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Okay, we'll go ahead and start it here if we can start with a roll call please.
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Councilwoman Sandeva, Mr. Frisbee, Ms. White,
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Your Kyle, Ms. Mathees, sorry, Commissioner Webb, Mayor Riley,
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Judge Kutcher, Councilman Cisneras, Councilman Hottis,
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Mr. Jorge, Ms. Rodriguez, Chair, we have a quorum.
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They're good. Thank you.
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We're going to start off with some quick recognitions. I'm going to go up here in front and said it's going to call out, at least,
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clap the three that we're recognizing, but we know one of them is accurate for here. Yes.
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We have three board members. This month, two from the via board Rebecca Sadeo and Dr. Richard Gambet,
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who could not be here today. I don't think Rebecca is here, is she? No, okay.
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They need to one could be here today, so we do want to thank them for their service to the MPO Board, of course.
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And then also Councilman Rondries with the sitting new bumpfills who's been a board member here for since ever since we expanded MPO boundary
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He was very instrument to on all the work we did for that boundary expansion and getting new bumpfills situated and coming along
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We really appreciate Councilmanries all you work with the MPO board and I think the Councilman has applied for you
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That's great.
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That's a little more fun.
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And again, that's great.
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There may have two other members that aren't here.
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There may have been one of those back.
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You know, one of the remaining here, K-2-3 orders.
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Oh, Rebecca's here.
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We just wanted to thank you very much for the time to implement this and you know how important it is.
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I've got to mention the Pyramid, Rebecca, and back again, because you're not tearing
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one.
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I don't think you're not going to get a bolt for service.
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You may as well, everybody's radar screen.
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It's back to be left alone.
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Thank you.
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Okay.
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Where we got next?
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The board?
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The board?
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Yes.
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So we'll go straight into that.
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I do want to recognize the two new VFOs that are on the board as well.
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Patricia Rodriguez is representing the via board and Jordan and he is representing the Advanced
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Transportation District. So welcome to your first meeting.
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The Chairman has promised a record meeting today. I don't. We're going to be part of the delivery here with a pretty short director's report, but the first item is just that National Bike Month continues throughout the month May and that we really have to think a lot of people for a very successful walking roll rally.
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We are walking roll rally on Friday May 4th and that day we had some very threatening thunderstorms in the region and it actually did rank a bit right after the event, but we escaped the rain.
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So we had about 150 people show up despite that ring on morning, and it was a really good event.
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There was plenty of good music, fully fun, content, and importantly lots of information and resources geared toward active transportation in the region.
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We do want to thank all of our sponsors and vendors who participated, but we do want to give out a special shout out and thanks to Councilwoman Shirley Gonzalez who addressed the group that morning and also to the event host Randy Beamer with News 4 San Antonio.
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We also have our walk-and-roll bike coming up, I'm sorry, a walk-and-night on Wednesday, May 23rd from 5 to 7 p.m. at Confluence Park on the South Side of San Antonio.
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That event will be an open house format with updates on plant and programs throughout the region.
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This is a different date than what we've presented in April.
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We had a conflict with the original date that we presented to you that month, but just put it on your calendar.
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we can't be left to have as many of you participate as possible and not actually attend
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if you could help us spread the work for that event so that we can get a good turnout
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we would appreciate it.
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The next item deals with the vision bureau, the MPO, is proud to be working with vision
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bureau San Antonio, the San Antonio Chape, the Women's Transportation Terminal or WTS, the
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San Antonio section of the American Union Association and the South Institute of Transportation
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Engineers as well as a long list of private sector sponsors to bring professional development
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vision zero summit to the region. That summit will take place on Friday, June 15th from
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AAM to 4 p.m. at the Urban Ecology Center at Hartford, the event does include both local
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national experts and the leadership panel moderative Jeff Coiler with the City of San
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Antonio that includes Councilwoman Gonzalez and Mike Frisby of the City of San
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Antonio and the issue who moves the vision zero network founder and executive director.
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There is a fee to attend the event but registration information can be for our website if you're
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interested in attending.
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The third item is just that the July Transportation Policy Board meeting will likely be cancelled.
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That's our goal for now.
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Of course, it's something that will require a meeting.
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Then we will have to move forward with one.
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But as for now, we're doing our best to make sure we can give you a break for the summer.
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And then lastly, our MPR office will be closed on Monday, May 28th from a Memorial Day.
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That's all we have.
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Are you going to do we have any citizens to be heard?
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I don't believe there are any signs of no.
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No consent items
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Item number 5, approval, April 23, 2018, meeting, minute, can I have a motion to approve? Motion, second, and a second, all those in favor say aye, aye, vote, motion carry.
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Item 6, action on the appointment of a via metropolitan transit representative on the transportation policy board to the MPOs executive committee.
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What I do here?
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Let me just give a bit of background.
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And then you could.
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So, because six of the MPOs by law state executive committee will be comprised of nine transportation
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support members, as all of you know, the chair of the MPO board, vice chair, the MPO board, also serve as a chair, vice chair, executive committee.
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So, the other seven members include the City of San Antonio appointment with this currently filled by Councilwoman
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Sandevol, the county appointment, which is currently filled by Commissioner Rodriguez.
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A text out of appointment, which is filled by Mario Boy.
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I'd like to thank any area of suburban city rep, which is currently filled by Mayor Riley,
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via a chance which is the one that's taken filling today.
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come out county geographic areas rather than by Commissioner Webb and then Wadler
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the county geographic area representative, which is currently judge-culture.
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So we do have that via vacancy.
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The by-laws also speak at the chairman of the board.
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The individuals for the committee and this board approved.
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So we're looking for nomination today.
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Very good. Thank you, sir.
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I would like to nominate a very new board member, Jordan and Matthews,
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to serve on the executive committee.
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No, no, I have to ask for it.
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Yes, we do have to prove a motion.
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I need a second.
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Do I need a second?
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Yeah, you need a motion.
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I actually need a motion.
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I think.
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Motion in the second.
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Who's the motion?
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I guess.
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He's he.
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I've been up.
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You need to make a motion.
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Yeah, somebody.
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Now I need a second.
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I have a motion in the second.
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Discussion.
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Anybody want to fight?
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Okay.
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Please do.
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Your predecessor, we spark occasionally.
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Yes. Yes. This is good. This past along the message that I thought he did a good job here and he represented
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it very well. We're going to miss Dr. Gambita. But welcome Lord.
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I'm glad you said something commissioner. Dr. Gambita was an integral part of our executive committee.
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And while we didn't always agree, we always had very, very good discussions and worked very well together.
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So we're kind of expecting the same from you too.
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We'll fight sometimes, but that's okay.
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We'll get more to it.
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Very good.
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All those in favor, say aye.
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Aye.
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Opposed? Motion carries.
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Item 7 presentation on the draft final report for the regional transportation Attitude Survey 3.
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Sorry, we're getting a kick out of the Attitude Survey.
