geary brt is not that. it's not a simple design, but we know what brt is. we know -- it is not the same level of complexity and nebulousness as reenvisioning market street is. thank you. >> any other -- commissioner chew. >> so to understand, you're not planning to support this motion? >> i'm not going to support it. >> question to the ta because, you know, i think many of us -- i share supervisor wiener's concerns. if you weren't able to move this forward, that may have some repercussions too. what can yo do you to to give us more comfort that this project is on the right track? >> i think the best thing to do is [inaudible] comments we de earl yes. [inaudible] up to director resting and to sit down and hash out and agree to hope flip and accelerated /sked /skwraoeul jewel for the project and to document that and how we're going to get there. not just throughing out a date, but do we need dedicated staff, do things in parallel, so forth. >> i want to join supervisor wiener in stressing /ou important that is so a couple possibilities i'm open to is if we wa

this map shows the location of the future brt stations. a significant portion of the travel time savings expect friday this system is achieved by stop consolidation and eliminating about a 30 of the stops along the corridor. these locations were chosen because they're the heavily used in service so it was deemed critical to preserve them. in addition to that they are -- the vast majority of them have significant east-west transit routes so they're critical transfer point for travel n some ways the van ness once it's completed it will be like a trunk of the tree and east-west branches to carry people to other parts of the city and connecting at these locations. a number of concerns have been raised by members of the public and staff as well about traffic diversion and left turn removals. what i can say to that is that the environmental report did a great deal of analysis and mitigate the concerns raised and as you proceed with the engineering construction of the projected we will continue to work very closely with our partners and other cit

and i guess the question is, i know that geary brt is more controversial than van ness brt and i don't begrudge anyone their opinion about whether brt on geary is good or bad. my sense is that -- this is true with a lot of things in san francisco. instead of saying we're going to have a public process, we'll delineate it's going to be a six month process or one year or two or three year process or whatever we define it to be and we'll get feedback and a collaborative community discussion, we allow the community process to go on [inaudible] if someone comes forwards and says i have an issue it sort of restarts everything and i -- as we can see through the extreme drama around the very modest seqa appeal legislation that i did which is nothing more than set deadlines for when people have to file appeals and that has caused, as you know, a sig miff cant controversy. i know it's hard in san francisco not to have an open ended process, but to have process that goes on years and years and years, i just think that we don't do -- it's a disservice to the taxpayers and to the riders of san fran

i want to speak to the van ness brt. i served on the board from the beginning. it didn't take four years to start like mexico city. i think i have been on it since 2007 or whatever and won't start until 2018 and a lot of plumbing work and complex thing. one of the things i am happy with we only had to add one station and found in the study they could get rid of one and we have the minimum number of staitionzs and i believe the study is going to work but i want to speak to the parking connection because the state wanted wider lanes because they feel it's their standard. it want fed to eliminate a number of parking spaces and there are 35% more riders and many of them live in this neighborhood. some of the people will choose to get rid of their cars and these are the cars not parked in garages. these are parked on the street so we're making -- we will probably be making more than 100 spaces available. now it's your job to get right in there and put a meter, right in a residential neighborhood to preserve the parking for the merchants. the mta will do a good job of

what goes into making a brt system? what is bus rapid transit? it's the dedicated transit lane is the obvious item but there are subtle features and signal authority and opt minimization to make sure the buses get the extra jump on the rest of the traffic lie continuing to allow the traffic to move efficiently. all buses to maximize the speed for which people can board the coaches and of course pedestrian improvements and high quality stations are critical to encourage people to use the system and feel comfortable being able to take the system to their destination along the corridor and walk the final distance. the expected benefits of the van ness project up to a [inaudible] percent in transit time. up to 50% improvement in reliability and expected 35% or increase in boardings while maintaining the same corridor person you there put. in layman's term means we're taking

what goes into making a brt system? what is bus rapid transit? it's the dedicated transit lane is the obvious item but there are subtle features and signal authority and opt minimization to make sure the buses get the extra jump on the rest of the traffic lie continuing to allow the traffic to move efficiently. all buses to maximize the speed for which people can board

