how - and i know that the mta wants to improve the project timelines. it's not just a challenge with the larger projects but the smaller ones. it's sometimes very brain damaging to move projects forward >> yeah. >> and that's for small not hard ones that have a lot of community support without a lot of controversy. so in terms of confident levels that once the mta finishes the analysis this is a realistic timeline. given the time it will take another 5 years to deliver the project is too long but but why should we be confident. and in the context the mta was prepared to force that project to be side lanes and it wouldn't be beneficial and mta was barreling in that districts and because of some creativity thinking we were able to come up with a resolution for the center lanes. given 3 history and this history why should we believe it will be deliverable >> we see it differently. we work very closely to come up with the center lane proposal and to speed it up. while it wouldn't get you the full beneficiary it will get i incremental improvements. the commu

we made a connotati to action that's the september 10th final documents. mta will do so on september 17th and we'll get the report at the end of the environmental report. 3450e789 mta is moving forward with the project. last but not least the authority received a grant for the travel demand management. it's a complicated project. this is a true partnership we're working with the mta sf environment trying to leverage private sector dollars that are in transportation land management to make it more friendly through a number of different mriltsz. mta has drafted an initial approach to address the muni transportation issues. we will come back with mta to present to our advisory committee and the plans and programs committee in august and september temp. this will be an update at the same meeting. with that i'll be happy to answer any questions >> colleagues any questions or comments. okay. we can go on to the public comment with the directors remarks. seeing none, public comment is closed. this is an informational item so let's go on to our consent calendar >> ite

and ta are embracing the idea so the people can see the improvements. and mta is very focused on the low cost improvements immediately fund the certification of the environmental document. in fact, mta has announced the goals by mid 2014 in the mid gary area. looking at oiflg a locally identified alternative in the document there are a couple of options that we think have the potential of becoming the alternative. and their depektd here. it would include the option to provide a filed at fillmore in order to reconnect the community that maybe as much of a land use and community issue as a transportation issue by those optioned will allow this to be done. side lynn b r t would be provided and the center lane b r t to 22 avenue and a consolidated bus service further to the west. other maples of accelerating deliver including looking at number one traditionally means of delivering the project. maria mentioned the designed risk and we've done that on the vanessa project we we can the same thing can be done on gary. we're confident we know what the alternative is and

the mta before i got there had in -- initiated this and the changes were implemented so there is

and by the implications that somehow the purchasing staff at mta are not doing their job. or at least not doing it well. and the idea behind the contracts is that by outsourcing the purchasing function, mta with can get what they need faster and cheaper, i believe that is true. but the reason that the contractor could get the needed commodities faster and cheaper is not because the purchasing has been too challenging, complicated or difficult for the mta purchasing staff, although, that allows the explanation that was given by the mta by the commission in order to get approval. the fact of the matter is that the reason that the outside contractor is faster than the city purchasing, is because of you, the board of supervisors. you would have enacted laws to make sure that the purchasing process is fair and open, that proper controls are in place to control the expenditure of the tax payer money and to encourage the social agenda that is important to the city. all of these things are important, but all of them take time. when i read or when i read this contract, when i read t

and with the new bicycle strategy forward increasing the safety and attractiveness of cycling and the mta board just increased the share of on street spaces available to car share vehicles. we are working out conflicts with the corporate shuttles that move 35,000 people a day. we are working through new developments to implement transportation demand management practices such as incliewgdz of muni passes and bike parking and things of the bike, so all those things in the short range will kind of help us both improve service and accommodate some of the initial growth. so in terms of funding which is really part of the i think the emptus for the hearing this slide just shows how we're funded today. about a third of the revenue -- this is the operating budget we're talking about. about a third come from parking, meters, citations. we get 80% of the city's parking tax. the general fund transfer, the baseline transfer pays for about a quarter of the operating budget. transit fares pay a quarter and we get assistance and grating grant and sales tax funds that pay for paratransit service that co