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Chris Tatum with DC Institute is going to be making this presentation.
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As you noted, this survey number 3, we actually conducted a survey back in 1997, 98, and in 2006, 2006, 2007.
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So, 10 years later here, we are again with a third survey and there's a lot of good information here that Chris is going to present to all of you.
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This information actually helps us put together our long-range transportation plan of feeds into that long-range transportation plan.
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So Chris, I'll turn it over to you.
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The Supples should be back.
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I'm just really going to just share with you some of the highlights of the survey today.
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There's obviously volumes and volumes of data that can be broken down into very detailed assessments for each of you.
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If you're not familiar with our firm, we actually are an national firm, we do a lot of work
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in the San Antonio area.
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I'll be back next week to present to the City Council for San Antonio via just selected
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our firm to do their on-board survey.
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So we've been doing work done here for about 15 years, including the last long-range transportation
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assessment.
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So, I'm going to share some of that just within context of our experience in the area.
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For those of you who aren't familiar with the regional transportation attitude survey, this
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is the third time that it's been done, it's been done about every 10 years.
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And it really helps you gather input from the vast majority of residents who aren't engaged in the public in public input process.
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In reality, most people are just busy going about the lives and you probably will not hear from them.
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So without a tool like this, sometimes it's hard to know what is the average resident think is important, what are their views on things and so forth.
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This year, we expanded the survey, so it includes not just Bear County, but all the surrounding counties as well.
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As far as the survey methodology and not going to go into great detail, but we did do a series of focus groups and stakeholder interviews up front to help design the questions.
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We then had three surveys. One was targeted at residents. One was targeted at employers and one was targeted at traditionally underserved populations.
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people who have, with disabilities, transit users, non-English speakers, because those groups are
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important, particularly with not-automable meal, transportation needs, and they're
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off underrepresented, so we wanted to make sure they were included.
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They all surveys were administered in both English and Spanish.
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We also geocoded the home address of respondents, so as you look at the full report, you'll
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see a series of maps that actually show how people view different issues based on the location
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of their home.
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With that said, let me just kind of walk through the major topics and some of the findings and then I'll summarize what we found.
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The first is just general perception of congestion.
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I'm sure everyone here knows that people are concerned about that and they don't think traffic congestion is great.
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The matter is, how many people feel that way?
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So when we ask people how they thought it had changed compared to five years ago, you can see about three-fourths of people,
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both the residents and the employers thought it had increased the great deal just over the last five years.
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If you add in those who thought it was somewhat gotten worse, you can see all together, you have 9 out of 10 people think traffic congestion has gotten worse over the last couple of years.
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The other thing that we looked at though is also which specific types of transportation are people concerned about when it comes to the ease of travel.
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And you can see all of the areas that were assessed ease of travel from people's homes to work, different locations within the metro area.
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even things like ease of bicycle travel. And you can see for the most part, all types of travel
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did have a significant number of people who were dissatisfied. ease of bicycle travel at 53%
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ease of travel between your home and new brawn souls had 52% just a highlight a couple that had the most
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negatives. The thing that I was really impressed about in this day to those, even though people
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report that they think traffic has gotten a lot worse compared to five years ago and their ease of
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level has not as good as it used to be.
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Overall satisfaction is actually not much different.
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And what that shows is expectations are changing.
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People are getting used to it.
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If you actually look at the results from 2008,
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which was just Eric County,
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and look at the same respondents from Bear County,
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which is in the dark Boomer 2018,
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you can see satisfaction level for a little bit lower
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with different types of travel,
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but for the most part they haven't changed
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at much.
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In fact, ease of walking is actually improved
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three percentage points over the last few years.
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So that shows you expectation, people are adjusting,
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but it's going to be important to continue meeting
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those expectations over the next decade.
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The other thing that we looked at
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is just what did people who were traditionally
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underserved populations, those who oftentimes
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depend on non-automobile forms of transit,
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or non-automobile forms of transportation,
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and there are ratings of those.
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In what you'll see here,
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from those groups, they gave very high mark,
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ease of travel by public transportation,
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only 8% were dissatisfied, 77% were very satisfied or satisfied, ease of travel by bicycle among this group.
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You can see over half-gave positive ratings and also ease of travel by walk, also 51% gave positive ratings.
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So those who really need these alternatives actually were generally satisfied in the survey.
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In addition, we wanted to look at what they thought priorities for transportation planning were in the region,
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and we had a whole lot of these.
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You can see everything from preserving historical sites to reducing energy consumption, reducing noise or traffic.
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I won't read the whole list to you, but you can see if you owe all the way to the bottom.
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Two areas that have the most dissatisfaction are relieving traffic congestion and efforts to maintain existing roads in highways.
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So those are two areas of greatest concern when we actually people had rate how their things now.
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We then went through and asked them to prioritize what they topped the top priority should be and moving forward
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There was strong agreement between both employers and residents that the top two issues that should impact planning decisions moving forward
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Should be making sure you're planning to address issues of traffic congestion and also maintain the existing roads and highways
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You can see four of the top five issues for both groups for the same travel safety was in the top five for employers and efforts
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It's basically improved training to prevent
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flubs within the top five for residents.
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But for the most part, there was a struck
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alignment between your employment or business community
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and what residents think with traffic congestion
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and maintenance of existing roads being the top
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and second rated issues in for both.
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In addition, we looked at some of the alternatives
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that could be used for public transportation.
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We looked at things like passenger rail, bus rapid transit,
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carpooling programs with park and ride,
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and also special lanes.
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And what you'll notice is when you first look at this, you might say, well, wow, people won't use them because there's a lot of red on here that's saying they're not interested, but you don't have to have 50% of the people use any of these.
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It had actually 10 or 15% that would be a lot of people using alternative forms.
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You can see, for particular passenger rail and bus rapid transit, both are near 50% or more of people expressing some interest.
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But all of the items that were assessed did have a significant number of people who said they would be interested if they were available.
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One of the challenges is making sure you roll out the level of service that people expect.
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So another part of this study is we did have bus service.
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How would you be to use it under different frequencies?
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This data is really insightful because look what happens if the bus comes by every 11 to 20 minutes.
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Almost two thirds of people said that they'd be interested in you.
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You drop it to 21 to 30 minutes. It goes down to 21 percent. And eventually when you get down to the current service levels, you see it gets 5% or lower. So that's one of the challenges is how can you develop high frequency service in the areas in the community or so much low density. And that's going to be one of the big issues for you all as you plan in the future. But people certainly will use it under the right conditions.
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The other thing we asked for is, what do you think about investments?
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You know, I'm just planning issues, but what should we be investing our money when it comes to the future for the region?
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And we gave residents employers and the underserved populations a significant list of things to review and choose from.
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And you can see for residents and employers the list was pretty much the same.
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widening freeways adding lanes, rewriting traffic, reducing congestion was unique to residents,
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acquiring land for traffic corridors, was understood by employers, and then building
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right rail building over and underpasses at railroad crossings.
