and here's looking at each one of our lines and tones of gist of just total ridership and the downtown waterfront shuttle and that's combined state street and waterfront is shown in red just you can kind of see where it falls it's up towards the up towards the highest of our of our riders and total riders and another system wide slide this one shows riders per revenue hour so that's sort of a more a more normalized measure the downtown waterfront shuttle isn't at the top of the line but it's still doing quite well  carrying nearly thirty passengers per hour and that's actually less than we've had in previous years which i'll get into a little bit more later you may recall we increase the fare for the service at the beginning of that fiscal year from twenty five cents for all riders to fifty cents with the twenty five cent fare for senior citizens and persons with disabilities and that did result in a fairly substantial decrease in ridership but still the route does quite well so with that i'll move into talking about the shuttle about almost four hundred and twenty four thousand riders in that fiscal year pretty substantial ridership y'all familiar with the route i suppose but just in case there's the state street portion in blue runs from from the dolphin fountain up to victoria and the waterfront shuttle runs from the harbor to the zoo and red on that map they are separate shuttles for the most part except in the evenings but they do connect they they meet basically at state and cabrillo and there's free transfers between the two services here's a little bit about the schedule  in the summer we run a little more frequently on state street every ten minutes the next slide will show you in the winters every fifteen minutes and on the waterfront we run every fifteen minutes in the summer compared to every thirty minutes the rest of the year and then also in the summer there's late night service on state street and to the zoo but not to the harbor till nine o'clock from six nine now we may be looking at at revising that service in the future and  working with the city on this maybe include late night service to the harbor as well as to the zoo which would make the waterfront service a little less frequent but would provide that service to the harbor so as i said the fall schedule though it's fall winter and spring really is less frequent on state street and on the waterfront both and it doesn't have the late night service um what what's your definition of summer it's memorial day to labor day  ok and find finally i believe my last slide actually it's uh just some more detailed data on the waterfront the downtown waterfront shuttle in that fiscal year so as i said about four hundred and twenty four thousand passengers fifteen thousand four hundred revenue hours a total operating cost and that this is not including depreciation but it's otherwise it's our it's our full operating cost it comes to one million seven hundred and fifty thousand city subsidy fare by down subsidy amounts to somewhat over a million plus a hundred sixty five thousand and in fair revenue so the services you know quite quite heavily subsidized by the city and it's a great partnership between between us in the city twenty seven point six passengers per revenue hour and uh a little over four dollars estimated operating costs per passenger again that went that number went up from the previous year because there were fewer passengers and roughly the same cost so you're spreading that cost over fewer passengers again the passengers went down because we did increase the fare and it led to a fairly substantial decrease i could talk a little bit about that if you'd like fiscal year thirteen compared to the previous fiscal year before the fare increase we saw a decrease of about a hundred and seventeen thousand passengers but an increase in fare revenue of about forty six thousand which is the relationship you expect that you're going to lose some passengers but increase your fare revenue but the passengers did increase at a greater amount than i had expected based on using a traditional  typical kind of a transit fare elasticity the ridership was greater than we forecasted but as i said it still did result in increased fare revenue just not as much of an increase as we had hoped so i'd be happy to answer any questions you might have as far as since that fare increase happened i mean i noticed the percentage was minus three for october and went ridership variance from the year before so does it look like you know it's starting to get back to what it was before that's uh that's an astute observation and we did actually see in the beginning of this new fiscal year again now we're talking about the period from july st on we were still seeing a decrease over even the previous year after the fare increase that happened which was not not a great decrease but somewhat of a decrease and as you point out in octobernovember that decrease lessened and actually i'm happy to report in the december report which you haven't received yet but you will we actually had an increase in ridership over the previous december even though there was one fewer weekday and fisc in december two thousand and thirteen than there was in the previous year so we were real happy to see that so you know one month isn't a trend but at least it is a good a good sign that the  we're hoping will begin to rebound cruise ships yes and is there is there a projection i know there's gonna be more cruise ships this year than there have been before i believe how does that i remember there was talk of there were kind of boosters brought in at some points is that still happening does that affect this or how does it we do at least for most if not all of the cruise ships and cynthia actually knows much more about shuttles and we put out for extra shuttles for every cruise ship plus a supervisor to keep them all moving and on time the passengers pay the regular fare a lot of them are seniors so lot of them pay twenty five cents versus fifty cents and then the same it works the same way as far as the city subsidy goes on those shuttles backfilling the operating expense mister bailey is working his way up i just wanna remind the committee this is before the committee summer of two thousand and twelve with a request for your input and support for the removal of the bike lanes that we're going to be talking about that meeting that can he said hold off take the next year to work with the school let's see if they can increase the bicycling of the students to the school we recharged that with the coast the bicycle coalition to see if they can do that so we're a little bit late coming back to committee sarah was going out for a while and so she's back derek is here now the talk about the results of the last year and a half there and he'll be sure what the committee