the county transportation authority board, which includes san francisco board of supervisor members approved $4 million in funding for the study just a few days ago. they'll consider carpool lanes for individuals with two or three or more passengers and also tolls. drivers told us this summer that something has to be done to end the traffic gridlock. >> that sounds good for me. >> i would like that, yes, because the traffic out here is ridiculous. it's crazy. all these accidents keep happening. >> i think it would help with the traffic most definitely. >> reporter: some supervisors and drivers said that they're concerned about creating toll lanes that are only used by people who can afford to pay those tolls but preliminary studies also suggest that carpool lanes alone might actually cause more congestion. it's estimated these stretches of highway between san francisco and the south bay will see an additional 100,000 new vehicles over the next 11-plus years. we're live in san francisco, thom jensen, "today in the bay." >> really interesting, thanks so much, thom. >>> happening today, one for

as you know, the san francisco county transportation authority board passed a resolution to suspend tgpa'sllion extension 30% design. this suspension of funding will stay in place until the san francisco city controller's office conducts an audit of tgpa's management and delivers phase one and delivery of phase two, the downtown extension. i will report to the commissioners that the tgpa welcomes this, as it will provide tgpa with valuable lessons learned. [inaudible] >> -- california high speed rail, and sfcta. we work with sfcta executive director, tilly chang, and the san francisco controller's office to complete these two efforts as soon as possible so that funding can be reinstated and work on the downtown extension can resume. moving onto transit center operations, as you know, all bus operations continues to be conducted from the temporary terminal. since the transit center's temporarily closure, we took steps to reduce staffing levels on all our operational activities. we also developed a schedule of required ramp-up time so we can be ready to augment staff when the transit center

as a reminder that last month the transportation authority board adopted the first group of five y.p.p.s as i will call them in this presentation. five prioritization programs for the transportation sales tax. and each has to include a few different designate the elements as shown on your screen. as you know notice some board items that you see every month, the five y.y.p.s can be later but it's important to set the baseline now on what to expect with the projects upcoming over the next five-year period. and so group two, some of the categories have funds running out and there's fund exchanges and a very wordy title on your agenda. so i'll get to those in just a moment. we want to balance having money available for sponsors when they need it but also evaluating the projects to make sure that we're not looking to issue debt unnecessarily. these are the projects. i have categories in the second group before you today. on the left are the transit categories and on the right are the streets and travel demand management categories and the 5ypps are in prop k, so these are the non-project cate

as mentioned at the transportation authority board meeting, we will look to ways to go ahead and see if we can tap into the s.p. one funds that continue to be in play. so the next steps financially is to update and continue to work on the cash flow analysis here, to move forward with the toll system construction, the transit vehicle purchase and replacement , all of these have leadtime items associated with them that are important for the committee members to recognize. since we are approximately just about three years away from starting a tolling -- starting the transit work, which at the same time we will want to go ahead and start the tolling. we are three years away to go ahead and purchase vehicles and to enter into the appropriate agreements that we need to for all of the listed services. it is important that we make a decision now in terms of having a financially viable program that we can move forward with, which is what we presented to you today. the implementation schedule, some of the key items here, let's not forget that this right now is the policy approval. we still hav

the county transportation authority board approved funding for the study just a few days ago. they'll consider converting some or all of the stretches into carpool lanes for vehicles with two or three or more passengers and drivers who talked with "today in the bay" this summer said something definitely needs to be done to ease these traffic jams. >> that sounds good for me. >> i would like that, yes, because the traffic out here is ridiculous. it's crazy. all these accidents keep happening. >> i think it would help with the traffic most definitely. >> reporter: it has been unpopular with some of the supervisors and drivers who say they're concerned about creating traffic lanes that are only used by people who can afford to pay those tolls, and also going through city neighborhoods, but those studies also suggested that carpool lanes only might actually cause more congestion. we will likely get worse, because other studies have showed that, over the next 11-plus years, there will be more than 100,000 new vehicles traveling between san francisco and the south bay. we're live in

