painted lane on gary, recently approved by this board as part of the gary boulevard improvement project, could be used to study the benefits of this accelerated approach. finally i would call on sfmta to hold any evaluation of the hi transit only lane until it is completed and painted red. while some benefits can be gained now, paint is an important part of the final design signaling to other drivers to stay out of the lane early evaluation may not show the full result of the project. thank you. thank you. next speaker, please. hello, directors. my name is rachel clyde. i'm a community organizer with the san francisco bicycle coalition. we are proud members of the tenderloin traffic safety task force and give our comments

today in partnership with the task force. we support the hyde street transit lanes. on the agenda today and ask the board to approve this project. however, we also have concerns about how this item was split from the hyde street quick builds the transit project only stretches from mcallister to market, just those mere two blocks. as we discussed earlier , the scope of the whole quick build stretches from market to geary and includes many safety improvements. we're concerned that since the transit project is being fast tracked and the remaining quick build is not being approved at the same time, both projects might fall short of their safety goals. we aren't confident that just these two lanes or sorry, two blocks of transit only lanes will be effective at improving bus travel times. and we worry that the hyde street quick build will continue to be delayed. and i want to thank director hinsey for their questions earlier on this. additionally, we are concerned about the disregard for the community input that went into the project during the

outreach process. there was no indication that the project would be split and so this change in plans affects the relationship between the agency and the community and the trust that was built during the project and the outreach. so we ask the board to approve the transit project today and to also approve the hyde street quick build as soon as possible so that both projects can be implemented together. thank you. thank you. not seeing any other speakers in the room, could you please open the remote? secretary silva at this time we'll move to remote public comment. not to exceed a total time of ten minutes each. speaker should dial star three to enter the queue and we'll have two minutes. moderator for speaker. good afternoon, directors. mark gleason here we want to thank victoria weiss and the mta staff for holding group meetings regarding the orpheum theaters concerns related to loading and load out of productions, which often include

multiple trucks. we appreciate the willingness of the sfmta and all the stakeholders. is working with the orpheum and with our labor partners at the orpheum to ensure that work at the orpheum will continue to be to be performed appropriate, safely and safely. we look forward to continuing to collaboration with the parties so that the work site at the orpheum can continue to provide a stellar cultural events for our community. thank you. thank you. next speaker. hello, this is eric roselle, a resident of the tenderloin and co-chair of the tenderloin traffic safety task force. i just want to reiterate several of the previous comments about expedite the completion of the full hyde street quick build project and really emphasize the need to improve pedestrian safety at fulton and hyde and

fulton and larkin have seen and witnessed and nearly missed myself there on numerous occasions. so by vehicles that merge with pedestrians in that area, i would highly encourage urge the mta to incorporate some kind of diagonal crossing. it could be amazing. pilot working with the asian art museum to design something that works really well to emphasize the need for vehicles to stop and keep the community safe. if that doesn't work, then any other type of traffic calming, including maybe even a pedestrian scramble at those locations, would be greatly appreciated. thank you for your time. thank you. next speaker. good afternoon, directors. this is dillon fabris. the community and policy manager at san francisco transit riders. i'm calling today to urge you to approve the transit only lanes on hyde street between mcallister and market streets.

as jessica mentioned during her presentation, the section of hyde street serves busses about every four minutes. the tenderloin is in equity priority community or a high number of residents are daily transit riders and relatively few are drivers in line with the city's transit first policies. and our vision to improve the speed and reliability of public transit in san francisco. this is an important project to improve the experience of riders during and beyond as other speakers have mentioned, it's crucial that the improvements to hyde not stop here. the transit lanes must be permanent and work must continue quickly. north of mcallister to eddy to add transit lanes and pedestrian safety improvements to the rest of the corridor. it's disappointing that due to a lack of workforce capacity and resources improvements north of mcallister haven't been included. as part of this expedited proposal. and that red paint will have to be delayed until next year. this is a reminder that sfmta staff and board must be focused on securing sustainable funding

sources as we face a fiscal cliff in the coming years. so the agency can implement other projects like this one, with minimal delays. thank you to staff for all the work and outreach you've done to get this project off the ground on an expedited schedule. and once again, i urge the board to vote to approve the project today. thank you. thank you. next speaker, our. high mrs. stacy randecker. i just wanted to echo a lot of what everyone else has said, especially cyrus and tom. i the tenderloin, the way it is designed, it functions as an interchange and people live there. we know so many people are hurt and killed on those streets because it just is for cars driving through. so anything that can be done to speed transit, to edge out motor

vehicles that aren't transit would would really be appreciated. and i am dismayed that it won't be read and that it won't go as far as it could. i'm also sensitive that we yes, we have this big fancy thing coming to town, but what would they do if they were going to have this in sweden or france or somewhere in europe? would it be a big like panic, like you've got to clean up the house before guests come over, you know, and i'm not talking about know sidewalks and whatever that other departments will worry about, but i'm talking about our streets. why aren't we doing this? why don't we have the same sense of urgency for the people that live here every day? the tenderloin and other affected neighborhoods that don't don't get the speed of transit the same safety and protection for other modes of transportation.

we really need to take a look at what we're doing in the priority that we have. and i know funding is tough, but you know, go after, go get residential parking throughout the city, you know, charge not just what they say. we can, but charge a real rate and get money into our budget so that we can make these things happen quickly. and it'll be better for everyone. thank you. thank you. next speaker. is herbert weiner. one of my concerns about this project is i'm wondering if this isn't going to increase bus congestion with automobile wheels because there will be forced to drive in another lane and it might really make driving very difficult. now it's one thing to increase transport time. i can understand

that. but all parties have to benefit from this proposal. so secondly, i'm wondering, wouldn't it be actually more economical to increase the amount of busses along the corridors? would it cost the same amount of money that that it does implementing this project? so these are some questions i have about about this project. but i think one general problem is, is that a lot of labor changes are being done along corridors to increase driving speed of the busses. this is a legitimate concern, but i'm wondering if density of service won't address this problem. the more busses there are, the more frequency there is and the more accessibility there is to the transportation. and also, i'm concerned that no

pedestrian stops are going to be no bus stops are going to be removed as a result of this project. thank you. thank you. no additional callers. okay. close public comment. i think director henzi had made a motion. is that correct? to approve? correct yes, i have that. yes. great we have a second. could you please call the roll on the motion to approve director heminger heminger. director henderson. henderson director hinsey. hi kinsey. i director. so i. so i director kahina. i kahina i chair ekin. hi ekin. i thank you. the item is approved. thank you. colleagues, we have our vision zero item coming up. a quarterly deep dive. i'd love to take a brief recess for the board if that's okay. and staff and please come back. it's close to five minutes as you possibly can. thank you. thank you sure. item 12 presentation and

discussion regarding a vision zero update. hi. good afternoon , board. my name is with no vision zero program manager at the sfmta and i have some slides to share once they're and this is our third quarterly update for the vision zero program. and so we're following up on some of our quarter two updates providing you more information on our quick build quarter projects, more detail on our quick build toolkit project, on the remaining high injury network miles, as well as an update on what the sfmta sfmta is doing around multiple turn lanes and also how we're preparing for assembly bill 645 in the event that the governor signs it for a six california city pilot of speed safety cameras. so as many of you as as

many of you know, the quick build program was formalized in 2019 and is an initiative to quickly implement pedestrian and bicycle safety improvements along our high injury network using low cost and reversible tools such as paint, signage, parking adjustment. it's. and so since 2019, we've completed 30 two quarter projects, accounts for about 50 miles of traffic safety improvements as shown on that map on the top right of the slide, you can go to the website that it's in the footer of the slide for more information on, you can also sign up for monthly newsletter updates since september monthly update was released last friday and is also on the web and you'll also be able to see this map at the top of the page where you can kind of dive deep, deeper into where the quick builds have been citywide. when we were here in july, we shared that we had 17