the mta before i got there had in -- initiated this and the changes were implemented so there is a lot we're doing internally. there are still external factors that impact the deliverability of projects. we're a heavy process town. i know you get these issues at this committee and there is engagement in the process and sometimes it spreads the timeline of projects. the ceqa process -- some of the work we're doing requires a full eir and can take two years and the ceqa process can be in the way as well so we're trying to be effective and smart in planning for the ceqa process and the community engagement is effective but there is factors outside of what we can manage as an industry that impact the timelines but it's something we're focused on and want to make sure whatever resources we have whether from the federal government, the state government or regionally or locally we put them into the ground and benefit the transportation system directly. >> i appreciate your focus on this. we had so many transit related projects from market street to the subway and various other projects where

the future of the mta's development. as you can see from this map in the green it provides a north south trunk, an area where there is little rail currently available, so we will provide basically a high capacity corridor for the mta without having to build a rail line along van ness. it's designed specifically to hook up with the geary brt and currently in development and provide east-west connection point and connection hub at van ness and geary. as part of a larger mta network service for the van ness brt will be provided by the trolley and motor coaches currently operate the 47 and 49 limited lines. as you can see from this map the bus rapid transit project will operate in the exclusive right-of-way along van ness. for the rest of the run they will operate as they currently do along the traditional routes of the 49 limited and the 47 lines providing connection to other parts of the city and the 49 line will run virtually the entire length of the city. what goes into making a brt system? what is bus rapid transit? it's

to provide it through the city. mta ask that we enter into a permit with them, but since they're the lead we felt mou with mta was appropriate to make clear we're doing this at your request. and the mou which is attached to your materials clarifies that that they are the coordinators that they're responsible for any issues or complaints that come up with respect to this. it is not something that recreation and park are taking. if there's any funds required in connection with with this and mta will bare those cost and we will not have any liability for losses or anything associated with it. so we're asking you to approve that mou with the sfmta. the second peace of this is the department we'll be entering into a permit with alta and it's for two years and at the location i showed you. there is no fees because we're doing this as accommodation to mta and it's being funded through the department governmental agencies. there will be a million dollar liability insurance and they'll be no advertising allowed in connection wit

, i think the mta needs to step up to the plate and start endorsing the laws. the laws should be followed and until their changed and not the other way around. we've collected license plates of nearly a thousand cards that's more than the number of taxi vehicles and we're highly recollected. hockey the charge us with those fees when you're not out there ticketing those guys. it's not ride sharing and exempt from passenger transportation laws. and i think one of the problems here is the mta was focusing on far too much of how much money they could make on the medallio medallions. the mta couldn't sell them themselves so they held off issuing imply medallions until they could make money on it. and another seclusion we need to prior was when we had the advisory council. if you have to buy off the companies that have pay off their apps but we need our own apps and quit advertising for those illegal taxi companies >> we'll take about a 10 minute break. okay? we'll be back in about 10 minutes.

need to but just so you don't think we're picking on the mta president chiu and i had an interesting discussion at a transportation authority -- excuse me, finance committee meeting the other day about funding for the geary bus rapid transit project which is not to the mta yet and it's been 10 years i think, and i know we expressed a lot of frustration and we put a funding item out with a negative recommendation and we're sending a strong message to the ta and not acceptable to have the projects move along at a snail's pace so i think it's a group effort to look at the agency's processes and all of the public processes and how can we move forward with these projects in a timely matter. >> agreed. >> supervisor kim. >> thank you. i wanted to thank supervisor wiener for the last project and important to look at internal processes and one issue that came up in the ceqa process that we heard from one of the developers and not the appeals but making determinations were prioritized and figuring out internally on the front end the city could do a better job to make sure things move forward

the environmental review and the mta think of the city as flat. it has mountains all over it. going four blocks may mean traifrg going back going up and down hills. any eir that doesn't include maps is not a good eir but it doesn't provide the decision markers mta and the planning department with the ability to make effective decisions because i don't assume i know every block in the city by t you have to when you make those decisions and i'm talking to mta to zls is the planning department. and the information should be in the eir and should be given to decision-makers the blocks that lengthen the city are all over is place. and it's different in chinatown and the blocks south of marketing are enormous and the planning department is looking at the blokes as a scope of distance. every time you use the term block it disenpowers the folks. by the time this eir comes back but if the tools are not provided shame on environmental view and shame on mta and the consultant as well. thank you >> is there any additional public comment? >> good afternoon, members of the commission peter

