>> i'm a senior transportation planner at the transportation authority, today i'm excited to present the lifeline transportation program cycle 5 recommendations and share the creative ways we're recommending the projects. so lifeline, is a regional program that is administered by the transportation commission. it has about $22 million available this cycle. san francisco has about 12% of the low-income population, so we receive $2.6 million a cycle. the goal of the program is to improve mobility for residents, and focus on communities of concern and projects that come from a community based planning process. all agencies are eligible to apply. 20% local match is required. you'll see attachment 1 to the memo in the packet. so ltp is the only funding source that the transportation authority awards that can be used for operating projects. so a few eligible project types include enhanced transit service, including late night, weekend and shuttle service. most of the criteria are mandated by ncc but we did add criteria specific to san francisco which is attached to the memo. ltp is the only

this is the full-time equivalent staff we have at the transportation authority. we have no changes to the personnel expenditure. nonpersonnel expenditures have increased increase of $400,000 and this represents 1%. and this is really for costs related to our office rent, legal, and i.t., and our equipment, software, and the office supply. everything that keeps the office running. i would also mention this budget anticipates us to draw down another $121 million in the credit revolver. and in addition to using bond proceeds to fully fund and any time we draw down from the revolving credit agreement, we will come back to the board for the approval. with that, oh, i have one more other slide. this is a slide i like to bring back once in a while. this is information from march 31 and this shows you the plan, ordered and in service in terms of the different various vehicles we were using prop k funds to fund the item. i will turn it over to director chang. >> thank you so much. so continue on the work program priorities for 2018-2019, these are the eight or nine areas

i want to thank you and represent the transportation authority as well as supervisor e.g. from our corner. we want to thank the bike coalition on all of our partners are putting on this event as well as events throughout the year. we just had bike and roll to school week. hundreds of schools or i arounde city participated. we are also trading projects throughout the city using our sales tax and thank you to the voters. i mean it is citywide and we'll keep doing it with your help. thank you very much. >> thank you. my friend from the recreation and parks department, that general manager. >> good morning everybody. what a beautiful day. i wanted to say thank you to the bike coalition. we are so proud of the parks department to partner with all of you. i loved that bike corral and the newly reinvigorated civic centre plaza. we are building more bike trails uplink bike racks and parks. we have safety bike routes in mclaren park and in golden gate park, what do we want? we want one bikes and fewer cars. [cheers and applause] >> thank you for your work and our partnership with p

so, colleagues, in your incarnation as members of the san francisco county transportation authority and as members of the board of supervisors all of whom in both of their incarnations have a duty to deal with our monumental transportation obligations in this transit first city, i have been thinking about ways to reduce that $100 million nut. and one of them as chair tang knows is to go back to the tsf increase, which planning in its studies have showed are feasible and will not stop development. now, because -- and remember, when we considered this in 2016 and i acknowledge that supervisor tang voted for that legislation, which mayor lee vetoed, i acknowledge that supervisor kim voted for it when supervisor tang voted against it and supervisor safai was not a member of the board of supervisors. we have an opportunity to reduce that $100 million a year going forward. had this been passed or not vetoed then, this fee would have been in place and i know that the current conversation is we have -- i should say had this been heard in april by the planning commission, had the scheduling scre

for the county of transportation authority and i'm excited to bring this report to all of you. i'm going to give awe brief overview of our report and kind of how it got here today. the first and foremost is that the nexus of this report is that both our board and yours have seen a lot of different services on our streets and some of them we didn't recognize. we want to make sure we're understanding what was out on our streets and evaluate whether or not they are helping us meet our long-range and short range transportation goals. i'll go over briefly what we're saying when we're talking about emerging mobility services and technologies. i'll remind everyone, again, about the 10 guiding principles that both this board and the transportation commission adopted last june. then go into the evaluation methodology that we both worked with the sf mta on. finally provide recommendations for our side and yours. >> thank you. >> when i say emerging -- am i talking loud enough? i'm sorry. when i say emerging mobility services and technologies, this is covering bike sharing, car sharing, s

