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SAN FRANCISCO BICYCLE
ADVISORY COMMITTEE MINUTES
25 Van Ness Avenue,
Suite 345, San Francisco, CA 94102-6033
For information, leave a message
for BAC Chairperson James Morrison at (415) 282-8564
Wednesday, July
19, 2000, 6:30p.m.
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett
Place (Polk Street) Room 408
MINUTES
Present: Casey Allen,
Steven Bodzin, Jean Diva, Emily Drennen, Laurence Li, Victor Veysey
1. Call meeting to order
and adoption of agenda **
6:45 pm. Agenda adopted;
Item 8 considered last to allow VV to participate.
2. Assign time slots to
agenda items
Time slots assigned by
consensus.
3. Review and approval of
minutes from May/June 2000 and any other as yet unapproved minutes**
Minutes from June full
committee, July working committee considered and approved without changes.
4. Administrative business
and announcements**
JD: BAC's one open "general"
seat should be in Tube Times.
JM: Transportation Authority
wrote back regarding the Doyle Drive reconstruction project. SFBAC had demanded
that the TA continue studying traffic calming on Marina Green as part of the
project. The TA is interested in continuing the study, but not as part of the
Doyle Drive project.
5. Public comment--non-agenda
items; Please limit comments to 3 min. per person
No public
6. Transit Reports - BART
Bicycle Advisory Task Force
No BART report.
Ferries: Blue & Gold
Fleet is charging a dollar on top of regular fare for passengers with bicycles.
SB suggested that this might contradict the state's common carrier laws. SB
will write a letter to Blue & Gold.
7. DPT Reports
I. Bicycle Program Manager’s
Monthly Report
II. Bike/Ped Safety Coordinator’s
Monthly Report
Nick Carr (Department
of Parking and Traffic) presented both reports, attached. Additions: Arguello
lanes have actually been ground and striped. Carr unsure what ever happened
to detour signs for the Duboce bikeway. Will find out more about bike lane interaction
with MUNI stops.
8. Discussion period concerning
the prospective CalTrain bikestation (continued from June meeting) at 4th and
King Sts. Possible appearance by non-BAC advocates or project managers/planners.
Discuss and possibly approve funding strategies with regard to the need or lack
of a need for an operating subsidy**
VV met with BikeStation
Alliance leaders. They believe an operating subsidy is necessary. He still believes
he can run it without a subsidy.
Current status: Caltrain
plans to put out an RFP for operators at the same time as building a 1500 to
2000 square foot structure to hold the bikestation. Some potential uses include
bike rental, parking, repairs, and parts sales. Free rent is likely Caltrain's
biggest subsidy contribution. Likely bidders include VV and larger rental outfits.
JM spoke with Katz' office
and Caltrain, and found that Caltrain seems committed to bikestation. Katz'
office is considering some sort of small city subsidy to help get the station
going.
JD suggests Pi Ra (BAC
member) analyze the RFP to ensure it meets the BAC's needs.
9. Working Committee Report
I. Report on contacts
with the office of the District Atttorney, following up last month’s discussion
with Sgt. Ray Shine of SFPD. Possible recommendation.**
JM spoke with the SF
Bicycle Coalition to coordinate message in dealing with the DA's office. Leah
Shahum (SFBC) suggests BAC, SFBC, and pedestrian representatives join to meet
with the DA.
II. Discussion of Bike
Plan and possible updates: Chapter Two.**
BAC is marking up a single
copy of the Plan with suggested changes. Changes will be incorporated into the
next draft, if that's what is produced, and will at least give the new consultants
some direction.
The big Chapter 3 to
be discussed at the next working committee meeting.
III. Discussion of BAC
involvement with BETTER NEIGHBORHOODS 2000: Market/Octavia Plan (possible Market
bikeway); Central Waterfront Plan; Balboa Park Plan.**
BAC supports reduction
of car use on Market Street. We will encourage the Upper Market livability study
to incorporate the potential car-free Market Street proposal into their plans.