and this is our chance to pilot it during the events. so mta has been putting into service some of the double-ended historic streetcars that can operate in both directions without a full-loop turnaround. >> now will those be running just during the event, during the america's cup event or will pilot hours be for other parts of the day or other times? >> it's currently scheduled to be piloted during the events. though, you know, as i mentioned with positive legacy, if there is a demand for that type of service, that can justify the expense of putting it into service, that is what we want to test going forward. so if there is a constituency that would look to use that longer term, we would look to meet that demand. >> my other question is with respect to the bike sharing, bike renting, bike sharing. when you said that people could rent a bike for half an our or an hour or whatever. where will those be located? and will there be bikes that are mechanically altered for people with mobility problems to use the bicycles? mobility challenges -- will t

the eir provides an evaluation of the mtas policy framework to support the strategy planned goals. it includes service proposals including reroutes and routes elimination. and capita that is needed. and transit traffic time proposals or t prps. the sfmta has applied the t p.s. to design the t ps. for example, in pedestrian and traffic circles in lanes. one example of which is the pilot on church street. the corridors identified for t prp treatments are those that carry the majority of ridership in the city. the eir may include the program analysis such as a the service policy framework. it's appropriate for the proposals for which designed details has not been developed as shown on the map. the corridors in black are the ones for which the mta has designed specific designs and the gray ones are needing more processes pr the their involvin others processes. so the culminate effects are known those program level components have gone through research. to the extent that specific information is known to a specific environmental topic for both components it's been addressed in the initi

and - >> is the mta looking at the redundancy of the light rail vehicle and the light transit on the same system is it possible. >> understand that the rail piece would be long-term, the bus transit would be short-term and the next in the next couple of years. >> that's what people want tongs we have some redundancy in the light rail system so we can make some improvements and not create a complete disaster if one goes down. >> we could see what the demand ridership is to further include the bus system we will look at that. >> appreciate that. colleagues any other proposed amendment is to item 20 is the advisory committee for geneva bus rapid transit. i want to make sure we have another neighborhood that is realignment in my neighborhood is i want to take one of the at large seats and moving that towards a neighborhood seat in my neighborhood as defined by 280 open the west and ocean avenue and ashton to the north and holloway and brotherhood way to the southern border. that would include the neighborhood that's more adjacent to the geneva avenue for inclusion on the c r.c. and i won

safety award and he looks at the safety statistics of all the different maintenance divisions in the mta and each quarter. whoever does best gets the award and this quarter's award goes to the scott center maintenance team which is lead by rich von seka and this is kind of behind the scenes operation. the scott center is where we maintain the non revenue vehicles so all of the vehicles that support the muni support and the rest of the mta are maintained by the scott division and they were chosen because of their reduction of lost time injuries, their demonstration of leadership in safety, monthly inspections compliance, safety employee commitment and active of safety within the work place. they work in the scott garage -- it's kind of across the street from animal care and control and an old facility not really designed for the purpose that it's being used so safety is all the more important so we just want to recognize rich and his team. i'm not sure if they're here and recognize the team for their great work to keep his employees safe and congratulate them, and finally i just wanted to

the corridors in black are the ones for which the mta has designed specific designs and the gray ones are needing more processes pr the their involvin others processes. so the culminate effects are known those program level components have gone through research. to the extent that specific information is known to a specific environmental topic for both components it's been addressed in the initial study in its insure it whether or not the details have been developed first year for example, we understand the tools needed to take care of this. for each the 8 promotions the mta has identified a moderate proposal and the expanded proposals with respect to travel first year by looking at those the sfvt will have neglect to get it approved. they may choose different alternates for example, the motor alternates for the church and the other project. as shown the two alternates have different things like loading and this is for pedestrian and air quality and noise. the expanded part has an impact and with respect to culminate parking one quarter is effected under each alternate. i want to spea

