we've got the planning department, we've got a director of transportation, we have a transportation authority, which is not related to our director of transportation. we have a mayor. but i think we are all unified in the very modest step of the joint powers board having independent counsel, which i think you'll all be considering on november 21st. i'm actually not having this conversation with staff. this is kind of more of -- i'm saying this for the benefit of the three j.p.b. members in santa clara members and the three j.p.b. members in san ma tarot county and the three members on the same page in san francisco county. it's not an easy conversation to have. and what i really want to underscore is it's not a conversation about any county wanting to have advantage. it's about making this agency an agency that will garner the billions of dollars that we need in order to implement this ambitious vision. with that i would like to open this up to members of the public. i have a number of speaker cards. you know who you are. bob, edward, -- actually just bob is the only speaker i have for item n

so a piece of feedback we have received from the board of supervisors as the transportation authority is start talking to them when you know the project will happen and we will follow through and start doing that. so kind of lastly, the one outstanding point that we still have is as part of the discussion when there was an appropriation, which you approved and went to the board of supervisors earlier this year, a $5 million set aside for a construction mitigation fund. but we have directed business support, i showed you at the highest level project. we have done that one time and that was for the central subway project. when we first started this program. but it was sort of unnamed as to how we would use it, who would use it, what the criteria would be. so we spent a period of time working, doing two public hearings at the transportation authority with all the members of the board of supervisors, talking to our small business working group. went to the local merchants association and talked about this coming up, how is this going to work and make it most useful. the two criteria that

and ohio, senior planner with the transportation authority. diving in here, lombard crooked street is a familiar, iconic piece of san francisco. i don't think i need to tell anybody here that, but as commissioner stefani mentioned, a large number of visitors impact the quality of life for neighborhood residents and the experience or visitors that come to see our city. the t.a. has been tackling this problem for a few years now. the community working group was really the kickoff of the latest round of options we are considering that happened way back in 2,000. in 2014, the sfmta let a pilot to lead the crooked streets, but it really squeezes the balloon essentially. there's a lot of people circling , looking for parking, people setting up picnics on the crooked street itself, which is the only way thinking get to and from their homes. then commissioner farrell atha transportation authority in 2017 to complete a holistic look at those options that had surfaced in the 2,000 study as well as potential new ones and that study reprimanded a four pro

crab come up. >> amber crab with transportation authority. a quick snapshot of the federal perspective. first i want to start off making note that after this hearing she has been asked by its america to testify at the house transportation and infrastructure hearing to talk about the wonderful things san francisco is doing relating to pricing and technology strategies. it is going to be turning on c span tomorrow morning. i want to note the reauthorization of the federal transportation bill work has begun. it expires september 30, 2020. there is a first draft of the markup of the federal highway portion of the bill. next it goes to the commerce and banking committee, then the house is also talking about its own draft. from a initial perspective, it is good news. the bill is $300 billion, which is a 27% increase above current levels. there is also new increases in freight programs, bike programs, and it surprisingly acknowledges climate change for the first time with a climate change program that has carbon reduction programs and funding for fue

the near term, including through m.l.a., as well as potentially funding items here at the transportation authority, should the recommendations be accepted by the board in october. turning to some local issues. our pricing study has kicked off as well. we want to really appreciate the metropolitan transportation commission. thank you missioner ronen for serving on that, which approved $400,000 in regional funding to support our study. combined with our local t.a. funds, that's enabled to kick off with consultants and study partners. we've been working on community engagement plans and equity analyses at directed by the body. we look forward to bringing you updates. treasure island outreach continues, particularly for the non-profit and for-profit business communities and their employees will be holding two collaborative workshops in october to talk about different ways to implement the treasure island policies, pertaining to service, transit, proposed toll and how we can balance the needs amongst the users of the system and the residents and the merchants. the m.t.a. board, of course, also recently

