-- public transport. i think we can all agree that it is disgraceful that some young people cannot afford to travel to school, college, work. but in having transport as our campaign, there is great potential in the idea of a national under scheme. 18making trouble -- public transport affordable for all young people. currently, in the capital, only around 1/4 of tube stations and 1/2 of overground stations are step-free. don't people with disabilities are excluded from traveling some -- young people with disabilities are excluded from traveling some lines. this is the case across the country in many towns and cities. in rural areas, many young people have lack of access to bus routes and train services. i am from a place where some live -- travel with a -- after a certain hour and where some people don't live within walking distance to a bus or train station. we must be part of the process of deciding where and when buses and trains run, making public transport accessible for all our young people. i waited

i'm the senior transportation planner with the transportation authority and as chair peskin mentioned earlier, the transportation 2045 task force has concluded its work and i will have a brief presentation on the final report. i will first go quickly through the task force process before outlining the final recommendation. there's a lot more detail in the report in front of you. beforehanding it off to dave from fm3. so the task force was co-chaired by andres power from the mayor's office and sunny angulo from chair peskin's office. coming from business groups and advocacy organizations and agency staff. the final meeting was in december 2017. the charge was to identify the funding needs and gaps in resources for transportation in san francisco as well as to identify potential locally controlled revenue sources that might help close the gap. building on the previous planning efforts including that of 2013 as well as the transportation authority san francisco transportation plan updated in 2017, the sfmta and capital plans and plan bay area, staff used the plans to present to the task

i'm a transportation planner. as you may recall last december, this body program, san francisco's form last year of the local partnership program for three tree resurfacing projects, today's presentation is about the other half of this state program. the competitive portion. the local partnership program rewards jurisdictions that have sought and received voter approval of taxes, tolls and fees or have fees solely dedicated to transportation. the california transportation commission administers this program and 50% is distributed through formula and prop aa administrator, it is eligible for both portions. the initial funding cycle for the competitive program covers years 2017-18 through 2019-20 and will distribute up to $300 million state and wide. funds available for construction only. requires a dollar for dollar match and minimum grant size of $3 million. project nominations will be considered in two different groups. one group for jurisdictions with water approved measures and one group for jurisdictions with

guest: yes, the federal gas tax is dedicated to transportation and specifically to surface transportation investment. right now it is an 18.4 cents per gallon tax. the 18.4 cents covers the part of the program that supports the federal contribution to investments in highway and transit. that has not changed in 125 years. we have been operating at the same level. the cost of virtually everything else in our lives has increased substantially over that 25 years. it would not be unreasonable to be -- for there to be adjustment in the federal user tax. one of the things we like to point out is that while 18.4 cents per gallon might seem like a large number, that equates to one dollars per year per driver. it is not a hugely substantial investment by individuals to support the infrastructure we know this country needs, and specifically getting to your lockbox comment, to support surface transportation investment. we, as an association, would like to see additional investment. we think the user-based model works well. the highway trust fund, that lockbox, if you will, has worked well for 60 year

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to people who take public transport. a city without cars is hard to imagine but there is a residential complex in a suburb of cologne where this is the only kind of car that's allowed you hannah and her parents have been living here for two years sixty years the largest entirely car free neighborhood in germany. when we heard about it it sounded so great what a nice way to live and then we came in had a look. how amazing to be able to let your children play out on the street and move around freely without worrying. playgrounds instead of car parks germans love their cars so this amounts to a minor revolution. about thirteen hundred people live in the complex their rental contract stipulate that no cars are allowed residents however are permitted to transport shopping home in a cart before as a family don't do a big shop once a week by car they buy smaller amounts of fresh produce at the local grocers almost daily. it's not difficult i go by bike and i take a backpack along that's usually enough plus i have my bike basket

