that is a goal of the m.t.a. and goal of the agencies involved in the board for the last few years. >> the wake of terrible tragedy that took place or two tragedies on june 222016 and we built in just a few months protected bike lanes on seventh, eighth and division. we went be through the normal process. m.t.a. board legislated those lanes. we didn't wait for the multiyear design contracting process with partners. we used other own shops and resources that were available and their own staff to build the lanes quickly. last year 2018 we took a similar approach on touched. turk stree. and also howard street. the bike lane that starts at sixth and extends to 11th street. we have had experience in the past getting projects done faster. the mayor has challenged to make that not exception but rule. this year we built a protected bike lane and improved pedestrian on townsend and valensia and we are working now to respond to the howard street crash. we removed parking on howard between fourth and sixth. we are trying to

it is the m.t.a. cha-cha first new bus facility in nearly -- it is the m.t.a.'s first new bus facility nearly 20 years. it stores motor coaches and has the most modern maintenance space. the five track project has to do with the changeover of the light rail fleet in san francisco, so there were five tracks added to the southern part -- portion of the site that will allow the m.t.a. to store an additional 19 vehicles. we will have new larvae and -- l r.v. the geo bond is paying a significant portion of the construction cost of the project it was a project where our central warehouse is located so all of the parts for all of munimobile, it is our central part location facility, what we did, with the same square footage, we increased the capacity of the facility and half of it will be changed into new munimobile overhead line facilities. it was a great example of an efficiency project will betoken existing building, we added capacity and use, and building overhead lines to the new location will put them in a facility that will be saved during an earthquake because

we are currently working internally and we will reach out to the sf m.t.a.etropolitan transportation commission to submit specific language towards zero deaths order row language in the current bill. >> thank the author. we appreciate that. also, i know that it is not listed here. as you know, the city has had a lot of interest on the automated speed enforcement legislation that was -- that didn't make it through last year, is there any update on that at all in terms of whether or not there is going to be a push? >> my understanding this year there is a toward zero death task force created at the state, and that our colleagues at the sf m.t.a. are working with that group to develop their recommendations and policy positions. and that there is not any ase related bills this year but there is hope for the future. >> do you know what it would take for them to actually re-introduce it this year? >> the period to introduce new billings has passed. that was february 22. however, there is always the possibility to make amendments to existing bills. i do not know if

that's the basic standard for our engineering and public hearing at m.t.a. above the public standard, and something i help to implement, we send mailers to all of the owners and renters affiliated to any address 250 feet from any proposed station. and notification for any station could vary from 20 to 1,000 mailers. and we check in with the supervisor to find out the feedback they have received. oftentimes when they send us something initially, we'll kind of respond and the last word will be, i'll go tell my supervisor about this. for example, in the glen park station, that is commonly used, we've been in close communication with viewpoint visor sha shaham'shaham. and then we do a final reckoning to see if there is more needed in response of feed bangback. we can look into what that feedback looks like, in terms of what we do end up considering. by far, the top two issues are usually about parking and station eth thesks. aesthetics. and then there are safety concerns and congestion as well. and sometimes people change their minds. a propert funding property

m.t.a. don't happen that quickly, and i think that is part of the challenge with the bike share program. granted, i don't think that's where we are with all of our projects, the solution of where we want to be, but whatever we can do in the upfront, so, yes, we weren't trying to play hideball. and the fact that the process doesn't seem as transparent as the other processes we have. >> chairman: yes, please. >> what about paint on the surface of the street? some kind of temporary paint where it would mark out where the bikes would go. >> chairman: bike share station coming? [laughter] >> chairman: coming attraction. >> but that couldn't be torn off. it is a little more permanent. >> you could. there is a logicistical challenge. you have to reserve the place before you actually implemented the station in order to stripe the potential station. and are you putting this paint down in advance of public hearing? are we painting the station and then possibly not permitting the station? because then

