first is of course public comment for i'm son on the agenda there being no public here i'm assuming there's none next consent calendar is approval of minutes from may and lot a lot of discussion and you know i pretty much you know i we always kind of look at what we said to you know make sure it was right and i couldn't believe you know how well it was but i found one thing and that was on the  one time but it okay i mean i just happened to notice that and i don't think we there yeah i mean this one did start at six though so anyway that's the only correction i could find okay thank you very yeah good question i don't know the answer to that i would imagine since it was at their time they they adopt those minutes okay okay so well since it was a joint committee meeting i just wondered about that right okay so kim said she'll she'll get those from the person who stops that committee to us  okay um also on the consent calendar as receipt of mtd reports for the fourth quarter and the may june july and august monthly reports um we  think we have to vote to receive them but we'll just consider them received and we'll note this is a consent item today so if if there are any burning reasons why people want to pull it and talk about it and it can otherwise   report is actually the one year from where we raised the fifty cent fare on the downtown waterfront shuttle and i know we work always going a lot less every month because we were going up against that far increase but august was the fifty cent versus fifty cent first month of the fare increase and there still was a little reduction it wasn't much but there still is reduction but i just think the public should know that ridership has decreased some number three number four status report on alternative transportation programs so madam chair and committee members we thought it would be great to give you a little  status of what's going on and what a little bit more depth into what the program is doing in transportation and public works transportation and so we've asked sarah grant who's the mobility coordinator for the city of santa barbara and what  mobility coordinator what is that well she's handling all the pro matic programmatic work as it relates to alternative transportation so she's kind of the go to person on our staff when it comes to how do i do this with the bus how do i how do i do a carpool well i've got this bicycle issue and i need better parking or i want more lanes or those kind of questions where's this where's the missing link in the sidewalk can you get it done you would be contacting the mobility coordinator and she's got a she's got wears a lot of hats would and has really done a good job at bringing a good partnership ship with the community and to leverage the limited resources that we have in public works for transportation and these bit more of a casual report in the regards that you know if questions come up feel free to interrupt me i'm gonna keep it a little more light we have a couple of short videos to show as well and with that we'll just jump right in so um basically i'll just give you a little bit of a flavor of the programs that we have going on the city it's by all means not exhaustive and i could go i could probably talk all night about these programs but just to start off well why do we do these programs so transportation demand management okay that's a really wonky term out there that we use as transportation planners i'm sure most of you are familiar with that term but also to educate the audience that might be out there watching that basically transportation to management demand management works to their strategies to reduce single occupancy vehicles on our local roads and highways these are cost effective alternatives to increasing capacity of our roads you know building wider freeways building more roads more interchanges things like that and these are programmatic in nature so these are not capital investments that we're making and that's what we do and this is why we we hope to through these transportation management strategies and programs to decrease congestion in with traffic increase available parking available our local look roads and parking lots and  potential environmental and better outcomes so decrease pollution improve public health and hopefully we have stronger communities and a more prosperous and livable community living day to day i'll just jump right in so bicycles what do we do to support bicycles well we support people who ride bicycles by having a secure place for them to park their bike we've had the hitching post program for many many years and this is a public bicycle parking program and we two ways that we approach this one is that we go out into the field and we look where where's the demand where do people need to park their bikes and we go out there and we provide it with with the hitching  post we also go by requests from business owners so if they come to the city and ask hey you know i'd like a place to park my bike i go out there and i investigate and see if there's room to to accommodate that we have a couple in the pipeline that are requesting bicycle parking our daily bread they moved to a new location after state street area and so we're investigating how do we accommodate bikes for that business same with open air bicycles we got a recent request from them to improve bicycle parking in front of their bike shop  other things besides parking for customers on this on the street frontage is that we also have the bike station facility which many of you are aware of and that's in the garage facility and this is a secure twenty four hour bicycle parking is membership base so it adds an extra layer of security and so bikes can be parked for longer periods of time in the same place day to day it's really ideal for commuters in this facility we have actually have showers and a washroom as well and also work standing tools and we are actually building another one as many of you know at the transit center lot three which we got a major a grant to do so we'll have an additional thirty bicycle parking spaces  for her bicycle bike station members and the facility that we have the kernel garage has seventy eight spaces other things with bicycle related projects and this is also through a major a the city supported barbara city college to replace