i want to inform you you're at the transportation authority. this afternoon we meet at the board of supervisors. if you want to talk about the rad program and house rules, it's probably -- we should probably go back to my office and work on that together. >> okay. >> chair: i did ask my staff to work with you, as a number of rad projects. >> i wanted to keep all of the supervisors aware that we would like you to get involved and help us to halt the process, that has been going on, where we have been excluded as a tenant body. we are here for tenant advocacy. and we were not informed of any of the meetings that were being held two months at a time. every two months. and that's been happening since 2015. thank you. >> chair: thank you. and i have been trying to arrange and maybe you've had contact with the mayor's office of housing, this seems to have originate. you're welcome to come to my office after this meeting. >> we will. thank you. >> chair: thank you. next speaker, please. >> i'd like to provide a corporate commuter bus update. records r

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. >> santa clara valley transportation authority is calling attention to safety tonight. on friday you may remember a train collided with a bicycle in san jose. bi they went to the emergency with a head injury. but people should be more aware and not illegally cross the traction. joining us live from mountain view with more. >> reporter: good evening. they say they are trying to tckle the toe deeds. participatings who are deliberately ignoring rules and those who are too distracted by their cell phone to pay attention to the trains that are passing nearby. >> can't beat the train. that's the new warning coming from the vta. message is displayed on these new ghost bikes being parked across the system. >> these ghost bikes represent people who have lost their lives. and we want people to pay attention to make sure it doesn't happen to them. >> reporter: along with the memorial they are also trying another new strategy on to social media. >> definitely something that we have not really done before we are trying to make a statement and save other people's lives here. >> repor

i service the executive director of the county transportation authority and it is an honor to provide testimony on our local experience with these topics and why we believe pricing and promising are strategies to help us reach our transportation goals. first, let me provide an overview. rising population unemployment but also combined with the rideshare vehicles are crossing -- clogging our streets area commuters spend 115 hours almost three weeks stuck in traffic. fivecrawl on city streets miles per hour to 10 miles per hour during rush hour. it also affects public health in our poor neighborhoods. they are seeing record numbers of severe and fatal crashes which are policy seeks to additionally, it's adversely affecting our health in the adjacent neighborhoods and downtown areas. finally congestion is a big part of our transportation is the largest component of greed has gas emissions in our city and state. why are we looking at pricing? we have taken many steps to alleviate our congestion. we are investing heavily in our transit system. where improving more housing than ever near tr

the count city backing a proposal put forth by the transportation authority, the ccta wants to put this proposed half cent sales tax increase on the march ballot for voters to city. now, if voters were to approve this, this sales tax hike would go into effect july of 2020, would last 35 years, would raise $3.6 billion, about half would go to projects tha interchanges and roads like 80, 580, 680, state route 242, highways 4 and 24. the rest would go to transit and improvement of local roads. >> it's tricky because, i mean, isn't that what gas is for with the increase in taxes for gas to fix roads and everything else? seems like they increase everything. >> because i'm not sure it always goes to what they say it's going to go to. so that's my challenge with that, seeing other taxes kind of get taken from this pot to that pot. i'm not sure i would agree with that, no. >> for transportation, sure, why not? >> even though they mean more when you go out and buy things? >> yeah, half percent is not much, man. sure. >> right now, as i mentioned, the boather or not to ban the use of poly styrene

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the construction will happen underground, dozens of feet below the street, and the valley transportation authority says that adds to the complexity of the project and the time needed to planet. >> it would be a fair assessment to say that the 2020 data that was based on certain milestones happening in 2014 is not the current projected schedule we are on right now. >> vta says it will not break aground on the project until at the earliest, 2022. in the meantime, business owners bracing for potential impacts. >> there could be erosion and public trust in agencies that can't meet deadlines or are over budget. it's always a risk when he tried to go back to the voters and ask for more. >> reporter: even if the more you're asking for is more patients, for a project that has been delayed before it even got off the ground. devin fehely, kpix 5. >>> imagine coming home to your apartment, and suddenly finding out it has been turned into a condo. >> if you live in oakland that mean your landlord can legally raise your rent or even you. tonight at 11, we introduce you to two housekeepers in this very situatio

