transportation bill. this is about building our own country. this is about nation building right here. this is about infrastructure investment and rebuilding our infrastructure in this country. and so i have called for this national day of advocacy, this stand up for transportation that you've heard about. and this is the logo that we've put together. and, you know, this april 9 date -- this is actually the last conference that we will have before that april 9th date. or is there another one? there may be another apta conference. no? all right. so this is it. we are gearing up for this. the strategy is collective power as we bring attention to our infrastructure and talk to congress. on this day, april 9, we're looking to conduct media events, press events in as many american cities as possible. and i'm happy to say that i believe we have about 140 events or so. that is a lot of events all over this country. it's time for us to work together, republicans, democrats, at the white house, it's time for us to

and the neighborhood transportation improvement program continues to take shape. and next month, or this coming month you will see coming before you the prop k funding request for district two which will be looking at adding management to the lumbard street and the model for district nine and the two district ten capitol projects east of chavez as well as the partreo hill, improvements and we have already made allocations in district one to support the bike improvements in the north and south corridors as well as in arguelo and in district five we have initiated the western addition, planning with the sfmta and so we are excited that the project and plans are continuing to take shape. highlighting the project delivery milestones and there is aers of new vehicles that are coming to san francisco last week on earth day, sfmta unveiled the new low emission buses, 62 and 61 new hybrid buses, and we in prop k have already provided that funding to combine with the city's prop a and prop b fund and we are very excited these vehicles are going to vastly improve the reliab

and specifically, public transport. of course, more people also means more people trying to get to work. and because this is america, it also means more people starting and growing businesses, and they will need to connect to workers. a very recent example, when the big blizzard in january shut down boston's public transportation, massachusetts general hospital had a real problem. according to the hospital, nearly half of their employees take public transit. so, in the midst of this very dangerous storm, they were literally work overtime to make sure they could get enough staff on every shift. to serve their patients. and that's a situation that is not as unique as it sounds. in atlanta, a university study looked at more than 50 industry sectors that make up the region's economy. and it found that 14 of the 18 fastest growing sectors are among those, whose workers rely heavily on local transit services to get to and from work. so, although atlanta doesn't suffer from any nor'easters any long-term disruption in the city'

. >> good evening, commissioners liz brison a senior transportation planner at the transportation authority as a background some people often have not heard of the sf mta agency we have a role in the planning and funding of transportation we serve as the counties fields task action we administer prop k the we're up to one hundred million dollars a year to fund the transportation improvements by the voters and we coordinate san francisco with the rest of the region and we report to the board of supervisors as our board so it is really in that role we were asked by supervisor wiener to come in and play the transportation role with this process with ben and jocelyn with the stakeholders so. >> can it interject supervisor wiener walked in do you want him to go go ahead of you. >> why. >> thanks for being here thank you sorry i wasn't here earlier you guys are started. >> we're efficient. >> we were at the mta board earlier that is great we're not just putting out a report and let it collect dust open the shelf but making sure that all the decision making bodies especially the transit agencies u

>> good morning and welcome to the san francisco county, transportation, authority, monthly meeting, and i want to thank sfgtv for broadcasting today's hearings specifically scott and charles. mr. clerk, will you call the roll >> commissioner avalos? >> absent. >> breed. >> present. >> campos. >> present. >> christensen. >> absent. >> cohen. >> present. >> farrell? absent. >> mar >> present. >> tang. >> present. >> yee. >> present. >> we have a quorum. >> thank you. item two. >> approve the minutes of the march 24th, 2014, meeting this is an action item. >> colleagues are there any questions or comments or changes regarding the march 24, 2015 minutes? seeing none, we will open item two, for public comment, and is there any public comment on item two, please come forward. >> (inaudible) >> thank you, and i do just want to announce to the public that with regard to the public comment, on specific items, the public comment must be relevant to that item, we do have general public comment at the end where the people can comment on any item within their jurisdiction of the authority but no

