>> special meeting of the municipal transportation meeting parks authority commission to order. secretary silva call the roll >> director chen. >> present. >> director heminger. >> present >> director hinze. >> here >> director cajina, >> present >> chair eaken kidnapped. director hinds is remote.

must appear on camera in order to speak or vote on any items. item 3. the ringing and use of cell phones and sounds producing pr this meeting the chair may order the removal from a person responsible for ringing of an electronic device. item 4. director's report. >> >> good morning i want to acknowledge probably wham is on many of our minds. most of the people in this room haveeen working hard for months trying to influence out and while the news is mixed . there are many people in this room who are exhausted and sleep deprived and trying to heel with personal despair. a thing i told my staff is to

remind them that the out come of yesterday's election emphasized the iortance of our work here in san francisco. this is a■b4 marathon and not a sprint. it is important this we all take time to recover from the experience of last couple days. upon i want to bring up a special recognition. >> um. i am so happy today to be recognizing mark hansen and natalie k ai for their

extraordinary efforts to deliver both the consultant and supplier train control contracts. i think this we the mayor signed the contract yesterday. and we have -- a major mile stone going to the board of supervisors with the supply are contract which you all approved the last meeting. these■⌜ contracts are innovativ complicad, and the details really matter. and -- we would not h the details right without the t efforts. nor would we hav able to push envelope as much as we did without their efforts. so they really are i believe the unng heros of the work that has got us to this mile stoneful

they were hired in summer of 2021. and have been working on the contracts since they walked in6 the door. so it really, really takes a lot get this work moving. as part of the work, you know they supported both contracts. they also -- lesson's learned in real time that is going to make us stronger as an2 agency. and we are also hearingeen from other cities that want to learn more about what we did. this contract did not fit in standardses for the process. and therefore, it was really subject to extra review. extra drafts, extra work and comments. and truly the innovative something is the more opportunity it can about side ways. what they did allowed you to

avoid thatfate. nellie of custody of the mast are kohn contract her diligence ensured each line of changes a. managing the revision process was critical especially because our computer system does in the talk perfectly or at all with the city attorney's process. so. she over laid all of the comments where there was conflicting comments. helped bring attention and bring resolution. a lot of trust with our partners in the contracts team and the city attorney's team. incorporated and addressed. mark showed a similar level of dedication.

he was one of the very first hires for this team. and so he wore of hats. he had his primary role. in doing both the planning and the financial work.k" on this project. but if dan had covid or a kid he was dan. in the tail end of the process, he was contracting official. there was like there was not a role he was not willing to take on. and to do canave thely and thoughtfully. he also works on a lot of the early presentations and he was good at disstilling dense material in a way that dan and i could community to you andx< others. neither one of them had done a

contract at the agency, certainly not a contract for hundreds of dollars. so they were learning as they were going. they were not afraid to ask questions. they were not afraid to admit where they did not know something or 91 of us knew something and needed to workllow it. so, i'm really excited be honoring both of them. i think that as planners and administrative staff they represent the best that our average has to offer and i'm proud of the work they have done. i'd like to ask them to come up here. [applause] >> and if either of y would like to address the board, we would love to hear from you

after this photo. good morning i'm honored to receive this award i want to thank jeff, julie. lisa janet and den for leadership andifiedance it has been great with working with dedicated professionals. our agency contract team and the city attorney's team. i look forward to -- continuing support in the delivery of the new control change of system. thank you. [applause] >> good morning i'm mark hansen i would like to thank the entire transit leadership team for unwaivering support for this project and i like to thank the

board as well for your continued commitments and support for this through the stageseen someone who work in the background i see how your dedication and the attention you paid to the project taking it to the next level. thank you very much. and thank you so much to dan for your vision. i think we sometimes did the hard thing even if it was right and that took this project to a place that it is today. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you, to both of you both and he dan president entire train control upgrade project team the nex announce ams you probably heard about this in the news. california awarded our project 130 million dollars grant. from the california transit and intercity rail capitol program. this will be used to implement

phase 2 of the project and in addition to the 30 million we received for phase one. we are very much looking forward to moving forward on that project. as you also heard we signed contracts we are ru[dy to get rolling. and early 2025. we expect that phase one will be complete it 2028 and phase 2 upon start in 2026 and completed around 2030. so, very good news for all of us. next up, i wanted to give you a bit of an update on the local measures. on yesterday's resulters all s preliminary. addional results will in in at 4 p.m. today. 91 of the key measures that impact us have yet been called. trends are clear.

proposition l, was at last -- check receiving 56% of the vote. this would of course, tax -- uber, lyft and waymo for funding support for muni estimated 25 million dollars. in proposition m hen called, yes, there is a point pill and proposition m. that will cause prop l to faileen thought succeeded in betting 56% of the vote. in addition, proposition k, convert the upper great highway to a public rec space is currently at 53%, yes. the great highway is not in sfmtais it is a rec/park facility under the jurisdiction of the board of supervisors as well as the rec

and park's@0 and -- our role for the great highway is largy making sure this traffic on the west side continues to work, which is needed regardless of what happens when prop k is called. another reminds irrelevant great highway will close south of sloat because the roadway is falling in the sea. that work is likely to happen in a year. and the changing climate is increasing winds pushing more sand across the roadway. sfmta is working in order to improve automobile routes. using lincoln, sunset and skyline in order to make sure that motorists on the west side can to travel north/south regardless of the outcome of prop k. and finally, prop b which is general obligation bond that

includes about 64 million dollars in street and sidewalk safety projects as well as funding to upgrade the locations like powell street and harvey milk plaza that is at 71% and needs 67 to pass. we will give you an update. i add prop d, which would change the nature and composition of the sfmtantly at 55%, no. so if this trend condition continuous the current board will remain as it is now and not to significant change. >> speaking of funding. i want to update you on the regional funding measure collaborating with the metro

transportation commission and other counties and transit operators. they held their final transportation revenue measure select committee on october. and recommended a variety of options move forward for consideration for a ballot measure in 2026. there is support for upon a minimum including the 4 most urban bay area countied alameda, san francisco and san mateo i don't with options for the other 5 counties to opt in. the committee urged exploring both sales parcel and payroll taxes the potential tax base or bases. for the measure. we as the sfmta together with most of the other operators also

advocated for consideration of different parcel or sales tax rates by county. in order to address the challenge of making sure that we are solving for the operator's adequate return toindividual's . this work now moves forward. to mt c's legislative committee. on november amount and then for meeting on december 9. more about funding, is update on muni fundgoup. this month we are having two very importantmw muni funding wk group meetings on novemberboth . at 1455 market street on the 22nd floor. the november meetings we are going to be talking about what service cuts will be necessary

if we are not successful raising new revenue to address our structural deficit. we am talk about pretty significant service cuts t we are not able to close the gap through new revenue. >> next up i got streets -- updates including an update on ab413. reminder ab413 is the state daylighting law that was wentn affect on january first of this year. this requires that there be no automobile parking within 15 feet of an intersection. and -- a lot of details there it requires the daylighting o intersections. so, we together with other counties in california will issue warnings on november■q ci

capped at 40■k dollars would ben on january first of 2025 so. this is o of the simplest and most important things we do i t. for pedestrians at network stre. >> next up another project you may have seen. do we have photos of this. you can walk outside to the aza sid■hes of city hall and steel our latest on the parking prejted bikeway. for the two blocks on the plaza side city hall closes a gap in the polk street bike network. and also a street this is part of our high injury network. we are grateful to crews working quickly to commolest that wor