i serve as executive director of the transportation authority and it is an honor to provide testimony on the local experience with these topics and why we believe pricing and incentives are promising strategies to help us reach our transportation goals. first let me provide an overview of the problem. as in other places, rising population, employment, also with vehicles clogging our streets. in a typical year, commuters spend 115 hours, almost 3 weeks, stuck in traffic. buses, private cars, alike. the crawl on city streets at 5 to 10 miles per hour during rush hour. congestion also affects public health in neighborhood seeing record numbers of severe and fatal crashes, which our vision zero policy seeks to address. in addition, particulate emissions adversely affect health of freeway adjacent neighborhoods in these downtown areas. finally, congestion is a big part of why congestion is the large component of greenhouse gas emissions in our city and state. so why are we looking at pricing? as a city we have taken many steps to alleviate rising congestion. investing heavily in transit sy

back, at some point, i would like to have the water transportation authority here.when you to bring them back here so they can advise the overall plan for the area. i know there are so many plans on the way in the city now, for the stadium, for the hunter's point shipyard, and we have treasure island. let's bring them back so we know where they are, what we are doing, and we can begin to have this dialogue to look at the treasure island transportation and how it is connected to the region and to the entire san francisco. those discussions are taking place all over and this is a great opportunity to have them come before us here. thank you. >> thank you for that because it reminds me of what is on the october agenda. on the october agenda, will also be having to my -- timma come back and provide updates on the congestion management work as well as looking ahead at the schedule for the southgate hillcrest project. the west side of viaduct project , and how those two coordinate with the schedule for the reconstruction. we'll be having that update you know october. but

welcome to the san francisco county transportation authority meeting for tuesday september 10, 2019. meeting back since summer recess. our clerk could you please call the role. (roll call)

appropriation to transportation authority to study profile and travel patterns of district four residents. objective to identify the high shares of single vehicle use and to explore how to get single vehicle use to decline by offering alternatives to drive alone and with the final report presented to this body next fall, which is similar to timing. this is for the second tip neighborhood program for the safety improvements to i guy hotspots on alemany and to come up for recommendations on improving safety so there won't be a series of meetings over the year and final report to the body in september of next year. i am going to turn this over to julie, who will present the powerpoint presentation you have in your packet materials. >> the floor is yours. >> i believe we are pulling up the powerpoint. >> good morning. julie kirsch ball, transit director. thank you for the opportunity to talk about this really critical program for our transit system the midlife overhaul program. it came out of our 2017 fleet plan, which really sought to transition from having among the oldest fleet in america

a caltrain expansion presentation at the county transportation authority indicated major peninsula employers desire to eliminate commuter busses, but this collides with the s.f. champ model done for the hub study indicating that 45% would drive if they had to travel to a hub. about 730 busses operate and transport about 8,000 employees in san francisco, demonstrating an exclusive ridership, poaching employees from competitors. supporters, silicon valley leadership group supported the santa clara county light rail system which has the worst performing system almost in the nation. and then replacing the 50-car fleet midlife with 100-car fleet that is now 40 cars are in, for morning pullout are sitting in the yard. they now support the private commuter busses utilizing the right rail parking in santa clara county. greyhound was the regional express bus system 50 years ago, which i used. the question is, where is m.t.c. during the intervening years? and another sales tax when the employers rely on the infrastructure, i think that they ought to pay 5/7 of the cost to operate, since they didn't ha

we worked on two occasions with the two transportation authorities in san francisco. that is the sfmta on a project that was an 18 month project and most recently with the bayview community-based transportation project. specifically, the participator rebudget process recently. >> that being shade, bayview has five main lines 19, 54 and 29 and t line. for the four bus lines bayview happens to be the end of the line for those four bus lines. as up mentioned, commissioner sweet when you are at the end of the line most lightly it is not on time. we experience that a lot on the bayview particularly on the 19, 54 and the 29. also was mentioned similar to the hill it is photography issues which creates isolated community. the shuttle program was targets seniors and young people. as well as unreliability of muni on the evenings starting as early as 43. if i need to come downtown to get here by 530 i have to leave before 430. you have to wait half an hour to 45 minutes. this happens on most of the bus lines. the project we are involved with is infrastructure. we the house commu

