transportation plan, the san francisco transportation plan last year and we're working on that as we speak. these other new partnerships that you're seeing here, third street phase study and the ocean view study and regional transit and management studies. these are examples where we're really partnering more closely with other agencies, particularly sfmta and they might be leading the study but we are providing core functions and outreach and procurement or other administrative support and this refers to the treasure island mobility management agency, a new role that didn't exist last year and designated this agency as the treasure island mobility management agency who is charged with implementing a comprehensive plan for treasure island to support the 8,000 units of housing and mixed use development planned for that location. the new approaches we're referring down at the slide talk about our operations have started to respond to the new guidance. we're using project charters to establish priorities really at the start of every effort with other agencies so everyone is clear about

welcome to the san francisco transportation authority board. my name is john avalos the chair of the transportation authority. we are broadcast by sfgovtv staff bill and jessie and our clerk is eric can chang. madam clerk call roll >> supervisor avalos pr supervisor breed. supervisor campos absent. supervisor chiu. supervisor cowen. supervisor farrell. absent. supervisor kim. supervisor mar. absent. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. we have quorum >> we have quorum very good. >> approve the minutes of the april 22nd this is an action stem. >> questions or comments seeing none, we'll go on to pan am is open on item 2 be sooebd. >> supervisor avalos. supervisor breed. supervisor campos absent. supervisor chiu. supervisor cowen. supervisor farrell. absent. supervisor kim. supervisor mar. absent. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. this item passes >> very good next item. >> item 3 chairs report this is an informational item. thank you madam clerk colleagues this month we saw 3 development took place in the transpo

transportation goggling gap to fill the needs that san franciscans get the transportation they need and deserve in all parts of the city. the general bond proposition will address the needs it calls for the sale of bonds in the sale of $500 million to fund muni upgrades for more reliable operations. i believe this bond will be a turning point for transportations in san francisco. the bond will improve muni performances to the corridors that san franciscans rely on and it will at the most basic level make muni faster and more reliable and those funds will improve the environment for people who walk and bike and improve safety ass at that time, intersection that will fund the pedestrian safety embarrassments like wider sidewalks and well-defined bike ways it's part of our city's 10 year capital plan that impacts pedestrian safety and improves the neighborhood and the geobond adds transportation into the strategic city. this investment will provide important benefits without costing our residents more like other bonds that have funded the libraries and fire stations this transportation bon

we're not collecting enough for transportation, period. i'm not suggesting that is the developer's fault. i think the city needs to do a better job about collecting those fees and allocating them, but in this particular case i'm not comfortable leaving upon knee on the table that could otherwise be used for this project in the long run. money on the table that could otherwise be used for this project in the long run. you're providing a discount because they're willing to pay these dollars fron. upfront. s upfront. i'm not sure i'm convinced it's worth. it. i wanted to put that out there. $7 million is a lot of money. it may not seem like it, but it is over a long period of time, and it could have a lot of impact on our transportation system and i'd like to see the entire dollar amount come to the city, and specifically that remaining difference of potentially 7.7 be used for transportation. i'm not is certain i feel comfortable moving forward without having sufficient information on how these things -- how this could actually be a better d

we're pleased and thank the board for speb the transportation authority as the agency this will help to implement the centerpiece of the transportation program which ask a center project those are fees for town hall and parking fees to support the bicycle on the oimd in addition, this includes followed out projects for the 28 line in addition to the m ocean project that has completed our procurement and we request a proposal so we began procurement we hope to get that going not spring the transit project continues with our advisory meeting on thursday 24 we'll meet to hear the sfmta project proposals as well as the infrastructure plan for the block development we're seeking a member to represent the enar he will side for the geneva seat go to sf.org and the bridge replacement project is moving forward a recent caltrain inspection of that bridge identified evidence of deterioration for emergency repairs so supervisor cowen said authorized the repairs to the bridge the repairs don't effect the traditional bye the bridge must be replaced so we're seeking a caltrain track plan to have th

i want to talk about the work the transportation authority did the metropolitan transportation created a grant program to support community based transportations blends in the regions concerned areas of concentrations of non-white areas so we got the grant and the context of western selma as we were beginning this it seemed likely to combine with the other agencies to develop and evaluate the system we did it study sunny mentioned was completed about a year ago and it's exciting to see that moved. >> thank you is there any further public comment. >> good afternoon, commissioners. jim medicare could from south of market this is one of the feel good planning stories we can all celebrate this is we needed to mitigate the impact of this huge project in western selma. the to the developers credit they're already providing privately owned publicly accessible parks it fulfills our priority goal to create a new on and on classify district alongside the folsom corridor it lifts up one truly dismal neighborhood to help it become a world-class neighborhood and the agencies will approve of that is