the powerful forces of wind waves and currents transport mud and sand from the band into the sea. people who live on the show stuff familiar with those natural forces and they know they have to stabilize their shows the. scientists in the netherlands are testing him he will present. down has become a hotspot for wind and kite surfing and a destination for holiday makers. it's just southwest of the hague on the dutch north sea coast much of the beach the sand bar that bulges out into the sea is manmade it was created in twenty eleven and designed to serve as a sound engine to counter coastal erosion. marcel stever a professor at the delft university of technology is the mastermind behind the project. the basic idea. we wanted to make this coastal stretch over here we want wanted to make it safe for the next fifty years in the light of climate change so instead of making a. mint every four years so come back every four years we decided to put a large amount of sediment that would last for twenty years that would distribute itself. through natural forces along the coast so we don't h

first is what kind of transportation service is really be provided. is the demand high and who's in the system and where are they going. fundamentally it's stationless bike share is it filling a gap in successful travel options and the second is whether there's secondary impact including blocked sidewalks, broken bikes, proliferation of graffiti and additional costs for city crews and if there's any other impacts compared to transportation benefits. i'll stop so we can get into details i wasn't able to cover but my summary is we're eager to promote bike sharing information and we're confident our approach is starting with a similar pilot with bike sharing and commuter shut als to ensure we're putting the public interest of people of san francisco first in the process. that concludes my presentation. thank you. >> thank you for the presentation, mr. parks. >> thank you. i have about three and a half questions and has to do with my original question. i'm under the impression and heard no one was advised of the terms of the settlement and the other compa

we could spend half an hour on the transportation changes. i want to say we are happy to come back to go into the details. this was an overview to introduce the knew proposal in terms how it worked on the street >> in closing when you come with an overview at quarter to 6:00 in the evening after we have done everything on the street normally you get no responses. this response this evening hopefully communicates the enthusiasm we have and we look forward to the bigger report when you come back with the possible early transportation changes. thank you for sticking around. we appreciate it. >> i want to move to public comment. i want to make a note not to be discussed now but perhaps for the director that the discussion of the raised cycle track not working i have been watching that same design. lets talk about it later at some point. >> be made modifications based on what we learned based on the timing. >> any other comments or can i go to public comment? great. any public comment? >> i have not received a single love note. >> i will thank the

of city transportation officials. both national meetings of national organisations. one of them had 13,000 people. one of them had about 20 people. a little different in scale. but one thread that ran through all of these discussions to folks on the hill at the transportation meetings and with the deputy administrator are two main topics. one was the infrastructure bill, which earlier in the month folks thought we might be seeing the first draft of this month and now it looks like it's sliding into february. the fact that transportation funding was not addressed in the recent federal tax legislation leaves the fate of the infrastructure bill a little up in the air as there's expected to be $200 million of federal funds, but now no funding source. arguably even less available federal funding. but that was a large topic of conversation. the other one was the technology changes that are impacting the transportation industry, particularly autonomous vehicles. there is a lot that we're doing within the agency, with the tra

fully automated transportation. theere founded to ask question, what is the full realization of autonomy and mobility? can we imagine that? and if we can, let's not build it in 10 years. let's build it now. we have gone from a founding vision to today augmenting cars with a taunus vehicle driving in downtown san francisco. we are driving during the day, during the night, and in heavy rain and fog. we also drive a taunus on freeways. of features, as we speak. the fulle realize realization is not retrofitted cars, we create a vehicle from ,he ground up without controls that is purposely built for the needs of our cities today and tomorrow. it means safe and wonderful mobility. this represents a phenomenal effort by highly disciplinary team. intelligence with , product design, safety, vehicle engineering. ferrari.esla, apple, and along with academic institutions such as stanford, m.i.t., oxford, princeton. the very real safety opportunity that a taunus mobility will offer drives our work every day. a taunus technology

i understand the transportation issue in the bay area.ation is really difficult, and we don't have the infrastructure you have here in new york to get people around. but, you know, some of it just seems silly to me. it might be just because i've seen the rich times and the poor times. so, it doesn't -- i want to link what we do and how we treat people to our successes as businesses and to the delight that we give our customers and our clients. and if you focus on that, then you rethink some of that stuff. that correlation that people assume that, if i make employees extraordinarily happy, they will be extraordinarily successful -- i'm not sure i really buy that. emily: all right. patty mccord, author of a new : building aful culture of freedom and responsibility." thank you so much for joining us. coming up, we will hear from simon segars on the continued fallout from that massive ship security flaw. that's next. this is bloomberg. ♪ on tuesday, we reported on a japanese astronaut who said he has grown over 3.5 inches since arriving at th