quick build corridor projects on on deck and these are this is the list. i apologize. it's a little bit small on the screen. and these are status updates as of september 2023. and so since our last update, we've completed valencia and bayshore quick builds and so we have 15 more here listed in different stages of construction legislation and planning design starting now through 2024. and these projects are all funded through a combination of tnc tax and half cent sales tax, prop k, prop l funds. and our fourth edition of the vision zero action strategy in 2021, there is a commitment to apply the quick build toolkit to the remaining high injury network, which is about 50 remaining miles right now. one

of the first things we did was to hire a consultant to assess the whole remaining hydrogen network and prepare a pre-planned study with potential treatments for mta to consider. and the full report is also on our quick build web page. and so this is this is a similar slide. you saw last quarter, just kind of builds on it. this is going to be our core quick build toolkit that we're applying on the remaining 50 miles as the core are in the yellow highlighted. and so by the end of 2024, every remaining high injury network mile will receive these five core treatments. crosswalk upgrades, pedestrian head starts, daylighting longer walk times and advanced limit lines and the treatments you see in blue will require additional screening to identify the

intersections that need signal lens upgrades from 8 inch to 12 inch painted safety zones, slow turn wedges, hardened center lines and turn calming restrictions or turn calming. and this is kind of a high level overlook of our plan and timing . we are currently right here. we finished the pre-planning report. we've done a kickoff meeting and we're spreading the work across several mta teams, including our quick build corridor teams, our signals team and also we have four engineers dedicated to the toolkit at a partial time. and we'll be working on submitting a funding request to the to next week for about $6 million, which will include materials and labor for the quick build toolkit. and then future work will include food producing the work orders and doing the legislation and

scheduling with the shops. so on where you can find and track the progress on the quick build toolkit. this morning on the quick build project page, the j&j network progress map was was published and it's a dashboard where you can track the toolkit and visualize and quantify our implementation progress. so in oops, sorry. so when you go to the website, you'll scroll down above the completed section and you'll click on this blue tab that says hydrogen network progress map. and it'll take you to this public dashboard and the blue blue lines on the map kind of show where our hydrogen network mileage has been addressed. and then the orange lines show the remaining that's also broken down by district. and if you hover over the map, you can also find more information specific to that segment. and we plan to update

this quarterly, this is another similar dashboard you've seen before, before it was set up for quarterly updates and if you hovered over each of the icons, you can kind of see our cumulative progress and we just kind of switch that. so it's just easier to tell at a glance . our cumulative work to date. and then you can hover at it for quarter data and we will continue to update this quarterly. and the web address is in the footer of the slide and so after the fourth and king fatal, we were asked to share mbta's work on multiple turn lanes. so in 2005, this report that you kind of see a snapshot on the slide was written addressing multiple turn lanes and identified over 80 intersections throughout the city. so following this initial report, we have addressed 80. we've removed 80% of the intersections on this list or in

this report by converting dual turn lanes into single turn lanes or signal separation of motorists and pedestrians. and we're happy to share the report . so from that list, we have a remainder of 15 multiple turn lanes left from the report. the majority of these have already been assigned to staff for engineering review and action. several of these can occur quickly through striping and signal timing, while others may need to be tied to longer term capital construction projects. and now i'm going to turn it over to shannon hake, who's going to be the project manager for speed safety cameras to give you some more detailed information. thanks duane. hi, directors. i'm shannon hake, the new program manager for speed safety cameras. we are still eagerly awaiting the governor's

signature on assembly bill 645, but we're already looking towards implementing life saving speed safety cameras here in san francisco. the bill that is on governor newsom's desk right now would allow mta, along with five other california cities, to run a pilot speed safety camera program for the next several years. during this time, we'd install 33 cameras in fixed locations to assess their effectiveness at slowing down vehicles. why are we doing this ? well, we know that speed kills. it's the primary crash factor and injuries and fatalities on san francisco's streets. the slower a car is moving, the more likely a collision is survivable. well, that's why a lot of our work is focused on slowing vehicle speeds. one of the most effective tools at changing behavior is introducing monetary penalties and cities across the country and around the world. automated speed enforcement, significant reduces speeding. it's a known traffic safety tool that works in new york city, shown in this graph on the lower right hand side, speeding was

reduced 73% when cameras were introduced. we have been eagerly awaiting the opportunity to use this tool in san francisco for years. so we have already identified a roadmap to get cameras up and running by 2025. we're in the very first step of this process right now, screening locations where we believe speed cameras will be effective and learning from other cities who have implemented programs like this next year, we'll be deep in the design process for the 33 cameras and will develop the scaffolding for the program. figuring out what the individual violation process looks like from the flash of a camera to the review and issuance of a violation to potential administrative hearings and appeals, and then building all of the systems to support the program at that scale before we turn the cameras on, we'll initiate a public education campaign on letting everyone know where the cameras are and how they'll work. and for the first 60 days, we'll only issue warnings. we'll be evaluating the effectiveness of each camera at reducing speeding. and if a camera is not reducing speeding

after 18 months, we will remove it. we are kicking off the planning process now, setting up public engagement to guide the program. i'm learning from other cities to scope the program and analyzing our network to identify where cameras can go. and that is probably the biggest question right now. where are these 33 cameras going? assembly bill 645 gives us some guidelines that have helped us narrow down where our 33 cameras might go. every camera will be on the high injury network. they will be distributed geographically throughout the city to cover all 11 districts. and they will be distribute in a wide variety of neighborhoods. and the cameras will not be hidden. we will share exactly where they are and how they're working at all times. the other question i get is what they'll look like. and we're not quite sure yet. we may start with mobile systems like you see on the left to get cameras up and running as quickly as we can. but our goal is to implement fixed cameras for this program

in the 33 locations. long term. thank you so much and win. and i are happy to take your questions . thank you. do you have questions for the presenters before we go to public comment. okay. i think we should maybe hear from the public and then we can have our board discussion. so i'll open the public comment for anyone attending the meeting in person. i have a speaker card for carol bronson. powerful words. i didn't mean to go first. good afternoon, directors. my name is carol bronson and i get around san francisco on my mobility

scooter. that means navigating sidewalks that are in need of repair. of course. but more important, i have to cross the street. but without being in endangered by cars. now there's an olympic game. i'm in the vision zero update. it my attention was caught by the description of the quick build tool kit. three items in particular. i benefit from the daylight ing of street corners every day. also the pedestrian head start at bravo. but i want to talk about the advanced limit lines. most of the drivers i see respect them with one huge exception in right turn on red advanced limit lines are pointless when a driver wants to turn right on red. most of the time they don't even slow down before driving over the crosswalk so that they can

observe the oncoming traffic. even on the updated part of geary with those beautiful red bus lines that help the 38 get where it's going. love that when i'm crossing geary i have to watch out for drivers coming down to turn right in front of me on laguna when i'm in the crosswalk. three quarters of the way across geary. so we need no right on red for the advanced limit lines to be genuinely effective. thank you. thank you . next speaker, please. hi, aaron brewer again, this is a part about sorry, a note about the toolkit, the slow turn wedges, the turn, calming these things create problems. i have come to a meeting after meeting to talk about low height architecture that gets put in the ground that you guys are trying to send signals to cars.

