the transportation authority -- and i chaired the finance committee of the transportation authority. a lot of -- i think it was $20,000, and the mta is contributing money as well, but it is well worth it when it helps save lives and keep our communities safer, so thank you very much, everyone. [applause] >> thank you, supervisor. there is another body that the voters have empowered to essentially manage and regulate traffic, and that is the sfmta board, and they took an action a couple of weeks ago to legislate the first batch of these zones to create, which has enabled under our recent 2007 state law, the creation of these school zones that allow us to create the 15 miles per hour safety zone in front of schools. on behalf of the sfmta board, i am happy to welcome up to the microphone, one of my bosses, director brinkman. [applause] >> thank you. i am so glad to be here. there is a growing body of research that shows we can make the schools -- the streets safer, and one of the ways we can do that is reduced speeds. if all else fails and a collision results, this speed limit saves liv

welcome to the san francisco transportation authority. please call the roll call. >> [roll call] we have a quorum. commissioner mirkarimi: very good. please read item two. >> item 2. approval of minutes of july 19, 2011 meeting. this is an action item. any discussion? seeing none, public comment is closed. seconded by commissioner mar. without objection. so moved. >> [roll call] the item passes. commissioner mirkarimi: items 3 and 4 please. >> item 3. chair's report. this is an information item.item 4. executive director's report. this is an information item. commissioner mirkarimi: there was quite a bit of activity in transportation arena in washington, d.c.. the house move a bill for that would reauthorize the transportation act at a level that is 30% lower than current funding and the center is considering a counterpart measure that would reauthorize the act at current funding levels. the stakes are high and the chance that it will come to reauthorize before the presidential election appears to be dimming. in context, the role for the l

. >> supervisor campos talked about funding with the transportation authority as well. the more information, the better for the decision we can make. how does that work for members of we do it at 4:00 on the eighteenth? i don't know what the agenda is for that day, but possibly in the event that we finish considerably earlier than that, maybe one of the items from the retreat or something so that we don't leave and come back. >> i bet i can find plenty for you to talk about. chairman nolan: on the 18th, we will come back here for a full discussion. will not start until 4:00. [applause] >> continuing on, a brief update on the central subway. we are ready to issue a notice to proceed. the tunnel began in fall of next year and will be 14 months. that is a good milestone to issue the first notice to proceed. union square utilities relocation is nearly complete. we will wrap up before the moratorium and finished up after the new year. yesterday, we submitted our application for forward funding grant agreements. i mentioned last time, we went to a great effort by the whole tea

story we will tell as to why the federal government has to -- they just have to pass the transportation authorization extension plan. without that, this would be challenged, and doral drive would be challenged. every major transportation mode of any significance in the bay area would be challenged. we're already hearing from caltrans about the nervousness they have if that transportation reauthorization is not done quickly. so we need that on the national level. that is why we're continuing to use this as an example of how we as the city can work together with city agencies, community- based agencies, our friends in labor and business, to promote one of the most beautiful, very challenging complex, but it will be a beautiful addition to the old downtown skyline and functionality. so today we are celebrating this milestone where all of the demolition has been completed. that is the finished phase one. it has been remarkable. not one word-related accident has happened in all of these thousands of hours put together. by the way, of all the work our that were mentioned, over 80% of those jobs went to nin

welcome to the transportation authority plans and programs session meeting. clerk of the committee is erica cheng. madam clerk, can you please call item no. 2? >> review of minutes of the july 12 meeting. >> colleagues, you have the minutes before you. before we act on it, with any member of the public like to speak on this item? seeing no one, public comment disclosed. taken without objection. madam clerk, please call item no. 3. >> item #3, citizens of advisory committee report. an information item. supervisor campos: mr. davis, good morning. >> good morning, commissioners. our meeting took place last week and i it -- as a result there were three, $270,000, so they can to work at union square. passed by, seven-one, with one abstention, the discussion for the meeting was around community involvement as put into the planning. the other item on the agenda was the central subway. this was the first time we had passed anything regarding the central subway. the discussion on that was very focused on the risk management issues and the assumptions that the mta was m

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i also look forward to working closely with mayor lee and our partners at the mta and the transportation authority. the municipal -- mtc and other partners, including others in the private sector to see if we can find a way of making this happen. the leslee i would say with respect to president -- last thing i would say, i will look forward to finding out more about the specifics of the proposal. some of your ideas you mentioned are ideas that chamber has raised with us. we want to delve into the specifics as to introduce your legislation. the rest i submit. >> thank you. supervisor avalos. supervisor avalos: i am introducing an ordinance that would require commercial buildings to allow access for bikes through creating a secure space to park or allowing them to except bikes into the space. this ordinance has been vetted with building owners and there could be some amendments if any about moving this ordinance forward. this is important in a number of ways. often cyclists will go downtown with their bikes and do not have a place in a building to secure them. will lock them up on the street and put