that has vexed the secretary of transportation long before me. we have added a lot of work with the public in helping to raise the visibility of the issue. both tours, one in the midwest and southwest, and one in the south east just this past few weeks. we are going to continue sounding the alarm and to americans because they are the ones stuck in traffic and driving over the potholes and paying for poor suspension systems getting beat up by these potholes. the folks out there are paying for it, so they can pay less by having a bill that gets us a lot more for the dollar. >> as you travel the country on the bus tour, what is the most convincing point to a normal person? what do you say to a normal person on one of your stocks that makes them say, i get it? anthony: i think the biggest people -- the biggest thing people react to his when a project gets done. when we do these ribbon-cutting's on projects that are actually getting done i think when people see, they say gosh, we have to be doing more of that. i think that is probably the biggest thin

transportation bill. the american public transportation association hosted the event in march. >>> good morning after. how's everybody doing. had a great, great session already this morning. 7:30 this morning. who was all in there eating breakfast? all right. all right. listen, welcome to act i've 40th annual legislative conference and to our nation's capital. yesterday was some great sessions. weren't they? with the mayor of washington, d.c. and various speakers. it was just wonderful. thanks everyone for being only people they think can lead here. the conference comes at a momentum time in the industry. this week we are gearing up for a new surface transportation bill out there. this opening session really sets the stage for our discussions over the next few days. in this session we'll hear from michael melaniphy, chairman and ceo. we'll hear from janet kavinoky with the u.s. chamber of commerce, and also pete ruane with artba. first our sponsor this morning is route match. help me welcome joseph hughes

they have transportation in and transportation out.do you feel about that? >> well, i know for mountain view with google, they want a collaboration-o so theye1 want to keep everybody on campus. well, now all the other side companies are having to do the eiápsq thing to attract talent. if you don't serve a meal you're at a disadvantage to try to get in talent and talent is really hard to get right now because they're all jumping "und. and therefore without keeping them on site, any retail that is surrounded suffers because they don't have the density of the mass people coming and buying. therefore, retail doesn't really work and so it keeps isolating that area where those campuses are from the rest of the community. >> and that's also a complaint about those buses, you know, that they're sort of isolated almost some people here call it elite transportation. but i'm wondering what do you hear from small businesses? they'd probably like more of these workerse1 tof come to their place for lunch or ice cream orx >> yeah. >> you own a couple

>> good morning and well to the san francisco county transportation authority, mr. clerk, will you please call the roll? >> commissioner avalos? >> absent. >> breed. >> present. >> campos. >> absent. >> christensen. >> present. >> cohen e >> present. >> commissioner farrell. >> absent. >> kim. >> present. >> commissioner mar. >> here. >> tang? >> present. >> and president lee. >> present. >> yee? >> present. >> commissioner avalos? >> present. >> we have a quorum. >> thank you and i want to thank sfgtv for broadcasting today's hearing. and mr. clerk, please call item number 2. >> approve the minutes of the february 24, 2015, meeting this is an action item. >> okay, our colleagues, are there any changes to the minutes? can i have a motion or actually could i just call the roll in a number two? >> on item two. >> avalos. >> aye. >> my apologies. >> is there any public comment on item number two? >> seeing number, public comment is closed please call the roll. >> item two, commissioner avalos? >> aye. >> commissioner breed? >> aye. >> commissioner campos? >> absent. >>

terms of transportation. and unfortunately the way that vta tends to work is they respond after the fact. they don't proactively go out and develop transportation solutions in advance. >> michael hush >> michael hursh how do you respond? >> that's not a true statement. the taxpayers funding the bart expansion is the way we are being proactive. >> residents are paying to bring bart into their area. we are working diligently to build our bus rapid transit system. and some of the communities haven't fully supported that. there are still communities that are still very car centric. land use is definitely -- the transit authority can't do it alone. we're dependent on land use decisions. when new business developments come in with lots of free parking, it makes it very difficult for transit to be an attractive solution. >> if i could add, up until recently the bay area and really the rest of california had not integrated land use and transportation planning. so with recent changes in state law that's forced us to d

