{"body": "TransportationCommission", "date": "2019-11-20", "page": 1, "text": "Transportation Commission 1-22-20\nItem 4-A\nAPPROVED MINUTES\nREGULAR MEETING OF THE\nCITY OF ALAMEDA TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION\nWEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2019\nChair Soules convened the meeting at 7:00 p.m.\n1. ROLL CALL\nPresent: Chair Soules, Commissioners Nachtigall, Kohlstrand, Hans, Johnson, Weitze.\nAbsent: Yuen.\n2. AGENDA CHANGES\nA portion of Staff Communications was moved to the front of the agenda in order to allow\nthe City Engineer to introduce new staff members and provide an update related to Vision\nZero actions.\n*STAFF COMMUNICATIONS'\nScott Wikstrom, City Engineer, introduced two new engineering hires for the Public Works\nDepartment. Donya Amiri, Traffic Engineer, and Robert Vance who will be supervising\nmany of the capital improvement projects that come before the Transportation\nCommission.\nStaff Member Amiri introduced herself to the Commission.\nRobert Vance, Senior Engineer, introduced himself to the Commission.\nRochelle Wheeler, Senior Transportation Coordinator, provided an update on the\nTransportation Choices Plan outreach process. She said the recent open house was well\nattended and a big success. She said the project webpage is now up at\nActiveAlameda.org. She noted the City Council unanimously adopted the Vision Zero\nPolicy at its November 5th meeting.\nStaff Member Amiri reported on short term actions being taken in response to recent youth\ninvolved collisions, including refreshed crosswalks, daylighting intersections, adding\nadvanced stop bars, replacing signage, and changes to signal operations to improve\npedestrian safety. She said there would be a citywide speed survey completed soon which\ncan provide opportunities to reduce speed limits and analyze flow characteristics.\n3. ANNOUNCEMENTS/PUBLIC COMMENT\n3-A Transportation Commission Meeting: Wed, Jan 22 at 7 p.m.\n3-B Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) 2020 Trainings: register on Fire\nDepartment web page\n1", "path": "TransportationCommission/2019-11-20.pdf"}
{"body": "TransportationCommission", "date": "2019-11-20", "page": 2, "text": "Transportation Commission 1-22-20\nItem 4-A\n3-C Alameda Active Transportation Plan web page: www.ActiveAlameda.org\n3-D Emergency Alerts for Alameda - Subscribe at AC Alert web page:\ntps://www.acgov.org/emergencysite/\n3-E Regional Emergency Transportation Alerts - Subscribe:\nhttps://511.org/alerts/emergencies/511Alert\n3-F Clipper Card (adults) - order on line or at Walgreens or set up Autoload to add value\nautomatically: https://www.clippercard.com/ClipperWeb/getTranslink.do\n3-G Clipper Card Discounts for youth, seniors and people with disabilities\n-\nhttps://www.clippercard.com/ClipperWeb/discounts/index.do\n3-H Clipper Card senior sign-up event at Mastick Senior Center - Tues, Dec 17 at 1 p.m.\n- Conference Room D\n3-I FasTrak or new toll tag for upcoming I-880 Express Lanes scheduled to open late\nsummer 2020: on line or at Walgreens (except not Park Street location) and then register\non line: ittps://www.bayareafastrak.org/en/signup/signUp.shtm\nLaura Katz said her 15 year old daughter was struck in a crosswalk at Fernside and High\nSt. by a hit and run driver on October 3rd. She said it has been a traumatic event for her\nfamily. She requested crossing guards and improvements along the entire corridor of\nFernside from Versailles to High.\nAndy Stoddard said he would like to see a light on Fernside at Harvard. He said people\ngo too fast. He said they have been trying to address that area for at least 12 years. He\nsuggested having the commissioners do a visit to the site.\nCommissioner Kohlstrand said she walks that corridor regularly and that it is a very\ndangerous corridor.\nChair Soules noted that many of the recent collisions have been happening around the\ntime change.\nCommissioner Johnson said he lives near Fernside and understands the concerns there\nvery well.\nMaria Gallo requested the commissioners to come walk the corridor with the residents.\nShe asked for stop signs and other measures to help slow cars down.\n2", "path": "TransportationCommission/2019-11-20.pdf"}