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You can see pretty much the similar list for traditionally underserved regulations.
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You can see all those non-automobile options, the expanding public transit, benches and
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budget shelters, building a widening sidewalks and so forth.
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So clearly, that group is going to expect certain types of things that are not automobile-related,
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but when it comes to your resident employers, clearly they're focused on being able to get around the region and their cars moving forward.
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In addition, we got some feedback from the business community about their perceptions of freight system.
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We found that 1 in 5 or 19% indicated that they did have freight requirements,
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But interestingly, only 46% or less than half of them felt that the region's road system would support their needs over the next 20 years.
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So that's another issue to be taking a look at as how to address the freight requirements for the region moving forward,
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particularly when it comes to the region's road system.
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With that, though, we wanted to ask people perhaps the biggest question of all, is what do you think about funding?
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And what folks said is generally they thought it should be more.
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We didn't give them the conditions that would have to come out of their pockets, so those
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are always different issues.
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But we did generally find that people believe that there should be more funding for transportation.
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In fact, when we ask people about how funding for roads and highways to change, 75% of residents,
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84% of employers, and 61% of your underserved population thought it should be increased.
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And even on public transportation, though not everybody will use it, you can see there's strong
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support among all three groups to see higher levels of fit spending in the future for public transportation investments.
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So with that, I know I've dumped a lot of information on you, but the idea is for you to be aware that it's there.
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His planning decisions are made in the future.
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You'll probably hear references back to this study over the next decade, and it is a very, very comprehensive.
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One of the most comprehensive that we do for any metropolitan planning organizations, just by the fear number of surveys.
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But the takeaways are clearly traffic congestion as a concern for folks, most people get us gotten worse.
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But the overall satisfaction hasn't changed that rapidly.
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So you've done a good job, please managing expectations with your investment,
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but moving forward, taking care of congestion and also maintaining your highway system
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and road system are really important to both residents and employers.
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There are opportunities to get people to use non-automobile transportation,
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But making sure you deploy them under the right conditions is going to be critical, otherwise you'll have nobody on the system because you didn't provide the right level of service.
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Funding support is out there and clearly moving forward, there's a need in a concern among some of your employers who have freight requirements that the region's capabilities is particularly on roadways won't meet their needs in the future.
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But all in all, it's been great working with you this last year and I'd be happy to answer any questions if there are any.
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Good. Thank you for the presentation and how fast it was. That was good. I do. I do have kind of a question.
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The category you put was it called traditionally underserved. It almost feels like you go in making the assumption that the only people that utilize mass transportation are underserved.
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And I'm wondering if, and I don't know whether that's true or not, I'm just telling you what I'm watching here.
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But I wonder if we're missing a segment of the population that isn't, I'm not sure how you're qualifying underserved.
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Are you qualifying that based on income, are you qualifying it based on whether or not they have a vehicle, those types of things,
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because, you know, I'm sure that a segment of our population that could certainly afford their
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own vehicles and those sorts of things, but choose to take math, transportation, and
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some instances.
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And I'm just, I'm just worried that we're kind of categorizing that only people are going
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to use math transportation or those that can't afford to do other sorts.
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That's actually why we have their residence surveys.
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You can actually look at those results in the levels of interest in using all of those
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were from their resident survey, and there were high levels of interest among the average resident.
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The traditionally underserved populations are grouped that are important for transportation planning,
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but they don't have a high enough incident in the general public to be represented.
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In other words, some of the people that might be included in there are going to be some of your low-income non-English speaking folks
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who might not participate in a normal survey just because they live in a way that makes them difficult to reach.
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So we call it traditionally underserved, it isn't really related to their access to transportation.
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It's really that they're underserved typically in public meeting processes.
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They're underserved with regard to surveys like this.
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So we wanted to make sure that they were included.
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And we didn't overlook them.
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Okay, so those comments for me was me just being nice to our new view representatives here.
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Now me, the roadguiles pay, well, you know, based on what I saw here,
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be as doing a great job. They just need to get their ridership time down to 15 minutes and
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you know, you're done. Well thanks for the work. Let's build some more roads because that's
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what everybody else wants it. So I'm just kidding. Just kidding guys.
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Mayor. Thank you. Council. I'm a question. Thank you. Thank you for the presentation. It was
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very fast. So I do have some questions. Could we, could we start at the beginning in terms of
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Let's see. Yeah, like I guess before that one. Right, so could you talk a little bit about
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how you identified who to reach out to and how they were reached out to, was it male,
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fell, on internet?
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Actually, it's a great question because today, how many of you all will answer your phone
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from somebody? Probably nobody, okay? So really these days, what you have to do, is we randomly
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select residents from each of the counties that were included in the study area and we
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wanted to make sure we had a certain number so that way the date for each of the sub-arrays
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was statistically represented. So what we did with the sample 2400 we ended up getting
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2,500 people to actually complete the survey is we picked from every potential residential address
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for example in Bear County so all of them are eligible and then we randomly picked about five times
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our goal for that. I don't remember off the top of my head, but our goal was about a 20% response rate, and so those were selected.
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We then mailed all of those households a survey with a cover letter. Also, that information was translated a little bit into Spanish, so if someone didn't speak English, they could call the number.
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And then we did follow up by email and some with phone. Most of our phone center now is actually inbound calls for people who get the survey. They're too lazy to fill it out, but they love to call and do it while they walk around the house.
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We also have a website where they could go to, but if you did it on the website,
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you had to enter your home address so we could validate your part of the random sample
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so that we didn't have folks in China go online and fill out the survey.
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So we have a lot of controls in place.
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It's the same methodology we're actually using for the city survey right now.
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And it used for a number of surveys not just here, but across the state of Texas and the rest of the country.
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And the nice thing is, is people actually when they get a cover letter from a legitimate organization
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And then they get emails about that, then they tend to feel guilty and then they'll do the survey.
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That's the same thing that we used to do is we used to call people and say,
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Hey, did you get the survey?
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And we you fill it out and then people would fill it out.
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Now we're able to reach them through emails, even though they don't answer their phones.
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So somehow you've got people's addresses, emails and phone numbers.
[25:44]
Actually, it's easier to acquire people's email address for this kind of survey that is their phone number these days.
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because everyone fills out their email address.
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And so we actually able to get for about every household that's selected,
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we're able to get about six or seven, 60 to 70% of them,
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we can get your emails.
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Okay, so then those are the ones that would be eligible for your survey
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if you're not able to get their emails, you wouldn't know.
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No, no, we just can't do the follow-up.
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So everyone, so in other words, our ability to follow-ups limited,
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we then send a second mailing to households, for example,
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that we couldn't follow up with by phone or by email
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and they didn't respond. We'd send them the survey one more time.
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Okay. I got the survey twice in the mail. Did anybody else get it?
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So that means you probably didn't respond.
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First of all, there you go.