Market Street: MARKET
STREET SAFETY
WHEREAS Market Street
is used by large numbers of pedestrians and bicyclists every day; and
WHEREAS Market Street
is one of the City’s growing tourist destinations; and
WHEREAS citizens of San
Francisco are currently more likely to be killed or injured by motor vehicles
than by violent crime; and
WHEREAS Market Street
is the site of the highest number of pedestrian and bicyclist accidents in the
Bity, and does not provide a safe and continuous path for bicyclists;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED
that the Bicycle Advisory Committee urges the San Francisco Board of Supervisors
to direct appropriate city agencies to solicit community input and then devise
a plan to make Market Street safe for all. Three key items to be addressed in
this plan are safer pedestrian access, a continuous and safe bikeway, and more
efficient MUNI service.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED,
given the public health crisis that the unsafe conditions on Market Street currently
pose, the SFBAC further urges the Board of Supervisors to ensure that this plan
is completed in a timely manner.
Approved by unanimous
consensus.
IV. Third St./Burke
St.--bike route/lane and conflict with left-turn lane. Possible recommendation.**
No information, no discussion.
V. Discussion of both
the archival and Year 2000 posting of BAC records on the city’s website. Report
on progress
LL will do old stuff,
SB will learn how to get his files up on line.
VI. Pedestrian safety
alliances and the BAC. Discussion of ways to strengthen our ties to the pedestrain
safety movement by means that will also improve bicyclists’ safety. Report on
contacts with WALKSF and/or Mike Smith.**
BAC is inviting a WalkSF
rep to the next working committee meeting.
VII. Preliminary discussion
of extending BAC’s limited recommendation (Feb. ’00) for use of DKS/TETAP Study
("Proposed Citywide Policy on Acceptable Tradeoffs for Improved Safey and Access").
Our original resolution called for re-voting on the study’s use in August ’00.
What use, if any, has been made of the study? Should the Bike Plan Update include,
ignore, overrule the DKS/TETAP conclusions?**
Department of Parking
and Traffic has not yet used the study. BAC has no particular advice to give
on it.
VIII. Date and time
of next meeting**
August 18, 6:30 pm, City
Hall.
10. Current Saturday Auto
Closure on JFK Blvd. campaign. Possible BAC resolution or position statement.**
ED moved, passed unanimously:
GOLDEN GATE PARK- JFK
DRIVE CLOSURE TO AUTOMOBILES ON SATURDAYS
WHEREAS Golden Gate Park
provides citizens of San Francisco with a refuge from the challenges of urban
living; and
WHEREAS Sunday closure
of JFK Drive to automobile traffic is consistently ranked as one of the Parks
Department’s most popular offerings; and
WHEREAS Sunday closure
of JFK Drive provides a one-of-a-kind setting for families, youth, and adults
to learn and enjoy bicycling, skateboarding, in-line skating, and other recreational
sports; and
WHEREAS Golden Gate Park
is an integral part of a green belt system essential to wildlife throughout
the Bay Area; and
WHEREAS closure of JFK
Drive enhances air quality by reducing auto emissions; and
WHEREAS closure of JFK
Drive fits within San Francisco’s transit-first policy by encouraging tranporation
by sustainable means;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED
that the Bicycle Advisory Committee of the City of San Francisco strongly supports
Saturday closure of JFK Drive to automobiles in Golden Gate Park.
11. Discuss means of establishing
contact with the Planning Dept.--focus on strengthening compliance with bicycle
parking regulations in garages, both public and private.**
Nick Carr (Department
of Parking and Traffic) reports that the city has a grant to study private provision
of bike parking in garages. SB suggests using a notice mailed with parking tax
bills, followed by inspections and potential legal notices.
10. New business
CA: Wants to know status
of Rockwell plan for getting bikes off roadways in Golden Gate Park.
SB: wants a discussion
of bike lane intersection treatments
SB: Wants an endorsement
of multi-use street furniture (parking meters, benches, and trash cans that
overtly serve as bike racks).
ED: Wants a report on
current pedestrian improvements on Van Ness.
11. Adjournment and next
general BAC meeting, August 16, 2000**
8:30 pm