their racks on site so the city college actually the students reached out to us and knew about the grant opportunity and so we worked with them to come up with a great proposal and they were successful in receiving the grant and so we're really proud to be supportive in that effort currently what we're doing with bicycle parkings we're also looking at public centers at community centers so i've been working with our parks department to improve those at  locations throughout town and as well as our schools as schools ask for more and better increase by parking so we're working with those to accommodate that we do to support bicycle  at santa barbara city college our peak rack design it's a relatively local company based in san luis obispo and it's very it's based on a similar design as the school bicycle rack that you see a lot of schools where you put your  into the frame or into the rack but it's got extra locking mechanism to make locking your bike to the rack more secure rob do you would like to speak to the hitching post as your question leaning as you know against their their lock or actually kind of leaning against whatever bike is parked adjacent to them because the hitching post is a concept for horses for legs and bike has two wheels and unfortunately bikes don't have like  emergency brake so those wheels aren't locked so they'll kind of roll around so any are there any types of bike locking street furniture that have two points of contact that could make it through the city's design review process and be implemented in the future for example with the future bicycle master plan well as a matter of fact we have and actually sarah has done some pretty good investigative we've got some trial racks that are out back here that we've been looking at and now that she's back that's something that we could you know move forward with and look at i think the the sensitivity obviously is the architecture and making sure it's done right i think for be that is going to have a different style with two points of contact for sure and have a little bit more ways to make sure bikes aren't falling down so yeah i think there's more to come on th and thank you for reminding me about the bicycle corral project that this committee reviewed at the end of last year and we're moving forward through that process for it to become a pilot project and we are taking it to the downtown parking committee next month at the next level of review so the request from the business owners as i mentioned before with the hitching post we respond to those requests but in this case the business owners came up with a proposal for a different kind of bike parking which we're working to to accommodate that request and another key element of our program is that we support bicycle education in our community and we've had bicycling education in our community for probably less than than ten years so it's a relatively new program and it started off with the city and in partnership with traffic solutions and they became certified through the league of american bicyclists to teach curriculum that is based on the league of american bicyclists oh this is a national curriculum and over the years the city has cultivated relationships in the community to promote bicycle education primarily with the sandbar bicycle coalition and the coalition for sustainable transportation and so some of the key programs that we have with bicycle education with our partnerships we have adult programs and pictured here are our adult street skills clinics where we teach everything from fixing a flat to learning the rules of the road but basic bike handling skills as well as a rider downtown so that the the cyclists can take the time to internalize the the new material that they learned and practice it out there on the road also through the bicycle education program we've worked with the bicycle coalition and with traffic solutions to promote education at workplaces so really quick short sometimes lunch hour sessions to just get some more information in the hands of employees and also give them more resources to get more education in our community and this program has been has been growing and evolving and with we could not do it without the community partnerships that we have with the bicycle coalition and it continues to grow we're seeing a demand for for spanish language education so that's one of the things out there on the horizon in the future as well as potential partnerships with the santa barbara city college adult education program so reaching even an even broader audience letting the community know that these these opportunities are available the youth programs  virtually non existent in two thousand two thousand and nine for expanded education available for youth we've had programming's with safe routes to school which i'll talk about in a  minute but i'm really excited about the youth programs that we have and what they are is that they are eighteen hours of instruction they're after school or summer camp sessions and two thousand and ten is when we had our first after school program and now all the middle schools are participating at some level with these pedal power with these pedal power classes and at the end of the class the students actually earn a bike  and so through the support of our of our instructors and tas were able to to reach out to all these schools and make it happen and with these kids they also learn street safety handling skills rules of the road how to fix a flat and we also emphasize helmet safety for the kids and i think they just show you a flavor of this program it's kind of more exciting to watch a video so i'm going to bring bring that up this was a video done actually by the bicycle coalition so let me bring it up to full screen here so i wanted to show this video i think it's a little it gives you more of a flavor than if just hearing me talk about it you can really see that the the kids get their hands on the bikes they're riding them they're practicing skills and drills  they're out there on the road with with certified instructors and tas guiding through them guiding them and coaching them and and really supporting them through the transformation of becoming confident bicyclist and and this is really their first education to to driver's ed and we hope that through this program