as part of a regional delegation with the metropolitan transportation commission and a number of bay area, transit operators, including mta, bart, and cal train and i believe at transit as well. and we had the opportunity to meet with a number of members of congress both in the house and in the senate with the senior staff as well as the representatives of the fta, and to talk about the critical importance of the federal government funding transportation projects and to really make real for folks on capitol hill, about what the challenges are that we face in san francisco. and as a region. and in terms of all of our major transit systems being over capacity, and the need to expand the capacity, and to invest in the system, and the need for the federal government to be a strong partner in doing that. and as you may know the federal gas tax, which is what funds the federal highway trust fund has not been raised for inflation since 1993, and so in real terms, it is diminishing, and so, there, and we were advocating strongly for congress to take action by increasing the federal gas tax a

we have a unified transportation plan. transit and our road and our active transportation. so, in our, our legislature is in session right now. will finish this thursday, so we have some major transportation funding we're after and the ceo of our transit district, the nbo, or npo is there as well. hand in hand with their staffs. the city, league of cities in the state is there together. we also are have the business community, the chamber of comers is there with us. we realize that if we weren't united in what we wanted and we were fighting against each other between transit and roads and this and that, that we weren't going to get it. to say the least, utah is not a liberal legislature. some of our representatives and i understand their position, are trying to help you as long as it and so, now, what's happened in our state legislature, what's going on right now and today we'll change some things i think and go forward from this. but right now, there's two types of financing that they're looking at. for this. one is an in

today, and specifically, public transport.of course more people also means more people trying to get to work. and because this is america, it also means more people starting and growing businesses, and they will need to connect to workers. a very recent example. when the big blizzard in january shut down boston's public transportation massachusetts general hospital had a real problem. according to the hospital, nearly half of their employees take public transit. so in the midst of this very dangerous storm, they were literally working overtime to make sure they could get enough staff on every shift to serve their patients. and that's a situation that is not as unique as it sounds. in atlanta, a university study looked at more than 50 industry sectors that make up the region's economy. it found that 14 of the 18 fastest growing sectors are among those whose workers rely heavily on local transit services to get to and from work. so although atlanta doesn't suffer from many nor'easters any long-term disruption to its public trans

system as a whole to have our students choosing a sustainable mode of transportation, be it walking or taking muni for the transportation system to work so we recognize that as well and we think both free muni for youth and all of the programs we can encourage the youth of sustainable forms of transportation is very important to the city as a whole so i will stop there and i would like to turn it over to julie to talk you through the next section. >> thank you ms. su. >> good afternoon. the muni has a really long history of serving transportation needs of children and schools, and when we go out and we do focus groups with students one of the things that i hear more than anything is that for middle school and high school students the bus is independence and that is something in a suburban community you doafnt have. students and young people are using it across the city and we want to encourage that and grow. we have really robust options for our transit students. the system as a whole is designed so that almost all destinations are within a quarter mile of the a transit stop so it's

--transportation safety efforts. grow america lays down a marker and shows us the funding level necessary to improve. it is fully paid for and part of a larger administration budget that avoids sequestration. keeps our safety inspectors and air traffic controllers on the job. it makes investment in our nation we need to support for a growing population and economy. i believe we can a compost this on a partisan basis -- accomplish this on a bipartisan basis. i want to specifically think you chairman collins for the work you did last year, and even before that, on the issue of safely transporting energy. it is an important issue, one we all care about. i want this subcommittee to know that your history of working together to support critical infrastructure investments, like the tiger grant and capital investment grant programs, matter a great deal in communities across america and it is appreciated. ranking member reed, i want to thank you for being such a great voice in -- we are speaking today about fiscal year 2015.

