everyone mcdonald this is the september 16, 2014, meeting of the transportation authority plans & programs committee of the san francisco transportation authority plans & programs committee and let's see before i start, i should thank sfgovtv charles and jennifer lowe foretell vision zero. >> roll call. >> supervisor breed absent sxhemz absent supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor yee we have quorum. >> can we have the first or second item. >> item 2 the citizens advisory committee this is an informational item. >> we have mr. bryan larkin from the cac. >> good morning policeman's and members we is your item 6, 7, 8 and 9 we passed some of them unanimously some of them not the first item 6 was a transit prefer rental he item we had a think a oppose and one was me i was confused why we needed an item dedicated to the dr it so if you have questions the same type i had they can clarify them. >> number 7 was a prop k request. >> mr. larkin what item. >> your number of your item 7, 8 prop k items we had public comment from restraining order i can't think he astonished us the bayer caltrain it would difficult to make a tru

september 23, 2014, welcome to the san francisco transportation authority i'm supervisor avalos the chair of the authority and today's clerk is erica chang and the broadcasting is brought to us by jonathan and jessie larson thank you for your work madam clerk call roll. >> supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos absent supervisor chiu supervisor cohen supervisor farrell absent supervisor kim absent supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee we have quorum. >> thank you madam clerk next item. >> item 2 approval the july 22nd, 2014, item. >> colleagues, any questions seeing none, on our minutes from the transportation authority meeting and seeing none, we'll close public comment. >> good morning the commission function bart from all of the el sincerity to the center seeing inside the train i was business the passengers this whole years of 3 hundred and 65 days talking about the goeveng area to the passengers you know this is my way of making friendship to the passengers and i think that also on to san francisco see i think the seat wise everything is a new

>> good morning and welcome to the san francisco transportation authority. monthly meeting i'm scott wiener the vice chair of the transportation authority i'll be chairing today's meeting because our chair supervisor avalos was unable to be here our clerk is erica chang >> thank you to jessie larson and jennifer lowe. madam clerk call roll >> supervisor avalos absent. supervisor breed. supervisor campos. absent. supervisor chiu. supervisor cohen. supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. supervisor mar absent. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. we have quorum. thank you. item number 2 >> item 2 approval of the meeting of the june 24th. >> can you have is a motion to approve the june 24th meeting minutes and can we same house, same call? - you want to we'll take a roll call. >> on item - public comment. >> public comment on the minutes seeing none, public comment is closed. if you have public comment please come forward you don't need to raise your hand >> man has only the sole purpose even if existence no matter what is the position in life all pe

everyone mcdonald this is the september 16, 2014, meeting of the transportation authority plans & programs committee of the san francisco transportation authority plans & programs committee and let's see

the san francisco transportation authority also did a study any 2013 of a 60 percent of new housing units and 80 percent of new jobs concentrated in the south of market and mission bay area. daily trips within the downtown core are currently 290,000 including those walking, cycling and private vehicles. we are projected to as well to 320,000 by 2035. many of our residents and workers are already experiencing this and i heard that rush hour starts at 230 :30 p.m. on south market as cars race to get on the bridge. we are also seeing increase in short trips by 23 percent and sf mta projected that we need a 20 percent reduction in auto traffic in soma in particular to avoid a complete and total grid lock where came go -- karma go ahead on in the next couple of days. this strategy is don't block -- block the box campaign and crashing with pedestrians on the crosswalk as well as a permit implementation of this pilot of this high complex aefrm our office is also working with sf mta to work at the state level to be able to issue block the box cameras similar to the cameras we see throughout the c

. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> good morning and welcome to the san francisco transportation authority.r the vice chair of the transportation authority i'll be chairing today's meeting because our chair supervisor avalos was unable to be here our clerk is erica chang >> thank you to jessie larson and jennifer lowe. madam clerk call roll >> supervisor avalos absent. supervisor breed. supervisor campos. absent. supervisor chiu. superv

there you go done >> good morning and welcome to the san francisco transportation authority. monthly meeting i'm scott wiener the vice chair of the transportation authority i'll be chairing today's meeting because our chair supervisor avalos was unable to be here our clerk is erica chang >> thank you