not specific to m.t.a. but there's aus a risk whenev any a you work on financials there's an override of controls. to address the overvide of controls we do audit procedures such as sitting down with management and understanding how they're booking their journal entries, what are the results they're coming up with, is there appropriate segregation duties? is there someone reviewing them and post-closed entries after we receive the financials and any transactions that happen during the year. therefore there was no audit findings surrounding our procedures. the next couple slides i really some retired communication that are required to present in the board of governance and there's still a responsibility to maintain control and we do not opine on the internal controls but how you would rate the severity of the findings and if there's significant deficiencies or material weaknesses in control. you can see there was none. page 11. these the required communications. pretty much there were no matters to report in

and they are providing the m.t.a. for shelters and main nance for shelters that i believe are at least even to their expenses, so it's a good arrangement for the m.t.a. and perhaps not as good an arrangement for clear channel. i think because that does not work out too well for clear channel, they are not always in the business of providing street furniture in exchange for advertising rights. that's a niche that decaux has kind of carved out for itself in the advertising industry? generally speaking, those advertising companies don't provide capital furniture, you know, and maintenance often, although i do know that the more common mode for this is bus shelters, and i believe that in both new york and chicago, the decaux arrangement there is more around bus shelters in exchange for advertising than kiosks and toilets? but in europe, they have many of these kiosks in exchange for toilets, and in southern california, i believe there's other street furniture that decaux has provided to cities in exchange for advertising

i would like to thank sf m.t.a. and department of public health who are close partners to getting long-term changes to zero. i believe that vision zero strategy has many of the inagreed agreed -- ingredients. i am talking about three things. it is speeding up the pace. we really need to get safety improvements installed quickly. 100% of the network by 2020. this is short term. ithere is no time to waste. this is stuff to do and the city can have life saving impact. two, we have never seen a cost assessment for vision zero. we don't know the cost. this is something that i think totally makes sense. our efforts shouldn't be held up. we are asking for transparency and accountability. we don't have a way to track the progress on the high injury network. how many projects are complete, how many more of the streets on the high injury network do we need? we don't know. we are asking you to be our leaders and get us to where we need to be. thank you very much. the rest is in the letter to the mayor you all received. >> good

how does m.t.a. to determine where to put those because fillmore and pine is a raceway and doesn't have a delay nor community. how do you determine or make decisions on the timed lights. >> i'm so grateful to be able to co-lied an issue like this. >> i'm the traffic engineer with the sfmta. we tall -- call them leading pedestrian intervals. typically four sessions before we bring up the concurrent green. we have a large retiming project concentrated in the northeast quadrant of the city including the western addition, fillmore, knob hill, tenderloin touching approximately one-third of our signals city wide and they'll be getting l.p.i.s for the crossings. we started implementation and we're on track for another year, year and a half to retime all 400 traffic signals. our standard right now is to install an l.p.i. by default when we touch a traffic signal unless there's a compelling reason. we have to balance the need of tra transit versus pedestrian but on the whole we're installing city wide. >> wor

we are asking m.t.a. to evaluate and reengineer that area to slow down the speed -- the focus of the vision zero -- vision zero group is to slow down vehicles and cyclists from exceeding speed limits, or even the speed that can kill someone, so the numbers in regards to anyone over 60 is higher than anyone below 60 and 70 and 80 of the likely -- and the likelihood of death is greater as you get older when you're hit at certain speeds. 25 miles an hour can kill you if you are 80 years old. we try to look at that in reducing speed. >> you said you had ten people added to the unit. are those all motorcycle officers or they are also patrol officers? >> they're on motorcycles. >> thank you, commander. >> and you had asked about t.n.c. >> yes, i had. >> did you have specific questions as far as our enforcement? >> i'm trying to think what my concern was. i'm just wondering whether that is part of your focus right now. why don't you explain it. >> absolutely. it is part of our focus. i think i almost got hit by

center included funds for bart, for the transit, transportation authority, to studies, and then for m.t.a. for actual vehicles and expenditure plan includes line items for them as well. and visitation valley, is not a plan area per se, it was a fee created by supervisor maxwell along with the community in 2005 to leverage value from some of the high density plan areas. we have been kind of allocating money to the agencies as we receive the funds because there was not a whole plan. our staff along with m.t.a., rec and park, public works have been working with the community on an ongoing basis to identify spending for those funds. this year they are looking to start work on improvements to visitation valley -- excuse me, visitation boulevard. also with the hertz playground. and just very quickly as i mentioned earlier, we looked to implement these projects, both through providing allocations to the agencies, and also in kind. some that we have completed thus far, completed including dagget park, pedestrian path part of the waller alignment, dogpatch art plaza and the ringle valley improveme