yet, but it has not been turned over and before we even turn it over to the mta for them to do the more detailed design, we'll have been spending 6 million dollars on environmental review and on conceptual designs so that -- it's frustrating, just raises a question for me. i'm not trying to dump on the ta stuff 'cause you are some of the most highly competent folks around. it's about the way we do projects in san francisco which is deeply dysfunctional. >> [inaudible] we're all doing this together, whether we're leading [inaudible] we all have to work together on this and the system as a whole needs reform and that's one of the things [inaudible] one of the outcomes [inaudible] is if we can [inaudible] either public or just city staff type symposiums or working sessions just to really focus on this issue and make some mediate reforms both at the small and big scale projects. >> at least with the better market street man, which we've been critical of the lack of interagency coordination and the credible slowness and expense of the projects at least with market street, it's just incr

both the police department and mta. this consolidates a lot of functions from security to transit planning to all sorts of safety and operational needs, getting in and out of special events like the america's cup, like hardly strictly bluegrass and it's a new way of doing this. so i can share her cell phone number with your staff, so if you have problems or concerns as the events unfold, she can take care of them in realtime and that has been happening already on this event. it's a very helpful new addition. in 2013 we have a much longer period of racing. in 2012, if you recall, in october, a very super peak day with not only the america's cup, but we had fleet week and heritage parade and the home giant's game and castro street fair all in the same weekend and we don't anticipate near those kind of crowds this time, but we have a sustained effort from july through middle of september. so fewer crowds, less of a logistical problem on one given weekend, but we need to be able to sustain that effort over time and have the

it would be good to have links on the mta website on the front page. i think it's important that everybody have access to it and maybe send out email blasts or a press release about this draft eir because it's not well publicized as far as i can tell. >> thank you. anyone else wish to address the board on this topic? >> [inaudible] >> let's check with board members first here. members of the board. director rubke anything -- >> sure. >> anyone want to go? >> i will go. thank you chairman nolan. thank you staff for bringing this us to review and like chairman nolan i'm a huge fan of brt. didn't have to go to mexico to fall in love with it. i read systems in the usa and they're compatible and the systems are narrower and similar to what we have to work with here in san francisco. you know regarding some of the concerns that have been raised the construction and all of that is -- it's not going to be a lot more than street surfacing so the worries about that are something that we can deal with. i really value this project because of the fact that very rar

we have a 4.5 percent lead way the blue tier is the mta had done some sales tax rates it was pretty low but difference we thought it would be prudent and it landed in the middle so we're reviking it down. you can see in the let's go box what this does is we're down about $150 million in sales tax revenue over the thirty years roughly arthritis about two years total revenues projected. don't get alarmed at the detail on here. we have a complicated model you push one thing here but i told you that revenues are down a little bit but because projects have come in at a slower rate because finance costs have been repressed that means that revenues are down we have additional fund for some things but the prop k funds liv let me explain that the line items programs or projects have to carry their own finance costs. we had about 5 projects when prop k was put together all this projects were going to move forward and that would have been in the 5 year timeframe but if that had of happened we wouldn't have the funds. so if you advance those funds we take that out of the line female so we're basica

the mta advisory committee. a lot of folks working together, our fleet engineers, mechanics, supervisors, operators, most of whom are under the leadership of john who has been the driving force of getting these here. the one person who was so excited about this is our mayor. he kept saying when are we going to get to ride those buses? i'm happy to say this day is here. i would like to introduce you're san francisco mayor,ed lee. [ applause ] >> thank you. some of them have arrived and all of them will arrive by july. i want to thank the commission and ed riis skin and the staff for investing properly. this is what we talked about for a number of years. when you realize that many of the buses that we have are over 13 years old in the city and you realize on how not only how run down they are but we keep replacing the parts over again. we have learned the lessons of fuel economy, of ergonomics and designs and free coating on there and material that won't absorb the moisture that sometimes is spilled on there. these