. >> chair: mr. sanna. >> good morning, commissioners. >> chair: before we start, i just -- commissioner fewer has to leave, you're excused. commissioner safai is making a motion to excuse supervisor fewer for the rest of the meeting, seconded by commissioner ronen. we'll take that without objection. [gavel] sorry, mr. sanna, the floor is yours. >> with the transportation authority and i'm here to provide an update on our congestion management program, or c.p.m. as a congestion management agency, the transportation authority monitors and reports various performance measures on c.m.p. network every two years. the c.m.p. network includes 230 miles of major arterials and freeways. requirements include monitoring level of service,. however, we are unique in a way that we -- in addition to automobiles. as san francisco continues to experience significant growth in jobs and population, auto speeds have declined further. there have been 1% to 5% drops across the different facility types and peak periods, compared

. >> chair: are there any questions for mr. sanna? seeing none -- oh, commissioner yee. >> supervisor yee: just curiosity in terms of looking at the transit. the bus speeds. did you break it down into -- the difference between bus speeds before we had those red lanes? did it actually increase it that much, when we put the red lanes in -- as a factor? >> i think we did the last cycle we looked at how the red lanes might have impacted transit speeds, especially on mission. and we found that there seems to be improvement. however, the frequency that we monitor this is once every two years. and there are a lot of changes happening over those two years, especially with land use and population, in addition to transportation changes. so there are a bunch of factors that go into these changes. but we did find evidence that the lanes are improving transportation speeds -- of transit speeds on mission. >> supervisor yee:s that the percentage improvement any different from -- of different lines that didn't have the red sort of lanes? >> most of

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