{"body": "TransportationCommission", "date": "2019-11-20", "page": 3, "text": "Transportation Commission 1-22-20\nItem 4-A\n4. CONSENT CALENDAR\n4-A 2019-7469\nDraft Meeting Minutes - September 25, 2019\nCommissioner Kohlstrand moved approval of the minutes. Commissioner Nachtigall\nseconded the motion. The motion passed 6-0.\n5. NEW BUSINESS\n5-A 2019-7470\nDiscuss the AC Transit Line 19 Promotional Pilot Program\nGail Payne, Senior Transportation Coordinator, gave a report. The staff report and\nattachments\ncan\nbe\nfound\nat:\nhttps://alameda.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=4228445&GUID=E655A108-\nCE47-448B-B312-E6AC7D057282&FullText=1.\nKristy Cannon said it was a good experience interacting one on one with residents and\nthey learned a lot about barriers people have that prevent transit usage.\nChair Soules said she loved the model of this program.\nCommissioner Nachtigall thanked the team for their efforts, noting that the team knocked\non her door as well.\nCommissioner Weitze said the Line 19 has a branding problem. He said the \"BART\nShuttle\" branding is powerful and should be incorporated into the signage on the bus\ndisplays.\nNo action was taken.\n5-B 2019-7471\nReview and Comment on Draft Goals for AC Transit's Comprehensive Operations\nAnalysis\nStaff Member Payne gave a presentation. The staff report and attachments can be found\nat: https://alameda.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=4228572&GUID=10E395B0-\n4726-44A0-9E74-EB10D2E078B7&FullText=\nCommissioner Kohlstrand said that successful transit is dependent upon three factors in\nan area: income levels, automobile ownership, and density. She said we need to make\nour transit investments in concert with our land use decisions, focusing on our densest\ncorridors. She said we are setting ourselves up to have to subsidize the services outlined\nin these goals that might not be the most efficient allocation of resources.\nChair Soules said there is a disconnect between the statements that we are well served\nby transit and the public's impression that they cannot get where they need to go in a given\n3", "path": "TransportationCommission/2019-11-20.pdf"}
{"body": "TransportationCommission", "date": "2019-11-20", "page": 4, "text": "Mirabelle Reyes, appellant, said she started keeping track of the crashes at the\nintersection since 2016. She said drivers are speeding to try and make the light at the next\nintersection. She said there are many kids, elderly and people pushing strollers at this\ndangerous intersection. She said the intersection needs a four way stop.\nCommissioner Nachtigall asked Ms. Reyes what she meant by a systems issue.\n4", "path": "TransportationCommission/2019-11-20.pdf"}
{"body": "TransportationCommission", "date": "2019-11-20", "page": 5, "text": "Transportation Commission 1-22-20\nItem 4-A\nMs. Reyes said that Oak Street is a high injury corridor with lots of speeding and the traffic\nflow is not being contained correctly.\nCommissioner Kohlstrand asked if Ms. Reyes had evidence that there have been five or\nmore collisions in the past 12 months.\nMs. Reyes said she shared some images with Public Works staff.\nChair Soules asked Staff Member Wikstrom to explain the warrant process and data\ndiscrepancies.\nStaff Member Wikstrom said they use the police logs, which only include incidents that\ngenerate a police report. He said that Oak Street is a common bypass for Park Street. He\nadded that collision numbers have been mostly stable in Alameda over the past ten years.\nCommissioner Johnson said he biked through the intersection in order to evaluate the\nsafety. He said the visibility at the intersection was now pretty good. He said he did not\nbelieve there were crosswalks marked across Oak Street, which he thinks may help in\nthat area.\nStaff Member Wikstrom said that creating an uncontrolled crosswalks imply a degree of\nsafety when the vehicles on Oak do not need to stop. He said they are mindful to limit the\nnumber of those, but might want to install rectangular rapid flashing beacons at those\ntypes of crossings.