had on transportation issues. it's a wonderful thing in the era of term limits where you don't see enough experts leading the way. so without any further adieu. join me in giving him a warm welcome to the podium. >> thank you. for those of you from out of town welcome to los angeles. before you leave ploez step outside and get the 360 degree view of this amazing city. thanks soft for being here for the conversation. david i appreciate the intro-. as being a visionary. i have bad visions and i have good visions. and this is a subject on which i have both. as a local elected official, here in the city of los angeles i represent neighborhoods. i look at the decisions i make in the policies we consider from a very granular and human level. as we deal at the loat the loca level with the promise and potential. i this my colleagues and mayor look at it not so much technology. but people. and of places. and as we wrestle with the policy questions and the regulations that must come, we asked ourselves a number of different

so, it is, kind of, going outside of the realm of the traditional transportation purview. host: even broadband gets folded into that. guest: exactly, and that is more to address the needs in rural district. infrastructure is pretty much all of the above. a simple way that has been , former governor of pennsylvania at rundown -- he started a foundation in one of the cofounders is arnold schwarzenegger, and arnold schwarzenegger -- a story that governor rendell says is what is infrastructure, where the kids asked arnold, and he said it is the stuff that i blow up in my movies. it is all around us, basically. host: mike. ohio. go ahead. caller: good morning, gentlemen. interesting subject. one of the stories that is flying under the radar will be the attack on prevailing wage and to institute a national right to work for less rule with the combination of government and private investment in these projects. i am sure that this is a concerted effort to drive a nail into -- one more nail into the skilledf decent pay for people such as operating engineers like myself, iron worker

department of transportation, made an announcement that the department of transportation would be seeking public input across the transportation industry to, quote, identify barriers to innovation and shape initiatives. i would like to ask each of you in the moment we have remaining with just a few seconds, tell me what you think the biggest barriers for innovation are? we'll start with you, dr. avent. >> i do think the application of all regulatory policies to this industry, because it is completely different and a new frontier and we have to be careful of taking existing policies and regulating based on those. >> mr. kentley klay? >> i would commend senator thune and nelson on the opening remarks. i think you get into this new era of mobility, the biggest error of innovation would be an incumbent to make it difficult for us to go forward with the technology when we know what we are doing. >> we must be careful not to overregulate. we are in such strong support of the a.v. start. i think you are doing the right thing that allows us to continue to innovate and bring them to market as safe

this 4 million jobs rely on our transportation network. we need to roll up our sleeves and figure out how to grow our economy, because countries like japan and china are making these investments and we are not. and so we're going to get left behind when we should be dominating the world. and i'll yield back. >> my partner in the mccullen knave gag way. >> very much, and speaking of that, the senator inhoff mentioned the importance of that system and the wear and tear on the lockes and dams and he's been a tremendous champion and we really do appreciate. the state of arkansas really does appreciate your leadership in that area. sometimes i don't think we're very smart in the way that we do things. arkansas now has a 9-foot channel, we would very much like to go to 12 feet, we can do that with a relatively inexpensive expenditure. certainly that would make less openings, less wear and tear on the lockes and dams and since you can carry about 40% more product on the same barge. can you talk a little bit about that, just the importance of real

it's not just about mass transportation. now will personal cars be where we see autonomy happening first? i doubt it. i think it will be about transportation and about taxis and buses. think about a trip. uck. is a very big high energy system. imagine 80,000 pounds traveling at 80 miles per hour and it has significant impacts. you need to be thoughtful about that and understand the kind of damage that system could do if it behaves badly. are they solvable, of course they are solvable. in my view, there are two kinds of people in the world -- people that think there are two kinds of people and people who don't. [laughter] bran: there really are two kinds of people that are driving this revolution. on the one side, there are requirements people. their view is that we have to set out a set of rules, regulations, requirements that will establish the roadmap forward and then we will all follow those and we will reach an optimal solution. business, we have these kinds of people. in industry, we have these cuts of people. the notio