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But no emails. So now you know, you get the second mailing if you didn't respond the first two times or when we called her.
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Could you tell me about the, uh, you said you, well, the demographics were well represented.
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What does it look like? And also, how many Spanish surveys did you end up with?
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I don't remember the number. I can certainly get that for you, but it was comparable to what we've done for the city of San Antonio's survey in the past.
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I can tell you that the Hispanic percentage of persons who are Hispanic actually matches up closely with the census data.
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The age distribution looked very good, gender distribution looked very good.
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So that's what we're looking at and off the top of my hand. I don't have the actual numbers.
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But if you actually do a side by side comparison with what we have in the report with the census, you'll see it's pretty much on target for the region.
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Okay, just a couple more questions, can you tell us again, how did you identify who you consider underserved?
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These were basically people who fell into one of several categories.
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The seniors, persons who were disabled, persons with very low, persons with disabilities,
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persons with very low incomes, people who were not English speakers as their primary language.
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And what we did is we went to locations that serve these different groups, like places that actually serve people with disabilities.
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We did surveys on the transit system.
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And it was mainly to make sure that those groups are represented ultimately in decisions because those are groups that oftentimes are very actively involved in transportation planning because they have specific needs.
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And so the group felt it was important to have their input as well.
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I agree I think that was great that you went out there and found them so that how many people fell into that category.
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That would have been we had four hundred and five.
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Oh right.
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So this is essentially if you wanted the best way to look at this is it's an over sampling of groups that would otherwise be under represented in the random sample.
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That makes sense to you.
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We're not going to get that many people with some of these characteristics with a random survey of the general public.
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So by doing this underserved survey, we made sure these groups were represented.
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Right, and statistically significant when you came to your conclusions.
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So in the subsequent slides, if you move, let's see, not that one, but like let's start at the next one.
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So, in the previous slide, you distinguish between employers and residents, but when we, in the subsequent slides you don't, did you observe any differences?
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There are some, I showed them in the ones that were most notable, the employer survey for the sake of making sure we had a good participation rate was actually shorter.
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So, it did not have all the questions, and we found that when it comes to things like ease of travel, the employers tend to raise it for themselves as if they're a resident anyway.
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And so that's why this question was just asked of residents and in so are there any highlights you would want to share about
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With the difference. Oh, I guess you you got to them at the end. We go to that could you go to that?
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A lot of some of the we have some of the priorities perceptions here
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This is one. This is one. This is one. This is one. It comes to how should different issues affect planning
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For transportation issues and what was interesting is the employed or some residents were pretty much aligned on the top issues
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The one difference you can see employers ranked travel safety a little higher than residents
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I think it was six or seven for residents. It's not like it wasn't important to residents
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It was just higher for employers and then the issues about preventing flooding you can see was fourth for residents
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And I think it was still in the top ten for employers
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But otherwise clearly the traffic ingestion though and maintaining existing roads and highways was the top for each group
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Do you think the safety under employers has to do with the fact that
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You know people have to travel on the job
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Exactly, that's often times the case and then could you go to the next one
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Yeah, that one so the
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This one I'm not sure how to how to interpret it because there are there are some categories that mean many things so reducing congestion
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And build light rail art and
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Caiceroly mutually exclusive right or rerouting truck traffic or some of the other things so I don't know what advice
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But you give us as we review this.
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Well, what happens is this tells you if you're trying to gain the public support, some of
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your talking points.
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You know, obviously, congestion, maintenance, things like those for the average resident
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average employer, those are going to resonate well, especially if you're going to have to raise
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money or invest dollars in those.
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It doesn't mean that some of these options on the list won't do those things, but you need
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to make sure that at the end of the day, if you don't address congestion issues over the
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next 10 years, are you the condition of the infrastructure deteriorates over the next 10
[31:13]
years, you'll probably end up having residents and employers who aren't very happy, but it
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doesn't mean that you don't do these other things as part of your strategy, and so ultimately
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this gives you an idea of what is important to the average resident, but you can change attitudes
[31:27]
of the public as well by letting them know why you're doing things, and so public education and
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communication are part of your transportation planning process, and so understanding where people
[31:36]
are today, let's you kind of guide your decision making process so that in the future you continue
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to have a fairly happy residence.
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That's what you've done from the last 10 years ago.
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So in other words, you look at traffic conditions.
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Today compared to 10 years ago, there's a lot more traffic,
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but overall satisfaction is about the same,
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which shows me you've done a good job managing that process.
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So I think what I read here after your advice
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is that when it comes to entrepreneurship,
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Additionally, under so-called presidents and employers, I don't want to say I'm expanding public transportation. I want to go straight, light rail, is that?
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Is that what they want to hear?
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That's what they want to hear.
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My skill set today is to comment on the details, but building light rail is in the top four, but it's all going to matter.
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I mean, that's ultimately, they're all important to folks, but clearly being able to drive around this region is something that today is a significant.
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But people also want to have mobility, and so the extent that you can accomplish that with transit and alternatives is important to,
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especially for certain segments of the population that may not have other choices.
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And that's one of the reasons we did the underserved group just to make sure they were represented.
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And sorry, absolutely. That's actually my promise.
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On, under residents and employers, if you just looked at expanding public transportation,
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where would that fall?
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It's not in the top five.
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Well, there's several different categories. So there wasn't just the expanding.
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Oh, yes, the first one up there. I don't remember often.
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Okay, all right, yeah, so light rail was a standing public transport.
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Exactly, so that includes that.
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So part of it is is from the average residents expanding light rail resonates very strongly.
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And if you look at the chart that we had about the interest in using different services,
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that's the one people were most interested in doing.
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Doesn't mean that you're not doing the other things as well, but they're not as sexy to people
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or don't meet an immediate need that they might have.
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All right, well thank you very much for your presentation and for the insight.
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Thank you, Chair.
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Thank you.
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So I guess I would just, I guess this was your charge to present the data as it was given
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to you.
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You're supposed to collect.
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I just, I think that we're missing a lot of information.
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So if you wanted to dig a little bit deeper, because I'm very concerned that you keep
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saying that people, everybody said that traffic congestion was getting worse, but they're
[34:03]
generally satisfied.
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So that really doesn't make sense.
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So there must be information in there somewhere.
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I mean, that are tolerance for greater congestion.
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I mean, I just, I think that's probably,
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I suspect that you're missing something in there.
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But it makes a lot of sense, actually,
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because imagine if you look at the traffic patterns right now,
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there's a lot more cars on the roads,
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but people have gotten more used to that.
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Yeah, well, that's not really a good,
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you know, we're just used to being miserable
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is not really something that we as policymakers are comfortable with, you know, we're just going
[34:36]
to have to tolerate miserable for years and years.
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If they congestion in urban areas will be very, like if you go to a small community, Sioux Falls
[34:45]
South Dakota actually has some of the worst traffic condition ratings in the country, but it
[34:50]
because of people expect to be able to go any place in five minutes, not 20 minutes.