\nCommissioner Kohlstrand said this intersection would be a good candidate to return to in\nsix months or a year to see if the visibility improvements have reduced collisions.\nChair Soules asked that staff give more information at a future meeting about what Vision\nZero is and what the effort is about to provide context for the community.\nCommissioner Hans said we need to improve how we collect data on minor traffic\nincidents.\nStaff Member Wheeler explained some of the ways they will be collecting data for the\nActive Transportation Plan.\nChair Soules summarized the Commission's feedback: staff will look for ways to improve\nthe ability to report and how that impacts the warrant process; report back on how the\ndaylighting improvements are working at Pacific and Oak.\n5", "path": "TransportationCommission/2019-11-20.pdf"}
{"body": "TransportationCommission", "date": "2019-11-20", "page": 6, "text": "Transportation Commission 1-22-20\nItem 4-A\nCommissioner Johnson made a motion to uphold staff's decision not to install a\nfour way stop at Pacific and Oak. Commissioner Weitze seconded the motion. The\nmotion passed 6-0.\n5-D 2019-7473\nDiscuss Electric Vehicle Adoption\nStaff Member Payne gave a presentation. The report and attachments can be found at:\nhttps://alameda.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=4228580&GUID=2C474DDF-\nF4DD-4A03-B091-CC1E8E09A727&FullText=1\nSonia Manrique, Alameda Municipal Power, continued the presentation.\nCommissioner Weitze asked about the fleet replacement policy and whether replacing\nexisting vehicles with new electric vehicles was a net benefit.\nStaff Member Payne said they are replacing vehicles that are beyond their useful life. She\nadded that charging capacity is the main limiting factor to the number of EVs they can\npurchase at this time.\nCommissioner Weitze asked what would happen to the green energy surcharge once the\nshift to 100 percent clean energy occurs.\nRebecca Irwin, Alameda Municipal Power, said they will be repositioning the Alameda\nGreen program to allow people to green up the regional grid instead of just their individual\nhome.\nCommissioner Weitze asked if the rebate would apply towards the infrastructure or just\nthe charger.\nStaff Member Irwin said that the rebates can be applied towards infrastructure, but that\nmultifamily units present unique challenges that can dramatically increase the cost of\nadding individual chargers. She added that AMP staff will come out and talk through the\nissues for any particular site.\nCommissioner Nachtigall asked if the rebate would apply to leased EVs.\nStaff Member Irwin said that AMP is focusing on rebating used vehicles, saying that the\nmarket is already taking care of encouraging new vehicles.\nNo action was taken.\n6. STAFF COMMUNICATIONS\n6-A Potential Future Meeting Agenda Items\n1. Annual Report for the Transportation Choices Plan and the Climate Action and\n6", "path": "TransportationCommission/2019-11-20.pdf"}
{"body": "TransportationCommission", "date": "2019-11-20", "page": 7, "text": "Transportation Commission 1-22-20\nItem 4-A\nResiliency Plan\n2. Annual Report for the Alameda Transportation Management Association (TMA) and\nthe Alameda Landing TMA\n6-B Future Meeting Dates for 2020 - Meetings start at 7 p.m.\n1. Wednesday, January 22\n2. Wednesday, March 25\n3. Wednesday, May 27\n4. Wednesday, July 22\n5. Wednesday, September 23\n6. Wednesday, November 18\n7. ANNOUNCEMENTS/PUBLIC COMMENT\nJim Strehlow said that not everyone in the Fernside area would be agreeable to changes\nto Fernside that would favor neighbors on the north side of Fernside. He said the center\nturn lane solves a lot of needs for people that live on Fernside. He asked that all neighbors\nbe included in a meeting on the issue.\nChair Soules asked that the Fernside HOA be included when staff arranges a site visit for\ncommissioners and neighbors of Fernside and Harvard.\n8. ADJOURNMENT\nChair Soules adjourned the meeting at 8:58 p.m.\n7", "path": "TransportationCommission/2019-11-20.pdf"}