. >> good afternoon and welcome to the san francisco transportation authority plans & programs committee today is tuesday, july 15, 2014, and i'm our vice chair. roll call >> item one roll call. >> supervisor breed. supervisor campos absent. supervisor kim. supervisor mar absent supervisor yee. we w we have quorum >> thank you i'd like to recognize our cleaning clerk erica chang and thank you to the sfgovtv and recognition jessie larson and others please a call item 2. >> the advisory committee report this is an informational item. >> thank you. do we have a member of the cac to present today. good morning >> good morning. i'm the vice chair of the cac if districts 10 and our advisory committee meeting we took up up those two items but want to go item this deals with the allocation of prop k funds and $2 million in prop w a funds mostly the clarifies on aspects of the downtown extension project including bryan requests for the scheduling and we had specifics on how the caltrain would be configured with the transbay center was not limited to and this item passed unanimously with support f

>> good morning and welcome to the september 30, san francisco county transportation authority vision zero committee, i am your chair, joined by chair member yee and breed. and we want to recognize sf sfgov-tv that is filming and recognize our clerk, erika cheng. a quick note i have to leave the meeting to attend a meeting in my district and thank chair member yee to continue the meeting. >> roll call: >> breed. >> present. >> kim. >> present. >> mar. absent. wiener, absent, and yee, present. we have quorum. >> we have action item. >> we are joined by commissioner mar, we are on the first item, approval of the minutes, any discussion on the item? seeing none, open up for public comment, any public comment on this item? >> good morning, supervisor kim and yee, and breed, before trying to attend market church, san francisco worship (inaudible), and relate to the peach street (inaudible) shooting important document for chinese restaurant (inaudible), some other type of restaurant in the richmond district, just to so that in order for business, it's a small business of san francisco, that

here's the san francisco county transportation authority's rendering of the final product. the folsom street ramp runs parallel to the fremont street ramp, complete with a crosswalk and traffic signals. >> i think that will be so much better. sometimes people are darting across the street and getting out in kind of dangerous places, so a crosswalk will be helpful. >> new developments going in across the street here, this is going to be into the development here. everybody is going to benefit from the revitalization of the area. >> reporter: the old ramp is set to be off limits for six months while crews work on the project that will include widening the street to two lanes in each direction, bike lanes, and sidewalks. for day one, commuters didn't seem to mind the closure very much, if at all. >> it wasn't too bad, it was consistent with all the other days that we commute. >> i was worried about it, thought it would take longer to get home or work, but no. >> bay bridge was light. >> reporter: others aren't as optimistic and are already planning for potential problems. >> i

enough that it wasn't a problem this morning but we did have a chance to talk to the san francisco transportation authorityd about the project and what it entails. >> and for the in field development this will allow us essentially moving an off ramp cutting a plot of land and reconfiguring that off ramp so that you have an undisturbed larger plot of land that will eventually be housing. >> and now you can look at this off ramp from another direction now, you can see as you make that sweeping right turnabout 100-yards after that, that's where that reconfiguration is occurring. the good news is, daria, george and i both expected to see this back up and last all morning long very early but never really happened which is great news for commuters. they didn't have to worry about the traffic. >> stays that way over the next several months and we do have a map of the alternate routes at kron4.com. >>> i've spoken to leaders in congress and i'm pleased there's bipartisan support for the actions we're taking. america is always stronger when we stand united and that unit sends a powerful message to the world that we

mayor lee's leadership and supervisor tang's in improving the pedestrian safety and transportation authority san francisco has spoken loud and clear are maintaining safety is our priority with the help of our partners across the city family i want to congratulate the community and neighborhood for about advocating for those improvements at yorba but along the crossroad is a high injury corridor we really need to focus in terms of the xevenlgs be not only for the enforcement the traffic signals but also to be supported by enforcement and countdowns and other feevenz we provide to be part of the effort and thank to the community for you're planning support today as well as in the fall thank you. >> (clapping) >> director chang mentioned the community and neighborhoods it's at&t the voices of the people of san francisco that make sure they can get around the city safely city of working with our communities and neighborhoods and our strrlz and advocates that we're going to be able to get this bond passed in november and be able to make our streets safer. one of our london breed partners our goal to eliminate

. >> david the deputy director transportation authority so the san francisco freeway management study look at san francisco's way of dealing with the increases in jobless and housing forecasted until 2040 with the transportation plan the study is looking at ways to increase the efficiency of the freeway you network as a corridor looking at material and and a and moving people and vehicles it is striping and looking at the repurposing of general lanes into express lanes and we're requesting a provision of 3 hundred thousand of prop k dpundz i funds to match the fund for the study the study will be completed in winter or spring of 2017 and v. we'll by looking at the mode all piece how it performs with transit and audibles. >> can you explain the link 0. >> so there's different ways of controlling access to the different industry for audible it's a occupancy controlled infrastructure you'll need a certain nobel prize number of people in the vehicles to use the lanes the express lanes which you'll be adding controls to pricing so individuals that are not meeting the requirement like two o