meanwhile you are creating impediments to mobility for anybody who uses small wheels. i understand that it is important to signal things to people who need them. it is not fair to compromise the mobility of people who are using the streets without 22 inch tires in order to send that signal, she said the same thing about sidewalks, which as far as i understand, are not included in vision zero. that is tripping hazards, all kinds of holes from maintenance covers being missing and things like that. there are all kinds of things that are uniquely applicable to people who use small wheels. i implore you to please remove of all slow turn wedges from the toolkit. i said the same thing about the bus curbs when the valencia project happened. i was here when the project was being discussed and i mentioned them. i watched during the sunday streets as people tripped over them all day . there is no amount of two inch tall architecture that is going to fix the problem with cars that doesn't also have negative impacts on other people. please stop using these and please

listen to us when we show up to talk about them. thank you. thank you. next speaker, please . good afternoon. my name is jody medeiros and i'm the executive director of san francisco. and i first want to thank the sfmta staff for their presentation and for this body to be listening to you. what is going to happen, hopefully with ab 645, we're really happy that they are getting ahead of the game and really laying out that roadmap for implementation. once the governor signs, i want to focus right now on on 2021, when san francisco families for safe streets and the 30 plus groups and the vision zero coalition advocates for and commended the city for their vision zero action strategy. and the reason was because the strategy included a commitment to get safety improvements on the 50 miles of the high end streets that were still awaiting fixes by december of 2024. we need the sfmta to deliver on their promise and definitely on time,

because every day tens of thousands of people are crossing at the 900 intersections on those 50 plus miles of pine tree streets. and when those safety improvements aren't in place, the odds are higher that someone is hurt or killed. it could be a child, a senior, me, you and bringing basic safety infrastructure fixes to these 50 miles is critical. it's crucial. we're grateful for all the work that the sfmta has been doing to really take this on in. but we are concerned that there isn't a plan and an oversight needed to drive progress and ensure success. where are the milestones? what's needed? what are the safety pieces in place? if anything gets off track, directors, i'm asking you to diligently keep vision zero in focus and keep asking the tough questions. to be sure, we can all celebrate the 50 plus miles of the high injury network fixed with those spot improvements and

those corridors that you saw today. at the end of 2024. thank you. thank you. next speaker, please. afternoon board. my name is cyrus hall. i live in d7 right off clarendon, which as you probably know is part of the high injury network. as you also know, we've seen three people killed and many more seriously injured over just the last six weeks. i haven't heard a lot of updates at mtab about this. i thought that we were going to hear every time that someone was killed on a city street, a pedestrian, etcetera, a report about what happened, the general overview and what the agency was going to do about it. i haven't been hearing that. would love to. just last night, a pedestrian in a crosswalk near fifth and market was seriously injured when a driver slammed into them as they were in the crosswalk before they were then rolled over and crushed by an av . our current policy is and plans are clearly not working quickly enough. we still have 900 dangerous intersections that

need to be addressed before the end of next year. we need a clear plan and accounting on how this will happen. and i'd note that the current approach towards vision zero seems very quick. build focused. we hear a lot about quick builds in these updates, but what we're not hearing about are policies. what other policies can we adopt as a city that can move us forward, not at, you know, quarter by quarter or intersection by intersection accident, by accident, but it can move us forward across the entire city. every time we do an update anywhere, one such policy is no turn on red after showing an 80% reduction in close calls in the tenderloin, supervisor preston has introduced a resolution to ban right turns on reddit. every city intersection where it is possible and my understanding is there is concern inside sfmta over the impact on bus speed and reliability. this is appropriate and understandable. clearly bus speed is important, but i would ask the board and staff to dig

deeper, work with the board of supervisors and ensure there is a set of lane and intersection treatments ready to go. so once no turn on, red is approved, we can ensure that both busses and pedestrians have priorities priority rather than cars is up my two minutes. yeah. okay thank you. thank you very much. next speaker, please. hi, my name is rick girling. i'm a i live in bernal heights and i'm a member of walk san francisco families for safe streets and the bike coalition. i'm here because my life changed 19 years ago when i was run over by a muni bus. and i've been doing stuff since then to try and make our city streets safe. i went to the. rally at fourth and king a few weeks ago and was alarmed to hear that people who live there know how

dangerous that is and have been saying stuff about it for months . there's a woman who won't cross that street at that crosswalk and actually has to walk a number of blocks further in order to do her shopping. every week. that's the kind of thing that really should not be happening. not at all. we also saw someone almost get run over in a wheelchair with two policemen there watching, and the person did not receive a citation. they they did take their their license plate down and said they would send a citation in the mail. but it's not a real citation. it's like a parking ticket. and that's to me is completely unacceptable. when an officer sees a violation take place and then doesn't and they say the reason they don't take action is because there's too much paperwork. i find that appalling as a teacher who's who had to deal with tons of paperwork, i can tell you that

too much paperwork is not an excuse for not doing your job. my boy. there's a whole lot more that i could say. the last thing i'd say to control speed i did work on getting those speed cameras. i'd also like to see a whole lot more places to have times. lights where the lights are timed at 25mph. it's the best way to slow people down. you know, you can speed all you want to get to the next light, but it's not going to help you any. and i would encourage the thank you you to do that. thank you. thank you. next speaker, please. good afternoon. tom radulovich with livable city. and yeah i'm. i think you should do everything on this list. i also just don't think it's going to be enough. you know these are really palliatives the things that you can do with paint on the corners, you know things that you can glue to the street or paint on the street. those aren't going to do it if the rest of the street design is

telling you to speed up. now, i live between dolores and guerrero street, so to high injury corridors and to backup what erin was saying. i mean, there was this huge freak out about people, you know, skateboarding down the street. and then all these dots went in. those dots are dangerous. you know, there's a bikeshare station at 20th and church. and so, you know, you can get in your bay wheels bike, you can start going down, dolores, then you will wipe out and you will be under the wheels of a vehicle and killed because those dots are still there. months after. now, you know, the other thing is living between those two streets, i can only conclude that mta is totally okay with hill bombing as long as you do it in a car at and the reason is, you know, like guerrero street it's a it's 40 mile per hour traffic regularly and a few years ago mta you know installed those big traffic signals that hang out over the street at those big, huge green highway style signs. this is dense residential neighborhood, dense residential street art, everything about that street

says highway. you know, and then they'll do things like, okay, little dabs of beige paint at the corners or, you know, banners on guerrero that say don't hit pedestrians. but if everything else about the street tells you you're on a highway and the street design, then all those palliatives aren't going to work. so you need to move beyond quick build to some real rethinks of the streets that have been arterial ized, you know, turned into these major car sewers. they need to turn back into neighborhood streets and that's going to be design treatments. that's going to be road diets. that's going to be a designed speed of 20mph as opposed to a posted speed. and until you do that, we're really not going to see these numbers come down. thank you. thank you . next speaker, please. hi, this is barry toronto. i want to point out to you, last thursday, the public safety committee of the board of supervisor had a hearing and it was very interesting. first it was about

the overdose issue and that was very interesting. was even more interesting is nicole watts. i can't remember her last name. nicole from this commander from the police department, gave a huge a great report on the issue of why they're not citing drivers and giving citations if you haven't seen it yet, it should make it homework to watch that hearing. really, if you are going to be on this board, watch the hearing. it was very good and very informative. i mean, the information is not good, but the but to know about it is good. so that's one thing. the next thing is, i beg you to work with your lobbyists and your and your governmental affairs people . to one way to solve this vision. zero issue is to reduce the number of cars on the road and how you do that is by limiting the number of taxis that can work in san francisco at one time, new york does it, but new york has different laws,

but maybe you can talk to your your assembly members and your and your state senator and urge them to allow cities like san francisco to put some clamp down on the number of taxis that can work. san francisco streets that would go a long way. and last but not least, i do that intersection at fifth and market all the time. i think as a car driver rather than an autonomous vehicle. i would have noticed the car next to me having hit the pedestrian and stopped immediately me or reacted immediately to avoid running over this pedestrian. so the for some reason the autonomous car did not want to stop and ran over the leg and of course didn't move. if a driver would have moved the car right away and gotten the person into an ambulance right away. so there's a problem with these autonomous vehicles because that intersection actually is pretty safe. thank you. tell you the truth. thank you. thank you for your comment. any other speakers