as well that they become better drivers with this yeah sure what is the city's role in helping the bike bicycle coalition do this program absolutely that is a great question committee matter committee member horn so what the city's role is like i mentioned before is that there was no bicycle education ten years ago and we've we've worked to find people out in the community to help and support us because if the city of santa barbara were to around the bicycle education program on our own it would take full time staff and then some because one instructor can't be everywhere doing everything at any time so what the city has done over time is work to cultivate relationships in the community and the most logical place was the bicycle coalition where we reached out to them and we built a small corps of instructors and over time that has grown and grown and grown and actually on a regular basis every couple years we send new volunteers that are interested in education in our community in our community to become certified instructors so they can help out in our schools with the adult programs with the outreach to employers with after school programs so through through everything and this slide right here you know we support the development of league certified instructors so there's actually one of the trainings that we held here we hosted at the city of santa barbara and most of those people that you see pictured are actually certified and are in the city of santa barbara working to promote education i would just add that for years coast has been long before two thousand and nine coast has been sponsoring bike rodeos and those kinds of things for elementary school students and so it's not for adults and it's not for teenagers but it's definitely for kids so it's been happening at some level yeah i just want to give them credit for all the work they've been doing oh absolutely i'm gonna get to that i'd like to say is that the city's role has been working to cultivate these instructors which we actually send a lot of these instructors that we work with through the bicycle coalition to assist coast in their efforts in the schools so that they have more help in that regard are you saying that there's a there's a financial support for them getting training from the city yes actually the city in the past has supported supported people that were interested in education in our community and sending them to the trainings great so safe routes to school as as committee matterhorn pointed out that we've had relationships with our schools starting in two thousand so before two thousand we did not have a safe roster school program and the city was actually the first to cultivate that program here in the city of santa barbara and they brought together a big group of stakeholders from everything from education to enforcement to volunteer organizations as well and that program has grown from two thousand from no schools involved in safe routes to school actually this last calendar year was the first time that every school in the city limits participated at some level and sa school activities so that is sixteen schools in the city of santa barbara and fifteen of those schools participated in walk to school day and or bike to school day which is huge so just to give you an overview for safe routes to school the core elements of that is that it is a national program and education and encouragement are two of the key elements and these are the elements i'm going to talk about here but other things is engineering which is what the city of santa barbara works for towards improving physical improvements around the schools whether it's small whether it's striping changes or signage or bigger large improvements where we go after grants to do to do larger projects enforcement so coordinating with local enforcement whether it's with pd or chp to do enforcement as well as evaluation so tracking over time the participation level so we can actually see the impact of the program over time before the program during the program and after the program so as we ad d more encouragement programs more education as well as regular walk and bike the school days and seeing the the true impact of that over time so last year with our education  programs this is a pretty amazing number and starting yo in two thousand like i said we have zero this last year we had sixty three pedestrian bicycle safety trainings in thirteen of our schools in the city of  the city of santa barbara and about four four hundred kids participated in these sessions so we're almost at touching about half of this half of the kids that i attend the schools in the city of santa barbara with these programs so the way that we do these is actually through safety assemblies class presentations the photo on the bottom shows kids that are doing a walk about around the school where they're getting walker awareness training things to look out for safety wise and above is a bicycle rodeo which is a short forty five minute session where we introduce the basic rules of the road to the kids as well as basic bike handling skills so riding in a straight line scanning turning signaling what to look for on the road and so those are the ways that we engage the kids particularly at our elementary schools and over time as more schools that participated there's more growing interest and demand and more parents getting involved we're now at the point where we have five city schools that are participating on a regular basis so meaning that  on every week or once a month actually there is only one school that's doing it monthly so the other four schools are doing it on a weekly basis where they're encouraging parents and kids to walk and bike to school some of the schools have c bow wow bike on wednesday walk on wednesday and then as i mentioned overall we do mobility counts which is evaluation so we see the impacts of these encouragement programs over the time and so far the results have shown that engaging in the schools and giving the parents and the children education as well as opportunities to encourage them to try the walker bike at least once a week does have an impact on on travel behavior also through the safe routes to school program we i support low cost helmut distributions so last year we were in fourteen schools where we host events that