[34:54]
And so what happens is as people get used to increase traffic, they tend to, their expectations
[34:59]
And so part of it is is you may want to keep your traffic flow levels at the same now as they are in the future.
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That can actually be a planning goal.
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In other words, you don't want perceptions of traffic congestion to get worse.
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And so you manage that with investments over time.
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But that doesn't mean that we're talking about the difference between expectations.
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That is fact.
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Right. So we know that right the secret to happiness is low expectations.
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So, I don't know, that's one concern about your survey just in general, as your, you know, sort of,
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I just think that there's got to be a way to get in between the reads and really see what the data is showing.
[35:41]
And I could just start at the beginning again and it just go to the very, I couldn't keep trying to bring it inside here and I can't bring it up.
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So,
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this is a very first one.
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In other words, people are aware that traffic works.
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That's what this tells you.
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In other words, when they think about how things were five years ago,
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they think that congestion has gotten worse.
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This chart that comes here tells you
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though their expectations have declined for that.
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So even though you think it's gotten worse,
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when you look at how things have changed,
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you actually are about just as satisfied as you were five to 10 years ago.
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And that's what's happening here
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as people are getting used to the traffic.
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That's all this tells you as people are.
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If you had had the same, I think you had not today, 10 years ago, these ratings would have been much, much worse.
[36:29]
So this just shows you people are getting used to it slowly.
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And that's okay. You may not want it, but that's what's happened.
[36:34]
There's people have adjusted their expectations.
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You're like jumping out of your chair.
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You know, I was like, I don't, I'm just very much disagreeing with what you're saying.
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So I'll turn it over to you in just one second.
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Let me just, I also want to go back to the issue that we've heard a couple of times now about the underserved populations because we know that if we really design for underserved populations, whether it's children or senior to the people with disabilities, then we'll design a system that's better for everyone.
[37:05]
And so by not really just focusing on that, I think that we've done a great disservice as well as you continue to present your information.
[37:10]
So if you go back to that one again about the employers and the play and I suspect that yeah
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I've forgiven me for not being so informed with the survey that I suspect that there was
[37:19]
Probably somebody who who requested the survey and asked you to ask these specific questions and these were your guidelines
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and you're not necessarily
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Your Bob is not necessarily to interpret interpret the data but just to present it as it was given
[37:33]
Actually I can jump in here. I mean actually I was doing surveys for Austin 10 years ago and I told them that traffic was a big issue
[37:41]
It went from 40% satisfaction to now below 10% in some of their most recent surveys.
[37:47]
And the issue is, are you going to invest in your road networks in highways and they chose
[37:52]
not to for a pretty long period of time, and now they have lots of dissatisfaction with
[37:57]
traffic flow?
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And in the realities I've been doing this for 20 years, I'm not just somebody who does surveys
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for people.
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I know how to interpret the results, and I'm telling you your expectations for traffic
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flow here have gone down over the last decade.
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People are noticing more traffic, but they think traffic flow is an extremely important
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part of the future for this region.
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If you don't manage it well, you're going to be Austin in 10 years.
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Well, you know, I had another comment.
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I guess because it also goes what we've decided is policymakers about what it's
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acceptable to die on our roadways.
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And we know that part of the reason why we've had so many fatalities over the
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is because we as elected policymakers have decided that that's acceptable.
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And so I think that's where we're starting to change it.
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It's really not acceptable to be getting killed on our roadways.
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And so we're trying to change that.
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We do it here at the policy level.
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That's why I'm very concerned with what you're saying about, you know, that we can just go ahead
[38:52]
and continue to manage our expectations without actually having to make any policy decisions.
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We continue to stay with this status quo just as long as we know what I'm saying.
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People are not miserable.
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your expectations will change as conditions change, as you make investments that will impact
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people's perceptions, whether or not you make those investments that are raved to the
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exceed expectations or below expectations, that's ultimately what impacts people's satisfaction.
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I have a lot of concern about what you're presenting. I'll go ahead and yield floor because I don't
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think I'm going to get there, but I think we have responsibility as policymakers to make decisions that
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probably are most impactful for the least among us.
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And that's why we keep talking about the underserved population. And if we address there, there are needs for addressing the needs of everybody in a much more thoughtful way.
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And I recognize that there are limitations in terms of funding, but I'm also concerned that this information is that there are lots of details in between that we could expand on and perhaps make a decision.
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We made sure that traditionally underserved populations were included because we know they're very important, in fact, I know they're very important, but we also need to make sure that the needs of your residents as a whole are represented, and that's all we have 2,500 surveys from the average residents.
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And they do disagree as far as their priorities. That's one of the challenges you as a governing body have to decide. I'm not here to tell you what to do, but I can tell you right now that your residents care a lot about traffic congestion that care a lot about road maintenance, that's their top priorities.
[40:28]
You're traditionally in the research populations care about other things.
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How you manage that's going to be your challenge for the next 10 years.
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But that doesn't suggest the data in any way is not sufficient or the conclusions that we found,
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they're not accurate.
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It just shows you that you have different groups out there that have different expectations as leaders.
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I would disagree with you.
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I think there's a lot of information that we can read between the lines.
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And we do it all the time in a lot of different scenarios.
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and so I would disagree that you're presenting all the information. I think that there's a lot
[40:58]
of things we can do in between the weeds and that they would make very good policy decisions
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and that we can manage our budget effectively as well. So I'll leave the floor.
[41:06]
Come on, Barack. Oh, thank you. It's very robust discussion. So we have to come in the middle
[41:12]
and drop their spice into what has already been a pretty easy board assignment for me. So thank you, sure.
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Well,
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things, number one, you are presenting people's feelings and thoughts.
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Because they don't match our policy worldview doesn't make them wrong or right.
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So I just want to be very clear, make sure that it is, you know, that we at the city
[41:34]
of San Antonio of a particular thing, our city council as a whole, has a policy worldview of
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thing should work, right, whether we focus on vision zero, we focus on, you know, less working
[41:49]
capacity and putting it more in towards under certain areas, whatever our particular policy
[41:53]
world view is, it's at the San Antonio City Council. Frankly, I don't think it really matched
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what you're presenting in the data, and that's kind of some of the rub here in my opinion, right?
[42:02]
Because so when I see it, I think immediately that the bulk of the community is concerned about
[42:08]
traffic congestion. They're concerned about adding more
[42:11]
capacity. The traffic stunk 10 years ago, but it stinks
[42:16]
just as bad today. That doesn't mean there wasn't
[42:18]
progress because the city grew exponentially. The city
[42:21]
exploded. But we held the same level of dissatisfaction while
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that doesn't feel from very rewarding from a policy
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perspective. The truth is that the grub with his absolutely
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been handled and managed to at least maintain that level of
[42:34]
dissatisfaction. That's not what we as policymakers want to
[42:38]
But when you look, I think it would be interesting for us to see maybe another example of the municipality
[42:43]
like Austin, right?