website and you can also contact any of our staff here at the transportation authority.nd, on the local scene, survey is underway for the reduce of the sales tax over the next five years. i wanted to think a lot of the board members commissioners for circulating our survey on your sights and in your newsletters. we are certainly interested in the public feedback on how we spend the next five years on the programs and funds for a number of categories. pedestrian and bicycle improvements, traffic measurement, resurfacing, traffic calming and the like. we've launched a multilingual survey to gather input which is available online. it is also available in hard copy form. we will make that available to a number of community-based organizations and can also send that to any neighbourhood group or organization that still would like to pass those out. so far we have been able to receive, already 400 completed responses, each of these will be conveyed to sponsoring agencies to incorporate the public feedback. for more information you can contact our staff, and the survey does clo

the diesel scandal has officially reached dima germany's transport authorities as the comic are installed a legal defeat devices in its sadie's benz veto delivery van will have to recall six thousand of them the agency says dima use the technology to switch off the exhaust cleanings is thems during driving which would boost nitrogen oxide emissions aimable have to remove the prohibited software from and spends. it on a share price under fire on two fronts the car tariffs and its recall general loans been tracking this story for us from the frankfurt stock exchange ginnell house dietl doing. well for now they've released a statement saying that the technology they installed was there to ensure quote a robust exhaust gas cleaning in various driving conditions and that the only reason the transport authority thought that was illegal was because it's not a requirement as such in order to pass emissions tests so for dyer it's down to differing interpretations of the law and they said that that's what they would be prepared to argue in court if it came to that now i'm not so sure shareholders a

the diesel scandal has officially reached dima germany's transport authority says the car maker installed a legal defeat devices in its mercedes-benz vito delivery van it will have to recall six thousand of them. the agency says dima used the technology to switch off the exhaust cleaning systems during driving. that would boost nitrogen oxide emissions on the roads. dima will now have to remove the prohibited software from its vans. trade in endangered wildlife species is booming on the internet for six weeks staff of the international fund for animal welfare sifted through internet sites in germany france britain and russia and came across five thousand eight hundred thirty one advertisements for wild animals. they also included animal products such as ivory with a total value of four million dollars. investigators say many buyers weren't aware their purchases would increase poaching and seriously threaten some species with extinction. thieves citizens got their digital lives back friday in a new law the e.u. recognizes that data is private and personal and belongs to the individual so a

[please stand by] per -- last night i was at the transportation authority community advisory committee, and one of your appointees was telling me even with the service we added is so crowded often she cannot get on, why can't we add more service. so, we have a lot of demands on the resources of agency from a lot of different areas that we serve and the budget is a reflection of our best attempt to balance the different interests and meet the most critical needs and i believe that the additional, now two increases to the proposal for crossing guards and conjunction with all of the other work we do in terms of education and engineering and enforcement around the schools is a reasonable step forward and we remain as committed as you do to making sure that our kids and everybody can get to and from the school safely. >> supervisor yee: i appreciate you have to balance all these demands. i would like to make a suggestion and maybe outside of the bargaining activities. can we actually do a pilot project of some sort to test out whether it's feasible to move some of these crossing guards afte

the san jose sharks organization is suing the santa clara valley transportation authority...roject to expand bart into downtown san jose. kron 4's gayle ong has the story. pkg:the san jose sharks are marking their territory.. they're not only up against the golden knights in las vegas for the playoffs,they're facing the santa clara valley transportation authority-- in court..the sharks filed a lawsuit thursday demanding the v-t-a stop expansion plans of the diridon bart stationthe sharks tell kron 4 in a statement -- we strongly support the bart project through downtown san jose but we don't think the current plan addresses several important issues for sap center important issues like adequate parking --the diridon station is a block away from the sap centerthe construction would take up hundreds of parking spotsrick cordeilo: "it's so convenient, it drops me off right here, right across the street. go home."sharks fan rick cordeilo is for the construction plan..he takes the train from santa cruz to watch the sharks gamerick cordeilo: "well it think it's pretty sad, it's all

now six months later both the parents transport authorities and politicians have also taken the problem seriously and are feeling the passengers not to trivialize sexual harassment victims and witnesses get in touch. the campaign encourages women to prevent their attackers from getting away with it and other passengers not to look away on the says no one helped her when she was being molested not even when she cried out. no one did anything they just moved away this is bridge. it's not just on buses or trains either the walk home is every bit as risky for women that something pick on us plans to change the local politician wants night buses to drop women off between bus stops or even to bring them up to their front door. we want women to feel safer on their way home at night especially those who work late at night and have to travel home to the suburbs to get to. this new flexible service is being piloted on just a handful of dust. but what's clear is that the fight against sexual assault in paris is gathering speed and not a moment too soon for me she's had enough of sexist comments an