are promoted to the parents and we were able to give away five hundred and forty six helmets at low cost to the families so these are helmets that are ten dollars by donation so very very affordable we would want to be sure that we get the the helmets on the kids heads before they get hurt  and it also it except it complements our program with the safe routes to school where we teach the kids that is really important to wear a helmet so by giving them a helmet they can actually wear one what's new so these programs keep growing and demand in two thousand we didn't have anything and we've you know grown with the coast program and we've grown with the bicycle coalition by offering more in depth opportunities and so with the with the pedal power class with the bicycle coalition we it complements the programs that we do through coasts which are in the schools during school time but then we can leverage the opportunity to continue that education after school or in the summertime and in addition we've seen we've seen the demand for family oriented bicycle education events so this is the first year that we've done an event like this we hosted the first one on the east side in may of two thousand and thirteen and this was as a result of the outreach efforts that we did through the neighborhood traffic management program where we went out to the community and we're listening to the concerns that families had about walking and biking in their community and one of the things that we heard was that just the the need for education and so we we  met the community and we had our first event and we had fifty parents and kids of all ages from grandmothers to toddlers attending our workshop and we offered a bilingual presentation  free bicycle safety tuneups as well as practicing street skills in the bike ride and these events would not be possible without the partnerships that we have in the community especially with the bicycle coalition and with coasts because we just need the manpower when we have five thousand and fifty parents and kids teaching education working with them helping them with their bike we need lots of hands to help out with that and so it's been a really great partnership and we got such great feedback from our first event in may from the volunteers that helped put it on that they asked the city to put on another one so we looked to september's our next day and we actually can coincided with another community event which was a health fair on the east side and so we hosted we called it bc familia we host a very similar format where we had a classroom presentation that was bilingual free safety tuneups we also offered free helmets as well so every parent and child that took the class got a free helmet until supplies ran out and that was very successful and we envision that will be more in the future in talking with our educators and with our teachers that are working in our schools that we will probably see in the future we'll be working with schools that are interested to bring them family oriented weekend events so that's another program that we're looking forward to growing another thing that we do to promote safe safe bicycle riding is that an education is that we're helping put lights out there on the streets  for bicycle riders that don't have lights on their bicycles to increase their visibility when they're commuting home at night and this is another partnership that we have with the bicycle coalition where where they provide the the sheer manpower to be out there on the streets and talking to people and flagging them down and what the city does is that we actually offer we purchase the lights and we put in the hands of the volunteers and we just get them out there and we get them on the bikes this year we are going to be putting out four hundred and fifty sets of lights out there in the city of santa barbara so that's nine hundred lights front and rear and we're actually gonna be having a focus on the east side primarily because of this recent effort that we had with the east side planning process so we want to continue that momentum to provide that support to to the community so other things that we do to support i'm talking a lot about bicycling is that we support bike month well now it's bike month in one thousand nine hundred and ninety five the city of santa barbara hosted the first bike to work day before that there wasn't anything really like that they existed in  in santa barbara and since then it's grown one thousand nine hundred and ninety five was the first bike to work day and day llegar plaza about five hundred people showed up and from there the city was actually approached by the bicycle coalition at the time that was really exciting well what can we do to you know promote promote more events like these in our community and from there devolved into bike week where we still had a cornerstone event a bike to work day which also had some other bicycling related events throughout the week and  in two thousand and ten we've evolved from just a single event to bike week to a whole month of events which some of you might have heard about is coined cycle mania and this is an event that's coordinated through cog the countywide ride sharing organization and they've really taken this on and now they're continuing to implement this program through the support of measure a which the city of santa barbara was a co sponsor and their effort so that they could get funding to continue could you continue this effort and so still to this day bike to work day is still a cornerstone event during the month as well as the traffic solutions bike challenge and then sprinkled throughout that are  other fun social events including a new event bicycle fashion show and it's just really building a culture around bicycling and community can people and i wanted to show another quick video about this one and so this video really shows to you what's going on with cycle mania today and with a focus on the bike challenge and the bike to work day  music i'm sure it's wonderful but the video was kind of showing the community relationships that were being built around around bicycling and so the city is still to this day is supports bike to work day as a key event during bike month other programs that we do to encourage alternative transportation is during earth day