so it was really kind of selected through the planning by m.t.a. and c.t.a. identifying 20th avenue? >> yes, definitely. i think there is a need for the connection. like i said, it was an existing bike way, and the reason there is that existing bike route because there are the connections to golden gate park, irving, and teraval, and further south. >> great. thank you. and can you also describe the neighborhood outreach that happened around the planning for this? >> sure. so we held -- we did two tabling events in 2018, where staff went out to irving and another location, and we notified neighbors that we were going to be out there answering questions, collecting feedback. and then we had two evening open houses on the corridor. there were about 30 -- probably closer to 40 -- members of the public at each of those meetings. and a lot of support for the project, which is great to hear. and then we also did some door-to-door outreach at businesses closer to irving street, irving and 20th avenue intersection. and we probably spoke to about half of the businesses

think of it like rec and park, or m.t.a. the rollout of this permit, assuming that it passes, would be a pilot program in the first year which could be renewed each year at the discretion of the director of the office of cannabis, but they're giving priority to events that sort of have three criteria, events that have been held on a regular basis, events that have received city permits in the past, and events that have had significant unregulated cannabis activity at the event. and the idea being that the permit would actually help reduce this unregulated activity or eliminate is. fees range -- it. fees range from 1500, depending on the attendance. there's a lot of support from the supervisors. we have mandelman, brown, haney, walton, stefani, and fewer all sponsoring this legislation. so that's a major development that could have major cultural and development impacts on events in the city as well as the industry. so the other couple of items i have are pretty brief. as you know, i am now the project manager and maintainer

m.t.a.een a very active partner in thinking through how there's a connection between the corridor and india basin and people can circulate because there are hills. india basin is water, it is at sea level, as it were, but we have 2500 units of affordable and public housing, either existing or in the pipeline within a mile. we want to make sure that we are thinking through ways to get people to and from the park safely. in addition to more robust transportation, and everybody who other project partners in the general area, we are focusing on stronger pedestrian contest -- connections. i will remind you that this project also closes a link in -- it will have a class one bike lane, and we are also thinking and contemplating a shuttle, a shuttle that might run from the third street corridor to the park, and then up into the neighborhood. that is a community conversation it will be based on the need to fill gaps that may exist in access and transportation, again , with an intent to make it very e

m.t.a. needs to do its job with enforcement. if we need s.f.p.d. to do it as well, please do it. >> chairman: thank you, var powerful. i appreciate you being here. >> laura josie. >> my name is laura josie, and i live in san francisco, and i, like his wife, use that bike lane every day. that is really hard to hear that news about tess. i thank you for your motion, but i urge you to implement a protected bike lane on the entire street, and the same is needed on fulsom, which i take almost every day. we need a network of safe bike lanes and not just patchwork. thank you. >> chairman: thank you. next speaker, please. >> joe gurten, followed by george lowe and savic pradon. >> hello, my name is joe gurten. thank you for responding so quickly this past week. it should be clear to us that policy-making that responds only when life is lost is not how we should be designing our streets. i want to add there is an infrastructure solution on how enforcing the city is, and that's building a bike lane that cars cannot park in. if we want to reach our vision goa

and m.t.a. reporting standards -- standardization would enhance efficiency and accountability and transparency. for example, bond managers submit their plans in a variety of formats to the office of public finance prior to bond issuance, a standard format for these submissions would allow for quicker comparison of planned versus actual spending. thank you very much, and i am happy to take questions. >> questions? >> could we get, or is there available more of a text -- >> oh, my god, i'm sorry. >> yes, you can. >> there it is. but the recommendations in particular? >> they're in the executive summary, and may provide even more examples of that support those conclusions and those recommendations. >> okay. >> to brian's point, i noticed in the capital plan, which is also in our document, not on april 3rd, the plan will be heard by the budget and finance committee, and so i am wondering if you can presents the lessons learned to the budget and finance committee of the board of supervisors, because