>> and finally just an update on our merchant by store.ke muni's first merchandise store will go live on november 12. the url is the muni store all one word. we will also in addition to offering merchandise online will launch 2-3 popp stores over the coming year. and that concludes my director's report. >> thank you. colleagues are there questions on the director's report? director heminger? >> thank you, madam chair. may be these are both for jeff or theqs city attorney as well. on the ballot measures, if prop d fails which on track to do;

prop e passes, which is appear to be on track to do. then, are we obligated to go throughout process of evaluating all the commissions and meetings and so on and soth? >> clyst slightly different or in important in several ways than prop d. so, it is it involved an evidence of the various boards and commissions throughout city but would have different potential impacts on the mt a. we'll could provide you with e study measure? it does ieht away. >> not right away. >> okay >> and of course the mt acommission structure is part of the charter. changeing would require going t

charter: >> other thing i wanted ask about was regional funding measure. and the option this you developed in cooperation with the other transit operators,=7 characterize for us how much folks are behind you on that? s differences about the proper approach and >> it is the san francisco bay area. there are always deep difference of opinion. and also for and some key stake option that is acceptable. so far. so our challenge is trying to gain consensus among a group that does in the want to come to consensus. so, again what we are trying to is take more technical approach. trying to soch the ss problem.

the mass problem is rooted in the fact that the bulk of transit ridership loss and otherance later losses are rooted in work from home and downtown san francisco and seconded early in other markets like oakland upon there were high numbers of office commuters traveling by transit to get to work they are overly concentrate in the san francisco primarily and alameda documenty secondly. and for any tax raised, every part of the region wants this tax revenue to stay in their own county. and not the shipped off to save muni. for example. so, that is ■úe challenge we are trying to solve for. and there are varying levels of

enters county figure it out on their own. our great fear is that if bart and muni are pitte a.úin■% each other on the san francisco ballot given the magnitude ofth voters will choose to save municipal and he not bart. fiwere just the muni director that might be fine but i'm the transportation director and i understands that bart's success is prerequisite for downtown san francisco to return and that all of us are depending on economic retalition in san francisco. >> one of the things about watching process unfold is this we are ues that i thought were settled. i mean, we have taken a regional am prop to transit planning in

the bay your for like 50 years. and now it isvery county for itself. upon again, that is just it i troubling. let■# mow ask you about the mon the math. the proposal endorsed by members of the transit communities, the is upon you got allç@ alternative rates for the parcel tax. and the question that i heard raise side whether or not that is legal. or whether it would have to be amended in the legislative package this has to go forward. topic.ot ebb different opinions

i will perhaps turn it me colleague deputy city attorney stefani stewart for advice. i think it is hard to give you an accurate answer about whether or not that is is something thi are tracking and can look into further. if you want we c up. >> i'm aware of of at least one regional parse will is collecte restoratio a is the same rate. all the way across.■o there is no difference. and i know you have your reasons forment to consider a different approach. i think that is one worth keeping our eyes on. >>. s absolutely. that is and even if it is etch legal,t would be subject

challenge creates its own risk. if this money is not cannot be spent upon until the challenge is resolved. >> thank you, madam■k chair. >> thank you director can anymore questions? >> i did have a quick question. ■kdam chair. jeff, you might have said this re but are you were upon having next steps for the required -- assuming you will meet with the group and you are work to hammer out consensus >> next up for renaling until funding? >> yes >> so the after the mt c full commission vote in december, what they are voting to do is to recommend to the state legislator to create authorizing legislation to allow you to proceed with a ballot measure. that could include what is the

range of tax sales or parcel tax. how much counties, whatgz■? oth stipulations? and then thetate legislator would presumablely deliberate past something and that would be what our region would use following the collection of polling data in order to make a decision about exactly when are we gnovember 2026 ballot. another critical step is it may be necessary for us to collect signatures to reduce the voting threshold from concerns down to 50%. would need to do this work of collecting signatures presumablelyr of 2025. >> okay.

meet in december like -- welcome in the statelegislator. authorize the new [inaudible]. >> that's right. >> >> thank you, madam direct chen? >> thank you, chair. question about 8413 about ■e daylighting. so, my, so, the agency [inaudible] one and i think there was question about whether like what will use paint or. or just trying to just making sure like, well is no try to paint all the corners in san francisco? correct?■i >> there is we don't have enough red paint to paint every corner. as many as we can on the high

network. ab413 allows for regardless if there is red pinlt. if there is red paint, citation can be higher at 108 dollars rather than 40 dollars when there is not red paint. >> v understood. and i assume there is a communication plan? >> is a communication plan the most is the warning before the citation. we don't want people to be surprised by this. our goal is to vance safety not penalize people who are having a hard time finding a parking space >> thank you. >> director? [inaudible]. >> thank you, chair. following on the regional transit measure. help relationship does it have to the cordination between the agencies in the region in terms

of schedules and transfers and you know cost savingses for users of the system? are they disconnected or is that part of it >> the connection remains a question. alternate work of doing the schedule cordination fair cordination. way finding all of that work is continuing. all of the agencies signed a formal commitment to do the collective work of intgrating fares, way finding and and payments. so our hope is that the funding measure will be a clon focused without many, without requirements burdened on top it. what became clear in the process of developing the funding measure ab1031 the more requirements that were placed on top of the funding measure the

less like low it was to come to agreement. and then get it passed. it wasg more we are trying to figure out a parallel path where we recommit to the work of makingí8 area transit system feel like a sgl system from the user perspective and pursuing independent funding measure. if this makes sense. >> thank you, thank you, , i di clarifying question about the regional funding measure. you folk about prospect m and changing this is congratulating business tax and gross receipts. is the regional funding measure is based on payroll tax and like is impactingow the way the fundi os? >> so, the while -- the -- um --

deliberation process at the steering committee has talked about parcel tax sales tax and payroll tax, payroll tax is by far the most unpopular of options. and i would not be surprised if that is not for the considered although there are options, will of having a small payroll tax in exchange for universal bay pass for impacted employers. this could and be part of a strategy helping people come become in the office this is an idea floated, i don't know if this is getting traction. >> would prop m limit kidnap the ability to use that tool? >> i don't believe so. this would be in addition to: >> ghaen is something we would

have to look into and get back to you on that. >> and just because noting the poison pill until this measure and what happened in the election cycle and trying to amount perhaps how that measure miimpact future funding ref now source for us. thank you, director. >> we will now is that it for. okay. >> so, let's open it up for public comment. do we have public comment on the director's report. item 4. do we have special accommodations? call the next item. >> great. item 5 new or unfinished business by board members. >> thank you are there additional new or unfinished business we would like to discuss today? >> seeing none. we will organism public comment on we don't have to.

>> don't have to. all right. next item >> directors that placeos item 6 your consent. they are considered to be routine exacted on by a vote unless the board or public wishes to consider an item. spe item you are speaking to. item 6.1 requesting the controller to a lot funds against funds available or available in payment to a claim. a and the agenda 6.2 approving routine parking and traffic modifications, a.-e in the agenda. 6. 3 contract number sfmta 22425 with cond wit for software design to upgrade the future aided dispatch and automatic vehicle location not to exceed 3. 5 million dollars. and term of 4 years. 6.4, approving contract

agreement for design, implementation and testing services for advanced train control system. for thesubway. to acknowled contractor name change. compensate hitachi 393 thousand dollars for additional work performed. due to sfmta changes to designs and specifications compensate contractor are 997 thousand dollars for 136 days this the contractors work was delayed due to lack of access to cites. d7, 500 to the amount to replenish funds retention release from contract 1300 together increasing the contract 2 million dollars for a modified

amount of 30 million dollars and modify the completion date to august 30 of 22 and extend the warranty to august 30 of 2025. requesting the board to approve the modification number 4. this concludes your consent. >> do have you questions on the items on consent? >> seeing upon we will open for public comment for item 6 this isit listed on consent. >> no public comment do we accommodations? >> no >> colleagues may i have a motion and■ second to approve. . >> second. y silva call the roll >> on the motion to arule of law consent director chen. >> aye. >> director heminger.