we've tried various ways to promote taking alternative transportation we find that having a key time just like bike month this is a good time to focus on bicycling and encourage people to try alternative mode on earth day we've we've supported in the past writing free on mtd as a way to as a way to try a new mode of transportation so the city has supported that in the past other ways in more recent years that we've done promotional videos to promote car for earth day collaboration for advertisements with the com environmental council and how they do their messaging to support that since now that event has grown over the years as well and now over thirty thousand people attend the event so that's it's a pretty huge impact on on our local transportation system  d also the city provides support to help cultivate bike world which is one of the villages there at  day another way that the city of santa barbara works to promote all transportation is promoting a bicycle friendly image of santa barbara so one of the primary ways that we do that is actually through our santa barbara car free partnership and  this partnership this city where's actually one of the key partners to be at the table to start this program and what santa barbara car free is an eco tourism project that brings people that for most people visiting santa barbara to come here car f leave their car at home essentially take a vacation from your car in ways that they do that is through promoting taking amtrak riding discounted prices as well as when they come here car free to them discounts at hotels and restaurants and other partner businesses maybe go on a wine tour and so this is essentially a partnership of hundreds of businesses in santa barbara and across the south coast to support alternative transportation a lot of these hotels as well offer bicycles and through the program we've worked to support the businesses and achieving their their vision of how they want to support or be a partner in this program another thing that  is we help print bees not so when visitors come they know where to go and how to get there maybe take the bus up to the mission how to walk around downtown what are the bicycle routes how to get to the beach  that sort of thing and what's really exciting about this program is that it was given an award by the epa for being a model program across the country they won the epa cleaner excellence award in two thousand  and that's not stopping this program from evolving actually right now the car free program is is looking at kind of giving it a new overhaul and a new vision and kicking it to the next level and maybe becoming a two  where you've got information on your phone you can go online and actually doing some more individualized marketing with with the local businesses and with the hotels so if you visit a particular hotel really putting together packages what can you do from this hotel without your car or how can you walk they're helping you back there how can you take how can you take the bus and so i think that's really exciting and the city continues to be a strong partner in that effort and really looking forward to continuing to evolve the program city also promotes the use of of transit so for commuters and for visitors as i mentioned you know through the santa barbara carb free program supporting supporting taking the bus for our visitors and and also the city  subsidizes as you know the the shuttle the waterfront shuttle and also the state street shuttle so that people can ride can ride the bus at a very low cost for just a couple of quarters and that that has a has a big impact on how people choose to get around by making it available at a low cost and also for for commuters so you know supporting regional transportation with the clean air express which is to the north county and as well as to the south county to through the vista coastal express and more recently the v ctc service is going through an overhaul and revamping a ten year plan what of what they want to do for their their vista service so the city was actually a key player and working with sp cag to be sure that we were communicating our regional needs for people that use the service that come to the santa barbara on a daily basis primarily to work but some come also to visit and what our needs were from from a customer service standpoint and for just a service standpoint to get people here and get them to work and get them on time and get them here on time and not be standing at the curb and knowing when they're knowing that they will get a space on the bus so the city keeps her it keeps their ear to the ground and working on those issues and keeping those communication lines open with those with th other government organizations and carpooling but this is a really new and exciting program it's called dynamic ride sharing and basically what it is is that using new and innovative technologies to increase car schooling and more and flexible dynamic real time ride sharing and this is actually going on right now it is they just started earlier this week the smart right challenge and so traffic solutions is promoting this program  by encouraging people that have smartphones and that are looking to carpool to download the app and basically this is like a new era and carpooling so carpooling is usually very rigid you know you need to communicate with certain people and pick them up at the same time every day there's not a whole lot of flexibility but what this new program is is taking advantage of new technologies that we have out there to make carpooling more flexible so creating loose groups of people that are committed to carpooling on an occasional basis and connecting that group of people you don't necessarily have to ride every day but through this app you can connect with those people and also an automatic exchange of funds happen so know it takes that other layer of carpooling it makes it less complicated and so right now the smart rate challenge is happening through the end of february and for more information you can go to smart  ride org and if you have a smartphone if you search for karma carpool and that's karma with this see and you can download that app and you put in your information about what your commute schedule is like and it will actually send you push notifications about you