الثلاثاء، 19 مايو 2020
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Moving San Francisco Forward
By Jeffrey Tumlin
Your city transportation leaders are focused on caring for this city while we fight the coronavirus pandemic. And, we’re also busy strategizing on what comes next. The city needs to be able to move in order to function.
San Francisco must take this moment to rebuild our transportation system purposefully and facilitate a resilient recovery. The SFMTA has been working with city leaders and public health officials to devise how best to do that in our new fiscal and public health reality.
The SFMTA is developing a Transportation Recovery Plan which includes a series of levels that coincide with future allowances of economic activity by state guidance and our local public health officials. For each level, there are associated service and operational strategies. We will expand Muni service intentionally to address past problems, like subway crowding. Our plans actively respond to ridership data and community input and feedback. This is a data-driven plan to help not only us, but the city, succeed in our shared efforts.
For the first couple levels, the Transportation Recovery Plan maintains the current Core Service routes with increased capacity and frequency. We have seen significant travel time savings due to reduced congestion during this public health emergency, which also equates to lower costs, as compared to buses sitting in traffic. We’ll be looking to expand our network of transit lanes to preserve these gains and protect riders from feeling the effects of budget cuts due to the economic impacts of the COVID-19 crisis.
Making the streets safer to accommodate walking and biking as we emerge from Shelter-in-Place is pivotal to limiting a potential surge in traffic congestion. Our Slow Streets program, implemented during the shelter-in-place order, will continue as part of our recovery-- giving people more space to walk and bike for essential trips with appropriate physical distancing. Expanding Slow Streets supports more people walking and biking instead of driving or taking Muni. Additionally, we are investigating low-cost, reversible street treatments known as Quick Build to add bike lanes and safety improvements to certain streets that connect bicyclists to businesses.
One part of the plan I am personally committed to is ensuring that the SFMTA supports local business recovery. We are closely following the work of the Economic Recovery Task Force and are ready to offer solutions – this could mean things like providing street or curb space to requesting businesses where possible. These, among other services delivered by the SFMTA, will roll out in coordination with the broader work of our city partners.
Above all, the health and security of our employees will always be at the forefront of our plan. Safeguarding our employees is both the right thing to do and fundamental to our ability to serve the public. We are proud we have been able to maintain some of the lowest rates of COVID-19 cases among major American transit agencies. This is not by luck or happenstance. From increasing vehicle cleanings to an early and on-going procurement of protective equipment for frontline staff, we have been proactive about employee health, which in turn promotes community health.
While Muni ridership has hit unprecedented lows over the last few months, we’re grateful to those who’ve stayed home to slow the spread of COVID-19 or taken non-Muni trips to allow those who had no other option to get to essential jobs and services. As more businesses re-open and more services become available, it is critical that the SFMTA support the city’s new normal. We also need to bear in mind the limited resources of the agency and unique needs of mitigating risk in an environment with an invisible virus.
San Franciscans have historically adapted to change very well, and the residents of our city have always been on the forefront of not only accepting but advocating for positive and meaningful change. If we are going to bring back our transportation system better than it was before COVID, we are going to have to engage in some discussions about trade-offs. For example, with reduced revenue, do we provide less service or do we provide service more efficiently by strategically dedicating road space to transit?
We are incredibly thankful to all San Franciscans for your resiliency and your contributions to flattening the curve thus far. The SFMTA will continue to be here to support you in ways that will feel familiar, but also in new ways that may feel a little different as we operate in a new era. We would be remiss without thanking Mayor London Breed for her leadership during this time. Members of the Board of Supervisors and other stakeholders have provided valuable partnerships. We are also incredibly grateful for our congressional delegation, which advocated for relief funding that has helped us avoid layoffs and continue service during the pandemic.
With continued support from regional leaders and continued patience from San Franciscans, we will emerge from this stronger and more resilient.