who's the mc for the event chang is the transportation authority person she fester the local sales tax and they're the congressmen management agency for san francisco so, please well billy chang (clapping.) thank you very much i need to grow a couple of photo for this job. thank you for you're opening remarks you and our deputy directors have done magic and the expanded partnerships on this project it's made smooth and rapid movement so i want to recognize our hard work in bringing this to this today let's give eric and his team a round of applause >> thank you paul for this fantastic weather and your team for really helping us with the beautiful event. so good morning, everyone on behalf of the agencies it's my pleasure and how were you to welcome you and to thank you for taxing the time. i don't know who us who had the least of this project to be here but i'm permitted for the honored. i want to recognize special gifts if nancy pelosi's office we have her person. we deeply appreciate elapse pelosis long partnering and helped with our plan. hose not here today but caltrain's director i'd like to thank him and recognize his support in the $9 millio

the city of san francisco's and this commitment for transportation is made i'm here to express my gratitude to edward reiskin and he it's team at the sfmta and the to transportation authority and to the mayor this is not an individual effort this is a team effort and caesar man's and they're built to want to work and make sure the local jobs are unhappy those trains are working and they're working hand in hand and came in 20 percent less than anticipated compared to other companies that's a confidence savings i can't wait to ride the first train thank you all so much for coming today (clapping.) thank you supervisor breed for your leadership on this so the reasons that the sfmta board of directors has the confidence to approve once again as i understand mitigating might be the largest light rail contract in the united states and in the board of supervisors has the confidence with the recommendation of the budget analyst and the reason the mayor has the confidence to sign this resolution to enter into the contract is the meticulous work done to get to the point of procuring those vehicles and developing this contracted that work was done by our team of folks from our agency

transportation to in -- decrease congestion. also we need to challenge what san francisco state university author and big writer cause auto mobility that everyone feels the need to driver in our city. i think we are making progress to improve the safety and effectiveness of many other options. like today in our new law goes into effect at 3 -foot bike buffer so that bicyclist can have at least three 3 feet of space away from cars and major corridors as they are riding their bikes. it will help make our streets safer and improve our efforts towards vision zero in the city making biking safe for children and families. today i'm calling with supervisor avalos for a sponsor for improving bike access on muni buses and light rail vehicles. it included expanding bike access on buses. right now if i want to put my bike on a muni bus, if there are already two bikes on there, i can't use it because that's the limit. we are looking to expanding the capacity for those of us who ride our bikes and need to also take muni and also riding bikes on muni rails you can't take your bikes on there. i wanted to thank supervisor avalos for working on th

san francisco the folsom fremont exit is the first on your right. and it is heavily used. >> it is our hope that the backups won't be too bad. >> reporter: a spokesman for the city's transportation authority explains when it is finished in march, the folsom exit will run right next to the fremont exit, and in the meantime, there are alternatives. the harrison exit ramp on the left side of the freeway will remain open. and the fremont ramp will only be closed a few hours at a time late at night. >> we've been talking to specific businesses as well as the media. >> reporter: as you heard, the transportation authority hopes it's not going to be too bad. drivers we talked to didn't have much hope. >> oh, i mean, that's -- kind of annoying. but i can work with it. i'll just change my route. it's not the end of the world. >> reporter: not the end of the world. but it is going to be the end of an easier commute on this ramp, anyway. tomorrow we'll get our first look at its impact. they're saying that the fremont ramp will be open by commute time tomorrow morning. >>> attention, shoppers. we're learning more about the merger between albertson's and safe way. albertson's says no major changes are

transportation authority. now, the story that we just watched, christine, but cal train running the peninsula on commur rail and you have a big area to cover. >> yeah, that'sright, cheryl. we go fro san franciscoo san jose. it's about 50 miles. we go through number of highway pop pew laulated areas, through downtown and 50ailroad crossings. mething people need to be very aware of the train. we opete 92 trains a day, and it's something people need tbe aware of and careful with on th railroad tracks. >> the temptation to walk on th tracks, they are quieter these days, and with the ear buds, you will not here . >> we have operate a puspull system so the locomotive is on the southernost end of the train, and if the train is going north, you will not hear the train until it's rig on top of you. >> we ha a video, an example of the pedestrian gate. the trains go by fast, so as we watch the video, i want to kp talking about the fact that these -- the train arm comes down for jus a short amount of time. >> right. we are authorized by the feral railroad administration to operate our trains at 79 miles per hour. they do go that fa. if a train is not scheduled to stop at a station, it could be going as fa

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