in the room on vision zero deep dive, please open remote. at this time. we'll move to remote public comment not to exceed a total time of ten minutes. members of the public wishing to comment should dial star three to enter the queue. each speaker will have two minutes. moderator for speaker. speaker you've been unmuted. moderator let's go to technical difficulty. hi. do you go ahead. hello. yep hi. i'm sorry about that. this is stacy randecker for barry. the only vision zero death assistant market, which is a terrible intersection, not a safe intersection, is from a taxi driver. so please don't tell me that you sure you'd stop and not do a hit and run? i mean, i get that. but to say

that you'd have better reaction time than an ad, give me a break . amen. to what tom radulovich said. and i'm totally, totally stealing that line. hill bombing is okay as long as you're driving a car. this is the most lackluster update for one of the biggest issues facing not just our city, but transportation worldwide. looking to speed cameras as safety, please. it's a revenue generating generator, not a safety measure. why speed safety cameras are not the most proven method for slowing cars. the most proven method is concrete. where is that? in the tool kit? why isn't that being deployed in more places? we need to extend the slow street network and implement car free streets in merchant corridors like valencia school streets like in london and paris and on scenic stretches like great highway park and grand embarcadero at the last vision zero workshop, i asked why creating new streets is not part of the tool kit. they had no idea. what are we doing here? why aren't we doing more to make

our city vibrant? to speed transit, to make it safe for pedestrians and cyclists and people on skateboards, scooters , wheelchairs to navigate the city? why are we continue only catering to cars and drivers? please let's do something. thank you. thank you. next speaker. our. hello. can you hear me? go ahead. yes, hi, i'm stephen bingham and my daughter was killed four months out of college, biking to work. it was not in san francisco, but it could have been. and speed was one of the factors. and on the one hand, i want to congratulate you for much of the vision zero

plan. but my main concern is that it sort of like a bureaucrat, it go slow process process that goes out into 2024, 2025, and the urgency to save lives is just not there. how many times has it been a sort of quick build safety project, right? in a place like at fourth and king where somebody gets killed, it's like you have to get killed or badly injured to get a project speeded up and really needs to happen with all of you is to die justice. emotionally, what's happening to us? who were out there getting killed and injured and it could be one of you because you're all pedestrians. at one point during the day and you need to urge

staff to be good at getting projects in the vision zero plan completed. thank you. thank you. next speaker. is michael sacks. i live in d2 and i just feel like the fact that so many people are being killed on our streets is something that we need to take a new approach about. we have 900 dangerous intersections that we're aware of and every day that we don't take some drastic action to address these is that another day that we're complicit in these deaths, in these permanent injuries that people have for the rest of their lives and to be frank, like streets don't have to allow cars every day. sfmta allows cars onto pretty

much every single street in san francisco and maybe until the intersections are no longer dangerous, we shouldn't allow cars and we should just open them up to busses and professional taxi drivers and bicycles and people walking and then maybe at the mta won't have infrastructure that leads to people dying. three people dying in the past six weeks. it's crazy. and i think it's bad for business. and i don't understand how the board of directors doesn't imagine themselves being hit and killed by a car or their children being hit and killed by a car. i mean, just selfishly look at it and think, hey, maybe we shouldn't have these death machines speeding all over residential areas. san francisco, the city, it's the city for people. we shouldn't do this anymore. thank you. next

speaker. board members. luke bornheimer. i urge you and staff to come up with concrete policies and infrastructure improvements that will help people shift more trips away from cars and to access transportation, as well as public transportation, which will help our city not only increase roadway safety, but reduce noise and air pollution, improve public health, and help our city take climate action. this includes, but is not limited to a connected network. extensive bike lanes and protected intersections, the latter of which staff has resisted, including and design and installing throughout the city, as well as traffic, diverters and modal filters every 2 to 4 blocks on every flow street and a municipal bike share program that makes using bikes more accessible and affordable for people who want to use bikes for transportation . the agency's current approach to roadway safety of focusing exclusively on the high injury network and on band-aid solutions that are at their

foundation core infrastructure is failing our people. city and the planet. sfmta and mayor breed must prioritize sustainable mode shift if our city has any hope of addressing the multiple crises we face as a city and planet, i urge you and staff to come up with concrete policies and infrastructure improvements that will help people shift more trips away from cars and to active transportation as well as public transportation, including a notably a connected network of protected bike lanes and protected intersections, which will help our city not only increase roadway safety, but will reduce noise and air pollution, improve public health, and help our city take climate action. thank you. thank you. next speaker. hi, my name is elliott schwartz and i live in d9 with my family. vision zero is almost ten years old, 2024 was supposed to be our goal year for having zero deaths. and instead of the number of deaths is higher than ever, we've

failed, totally failed. it's not even close either. we're doing the wrong thing or or we're doing not close to enough of the right thing or both. we need to make more, more drastic changes and we need to make them everywhere in the city. if we're going to have any hope of making progress. if the board and the sfmta staff and me are back here in ten years with another 250 san franciscans that are dead, i'll i it's just unimaginable. it's unimaginable. we let this go on year after year. thank you. thank you. next speaker. good afternoon. this is peter strauss. i'm a transit rider and a pedestrian, a walker and these days i'm a walker more than

anything else. i'm a supporter of the concept of vision zero. but as the last speaker noted, what we have been doing has has just not worked. it's failed. we have not moved the needle and yet we continue to mostly just do more of the same couple of exceptions, you know, the speed safety cameras, great thing. long time coming. hope we can implement that as soon as possible. but the real reason i called is to urge you to do everything you can to implement no right. turn on red in san francisco. i grew up in new york. i learned to walk and i learned to drive with no, no, turn on red. new york has never had turned allowed on red. and as a pedestrian, ian, you know what that offers is you can really tell which way traffic is coming from. and that's really important from a perspective of pedestrian safety. so as other speakers have mentioned, i want to add my voice and i really want to urge you to do everything you can to make san francisco no turn on red

throughout the city. that would be for me, a dream come true. it's something i've wanted to see for a long time. thank you. thank you. next speaker. this is herbert weiner. one thing i'm wondering about is shouldn't there be some indication of the traffic deaths being reduced right now? now, this is very important because, you know, i want to see the real progress of vision zero. and what about the safety on the sidewalk. excuse me? you know, this is important to so i don't think they're going to be successful in reducing the deaths and by next

year, though, i think some improvements are in order. so i think that this vision zero has to be more scrutinized, more carefully in order to make it an effective organization. thank you. thank you. next speaker. hello thanks for the opportunity to comment. my name is megan mccauley. i am a resident of no valley and i was also a victim of a traffic crash last year which crushed my left leg and from which i am still recovering . i'm also a parent of two children who attend two different schools on valencia street, a high injury corridor. my two biggest takeaways from my recent and unfortunate traffic crash were one that pedestrians

have very little chance against a moving vehicle. the second is i just note how needlessly dangerous our san francisco streets really are for pedestrians and bikers. and so while i appreciate the attention that current mta, the current mta, has paid to trying to deliver on the promises that it made for vision zero, it's clearly not enough. we are seeing increased traffic deaths and accidents. and so i'd like to respectfully request that you please, please add to these quick fixes, make them more substantial by implementing left turn calming, no turn on red and pedestrian safety zones across the board to these 900 danger intersections across the city. thanks so much. thank you. no