mayor is pushing hard to bring us together to make sure we're making the best investment in our transportation. i want to thank supervisor wiener he wants to make sure we're keep the ball rolling so i appreciate our charter amendment to find the revenue sources to put on the ballot. to share those investments proposals city agencies are holding open meetings in every part of town last time we are that in district 11 i know that supervisor breed hosted a meeting and i attended my meeting last time from road repair to muni crowding to travel times i building the district 678 workshop with sdmm will be held tonight from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. i encourage the members of the public to look at the website wwwsf transportation to see where the workshops will be held >> if there are no comments from the authority we'll go on to pan am it open relative to my rakes we'll close public comment and move on. >> item 4 the executive director report this is on informational item. >> thank you. good morning everyone my reports are on your deck the two mostly transit reports that's been a busy month the funding is o

department of transportation for her long record of strong innovation and the transportation industry. we are pleased to have you in massachusetts and very pleased to have you here today in washington. thank you. >> the ledger, thank you so much >> it sounds like every system could use a doctor. finally, mr. gary thomas. we thank you for joining s. we will start off with you. your full statement will be jim pleaded. >> good morning. chairman, senator, i want to thank you for the ups and testify in a federal and bringing this nation's public transportation infrastructure to a state of good repair. i and general manager of the southeastern pennsylvania transportation authority located in philadelphia, pennsylvania. the sixth largest public transit operator in the country and the largest of pennsylvania. providing over 1 million daily passenger chips which are essentials and supporting the economy of the southeastern pennsylvania region. last year americans took over china have billion trips and public transportation, it at that time when transit riders should be set size level industry

but today i'm here along with our secretary of transportation, anthony foxx.applause] about one of the best ways to create new jobs and spur economy, and that is to rebuild america's infrastructure. it's been about five and a half years since the financial crisis that rocked wall street and then ultimately spread to main street. thanks to the grit, the determination of the american people, we've been steadily fighting our way back. four years our businesses have now created jobs.llion new auto industry that was booming.g is now a manufacturing sector is adding ins for the first time years. troops fighting two wars are home. home or are coming rather than creating jobs in if other countries more and more itpanies are recognizing makes good business sense to locate right here in the united states of america without standing american work -- with outstanding american workers. made progress, but here's the thing we could be doing a lot more. we could make the decision easier for businesses to locate here in the united states, here york state if we do a job rebuild

upon transportation transit relies on people walking everyone that takes public transportation at some point is a pedestrian so perfect comfort is important in terms of crossing the streets and waiting areas and so on. that, of course, includes the safe bicycling fates and connecting to nature and recreation is an important parts one of the things about candle stick and this hunters point shipyard the 3 hundred acres of open space on the waterfront that's important and the streets play a (roll call.) and finally the community streets provide the gathering for communities and the informal gatherings and must be and it's important their educational to everyone both that physical disabled and without. those were a comprehensive look at the streets we had to look at all the modes of transportation but look at streets as community space and that's why the plan took a comprehensive look at how we design our streets and come up with a toolbox to design our streets differently for all pedestrian spaces and bikes and community gathering places. we're about completing complete neighborhoods in t

i encourage the members of the public to look at the website wwwsf transportation to see where the workshops will be held >> if there are no comments from the authority we'll go on to pan am it open relative to my rakes we'll close public comment and move on. >> item 4 the executive director report this is on informational item. >> thank you. good morning everyone my reports are on your deck the two mostly transit reports that's been a busy month the funding is on everyone's mind also at the state and local level wherewith the picture of the bills coming forward the obama administration and the senate public works committee as the two year transportation bill in place that will expire on september 30th it's great to see this coming up with the extension we need to see a maintenance of the obama administration proposals for the increased level of funding we're not seeing the grow america act by the administrative and the departmentalize and republicans in the house and senate but we're talking about extending the bill for at least the next few years and will continue to monitor the progress w

i have spoken with tilly chang about the possibility of the transportation authority staff providing technical support to the working groups in terms of understanding how transportation systems work so i'm requesting the ta staff collaborate with the working group >> we'd, glad to do that. thank you >> thank you. >> okay. great. we'll go on to public comment any member of the public wish to comment seeing none, public comment is closed >> item 14 public comment. >> now is the time for the members of the public to comment relative to the san francisco transportation authority board and seeing none, public comment is closed. move on >> item 15 adjournment. colleagues, we're adjourned. thank you. >> good morning. welcome i'm with the city's office of economic workforce development well, we're incredibly excited to celebrate this land. i've been working think this project since 1999 thank goodness what we didn't know it was going to take so long we're incredibly excited as my career as a planner this is one of the most exist projects to see happening 17 hundred units ever housing in this