to the commission and i think i would also make a presentation before the board of supervisors acting as a transportation authority and potentially even the board of supervisors down the way. >> thank you, so much. >> any other questions, commissioners? seeing none, is there any public comment on this item? [please stand by] had a history of -- this person who died on the job, his name was patrick ricketts, he died from a beam. there's a history of violations. in fact, in november 2016, a worker operator died after losing control of a forklift. this brings into question if the screening process -- in fact, it demonstrates that the checks and balances are not being done by the people who spoke this week before the panel. moreover, there's a female who bu busted the glass ceiling who lost her life working on a construction site. she has a two- or three-year-old daughter who's asking where her mother is, and the grandfather is telling her mother that she's in heaven. and the two- or three-year-old little girl is saying she wants to go to heaven with her mother, these departments need to be disciplined. >> public comm

so the motion before the board is to approve delegation to the director of transportation the authority to limit types of medallions to pick up at s.f.o. with a report to the board prior to implementation and a quarterly report there after, open up the buyer's market and waive the transfer fee for three years. all right. [roll call] >>clerk: four votes to -- in the affirmative, the ayes carry it. >> thank you. all right. we need to -- we need to go on with our agenda, so i need you to clear the room quietly because we have at least one more item we need to get through -- two items we need to get through. we definitely need to get through howard street, and we definitely need to move onto great highway, as well. let's do howard street. >> okay. howard street, let me just get back up there. >>clerk: okay. item 11 -- >> quiet as you exit the room, please. [inaudibl [inaudible] >>clerk: i will not read the parking modifications. >> all right. and i know we have an excellent -- i know we have excellent staff report in our agenda, and i think we have somebody here to present once we're -- [in

this resolution will commit transportation authorities and also encourage the board of supervisors andedia to stop using the word accident and reference to traffic violence and to replace it with the words crash and collision. we believe that by passing this resolution, you will help to contribute to a culture of safety that will ultimately get us to vision zero. thank you for your time and consideration. we really appreciate it. >> great. any comments or questions? you know, i cannot agree more that language is critical when it comes to shaping impressions. and behavior is not -- as you know, it's beyond what we're talking about today. we're seeing language used to shape people's behavior, to the worse at this point. i know that exactly why san francisco and other jurisdictions have adopted vision zero policies giving your name and framing of our commitment to this goal. i will be supporting this positive motion, of course. but i just was wondering, do you know of any of the media outlets or news tv channels, whether or not they're actually using either collision or crash at this poin

all the other members of this board and i have made this commitment, and the transportation authority is approving a resolution for the agency and encouraging others to do the same. sadly, we heard at the agency earlier this month that we are on track slightly to exceed the number of fatalities this year compared to last year. in october, we were at 18 deaths. as of today, we're at 20 -- 21. and last year, we had 20 fatalities, so that's unfortunately a little trouble willing. however, we are -- the good news, united as a city to make changes. the mayor's office has committed to a slew of safe street projects, and the sfmta has important redesign projects on the high traffic network, lower grade highway, the allmeny maze, and next up will be valencia. a quick update on salesforce transit center girder work. we expect to hear results fairly shortly, hopefully by the end of the month, if not the beginning of next month. the expert team has already begun working on design and ensure us of causes of potential physici fissures. the effort is intended to reduce the implementation time, of c

folks in the room and the mayor's office, the transportation authority and passionate stakeholders during this disruptive time. so i want to thank this board, director and kate you and director of government affair to entrusting me with this role and for your leadership and courage toward others. especially during these challenging times. finally, i want to acknowledge my colleagues. janette martin son, kathleen and jd. they further protected the agencies and the transportation agency at the federal and state and local represents. they represent the critical work of the divisions of this large organization. effectively and humbly in the service you of others which is true leadership. it made it possible for me to do anything i may have accomplished. thank you for having me stand up. i want to thank my wife trish, my in-laws, meredith and fred and my 7-year-old daughter in school. they are all my favorites. from the board of supervisors, the of the who looks at the camera like she does. thanks for all of the voice messages with mom and all of the notes in my bag when i had to work late and when i am not with you i am probably with you. we w

