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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2016-12-14 | 13 | Gail Payne: And this chart shows that some of the low-hanging fruit is actually, a lot of drive alone trips happen for commuters going to Oakland in the inner East Bay. And that's a pie chart showing that 78% of people drive alone to work from Alameda to the inner East Bay. But then, the opposite is true for San Francisco, 78% commute via transit to San Francisco. What's really working is transit to San Francisco and how can we get more people taking transit to inner East Bay? The strategies when we look at these geographic issues, we have four strategies here. How can we improve access to and from Oakland? We see that as a low-hanging fruit because a lot of people are driving alone right now. And how can we improve also access to and from San Francisco? And some people say, "Why are you even focusing on that? It's obviously working." Well, people are actually attracted here because of our proximity to San Francisco and it's causing the Transbay buses to be super packed, tight. BART's hard to access. Super packed tight, crowded BART trains, and then ferries are hard to access now. They sometimes have to turn away people, can't take everyone. So, we have to keep up with this demand. Gail Payne: And the third strategy is access within Alameda. Some people, they don't have cars, they can't drive, and so how can we make that better for them? We hear a lot from youth and wanting it to be better for youth as well. Fourth strategy is just really internal, how can we as staff do a better job of managing and monitoring our efforts? First, I'll go over the four strategies real quick. This is the one to and from Oakland that we see as a low-hanging fruit because so much of the trips are happening are drive alone. And then second strategy, access to and from San Francisco. How can we keep up with the demand? Multimodal access within Alameda is the third strategy. And the fourth one is effectively managing and monitoring the transportation efforts. Gail Payne: I just want to go over some of the in-progress projects and actions with you here. There's a lot here, but some of the ones that I think you'd be more interested in, and then I'll go over some of the near-term projects, mid-term and long-term, pick out a few. One of the ones that's happening in March is Line 31 in the West End is going to be changed SO that it actually goes directly to Target. Right now it doesn't quite get as close as it could, so they're rerouting that, so that'll be much better for the West End and everyone can get to Target a little bit easier. Gail Payne: The city based Paratransit program, because of measure BB, we have the ability for the shuttle to run every 30 minutes. Right now, it only runs the one-hour loops, so that's in the works. We also have the ability to hire a part-time Paratransit coordinator. She will be working at Mastick Senior Center and her name is Victoria Williams. She is a retired staff person, Paratransit coordinator from the City of Hayward. We're really fortunate that she accepted the position, and she's a real specialist in Paratransit. When I come to you, I come to you every year on Paratransit so when we come in February, hopefully that will work out and hopefully she can come and introduce herself to you. Gail Payne: A couple other projects on December 18th, we're restoring Line 19 mainly along Buena Vista Avenue. So that's exciting to get this restored bus line in town. And then out of the bike pedestrian improvements, we have the construction of the Cross Alameda Trail in the West End along Appezzato and in Jean Sweeney Open Space Park. And that's about two miles, so that'll be a significant way that people can walk for recreation or commute by bike or whatever along that two- mile stretch. This map is in your packet. Gail Payne: Now I just want to go through real quick some near-term, mid-term and long-term projects that may interest you. For AC Transit policy changes - right now, it costs money to transfer, and so we've requested AC Transit to change that and to have free transfers like they used to. And this is an equity issue and within Alameda, we do require transfers to get from one side of the island to another. It indirectly, or it directly impacts people who have the worst transit, bus service, so it's a little counter-intuitive why they would do that. That's what we're advocating there. Bus stop improvements, why this is important is there aren't benches at all of our bus stops and there are | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2016-12-14.pdf |