know potential people that you could share the ride with and so the main pushes right now are to focus on the one hundred and one corridor for primarily from  city college a lot of students live out in isla vista but they go to school at city college so promoting more ride sharing within that community as well as from ventura so to decrease the congestion on the one hundred and one and connecting people that live in ventura and into car pools so it's just one more one more tool in the toolbox out there to to decrease congestion and reduce traffic so in the in the realm of transportation demand management the city actually works to be a model employer in how we provide incentives and benefits to our employees to take alternative transportation and so the ways that that we do that is that we actually have a program administrator which is which is me we find that's really key in getting the word out to your employees that you have a key person in place that people know they can go to to ask questions or support hey i'm looking to join a carpool how do i do that i live in north county i'd like to ride the bus how do i how do i how do i ride the bus and where does it take me and when is it pick me up and so i provide that support to our employees  and in two thousand and six end of two thousand and six early two thousand and seven we revamped our program to offer a lot more incentives financial incentives like subsidized bus passes discounts on long distance transit we provide free bicycle tuneups f through the program you can see that the impact here we have over the last six years more than four hundred employees that have actually gone online and used the traffic solutions tool where you can calendar your trips and so we use this tool to track our participation in the program and i am absolutely sure that there's more employees taking alternate transportation that aren't going online and letting us know they're walking or biking or taking the bus or carpooling but i think that it goes to show that with over four hundred employees that are regularly that have logged the trip it shows that this program does have an impact on how employees choose to how they choose to get to work  and this chart shows that almost two hundred employees have chosen to bike and log their trips one hundred and fifty employees have taken the bus about two hundred and twenty five employees  carpooled and lots of employees take the advantage of of telecommuting on occasion as well as walking to work about another hundred and one hundred and seventy five employees have chosen to walk at work at some point thousand trips have been saved over three million miles which is to the moon and back three times and almost one hundred and fifty zero gallons of fuel saved and overall for our employees they saved over one five million dollars in their own pockets by not driving alone to work so this has real impacts on our employees and i hear antidotes all the time about when they take alternate transportation when they're carpooling and taking the bus and the relationships that they're cultivating amongst colleagues or other co workers and antidotes about them being able to save for four other important things to them such as saving for their kids college so  driving a car can be very expensive but having these options available allows people more flexibility and just as an overview of the trip saved by mode so the previous chart was about just numbers of employees that have chosen to take a particular trip mode but this is cumulatively all of our employees if you took every single trip they've logged and van pooling and telecommuting and other and other modes and it's a part of our program i mentioned that we have a free bus pass program and i just wanted to remind you committee members that as  you are a part of the city organization that you are also eligible for that benefit of a free bus pass and i think some of you take advantage of that but if you aren't you know that is available to you through the city's work trip reduction incentive program mania happens every year in the month of may may okay may is national bike month and so across the country actually all sorts of communities are taking advantage of being in the spotlight whether they're just doing a singular bike to work day event a bike week or an entire month like like the city of santa barbara okay my second question you were mentioning all the different modes of transportation vista bus and  i i don't have a lot of communication with the santa barbara air bus that's not in an area that i focus on but that is a that is a good point to consider and i think that our relationships that we have perhaps with the santa barbara and probably the santa barbara chamber commerce helping all the passengers to get around town when they're here for the day i know tomorrow's gonna be another day you know how is the city working with the cruise ships to help the passengers navigate around santa barbara during the day using the shuttle buses and everything pretty matter coffman gray the city and we said my pretty good position i don't have a lot to do with that but i do know that through the sam barber car free folks they have a very strong relationship with those people to provide and they also have a good relationship with with mtd to provide it's just boosted services as needed and and they also work with a lot of the partner businesses that might have opportunities like some of the wine tours that take them off site they're there and they're ready to take them on to take them to destinations that they need they need to go with so i do know that they have a good relationship with those and i also know that and that's and that's a tourist based interest really our program is all about getting people to and from work in the city of santa barbara in the region in alternative ways so that we can not increase in traffic congestion it's really interesting the history of santa barbara has really been focused on this concept that we don't want to be like la we want to be a place where innovation is not as mixing well man made stuff is mixing well with the natural environment and so this that our program it kind of evolves out of that is we grow incrementally it's not to just say hey we need to take away your car keys that's not the goal of the program