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So when you present this type of data, you can say, hey, Austin 10 years ago felt like this about it
[42:47]
that they felt like this, and it's been a complete and total explosion, and satisfaction rates got better,
[42:53]
Or whatever, whatever it was, because what we're looking at here is drastically different
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feelings about transportation and the goals of the MPO, right?
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And the fact is, I look at this and I say,
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you know what this is what the residents feel like.
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We're going to have to deliver on that.
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I'm more concerned about delivering to the whole
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of what maps most to the entire region in the city.
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Does that mean that the, and credit to you
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that you over sampled the underserved population
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because you couldn't, you could have not had done that
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and played the random sample game 100%
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and it correct me if I'm wrong.
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And your underserved representation
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would have been basically irrelevant.
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So their voice wouldn't have been heard, correct?
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So I think by you oversampling the underserved population, you have done a great service to that organization that group of folks, right?
[43:43]
That is now raising there and elevating their conversation.
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So I don't want to lose side of the fact that you've solved, you have enough foresight to give the underserved a bigger voice.
[43:53]
Hence, we see that the need for the public transportation is higher, and they don't care too much about congestion, because they just want to be able to get on bus every 10 minutes.
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So, a lot of positives I see in this and we have to be careful with, in my opinion, and I'll
[44:06]
yield the Florida Vick because I know because he was chomping at the bit of it.
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What I see is this is wide open.
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I mean, this is just a tool within a larger policy discussion, it's exactly what we're going
[44:17]
to do with this information, because however we feel about it, frankly, is not how they feel
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about it.
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And that is, as we're going to how we're going to have to save the day here, right?
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We have to hold the line and help the underserved.
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And this is the big, this is the policy for us because we have to make larger investments
[44:33]
into the underserved while holding the level of those who are living the book of our community
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life.
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So we don't leave that group behind and thank you for raising and elevating their voice.
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So I hope my colleagues all understand that as well as I'm trying to say here, we're not
[44:48]
going to leave the underserved out.
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We've already elevated them.
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Now, we've got to give that an appropriate elevation in a financial and policy
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implementation while serving the greater 90 plus percent of our community
[45:00]
who are screaming for congestion and at a capacity and other areas well outside.
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This doesn't even begin to scope whether this looks like for San Antonio versus
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Guadalupe County versus Canada versus wherever, right?
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So there's all other kinds of issues there.
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So I'll just wrap up and yield the floor by saying thank you.
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I think it was an excellent presentation to Councilman Gonzalez point though.
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is a lot more within the weeds that we need to get to because we have to implement policy
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off of this.
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This is one tool.
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I go on to a survey on a political campaign or whatever, I get some messaging techniques
[45:33]
and tools, but the more than anything I learn about, or the voter or the resident is.
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And then I pivot according to that to serve the greater majority of the community, however
[45:42]
we see fit, you know, to do that.
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So thank you for the work, Chair, and I appreciate it.
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Again, more detail information be highly useful to those, but this council will make to become
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Comfortable with it. She's got a large contention.
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Consistency CCS service. Well, just in response to that that's this is a 15 minute presentation for a study that took a year and there are thousands and thousands of surveys that were completed.
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We have all sorts of input from focus groups and stakeholder in every so I completely agree the intent is for this data to be mined later.
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So you actually can I got you know, it looks I'm a little expectation guy, right?
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I put it in the morning was a good day. So that's how I would come back and so you're good.
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now appreciate what you did. Everything looks fantastic and thank you for the for the
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solid work. We look forward and I know we would arrest the city of San Antonio,
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we look forward more information. So we can find out really what that applies to our own
[46:29]
individual people we represent. So thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you.
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I know Vic's trying to say something. I just want to quickly add the two things we're
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really quick that we did have an offer site committee that was working with Chris and his team
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and clean up the service data to get before we're out and during and after and so
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and that over second but you did consist of folks from the city of San Antonio Bear County
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while look at County Coma County.
[46:54]
You know, our Northropartner's trick text dot, a call, but aside from, we did include the executive summary in your report, but I'm sorry you're paying me.
[47:03]
The package, but there is a much larger report as Chris noted that we'll be posted on our website for sure.
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We can send a link that once it's posted if this is your staff can look more into it for you if you'd like.
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So we'll commit to doing that as well.
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Bic, did you have something to say?
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Hey, remember now, thank you, just very briefly, the third slide in, the one that compares
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2018 to 2008,
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kind of finding it fascinating, just something to consider is, in 2008, there
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was major construction on going as probably one of the most painful years from the pain threshold
[47:41]
that Kevin others talk about, because I tent from Fort 10 down to downtown was under construction
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going from 3 to 5 lanes, the interchange of 410 and 10, the airport interchange to 81 and
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410, 410 itself had several projects going on. So there was considerable construction
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and I suspect that may have inflated a little bit for that year or those years around it,
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the dissatisfaction. Also, I believe we've seen a shift in where congestion is because those
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The project solve congestion in some places are reduced to considerably, and now you see the
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more severe congestion perhaps is out, 1604, 35 out of 110 further in other places.
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And so that may be a reason why the congestion index itself, which back in that time was
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around 1.231.24, actually went down for a few years, and then the last, it's been reported
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and 2015 was at 1.24 had not budged in terms of the average increasing your time over during
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peak hours. And I think that's probably because some areas of congestion were worked on
[48:50]
and actually addressed while others have grown. So I just caution against that needs a lot
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of context that comparison. I think that may be part of it. There's probably other factors.
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And also just for the trend that we only have bare county data, not the entire region. And also
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If you take a look at this, you'll be able to see maps if you go to the full report, and you
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can see how people who live in all the different areas, right different items, and so there
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are clearly differences now in different parts of the region.
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You can see that in the full report.
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Good.
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Good.
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Further questions, comments?
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Yes.
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I have a question.
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I was on the regional transportation investment that are most important by type of respondent
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that slide is interesting to me as well because when you look at reducing congestion number
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three well one two four and five are examples of reducing congestion and I guess I keep going back to
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widening free what is my adding lanes because Jeff you always give us the fact that in Katie they added
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how many lanes and they filled up and now their commute is much longer than when then before they added the
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So, debts, adding lanes, solve congestion, true or false.
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And the reality is, there's ATMS and all sorts of other things that can be done as well.
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And so, right now, this is what residents and businesses think.
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And I think the gentleman over who stepped out, you know, what people think is,
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you're going to have to come up with the strategies to, they want to get for the day to be.
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At the end of the day, and that's their concern.
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And then I was going to ask you, did you give the survey, the people who took the survey,
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these topics and then they just chose from them.
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Developed them from the stakeholder interviews and focus groups.
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So we first went around and we asked
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we asked people what they cared about.
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That's what was used to actually put the questions together.
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So it wasn't that we just created a bunch of questions
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and dumped them on people.
