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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2017-12-13 | 6 | Arnold Brillinger: They're going to buy 12 to 15 buses to begin with, and use them on the routes where they really have so many people wanting to get into San Francisco, mostly in Emeryville and Berkeley. Those were the things that were discussed there. The Salesforce Tower, you see that now sticking up, and that's the center of the Trans-Bay, the whole terminal thing. Where the Muni will match in with AC Transit and Contra Costa, their commuters and all kinds of things and trains, and who knows what. It's going to be really a fantastic thing when they get it all together. Because it's going to be the tallest building in San Francisco for a while and the second tallest building in the state. That's pretty much it for the ILC meeting. Arnold Brillinger: And then the Transportation Commission had a meeting on the 15th of November at 7:00 PM and they approved the AC Transit's Trans-Bay Tomorrow proposal because they got the presentation too. Except, it didn't want to reduce some of the OX frequency, and that's what AC transit was saying, "Let's do it this way." And the Transportation Commission said, "Ah, that's the part we don't want to happen." And then, there was a status report on a plan for access to the Harbor Bay Ferry terminal. That again is, "Do we charge for parking? Do we do this? Can we get the buses to be there on time?", and so forth. They had some discussion on that. Arnold Brillinger: And then, the last thing, and this was really exciting to me, I heard a suggestion, and this was during the public comments. And the person who gave the presentation was suggesting that Alameda and, well in the East Bay, that they have a tramway, gondolas, big ones, going from the west end, somewhere there, across the water and I would have thought connect with Jack London Square or Jack London area. No, they said, "Let's go to the West Oakland terminal, the BART terminal," which would make a lot of sense. Arnold Brillinger: Like I said, that was just a suggestion. They didn't discuss that, but I thought, "Whoa, this sounds really neat. And at least somebody is thinking about trying to work it out, the transportation issues here." Arnold Brillinger: There is one more thing that I need to talk about, and that's that right after Halloween the Alameda Shuttle started going around. Have you seen it yet? I'm sorry. Excuse me. But, the Alameda Shuttle, they've got two buses, they're brand new buses. And like the old bus, you just kind of look at it and say, "I wonder what that is." This one says, "Alameda Loop Shuttle, free for all." I was on that committee to get the bus wrap and stuff like that, and I really pushed for that "free for all", and it says that on either side, also in the back and in the front, because we want to get as many people on this. It's going to be making the round. People ought to get on it, save some of their gas and emissions. And it works on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, and it used to take an hour. Well, it still takes an hour to take the whole trip around. But now, with two buses, every half hour, a bus is going by the different places. It makes it easier and you don't have to wait so long. Arnold Brillinger: The Tuesday loop goes the central part of Alameda, the library, the cinema, the Kaiser Permanente, those things right here in the center, and also Mastick, and goes out to Alameda Landing, around Target, those stores out there. Also, that's where the Center for Independent Living, CIL, is out there too. Their office is not really that close to the street, but there is a place to get off and get on there. Speaker 1: They're in the loop now? 12/12/17 Page 6 of 10 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-12-13.pdf |