San Francisco Transit Effectiveness Project (SFTEP)

 

MEETING SUMMARY

SFTEP Policy Advisory Group Meeting

July 18, 2007

9:00 AM – 11:00 AM

City Hall, Room 278

 

Following is a summary of the July 18^th meeting of the SFTEP Policy Advisory Group (PAG) for the Transit Effectiveness Project (TEP). This meeting focused almost exclusively on a presentation summarizing the draft findings of the Muni Operations Review.�

 

Participants:

 

PAG Members/Alternates �     Win Din, SFMTA Board �     Boe Hayward (for Bevan Dufty, SF Board of Supervisors) �     Nathaniel P. Ford, Sr., SFMTA �     Ed Harrington, Controller’s Office �     Glenda Lavigne, TWU Local 200 �     Irwin Lum, TWU Local 250A �     Joanna Fraguli, Mayor’s Office on Disability �     Daniel Murphy, SFMTA CAC �     Leah Shahum, SFMTA Board �     Stuart Sunshine, Mayor’s Office

SFMTA Staff   Julie Kirschbaum Maggie Lynch Ken McDonald Judy Tam Britt Tanner   Controller’s Office Staff   Sally Allen Peg Stevenson

TEP Consultant Team   Russ Chisholm, TMD

 

OPERATIONS REVIEW PRESENTATION

 

Russ Chisholm presented draft preliminary findings from a review of Muni operations, covering three broad areas:

�         Service Planning and Scheduling

�         Division Management

�         Field Service Management

 

The presentation emphasized system reliability as the number one issue.� Preliminary recommendations for achieving reliability include a multi-pronged effort focused on increased staffing in critical functions, and procurement and deployment of new technologies (e.g., radio system, train control system).� This report will continue to be refined as findings are shared with stakeholders and the SFMTA Board.

 

PAG Member Comments

 

�        Fleet availability will be key.

�        Consider creating a staffing model based on either generic or real numbers to see what the cost is for a full staff.

�        Map out issues of the next 2 to 5 years to document improvements and the TEP along with timelines, due dates, and what is to be accomplished.

�        The number of days for operator sick leave per annum looks inaccurate.� Please double check to see why it is so high.

�        SFMTA’s next step should be to map out a five-year work plan and budget to address these findings. Some recommendations are already being addressed (e.g., including more scheduling staff in the FY08 budget).

�        It would be helpful for project staff to provide a master schedule of all TEP findings and recommendations, with an estimated timeline and budget.

 

 

DISABILITY SURVEY PRESENTATION

 

TEP Program Manager Julie Kirschbaum presented the survey developed with the Mayor’s Office on Disability for seniors and persons with disabilities. ��This survey will help inform the project about the transit needs of these stakeholders and the purposes for which they are using public transit.� The survey results will inform TEP service planning efforts as will, the Automatic Passenger Counters (APC) data on the wheelchair lift deployments.

 

 

PAG Member Comments

�        We are looking forward to the service assessment data.

 

 

PUBLIC COMMENT

 

Thank you to those who participated in the June 30, 2007 Mayor’s Community Policy Forum on Transportation held in Chinatown.� The community really appreciated the outreach and more information about the TEP.�

 

 

NEXT STEPS

 

The next PAG meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, August 15, 2007 from 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM in room 278 of City Hall.[1]� In-reach and outreach will be an item on the next agenda.