peskin: the m.t.a. budget is adopted. and on the balance of items 15-29, a roll call, please. >> clerk: supervisor kim aye. supervisor mandelman aye. supervisor peskin aye. supervisor ronen aye. supervisor safai aye. supervisor stefani aye. supervisor yee aye. supervisor brown aye. supervisor cohen aye. supervisor fewer aye. there are 10 aye's. >> supervisor a. peskin: all right, the annual appropriations ordinance annual salary ordinance and related items are adopted on first reading. congratulations. >> president m. cohen: madam clerk. it is almost 3:00 but i want to go to 2:30 accommodations. i understand supervisor safai has a 2:30 accommodation? >> supervisor a. safai: thank you, everyone. today i rise to honor captain hart in our entire ingleside police station. captain hart has been at the ingleside police station for a little over a year or going on a year, in the short amount of time one of the most vexing problems we have had to deal with over a decade plus in the ingleside community excelsior parts of the lakev

basically, m.t.a. has not addressed the basic need of buses running on time and keeping their schedules. it's a question of internal operations. and i hope the response of this board simply isn't muni forward. >> thank you, mr. weiner. next speaker, please. >> i have some materials to be distributed -- >> please leave them there. they will make sure that they get them after the meeting. >> good afternoon. my name is claire beckett. on behalf of bright line, i would like to thank the sf m.t.a. board of directors for passing the zero emissions policy to transfer to an -- transition to an all electric bus fleet by 2025. i am here to follow up with more detail on the board's plan to establish green zones where electric buses will first be distributed as muni transitions to zero he mission buses. we -- emission buses. thanks to great data collected by the s.f. department of public health, bright lieb has identified bus routes that -- line has identified bus routes that have the most resilient neighborhoods,

but our larger m.t.a.-related problems are visitors cars with double parking, blocked driveways, traffic congestion, and pedestrians. i believe it's likely that someone will be hurt or killed on our block. we might need some vision zero attention. we've contacted m.t.a. many, many times asking for increased enforcement and to date we've received almost nothing. i ask and please that you enforce this on our block. thank you for your attention. >> chairman brinkman: director torres has a question. >> commissioner torres: is the owner allowed to use it for commercial purposes? >> we're going to look into this. >> commissioner torres: and also to pay back the public agencies. i believe that we'll come up with regulations at this point. >> we're looking at a tour bus ban on that block. >> it's not related to the particular item before you today. that item is related to tour buses that use the -- >> commissioner torres: so i would have to include that at a later meeting? >> i'm not entirely sure. let's continue

currently, we have a new strategic plan at m.t.a. it's going to span the next two years, and we are actively working with colleagues at m.t.a. and sf environment in determining what types of trips actually are sustainable, and i think one thing, as you probably are all well aware, the mobility landscape has changed dramatically just in the last five years. we see a lot more choices. not all of them are equal when it comes to their carbon footprint, and we really need to dive into this deeply to understand what types of trips are sustainable so that we can be sure we're lining with some of our policies and priorities going forward. and i think as i have alluded to around the transit first policy, this is a useful slide to kind of illuminate, one thing san francisco is not going to be doing in the years ahead is probably making more streets and more public right-of-way. that's not something cities do. we are really constrained, in particular in san francisco being bound by water on all sides. real estate is incredibly valuable, and we

i know i'm sometimes critical of m.t.a.'s slow impact delivery, but i want to thank you how quickly this happened. to some people, this might seem like not that big of a deal, but to us, it really is. not only does this benefit every transit rider, but it benefits those who are coming from the outermost corners of the city who may relie on two or three buses to get to where they need to go. so thank you for your support on this today. we're very excited. >> thank you, miss hider. next speaker, please. >> clerk: herbert wiener is the last speaker to turn in a card on this subject. >> herbert wiener. i do approve the increase in transfer time because it reflects the difficulty of getting across town which is considerably different than 20 years ago. but one thing i call into question is the fare change for a single ride. now chariot charges $3. another point is, the part of a proposition aa that was passed at the poll was fare change was based on improvement of service delivery, and service delivery was spoefed to be 85%. -- s

it implores the m.t.a. to find those funding sources, put them together in a creative way. >> a couple things. one we've had a vision zero policy that was more directed at pedestrians, but it seems like we should expand vision zero to include all of our bicyclists. i think as allison mentioned, as much as the bicyclists don't want us to talk about other shared mobility, but the fact is we are going to have other shared mobility devices, so we need to have a short and a long-term plan to accommodate the other devices that are going to hit the city streets mp mplt. we are kbg to have more demand, and we need to figure it out, and i think on the funding side, which i surmise was probably one of the reasons this hasn't moved faster is there has to be a much stronger collective voice, and you all sitting here in the audience, you can certainly make that case. we just passed an $11 billion budget, so i don't know if that was included in this to make it a priority. i can't imagine that painting the sidewalks and p