additional callers. okay. thank you for the comments. director hemminger is first in the queue. please thank you, madam chair, and much of what i have to say at the outset maybe would be better, said at the first meeting of your vision zero committee, but maybe i could just get some of these ideas on the table. if i remember correctly from the testimony, one of our comments was said we're either not we're either doing the wrong thing or we're not doing enough of the right thing. and it seems to me that sums it up. i mean, we have done a tremendous amount of work within this department with not a lot of help from the city family and yet just looking at the cold, raw data. it's as if

we haven't done a thing. we have the same number of people dying every year than when we started . san francisco has actually lost population during that period of time in the pandemic and we still can't seem to nudge the numbers down. and i guess whether this is the second or third quarterly report, it was what we're getting is a report of engineering outputs and we're not at least remembering the human outcomes of what's happening out there. i mean, if it were up to me, the first slide on every deck that we get from now on at these quarterly reports would include the names of the people who died. i know we keep track by numbers, but that each one is a person and

each one is a son and a daughter and a husband and a wife and look, this is very difficult to talk about because i don't want to be misconstrued as criticizing what our our staff has done. they know and we know this is about saving lives and we're either doing the wrong thing or not enough of the right thing. i suspect it's more the latter than the former, but we've got a long way to go and we're going to fail. we're going to miss this target probably by a country mile, but that in my view, doesn't mean we ought to stop. it means we ought to redouble our efforts and we ought to look at some of the things that may be heretofore or have been off the table. and put them on the table. and i know madam chair, that's part of the

reason for your forming this committee. so that's engineering . it's what we know. it's our strong suit. but this discussion i learned a long time ago is really about three e's, not one. the second e is enforcement. and here our police department has fled the field. and i do want to thank supervisor mandelman for convening, i think, a couple of hearings and maybe just to pause , jeff, i don't know if you or tom or whoever it might have been was at that hearing is there any upshot from the work he's trying to do to push them to do more traditional enforcement. and good afternoon. jamie parks livable streets. i was not at the hearing, but i did watch the hearing. the primary outcome of the hearing was that the police department promised a specific enforcement

plan by the first quarter of 2024 in which they would describe how they would how, where and when they would increase traffic enforcement efforts and supervisor mandelman continued the hearing to the first quarter of 2024, where he's going to call them back again to present that plan and that was the primary outcome. and are they going to do that? did you get the impression they're going to do that on their own or perhaps by cooperating with us? we would be happy to work with them if they reach out to us and we would love to work with them on the enforcement plan. i wouldn't wait for somebody else to make the first step. we can see, yeah , okay. and look, the good news with enforcement is we've got a new tool in the tool kit and i hope it's one we can use. s i did have a couple of questions about that part of the presentation. the first is maybe

a little impertinent, but what does supervisorial districts have to do with the placement of these cameras? nothing thing. that was just an example of how they will be slide then geographically distributed throughout the city. and look, i don't want to sit here and tell you how we ought to do it, but it seems to me we ought to look quite far afield from supervisorial districts to figure out where to put these cameras. absolutely. one place would be where the people are getting killed. the other question i had about that, and this is a bit of a detail, but i think it might be an important one with with the red light cameras. my red collection is that we put up a bunch of boxes and then we rotated the cameras within the boxes. so some folks would see a box at an intersect and think, oh, i better slow down when there was no camera in

there at all. and that was a way of sort of force multiplying and getting more of a presence out there than we could if we just had one box, one camera per box . can we do something like that here? because i know there's a limit on how many cameras we can use. so is there a way to force multiply that number if we put up or have more? you showed us some pictures of like actual vehicles. so the question would be, could we like buy some extra vehicles and put them out where everybody, everything else is deployed and just not have a camera in them? i'm not certain on that. well, that's a question . and look, i have a feeling with enforcement, we're just going to have to think outside a lot of boxes and i guess one question there is, is, is with enforcement, we're sort of a

step at least or two outside of our wheelhouse. it seems to me at and, you know, the enforcement arm is traditionally the police department. but here we've got a relations ship that just isn't clicking. and i don't know if there is someone else to turn to, whether it's i've mentioned this before, the sheriff's department, whether it's some other expert out in the field of enforcement that it would be worth consulting, because i don't think we're getting nearly enough out of enforcement. i mean, with the traditional arrests and the traditional enforcement were basically down to zero. now in terms of what's happening out there, so maybe we just need to find some other partners that that could help us across the finish line. and then finally,

the third e is education an and i've always thought it's the least effective tool and it's sort of a third e always it's never number 1 or 2, but given how much trouble we're having in nudging the needle here, i, i wonder whether we ought to revisit or at least i ought to revisit that assumption. and figure out whether some kind of big educational push which would help look like we got i got to believe we don't have a town full of homicidal maniacs driving around our streets for the most part. i think there are very distracted. just for starters. and a lot of us aren't very good drivers and that's no big secret. it's really struck me how much grief these these autonomous vehicles are getting. and they deserve some of it. but

but they drive a hell of a lot more safely than most of the motorists that are out there being driven by humans. and so, look, i know that issue is going to work itself out on its own timetable, but it does strike me just in terms of education that it wouldn't be bad to educate the public that, you know, human drivers are killing a lot more people than autonomous vehicles are. so, madam chair, i think i'll start there. i appreciate the indulgence and just getting a couple of ideas out on the table, but what we're doing isn't working and we're either doing the wrong thing or not enough of the right thing. thank you. thank you. director hemminger, please keep your notes and the that will be a great start for the first vision. zero committee meeting. and thank you in advance for

your service on that. director kahina. thank you, madam chair. i just want to appreciate all the members of the public that gave comment today. this is a discussion item for us and the fact that we had so much public comment on this just helps us really understand the sense of urgency. the community has on this subject matter. so thank you so much for your interest in this and for all your ideas too. i think they were on point and i appreciate all of them. um, i do think that in future presentations is similar to what director hemminger mentioned. we do need to have a slide, at least a slide. speaking about the number of deaths that have happened on a quarterly basis, i think, you know, every time we would hear that at the beginning of our meetings, we would open up our meetings honoring those folks. it's so important that this report does that. and then some. so i truly hope that staff heeds that that direction from from the board, but also from members of the public that it's important for us to include that. and i think it helps us tackle that third e, you know,

really trying to understand the educational component of it, why this is serious, why we're dedicating so much staff time. so much energy into really trying to meet our vision, zero goals. so that's that's super important. um, in terms of the asset, i heard very clearly from the public as well is like we need to start talking about policy changes. we need to start talking about how we are creating tangible, real material changes to our policies to ensure that we're actually making a difference and moving the needle forward. and i so appreciate chair eakins vision to create this vision zero subcommittee and, you know, i, i don't know if it's something that direction. i don't know if we should give direction to the subcommittee, but i do hope that we are delegating some authority to the members of that committee to be able to make those policy recommendations to work in tandem with staff, to work in tandem with other departments in the city, to be able to shape

and create policy to help us move this forward. and i'm not sure if that's a that's a big ask, and i'll look at our deputy city attorney to see if that's that's that goes beyond the purview of what we hope the subcommittee can can do. but it is like a dedicate time and dedicated space to talk about vision zero. and i don't want to we don't have time to waste hours or the members of the public. so i do hope that in those convenings we are just it's not just reports that we're digesting. it's not just, you know, presentations that we're getting, but we're actually able to shape policy and create policy in those in those meetings. um, and my hope is that in future meetings, you know, subcommittee members and members of staff are co-presenting on vision zero, because now we'll have to work efforts on the topic. and i do think it's so important for the governance side and the