the counts that he's done with the bike lane and recommendation moving forward just starting this week and so he's the fourth member of our traffic engineering group he's going to help us initially complete a lot of studies that we have in the q operational things that we want the morning to look at but then he's going to be turning his focus and helping us with the asset management of our traffic signal system so but welcome very glad he's here and browning thank you for the the introduction to this  topic we've been looking at this for about two years now and we were at the tcc in the summer of two thousand and twelve is when you last saw this so just a really quick recap bike lanes on the west side the were installed sometime during the s we don't have an exact date they wind their way through the westside neighborhood going towards the mer junior high from and during the am peak and away from the koomer junior high during the operationally what it means is during the a m peak there's a parking prohibition on the side of the road that kind of works its way towards the kamura junior high and then on the opposite side of the road during the afternoon going away from the school  the reason we started looking at this is because we were getting complaints from residents about parking conditions you know they in addition to some of the street sweeping restrictions that are on the street they felt it unreasonable that they have to move their cars sometimes twice a day for bike lanes that in their perception just weren't being very well utilized so we looked at that and we found that indeed they weren't being very well utilized so july two thousand twelve we came to the tcc and talked to you about it the recommendation we got from you was to repaint the bike lane striping and reanalyze after one year so that's what we did just a refresher the ro high this graphic shows the usage both two years ago march two thousand and twelve when we did our original study and then again in october two thousand and thirteen when weari studied of the various so starting down near harding elementary down in your the bottom right hand corner of the screen in two thousand and twelve we counted one school aged bike rider and for non school aged bike riders two thousand and thirteen onto mission we counted one and two in two thousand and thirteen and zero and i think that says six this past fall and it's worth pointing out to that of those six there was one fellow that was riding around the block so technically he counts but riding around the block so we didn't appear to be going anywhere what appears to be a source of bike riders heading towards school is is coming through on gillespie street through mission last year we counted five school age kids and we counted five again this year so that hasn't changed so this segment of the bike lanes along gillespie street that last  block if you will before you get to la cumbre junior high is better utilized than the rest of the route this this route is intended for school aged kids to ride to school and it's um in the morning anyway it's just this last block that seems to be utilized and the pm peak last year two thousand and twelve we counted five school age kids in the morning in the afternoon  this year eleven and three so it's getting better but turn the corner on to mission street last year was one in three this year zero students and for non students so again kids either dissipating into the homes as they're riding along gillespie or they're continuing straight through mission street and as you work your way south and east on the route towards harding elementary school there's we didn't count  students utilizing the lanes this past year so where that leaves us is we are planning to remove the parking prohibition on most of the route mission street robbins and valerio from our perspective you we can't justify continuing to inconvenience the residents if the bike lanes just aren't being used as intended this last block on on gillespie street between mission and porta suelo it's being better utilized and it's a transit route and it's a narrower street than the rest of the streets in the area we feel it's appropriate to leave the parking prohibition there just gives more room to maneuver even parents pick up and drop off everything it just benefits from having some extra space during pick up and drop off times at at the school so next steps i mean the next few weeks city crews will be removing the parking prohibition restriction signs on mission robbins and valerio and like i mentioned the parking restriction will remain in place on gillespie due to the narrow width more student usage and presence of transit vehicles as browning mentioned we we did wait a year before we redid this we were of the hope that more students would take advantage of the routes but  that just wasn't coming to fruition you know just in general we really like to see students walking biking to school exercise all that good stuff but it decreases congestion around the schools and parents dropping off their children as well as school buses there's a lot of people going to the same place at the same time and the streets that are typically around our schools in the city the they're neighborhood streets so they're not made for big influx of traffic so it is disappointing to us that this isn't being better used and without i'll be happy to answer any questions bailey i wonder if in your all's looking into this do you ever find why the circuitous route that was chosen for the temporary parking restrictions was chosen or is that remain a mystery of the past for giving the opportunity to try to get this to work because i know when we first saw this a year and that summer there was no bike lanes at all even though they were had those parking restrictions and people we thought well maybe if we put the striping in maybe that would help you know people realize oh we can you know be safe to ride our bike but obviously that's not the case and you know i feel for the residents that have had to put up with moving their cars all this time when probably look out and they don't see anybody using know the bike lanes but at least we gave it a shot and you know it obviously isn't needed in that area and you know the city a recommendation or what you're going to be doing i think is the proper thing to do because there's just not a need for this right here possibly you know when we work in the bicycle master plan down the road we can look at the whole west side area and maybe there might be need for a bike lanes somewhere else in that area for students on bikes yeah it's uh it certainly appears as though there's a demand for cycling facilities on the west side but what dots to connect were gonna be hopefully working through that in the bike master plan yeah i really appreciate the staff taking time