on a different topic, i want to repeat what we said at our last transportation authority commission meeting. as we all mourned another pedestrian fatality due to running a red light and excess ti sive speeding, as we say speed kills. it's one of the top five serious cyclists and pedestrian injuries and fatalities. and while we've added additional resources to the traffic addition of the p.d., we need to use every resource to expand our ability to highlight that speeders will be caught and they will be ticketed and there will be consequences. that's how we're going to save lives. the city of san francisco and organizations like walk sf have alo long asked us for automated speed enforcement, and i think it's long overdue. we've been blocked by everyone from law enforcement to my friends at the teamsters, and that proposal has not seen success in sacramento. at our last meeting, i called on the san francisco police officers association to call for a carve out for the city of san francisco and i am happy to say that they responded in the affirmative, and i am hopeful that this moves forward in

. >> a rail safety ad campaign from the santa clara valley transportation authority is catching a lotows dashcam video from light rail vehicles involved in accidents. vta wants people to pay attention when they're around train tracks. there have been 20 accidents so far this year. >> house speaker nancy pelosi is threatening president trump with, quote, a whole new stage of investigation unless his administration shares with congress a whistleblower complaint. congress wants to know what was said between mr. trump and the leader of ukraine during a july phone call. the administration has refused request for the transcript to be released to congress. the "wall street journal" reported president trump repeatedly pressured eight times, rather, ukraine's president to investigate democratic presidential candidate joe biden's son for his business dealings in ukraine. today the president appeared to acknowledge that conversation. ely congratulatory, was s largely corruption, all of the corruption taking place. was largely the fact that we don't want our people like vice-president biden and h

welcome to the san francisco county transportation authority meeting for tuesday september 10, 2019. the first meeting back since

[gavel] >> good morning and welcome to san francisco county transportation authority board meeting for today, september 24th, 2019. our clerk is mr. alberto quintanilla. could you please call the roll. >> clerk: item 1 roll call. brown i. commissioner fewer? >> present. >> commissioner haney? haney present. commissioner mandelman? mandelman absent. commissioner mar? mar present.

transportation authorities asking for the hike, people we talked about it had mixed reaction. >> that'swhat gas is for? increase for gas to fix roads, seems like they're increasing everything. >> i'm not sure it goes where they say it's going to go. that's my challenge. >> valid point. the extra sales tax will go into effect next july. about half the funds will go to projects that relieve congestion on local road. >>> the board voted to ban styrofoam containers at restaurants and food strucks. the ban does not include the styrofoam that's used in trays for raw meat or reusable ice chests. vendors are able to request a hardship exception for one year. styrofoam chunks and particulars in the watershed are harming the environment. >> jeff is back to talk about the high heat, the fire danger, and the cooldown at some point. >>> something that doesn't need a container, ice cream. you've got to find some way to stay cool tonight throughout the inland valleys as we bring you into the microclimate forecast tonight. i want to take a look at what we have coming our way as we move through tomorrow

who >> good morning and welcome to the san francisco county transportation authority meeting for today, tuesday, july 23rd, 2019. mr. clerk, can you please call roll call? >> item one, roll call. [roll call]

operation in terms of mechanics or decisions that are being made, i would encourage the transportation authority and the leadership of the sfmta to have that conversation up front. we want to invite you back on a more frequent basis so you can be part of these conversations up front so that you're not an afterthought and we're not spending millions of dollars to correct something that you and your operators could have anticipated very easily. so thank you for taking the time and sitting here with us. thank you, mr. chair, and thank you, miss kirschbaum. >> chair mandelman: we do have some public comment. >> hi, everyone. thank you for a very interesting meeting today. and i also want to thank julie for your report that changes are being made, so i appreciate that. i just want to say one little thing about the operator situation. he feels very concerned about being blinded by the cameras, and he would like the rearview mirrors back. there's a strong vote for mirrors. okay. so now, i want to address another issue of health and safety, which is the number of passenger seats. and i want to first say