management side to speak on this and to be able to shape our our direction with this. so i'm not sure if that's that goes beyond the purview, what a subcommittee can do. but i did want to give you space to talk about that to see if we can give direction to the subcommittee or i don't know how we could help shape that piece. thank you, director kahina you are as a board well within your purview to give direction to the subcommittee and then from there, the, you know, any direction on that comes out of the subcommittee could come back to the board. the subcommittee can make recommendations to the board for your consideration. so great. that's wonderful to hear. so in that spirit, and i don't know if this needs to be an action item, if i could just say perfect. so i you know, i definitely see i would want the subcommittee to have the teeth and the gumption

and the energy and the support of this this team to really make a concerted effort to shape some of our policies around vision zero. and i think that if we are going to dedicate time to time of this this board to talk about this, the only reason we should do it is if we're actually going to come up with some some real meaningful policy changes. so for those that made that comment, i hope this space will now be that space for you all to join those meetings. comment there and support us and helping find a real solution to this because we can do this alone and everything that you the members of the public, our team and advocates bring to the table is really helping us shape this. so. so thank you all for joining us in that effort. that's it. thank you, secretary silva, can i can i confirm this as director henze's hand raised here? okay. can i i'm going to go to director henzi and then to you director. so thank you, madam

chair. and i too, would like to thank staff for their presentation and i do think that a lot of the policy, the policy thoughts is in our that were brought out to me by the public , um, are things that the division zero policy committee will be discussing will be discussing and potentially um making recommendations to this board at a future time, to this full board at a future time. so i'll, i'll reserve most of my, my response comments to for that meeting. um i did have a few questions. us around the slides.

i know that, um, for the quick note, there were some, um, requests from advocates to include other streets. i know one one being golf, so i'm not sure if staff's on the letter or whatever at the moment, but i know that there were a couple specific streets that were requested to be added to the originals and the turn lane reduction. so i was wondering if staff wanted to speak to those. hi, director hersey wingo, vision zero program manager at sfmta, one of the earlier slides showed the quick build corridor toolkit list of the 15 projects and that is our scope of work. from now through the end of 2024. and so adding on any additional projects would mean conversations about some of the

other quick build projects. okay so we think we think we can do 5050 between now and 2024. and i remember director of parks telling me in a meeting like that's queuing up, what, a month we think that's what we can do. um, by the end of 2024. okay correct. so no more, more quick builds means more conversation. okay. well, and then the other question i had that was specific to the presentation then was more detail around the 5 to 6 million funding requests. i think specifically the corridor spot improvements project is a great project in general. and we should these are really basic improvements. and so i'm not

worried, but i want to flag and get some more detail from you. i think i did this last night too, but around staff capacity in order to both do that, do that project by 2024, by the end of next year, and do all the do all the quick do all the quick builds. um, by the end of 2024 as well. so if, if staff wanted to address the staff capacity capacity issues because i think it's a very aggressive timeline that you, you built for yourself, which is good and the board should be pushing you to do that, obviously. but the capacity issue concerns me a little bit. so i'll answer that question. director hinsey, because ultimately i'm accountable for how we deploy our resources. so the $6 million that we talked about for the high injury corridors, the quick build program that that when

described that is that is us working at the maximum capacity of our staff. and frankly, quite quite beyond the maximum capacity of our staff. we're going to have to find a way to use small construction contract sites, join other agencies, capital projects that that is, we will find a way to get this work done because that's the ethos of the quick build program . but we are using we are we are promising you the limits of what our our our shops capacity and our contract capacity is at right now. yeah i'm just wondering if there is something that this board could do to try to help help you give you give you more resources. i know we're not we're not doing budgets for a while, but yeah, i mean, i appreciate that that that question on you know when talks about going to get $6 million from the transportation authority, we will use the last of prop k prop l money for to do that high high injury network work. reality is the bond we asked that we brought to the

voters a couple of years ago did not pass. that was tens of millions of dollars that could have been used for street safety work. we do need to grow the pot here. i mean, the question about why we're not doing more traffic signals, more concrete, many of the commenters made very, very appropriate comments about that . those things are very expensive. we do not have the resources for that. and this is a great discussion, i think, for us to pick up when we do the capital budget. the agency's capital budget this spring, because there are some hard choices between this work and other very, very urgent priorities. but until we grow the pot of money, that's available to fund capital projects for the streets, we are going to be doing this and quick build scale work at the maximum possible scale and capacity we can possibly do right. all right. um i think we as a board will hold you to that. and i think, madam chair, um, those are my specific questions for this item. i think we'll have more to say. director emminger

and i will have more to say at the subcommittee meeting. okay. thank you, director hensley, also for your thanks in advance for your service on that committee. director so thank you, chair. i got a few ideas, but also in general, thank you for the thorough presentation and thank you for all the advocacy community, people who are here today. walk sf and sf transit rider and many of you this is vision zero is very important and i think we i have to think about it. we should be pretty proud of ourselves that as a city and county agency, we actually hold ourselves accountable on a date that is like, we're going to do this in five years. we're everybody else that i know of wouldn't even commit on ten years. so i think we should be a little bit happy that we are actually putting ourselves out there and covid hits and there's a lot of things that are simply our agency is

not the only one that needs to do the work. and i like that all of us sitting here to have such a really good heart and well intent to create. i would call them these are passive strategies to alter our the environment, to try to change people's behavior. but we cannot live alone like this altar of behavior. it's a very important thing. by influencing people, change of behavior, by design, and in this case is quick build and doing a lot of implementations on traffic signal did deliberately gave more time between on pedestrian crossing and traffic signal but there's another really important part of it is that people actually do really remember really quickly to change design

and to change behavior is by police enforcement. but it's just so that's why it becomes so controversial when we have anything related to citations or fares increase. so i would like to actually see if we can have a possibility to have a better dialog with our peers. and sfpd to really needed their help to actually bring vision zero to the finishing line quicker. it's not our only issue. this is like one of the very important multi agency issue and if our committee will entertain my idea, maybe i would like to invite them to whoever. who? whoever our friends over in sfpd would would come to speak with us. had a really candid conversation because i actually

had already started to chat about having them starting to ride our muni. i'm not asking them to give anyone any citation or anything, just get on the muni instead of using their cars . i think that would actually show us that collaboration and that will power that our government do care about everyone's safety on everything, like on the street and on our fleet. so that's one thing i wanted to bring up. the other part about is that i would like to think creatively outside the box. i know there's a lot of law and city charters and therefore where we can or cannot do certain things, but the world is changing right now. we talk about av and they're actually has well what whatever my colleague had mentioned, i'm not talking about av right now. i'm just talking about like, is there a way we can think about creatively that creatively to enhance use our enforcement on

multimodal transit like people on scooters, people on e-bikes and maybe even sometimes i know the cyclist are pretty well self regulated in terms of following giving signals or giving turn signal and stuff. i wonder if we could actually implement some policy and amendment within our agency to create some level of awareness of accountability when should a scooters be on certain speed limit on what type of road or certain e-bikes they get pretty fancy. they could be really fast to i mean, these are the world is changing. i know that people can only give tickets. bless you with is in the police jurisdictions but we're changing our world is

changing now. i think i like to challenge our colleagues and our staff like can we think outside of the box rule is create for the living being and for the future. so that's it's a it's a little bit out there. i know that the city attorney could started to tell me that we're not allowed to do that, but that's already kind of know that. but i think if there's a way we can address that and you know, modify our code instant construct of thinking of government and policy to adapt quicker to this fast paced change of technology, we literally happening on our front yard and backyard the last thing is pretty easy. i'm thinking that these 33 safety cameras, i would like them to be more on a mobile card. so then that we only have 33. so we need to kind

