Adoption of Resolution Approving the Alameda County Transportation Commission Measure BB Master Programs Funding Agreement and Authorizing the Interim City Manager to Execute all Documents. (Public Works 4255)
Adoption resolution approval. Oh, wait. We have a speaker here on this one. We do a resolution approving the Alameda County Transportation Commission, Measure B, master programs funding agreement and authorizing the interim city manager to execute a document. And our speaker, Darcy Morrison. On five and I want to express my opposition to any Fruitvale BRT system pending a very thorough and public discussion of. What that system will look like. I keep reading that this is AC Transit's Plan, quote unquote. AC Transit doesn't control Alameda. The residents do. We have only heard. Bits and pieces about this. By comparison, when AC Transit planned its Berkeley to San Leandro BRT system, it was under. Discussion very publicly for years. Yet here we haven't announced to us like it's already been decided. A bus rapid transit system is a bus route with dedicated lanes and various other features like queue jumping and signal priority. It's supposed to run virtually without. Any delay between stops. It is intended. For a very congested urban corridor, something that we don't have here, except that the. Crossings the Berkeley to San Leandro system was supposed to run 17 miles and save 15 minutes in travel time. So do the math. A bus running along Lincoln have a 25 miles per hour. We'll save just a few minutes in travel time. If it interferes. With traffic at the crossings. With signal priority, for example, it will increase congestion without saving any significant time. The dedicated lanes result in a loss of traffic lanes, of course, and the standard fix is to remove the parking along the street, which would be a disaster here. In fact, Berkeley turned down the proposed BRT system for precisely the reason because it would harm businesses, among other things. They went instead with the obvious alternative to the elaborate BRT bus, a simple express bus with limited stops which runs efficiently without causing massive disruption. I've also heard that the Fruitvale Bridge might be. Rebuilt to accommodate a BRT system. Let me point out the obvious. So once you cross the bridge, you're in Oakland and there's only three lanes. Not to mention a freeway underpass. I have no faith in this planning process. I think it's cookie cutter planning, which is liable to do a great deal more harm than good here. And I'm tired of being dictated to by regional agencies. Let me suggest very strongly that with this and anything else that might seriously affect traffic, that the city run articles in the newspaper informing the public of the plans and then following follow it with weekend meetings to heavily publicize to explain further what these plans are. I'm going to comment briefly on site as well on the proposed BRT system there and say the same thing that the same objections apply. It's 800 units at Alameda Point versus the versus 30,000 units and the rest of the island. We need an absolute commitment that nothing about the transit planning and I don't mean to point would cause any predictable or preventable delays to traffic at the tubes. And I would like to see the site atrium plan amended to spell that out. I would also like to see an article in the paper spelling out what the points BRT system would look like. It's not at all clear in the term plan. I'm aware of all the hearings. I'm also aware that most people have no idea what a BRT system is. Frankly, I think we're entitled to the same level of discussion here that occurred in our neighboring cities, and it hasn't happened. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Do we have motion? I'll move approval of the item a second. All right. A discussion. I'd like staff. It's my understanding from looking at this that this is asking us to approve the first year expenditures. Now explain what we're being asked to. My name is Virendra Patel, transportation engineer, public works. As far as this agreement, this master funding agreement is concerned, it's only for direct local distribution. It is not a capital project that that is part of the measure, Bobbie. So this is just a direct local distribution that is coming to the city for bike and pedestrian improvement, infrastructure improvement, road, local streets, roads or sidewalks, potholes and payment rehab. And it's for one year, right? Yes. It's only the revenues collected. April 1st, 2015 through June 30th, 2016. Which is. Whereas B.B. is 25 years or something. Was it was it was a long. It's 2015 to 20 4530. Okay. And in regards to the BRT system. Will our community have an opportunity to discuss the Fruitvale that the example is for Fruitvale? Well, we've be having community meetings about that. Will we have any input as a community? The the projects are already included in the measure b. B when the voters went in November 2014, when it was passed. So right now, CDC, Alameda County Transportation Commission is basically looking for the timeline for individual project. And Fruitvale Avenue. BART is is one of the projects that we have to discuss in terms of giving AC DC the timeline for the project, but there's no discussion for that publicly. And that was specified in B that it would include that specifically. So when the tax when the voters went to vote for it, then they approved the project at that time. Correct. Okay. So this has to be Archie or Fruitvale, which is what the speaker spoke to. My understanding there's also a BRT through the rest of us, too. Is that correct? Or is that some other system? No, no, not that. Is there are there any other breaches that were. This is the only one in the Fruitvale. But would you know what the route is? It's it's basically from Alameda to to from 12 BART station. To or. It's either along Lincoln from Alameda Point all the way to 412. BART or so. So it goes directly across Lincoln? Correct. So in regards to any concerns of businesses, of not having stops at businesses, would there not be any stops along Lincoln, do you know? There will be stops and that part has not been identified. We will definitely have to go to go to the public process to in order to give them the project definition as to where the stops would be. Nothing of that sort has been discussed yet. And that was very. Preliminary. And that will be discussed within our community. We will have those discussions. Yes. When do you anticipate that will be? I would I it's subject to other grants that Alameda Point Partners are seeking. So this is part of the art of the Tiger brand as a match to this will be when it comes to that point. It will be brought forward. Okay. And Will. On that. Is the city. Will we be we will fully advertise, communicate with the public businesses. Thank you, Madam Mayor. I'm Bob Hahn, Public Works director. Let me make one correction. We actually have two potential BRT lanes. One is on Ralph Hap Azhar Memorial Parkway. We will be applying for the grant next month on that one, the Tiger grant for that. And so if we get the Tiger grant there, and that's two and that is two through the tubes. Okay. Yep, yep. So up our up Ralph out, you know, up ramp, left turn. And then we now have a clear transit lane. If you've been out there from Atlantic all the way through the tubes or not all the way through the tubes that are up to the tubes for the busses. And so the plan is, is to bring people up quickly on ramp, make that left turn and get them through the tube. Again, this is all designed to reduce the number of cars going through. Okay. And was that specified specifically in Beebe that. That's not that it will not. We have match money from Beebe going to that, but it's not specifically specified because that's our grant that are asked. Okay. And will we be having community discussions. That. We'd be having as public works always does and takes great pride in? We will have extensive community meetings, publications, ads in the newspapers and opportunities on the website for people to comment on all of our projects before they move forward. Wonderful. All right. And then your second one is the one that we were earlier discussing. And the second one is the same thing. We will have community meetings. We will have ads in the paper. We will have public discussion. We will have posting on websites. We will have we have a variety of opportunities for the public to comment on all of our projects prior to implementation. Thank you. Any other council questions? Comments. I really appreciate your response and the speaker's comments. All right. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor. I oppose pensions. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Next item is. No, that's all concerned. Okay. We've made it through consent now. Regular agenda item six A. Adoption of resolutions appointing Stephanie Ship as a member of the Housing Authority Board of Commissioners and Summer Carter and Brandi Graham as members of the Public Art Commission. Would the minister, though.