>> aye. >> director hinze. >> aye. >> director to the off. >> aye. >> caraina? >> aye. >> it is approved. >> thank you secretary silva,n >> item 7 presentation and discussion regarding a muni forward program update. >> good morning. all. shawn kennedy i'm chief planning implementation officer for m the um, excited today to talk about 10 years of muni forward. you know, the mt a does a ton of

things well. in my perspect you have. one thi we don't is celebrate success. so, this is hopeful low the next 25 minutes the hear great comin muni forward program. we spent the last decade literally hundreds of hours with this body, your predecessors talking through difficult trade offs. we have been having a lot of discussions and hard choices. but i appreciated how the body makes decisions based on value and it is city values we are trying work of we have a great report on a website. it is 60 page fist you don't want to read it or flip through it and get good■n results you c listen to the pod cast taken

with transportation pod cast came out 2 weeks ago. good stuff. if i do say so myself. i think, you will hear a lot on episodes people essential in advancing the program and fantastic work over 10 years getting these on the ground. check out those. when you get the chance. to sta presentation, want to remind everybody take you back 10 years. muni had very low approval ratings. i believe in the sub60%. we had very low travel speeds. really the lowest average of any major transit system in north america. and had declining ridership a ■a

2-3% decline system wide observe muni forward project got going. >> unfortunately, you know low ridership was not the only problem. costs providing service an issue we talked about this before. ob■viou it costs more in travel time, for a bus to make a trip. unfortunately the public does not see this increase. and it is recovery and the operating costs. >> we really turn to the agency values in making focusing on building trust. you know when we say a bus will

show up. you know get a bus. focusing on you know of course equity considerations and concerns environmental stewardship. and economic resiliencey. but -- the main crux was impelementing the transit first policy. there are 18 item this is is some of the most used items here on this slide. i want to point out we are not just transic centric i will talk with about safety improve ams and successful in delivering a lot of the vision zero corridor and network improvements from a pedestrian safety and curve management changes. and we deliver the over all program through a philosophy of what i call the 3 p's.

piloting, persisting and partnering. there are examples for each one i will touch on one for each one. from a piloting standpoint, when we originally initiated the muni forward work we started by working with dpw on where they were doing repaving and so we had to dig a policy and made sure that we were prioritizing corridors that they were plan to repave so that by the time they did that work we had our projects approved, paid for and they went through each the corridors the did a full refresh of the entire system and gave us a great product that was transit first focused and pet safety approved. pilotting, you know have to be willing to unt you did.

and i think a great example is on the fulton we removed a couple stop signs and replace traffic circles. on mc calster and wine and steiner. one at line works well and is in the ground today. the one at steiner got feedback on and most was not positive. including from our operators did not find that specific.edback f public removed that island and upon reverted back to a stop sign at that location. persisting is something this permeated the program we are always coming back and a great example is our work with cal-trans on the hov lanes. now we got hov two that we are doing a pilot on. and it is going limp hope that

we will be able to get hov3 and continue to move up on transit priority there. continuing to relook at projects and how to make them better. bue learned a lot from van ness it was the grand father ofg the muni forward project or program, rather. but you know venice took 20 years from inception to reality. and of about halfway through that process we were already hearing feedback. upon you know it was taking too language to get benefits. they were worried about construction. 10 years ago construction had not started on van ness. we took the lessons and applied those to the muni forward program and now able to implement 100 miles improvement in 10 years. comper se that to 2-1/2 miles on

van ness for 20 years we■] have don a hundred mile in 10 years. and you might say what about the results are they different? they are not. we are seeing similar results up to 35 reduction and 40% improve enemy reliable. 50%■? reduction in injury crash. and i want to point out that we have done 48 miles of the vision zero safety network improve ams as part of the 100 miles of muni forward work. every where we did muni forwardd with the vision zero net w we did the projects to bring the corridors up to a vision zero standardsfulmented point that out. we are seeing high ride areship growth >> over 20% increase on the

corridors. post pandemic. the lines recovering the fastest are lines that had muni forward work done on them. but really why do we do this? we don't dom this just to say we improve travel speed or operating costs. and increase ridership the main goal is to improve opportunity. and that is really the metathing we measure ourselves of one way we are trying to show how our projects have improved opportunity is through matches like i'm showing here. this is looking at the 14 mission changes. but if you look at half-hour travel shed this somebody has a half-hour fwoj get to work from the house. we increased number of job access opportunity for somebody

living in the mission by 26,000 jobs. in those the in this small improvements we made on mission street. i want to point out that is the gold standard. we are improving opportunity. not just for job access. educational opportunity. social opportunity, spending network where you get to to visit green spaces and friends. hospitals. grocery stores. the gammet and we areor maps like this to show how this is affected and improved people's lives. >> that said i want to go over specific examples and once again they are more flushed out in the report i was talking about earlier. il go over 4-5 right now so you don't have to read that huge report. so, concentrating on main corridors 14 mission, i think

there is a t of great numbers. i will not read them you can do that yoursf. but a few things i want to point out 25% of reliability improvement in 31% in travel speed. of we, that equals where we did the work itself equals to 2 minute travel time saving in each direction. we did a passenger survey after e improvements and said have you noticed the improve ams and how much time are you saving. we got back majority thought they were saving 10 minute in travel time. perception of the improvement system as important as what you were getting on the street. people really noticed the trip is less. of that makes an impression on

how people seat service and we think contributed to the recent up tick in customer perception. the service quality on the street the frequency is the same. and just are able to provide that service through less costs. >> 5 fulton. you kw saw 60% increase in ridership, 60% increase in ridership and put at the time called the 5 limited. since changed those limited6.■& denotions. but -- we saw a huge shift in

how people are using the system. one thing i want to point out we did a customer survey after we impelemented the changes not only a 60% shift or improvement in ridership but 15% of that ridership u drive they were using drivingmselves downtown prechanges and once we made the changes shifted t. impacting and improving that mode share split. and then, of course, on our equity strategy lines important lines connecting negotiate/south travellers in the city and 25% improvement in travel time here. this is you know, for people using the and showing up reliably is more important then and there the a

number of other lines because of ridership using the lines are depending on showing up to jobos time.