, van ness brt and, of course, the subway. those issues are being handled through another process and that's the tep. all right. so, the alternatives approach. so, on our project level corridors, we have had a peer approach to alternative. we have what's called a expanded proposal as well as a moderate proposal. and obviously we have the expanded proposals have greater effects on roadway capacity. a good example of an expanded versus moderate mostly the expanded proposal for [speaker not understood] which the modern proposals do not. just an example of what that means, the intersections on columbus, union street, it's the 30 stock aston ton. and north of union there is a 230-foot-long bus zones which essentially just means the bus pulls up and passengers board on the right. ~ stockton so, our project is proposing we turn that into -- turn the buses into bus zones, extend the sidewalk and allow pedestrian issues be taken care of. : standard proposal has a transit only lane between filbert and stockton with stockton green inters

you can fill the car share things. >> >> and the brt's. they work both ways and reverse the death spiral we had for years and make the improvements. i am excited about this. >> thank you. >> alex clemmons followed by rich hutchinson. >> i am alex clemmons and representing car share around the country and we have been working with staff and bring you up-to-date what the valley this brings. in. >> >> san francisco we are mature and we know that the availability of car sharing reduce car ownership. my understanding that the reduction in car ownership is one of the biggest things we can do. on street parking is complex. we've heard that people don't like spaces going away and andy discussed the fact that a broad base of support is necessary to look at these 900 spaces that maybe reserved for cars. with one way car sharing you don't need to go through that process and the broad base for political support. spaces are used by everyone. they're not segregated for car sharing or private vehicles only. one way it increases the availability of cars b

be make sure it's available to the people that need it and people that want to take fabulous brt or taxi or car share experience can do that as well. >> thank you director. director rubke. >> i heard from members -- >> [inaudible] >> thanks. i heard from members from the blind community and i know you're familiar with their upon concerns and i want to bring it up here and thank you for your initial outreach and i know you're going to do more and please do as much as you can and as can you imagine crossing a lane of traffic at once is frightening without vision and having islands is the worse case scenario for my friends who are visually impaired but with that said they're exciting working with you guys and design accessible features and a boarding platform in the middle and the design here really accessible and wonderful and safe for everyone. i think on that issue i think it's very important that we take the time. i don't want to slow down the project but to address those concerns because those members of our public are very vulnerable in the situation of crossing the street with divide

authority has done on a very preliminary basis at filling it in on the context of the geary street brt. >> right. >> but i don't think it's gone beyond that. >> okay, because it seemed like from what i remember it, it was one of the most expensive alternatives in the brt. >> it would be nice. >> yeah, it would be really great to do. >> commissioner antonini. >> ann marie, thank you for your report. a couple of procedural questions. the modified wiener c-e-q-a legislation passed on first reading, is that what happened on tuesday? >> that's correct, it will be heard again next week. >> okay. and my second question, the status of mexican museum project, now, that is -- the appeal has already been dismissed, but the board is voting for approval or where are we on that particular legislation? >> i'm sorry, i missed your question. [multiple voices] >> yeah, i'm sorry. you reported on the discussions that went on about the legitimacy of the various -- >> that's correct. >> -- pro forma studies, but where is it legislatively? >> so, this item will be heard again at the land use committee next

>> such as geary brt? >> any sort of project with complexity [inaudible]. a: thank you very much. let's entertain public comment on this item. >> having served on the [inaudible] as a represent /o*f the cac rep being very familiar with the presidio parkway project i strongly urge you to support this item because this makes a lot of sense. thank you very much. >> are there any other members of the public who would like to speak on this item? >> seeing none, public comment closed. let's move this forward with unanimous vote. >> this is an information item. colleagues. okay. does anyone have any new items? seeing none. i'd like to entertain some public comment? anyone? pub click comment is closed. >> general public comment. >> general pub click comment. speak now or forever hold your peace or until the next meeting. thank you, seeing none, public comment is closed. are there any other matters before this body. >> no, item number 12, adjournment. >> thank you, this meeting is adjourned. thank you everyone. >> good morning, everyone. on behalf of the mayor, i want to welcome you and mo