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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2017-12-13 | 5 | 5. OLD BUSINESS 5-A. Commission and Board Liaison Reports Beth Kenny: Now we move on to old business. Section 5-A: Commission and Board Liaison Reports. I would like to start this off with Vice Chair Brillinger. I was fortunate enough to attend a thing in which I got to see his board liaison work. Arnold Brillinger: Well, okay. I've been to a number of meetings that deal with transportation in Alameda. And the first one that I went to was right after our last meeting. It was the ILC [City of Alameda and AC Transit Interagency Liaison Committee], and the highlights I'd like to tell you about that. It was on the 16th of October at 10:00 in the morning. It was in this room right next to us here. The ILC is basically people from AC Transit, some of the people from the board of directors, and also several people from Alameda; the mayor, the vice mayor, whoever, councilmen. They meet, and they talk about the different transportation, things that happen in Alameda. One of the things that they do have, and I've been to these meetings before, but I never really looked at some of these handouts that they have. And just like for the 51A, for the bus line, they've got all kinds of ridership and customer trends on what's happening. They have lists of our charts that talk about conduct and courtesy of the drivers, the amount of complaints they get on pass-ups, or hazardous driving, or routes and schedule problems, or no shows, or lates, or if there are problems at the bus stop. Maybe there's a lot of garbage or something like that at the bus stop. Those are all things that they keep track of, and for each individual bus route. Not just the 51A, but the 21 and the 20 and the 96. Boy sounds like I know them all. Arnold Brillinger: That was interesting. And of course it's not like they've got 86 complaints about signage. They've only got one or two complaints on this item or that. But still, it's interesting and then you can compare them month to month or actually quarter to quarter, because they meet four times a year. Now one of the things that I knew they were going to discuss was service to the Main Street Ferry Terminal. And they had three different options that they were interested in, and it turns out that none of them are going to be considered right now. AC Transit can't make it. They want it to pay for itself, but there are a lot of problems down there with the parking. I've seen it myself along Main Street, it's quite horrendous what people have to do. We need to get them interested in taking the bus, but there is no bus going there. That is a problem. And then the line 21, which goes out to the Harbor Bay area, there have been some problems with that because parents need to drop off their kids and then run over there to hop onto the ferry, but then there's no parking for their cars. Arnold Brillinger: And if they take the bus it just adds on time between get the kids in the school and this kind of stuff but, they're working on it, and they're trying to make sure that the buses get there in time so people can get onto the ferry. And they asked, "Well can we just say "We're right around the corner of the ferry."? They say, "Well that really doesn't work for us because we are on time, the ferry is on time, they need to keep their schedules." Those are some things that they discussed, but they're going to try and work them out because we need to have a lot of people taking the buses to the ferry. And the fourth thing that they discussed was a Trans-Bay Terminal. That's a whole project that AC Transit has on getting the commuters to San Francisco. It's really interesting. They're going to buy some double-decker buses to get people to San Francisco, but they're not going to use them in Alameda. 12/12/17 Page 5 of 10 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-12-13.pdf |