you have to see how the tip has peemz -- penalized the transportation city. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. next speaker? is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> this was an informational item. please call the next item, miss chang. >> item no. 6. item 6: recommend approval of the bayview hunters point mobility study final report and business plan action* attachment enclosure 01 enclosure 02 in 2010, the authority's bayview hunters point neighborhood transportation plan recommended undertaking a focused, in-depth technical and community study to advance a community-based pilot program concept for implementation grant-ready stats. in 2011, the authority received an $180,000 environmental justice transportation planning grant from caltrans to work on the bayview hunters point mobility solutions study studyy. a prop k appropriation resolution 11-233 provided the required $20,000 in local match. through the study, we have worked closely with a group of community-based organizations cboss that has expanded fro

will make but we have to figure out this by the lack of policies that will impact the transportation system in the city and the amount of green highways gas emissions that will come from it. i think 40 percent of the greenhouse emissions come from transportation and 95 percent of that come from automobiles. and yet that's another reason he think it's important - and a i'm sorry can you sky a question. it talks about 36 hundred drivers in the region. driving to work maybe you categorize that as one group of people. the parking meters is more about effecting the quality of life again have you done or has the mta done anything similar around the park being a controversial program have you dune any studies about commuter traffic going to the groceries >> the transportation authority has done quite a bit of modeling on where people traffic. both within and outside the city. one of the relevant points of commuting is where we have completely unmanaged parking. it's prone to used by commuters. in our district where it's happening i think many people in the northeast mission recognize there's some element of t

and manage transportation for the city. and the sfmta board of directors last year, approved a strategic plan for the next six years for the agency and i wanted to briefly outline the goals of that plan. and the first goal was safety, above,. but the second goal was implementing the mandate that the board of supervisors code in 1973 when they created the transit first policy and i will talk a little bit more about that briefly and the third goal is a recognition of our role and responsibility and improving the environment and the economy of san francisco and that is why it is a close nexus of the interest of the small business commission, we absolutely see our role in supporting and helping the economy of san francisco. and then the fourth goal is basically that we need to be stronger as an agency in order to deliver all of those other goals and i thank out rich and communication in your opening mr. president, is a key area that we need to improve upon. i think that you will see that the two projects that you referenced tod

so part of the call for this hearing was to hear from the city economist on kind of this relationship that you positive between transportation system and the economy. and unfortunately because of the way this was schedule the city economist was not able to be here we do have jay loud from the office of economic analyst and the controller's office. here to speak and i am going to walk through some of the slides that i think that underlie what the economist looked at and jay will speak to the numbers. but, the bottom line is that the transportation system matters to people when they are choosing whether to live in the city whether to live in the city, how where they work relate to where they live. and what modes of travel they are going to use to make certain trips. and how they are going to allocate their household budget between housing and transportation those being two of the bigger aspects of the budget, so the quality of the transportation system matters especially in a dense, urban environment like ours. >> and when we talk about the quality of the transportation system that there are different ways it look at it and di

we haven't had a long-term transportation plan in the city. things still happen, improvements still get made. it will absolutely continue along that path. we're obviously pursuing -- we should have environmental clearance for van ness this summer. we're moving forward with geary after that. possible there willible others that come in ensuing years. so, this shouldn't at all be construed as something that would put a pause on everything because, again, before any kind of document likev this like this, whether it's a strategy document, full kind of master plan would be developed could take quite a long time and we don't want to stop progress. we don't have the luxury of stopping progress in the meantime. ~ >> but this would give us a sort of lens to focus on those improvements [inaudible]. the maps that we want to eventually achieve. >> yeah, it may be that and it may be sequential. it may be something that you can kind of do in layers, but maybe this will point to where we should really focus our core service before we actually plan say the brt