Published May 20, 2020 at 12:22AM
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Reimagine Potrero Yard with Us – Spring 2020 Update
By Adrienne Heim
During this difficult time, we must do everything we can to maintain our health and wellness. In response to COVID-19, many of our city services have been temporarily transformed, but despite this pandemic, it’s important that we continue to invest in our infrastructure to keep current and future generations moving throughout San Francisco. Potrero Yard, one of Muni’s oldest bus yards, is indeed an essential project that will continue to move forward.
Improvements proposed through the Potrero Yard Modernization Project offer solutions to ensure we maintain our fleet of buses as efficiently as possible, accommodate our new buses that will be delivered in the next six years, enhance our resilience to climate change and natural disasters, and ensure our staff is able to perform their work in a safe and efficient way.
Potrero Yard Today
Potrero Yard operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to support six Muni routes (5 Fulton, 5R Fulton Rapid, 6 Haight/Parnassus, 14 Mission, 22 Fillmore, and 30 Stockton) that carry 14% of Muni’s total ridership per day.
Due to the building’s age and changes in bus fleet technology, major improvements are needed to ensure we continue operating this facility for the next 100+ years.
The Project Concept
Last October, we hosted an Open House to present the draft project concept and hear your feedback. Over an 18-month period of community engagement, a draft project concept was developed for a new Potrero Yard that serves the community, supports our workforce, and reflects the values of the neighborhood.
The modern yard will be able to store 213 buses, increasing capacity by approximately 50%.
In addition, the facility will include the following features:
- LEED Gold Certification
- Built to an elevated structural and seismic standard
- Infrastructure for battery-electric buses
- Centralized location for Street Operations - Muni’s “first responders”
- Centralized, modern space for Muni operator training
- Ground floor active uses on Bryant and possibly 17th streets
Housing on Top of the Yard
We partnered with other City departments (SF Planning Department, Public Works, Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development, and Office of Economic and Workforce Development) to explore how the land can be used to accommodate housing above Potrero Yard. Guided by input from the community, the SFMTA has concluded that housing is a feasible, compatible use on the site.
The SFMTA is proposing a range of 525 to 575 housing units with a goal that 50% of the total units are affordable. Many factors informed the proposed project’s size and unit count, such as building height, massing, financial feasibility, and shadow considerations.
Where we Are Now
The environmental review process is underway, and we are developing a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for a joint development partner to design and build the project. We are also introducing legislation to the Board of Supervisors that will enable the SFMTA to deliver the project following a continued public process and environmental review and approval process.
Since November 2019, we have been working with the Planning Department on the environmental review process (CEQA) that will analyze potential environmental impacts and identify strategies for mitigating those impacts.
At the same time, we are working on the RFQ and RFP to procure a joint development partner to finance and build the project. The RFQ process will evaluate the qualifications of proposed project teams and determine the top three responders based on an evaluation of their relevant experience and qualifications. Those top three responders would then be invited to submit a full proposal through a subsequent RFP process. We hope to release the initial RFQ in early June to develop the shortlist of qualified firms. We will then issue an RFP to shortlisted firms in late summer.
Join the Conversation
We recently sent out a spring 2020 update brochure through the mail and email to residents who live near Potrero Yard, Muni employees, and community stakeholders who are generally interested in the project.
Participate in virtual conversations and telephone events:
Saturday, June 6, 11 AM to noon (English), Call 877-229-8493 and enter 119593#
Saturday, June 6, 1 PM to 2 PM (Spanish), Call +1-669-900-6833 and enter 81568997301#
We hope you can join us!
You can also provide input by participating in a phone-based survey by texting “Potrero” to (415) 599-8662 in English or “Potrero” to (415) 707-5406 in Spanish
Learn more about the project and subscribe to project updates by visiting www.sfmta.com/PotreroYard.
Also visit Talking Headways Podcast: Housing on the Bus Yard to hear the project team discuss the project.
For more information, please email PotreroYard@sfmta.com or call us at 415.646.2223.
Published May 19, 2020 at 06:16PM
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