it was probably the most impactful projects we are done. you recall previously people ou to an active travel lane. and we had 25 people hit getting off the train and a 5 year period. hearific crashes going on there. the project itself was focused on improving pedestrian safety and since we did the quick build after that body we have seen zero accidents of people now with the infrastructure in we expect that trends to continue. and getting bump on reliability and over all travel speed improve ams. i bring that up part of the year of the rail it was complete third degree year and excited have that stuff now

and going. some of the project this is did start this year include the k we needed two car k's on the system to handle capacity in the subway. we have seen an up tick lately in k ridership getting to city college and balboa park. and actually up tick in people take the train to the middle school. we wanted to open up the ability to use two cars. we had 2 cars on the k look out second the platforms currently on the k were too short to have safe operations. we went through with tremendous help and support from supervisor melgar. a number of community stake holders to do a 2 year out reach turn third degree to operational level and implementation out

reach and a sense approved a budget change on the k. most importantly being extending the islands to 2 full cars. michael rose and sheryl who i referenced works dill gently with our dpw colleagues to come up with a way to impelement the boarding islands quick and cheap are not that traditional 6-12 month process. we were able to do 5 of the 8 island in sick days onrage for each wron. while service running. which previously we would have to stop service and did a bus bridge. take longer. because of this, we have been able to deliver the boarding islands cheaper. able to double capacity on the k

cheap and quick are than before. due to hard work of partners at dpw special staff. can't say enough great things about the project itself and how we implement that project. the m line similar, you know similar time of project. similar out reach approach. similar elements. the one thing i want to point out on the, m, that is note worth sethis the america line is on randolph and broad a dark -- at night and now it snot night it is 5:30 when it gets dark. we heard feedback they did not feel safe on the america line we needed a light to be out there. at the stop so specifically women would feel safer. out there and we kicked off a pilot project it is at the new

island we put at niagara and san jose. go check it out. we have a pilot pedestrian of scale lighting project out there am, it is solar powered. showing a ton of promise. it has been in the grounds for a month. we are planning look at it for sick months before we make further decisions we want to make surety solar power is holding the charge and operating well. but we are really excited about the promise. of what that is showing and the idea it is -- cheap special we can spread this to a lot of are working with o equity group you will get an update soon on to make sure we identified places where it can go and get them in the grounds asumg the pilot shows results good as it has. really exciting work on that.

the j church another project this year. the transit lanes on san less reliability than they are safety and over all vehicle speeds. if you guys remember, san jose was a wild west. there was the paint was -- faded away. trains don't come enough to keep people off the tracks people are driving all over the place. high speeds. i take my daughter and youngest son to a middle school every day and it was you know you take your it was difficult. but the idea here lanes we put in is to narrow the visual queues of that street to find space better and hope that tell bring down speeds whe w zo

pedestrians. redid crosswalks they are obvious. edge lines and also narrows the speeds went down welltudy there the speeds have gone down. but you know excite body this project in general for a different way to apply a transit priority improvements and getting transit benefits. next steps on the year of the rail i will have to call this the two year of the rail. the n andt were not on my thoset liwe from our ride areship perspective we will be hopeful ofly engaging the community on

we will talk with the community how they want to seat m line and plan to start that work in the next months after the new year. are also on the t line itself, we are doing another look at a speed delay study to see where we are seeing slow is causing . as you know thet is a ded indicatored right-of-way. of so, you know it is embarrassing when the worse dedicated right-of-way transit line in north america and i'm 5q sure european friends would laugh at the results we are seeing there. we will take another step at trying to improve the t line and working the first step to identify hanging fruit

operational issues we are shooting ourselves in the foot and where we clean those up and talk about trade offs with the community. those two lines will be going in heavy out reach modes. on the bus side, as you guys know and jeff was talking about the working group, one of the ways we hope to off set the operational fundid6g issues we are see being to apply muni forwar the treatments to places we think we can save buses and therefore save jobs. offer workforce. we will be coming forward with projects on several corridors the one, 22, the east side of the 29. 44 and take a look at the 38 to see if we can get more savings

there. so, you know this work will be dovetail with our m year. that is our work program the next year. these rubber tire lines and those couple rail lines. >> so,mented to spend a few slides discussing director heminger last time in september, you asked could we look at stop consolidation a way to reduce operating costs. so i amed follow up and give you an update where we are at and where we think we can go with that. that comment. you see on this map blue are corridors what had muni forward work done. of course, stop changes and stop removals is part of the muni forward tool kit we talked about earlier. i think one example is the 5

fulton. nic stops on the 5 fulton. we removed 18 of the stops. about 20%. of those stops. and this dovetail with the other projects we are doing to dwl a 15% travel time saving on theob huge ridership growth we saw. so stop consolidation is an important part of the tool kit. i will note it works best with other things not just by itself. and needs to be on frequency linelry it is hard to make up a lot of time taking out stops in general. we assume a 10 to 15 second savings per stop removal the stops need to be used a lot it seat time savings if you stop at a stop every fifth time there is

schedule tightening up you can do goes to reliability. but from an over all travel time savings we don't see the impact if you don't stop there every putting the two together. you know this we need too wide are tool kit and heavy upon use of all the stops along the line and heavy fracture of service. you know we think we covered a lot of the lines that would need or benefit from stop consolidation. the blue lines done. we have taken a total of 150 stops which is almost 5% of our total stop and the dark gray lines on that map you see are corridors i talked about coming to in the next year or two. the one this we do think needs to be looked at from a stop consolidation that we were planning is the 48 line. and this is yellow.

on the map that swon that we will add to our work program to see if we can make stop consolidation proposals there. i lucked about the 5 another example is the 28 and 28r on 19th. you have been we did a ton of work on 19th a number of years ago. it is finally being completed. but we did i think we removed 7 of the 19 stops. we put in. 21 savi■hngos the corridor and were not able to get quite the stop space and i want to point this out■ú you. our stop station standards

ng account land uses and where you want to see you know if there is a specific land use like another muni connection this makes sense. you know a home or hospital or school this make sense to connect to which those play in stop consolidation we did not stick to the stop consolidation numbers but took a number of stops 35 or 40% of the stops and saw a 10% improvement in speed. >> that said, not part of the process on removing stop system talking with our friends at sba, came up with a check list on when we have a stop we propose for removal we work with them. to just make sure we have a dialogue and understanding on who is using this stop. alternatives look at a different stop. should we not pursuit one we are working on. and this is an example of that

check list entails and the process. i want to point out we are not making the change in a vacuum or just behind a desk we are work width community to understand issues that related a specific community.low and disabled so, all of that said, looking forward, we are still you know regardless of the current budget discussion. our vision is 5 minute core network of service. this 5 minute network this we talked about, it is stated in service terms, it is a capitol map. every where we are proposing 5 minute service we are talking about doing improvements are aggressive enough of that is only stops at the transit stop. there is a lot of w to do to get

to this point on the lines. but we think that is needed to justify the level of service investment that would go to having a 5 minute service. i talked about earlier.

so. with that happy to take questions or comments. >> thank you very much for your presentation. shawn it was thorough. i have a few questions i want to ask colleagues first. director? thank you, chair. thank you on what it is a thorough presentation. good to understand where we are with muni forward in 10 years is a tremendous mile stone a lot ot work has been pleasured. i agree this reflecting on what has been successful is very imporñrtant.■a and -- i wanted focus a bit on the upcoming work for the judah

and t line. and and specifically as it will impact the merchan corridors along those routes. and i have a couple of questns related this or curious about how you are thinking about so -- with the n judah, the inner and outer sunset commercial corridors are going to be impacted, of course. and and -- ultimately should be a beneficial change. but -- how -- you know how that -- happens is very important. and then with the,t line. i feel there are two other really significant project this is are happening. for the n judah. the pangz of the hospital. >> yes.