the program is to actually make make an atmosphere an environment that's inviting for people to use alternative modes primarily because as we grow we don't have the room for all the the vehicles and quite frankly the city of santa barbara the community is set a pretty high standard for the level of congestion they're willing to tolerate so it's not that it's all about congestion but it's really important and when you bring up that point about tourism and tourism would be off target in terms of where we're focused and but there are other interests that we do so sara mentioned that wood would do that but i did want to slip that in because i think it's really important a lot of people sometimes miss the boat in the twenty two years that i've been here we get in a miscommunication well hey you know what i'll never ride a bike that's ok you know if you want to commit to driving you know and that's great we want to make sure that there's enough people riding their bike so that you can drive mm hmm congestion free and and that's that's really important because we're all working together at any moment in time someone could be a pedestrian a cyclist behind the wheel of a car or a on mtv on the on the bus it's all about moving people and doing it in a way that is the least amount of congestion and cruise ship and that's great it it did unbalance the state street shuttle service regarding where the cutoff point was and where the service lacked going up from korea to sola and i experienced this firsthand  maybe they're just a suggestion maybe there needs to be more coordination as far as knowing when the crew ships are coming in and maybe anticipating a little more maybe they've done all they can i don't know you might know more about that than than i do but you know coordinating knowing ahead of time when a cruise ship is coming in and trying to accommodate as much as possible coordinate closely with brian slagel in the waterfront department he does give me a calendar about six months ahead of time when the cruise ships are expected and the waterfront department subsidizes the cost of putting out a district additional shuttles  for each cruise ship visit and having an extra supervisor out in the field coordinating those shuttles and trying to keep the system working as efficiently as we possibly can but it is it does overwhelm the system and there's nothing we can do about it one i was interested that in the bart strike this week that there was something on the radio about casual carpooling really exploding you know as people were desperate to get to work with no bart and and then i saw it just this week on one of the mtd buses on the back there was google transit and then you know the the website to go to to find out about local transit and i just really just feel so glad you know to commend mtd for really being up to the minute and it's great to hear you know that the a with a smartphone and everything or it's really coming along so fantastic yeah and i wanted to say something back on on bikes one one thing  town turned on haley and that thing is huge it's super wide and really nice and i've never felt safe riding on haley i do now it's like a pleasure especially because it's a nicely new paved road so i just want to say thank you to that and and for really i know you guys really went oh hey there's room these are huge lanes and everything i think it's safer to drive on now to other way things are really striped especially with the yellow stripe along the the left side it just looks phenomenal and it it feels really good and really safe so should i say thank you on that and and on all the things that you work on and i'm so glad we have a mobility coordinator again because obviously you do the work of at least two people so it's important that we have at least one person doing that work and so i just want to thank you for that and for really you know pushing it and plans and transportations by bike accessibility for bike lanes and all that kind of stuff you just wondered if santa barbara has any connections with with felina right now right now they see that i'm aware of i don't think that we have an active relationship with the city of colita in what they're doing for their transportation planning efforts and implementation okay  thank you so much for bringing this presentation i really appreciate the depth of various kind of multimodal transportation demand management tools and i really appreciate the quantification you all have done for the city's internal program it's great to see the cumulative impact i guess since to five years all right since two thousand and eight you know like you said a million and a half dollars all right that's very significant and and i imagine i i about five six years ago i worked here in public works and i remember there's parking there was a lack of parking space and i think that was actually one of the impetuses for the program am i am i correct and that one thing i think it's important is we've quantified that impact and because those alternative choices were made because really any transportation choice is an alternative that you could choose right the non motorized non requiring a car space or additional vehicle you know on city streets those choices were made there was more space available for people who would like to as mister dayton you pointed out would like to drive up and have a parking space available to them i remember i think it's probably still the case if you're a new staff at city hall you cannot get a parking space you have to wait until you're higher up in the pecking order right because it's just not available all right and that's the reality of limited space one thing that i would love to see in the future and i think this this program is great with the general planning as you all may recall and this is now going back to presentation to tcc some like four years  ago i think it was nelson nygaard presented about quantification for our transportation system and one challenge at the time because there's not great quantification of transportation demand management so for  general planning purposes they could only really think about kind of parking and basically only looking at supply side and you know car specific quantification even in our county association of governments they have not been focusing on