Bicycle Advisory Committee - October 22, 2018 - Agenda

Meeting Date: 
October 22, 2018 - 6:30pm
Location: 
City Hall, Room 408
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place
San Francisco, CA

MEETING AGENDA

Monday, October 22, 2018 at 6:30 P.M.

Members: District 1 – Unassigned, District 2 – Charles Deffarges, District 3 - Marc Brandt, District 4 – Anne Brask, District 5 -Melyssa Mendoza (Secretary), District 6 – Mary Kay Chin, District 7 - Bert Hill (Chair), District 8 - Diane Serafini, District 9 - Catherine Orland (Vice-Sec.), District 10 - Paul Wells (Vice Chair), District 11 – Jeffrey Taliaferro

 

ORDER OF BUSINESS

  1. Roll Call – Determination of Quorum

 

  1. Announcements & Acknowledgments

 

  1. Approve Minutes –  Monday, September 24, 2018 Meeting  

 

  1. Public Comment (Discussion Item) 

The public may address the Committee on any matter within the jurisdiction of the Committee.  This should not relate to any item on this agenda since the Committee will take public comment after it discusses and/or before voting on each agenda item.  The Committee requests that each person limit him/herself to three minutes

 

  1. Committee Member Reports (Information)
    1. Chairman's Report
    2. Committee Member Reports

 

  1. Governmental/Organizational/Committee Reports (Discussion Item) 
    1. SFPD Report – Unknown, Traffic Division / SFMTA assigns – Paul & Bert to inquire
    2. DPW Report – Jeremy Spitz  - 
    3. MTA Bicycle Program Report – Jennifer Chan
    4. BART Bicycle Advisory Task Force Report - Rick Goldman 
    5. Vision Zero Coalition Report – Bert Hill will not be in attendance – No Report
    6. SF Bicycle Coalition – Charles Deffages 
    7. Communications Committee – Charles Deffarges - No Report
    8. Ghost Bike Memorial Committee – Charles Deffarges - No Report

 

7. Autonomous Vehicle (AV) Design & Cycling Safety (Proposed Resolution amended after last week’s discussion) – Marc Brandt & Paul Wells: AV technology and cyclists’ pedestrian safety resolution for consideration.

 

 

 

8. Further Valencia St. Improvements (Update, Discussion & Possible Amendment to the Valencia Street “Shopping Zones” Resolution) – Catherine Orland: Kimberly Leung, the project manager of the Valencia Bikeway Improvements Project also plans to attend and provide an update.The MTA is in the planning stages for changes to Valencia Street to better accommodate the non-vehicular mix of people on this major commercial street. In addition, some advocates are proposing the SFMTA provide a design option for a pilot study within the bikeway improvement project that creates a “shopping district” on Valencia between 16th/17th Streets and 23rd/24th Streets, Considerations include bollards that raise and lower for emergency vehicle access, and are closed to private vehicles entirely, but open for commercial vehicles for some hours.

 

9. ARUP presentation on West Bay Bridge span design for bike path. (Catherine Orland)

 

10. Adjournment

 

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