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Regular Meeting Minutes
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
City Hall
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place (Polk Street)
The meeting was called to order at 6:22 PM
1. Roll Call/Attendance:
Present - Andrew Thornley(District 1), Lionel Shaw(District 2), Dianna Waggoner(District 3), Janice Buike Voorsluys(District 4),Dale Butler(District 6), Will Henning(District 7), Jerry Ervin(District 8), Francisco Hernandez(District 9), Rufus Davis, Jr./arrived 6:45(District 10), Casey Allen/arrived 6:35(District 11)
Excused - Bridget May(District 5)
2. Approval of minutes of August , 2004 (6:31)
3. Public Comment: (6:24)
None
4. Chairman's Report: (6:25)
Terms of many of the BAC are up this year. When the Supervisor changes it can also automatically change the BAC representative. It is also time to elect officers but that should be done after the Supervisorial elections.
It is time to report to our respective Supervisors.
On August 26 there will be a meeting at SFGH on the Potrero Avenue project.
Bike theft is up. Racers at the Giro had bikes stolen. It's time for a bike theft task force.
CALTrain has done a bike locker and bike use survey; they are going to hire a consultant to develop a bike plan. CALTrain has been invited to the November 17 meeting.
SF County Transportation Authority's Maria Lombardo has ideas on how to expedite the approval of bike projects by bringing together departments for coordination. Ms Lombardo has been invited to the November meeting.
Member Reports: (6:33)
Francisco Hernandez(District 9) reported that the community seems pretty evenly split pro and con. There are substantial stakeholders like SFGH and Buena Vista school so there should be greater outreach. Member Hernandez announced he was able to secure a City mailbox.
Janice Buike Voorsluys(District 4) reported on the SFGH Potrero Avenue town meeting. The community seems fairly evenly split on the redesign.
Dale Butler(District 6) reported that the Geary / O'Farrell corridor redesign appears to be moving forward. The bicycle community lost on the issue of bus/bike shared lanes but was given instead a wider lane on the opposite side of the street for cycling. The lane will not be "sharrow(ed)".
Rufus Davis, Jr.(District 10) reported on the very bike, light and helmet giveaway sponsored by SFBC and several community based organizations. Member Davis also attended the SFGH meeting and agreed with the earlier assessment
Department of Parking and Traffic Report (6:45) / Oliver Gajda
MUNI drivers oppose Potrero Avenue project because buses will be required to weave in and out of the traffic lane.
Geary corridor will have space on the left side of the street for bikes. It will not be striped.
CALtrain is considering replacing the 22nd Street bike lockers removed after 9/11/01.
An interagency group has been established to advise the Board of Supervisors on bike issues.
The SFBC and the SF Giants have begun a new media campaign on buses.
Sharrows will sometimes be two or three to a block. Testing is not "scientific" but the expectation is that about 2,500 will be painted. The California Traffic Device Committee has approved the Sharrows but CALtrans has not. The Sharrows will be white.
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Report (7:00) / Leah Shahum
Reported that it is true that many u-locks can be opened with a ball point pen. Ms Shahum passed out a flyer on the issue.
The Bayview Bikes Bonanaza had over seventy-five participants. The organizers gave away one bike and about forty helmets as well as many bicycle repairs. Bayview mothers want to do it again.
The next bike skills workshop will be on September 25 in the Tenderloin.
The SFBC is trying to get the City to widen the bike lane and extend it.
Old Business (7:12)
LOS TWG: Chairperson Thornley reiterated that LOS methodology as part of environmental review by Planning continues to have adverse effects on implementing bike projects and that the BAC needs to keep after this problem.
New Business (7:15)
(a) Bike Plan Update: Oliver Gajda of the Department of Parking and Transportation passed out CDs of the final draft and reported that the Planning Department estimated ten weeks to approve the plan. It's been nineteen weeks and the plan review has not begun.
Mr. Gajda reported that the plan should be completed by the end of the year but the EIR is holding up introduction. Also we have to have a five year plan to be eligible for Prop K funding then after that staff can be redirected back to network planning.
Leah Shahum reported that the SFBC was a partner in the project focused on the network piece. One of the biggest achievements was the adoption of the transportation policy that bikes and buses can coexist. The challenge now is to get City departments to prioitize and focus on the goals of the plan. On behalf of SFBC Ms. Shum encouraged DPT to be ready to get funds, local, state, and federal which are available this year. One question Ms. Shahum asked is how MUNI avoided the EIR on the Geary project? Can we avoid EIRs on bike projects?
David Gartner, as someone who went out and got public input, called for greater coordination between SFBC and DPT because the plan was to be out in January 2004 and now it is September 2004. How can this plan be expedited? Perhaps the BAC should encourage the Board of Supervisors to encourage the Planning Department to finish the EIR. BAC member Casey Allen suggested a letter be brought to the next meeting to push the planning department to respond.
(b) Golden Gate Park Transportation Improvement Plan: Marilyn Duffy, Transportation Consultant, reported on the multi-phased approach to the plan. Ms Duffy passed out the October 2003 plan which included eight projects (attached). There is $500,000 for transportation projects with a lot going into the shuttle to keep cars out of the park. The question was asked in park roads were City roads which was answered that they are maintained by the City. The Concourse project will eliminate three acres of asphalt and eight hundred surface parking spaces.
(c) Presidio Trains and Bikeways: Andrea Lucas of the National Park Service reported that in 2000 the GGNRA started a master plan that was finished in 2003. The plan added twenty miles of bike lanes as part of the Bay Trail's 400 miles. The plan designated Crissy Field as the first step of ABAG funding. The San Francisco phase of the plan is from the Warming Hut to the Bridge accommodating multi-levels of use. The intent of the redesign includes separating cyclists from pedestrians as much as possible. The redesign includes dedicated striped bike lanes, moving existing sidewalks/bike access, and encouraging bikes to access the bridge from near the Warming Hut rather than near the pet cemetery. There is one million dollars for Presidio Trails but how much of that goes to this project and how much directly to the bridge has to be determined. The plan does not accommodate the dedicated mountain bikers as the off street route will still be pretty "hard". The plan keeps the bollards that control cars but eliminated those that are supposed to control bikes.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:40 PM
Materials distributed at this meeting:
Minutes of August 18, 2004
Bike Plan 2004 CD
DPT Bicycle Program Report to the BAC
Golden Gate Park / Concourse Report Central
Golden Gate Bridge Pedestrian and Bicycle Access Redesign