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We actually got them from the focus group.
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So we asked people, well, what is important to you?
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What do you care about?
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What investments?
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And so that was the list or how the list was developed.
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Well, it is, it's difficult.
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But the management of that is quite a challenge.
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it's lots of dollars, lots of resources and this gives you a snapshot at one point in time
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of where people are and the reality is in 10 years and they may or may not still be there
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depending on what happens over the next decade.
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Very good.
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Well thank you for your time.
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Great presentation.
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Who knew we'd have such attitude about our attitude survey?
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It is good information.
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I'm glad there's a bunch of detail behind it because as a closet statistic, I like to delve
[51:28]
of that myself and figure out how you really came up with stuff. So good stuff. Appreciate it.
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I don't, presentation on the city of San Antonio's safest driver contest.
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All right, line heart with the city of San Antonio's best decision capital improvement,
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department going to be making this presentation
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escape, and then that should
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not you
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start having to do this or self.
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All right, well, thank you so much for the opportunity
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to provide a briefing on the safest driver contest that's coming to the San Antonio area.
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So the goal of this contest is to 12-week contest. It'll be this summer and I'll cover the dates
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here in a second, but we're looking to improve safety on our streets as well as our drivers
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by some friendly competition. Also, throughout the competition, you'll get some feedback
[52:25]
and tips on driving, and then at the back end of the competition, the city will get some
[52:31]
information on where some of our potential problem areas to review and detail. We'll have
[52:36]
less data than the survey that was just conducted.
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One of the focuses of this contest, though, is
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to promote our vision zero initiative.
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And you all on the policy border familiar with that.
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And if the city, we've taken a 5E approach to vision zero,
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and that's, you can see it on the screen,
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ranging from education through evaluation.
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So the contest here will really hit at those first two.
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The education component by promoting this application
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and the contest and then the encouragement will be
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the constant messaging and feedback
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to get on your trips.
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And I'll cover that in here in a second.
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So the way the app works or the contest as well
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is there will be an application that we're working on with a developer right now, you'll download
[53:17]
it to your smartphone, you download it one time, and then as you have make your trips, it'll
[53:21]
automatically run in the background. So you don't need to go through and open it up for every driver,
[53:26]
anything like that. So it uses the sensors in your phone, and it analyzes your driving behaviors.
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It tracks your your fast acceleration or hard braking or sharp cornering or phone distraction.
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As you do those things, you get dinged and you can see here an image on the left screen.
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So out of a score of 100 for that trip, the driver received 81.
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So it'll track your feedback and then there will be prizes throughout the competition.
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The competition itself will start June 11th, and it will be a 12-week contest in Ann September 3rd.
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The week before the contest, so just here in a couple weeks, the apps will be available,
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in either the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store for download.
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And we're working on a big press conference
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the week before on June 4th.
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So where it gets good is we've been able to partner
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with USAA as sponsoring this event.
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So not only did USAA cover the costs to develop the app,
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which was approximately $50,000,
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they're also putting up some real money for prizes.
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This type of competition's been done in the city
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of Boston last year, as well as earlier in this year in Seattle.
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But their prices were about $1,000 for the top price.
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U.S.A. is really done a great job.
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They're going to have three grand prices of $10,000 each for the top driver.
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And the categories you can see here will be the overall safest driver,
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as well as the least distracted driver.
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And because we're a military city U.S.A.
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military city U.S.A.
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will have a category for military members of $10,000 as well.
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In addition to the grant prizes, we'll have bi-weekly prizes of $500, so every two weeks, the person with the top score, they'll be three winners in each of those categories, each getting $500.
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Just by downloading the app, you'll be entitled to a random drawing.
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So even if you're the worst driver, you may still win.
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So probably one of you all on the board might get that.
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So you can have a grant prize of $2000 or as well as $150 on a bi-weekly basis.
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And again, thank you so much to USAA for stepping up
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to help us out with this.
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So here's some different visuals of the application.
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So when you enter it, one of the questions we've gotten
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so far is what kind of data are you going to be tracking this
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as we drive everywhere?
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And yes, the way it works is your phone will be tracked.
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But the only data you'll provide is the email address
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just to be able to contact you.
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Should you be the top score.
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And then you'll create a username and then your zip code.
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And one of the things I wanted to make sure to talk about here
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today was the eligible zip code, is the entire MPO boundary.
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So even though it's San Antonio's safe as driver,
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it is open to the folks that live in our MPO boundary.
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To wait the most of the trips will need to occur in Bear County,
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but we want to be able to get the residents
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that come in and commute from your alls counties as well.
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So then there's different leaderboards.
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You can invite friends to your own leaderboard
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and have a competition as well as the citywide competition
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and MPO-wide competition.
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It's not just about the drivers,
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so although it is a safest driver competition,
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there are achievements you can get within the app
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for taking other modes of transportation.
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So after each trip, if you were a passenger in a car,
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you can go in and change that to a passenger,
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or if you took a bus, or walked,
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you can change the trip mode there,
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and there's special achievements within the app
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that you can unlock.
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And then also on the far right,
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you'll get valuable feedback as you drive.
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So each drive, you can open up a map,
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and you'll see if you're speeding or part breaking and it'll give you feedback on that as well
[56:56]
to make you a better driver. So besides the competition there are real results. So this is the
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results you can see from Seattle and Boston. The distracted driving is almost just as that
[57:08]
deadly is drunk driving. It's a huge consideration for unsafe behaviors and you can see here just
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and the improvement that the competition had. And this was on the top 25% of the
[57:20]
So the top 25 of the folks in the competition that had the most miles driven and you can see what
[57:27]
it did ranging from 30 to almost 50% decrease in some of these unsafe behaviors.
[57:32]
So besides the fun and knowing if you're a better driver than your friend, it really does change
[57:37]
your behavior and I can attest to that during Seattle's competition, I had their app on my phone
[57:42]
and it really did change my behavior. After the competition we'll also get information back on where
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these things occurring. So are we seeing some challenges at intersections or are there other
[57:55]
things or are we learning more about other trip modes? If we're seeing a lot of people writing
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a bike in one area of town and there's no bike facilities maybe that's something we can look at.
[58:05]
Also, we'll get some visual data bags. So this is a map from Boston. You can see it's kind of a heat
[58:10]
map showing the different colors for the different metrics. So kind of just talking about the previous
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as well. So if we see a lot of speeding in an area, we may want to put up some of the digital
[58:19]
speed feedback signs in that area to inform residents of motorists of their speed, the same
[58:25]
with phone distraction, perhaps there's some additional signage in those areas. So great data will
[58:31]
come to us from this as well. Then I'll end here on this quote, this would never happen in my household,
[58:37]
but Carrie from Charleston said, this app finally allowed herself to prove to her husband as
[58:42]
better driver. So you'll get those that feedback as well. So with that I'll take any questions.
[58:51]
Yes. Is this just forced to leave San Antonio residence?