the san jose sharks organization is suing the santa clara valley transportation authority...grant) it is all over a project to expand bart into downtown san jose. kron 4's gayle ong has the story. the san jose sharks are marking their territory.. they're not only up against the golden knights in las vegas for the playoffs,they're facing the santa clara valley transportation authority-- in court..the sharks filed a lawsuit thursday demanding the v-t-a stop expansion plans of the diridon bart stationthe sharks tell kron 4 in a statement -- we strongly support the bart project through downtown san jose but we don't think the current plan addresses several important issues for sap center important issues like adequate parking --the diridon station is a block away from the sap centerthe construction would take up hundreds of parking spotsrick cordeilo: "it's so convenient, it drops me off right here, right across the street. go home."sharks fan rick cordeilo is for the construction plan..he takes the train from santa cruz to watch the sharks gamerick cordeilo: "well it think it's

rich in culture and artists and musicians epic people would talk with you and you'd get transportation authority meeting for today, tuesday, april 24, our clerk, if you could please call the roll. roll call, commissioner breed absent. cohen present. fewer present. kim absent. peskin present. ronen present. safai present. sheehy absent. stefani present. tang present. yee absent. we have quorum. >> last week, schools and families celebrated bike and roll to school week, thousands of youth and adults rode in bike trains, rode with parents and teachers and used their own pedal power to get to school. on april 17, our director joined supervisor ronen's office to celebrate with students as they biked and rolled to school. bike and roll to school week is sponsored by safe routes partnership and organized by the san francisco bicycle coalition and we are a proud sponsors. to keep things rolling, it will be held may 10th and we're pleased to help sponsor the bike to work day. in addition to biking, participants can volunteer or join a convoy to bike to work with their neighbors. these events stand in mar

(pam) the san jose sharks organization is suing the santa clara valley transportation authority... the lawsuit is over a project to expand bart into downtown san jose. kron 4's gayle ong has the story. the san jose sharks are marking their territory.. they're not only up against the golden knights in las vegas for the playoffs,they're facing the santa clara valley transportation authority-- in court..the sharks filed a lawsuit thursday demanding the v-t-a stop expansion plans of the diridon bart stationthe sharks tell kron 4 in a statement -- we strongly support the bart project through downtown san jose but we don't think the current plan addresses several important issues for sap center important issues like adequate parking --the diridon station is a block away from the sap centerthe construction would take up hundreds of parking spotsrick cordeilo: "it's so convenient, it drops me off right here, right across the street. go home."sharks fan rick cordeilo is for the construction plan..he takes the train from santa cruz to watch the sharks gamerick cordeilo: "well it think it's p

[please stand by] per -- last night i was at the transportation authority community advisory committee, and one of your appointees was telling me even with the service we added is so crowded often she cannot get on, why can't we add more service. so, we have a lot of demands on the resources of agency from a lot of different areas that we serve and the budget is a reflection of our best attempt to balance the different interests and meet the most critical needs and i believe that the additional, now two increases to the

the sharks sports and entertainment company is suing the santa clara valley transportation authority d bart saying because vta is so biased in favor of its own transportation systems, it refused to consider studies or conduct studies that might challenge the agency's biases. last week the $4.7 billion proposal for bart's extension to san jose was approved. a state-of-the-art single tunnel under the heart of downtown with riders dropped off by the "s.a.p. center" which hosts games, events and concerts. while the sharks say they are supportive of bart coming to san jose, the president said in a statement: we don't think the current plan addresses several important issues for "s.a.p. center" including a promise to ensure adequate parking in the diridon area and a safe and accessible environment for our customers during construction. we do not take this decision lightly. >> reporter: no comment today from the vta. and a bart spokesman referred us back to the vta saying: >> reporter: this all comes as transportation officials are asking for federal grants for this plan and the feds do cons

[please stand by] per -- last night i was at the transportation authority community advisory committee, and one of your appointees