quantification but transportation is a quantification game right if we can't count it it doesn't count right and i love that we're starting to count with with what the city can grasp and obviously this is kind of the cutting edge of national standards but i would love to see if as possible the transportation demand management project really try to project out what impact it can be making with all these different modes with transit with long distance shuttles fan pools biking walking etc carpooling what impact that's going to make on our surface streets terms of trips reduced and even i've seen projections like in austin texas they've even made projections of level of service differences with higher amounts of alternative use and that's the kind of thing i think would be really valuable in communicating to maybe individuals in the public who don't necessarily want to choose active forms of transportation they're going to primarily drive as to what's the benefit for them well if you could quantify it then it's easier to explain i just got to put that suggestion out because i think that'd be a great maybe long term goal for the strategy for transportation demand management in the city because the city does great work and you know a a maybe future goal would be to try to quantify that and to show that better so thank you for for this presentation today other questions i just have one if we can maybe get an update on what the situation is with the update of the bicycle bicycle master plan thank you for asking so we are we have a bicycle master plan and that's really interesting for us because we know what master plans are for the community then i have any idea what a master plan is and that's the biggest challenge right there in a nutshell is we don't want to just do a plan we want to have a community engagement process haylee as you brought up haley street maybe the last unturned stone of just putting paint on a street in fact the only reason that one was painted was because we had a new traffic engineer that came to town derek bailey who's amazing for santa barbara by the way advertising for him and  found the space he found a way and the other thing i just just did i don't know why i thought about this but if you'll note that yellow line that's also on haley street to the left is a wonderful new tool to instruct you that you're on a one way street which some people forget and turn left from the number two lane which is crazy back to the master plan so so we have gone over the city and in my ten year we have double didn't lane miles of bicycle facilities on the street simply by finding the room and restriping the next level of of bicycling is going to be different it's gonna it requires much more than that it requires a finding new space on the road and so the question is does the community want that that's the question we have just received the level silver award which we had before from the american association of  league of american bicyclists and we were renewed a silver level status here required to renew your status with the league every few years so the silver level and then thereafter silver level there's gold level and platinum level  and diamond level who so we're not we're not the best and i don't think there's actually a diamond in america yet but there are people there are other cities that are better than santa barbara in terms of their cycling and so again the question does santa barbara is silver fine with this community do they want to take it up to the next level and so the bicycle master plan is going to be less of a bicycle master plan and more of a community engagement on that question what is the vision of this community for cycling what exactly do we want to have and do we see in the future and then so we're going to be using innovative tools to have that conversation it's not going to be a workshop you come during the week at night it's going to be some sort of innovation media innovative tool computer based we hope ongoing conversation where the community can dialogue and really get new ideas from itself and then judge those ideas and and see where we're where we want to be once we have a vision from the community we believe we can get there but that is the question what is it and so that's what we're going to be doing we right now we're building it within our where we're spending our time finding out what is even the possibility what does a new infrastructure look like so that when people start commenting on it we can say safely oh yeah yes you can do that or now you can do kind of do that so we're answering those questions internally we're also meeting with people to build us a strategy for how we would go about with such a public engagement we're hopeful that come spring of next year we'll be ready to roll something out with a community and and start that conversation so we're excited about the what now is called the bicycle master plan we're gonna have a new name for it because bicycle master plan doesn't mean much to many people we're gonna have a name that'll really hopefully call to question that vision the community wants to to have for this for cycling in the future okay just to clarify it's not just about bike lanes right it's kind of all bike facilities old where you're parking your bike where you're it's a vision everything great cool i just wanna be clear to the community that it's not just painting things on roads or widening streets or things like that but that it's all the whole lifecycle of the bicycle flavor of the things that we do to remote alternate transportation from a programmatic standpoint and oh no the city can't do the work that we do without the partnerships and the relationships in the community and in order to ach to reduce congestion and and reduce traffic in our town and make this a more livable community every day and so we really appreciate the the relationships that we've cultivated with organizations and as well as other local entity you know government entities like traffic solutions and mtv and and all the business partners through our santa barbara car free program and local partners like the bike coalition and the coalition for sustainable transportation great thank you so much all right seems like that's it any other house yes that's the end of the meeting okay we'll see you in january all right