colleagues this is a request for 3 different projects for prop k funds one from the mta on escalator rehabilitation and street repair and cleaning improvements there was a lively discussion and great presentation at the programs committee on the mta escalator rehabilitation. we had approved the plan with continuations and it looks like the various conditions i believe have been met and i was going to ask if staff could brief us on what our options are. >> commissioner mar thank you for the pointing this out we have actually just received the maintenance plan for mta staff we had worked out with them to receive it and it's reflected in the resolution before you that we would receive it by friday. we can forward it electronically to the board right now. we understand from mta staff that they would like to move forward with the allocation today and they are here to answer questions that you may have about the potential impact of moving this forward today versus moving it forward in january. >> and chair avalos i would like to recommend that we move this forward today. given that the mta

i wanted to thank the mta for being here. several staff -- i know janet was here earlier but thanks to the staff and i wanted to thank the bicycle coalition for being here and mr. hill from the community advisory committee and others as well. really quickly i wanted to say a number of critical points were brought up. i think leah said "if we build it they will come" and i think the three-5% mode share has been increased over the years but much more needs to be done in reaching the ambitious goals as others have pointed out it's really important that we aggressively take an approach to improving the infrastructure but also education and advocacy as well. i wanted to say that mr. jawa from the conservation of league of voters mentioned bicycling for bicycleelists but for others and the equity issue and others brought that up and sustainable environment is critical and alternative transportation including biking is critical and this is about a healthier san francisco as others brought up as well, so full build out benefits many

i chester fung on the mta. i will be giving the presentation on the transit. the focus is the staff recommended alternative. that is the news that i'm bringing to the council today. before i start, i just wanted to acknowledge and thank sf mta staffing paul bernardi who has part of the team during this project. this has been a partnership between the transportation authority and sf mta. the project is in the environmental review process. i will talk more about this. we are putting together the interviewal document and we plan to release that in the summer of this year. i will give a project background and talk about the staff recommended alternatives and details and next steps. the geary quarter is a six 1/2 mile corridor. the busiest bus lines in the corridor that sf mta operates. 60 thousand trips are carried per day. the 38 local and 38 limited are the current and main line that run on the geary corridor. very heavily used very high frequencies today to 6 minutes at each peak. they travel less and not as reliable to show up when we want them to show up and

based on a five year plan the strategy developed by the mta an excellent strategy but it's been turned into a 25 year plan this is a strange development and i wonder how our city is going to live up to its promise. right now what you are asking for -- so we're asking that the mta and other agencies involved with this plan development articulate how this is going to be able to reach the promised goal by 2020 thank you. >> thank you very much. any other member of the public would like to comment? okay. we'll close public comment. >> and colleagues commissioner wiener. >> i'd like to respond to ms. hodge's comment. >> absolutely. we very clearly support the bicycle strategy implementation. implementation of that plan requires a lot of funding as well as increased project delivery strategies partnerships with the mta and communities really allowing those projects to go in efficiently we can accelerate it with a concerted effort by the community by staff and new ways of doing business to implement these projects to design them faster and get in them in the ground faster and i believe there'

and this has been forwarded to us from the mta. teas cavanagh from mta will be presenting today. [speaker not understood], will you be presenting? go ahead, as this is a i believe a major encouragement. >> yes, good afternoon, supervisors. nickel strong with the department of public works [speaker not understood] [speaker not understood] and mappinging. we've been working on this project with tess cavanagh who is present sitting behind me from mta. this is a major encroachment for a total of several dozen mta rest rooms and kind of bringing them out one step at a time. this is phase ii. the board of supervisors recently approved the first two locations via an ordinance from last year -- i mean via resolution from last year, i apologize. and this is phase ii, which will include two additional rest rooms, one with an existing traffic island at third and mckeefe and one on the south side walk up hudson avenue easterly of third street. this will be in conformity with the general plan. we held a public hearing on all the locations back in 2012 and we didn't receive any input from anyb

right now what you are asking for -- so we're asking that the mta and other agencies involved with

and you don't hold mta's feet to the fire about how this is going to hurt. seniors and people with disabilities. >> how it will effect us. you are favoring the many and ignoring the vulnerable. by going ahead with recommending both the fullal location, but also thal location, for the out reach subcontractor that is the problem. >> thank you. is there anyone else that would like to speak? >> mr. flanagin? would you like to? >> i would just, i would just like to say that the things that i have seen on the buses and on the streets like the bicycle riders riding on the sidewalk, and when the taxis come up to have somebody that is mobility and to come on to the sidewalk, the wheelchair can't get on the sidewalk because of overcrowding bicycles. and overcrowding shopping carts. and i would like to have it safe for the these kind of people when they get off of the or out of the taxi and, out of a para transit vehicle. as well as coming out of the bus, as well. it disturbs me a little bit when i see the problem and i fry to help the individuals that have half of the