the m.t.a. staff recommendation is to lead the 38 inbound stop at starking and not to relocate the stop to goff and gerry. this is not a good recommendation for seniors and people with disabilities. here is why -- the current stop is isolated, scene of crime, and dark at night. in m.t.a.'s words there are no eyes. what that means is there's nobody around. >> please speak into the mic. >> sorry. there's no one around to see you. it's a long, winding hill. it is scary at night, it's scary in the morning too. it's notorious. there are people loitering, sleeping in the bushes, around there and everything else. so i can't take this stop anymore. i'm afraid to stay there. wait for the bus or get off the bus. the current stop is on the slope hill. it's difficult for seniors and disabled to dis mount and get off and on the bus. especially if you have a baby stroller, wheelchair, shopping start, et cetera. i myself have trouble doing this. the proposed stop is open and visible with a lot of eyes. it is i

this is a survey that m.t.a. administers every year. and modes are -- are more or less your form of mobility, so airplanes are a mode, boats are a mode, walking and biking are distinct modes, and vehicles are modes. and so when we talk about mode share, we're really just trying to characterize, how do people move around? so this survey, it basically -- the sample size is about 800 people. we administer it once a year. we ask people to think about the trips they've made in the last two days, and a trip is determined between a point a and a point b, so if you think of your daily travel behavior, you may start in the morning, say in the mission, and walk to 16th street b.a.r.t. that is one trip. you then may ride b.a.r.t. to civic center. that is a separate trip. so you realize over the course of a day, somebody's trips may be about half a dozen trips, and this just summarizes in a fiscal year how san franciscans move around. i think this is quite unique. if you think of other cities you visit, you will not see as many walking trips or tra

i'm here to compliment the staff of m.t.a. for working with us on this and in particular they have addressed our needs at kimble playground and hamilton recreation center which are on both sides of the street at steiner street. we want to just thank you and staff for working with us, thank you. >> chair c. brinkman: thank you very much, mr. stokele, thank you for coming to let us know. next speaker, please. >> clerk: paula katz. followed by doug duckwald and then marlene morgan. >> i'm paula katz with save our taraval stop. the transit-only lanes should belong to public only busses. now we hear private busses and shuttles can use these lanes. you should amend the legislation to make it public busses only. removing bus stops negatively affects seniors and people with disabilities on geary as much as on tear develop. -- taraval. the staff report says in the online survey the most common objection to removing these stops was because there are senior housing developments located nearby. that's exactly why these stops should be kep

now we will hear from our m.t.a. director, director risk in. he is responsible for making sure that all the walkways and bicycle lanes and transit works around here. all right. welcome. >> that's right. thank you, mohammed to be a good morning, everyone. it is so great to be here at this point in time. i think the mayor and the supervisors said it well. this has been a long time coming. but do very well worth it. it is really a great success story from my standpoint. you heard from the mayor and supervisor brown. this really started from the community. before the city adopted vision zero on before we identified the high injury network, we had people from this community come forward and say this street is not working for us. it is not working for people who drive on it and not working for people who ride a bike and for people who walk, for people who are getting on and off transit and driving the bus is. the street wasn't working well for anyone. we were having close to 20 traffic crashes a year just on masonic avenue alone. we had two fatalitie

when i complain to m.t.a. about this discrepancy in ticketing because you have sidewalks everywhere, where only some of them are under r.p.p. and only certain hours of the day and the traffic control officer has to come twice to catch the time, it's a lot more work than just seeing, oh, there's a car on the sidewalk, let me give it a ticket. why this discrepancy? and the answer that i got, well, there's a lot more violations out there. of course, if you're not ticketing you're not counting the violations that you're not ticketing. so this circular logic and sort of down the bureaucratic rabbit hole of manipulating the data i think has influenced the thinking that should put the pedestrians first and maybe the psychologist will come up with the same answer that i did. >> supervisor yee: anybody else? come on up. >> my name is paul bajaka and i live if district 7 and i'd like to address more to the sfmta and i would like to emphasize supervisor yee's statement that we need to be proactive and not reactive. in th

safe passage, which we heard about all earlier, and m.t.a. all funded through the county transportation authority. so why do we want to talk about carpooling? in the past several years, the department of environment has really taken an active role in promoting carpool as one of those ways to reach our sustainable transportation goals. and a recent study found that 48% of sfusd families do drive alone regularly when they're commuting to and from school. so they actually have a goal of 30% by 2030, so that's going to take a lot of work to get there. so one of the ways we are doing this is by promoting carpooling. as director raphael mentioned, while safe routes promotes all of those four fun ways as we call them of getting to school, many families and children don't live near their school so it can make biking and walking and taking public transportation quite a challenge. so one of the ways we want to do this is letting them know that there might be families who live nearby who are in their neighborhood who are also attending the same public s