so really vision zero gives us an ambitious goal to revalue our transportation system to make it safer and fundamentally protection in life. this is again, the behind recorder network it includes the blue are high pedestrians corridor and recently, we added the cyclist corridors where they overlap is the purple. that's really an example of how our health department can contribute the data where the targets of highest concentration of accidents are happening. this is another example of the current inequalities we see in our transportation system on the left walking and biking is 20 percent of all trips but at the rate you see the pedestrians and cyclists are approximately 70 percent of fatalities on our streets. this is the core of the vision zero is protecting osmosis vulnerable folks. with that, i'd like introduce any co-chair of the vision zero task force >> good afternoon, commissioners and director garcia i'm the director of strategic planning for the san francisco transportation agency. also wear the hat of the vision zero task force with megan and dpw. there's been a lot of talk

meeting of san francisco transportation authority plans & programs committee. our clerk is ms. ivory can chang. madam clerk, please call the roll. >> supervisor breed. supervisor campos. supervisor kim. absent. supervisor mar. supervisor yee. we have quorum >> thank you. please call the next item. >> the serious committee report this is an informational item. >> we have bryan. good morning, committee members we shared 3 action items and passed them amazing it was our items 8, 9 and temple item 4 for a clean air program and peter in the committee asked for the transit would cause spill over into parallel streets it was anna said there's a request to the transportation authority thirty to study the issue. item number 8 was a strategic action report for local and resemble bike sharing original models and there was some discussion of entity and the staff is working with the bicycle coalition to identify and get any issues item 9 was a request for 4 hundred and 6 i6r thousands of prop a fund pardon me prop k funded for the safety related requests and there was no discussion on that

>> well, the department of transportation can. and we are -- we've sent our comprehensive rule to ohio, which is a department within the white house, and that review is ongoing. we're hoping to get that out as soon as we can. but it's going to deal with not just the tank car standard, but also with speed restrictions. it's going to deal, you know, rooting and all kinds of issues that have to deal with keeping people safe. >> when you look specifically at the tank car issue and look back at all those decades of warnings, do you feel like you understand why those improvements didn't happen in the past? why we haven't been able to make those anymore safe, even after we've had these disasters after disasters? are you taking that into account with the way you're recommending these changes now? >> within the first month of my service in this department, the explosion in canada happened. and i've had to focus on this since day one. it's very complex. the d.o.t. want '11 that need to be retrofitted or replaced. that's consistent with what

next m t c is a applying up to 10 millions for the transportation program.lanning to look at the details of the pilot in september or october they'll know whether they get the transportation grant and working with the strategic plan requiring technical assistance with the process. we've received news that the clipper 2.0 for the next phase will include the bike sharing and competitive with the bike sharing and finally everyone is carefully monitoring the bankruptcy issue and delay the last bit of the practice writing project in the las 5 cities that will have 3 hundreds extra bikes extend of the year if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them my colleagues are here as well saw thank you. any questions. i wanted to thank karen from the bay area quality staff for helping to pioneer the project with it was with halted bikes; right? and the bike institution can i explain that >> i'm not the expert but my understanding it is company basis in tor

we recognize this is a new role and as a governing board the transportation authority you will play a role as well so we're in the process to set that up so we have coordinated yet separate financial management and hard walled fire walled operations so that the two agencies are distirnt and we may come back for clean up legislation to make sure that we have independent operations so that the tima which is funded by the treasure island development authority and the developers will have an independent operation from the main transportation authority efforts. down the line this could anchor a larger program in the future. as i mentioned we're looking at tolling on 101 and 280, just at the study level coming up this summer with santa clara and san mateo and looking at hov lanes and as well as express lanes and that refers to as a solo user you could pay to use the carpool lane if there is capacity and if it has value to you and pay a fee during those times, so this strategy has been used in other parts of the state and world to have a integrated management system for freeways that then ca

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 vessels downriver at the port city of ostia. ostia was once a bustling commercial city, with shops and restaurants... villas and apartment houses for merchants and shippers... theaters, parks and enormous warehouses crammed with every possible commodity. archaeologist amanda claridge. it's clear that the merchants, the many, many thousands of people involved in the supply of the city of rome who did base themselves in ostia -- all the transient s

as you mentioned i'm the transportation planner with the san francisco county authority. i have been working this year to help provide staff support for the new vision zero committee and the goal of the committee is to shine a bright light on the safety issue we have a crisis and all eyes on the issue to make sure we move forward and part of the violation of the committee is to also help support the culture change around vision zero as was mentioned to design our streets as safe as we can to make sure that the design itself promotes the behaves. to that end i'll be speaking about and refreshing some of the research at length on street design and bicycle safety. i think many of us are familiar with the research but to inform the sdrugs discussion to revisit what is research evidence suggests i'll present a few things connected around the country. and there are a number of examples on that the topic. the first example to highlight one in colorado where the authors were phasing simple discussions in their city. they wanted to look at the relationship of collision frequency t