>> is huge and on the t line the closure of the bridge will have an impact. and so i am curious to hear your -- hear your thoughts about how that will go specifically for the merchants. and also just to clarify whether either project will include any of the major infrastructure work this we saw on the l line >> on the n line, we are -- we are not going -- i noted in the discussion earlier. we are not going with a presupposed idea for n. now we are starting visioning

work and talking to a core, the biggest stake holders the merchant busy when they want to see from the n line in the future. we did do a muni forward work on irving. from ninth down to the campus. eviously, we do have a good contact the merchants on whenee see. going forward there. but you then and there it is a small segment, 6 blocks. we have more work to do on irving and -- ninth and a bit of judah and further out on 20th and 21st and 22nd we got discussions to be having out there. at this point we are starting the process. so, you know w■ae want to hear when they want to see from the n. we want to talk about increasing capacity on the n. and how that serves th when the see how they to which see that

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other departments are required to join forces to do related work. and so puc decides, oh , bthe way, you will do a bit of electronic repair on taraval, we will replace all of the water and sewer lines along side that. sometimes that happens like to

qatar val. other times like on ocean avenue or america line or j line work that did not happen. we got special dispensation to not replace under ground on ocean. as a result the imp were almost not noticed by merchants in that corridor. one thing we need to learn from other cities to do is to not brand utility replacement projects as muni forward. but rather brand utility replacement and muni upgrades as major street infrastructure repair project this is include a muni forward component. we have been hurt in the past by having san francisco think that the utility projects are mt a projects and mt a project will come with this mess. so, that is one of the things we were working on. another challenge we face is our

ability to do community engame than other city department of we are often the face of other departments work. because we know we will get blamed if it is not our project. so, we putur out there. to help with the engagement and this further associates our projects with a lot of disruption. a rich topic that we would with to brand and be better partners and also what is the role of the city all together in supporting merchants. during periods of extended construction disruption like know merchantos taraval faced >> the answer to my question about other infrastructure work -- connected with n and ort

this we don't know yet once we announced that we are planning something the dig first -- requirement guess in affect and the other agencies the puc may look at their needs.

we you know we basement face. that work. on that n line we are -- proposing i was talk about this visioning work and tell take a year or two of out reach to settle on. what t plaknow is. . muni forward level what we did on j and m we need to reerate n. working with partneros water and sewer. there will be a large are infrastructure project that happens at some point on that corridor it hopefully will not be we are plan to dot muni forward about this. there will be a level of 5-10 plus years lag the muni forward

and when this major construction work would come through. to do rerail pregnant pu c work. but it will be a couple step process on the n and near term impacts of construction will be limed like on the k and m. the stuff we need to do is quick. just not standpoint. tell likely be concurrent with the hospital project it is proj >> we are working to understand the near term and long-term like impacts and the full project will look like >> thet with closure of the you see that? >> so. of course they are related. our -- muni forward w is related the long-term health of the t line. and how is this going to look?

where do we need to make both bigger changes to make it work better. there will be an impactfult bridge work that will left for several years that is a construction issue. that one of my other groups so are working on how that will look and how we do it. to be clear the replacement of the draw bridge on the third st a d. public works project? streets division will support dpw in order it find ways of

mitigating the transportation impacts of this bridge replace am project. there are very few way in and out of the bayview commercial district and the bayview neighborhood. and temperature is essential we do all we can to make sure they are best mitigated and trying to be creative in that work. >> thank you. director heminger. >> thank you. madam chair. you know shawn, you are being greedy when you say you want to have i second year of the rail. i would prefer i come up with a year of the locally bus stop. because that is one thread this runs through your entire presentation. and you know be it humble there. this is where people interact and this stop can slow down a

trip if not planned correct low. so, my hope is that the presentation you gave today becomes regular and more coherent if you don't mind me saying so. and you have been the first thing that it seems we need it do is to get more rapid service on the street. and i then and there is resource constrained. this is also an exercise on consolidating stuff this generates revenue. that could be used for deficit reduction or to expand service in places that it would make sense.

on the stop consolidation itself. i'm remembering this is several years ago there was an analysis done apply the muni station stop policy. to the existing service and the existing bus stop configuration and when do you get? how much do you save and how much stops do you take out. ? we do that. >> i will make that the second item on the agenda.

having that analysis and this data would be very useful in -- when we got at our finger tips. >> i would say that i was hammering on the fact that the service you need stops this are used in order to get time savings. >> right. the real savings when you sav a. that gets eaten up in operator lay overs. but yea, that's why the map i showed. save a line a bus and make savings. we can do a high level look.

what would be out there in general. >> i mean when we talked about up to now on the funding task force is -- cuts and revenue and efficiency. we always sweep efficiency awayp the bus stop is a good place. one thing you did not present was the flag stop. it is the last. >> it is essential low putting a clear zone where there is a bus stop.

are we being look at learning on the stops. >> we do when we make that. we don't do that on individual basis because we don't have the staff time now. i hate saying that. focusing on the major corridors try to get a bank for the buck. small improvements on 24 line we consolidate stops and do that. we are trying to do a holistic program where we piece male stuff together. we have not. can we make sure we take advantage of that work is under

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the amount of staff thyme takes you small are changes. versus gti big project dhn will save a couple buses it has not been a good trade off. you know we will keep looking and. >> the last idea i wanted convey is -- the issue of the motivating purpose. right. and i think this primary low what we are talking about here is in an efficiency approach. that would try to speedup service. and that is when we hear from our customers is they want speed. and they want reliability. so,ir don't think we can ignore us in the budget requirement. >> and have self discipline

about meeting tarrant county, texas and deadlines if you put a number in the budget and say we gotta meet that number. and this would focus the attention. it seems to be and would -- honor both of the purposes which is first of all to improve mobility but secondly use savings from the efficiency either on deficit -- reduction or -- on additional services we discussed earlier. with the wrap. >> yea. >> i mean i understand where you are saying what i'm -- okay. i mean you know. we don't think there is a lot of dollars efficiencies do we stop it on 36 line versus the 24 the 48 or you know the 43 where there is more service and stops and chance that stops consolidation you can save

money. and that's what we have been focusing on. plan to continue to focus. you had a good idea set a goal say, you know what we gotta reach that goal. that's when we have done on several lines the 1, 22, 29 where we said look we need to o. and if we can't we will take out out of the schedule. >> i think we need, i mean using the anal gee used that we are not look for example a safe school a reach school here. >> yep. >> we don't want to to be something you can't reach at all. i think theory f theory them approach to work fwheed a target that is achievable and requires are effort. >> and citywide rather then and there one line. yew mentioned holistic several times. shawn, in your presentation and

i could not agree more. because we tend to drive by this intersection and have a fight there and go to the next one. and if we had some over arching framework about when we are trying to accomplish, when we are trying to achieve and what kinds of savings might be generated.■f >> i mean that was point of this report. string together intersection improvement over a 7 mile line small changes at the intersection, you will get a 20% travel time savings. equals to savings on the operating side of the house. you know that is the point of the report to post something under one idea and one way to look at a line not just dom it incremental.

>> really what i'm encouraging to you do is develop a straj and use it to leverage the budget savings and the mobility saving this is we can as well. we are hearing the direction. >> thank you. >> thank you. rector chen. >> thank you. chair. thank you for the presentation, it was great. has a rider of threat and 49 i seen and felt difference and as a rider of 1 california looking forward to the work you will do there. of i had quick notes. i think heminger or hope that the direction from the board might be that -- not to say, hey, to -- um -- to be bold. in making proposals.

you know, i think hopeful, i assume ofly we are in line of this and this this is critical for riders with the budget environment. and i think we will gain looking back at current policies and [inaudible] and making sure those are those are best in class or more there are i think that is something i would love to see. i think the messaging thing that i'm curious about and i think i may have brought it up is how do we talk about efficiency and reliability. are and speed. i think because we are in transit planning we can deliver the same service and take a bus and put it swh for a rider you say you are taking a bus from one california and. sounds like a loss. how do we -- i -- don't have a

concrete thought we -- visualize the rider to say your 30 minute trip to fifth and market will upon save 5 minutes the number you get delayed 10 minute is cut in half. some level even without the budget situation they are worth it than i money we skweed more service out of the same hours. means people have fast and reliable service. and i guess it is like trying to message both yes, budget. and also like this is the benefits for riders. strong thi think some level and may be something we talked about with the communications but i think this is something um -- that would help over all support.