but remember that there is the over arching city policy that is captured in the transportation of the general plan that kind of airs towards an over supply of parking and very different from the way that many cities do that. it is another opportunity area that we recognized and about to go through a formalized process to clarify the roles and responsibilities around the transportation planning when it comes to these projects. but the planning department is approving on an ongoing basis, i think that we are missing some of those opportunities and maybe that one was an example. >> thank you. >> commissioner rilely? >> yes. commissioner ortiz answered my question, already. but i see quite a few members of the public here tonight and so would i like to hear the public comments before i ask the next question. >> i have a quick question. you said on the put out reach, what if you go into a neighborhood early and they said that we don't want to get rid of any parking because we said that in the upper market and we wound up losing 15 parking spaces and it did hurt the neighborhood because we

city. and transportation was still a problem. ut in other ancient cities, almost everyone was a specialist, and transportation was cheap and efficient. the imperial city of rome, a.d. 200. with a population approaching half a million, it was the center of the western world. rome's immense wealth flowed from a vast empire along the mediterranean sea. an amazingariety of goods came to rome by ship from spain, france, asia minor, north africa and egypt. transportation expert ross hassig. it was closer is terms of the cost of transportation to get to egypt than it was to get a hundred miles inland in italy. you couldn't bring food from a hundred miles inland to rome, because even with carts, even with oxen, it simply cost too much. so rome was able to tap into the production of other areas because it was able to use ships where the cost of transportation was extremely low. keach: but roman seagoing merchant ships carrying upwards of a thousand tons were too large to navigate the tiber river, so cargos were unloaded onto smaller vessel

weekend i was part of a group visiting mexico city; it was not paid for by the city, about 17 people from the transportation authority, people from spur the planning commission went along. the purpose was to look at the bus and transportation system, an amazing system that carries 850,000 people today. last line they created took eight months from design to implementation which is amazing. it was amazing to see, moving extremely fast, cuts down travel time by 40 percent for much of the city. 850,000 people on four lines, building a fifth one. wondered if anything can be done to move this project along. i don't know second where we are with it, environmental review out there arrector reiskin? >> director reiskin: expect in july and august complete the environmental review, at which point it will be transferred from the transportation authority to the mta. >> chair nolan: there is also bicycle sharing, they're doing the bicycle thing first with little infrastructure; in the city of 18 million people is daunting to write your bike around but at any rate it was very inspiring to see that one as well, very popul

city charter is. to make transportation in san francisco and we also have the safety goal of smfta board has adopted for us. >> and so when we are coming into a neighborhood to initiate a project no matter what it was. what we want to do is to make sure that we know what the community wants and we also have the goals to achieve. that we need to bring together. you know, to start a process. if we come in and say that we have to remove a lot of parking and the xhupt wants no parking. and we are going to get the stalemate quickly. >> and so what we try to do is work through a process. and we try to find the mitigations, and we have been successful at offseting some of the parking and the two way street conversion and adding more parking space than we removed, a block or two removed from where the person used to be able to park their car. but we do try to be sensitive to that. and we tried to make that clear. that people will use cars to do something in san francisco and the projects that we do need to reflect that. that said, there is a finite amount of right of sxwai there are trade offs that we have to m

city. i tdp, a non-profit organization which promotes environmentally transportation to see projects in mechanic -- mexico city that guide the design of rapid transit. i was amazed to see the bus line that moves about ten times the amount of passenger. during rush hour it runs 72 trains an hour. the metro bus has been able to get a number of people out of their cars and onto transit to provide an alternative that moves quickly and reliably. there was an excitement in pride in mechanic -- mexico city. i think we can see what the solution is when these cost are implemented. i'm glad to see this design in front of us today. we should provide whatever support to implement this in the city. i'm also in couraging the bike lane and bike sharing system has been increased by 60 percent by many people who did not ride bicycles at all in mexico city. it's a way to introduce people to cycling and providing an alternative to transit and helping reduce over crowding in the downtown areas. my aid, road the transportation system. i was blown away to see many people riding their bikes in the city. once a month i