talk about mta the tea train don't run. it's a failure. i had to purchase a car in other words, to get to my doctors appointment and when you talk about a m i in that community they've been talking about affordable housing since redevelopment started and since lee worked for the housing authority the income level we can't even move into those buildings what happened is they kicked us out. i have been watching this quite a while and the number of black people that have been displaced and kicked out there's in the tenderloin homeless they've become homeless. there needs to be a long session and meetings on this particular item here. and i hope that you don't say yes today don't be a rubber stamp for this corporation and in 18962 when the housing was built in alice griffith the project there was no eir done that is the most toxic area my people can't get there they don't want you to know how many people are dying in my community. i'm 80 years old and thank god i'm in my right mind and i haven't forgotten anything that the city has done i've b

i'll just double-check on our work orders around the mta, was 1.5. >> the mta request was $230,000. >> 230? >> $230,000 request by the mta. >> in partnership? >> everybody else, we more or less heard from, so, yeah. that's the one outstanding one. >> and then the other announcement is we hope to finalize our agenda for the joint puc environment commission on friday. meeting should go about up to two hours. >> the agenda is a joint agenda, so, you go back and forth? how does that work? >> so, we've been -- this meeting will help inform thoughts and i've had -- i think i had heard from maybe commissioner wald had given me some ideas. so, ideas from her and ideas here today i think give a clear sense of what to propose and i've already proposed to the commission president some of those ideas. they wanted to hear the 100% renewable energy discussion, where our rules and responsibilities overlapped. the catalyst from puc, they were talking about look at food waste and someone says, well, turning food waste into energy. and then someone says, hey, let's go talk to the department of environm

my name is o'le son howl from the group of sf mta. our buses would cost about $100,000 more than king county. the reason for that is that we have a lot more optional equipment that we need for our services compared to king county. as shown in the budget analyst report, the attachment one, what we did there was to highlight all the optional items that are more than $1,000 and we indicated why we are buying these options and the reasons we are buying these options the example one example is the dti camera system which cost about $25,000 per bus and the reason for this is mainly for safety so that we can have a camera system that has the capability to download wireless that we can be able to access inside the bus just in case there is a hostage situation we can see inside the bus what is happening. it has all of these special features that were not included in the seattle contract. >> if i can point to even like the first top of the items that are $1,000 or more, if the charge for tires to have aluminum polished and it's $3,000 more. i'm

i'll just double-check on our work orders around the mta, was 1.5. >> the mta request was $230,000. >> 230? >> $230,000 request by the mta. >> in partnership? >> everybody else, we more or less heard from, so, yeah. that's the one outstanding one. >> and then the

and i wanted to also thank the mta for agreeing to regular updates at the plans and programs committee meeting and consistent bi lingual out reach that they have shown that they are doing now, and so i am really, i am really appreciative of the mta work with the staff as well and my colleagues and comments and i want to associate myself with as well. thank you good. thank you. >> and commissioner weiner? >> thank you, mr. chair, i will be supporting this as well and i know that there was concern that the plans and programs, committee but i really want to reiterate the comments that commissioner mar just made and i know that any time you make a changes to our public transportation system, it can cause concern whether it is changes in bus stops, or routing or anything else. and but i think that it is really important to keep the big picture in mind that the reason that the tep exists is because, muni is on. er, the slowest major public transportation system in the country, and average vehicle speed is 8 and a half miles an hour. on average, and that is what the muni vehicle is helped fas

plan requires a lot of funding as well as increased project delivery strategies partnerships with the mta and communities really allowing those projects to go in efficiently we can accelerate it with a concerted effort by the community by staff and new ways of doing business to implement these projects to design them faster and get in them in the ground faster and i believe there's no reason why we couldn't keep the pace of that investment but at the moment we're deliverying five million dollars per year and the new investment levels represents a large multiple of that about 38 million dollars per year if we were to do it by 2018 as was discussed at the hearing so this question of how much investment is not a concern i don't believe for us because it's really about can we get it done quickly in a timely way and to really discuss how we're going to do that neighborhood by neighborhood and corridor by corridor it's a whole new paradigm of delivery and community involvement in the outreach process to really discuss what we're wanting to see on the street how quickly we should be responding b