of make sure that we get the full mileage out of it. and i feel like the quickest, the cheapest way. i like the dummy idea to i like that even. but the cheapest no, the dummy in terms of like dummy camera, not the dummy ideas. it's brilliant. actually works for a lot of other city worldwide, but like we might not even have the resources to build the quick enough. that's the reality. but if we have these mobile cameras on like 33 of them, they they constantly rotate in all the all the high injury traffic intersections. i'm just thinking out loud, i'm not sure if that's the that's working or not working, but it certainly will take a lot of pressure off of like who gets how many in what district. um, and then also, so

i mean everyone will be out there knowing that there are everywhere, you know, they, they need to be self-aware of safety because they're constantly being watched. great suggestion. the legislation that's currently waiting for the governor's signature is pretty specific in how we choose the 33 location zones where they are are and how we notice them. um, we before implement speed safety cameras have to prepare for something called a system, a speed safety system impact report analyzing the impacts on all 33 of those locations. and the legislation is pretty, pretty clear that the, the locations have to stay in the same location for 18 months if they're not working after those 18 months where we are able to potentially shift where they're located. but the legislation does say that they need to be in the same spots at

least for the beginning of the program. oh, okay. thank you for the information. so my mobile idea kind of went off. i got really excited when i saw a slide with a car. it's a mobile camera. anyway, thank you. that's kind of what i have to say. okay thank you, director. so um. so i want to start by just thanking staff for coming to work every day and working so hard on this issue, because i know it is. it's very much in the spotlight. you receive a lot of criticism. you receive a lot of sense of we're not we're failing. we're not accomplishing our goals. so i just want to acknowledge that you are we know that you work hard every single day and you deeply, deeply believe in this topic. and so i want to recognize that work. so i feel torn asking hard questions, but i also feel like

it's our job to ask hard questions. so just please know that this all comes from a place of wanting to be a thought partner, wanting to be a collaborator, and we honor your work and we honor your commitment and we know that you feel personally early every fatality, every serious injury we know that as we do. i want to ask maybe, tom, picking up on something that you said, which is around budget constraints, being a real challenge, how do we think then about if we if budget constraints are a real challenge, how do we think about solutions that scale all citywide that might not cost as much? and i do just want to i want to acknowledge we've heard a lot recently about restricting right turns on red. i will share that. this is sort of a thought i was having last night as like there's so little space in the street that pedestrians are kind of told that they're allowed to be safely. right. you're not allowed to jaywalk. we have rules against that year meant to be in the crosswalk. so it feels like if, you know, we have the

sidewalks and the crosswalk, those are the spaces that we are telling people that's safe for you to be. and that that is really then pressure and very important that it is safe in the crosswalk when we tell people that you're meant to be there and it does feel like allowing vehicles to sort of be in that space when we tell people it's safe is a conflict. so i just wonder if you could share how are you thinking about this right. turn on red question. is it something that's been a priority? are there real barriers and kind of what can you how can you respond to some of the calls for this policy? yeah i think we're we're very we're engaged in conversations with the supervisors about this. we're very happy to be having a conversation about this as both a citywide and a targeted policy . what we've done to date has been to go has been to implement no right turn on red at every signalized intersection in locations in neighborhoods like the tenderloin and parts of south of market where there is a high volume of pedestrians, there's a high volume of turning traffic and there's a high

volume, there's a history of turning traffic, hitting pedestrians. and when you think about right turn on red, well, i do. i totally agree with your typology of sidewalk crosswalks, the place where you're protected as a pedestrian tip only when a vehicle is making a right turn on red. the pedestrian in whose crosswalk the vehicle is crossing does not have a red, does not have a walk. sign the volume of pedestrians in places like tenderloin and soma, the behavior of cars and pedestrians suggests that. and the crash patterns we see show tells us that no matter what the rules of the road are, we have to stop the right turn on red from happening because there's too many crashes taking place. and that's why we've done it. we've done it area wide in those locations. and we are we actually have a federal grant to take that approach downtown where there is also a even notwithstanding the economic situation, there's still a high volume of traffic at a high volume of pedestrians in the financial district and other neighborhoods around downtown. so we are we are already funded and planning to expand. no right turn on red in san francisco in

the highest impact areas. it's going to have the highest impact on safety. but you asked about how we think about it citywide at locations where there is a lower volume of pedestrians and where there are where we have serious muni reliability issues , we just need to think about it. we can't we can't imagine that it has no cost to do right. turn on red. there are places where there is a real tradeoff between muni reliability and being able to put a no right turn on red restriction in and so what we think about it is thinking through that tradeoff thoughtfully, figuring out places where it makes sense and ultimately working with you as policy makers to figure out whether citywide is right. high density areas is right or some compromise. and that's actually what we've done with things like pedestrian head starts. we don't have pedestrian head starts at every location in the city, but we have pushed them to i mean, something like 70 or 80% of the intersections in the city because they are they're the right thing to do to protect pedestrians from turning traffic . so it's not a simple do i want

to do it citywide? answer it's a there's a lot of factors and we got to talk them through. yeah, yeah. i'll share with you my sort of unofficial sounding board is of course, my husband and we talk about everything all the time. and, you know, i share that. well, maybe we should just ban right. turns on red on high injury network. right that's sort of. i'm like sitting in the data and like, wonky land, you know? and his feedback is like, that's really complicated. actually for motorists. just like as a regular person, it's really complicated. just like this intersection. yes this intersection. no, i don't know who said it, but it came up at some point and even in the slow streets, conversations like we just need to have clear rules of the road. it's better for everybody when the rules are really clear and you know what to do. and i just i think that's worth thinking about. like it might be the most impactful on high injury network and it might be the most effective and easy to understand if it's just simply one thing to know. like i grew up in new york, you don't

turn right on red. that's what i grew up driving with some other folks in the audience mentioned that maybe that's the simplest. so i hope we can get into some of these issues in that in that subcommittee and talk through some of these like real implementation barriers. again, like we have a lot of conversations on you are the ones who have to then go wrestle with really how do we do this? what are the tradeoffs? so i really appreciate that. anything you want to say now about sort of how you think about all of these potential trade offs of just turning red or impact. yeah i think transparent rules to the driver and ultimately the driver's reaction, the driver's behavior is something we have to take into account. i think one of the one of the underappreciated and one of the underappreciated aspects of the long history of traffic engineering is there is a lot of research about what tools, what rules drivers obey and what rules they don't obey. and if we're going to put in something that is that has a low rate of compliance, we're going to do it like we did in the tenderloin, where we blanket the neighborhood with don't turn

right, right on red signs like we really make it make it impossible for a driver to plausibly say that they didn't know that they weren't allowed to turn right on red. that's because that's because it's a new regulation. it's not the norm in california. and so that human factor that that compliance issue is really important. and i would love to get into that in the committee. yeah okay. i do want to just remind everybody that after the fourth and king fatality, the mayor sent a letter and asking some specific commitments and deliverables from sfmta and i just want to make sure that we're honoring that and on track and being accountable to the mayor's guidance. so there were three pieces of that. one was fixing the fourth and king intersection and placing the yellow turn signal. and i think that that's been accomplished. and the second was kind of producing a plan and a timeline for how the agency will prioritize safety improvements on the rest of the high injury network by the end of 2024. and so it talked about a specific plan and timeline to implement all of the changes that you referenced in the slide deck. on

the remaining 50 miles, and then a detailed timeline to install those 70 quick builds. so i just want to get really clear for accountability purposes is what you've put here today in that slide deck. is that the plan and the timeline for addressing the 50 the remaining 50 miles, or is there a separate document that we should think about as response to the mayor's guidance? there's not a separate document, so it's what's in the slide deck. what we will be reporting back on the website. and we're also in conversations with the mayor's office to communicate this information on. okay so it's kind of that timeline was that was that like there were four different dates in the slide deck? is that is that sort of the timeline we're thinking about? yes and as we ramp up and build out more, we will be updating more regularly updates that we can. okay. i will be honest. i expected probably a bit more detail in terms of a plan and a timeline to be responsive to the mayor's