they think it's about transportation, which is why big automakers are thinking about transportation servicess one part of their future or perhaps their entire future. i look at the idea that if cars can't crash, that doesn't mean they can't be crashed into. the idea of this nirvana that cars will never crash is nonsense. but if they crash in order of magnitude less, that's really important and within our grasp to think about achieving. on one level, that says i can make the car later so it is more energy efficient. i can maybe have a car drive at 90 miles per hour with 10 feet in front, and one driving behind. getting the intensity up on the roads. think, we won't fill all the garages. now we need to design garages. we need to design autonomous parking garages that have four inches between the vehicles and pack themselves solid, so you can get six times the number of cars in the same spot. there is no simple way of looking at complex systems that's meaningful as a roadmap. all we can do is the best we can we really wait until ask ourselves all the questions and move forward. we are in a feed

transportation and water infrastructure, funding and finance. good morning. gord: guest: good morning. host: what are you saying everything is not broken twh comes to infrastructure spending? guest: we're certainly not saying there aren't problems, there are large problems but to say everything is not broken, we're trying to make point the importance of setting priorities and to make sure we're not just going into full blown crisis mode, spending money on whatever happens to come along but instead getting congress and the administration to focus on what's needed most. host: with that in mind, how does the government approach typical infrastructure spending then? guest: it happens in different ways and i think one of the important elements of any debate that's going to emerge the next several months is getting into the particulars of how the government functions in different areas of infrastructure. the states as we were just listening about have the primary responsibility for the transportation program, the money comes from -- substantial fund of money come f

transportation. good morning. what are you suggesting when you say not everything is broken and infrastructure spending? guest: we are not suggesting there are not problems. there are large problems with our infrastructure. by saying not everything is broken we are making the point of setting priorities. making sure we are not going into full-blown crisis mode, spending money on whatever comes along. instead, getting congress and the administration to focus on what is needed most. host: how does the government approach typical infrastructure spending? guest: it happens in different ways. one of the important elements of any debate that will emerge over the next several months is getting into the particulars of how the government functions in different areas of infrastructure. has the primary responsibility for the transportation program. the money comes from, substantial sums of money, come from the government. on water utility state and local governments are making the primary decisions. the federal government do

miss via corta will use this to draft district transportation plans and will seek community feedback on the proposal in march and april 2018. once revised to reflect community input, the plan will be presented to the board of education for approval later this spring. misvia corte is also overseeing the design of a transportation website specifically designed for principlals. the pac would like to see a similar resource created for families and made available in multiple languages. as one of our areas of focus this year, the pac is committed to collaborating with her and is willing to support her work in the following ways. we'd like to connect her with families on treasure island to gather these questions, ideas and concerns about the very limited transportation options and its impact. we want to participate in a community review process in the spring of 2018 to inform the transportation plan and help spread the word about opportunities, parents, families and other community members will have to provide feedback. we also want to help modify the content from the principal designated w

it makes no real effort to improve the existing transportation infrastructure or provide viable transportation alternatives for the residents and future students of this project. the existing kjm and other bus lines such as the 43 and eight are inadequate to meet current demand, let alone the expected future demand and will see a decline in service quality due to impeded traffic flow because of the balboa reservoir project. these items have not been addressed to our community's satisfaction. i strongly encourage that the board reject the tdm until further accurate analysis is complete. thank you. >> public: my name is ace washington and i'm hoping i can be as serious as much as you are curious what i'm doing up here with green glasses on, hat and this is the most historical part of the history of san francisco. but i wanted to be known for the record because i helped put this charter together. i don't want credit. right now i'm here to tell you as a black man -- first let me say something not out of order. i support -- excuse me. i support whatever you are doing over there. fine. you can't sto

operation he was saying that what he wants to see is more work on the transportation sector in terms of those people who are coming over from the lands where there is swine fever already they want to see more instructions over you know be careful about spreading the pathogen. to limit its spread including farming machinery all that kind of stuff that sort of spread between the two lands these types of incidents are also big political issues that's always a given but eve also talked to the european commission of agriculture what sort of things have you found out. that's right that's commissioner phil hogan out of ireland his basic message was one of support he said that we're going to support germany as it figures out what to do he would really get into specifics of course he was at a meeting yesterday with the german the federal minister of agriculture and the state ministers not hold sure where they discussed swine fever among other things he would get his civics again one of the questions here is what happens when the first wild boar is discovered to have swine fever what happens a