more about growth. >> that's good. we'll think about that. the ways we are trying tong about that is opportunity i was talk about. increasing access to how many jobs and hospitals and grocery stores. this is trying to get at what you are saying. you know it is [inaudible] >> all right. i love it and do more. so. >> director chen >> thank you. henderson. >> thank you. sorry to have missed your presentation i have there is a question but a comment. curious about hearing more about how you factor in to this long-term planning the population changes and growth that will happen in the edges of the staechl i think between the stones town and what is

happening or going to happen in candlestick/ship yard. all the large areas that are getting ready for housing development on the edges of the city. i'm curious about you know hearing more how you align the plans for muni forward with what we anticipate coming in terms of housing development and you know creation of newhouse holds in parts of the city that have had struggles in terms of service? may be not for now but going forward in the next presentation or the next time we bring this up it would be helpful to hear a bit about this >> that is great we can do a joint[ presentation with the planning to talk about the -- latest housing numbers and we can talk about do to serve that >> thank you. >> thank you, chaiyou, shawn,

realliment to give a shout out to the team for the work you have done the last year. the last couple years. the projects come before us the k, l, m. these -- were j as well. you know it is not lost on me they are all in the excelsior ocean i'm jazzedum about them. i did see the things i was so proud to seat team do was -- develop a strategy to create buy in from the community in ways i never seen energy project in commercial corridors and residential neighborhoods. and so, i hope that i hear it from your presentation you are proud of your team but know this i'm also and we are proud of f meaningful goals. it is hard to balance fullness and buy in.

and that's manage this is what we are trying to figure out. right? and it can add time and add -- process to a project and -- moments where it is not done correctly. i reality want to cell brit the team for the projects. because they have been done beautifully. they have really from hearing community saying it is dark we need figure out the lighting solution for y'all. leadership and families. the kids are getting hit it is a huge problem a saying we will extend it and figure out the solution here. i just -- these are the meaningful interactions that

hopeful low create a process where it is less difficult to implement a project you are in the dealing with the residual of a project that went, stray and having to deal with those residual feelings to a new tha have taken and the team has taken is it is something i think will create efficiencies that we have in the seen in other projects. . i had a question around some of the learnings you have seen in the year. and in the different projects this the team has done. how are like what are best practices you are seeing in now what assuming you are creating a play book. this is how the project manage a -- muni forward project?

we shifted a listening type thing as a way to kickoff out

reach efforts understanding who the stake holders are. where occurrence are and how they can be involved and us developing that idea before we ever take w want to bus here and a traffic significant until what do you see wtsk working and not and how we help improve those. and then trying to build that group together. of course, this does not mean■ that things are not contentious and people see different issues but if we can start with this basis of people understanding we are here to make the situation better and let's work together to come up with manage this most people you know finds as a win. i that's what worked well on m and grit on the k. especially with an outside champion on the k. supervisor melgar was an outside champion that really brought together the coalition of people

but she helped lay down a vision this people could get behind. like you said it is not rocket science. you know. as people talk to people. find out what works and when they want to see and then -- work with them to get this in reality. we found at least on the rail the last 3 rail projects we layout a vision and we talk about when we want to see from efficiency stand point and we can come to a good understanding of a solid project that sees a lot of positive results. >> i think that is the big thing learning how tolve people until this development process. >> thank you for saying this because you know that is something this you think about

consolidations and tool kit there can be i don't that tool in my neighborhood because so-and-so had a challenging experience and credits tensions. right. getting ahead of this trying to fwhld repore with the community is critical so this we can impelement project and one thing that i did here in your presentation i want to uplift something is also trying to figure out what projects are coming in the fold this we can plug into. what are ways efficiently partner with our city agencies to implement a project in a way we're not the one shouldering the brand of this we are the onces that we

are collaborate to impelement a projt. >> i encourage this to continue and if there is a way to scale what you are doing with the america line and the k and however it is you taxyinged that i think this is a good brown bag series for staff to listen to to understand when is the secret sauce that made it so smooth. >> i'm just quick -- i'm just -- wondering to what kinds of director chen and vice chair cajina were saying we talked about this at our last working group a presentati was n

>> this conversation in -- and that conversation was, i wonder if there is sort of a rewin to do -- victim propers so this we look public low get the benefits out there? and director chen said [inaudible] and sort of make it easier for the community to accept as direct cajina said sort of the consequence they

as we look at the meaningful work and that context i wonder if there is sort of a messaging rebrands we can think about? and just put this in the in box. >> this is something we are talking about for joint infrastructure projects where we don't want to damage the muni forward brand export to celebrate the city's investment in decades of deferred maintenance in key corridors where people need to be able to flush the toilet reliably. ddition to taking transit reliably. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> >> all right. colleagues we are finished with questions? so open it up for publict have any public comment on items 7?

>> good afternoon directors tom with liveable city. many years ago i was on a committee for the transit effectiveness project an audit [inaudible] i think [inaudible]. they -- hired a bunch of analysts to look at muni time tables going to the 80sch what they discovered muni was like moving one percent slower a year from the 80s to when we did the tem. we were calling that the muni death spiral from 9 miles per hour to 8 miles per hour average. you know if this had continued muni would have been in trouble. service would have continued to get expensive to operate. they found muni spent half-time not moving when you are going a to b half-time not moving some was at transit stops. though all boarding can you speed this up. a lot of that you were waing behind private cars.

that became a service planning exercise special this exercise became newborny forward this is a success. you all sdpefsh cudos staff and the commissioners i know some of decisions were not easy for all you have done. one, third street. third street spent tw billion dollars on a subway connects to light rail on third people are not seeing the value of that. a line like that is saz strongz as the weak link. [speak very fast]. a train stuck behind on third and [inaudible] affects the line we are not seeing the value. third you know should be a great commercial street. you know sidewalks and so on serve commercial and local traffic and double duty 4 lane traffic. may be 4 lanes need to go and need to be two lanes.

local traffic, cycling and transit priority is what that needs to happen. thanks. >> thank you very much for your comments. do we have okay. we will close public comment on item 7. secretary silva call the next >> item 8 presentation and discussion regarding a portal project update. >> all right. hi. all. thank you. thank you for having us today i'm a senior planning manager? you heard, working on the bridge and working on a bus stop director heminger isn't portal protect this . is in the a lowly bus stop it is important.

portal project is one of the largest megaprojects in california and here in san cisc. it is work to advance and connect fourth and king to sales force transit center bring caltrain and high speed to the modal center this . board approved the cooperation agreement for the perral less then and there a year ago allow to participate in review and support the construction work on city property? today i have asked adam van dewater thet gpa to give an informational update on the project where it is and what is moving foa because we will bring to you in the next month or so an mou for your resolution for this city to continue to participate in the portal project as hex lateral agreement with partners including high speed rail, caltrain and mt c. the and i'm missing someone now.