it is happening at the mta. the last point is it seems like this commission actually, and you yourself, are off target around the issue of taxing the people of san francisco for using the meters. why is it all of a sudden that the mayor says we shouldn't have meter use on sundays? i mean, it seems like he says that everybody is against it. there are some people who are in favor of it, but this commission went ahead with that of basically taxing the people of san francisco, working people of san francisco with these meters without really addressing what does the public want and they don't want more meters, especially in residential areas which you're pushing in through privatization of agencies you contracted out to to make money off the meters. >> thank you, sir. next, please. >> beverly pitser. madelein san, [speaker not understood]. >> good afternoon. >>> good afternoon, president nolan, board of directors. my name is beverly pitser, [speaker not understood], i'm also a small business owner. in 2009 i was a vi

our goal is to pull together this list of projects in february that will be put before the sf mta board for adoption as part of their cip and they vote on that in april. that's where we are right now and that's where we are going next. >> so, the cip process is something that happens every 2 years. the goal for this process is to have a prioritized capital list that are budgeted for the next 2 years but span 5 years worth of improvements. that means every five 5 years we are going to repeat this process which takes into account to the outreach we hear. i want to give a key example is something that came out of the senior and disability focus group was the concern about complex intersections. as the team finalizes the list what we are scanning for are we addressing the needs that people have spoke about regarding complex intersections. they are clearly on our list and are we seeing them on the 2-year list and why are they not possible. and so we talked about the task force. a lot of the funding can be used of a go bond can be used for pedestrian improvement. that is important. temporary

but in fact, you and the mta have not answered the questions asked for years, how is this better, for people who are vulnerable, whether it is a person with a baby in a stroller, and a toddler, and having to cross an extra couple of intersections whether it is a senior or a person with a disability. we are not hearing any answers, there is an avoidance. the fact that this is meant for engineering design, was used last week and saying that figuratively some of these concerns don't matter, but the packet that you have before you shows the specific stops being eliminated and so the money is going to go towards eliminating stops and that is something that nobody has adequately addressed. and you are going along, a path that may in the future be dangerous and i am going to say it again, it could open up the city, for liability, because you are just not addressing these safety questions. >> thank you, for your comments, next speaker please? >> yes, my name is jackie sacks and i want to echo what he just said about regarding eliminating the stops and everything, but one thing that you are no

>> can we, or using mta will expand to the different areas like soma? you know, because there is a lot in the tonal? >> i have no idea. but based on how we moved forward in this commission, i will ask them for whatever it is you want me to. >> commissioner akers? >> yeah, so it seems like then, if they had more interns, then maybe more projects like this could happen. so that might be good to know, is how difficult getting an internship is and what we can do as commissioners to plug. >> right. >> internships with mta. >> okay. >> more of this. >> okay. >> so could we request an actual study a second study of a different area? i mean, assuming that there are different traffic and transportation patterns? >> i think that what the best case scenario is that if you would take the time and take a look at what was involved in sort of the survey instrument, and because you might also and it is not just about where, it is about what the questions were asked. you might find that there are things missing or that you would have asked in a different way, and then i

. >> mta is responsible for. there are 8 bart stations in san francisco, so which one is the mta not responsible for? >> maybe we could just get that information at some other time. >> the mta is responsible for the exterior escalator and we are responsible for two at pallet street station and the one that goes to the plaza area and there are three stations that are not and, that is van ness and church street and castro street station which we maintain the exterior and the remainder of the stations joint or just bart stations in the south east are the responsibility of bater. >> okay. so i am understanding even though there are eight physical bart stations there, there were other facilities that bart and the mta work together on so i pds. >> and the commissioner you had mentioned that when was the last time that bart he is ka layed in the program? and i think that it was a 15 years ago where we had a system wide and we are called the escalator overhaul. but it does not necessarily cover every single escalator, th

there are 8 bart stations in san francisco, so which one is the mta not responsible for? >> maybe we could just get that information at some other time. >> the mta is responsible for the exterior escalator and we are responsible for two at pallet street station and the one that goes to the plaza area and there are three stations that are not and, that is van ness and church street and castro street station which we maintain the exterior and the remainder of the stations joint or just bart stations in the south east are the responsibility of ba

i am with the mta. i wanted to clarify a few statements that were made. i think that the way they're written is a little misleading, specifically the number of staff that is dedicated to bicycle projects and 37 people part of the traffic calming bicycle pedestrian, pedestrian safety, and school guard crossing program. the $7 million of the bike projects that some of the staff work on. it's not all 37. i wanted to clarify. i ask for that to be clarified. in addition we are worked on all of the funding recommendations that we put together with the strategic plan scenario were fed into the mayor's transportation task force process so they're in the recommended categories there, so we're happy to move that forward. of the recommendations that the legislative analyst made i think we're working on almost all of those and we're happy to come back periodically as it makes sense to update whether to this committee or the transportation authority whatever you think is appropriate on the update and the progress. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> so those are