nathaniel ford is the director of the transportation authority. prior to joining the municipal authority. he served for the atlantic authority for 5 years. he started as a train conductor in the new york city transit system. let's give it up for director ford. jim dierck is a principle, but not only a principle and an educator. he is someone who designd and developed innovative concepts where there was an incident that involved safety. for the work he was recognized at the national principle of the year. and he is somebody who is on the ground and has worked to empower young people at his school. he took his school from a different circumstances to be one of the highest performs school districts in the state. jim dierck. margaret brodkin is the director of the department for children youth and families. i emphasize that because it is one of the most critical agencies in the city and county. margaret was a former director the colman advocates who is responsible for many of the children and families here in san francisco much he served as director. i

the number 10 subway line. transport officials say more than 500 passengers were on the two trains at the time. the transport authority says one train was running on reduced speed because of equipment failures. the second train slammed into it from behind. nhk's reporter on the scene said ambulances, police cars and fire engines have gathered near the station close to the accident site. >> translator: the train was stopped due to mechanical trouble. people were sitting down and just waiting. i had no idea what happened. it was a massive impact. >> this is the latest rail accident in china. in july a high-speed train collision killed 40 people. in 2009 a fire at a construction site at the shanghai subway left one worker dead and six others injured. the shanghai subway network opened in 1995 and has been rapidly expanding since then. the number 10 line is the new extension that opened in april of last year ahead of the shanghai expo. the shanghai metro now runs over 410 kilometers and has overtaken london's underground system in as the longest in the world. >>> time to check stories we've gathered from broadcasters arou

project has been fiscally reviewed for years by the federal transportation authority under the new starts program. it has a fully committed funding plan and enjoys broad, federal, regional, and local support, including from the obama administration and senators feinstein, boxer, and leader pelosi here once opened, the light is projected to be the highest writer ship line in the city as it will serve the jobs housing quarter with the highest projected growth in the city, south of market, and the mission bay. first of your construction projects are nearly complete, and one of the largest -- a $230 million guideway tunnel contract is scheduled to begin later this month. by the way, it came in $13.2 million under the engineers estimates. now is the time to support the city's goal of enhancing our infrastructure system and building the need of capacity for our system. our mta will be submitting its final breath agreement request to the federal government before the end of this month, and we would be working diligently to finalize the details through the last months of this year. thank you very

in many cases, as was referred to from the county transportation authority, there is the opportunity to do improvements in the public realm as well. that's another real opportunity that we have. i wanted to stress those points and i hope if we come back to u.s. some point down the road, considering possible amendments or modifications of in kind benefits that you adopted last october, for these large sites, you would consider that and give it its due consideration in this special context. i am really hear more to try to answer your questions in collaboration with the people i've been working with since 2005 on the task force that are represented here today. if you were to ask them to make a presentation about planning in 2004 when the legislation was first adopted, they would have had a lot of questions but they would not have nearly the understanding of nuanced planning issues they have today. i'm proud of that i was able to work with them to achieve that planning expertise in a collaborative manner. it has been a very rewarding experience, although one that has tried patients and a

chester is the most recent representative of the transportation authority. and megan wier represents the department of public health. the title of the plan we are introducing new to and the whole thinking behind the plan is building a complete neighborhood. the most important principle that we adopted before we began even thinking about the plan was that we want to preserve and enhance what is already here. it is a good neighborhood. it has got a good mix of residences and small businesses, as well as the nightclub industry. so if it is an interesting neighborhood. we do not want to destroy it, but we want to build on that. the first thing we did in our planning process was we looked at the alleys. that is where people live in south of market. so we have institutionalized the residential enclave districts. when you look at the plane, you'll see that we create a great many more residential enclave districts than what we originally had. that was in the original legislation that created the task force. let's think on the micro level. first, preserve where people

reaction to the crash. >> the accident on the subway route that opened to coincide with the expo, transport authorities say there were more than 500 passengers on the two trains. july's high speed rail crash in the eastern city killed 40 people. the government's handling of the accident provoked -there is now a similar wave of criticism. a satellite station in hong kong conducted an on-line survey talking to people across china on wednesday. it found that 60% of respondent's said that the accident was a result of professional negligence that authorities have not learned any lessons from july's rail crash. many respondent's also voiced concerns over the rapid expansion of subway lines. they say that yet more safety problems might occur in the future. >> the frequent accidents are evidenced that they are not meeting their responsibilities for safe operations. >> the subway accident comes just two months after the high speed rail crash. chinese transport authorities face the challenge of finding out exactly why the accident happened in order to ease concerns and mistrust people have with the nation's tran

do that, but it is really about being vigilant and looking at the fund the come through the transportation authority. we have been extending sidewalks in some places to help with pedestrians, trying to put in islands, plantings to slow down traffic. bike lanes have helped. a bit controversial where i live is a bike lane. people do not see as many bikes, but we are seeing more and more common now that the bike lanes are coming in. that makes it safer for pedestrians. we have a bike way on a major street. you do not have as much time to cross, and you cut down one lane for the cars and a pedestrian can then walk more swiftly along the street. that is something that i have been supporting and want to see more of. >> switching gears, let's talk about the issues facing the city as a whole. what are some of the things that you feel could be improved upon? >> we could always go back to muni. part of the difficulty with muni is funding we are losing from the state. i think it is $65 million of year that we have lost. that creates a huge impact. we are also challenged by traffic. the buses are slow because t