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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2016-12-14 | 14 | sometimes places where we could put benches, so that's one thing we're looking at. Actually, an intern is looking at that right now. Transportation awareness campaigns, what we've heard is, is a lot of options, yet people just don't understand what's all out there. Just getting the word out better and in various languages in different ways and getting the word out about how you could change your travel patterns. Gail Payne: There's this concept of vision zero and we plan on rolling that out and what that means is, it's a way of thinking and prioritizing projects that it really focuses on safety. Looking at where there's some severe injuries and fatal collisions is really looking at how we could improve that intersection or that corridor so that those types of collisions don't happen anymore in our community. We are lucky that we only have 25 miles per hour speed limit on most of our streets, and so we are a community with fewer severe injuries and fatalities, yet we want to even reduce it to zero as this policy states. Gail Payne: And then for the mid-term projects. The ones that I thought would be most interesting are these: one idea is this bus queue jump lanes, and that's from a complaint that the bus is so slow. How can we get the bus to be faster than people driving alone? Just have it jump the queue in various places when it can. We found a few places in town where it could do that. So focusing on making buses faster. In general, we also heard that it would be great to have transit more frequent. That's true for ferry service. That's true for Transbay buses, local buses, so that's a big push there. Gail Payne: We also have heard a big interest in using our water more efficiently. The estuary, we're an island right off Oakland, so how could we maybe have a water shuttle system, better use of that with the new developments along northern waterfront? I also think it's interesting too is we have this autonomous driverless vehicle policy and implementation and how we can work towards having those driverless vehicles here in town, and what we need to do to change our infrastructure to make that happen like traffic signals that communicate to the driverless vehicles. We really need to, as a community, think ahead and when we upgrade our signals and signage, etcetera, so the driverless vehicles can understand our streets easier. Gail Payne: And people are saying, "This could even happen, driverless vehicles could be out and about within five years." I think that sounds a little ambitious personally, but we need to really prepare cause for a local jurisdiction, five years is like yesterday. [chuckle] That makes me really nervous, and that's something that's definitely on our mind. But if you think about it in terms of disabilities, that that is a real game changer. And so that could be a real exciting change once we gradually get to that. It's just that, hopefully, it can all be done safely. Gail Payne: And for the long-term projects, we realize this is very long-term thinking, yet BART is looking at coming to Alameda, and it's part of this third larger, much larger third crossing project that would go third crossing to San Francisco. It's part of a new route basically as another second Transbay Tube that in case of a seismic event, as the Transbay Tube is over 40 years old, we have some type of redundancy in the Transbay routes. That's just something that we're tracking and I was actually at a meeting about it last night. It is something that takes some staff time even though it's not expected to come, for say, 30 years or SO. But it is something we need to monitor as a community and what types of impacts that could have on our community. Gail Payne: And then the last one, is we heard a lot of the frustrations of using the tubes and the congestion in the West End because on the East End we have several ways getting in and out, whereas on the West End we just have the tubes. So when the tubes go down for whatever reason, collision or what have you, it really does cause havoc and it's tough for bicycles, it's tough for people walking, and how can we make that better? So that's something we really delving into. Again, if there's a seismic event, we're very sensitive about that. We don't know if it would function after a major seismic | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2016-12-14.pdf |