authorities say the other person was a nursing professor at sacramento state university. the national transportation safety boards the plane went down about one mile from the airport. ( marty ) and there is a health isssue at the packed evacuation shelters in chico. they say at least 25- people have been hospitalized due to an outbreak of norovirus at the shelters. butte county health officials say, the number of sick people keeps growing as officials work to stop the spread of the virus. they say some of the sick include workers at the shelters. norovirus is highly contagious and can cause diarrhea, fever and body aches. it spreads commonly when people are in close quarters. ( marty ) kron 4 and our parent company-- nexstar media group... have partnered to help the fire victims in butte county. if you would like to help those affected by the 'camp fire'... the american red cross is accepting donations. you can check kron 4.com for details.. ( marty )back here in the bay area... the search continues in oakland for the people who shot and killed a father of four outside of a bar. homicide investigators released s

authorities say the other person was a nursing professor at sacramento state university. the national transportation safety boardvestigating. the redding airport manager says the plane went down about one mile from the airport. ( robin ) a community in orinda is mourning the loss of a 16-year-old girl who died in a house fire over the weekend. it broke out on the 500 block of moraga way in orinda sunday morning. two others were also injured. when firefighters arrived the house was engulfed in flames. one firefighter suffered second degree burns and was taken to the hosptial. the girlho died was a student at miramonte high school. ( james ) in the east bay... u-c berkeley police are looking for two women who assaulted and robbed a student on campus this weekend. it happened around 1 saturday morning as the student was walking to building 2 on the clark kerr campus. the victim told police one of the women hit her over the head and then took her cell phone. the robbers drove toward piedmont avenue in a white toyota sienna mini van. berkeley police ask that your give them a call if you can help with this investigati

authorities say the other person was a nursing professor at sacramento state university. the national transportation safety boardlane went down about one mile from the airport. ( robin ) some teachers in butte county are taking it upon themselves to help elementary school students feel a sense of normalcy. annie finney is providing story time to children inside the chico library. her classroom inside community charter school burned in the camp fire and so did most of her students homes. but she's helping to bring the kids together...to read, play, and to see familiar faces. it comes after the superintendent announced that all schools will remain closed through the end of the month. officials say all of the students should be back in class on december third. ( james ) people are not only searching for family members following the camp fire...they are also looking for pets who were left behind or ran off. laci ping and her husband curtis mullins were frantically escaping the camp fire when their tabby, mayson, slipped out of his carrier after he was startled by an explosion. mayson survived. veterinarians at u-c d

i would urge transportation authority staff to move as quickly as possible to set this up for conversations at this board i do think as i'm thinking about folks from district eight trying to get downtown, we have tremendous train service. but the trains remain also a tremendous frustration for folks who rely on them. so, as this conversation goes forward, i think we are going to need to be having a parallel conversation about how to get the j and the k and the l and the m and n all carrying people -- and the t, carrying people into the core. thank you. >> chairman peskin: thank you. colleagues, before i open it up to public comment, am i gauging us all correctly that we would like to have our staff update this decade-long plan and then based on that, march forward with congestion pricing? all right. i'm seeing nobody freaking out. we will open this up to public comment and ask staff to do that. i have one speaker card, mr. finebaum and if there are any other individuals that would like to testify on item number nine, please come forward. thank you for your presentation, jeff. first speaker, please. >> pu

brinkman, members of the board, i'm chief-of-staff and the street division and i'm really please today introduce my colleague drew cooper from the san francisco transportation authority to share with you the findings of the tnc and congestion report they published recently. i wanted to appreciate all the work that sftca did to figure out some of the causes of the congestion that we're experiencing in the city so dre- >> thank you, very much. mr. cooper, good to see you. >> good afternoon. i'm excited to be here to talk to all of you today. i'm here on behalf of a full time i'd like to a acknowledge. my boss, the project manager. my colleague who develops a vision and you heard referred to and i'll talk about it a little bit later. we also had an academic research team from university of kentucky that lended a lot -- >> does that microphone go a little higher. that podium level is awkward. i just want to make sure sf gov can get you. >> is that better? >> thank you. >> it keeps falling down a little bit. >> so we had this academic team we worked with that kind of ensured the academic rigger of what we did. and those were greg airhart from the university of kentucky, h