. >> it's made up of not only city cameras but the regional transportation authority and businesses. >> as you can see he's able to 360 you do on it. up or down, zoom in and out. >> and this is reord snd. >> yes. people walking on the street have no reasonable expectation of privacy. er after 30 days the images we've recorded are wiped clean. the only way it would be kept longer is if there was a criminal complaint. >> requests for footage follow the rule of the criminal procedurer to the tee and trying to stop your ex-girlfriend is not tolerated. >> didn't evenen have cell phones when i bebecame a cop. you still have to investigate the crime. but i think it's given osleg up. it helps us do our jobs better. criminals are smarter today and we have to stay one step ahead of what they're doing. philly isn't alone. other cities have placed the streets on the watch. the groundwork for philadelphia's digital tiev was laid out by charles ramsey who upon entering office in 2008 noticed several alarming trends. >> tell me what -- >> the crime was on the rise. while it was dropping in many oth

the transportation authority is also scheduled to bid the southgate hill crest interchange work this fall. and we'll have them come to the board next month to provide an update on that work. on ybi, the subgrade work for the first residential project is under way. and then on the housing front, the source plow shares project is fully funded now. thanks in large part to the windfall that the city received from the state last year. that project is expected to close its financing in january and move into construction immediately thereafter. >>> mercy catholic cherry project mentioned in july had received their grant award from affordable housing and sustainable community grant program. and they are working on coordinating the schedule for that site to be geotechnically prepared with the intent of moving into construction between february and may of 2021. on the larger engineering front related to the project, the subface three permits that comments were received from agencies and loretta has been meeting with the agencies to vet some of the comments received while preparing the resubmit

quickville projects to having a funding pool so which no longer have to go individually to the transportation authority. the large infrastructure project you approve we immediately go out and do an improvement on the street with what we can do with paint and post. it happened on taylor street and that will be coming on fifth street which hopefully this board will approve in two weeks. so, this is about $6 million annually and currently really supported through the sales tax from the ssta. again, to reflect the request of this board, we've heard loud and clear, you want to see a quick bill projects on market street as well. as we legislate market street, we will be immediately following up with the turn restrictions on market street to improve safety on market street as fast as possible. this also reflects the huge desire that i heard and my colleagues have heard to think about car-free spaces in this city. so, this is the current action but i don't think this is

the san francisco county transportation authority created guiding principles to evaluate the impact and benefit of emerginging mobility devices in 2017. the discussion sections, pages 10-27 of the report, include documentations in the areas of education, engineering, enforcement, and injury data and liability issues. these defined are findings leading to our recommendations. san francisco has always been and will likely remain a forward-looking city and an incubator for innovation. personal mobility devices are expected to evolve rapidly, and to test the city's commitment to creative transportation system, that is among the best in the world. our report has seven findings and six recommendations. i will highlight a few of them for you. finding number 2. the successful expansion of marked and protected bike lanes represents an opportunity to include signage, indicating bike lanes are also used for -- i'm sorry, also used for use by e-scooters riders. [ please stand by ] >> finding number 5 and 6 are interwoven. five the pilot terms require them to im demfithe city from injury and damage

. >>> happening today san francisco's transportation authority will vote on extending muni metro service to the southwestern part of the city. right now three metro lines exit the twin peaks tunnel at west portal. it calls for connecting the k&m lines. that tunnel, which we're going to show you on the map here, would run about two miles to san francisco state university and park merced. backers say it would reduce commute times and allow for a redesign of 19th avenue. >>> new this morning, apparently hangovers are an illness. this is according to a german ruling in a case of making illegal health claims of hangover cures. food products cannot be marketed as being able to treat or prevent illnesses. earlier this year a survey found american workers take an average of two sicke hangovers. >> some people do the ivs now, they bring them into the office. there's all sorts of things out there. >> could be symptoms of an illness. >> i suppose. >> sure feels like it. especially on the monday after the super bowl. >> right? >> just stay home. >> so we can call in sick now and not have to worry ab