the 2011 earthquake froze the city's transportation network, stranding more than 3 million people. city officials want to be better prepared for the next emergency. chie yamagishi reports. >> reporter: about 1,000 people took part in the drill at the shibuya station. it assumed a magnitude 7.3 quake struck north of tokyo bay, knocking out transportation systems. shibuya station is a major commuter hub. nine rail lines pass through the station above and below ground. this area was opened in march. it's located five stories below ground. it has several exits that leads to ground level. subway riders unfamiliar with the station would have difficulty finding their way out. almost 2.5 million people pass through this station every day. this drill is aimed at finding out if people can move through designated evacuation points without incident. one of the goals of the drill was to see whether railway staff could guide passengers to temporary shelter. two years ago people rushed to train stations hoping to get home. they found that nothing was running. many wound up walking home. others spe

but remember that there is the over arching city policy that is captured in the transportation of the general plan that kind of airs towards an over supply of parking and very different from the way that many cities do that. it is another opportunity area that we recognized and about to go through a formalized process to clarify the roles and responsibilities around the transportation planning when it comes to these projects. but the planning department is approving on an ongoing basis, i think that we are missing some of those opportunities and maybe that one was an example. >> thank you. >> commissioner rilely? >> yes. commissioner ortiz answered my question, already. but i see quite a fe

city. we talk about community policing without no -- knowing what it means. another challenge is transportationas the city, you are defined by how well your public transportation works or how well it does not work. even though we have had improvements in muni, i think we have to do a lot better. and i think there are issues in terms of the services that are provided, the reliability of the system. i think the ridership is rightly frustrated they have been asked to pay more for less. i do not think that is right. we have focused on the operational and management fees. we tried to make public transportation acceptable to people. i have worked with the other supervisors to provide -- other supervisors supervisor mirkarimi and mayor lee. this allows us to make an investment in public education, but also a long-term investment in public transportation, because as young people from an early age to use the system, the public transportation system, they are going to be committed to public transportation for years to come. >> do you feel additional issues that are facing your district -- that there are

and we're engaging through the california transit association and the national association of city transportation officials which i participate in through apta and other channels to make sure the needs and the voice of cities like ours and transit systems like ours are part of that consideration and i also had an opportunity to meet with fta administer and give him updates on where we are with regard to safety and central subway and as you probably know we had a new transportation secret ary just nominated by the president just a few weeks ago and don't know much about them but being a mayor and having implemented transportation projects i think it's a great thing to have somebody from the local government leading the transcription transportation department so this is back to workday so i want to remind everybody it's a great day to get out there and dust off the bike if you haven't been riding it. every year we get a few converts so hope to see everybody there and that's what i had for today. >> thank you. members of the board questions or comments members of the public? >> good afternoon everyo

have taken a careful look at how we're spending money on our infrastructure and for public transportation as the city grows. is difficult to sit here and ask, there are a lot of great ideas, desperate, draconian cuts our school system is suffering, we have a huge budget deficit out there, we add to that, the deficit, 470 million, does not include deficit of the central subway, the projected deficit of 400 million dollars of the time the construction is done. somewhere we have to give something up. one of the things we are proposing is to eliminate the extension to north beach for the time being. it is not necessary. you have no plans to put something in there. you'll save 70 million dollars and have heard a lot of pleas appear about how that money could be better used. something has to be given up in extending the subway to that area -- it's a beautiful idea long-term, i love it but we have to have priorities here. educating our children, healthcare, the budget officer said that we have a sequestration, 8 million dollars this year, ends in september. i have been told to stop here but we do have to pu

process to giving priority determinations for the kinds of appropriations the city needs pedestrian safety, transportation, housing issues. they are key to the cities future that were so we've presented those to you thank you supervisor kim asked us to come up with a proposal. i think it's ought to be the kind of thing codified in the code. we've talked to supervisor wiener's office there's already a bull tip that hadn't worked for us we want to move forward. thank you very much we we want to see those two proposals in the future >> afternoon supervisors. my name is andrew i'm a member of the d 5 action. i agree with president computing u chu when he said there's a lot of intensity around the issues. i lived in a state where vendors had their way and it doesn't improve live ability or awe set of facts. thousands of projects are approved it's not like they're not approved. do we need to over haul sequa because a few people's abused it? i support supervisor kim's legislation it codifies the process but also facing more weight on community input. so i think we need to slow down. make sure we have the right l