or does it include a lot of other transport?i mean, i'd like to see that prioritized because obviously that's been the issue. >> so in the notice of proposed rule making that was issued last fall, we focused on the same level of risk category. so not only the crude oil but also something like ethanol that's in the same class of material would also be covered by our rule. >> well i would suggest that -- i mean, i would ask is there any way to put a higher priority on the oil transport? obviously came up very quickly because of the discovery and unknowns and issues. i would encourage or ask any way to higher prioritize that. it's newer material carrying ethanol for a long time. on our rail systems and on our roads. and so i think i'm -- i think this is a bipartisan issue in terms of the urgency that we feel. and i would like to say with the four seconds i have left a robust six-year highway program is something that i'm very passionate about. we can work together. and we've had a rough winter so if anybody wants an illustration, w

as far as laerng's concerned, the transports they're falling. he thinks it's dangerous to catch this plummeting group. you'd be much better off to wait for a bottom than prove itself. right now the big boys are unloading stock in this group left and right and to make matters worse, lange thinks the charts are telling him they're prime to lead the market lower. there is a very bearish call. so for starter, take a look at the day lay chart of the dow jones transportation index. like i mentioned before lange thinks it's ominous the transports drop below the 200-day moving average. just last week. which for many chart waters is probably the most negative development that could occur. plus, the trannys, as they're called in the broker's industry also broke down below their long-term floor of support. so at least on the chart, there is nothing stopping this index from going lower. to make matter worse, you can see how the volume has been rising lately as the transports have been hammered which tells the big institutions are selling hand over fist. the

and really taking into account the status of our late night transportation system and directors i mean, the picture that was pained was not particularly a positive one we really the picture we saw was of a system not just muni but late night transportation in general an assumption i don't know how to developed by 6 or 8 o'clock at night people are at home watching the evening news some of us may do it i certainly age out some late night endeavors it is not how san francisco operates we have a lot of people that go out at night and people that work at night and earlier in the morning we're not meeting their needs both overnight and you know once past 7 or 8 o'clock at night it seems like muni service dwindled dramatic to we held a hearing and it was very, very forgive what it focuses us on in addition to the in addition need of partners to get to and from the major strain on workers people that are getting off at 1, 2, 3, 4 clock in the morning who don't feel safe getting home from work if they're waiting for a buses with tips or driving to the mission for an early morning bakery job no

the youth vote survey is not a transportation specific survey. it's a survey done by dcyf. >> right. >> and i believe they do have -- >> coleman started it. >> i believe it's multilingual and get a robust sample size but we're happy to follow up. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. i just had a couple of follow up questions. when we were doing research around this issue we came across the transit website and they had a page just listing the bus lines serving schools in alameda county and i am curious if we have something similar along this line. it seemed like a great resource for students and families to learn which bus lines kind of connect to which

inside the prisoner transport van, we're able to transport ten prisoners total, five on each side.ten feet deep by five feet wide with a metal partition down the middle. the height is approximately four feet. >> i'm just noticing -- so there's one half of the van, which you're about to half into and there's another half. that's a metal partition down the middle. >> correct. that way we have the capability of separating prisoners if we need to. and once the transporting officer takes a prisoner inside the van, the van is equipped with ten seat belts all the way down. so typically a prisoner would be handcuffed behind their back. the transporting officer would then seat belt the prisoner into the van for safety. our public safety director as well as us are always very concerned with the safety of the prisoners we're transporting. the van is equipped with air-conditioning and heat as well as interior lighting. interior lighting is so that the transporting officers can view what's taking place inside the van through the partition. >> are there cameras inside at all? >> no there's not a

an important role in transportation policy. ladies and gentlemen, chairman bill shuster. [ applause ] >> thank you very much poppy. thanks for having me back. i was just talking to fawn backstage. the last time we were here we both kind of shrugged our shoulders. it was three years ago. it's been a while. time flies when you're having fun. i look out and see a lot of the usual suspects that show up when i'm talking about transportation issues. ail have to warn you ald i told fawn, she said what are you going to say in your opening remarks. it's probably a lot of what you've heard me talking about in the past couple of years. here it goes. i really appreciate the opportunity to talk to the media, the folks like you that care deeply about transportation because i think we all know that it's a quality of life issue. it's about creating jobs it's about creating convenience. it's about getting us to and from, getting the products to and from to make sure we have them on our shelves and wet get to your families, to the playground, wh