to to see how it is to study it to know and not just go off of you know anecdotal like angry people you know who didn't want to move their cars um i i'm glad we're leaving it on gillespie that seems like you know as the as the approach is closer it makes a lot of sense um and  and also you know as we look at the bicycle master plan hopefully you know we'll be able to piece things together in a more holistic way because i know when it came before us before we were kind of you know we kind of chafed at the idea of like okay so we're moving bike lanes but we haven't even looked at the whole city's plan and now now we're going to which is which is really exciting so yeah so i appreciate that you know doing your due diligence to to check it out  let it be known city residents that were removing parking restrictions somewhere we're doing nice things for cars so chalk one up for the car here we're removing b imagine that yeah so i guess there's not really anything for us to do because this is happening so is there are there any more questions no all right so do we need to just receive the report basically report or you could take a motion to support desperate process  on the issue it was a challenging concept because the west side west of one hundred and one to the mesa has basically no safe bike route i think there's some shar and seventy three or maybe it was finalized in seventy eight bike master plans first the first bike master plan of the city and this really interesting graphs and such in there they did some extensive counts and actually weighted it's one of those maps where the road gets gets broader as there's more count and looking through the west side at that time chino is kind of one of the major routes  also looking through one of the main differences that you can notice between that era and the s and now is that whereas bicycling is actually bicycle the rates compared to bicycle coalition counts compared even though none of them are exactly the same count in exactly the same time of day when you actually apply the same kind of math they weight to be equal in some areas and higher in some areas today then they were in the s even though there was a bike boom in the s and it's often said by folks like cars are basic that the s was when bicycling was at its highest and will never be at that height if you look at the data from that bike plan you can actually make a fair comparison you have to do a little math to compare today's counts to counts back then but what's interesting is that areas by the schools were a lot higher than and are a lot less now and we have more bicyclists who are non school aged commuters so in other words a lot of the stuff that was done in the s served schools specifically and unfortunately it's quite sad that need is no longer as prevalent as it was at that time and not that necessarily these routes were all that well chosen because it's really interesting that they were chosen along that when the routes don't actually even show up as heavily used on that s bike way master plan map so i guess i just like to comment that you know back thirty years ago the city heavily utilized temporary bike lanes primarily for school purposes and i don't know if that was the wisest choice and that's a legacy that we have and this is an example of something that didn't work and the city even retried to see if it could work and it doesn't and that's great because that's exactly the responsiveness that citizens expect of their city staff and city committees i would like to comment that as the bike master plan comes up has no safe route but there's a strong need especially for the the california pacific coast route down modok once modok hits mission there's a need for folks especially like city college students who are attempting to find their way to the city college who might want to stay west of one hundred and one there's a need to make that connection and the needs are beyond the schools and while this need  no longer adequately suits la cumbre it's definitely does not it does not show that there's a lack of need overall for the westside and in fact  that i think i hope that with the loss of this lane we might think critically during the bike master planning process as to what but what would be the best routes to connect from mission hopefully all the way down to ron t order of the agenda and i don't know i don't see any place to say it so i'm just gonna ask right now what would be the best thing but there was in in the minutes of the rd there was a note that said about the bike corral on figueroa that that was going to the committee in the downtown parking committee in november and where would it be appropriate to ask what the results were of that  okay okay thanks so on this item for the westside by cleaning questions comments okay um is there a motion to receive receive this report and support staffs recommendation our newest councilmember greg hart isn't the audience so thanks for coming well great that's so the final thing to do is an election of a chair and vice chair it's been a year feels like three months but here we are  applaud for vice chair all right well it's been a pleasure over the past two years serving as chair and um look forward to staying on the committee and i appreciate um working with staff and meeting with brown browning ahead of the meetings go over the agenda and everything and really appreciate it so thank you thanks for making it a pretty smooth committee to run there were my first meeting chair was the hardest one because there was a room full of people um and it got much easier so i appreciate that so um i guess we can adjourn the tell the committee that the biker allen canter perdida that's something that staff is still working on we will bring it before this committee to give you a formal update but we're still in the process of finalizing those plans will most likely be going to the city council sustainability committee to get their input as well but we did go to the downtown parking committee they did support it but it wasn't unanimous there was one member who had issues about it and i can get in more detail of that when we bring it before this committee but just let you know it's still working its way through the process and after we go to the council sustainability committee then we'll be going to the hoa chelsea for the review so but sure what meeting will for the full come in february or march on that i'm slightly marched like to have more than one just one item hopefully we can have a little longer than the thirty five on monday afternoon at five zero p m at city hall in the city council chambers the city council will be considering the use of one time only capital money its general fund monies is four point three million dollars a decision on monday as to how those monies will be used for various capital projects