i urged m.t.a. and the board that if it's going to take a while, do some immediate room suggestions to try to segregate the drivers that are new. i'm thankful to work from home and make it easier to commute. thank you. >> alex garcia, paul valdez, sonya trout. >> hi, everybody. thank you for your time. i'm alex garcia. my boyfriend and i live a car-free life and townsend and embarcadero are extremely important. i work at go-bike. we had 17,119 trips in june. that's almost 600 a day. so that's a really important intersection. seeing those improvements are important. you see embarcadero corridor, thousands of people using those stations. so it's really important. i'm speaking in support for working it out. i work with a lot of city agencies. there are little things that we can do to move the projects forward. i'm speaking as an individual in support, but using bike share stats to make the case. >> paul valdez, sonya troust, matt brasina. >> good after football. i'm paul valdez. i'm an everyday cyclist

that was then approved by the m.t.a. board in 2014. it was designed to improve transit performance in neighborhoods that have a high percentage of low-income and minority populations. 2016, we then developed and our board adopted the first equity strategy and i'm here today to go over the 2018 version of that strategy. before i get into a summary of the 2018 projects, i want to note two major changes between 16 -- the 16 strategy and 18 strategy. one is that we added an additional neighborhood. the ocean view engelside neighborhood by city college was added to make eight total neighborhoods being looked at through the equity strategy lens. and the second is the outreach approach. in 2018, we really relied heavily on data and data analysis and then worked with a smaller working group of interested stakeholders around the city to verify that data and work through some of the analysis and the processes. in 2018, we received a cal trans grant that could be a sustainable transportation planning grant that was really helped us focus a lot on

the m.t.a.you know hired a consultant which has produced a draft report on how to improve the health of the taxi industry, and they do address briefly in their report some of the issues that medallion holders are having in terms of struggling to pay their loans. what i would like to propose is instead of doing a separate study on this, is that i analyze the m.t.a.'s report and other work that has been done in this area and come up with our own list of recommendations on how to help these drivers. so i'm proposing to do this separate from the study on emerging mobility services and labor. and lafco is authorized to do this work under our special studies authority. so with that, madam chair, i'll turn it back to you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. commissioner ronen. >> supervisor ronen: thank you. that might work. i -- what i -- i want to provide some relief to particularly the group of taxi drivers who bought their medallion at a very high cost, right when its value basically plummeted. and i -

so a couple of the grants that we do from m.t.a. which has been helpful i think, that the traffic company organizes, safe routes to school program, 14 unified school district schools located on high injury corridors and so in 2017 we conducted 44 operations and cited 1580 individuals in regards to the school bus. 2018, operations was 30. and 602 citations. what we did with especially 2017 was included the district stations in that. we really wanted to teach the new people -- because there's a lot of new officers at our district stations now and teaching them the differences, you know, school buses need to be protected. kids are definitely out there on the streets. and these are also near senior centers. we're targeting -- we're following the buses and when that sign comes out if anyone passes we cite that person. so we got great positive feedback from the bus drivers as well as kids and there's a great interaction with law enforcement and the kids going to school. distracted driving, which we all complained about. this is a newer pr

they've been doing a great job, contractors, m.t.a. and other city staff. to give you more detail, half of the seismic retrofit work is done. most of the drainage system work is done. we think it's the original from 100 years ago. so it's important to replace that because it was no longer functioning. two of the four crossovers are installed. and the track removal and replacement continues largely on schedule. from the community side, they have twice a week office hours in west portal. and we've been beyond the office hours staff walking up and down the commercial streets and engaging on an ongoing basis with the merchants. there's been a lot of on-the-fly flexibility to accommodate loading. last time i was there, i saw one of the business owners talking to one of the construction reps to facilitate loading, so the team has been accommodating and ensuring that the loading needs of the merchants can be met. and we've also for the riders had ambassadors, very heavily deployed, particularly at the beginning, and a lot of signage to make sure that everybody und

would it be caltran or m.t.a. or who would it be? because i'm not hearing any concrete plan right now. >> let me have jeff... >> i'm jeff weiss, the public office manager for caltrans in san francisco county. we're undertaking and we have undertook somewhat of a public outreach campaign. we had lights installed like sean said earlier and we hadn't gotten any feed back about, you know, complications on how they were used. but we are getting that now. so what we're doing right now is that we've made outreach to the pine lake neighborhood associations who lives in that area and vince made a video which we're putting on our website which shows -- it's much easier to show with pictures than words on how they operate. and then we'll make those videos available to everyone at sfmta and they can use that for public outreach. and anyone from a senior center can make the video available. and available to all high schools. and anyone that wants to meet in the neighborhood we'll make ourselves available to talk about how to operate the lights. >