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 ship

bringing it into our code the transportation code. >> of but anything in those amendments beyond the description of being renertd impacts the other vehicles so for hire. >> only the address the commission up to three minutes. enumerated like the woo bill that being a misdemeanor that would impact a transportation network company vehicle or an attorney-client or a pc p limb 90 month so that impacts whether or not they did a hail. >> all our clarifying noting none of them are street hails. >> that's correct. >> thank you very much for that definition. >> you're welcome. >> thank you supervisor wiener. >> i think i'm ready for public comment. >> we'll go to public comment as a reminder folks there's a two minute public comment time limit you'll hear a soft bell so for 30 seconds. >> good afternoon supervisor cohen and supervisor jane kim this earlier in the morning for a.m. in the morning this is important piece of 3 hours earlier transmission of holyness in writing any missionary will go into focus and so - also to the mayor ali it was a beautiful well, good public restroom and in the

[inaudible] policy and programming at the transportation authority. the san francisco county transportation authorities work program and budget will be presented to the finance committee in may for aprovel in june so this is a great opportunity for ustuse present how our work programs for the up coming year support vision zero. we are focus our work program into 3 primary areas for ease of understanding. this is plan fund and deliver. we treat the sftca vision zero committee as the primary and main forum. throughout the year we'll continue to support the board and also provide committees support. staff at the agency also participate on vision zero task force. we are actively voled in the steering #c34i9y and various other subcommittees including the education and communication and i'm a cochair of vision zero working group with [inaudible] as administrator of local voter approved revenue including the transportation sales tax and vehicle registration fees, our work program is based on traenz paerns and accountsability and meetings like this provide th

the youth vote survey is not a transportation specific survey. it's a survey done by dcyf. >> right. >> and i believe they do have -- >> coleman started it. >> i believe it's multilingual and get a robust sample size but we're happy to follow up. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. i just had a couple of follow up questions. when we were doing research around this issue we came across the transit website and they had a page just listing the bus lines serving schools in alameda county and i am curious if we have something similar along this line. it seemed like a great resource for students and families to learn which bus lines kind of connect to which schools throughout the county. >> i think that's a great question and actually gets into the last slide which is that we are really excited about improving opportunities for collaboration, and one of the things that i think would be most impactful is a grant that anna lazzic from the department of public health which is going to transportation road map for. >> >> is it 100 schools? >> yes. >> for

the meeting will come to order this did the san francisco land use & transportation committee i'm supervisor cohen chairman of the committee to my right is supervisor wiener and to my right supervisor kim our clerk is the talented andrea ashbury i also want to recognize the gentlemen jessie larson and jonathan that will be televising this madam clerk, any announcements? electronic devices. completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the april 21st, 2015, board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> all right. thank you very much excellent timing. >> excuse me, sir madam clerk one. >> amending the transportation police administrative regulation code with the vehicle for hire. >> thank you very much and supervisor wiener is the author of this, please supervisor wiener share with us. >> thank you very much madam chair item one an ordinance recommending to the regulation of the taxi by the mta they recommended this legislation to us and we're hearing it today, the legislation will do several things first

director of transportation. to the chair supervisor kim. i first of all appreciate your comments and questions, your concerns about the use of armed services. i think the idea of contracting for armed services is not something that we enter into lightly. so i appreciate the various comments that the board made previously and the opportunity to come back and try to address some of those questions. so in terms of looking to what the practice in the industry is we reached out to somewhat comparable systems both in california -- in the bay area -- and nationwide. and every one of them without exception had as a standard practice using armed personnel to protect the employees that collect revenue. so i guess we could keep calling and see if we could find one that doesn't. but what we found in our survey was that it's not just a best practice, it is an absolutely universal practice. it's one that we've had here for muni for decades. it's one that seems to be universal across the board. so as we were calling folks and getting that response, we fel