request there. then just that this feels like fairly high level just in terms of what knowing whether we're on track with with hitting that end of 20, 24 miles. stone so i'm sure it's something that you all have in your notes and your own work plans may be this the next time we do a quarterly, we could have a bit more transparency into what will we have done by the end of. q one 2020 4q2 et cetera . and then related to that, i'm just building on director henze's question on i hope you understand, we just really want to understand and what gets in the way of meeting some of these timelines and knowing that you mentioned, tom, everyone's at capacity. shops are at capacity . we we've also heard a lot about kind of creativity and the sort of problem solving spaces that that director tumlin and director kirshbaum spoke about in honoring the members of the transit division earlier in special recognition. that sort of taking it upon yourself, problem solving spirit, getting creative, thinking outside of the box culture shift that you

were celebrating. i want to just make sure that that's the sort of ethos that is that we are greeting this chat challenge with. so rather than, you know, the shops are at capacity, that's the end of the story. if we wanted to bump up our capacity by, say, 25, how could we do that? what are the different options for looking at? could we procure outside services? could we ask sister agencies within the city or other agencies within the region to be supportive of this crisis effort? would just really love to see that kind of like creative thinking that's in line with the scale of the challenge. and i just wonder if you want to say anything about that right now. yeah. i mean, i, i appreciate that. the plan, you see, is the team pivoting and pivoting and pivoting again, you know, we started this journey thinking we were going to pour tons of concrete. we realized how expensive and time consuming that would be shifted to quick builds. we realized that even quick builds themselves are not

really quick enough because there are tools that we need to get on the street right away. we need to cover the whole high injury network. we're not going to do it quarter by quarter. so the high injury network plan is in many ways is kind of the evolution, the exact evolution you're talking about, the staff continuing to be creative about how do we get the things that we know from data will reduce collisions, get them on the street capacity issue. we are making, we're essentially promising all of our our shops capacity and more with this plan. and that's at a time when we were working also on the active communities plan, which is really about the long term transformation of the streets to drive the mode shift that is really going to get us where we need to go. and so all of us are thinking about what, you know, what a contracting strategy look like, what a what a using other agency's capacity strategy looks like mean. all those issues are on the table to deliver on on what i think is a very creative promise here. okay i'm seeing on slide four that sort of the inventory of the 17 that's responsive to the mayor's direction. and i'm seeing sort

of a different phases as i also just i want to say it's really clear. i want the board to be a part of the solution here. if we are ever a barrier to your ability to make progress, we do not want to be a barrier. we want to be your partners. so like just even thinking about preparing for legislation, i know there's a whole lead time and there's a lot of work involved. if we can streamline the board's approval of these high priority quick builds and that might save you time and be efficient. you know, we also want to look at ourselves and see where we are creating. delay in your ability to implement these projects. so just please think with us and again in the committee, maybe we can get into this further. are there any other kind of tools or tips we can put in place to get this all on the ground more quickly, especially knowing that this deadline of 2024 is coming? and then the last thing i want to ask is about 645. and thank you all. and thanks to all the advocates who have been working

so hard on 645 and please, governor newsom, give us this authority and listen to your colleagues in the legislature. it also is somewhat disheartening, i'll be honest, to hear that even if this is signed this year in 23, that we couldn't actually see this technology on the ground until 2025. i'm very happy to hear that our slow streets project coordinator has been has been assigned to work on speed safety cameras because that's a wonderful signal of our intention to move forward quickly with this. so thank you for that. is there anything that could be done to speed up that that timeline so that we could see if we're privileged to get this authority? is there anything getting in the way, anything we can know and think through with you in terms of how to speed that up? there are a couple of things, but it likely would happen on the board of supervisors side relating to contracts and some of the codes that regulate contracts in order

to find a vendor that can both that can design, build, operate and maintain a system. our city contracts are not really set up for that. so we would likely be pursuing projects, specific legislation with the board of supervisor powers early next year. so what can you just help us understand? why does that fall under board of supervisors rather than mta? my understanding is it's the city's administrative code that is regulating. there are two different sections of the city's administrative code, one that regulates this construct contracts and one that regulates professional services contracts. and in order to combine multiple types of contracts, it would require a change in the administrative code. well, i know we have several vision zero champions on the board of supervisors. i presume you're in contact with them. but if there's anything, again that we

can do to help accelerate the deployment of this life saving technology, please do let us know. we will. thank you. okay dr. hemminger yeah, just a little bit of personal background on this. i recall, jeff, several transit agencies seek this kind of authority in sacramento, and it used to be like a one off, you know, vta would go up and then somebody else and finally someone just said, let's just authorize this in general. is there any way we could get that through the board of supervisors? i mean, contracts are not. i mean, they're not the sexy new thing. they've been around for a while. yes. i mean, jeff and i have been speaking to several supervisor years about how divebomb progressive design build and all these techniques could could radically reshape and streamline our project delivery. and right now, we have to go get a project specific approach approved every time we want to use one of those procurement methods. yes and

every time that is an opening for additional political interference in our other decision making. well, boy, maybe we ought to get our own charter amendment. look, i think that's worth a discussion with the supervisors. it's look, it's a waste of their time to be micromanage each one of these contracts that moves through. thank you, madam chair. yeah. thank you. sorry the one remaining piece i wanted to ask you about was slide 12. that's the remaining 15 multiple turn lanes under study. so we have thankful alley on slide four, we have a pretty clear timeline for the 17 quick builds. just wanted to understand what's the timeline in terms of addressing these remaining turn lane improvements. we're hoping for. these slides are provided by

ricardo olaya. so unfortunately, i don't know the specifics for the timeline. i do know that the majority of these projects that are remaining have been assigned to staff to review and start work and i also know that a majority of them can be done very quickly with. yeah, yeah. and the difference between them being quickly, slow and slow and fast is the ones where we can simply remove the lanes, which is the simplest thing to do, like we did at fourth and king we're going to essentially try to move those on on the quick build pace and get them done, get them done by early 2024. there are a couple of these where the signal hardware has to be upgraded because the lane configuration is such that if we remove a lane, the signal heads in the wrong place and suddenly we're getting into this big complicated system project. so i'd like to come back with a report on the really hard cases where we can't promise to do these by early 2024. but the vast majority of these, we will . and that might be an issue to

explore in the committee to where or where the challenges of the capital, challenges of our signals limit our ability to move fast. okay okay. thank you all. colleagues, any further questions for staff or comments on vision zero before we move forward? okay. thank you. could you please call the next item places you on? item number 13 discussion and vote pursuant to admin code section 67. 10d as to whether to invoke the attorney client privilege and conduct a closed session conference with legal counsel. okay uh, we need to. we need a motion on and then we need to go to public comment . right. move to go into closed session. okay. is there any public comment on this board's decision to go into closed session? none in the room. please open remote at this time. we'll move to remote public comment not to exceed a total time of ten minutes. members of

the public wishing to comment should dial star three to enter the queue. each speaker will have two minutes. no speakers. okay. please call the roll on the motion to go into closed session. director heminger i heminger i director hinsey. you're muted if you're saying i . i thank you. i director. so i. so i director kikina. i kikina i chair eken. hi eken. i thank you. the board. all right, so nw place the directors. it places you on item number 14 on the board. met in closed session to discuss the listed cases and voted to settle item three a and took no action on three b places you on item 15 motion to disclose or not disclose the information discussed in closed session motion not to disclose. on the motion to not disclose. director heminger heminger director hinsey a director. so

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