and when you add in transportation, you get to these numbers that you are talking about.people don't think about adding transportation into that equation. >> that's right. when people think about their monthly housing bill, their mortgage or the rent check, but transportation costs come in bit by bit, they come in through paying for gas, tolls, parking, so unlike housing costs you don't often factor that in. there are places -- and -- and ways of thinking about this, where people are saying, you know, people want to be outside, they want to be outside the city, maybe for lifestyle reasons or because it's more affordable, but we have got to figure out ways to make that more affordable from a transportation perspective. and that's an infrastructure problem, isn't it? >> well, there are tradeoffs and i think the idea of putting transportation costs into your calculation when you are thinking about that tradeoff is important. but there's also an infrastructure implication in that having more access villa public transit or villa highways to connect people better to jobs will m

on top of this transportation reform agenda, our governor proposed the way forward transportation program year to provide much-needed, increased local funding for our statewide transportation, a self-help plan, if you will, including the mbta and statewide rail and transit including our 15 regional transit authorities. ..

and i walk through how we promote the alternatives in transportation options at our agency as well as insure compliance with the healthy air ordinance and then walk you through how green the fleet has become and it is a testament to a great deal of accomplishment and hard work by the commission and the staff at the puc. and then, lastly, and very briefly, on how fleet preparedness also helps us with the disaster response and preparedness as well as our operating or operating needs. and fleet management and operation, we talk about alternatives in transportation options and i think first, one of my additional responsibilities with the puc is to help run what i call the electronic plumbing and all of the it systems within the agency and so first of all we encourage our employees to consider not traveling, to consider instead doing face time or video conferencing and tele conferencing that is regularly done acrs our agency because we are unique in some ways and working in seven counties every single day about 1800 people, and along 170 mile corridor. and so that made us a specific target

the fourth pillar is integrating technology into the surface transportation system.round gadgets these days, seems to me. we expect of information at our fingertips to make decisions on the fly, to adapt to changing situations. and the american people are going to expect that the relationships with the infrastructure is no different. it's time to make sure that our concrete asphalt and steal our air traffic control system, our water pipes and other infrastructure, are smart. they will tell us when they're wearing out and then we can really worry about it. this is what americans do. we innovate, create, think outside the box, make the absolute most out of the resources we have. there are some exceptions. one might look at u.s. infrastructure system. now, the private sector know-how is already a leading congestion, helping travelers plan ahead, unlocking the gridlock at airports and improving safety, infusing more technology in infrastructure planning, construction and maintenance has the potential to be a game changer for the infrastructure system in the 21st century.

something happen, we know this, our transportation, our water.if we do not have water, we are going to have a week before people start dying without water. also presenting this is much more core to national security is very critical. i am not as optimistic. my colleagues are. >> are you still optimistic? >> i am optimistic. if you look at eight period of time from now until the elections, there are some things we have to do or are getting set to do. everybody talks about lame-duck deals. every now and then, every three decades or something, we will have one that does a lot of stuff. but i really believe that there are three or four things that we will have a shot before they are finished. one is we will get a tax deal done. taking those away would be another huge tax increase on american industry, which would affect jobs. i do believe that we are absolutely crazy if we do not take advantage of having passed an immigration bill out of the senate. going back to do it again might be harder. and do something rational in the house and put it together.

because the pressures of everyday transportation in the city are tense. and the road ways are being shared by so many modes and i kind of felt, why are we nickel and diming people on sundays and you know the hurt is not so much paying the meters, it's that $75 hit when you get a citation for having been crossed that meter time by a few minutes on a sunday when people are least expecting it and they are trying to just feel a little bit more ease on that weekend, and try to have a more positive conversation with our public that if we start nickel and diming you on those sunday meters would you help us with this bond that doesn't increase your property taxes? everywhere i've gone, barbara, they've indicated a very positive thing -- and i'm not taking sides on the side versus non-car on this, i'm just suggesting that we can have a better conversation with the public in general about our transportation needs if we don't have these other things that really irk people, these things that are relatively financially small, but they just say you are not, we're not f

yesterday, there was a transportation hearing. and it went very well, and i think that if someone felt that taxis took over and i think that it was a point that we were invited and we needed to speak out about the concerns about late night transportation, and i think that it is important that we are part of the discussion to discount being part of the discussion and the need for it is beyond the purview of the commissioner heres and to really publicly state that you call one of these rogue vehicles here to here, and pier to pier ride sharing which you know full well as a commissioner that is not what it is. and as a member of the commission, it is for you to allow for the legal vehicles that are permitted by the city and yet you are yourselves have to go to the venues or you try to bust the venues that are not permitted and i think that you should not be on this commission. and it could come back to haunt you later. >> thank you. >> is there any additional public comment, again on items not on the agenda? >> i don't see any, so th