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Minutes of SF Bicycle
Advisory Committee meeting, 3/15/00
1. Call meeting to
order and adoption of agenda **
Called to order
at 6:12, agenda adopted. Members present: Casey Allen, Steven Bodzin (recording),
Pi Ra, Jean Davis, Emily Drennen, Laurence Li, Suzanne Richter, Victor Veysey.
Staff present: Peter Tannen, Nick Carr(?)
2. Review and approval
of minutes from January and February 2000 **
Minutes of January meeting
approved with changes.
3. Consent agenda (from
Working Committee agenda, 3/8/00)
I. Election of chairperson
to Working Committee for 2000 **
II. Procedures for
making BAC reports to the Board of Supervisors Transportation and Land Use
Committee **
III. Review of pedicab
licensing and route authorization process, member or members assigned to
research possible changes **
IV. Update of San
Francisco Bicycle Plan. Assign member(s) to begin preliminary consideration
of sections of existing Plan to be updated. **
V. Formation of BAC
Outreach Bureau, report on contacts with Coalition of San Francisco Neighborhoods
**
VI. Report (finalization
of date) on request for appearance at a BAC meeting by Sgt. Fewer, SFPD
**
Consent items approved
with comments on III, IV, and V
4. Administrative Business
and Announcements **
Questions were raised
as to who can and will enforce participation of MUNI, DPW, and the SFPD
in SFBAC meetings.
Commitment: Suzanne
Richter (SR) will write to MUNI
Jim Morrison
will write to DPW
SR already wrote
to Sgt. Fewer of the SFPD
5. Public comment--non-agenda
items; Please limit comments to 3 min. per person
Public comment: no
public present
6. Transit Reports -
BART Bicycle Advisory Task Force
Bart advisory task force
(BATF): Adam Gubser went to bimonthly meeting. He has no report back.
PR & JD also
went. They report that they complained about the New Years eve closure of
BART to bikes. Staff was advertising bike to work week. Staff apologized
for New Year’s Eve. BAC & BART needs to stay in touch. A replacement
for Jill Kleimach has been hired. A new bikestation at Fruitvale BART is
underway. the BATF voted to have it in the station. A BART cop goes to the
meetings, and at this meeting, reported on bicycle violations on the train.
There was a significant increase in bicyclist complaints in January, due
to New Years Eve. BART will soon rewrite its BART & Transit handout.
JD suggests people write to ensure that the brochure clearly states that
folding bikes are allowed at all times.
7. DPT Reports
I. Bicycle Program Manager’s
Monthly Report
II. Bike/Ped Safety
Coordinator’s Monthly Report
A meeting is scheduled
on Hugo Street on 3/23.
Commitment: CA
will attend.
Question for Peter
Tannen (PT): Can bike lanes be on the right side, with the left side as
a tow-away zone? He will look into it.
PT and CA report
that people are driving on the grass in Golden Gate Park (GGP) in order
to get onto streets that are supposed to be closed to cars.
8. BAC discussion of
general direction and most important issues for the year 2000, including, but
not limited to, review of priorities in 1999, possible outreach programs, funding
initiatives, legislative initiatives, and the implementation of the San Francisco
Bicycle Plan **
Stuff coming up:
BAC go-around to determine what’s important to each of us.
SB: Regional
issues include Bay Bridge
New bike plan
JD: New Presidio
issues
More bike lanes
Commuter incentives
and facilities
Transit agency
relations
Bay Bridge
Broadway Tunnel
PR: Bike plan
Community input,
better connection with representatives
Have Town Hall
meetings with much public attendance and input
JM: Bike plan
More contact
with supervisors and adminstrative departments
ED: Better internal
process
MUNI buses:
more racks, working with administration
Market Street
improvements
LL Improved outside
relations with commissions and supervisors
Committee can
work together implementing bike plan
Keep doing our
pet projects
SR Bike network
Stencils
VV Bike theft
Bikestations
as social space, public bikes, and outreach
CA Bike plan,
uniform standards for bike lanes
Involvement
in city planning, changing Planning Code
Interagency
involvement with Planning, MUNI, PD
Using neighborhood
groups to do public outreach
Commitments:
SB Will
keep doing Bay Bridge activism
PR Wants a structure
discussion at Working Committee
VV Wants us to
reach out to other groups
ED Wants to assign
individual people to each task
JM Wants consensus
and point person assignments on Working Committee agenda
JD Wants to work
on parking incentives, to help enforce rules on workplaces that violate
parking mandates
SR Will speak
to the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) as a point person
9. Working Committee
Report
I.Update on planning
for regional bicycle/alternative transportation conference **
Regional conference:
VV, SR, and PR say it’s to develop implementation strategies, VV adds that
we can goapply for grants across region. SB points out that STPP is already
creating something similar; we might be able to join with them.
Nick Carr (NC) says
Cal. Dept. of Health Services might be interested in joining.(??)
9.II. Short discussion.
Vote: JM move, PR 2nd an endorsement. Passes unanimously.
9.III.a. Resolution
drafted on Good roads. Vote: PR move, JM 2nd, passes unanimously.
9.III.b. SB1772:
resolution in favor drafted; Vote: PR move, JM 2nd, passes unanimously.
9.IV. Vote: PR
moves committee recommendation, JD 2nd, passes unanimously.
9.V. Working committee
meeting is 4/13, 6:30 p.m., at Valencia police station.
General meeting 4/19, City Hall, 6 p.m.
Dick Tilles of Presidio
Trust has committed to attend. Fewer should be at subcommittee meeting.
10. ED wants feedback
on consensus proposal.
Bike/ped regional
group meeting 4/5 and 4/11, to focus on MTC.
II. Safe Routes to
School Bill, possible applications in San Francisco **
III.Good Roads Bill,
possible letter of endorsement **
Changes in allocation
for Bicycle Transportation Account (Senate Bill 1772).
IV.Endorsement of
Bay Area Air Quality Management District TFCA 40% Program Manager Fund
Applications **
1.Traffic Calming
Program - Local Streets Track: Page Street and the "Wiggle" (mini-traffic
circles) DPT
2.Traffic Calming
Program - Arterial and Commercial Streets Track: Van Ness Avenue
(pedestrian bulbs
and median improvements) DPT
3.Belden Street
Traffic Calming and Pedestrian Enhancements - Planning Dept.
4.Broadway Corridor
Traffic Calming & Pedestrian Improvements - DPW
5.Bicycle racks
on 60 Articulated Buses - Muni
6.Bicycle lanes,
path striping, and racks - Treasure Island Development Authority
V. Date and time
of next meeting **
10. New business
and announcements
11. Adjournment and
next BAC meeting, April 19, 2000