they will forgive me watch that i will turn this over to adam, thank you for coming today. >> thank you. i'm adam van dewater executive director at trans bay power authority the joint powerhouse authority created under law in 2001 to consider replace am of the trans bay terminal idea born down the hall internal to the city. and is governed by 8 member board this mote in this room the second thursday of each month. so, we are connected to the city and operators the joint power's authority and 8 member board. it was owned by the state of california, and the 7 voting members are city and county. represented by your director of transportation. and the port director, my vice

chair is supervisor board's des john baptist from spur and 3 primary operators. caltrain and high speed rail on the board remaining members. the xharj for the agency is 3 fold. swon to complete the sales force transit center we completed the final construction clo out. months ago. the second suggest to reimagine downtown surrounding it is center this is on going largely constructed you will see slides in a mobile home and also really an operational consideration. we were working part of the city's downtown recovery efforts and with providers to get people on transit primary mode of getting in and out of downtown and work to populate retail centers and at above 75% ocpanse

and he look to open the next restaurant in weeks went center and utilizing space as a place for both advertising, special events and free events. over 650 free events every year it is more than a multimodal transportation center it is civic and a gathering place for the community we are proud of that. >> so, phase one is couple pia cross section of the 6 story building a 4 city block. the largest constructed build nothing san francisco and the 10 largest in the united states. and is fully operational with the exception of the 2 below grade train box. if you have not seen it come down i'm joined by our director of communication and legislative

affairs handling tours program theme show what you is still yet to committee 2 story train box to connect caltrain and high speed rail 10th and 11th transit operators. we have 8 bus operators working off the ground floor and bus decklock and a half from bart station. and caltrain and high ped the 10th 11 provider. >> mentioned the neighborhood. and so if you are in at this time neighborhood 20 years ago you would have seen downtown to the north and alost surface park lots. off ramps to freeway and low density warehousing and commercial paces that wholesale the highest value and tallest real estate in the western united stat. and this collective low funds the cost transit center and

brought in millions of office and residential and those 15,000 residents and 8,000 units. the roof top p is 5 and a half acre the big of the community amenity and we are work with the city and downtown developers on the remaining parcels there. there are a few. and as you are aware challenging market in terms of interest rates and demand for space. there are continuing and in the press this week. the next slide, we think of this as two phases one phase the completion of the center and reimagining of the neighborhood and the second is the rail connection. we other decade of rail a long visionha all the way back to the stanford era. about realizing the vision of

upon bring passengers along the peninsula to their or gin and destination closetory transit connections downtown. in phase one, it was a 2. 3 billion dollars investment. that was about a 24,000 total job year investment. this put project labor to work constructing the building. and brought in laboring materials from 47 of 50 states. this is a program designate nitted as a local, regional and national program of significance and a long-term vision. disrupted by the pan dem and i can what that has done to ridership in commercial real estate and one important to sustainable, economic and mobility future. >> we celebrated sick years. open in the 2018. and i mentioned some of those services had a party in■@ our rf

top park with 1500 good friends coming to experience the center. but we are here today to talk about where we go from here. phase 2 is the portal. you have been watching picture it the downtown rail extension. and we rebrandd that to significant fight significance. it is a key rail connection. caltrain is the primary transit connection along fourth and king. this a temporary rail yard 65 years ago. there are discussions to redevelop that and fwlang from grade near mission creek under towns end a new ad a modern station there at fourth and towns end. and under the right of way to second street and to that existing basement. it will be two new stations 2.2

miles worth of track work and the northern terminus of high speed and the caltrain system. you see orange dotted element catharsis outside of my agency's purview and scope one a future rail crossing that link 21 which is a collaboration with bart and capitol corridor amtrak is looking at a crossing about to pick the gauge of this rail ais convention am gauge. tell come out of the eastern end of our building. that say future project pedestrian other end the pennsylvania avenue extension run by the san francisco transportation authority. to continue the below grade subway further south and address the grade separation issues with mission bay and the rest of the city. in termsject benefits they are numerous. a couple of things to highlight the green and sustainable future. so thshg is one of the most

united states and the most active economic development corridors. and we would berent electric ev went to revenue service in september. into the heart of downtown to the places of work or employment, recreation or home. or to transfer to any of the service providers you would take a bus from the 8 counties to the center and elevator down and have electric rail first down through silicon valley and all the way to the l.a. of course, the region state for economic growth and prosperity allows people to have i one seat ride between the across the state. and climate and environmental justice. hudo we doe this, this is our

sxhfrj has been our challenge for a period of ti and that as much to commolest the full funding grant agreemen. we are currently 70% ed. that is a couple of big sloigss of the pie here. one is the dark blue cig amount. the federal transit administration has a pipeline of projects for major capitol investments from bus rapid to subway projects. and our provlject like bart silicon valet learninger in the in addition and the federal transit■ committed 3.38 billion dollars. they allowed us to count the match the 2010 investment in this trin box photograph of thi that is constructed.

>> 901 million dollars committed in various source. bridge tolls and■÷ land sales. am 21 additional fund exclude taken 10% of the scope out through a condition figureeration plan working group this is the city issue county, operators. transportation authority and our staff work to put together fortunate projected that feign maintains that ridership and connection without unnecessary ailments we have been able to take about 10% out from the scope and from cost actualization. we were required by the federal government to use an enter rate. coming out of a high interest rate environment. they come in under allowed you to take some out. twro remaining here shown in this light orange color, were the source of focus

now. one the state. and we the high feedspeed rail authority be there most active stop on the system. projected generate a third of the total ridership with the rail and transit connections. and projects like ours caltrain electric and bart and other large infrastructure investments have been recipients of transit capitol program. congratulations to you and your work for the president train control we worked with your staff to make sure we were not in competition for fubldz in the same cycle but targeting it has a future source and a series of small are slices that are state and federal grants that are tax increment and land sales and other commercial downtown. that help us get to a full

funding grant agreement the last two thing and open to questions or comments have you, swon how we deliver this collaboratively. 8 members we have, let of folks interested in our project as an operator and landowner and local jurisdiction and also a fundser. so we combhum operating under a rail [inaudible] and as we move friday the planning to procure. phase are making adjustments to this when we seek your concurrency on to take an mo u to the board and other partners. that mou a direct line from staff level integrated project delivery team in theaking decisionos the delivery of the project with a technical committee reporting to the project director rodriguez and change control board weighing the policy decision changes to scope, schedule and budget

management team reporting to me and joint powerhouse and the caltrain boardnd having a subcommittee of dedicated to the project to dive deeper than our ard. so, this is a m recentliedum of understand and management agreement i will sign with fellow directors formalizeing construct to clifr this together and transparently. on schedulee we completed all vipiral work in 2019. stabilized projectin and entered in project development in 2022. andern entered the engineering phase that commit third degree 3.38 billion in may of this year. and work toward a full funding grant agreement in thrt 5 years

js construction. a year of testing and the beginning of ref now service in 20 thirty-four time watch that, i wmñl pause and see if there are questions and invite to you come down to the transit center and see what is active and what is uer way today. we are trying to build while we navigate downton abbeyrecovery. >> can you give me insights on when feedback you need from us that would be the most helpful for you so we can direct questions accordingly. the purpose is to introduce informational but it is in services i mentioned of your blessing on a memorandum of understand we engage with the city to deliver this project. soe don't operate transit

service, we are an infrastructure manager. and steward of the public trust on the project. and the surrounding elements that we are public low controlled. we need to make sure we do this in a way that works efficiently for our operators. . in every way. head ways, operations marines, security. so that why we have everybody at the table and coming back for consideration of the mo u this mou is a stream lined version. the assumption k is we gone throughout planning phase and going to procurement in this you need to be nimble to work with and to be able to manage your nd escalation to deliver it. i guess to answer your question the best way to ensure muni's

interests are represented through this board and director of transportation and the ke su a voice in the delivery of the project. >> thank you. >> colleagues. so do we have clarifying the it adam? okay. iqñ did have a question -- just because of the where the -- the site and improvements are located we heard from shawn about thet line and see how those two initialives intersect? i know jeff you is insights on that. that is part of that process? >> so.