welcome to the finance committee of the san francisco transportation authority. i am john avalos joined by david campos maliha cohen and we will be joined by other colleagues. mr. clerk. do we have any announcements? >> there are no announcements. let's go on to our next item. roll taken. >> we have quorum. >> next item is part of our consent calendar. items two to three comprise the consent calendar. staff is not going to present. >> colleagues changes to the amendments. comments on item 3 of the consent calendar. we will go to public comment. any member that would like to speak come forward. we will close public comment. may we have a motion to approve. >> move to approve. >> seconded by commissioner cohen. >> we need a roll call vote for the first one. okay. on the consent calendar. commissioner avalos. aye. >> kim, abcent. maher, absent. >> four, state and federal legislative update. this is an action item. >> good morning, chair and members, mark wats representing sacramento. two items of interest. on the matrix we added constitutional amendment number 5 and

running only san francisco and bay area cool governments is split up all the transportation system barts they have their own commissioner so taxi is needs to be taxi commissioner and noted combined use easier for for manage the 3 point of our industry taxi a lot of lay requirement you make it 40 or 60 years ago it is out date for a long time you have very big bureaucratic city not - give more freedom so the cost of driving up we're paying a lot of unnecessary fees to the prior requirement if you do like to help the cab driver you want to help the public you have to change our bureaucratic system the border chairman is making 4 hundred and 50 thousand what is he doing bringing in projects he don't like it he don't something like that it everything about corruption if you run an office you into corruption already, we're supervision in asia corruption in the government in the royal family anything happened i'm not reigning. >> classroom that's the last person that turned in a speaker card. >> i'm moving on to item 11 i'm not sorry item 12. >> authorized the director to contract number ct w

it took many years to get the transportation -- the central subway project moving. as you know projects of this scale and complexity can time and funding the plan let alone to build. well, as we consider the needs of the entire city and region when making big transportation decisions, we also need to think about which ones can move forward right now. in other words, which ones are shovel-ready? i know how much you have worked with the community and local merchants on this issue. and i believe the city needs to continue that good work so that we really understand the benefits of a central subway extension that could bring -- what that could bring -- while establishing realistic completion timelines which will enable us a better way to understand the funding decisions will need to be made and made consistently to get that project done. thank you, supervisor. >> thank you, supervisor chris 10 sen*. and thank you mr. mayor for being with us here today. now, colleagues, we're going to move on to the consent agenda. madam clerk, wums read the consent agenda. >> the 2-18 a

i think ultimately it's going to live at the department of transportation. there are -- the goal would be to sort of act as almost a concierge service to potential projects, both with streamlining and assisting, getting them moving quickly and helping people understand the process and the dealmaking and providing some expertise for towns entities. and it's actually moving along quite well and starting to staff up. i don't think we've got a ton to say about it. no particular announcements today. but it was not one of those announcements that happened and went off into the ether and then we all forgot about it. it's under way and getting worked on all the time. so. >> john wentmore with pedestrians.org. you talk about the issue of pedestrian safety getting the passengers to the bus stop. the transit agency owns the bus, might own the sign posts at the bus stop. then you're dealing with it might be a county road, might be a state road. how do these pedestrian initiatives work across all these safety initiatives and levels of government? >> it works probably as

and i can only imagine what it's going to be in the future. >> actually the transportation would be the big exception because that does extend definitely south of china basin all the way down to the southern waterfront. >> right. >> so how many people are you thinking of going to be within this working group? >> well, you know, as we keep on adding, we're probably looking at 30, you know, 30 or more people at this point. there is a time commitment associated with taking on responsibilities here and i think that's actually something that we would be expecting people to take seriously. there are, we will provide information about what the working group responsibilities are, expected time commitments associated with that, you know, we would like to be able to have members that represent organizations and constituents so that we are able to move these members as a means of reaching back out to the community so you get -- it's our social networking in people bodies, not just social media, that we're trying to achieve there. so it will not necessarily be something that everyone would have the