the director of transportation as opposed to coming through the m.t.a. board or the board of supervisors. i will admit that i have a series of questions that i will ask the representatives from m.t.a. with that, i want to recognize director ed riskin and jamie parks from the bike share programme. they are here with us in this chamber and madame chair, i would turn the rest of the hearing over to you. >> ok. and supervisor cohen, who would you like to call up first? >> director riskin. >> welcome. >> thank you. good afternoon, chair tang. members of the committee. supervisor cohen, thank you for giving us an opportunity. >> yes. >> i appreciate the opening remarks to help or cents us here. that was a good overview and clear questions that we'll endeavour to answer to our best ability. i want to add as overview that, as you know, bicycling is an important mode of transportation in san francisco. it's the fastest growing mode of transportation in san francisco. both the m.t.a. board and board of supervise sources has set very ambitious mode share targets fo

at the national transportation research center the only transportation facility with the first vehicle charging system capable of transferring kilowatts of energy. now on the way to develop a kilowatts system. that can make recharging much easier without electrified transportation system and isn't a burden to the power grid. to demonstrate how that hybrid electric vehicle can transfer power to and from a home generating solar panels. energy reliability for the homeowner and flexibility and the ability to use for storage. with the upcoming systems summit into model the behavior of advanced vehicles and engine systems. with the next generation supercomputer is expected to be the world's most powerful when it comes online this year. those systems needed to integrate. even as we look to the future the internal combustion engine is still the workhorse of the transportation sector and other national labs to focus on combining fuels and combustion research. perhaps the breakthrough focuses on lowering costs and supporting infrastructure. and also using those capabilities like manufacturing de

transportation. good morning.hat are you suggesting when you say not everything is broken and infrastructure spending? guest: we are not suggesting there are not problems. there are large problems with our infrastructure. by saying not everything is broken we are making the point of setting priorities. making sure we are not going into full-blown crisis mode, spending money on whatever comes along. instead, getting congress and the administration to focus on what is needed most. host: how does the government approach typical infrastructure spending? guest: it happens in different ways. one of the important elements of any debate that will emerge over the next several months is getting into the particulars of how the government functions in different areas of infrastructure. has the primary responsibility for the transportation program. the money comes from, substantial sums of money, come from the government. on water utility state and local governments are making the primary decisions. the federal government does

but they are for transportation purposes considered nonresidents. and signatures were gathered to indicate whether people would be interested and the question is do you have off street parking available? almost 50% of people said they don't. we don't have a specific guideline that we used but that seemed to meet the threshhold, saying that there is not sufficient off street parking for residents to be able to park their cars. that a lot of residents aren't parking their cars on the street. don't have access to off-street parking and perhaps have one space and two cars. s the average process has been going on for i think about three years now. the -- as you saw from the original map, i'll jump back to that, you can just barely make out an orange dotted line. that has been our planning area for the entirety of this outreach process and it's larger than the number of blocks that actually ended up voting to be included in the proposed r.p.p. area. but all the kor spon dents that we spent have been posted toward everyone within this orange line which is

the department of transportation inspector general surveyed state transportation offices and found that, quote, many earmark projects considered as low priority are being funded over higher priority nonearmarked projects. the same study found that nearly 99% of all earmark projects were not subject to the agency's review and selection processes. also, it is important to note that the annual hunt for earmarks was resource intensive, absorbing hundreds, or even thousands of hours of congressional staff time to develop, obtain and review the earmarks. much has been made about the power of the purse. earmarks are not the embodiment of the power of the purse. congress controls the amount of funding any federal agency or program receives in a given year. the same people that push this argument point out that at their peak, they represented a small percentage of the discretionary budget. that's a pretty puny power if earmarks represent the power of the purse. we would like to see congress conduct oversight and hold the executive branch accountable over the full federal budget, not just some sl