the -- we are focusing in a couple of areas to support the project. one we talked about is to have a coordinated funding strategy to make sure we are not competing with each other. another is to weigh in at the policy level as the project looks at things like cost, which you know we are primarily doing through jeff and others. and then are pieces of project that is wing on the actual construction cordination. and -- utility work and -- both because it will impact our bike and transit networks on the surface but also they innersect with our duck bank and cond wits and all■ of that work. so. part of why -- involved to make sure all of the right people

from our maintenance of way teams and traffic teams and our -- construction cordination teams are involved. early and often to make sure that we minimize where we can or anticipate where we can to -- and trying to build this in the mou work so we have enough resources whether additional consultant support or staff. so we are not slowing down the project but also making sure that we are not introducing unexpected consequence for our own infrastructure. >> in terms of different projects that we have in the same geography, are we seeing the collaboration a way to advance. or part whf we are talking about when we -- trying to figure

outsave costs and act efficiently upon is there a way not to a for our different agencies to collaborate as we same space to improve transit opportunity for san francisco. i wonder if this is the conversation are happening now. what are they looking like. >> they are. they are localized so towns end is a big opportunity location. mihal happen for the 22 the gray crossing on 16th street. is another key question.

director heminger. thank you, madam chair a quick store and he a question. the store seabout this train box. and this was around the time that gavin newsome was mayor of san francisco. still we had adebaited about this project and whether or not it made sense to secure a lot of funding. to build a train box for a train that may not come any time soonful the mayor was adamant that i don't want to be known the guy who built a bilgz bus terminal. he built a 2 billion dollars bus terminal. question that relates to is -- in your pie charts, can you

describe what level of what you have on the project given the fact that other bay area project its experienced a lot of cost■ pressure? a coupler8■e things. add one thing to the vice chair and get to yours the left time we were here to discuss a cooperation agreement. in addition to the mou we were here to discuss today. ica with that is not mt a but that is fire and every agency that has a brick in the path of travel.

there are project about thes port under going a sea wall at the edge of mission creek. at that to the■ comments to you comment >> the train box of built with a 2009 grant. 400 million dollars. we estimated the cost of trying to do this work today with an operating transit center above and the engineering challenge of not taking that off line. as april 3-4x this cost that was an victim in the future wehere

drops. at the time line it takes and increment it is required to do so. to your broader question time line, and contingency we are 30% design. done a project deliver alternative study how we will■o deliver it and broken it in components. some of them are straightforward design/build or contractor, the tunnel is our largest and complicated piece of the infrastructure and doing progressive design build. that is something you hear in the transit community a way to share risk with the owner and the deliverer the contractor. and what is means is that you stop your design at 30%. bring the contractor in and seeing this now with silicon valthat he contractor is say figure you move from this side and that side or enter this way i stave save thisim money they are the ones we are work to

bring them in house to deliver that 30% design we carry 43% continncy the pie chart you see not half of that cost is contingency we feel which of the in in number it was developed 2 way bottom up everything you need to construct and top down estimate this met in the middle. those were within a small percentage points and validated by the ft a and project management over site consultant who looked at it we have confidence in the number when we are hope to get confident on the ability to close that gap and this skwed. the project like this -- is . escalation at a normal 3 and % scale is millions of dollars a r we don't deliver it is a steeper hill to climb that is the urgency.

i field questions of why now? i will tell you why now. not just escalation and cost, it it is that tell take us 10 years to deliver a train and passengers in that basement. so we are working on downtown recoverynd working on trapzit ridership today and ton do so in the coming year but we need to plan for the futures if we'll connect the systems and make it convenient and cost effective for the next generation to get in and out of downtown. >> thank you. >> thank you. colleagues other questions? >> we will open for public comment. any public comment on item 8? >> good afternoon, directors tom with liveable city. 26 years ago, trying to revive

the project wilbrown tried to quill it. prop 8 bring it downtown passd and the project revived i'm glad we are talking about temperature as adam was talking about had you not built train box under the bus terminal and try to add the train later the cost holding update bus term nal would do that. i think this the pennsylvania avenue extension. idea bring caltrain under 16th street is the smartest thing. do them together at the same time. however if you are doing that then holding update freeway i280 will make the pennsylvania avenue extension a bazillion more expensive. get rid of i280. first it is terrible for safety in soma turned sickth to a

seri most dangerous street statute freeway on and off ramp. t third i you get tot high fracture the gates across king will be closed most of the time at rush hour. traffic will back up. let the t move. if it make everything work better. now we don't that is the mo better project and will make better phases cheaper we will don't have a good transportation plan nothing san francisco planning walked away i don't know what thet a is doing they need to be planned and understood together. in order to neighborhood. can you reim claim the value of this land. we did that at transbay. thank you. additional comment?

>> i have one accommendation request. speaker you are have been unmuted this is item 8. >> i'm past 8 going for comment on number 9. thank you >> thank you. >> no other comments >> thank you c comment. and secretary silva next item >> next item item 9, general public comment. members may address board on matters within the board's jurisdiction and are not on today's calendar. >> we will hear public upon comment this is general public comment for matteros today's agenda. and -- we have one person. >> have another. you know who i am. yea. we are all bummed out today for good reasons. i think it is measure important this san francisco lead and inspire. 25 year ago this month voters passed prop e created this

agency. i helped campaign for that. that proposition directs you i the charter to credit a safe bicycle network. we have an opportunity to do this. and you know this is something we need to do. we need a bike network the biking and rolling plan. that service people of all ages and abilities. 25 years after founded you need to create that plan. so this people of all age and abilities can cycle safely. we wrote you a letter but some of the need to use best practice stoornsd not like whatever we decided on this. has to be safe and really have a protected network and slow streets network built to the best it needs to be a floor not a ceiling. and we do need tehave a 10 year plan and say these other places we'll connect. but you should never, never,

weaponize the bicycle network to say, no you can't have bike not our plan. every street needs be to a safe street to bike on like it it is safe to walker drive on. so, yes. please, get this moving. you will have a presentation month on it. we have spent hour its is a year late. please, move forward with bike plan and make it a god plan worthy of the city inspiration to the country of how to create a just and sustainable and mobile city. thank you. >> next comment. >> good afternoon i'm trish and i holt regular meeting with the stewards of slow street in san francisco and work with the people slow streetsd vision forf

slow safe streets across the staechl streets where people all ages and abilities canwalk, bike, roll or skate to destinations. the sfmta adopted a slow streets program in 22 we yet to seat full potential. many slow streets fall short of critical metrics and gap in connectivity. we have an opportunity to correct this through the biking and rolling plan and requires strong will and commitment to bold action. prioritizes sustainable transportation. the biking and will regular plan must implement strong safety se connections and foster a culture that dignifies cycling and rolling with a plan we give all san francisco the freedom to chose their mode of transportation come reach any

destination free from concerns about cyst. san francisco has potential to lead in active transportation and urge to you move this plan forward with urgency and he an ambitious vision for the future. thank you. >> thank you. any additional comments? i believe keep have accommendation >> we have one. speaker you have been unmuted for general public comment. >> now one thing that is missing from the board and the policies are benefits to motorists. i have not seen one benefit from motorists who drive in the city. and congested, clogged and it does not seem like it will alleviate in the future. what are you doing for motorists? how do they fwhf any way from mt

apolicies? this is the elephant in the room. thank you. >> thank you for your comment mr. winer, any additional callers. >> no. >> now close public comment ont item. >> that is your last item >> you have no further business today. thank you. we will adourn today's meeting. >> thank you. clear clear

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