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So the eligible boundaries is the entire MPO zip code.
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It code.
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It's correct.
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Oh, 100.
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So, the way it works is there's five metrics on your, that it tracks on your phone. So, a fast acceleration, hard picking, sharp cornering, phone distraction. And when it measures for a phone distraction, will be if your screen is lit and it's kind of moving around in a way that's not just set on like a dashboard, board amount. And then you're overall speeding. So, it knows based on your phone movement, essentially, and then it'll calculate the score.
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Oh,
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that was your question.
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Okay.
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It knows all.
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It does.
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That's one.
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Thanks for the presentation again.
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So what happens if you've got your phone and you're riding with someone else?
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How does that register?
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So after each trip, whether you were driving or taking another mode, you can go into that trip and change the mode.
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So there's one specific to say, I was a passenger.
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Because if you're constantly under a phone, you don't want to get dinged for that.
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So you can change that.
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It's all here, man. Trust me.
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Any other questions on this?
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Very good.
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Thank you.
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Great presentation.
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All right, what do we got next?
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Three-get presentation of amendments to the Metropolitan Transportation Plan.
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So, this quarter we're doing amendments to our long-range plan, the Metropolitan Transportation Plan.
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We're not amending the tip this quarter, only the long-range plan.
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And that went to a courage and a two-step process, so we're presenting the amendments this month with action and schedule for June.
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So, there are 13 projects that are being amended this time. You've heard this phrase before, we're to correct the funding distribution.
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So, these were projects that were included in the Long Range Plan back in April of 2017.
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We've been cleaning up that funding distribution.
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It's probably as tired of this as I am, but this should be our last round of cleaning
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those up and these are the 10 projects that are being cleaned up.
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What we mean by correcting the funding distribution is when these projects were included
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in the plans back in April of last year.
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We assumed they were 100% state funding, but over time,
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through direction from text. They do need to have both the federal and state funding participation.
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So that's all that's being changed on those first 10 projects. On the other three projects,
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there is specific amendment is shown here. There's also more of a great separation that you
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approved last month is an STPMM project selection. The city of San Antonio didn't include a $3.5
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million over match with that project. So we did feel like we should include it. That was
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My bad, but we're fixing that project now.
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There's the U.S. 90. It's ours a more ramp.
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Textiles proposing to move it from 2026 to 2028.
[1:02:20]
And again, we're correcting that funding distribution.
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And there's a phase 3 interchange improvements that
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Interstate 4, 10 at H10 East.
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It has a cost increase to it.
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And again, correcting the funding distribution.
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So it hurts in feedback attack that people need to know where these projects are.
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So these are all the projects in our plan right now.
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And these do include the projects that you approved last month as part of the new tip.
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And then these are the projects that are being amended here.
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There's two projects, you kind of on top of each other, to really zoom in to tell them apart.
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But these are the projects that are as a mora.
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And then all of these projects here are the ones that are having their fixing that cost distribution.
[1:03:02]
So all of these projects and then here's the IH410 at I10 East phase 3 improvements.
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So most of these amendments are really years 2028 and beyond and we are not adding any new
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projects to the Long Range Plan just fixing existing projects in the plan.
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So we'll be looking for action from you next month.
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I saw one on there, Councilwoman Gonzalez, I'm sure one set as far as a more project taken off, doesn't want to.
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I'm kidding, Shirley.
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I wanted to see her jump up on the table, sorry, but only thing got me.
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Any questions about presentation? Councilwoman.
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So just to clarify, when you say you're fixing the distribution, are you actually moving
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any money or are we moving any money when we take that boat?
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No, we're just fixing where it was, in this example, where it was a 100% state funding before,
[1:04:09]
we're taking that amount and splitting it up into a federal and state distribution.
[1:04:14]
And most of, and I guess 12 out of the 13 projects, the cost remains the same, it's just
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fixing the federal and state participation.
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Yeah, I think, so when we get this funding, it's one category of funding, like category
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two, for example.
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And so that can be either state or federal and so like when we put this together, we just
[1:04:35]
assumed it was all state or all federal, now text, that's actually asking that we clean
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that up.
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So it's not, it's not new money that we're splitting up or not, you know what I mean?
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It's just when the category comes to us.
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There's both state and federal dollars in there.
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And so now we're making sure that it's correctly split.
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I think Mario wants to have something.
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Yeah, and if I'm very quick, this is this is critical
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for my project development standpoint
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because what happens is when we are going to do
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an environmental assessment on one of these projects, for example,
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we will follow the federal rules to get a environmental
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clearance, then what's on our MTP has to match that federal document. So if our project
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shows us fully state funding and we're doing an environmental document that's federal
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document, then we won't match. We'll build the, you know, authority to move the project forward.
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So, very important to match the federal funds with the process that we're going to be following.
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That's what happened this year.
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We had to move some projects from May to June simply because of that.
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We didn't get catch that in time.
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So this will allow us to develop the projects with the, you know,
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federally, with the federal process,
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and then match with our, our, our MTP.
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Good any other questions?
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Okay, there's no action on this item.
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Ah, that leads us to...
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Monthly status reports, Renee Green, tell us about the RMA.
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just wanted to mention that the LMAO RMA, let it first project, this
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past month's Fisher Road 2 from 35 to summer set. It's a small project, but it's a very
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necessary one given the new high school that's going in there. We widen the travel lanes and
[1:06:39]
shoulders to the roadway. It was a very, it's a small project, but it was very well received.
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We had 13 vids and the top better was Dean Warden company and there was only 10 percent in
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between the top five vids. It was a very tightly bid project. That was awarded by the RMA Board
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of Directors and we hope to have a groundbreaking on that within the next 30 to 60 days.
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You've got what about 250 million and non-told projects queued up?
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Yes, the RMA is funding 179 of about 271 million dollars worth the project's non-told.
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Diane, air quality.
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Yes, sir.
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As well, note has been a busy year.
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The comment period to the EPA on their proposed designations did close if a 30th,
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I want to thank so many of the organizations and governmental entities in individuals that
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did submit comments from this area.
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The governor submitted his comment on May 11th and it was an eight page, very strongly
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worded letter in support of our statement slash unclassifiable, and the decision should
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be released by EPA not later than July 17th.
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want you all to know that we are in ozone season, we usually have two peaks, we're in the
[1:08:08]
middle of the spring peak now and then another one comes about in the fall. And we have already
[1:08:14]
had five exceedances. The interesting thing is where they really are occurring. It is
[1:08:21]
Camp Bullis regulatory monitor that is peaking up and it's hit 72, 73. Each time it's
[1:08:27]
It has been in conjunction with a cold front coming through because so much of our weather is associated with weather events or with events.
[1:08:37]
And interesting, the northwest monitor has not been kicking out. Usually it's a little closer to bullets, but it has been demonstrating that as much this year as it has in the past.
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Also, as you've heard us discuss the Volkswagen settlement, we have been approved for a settlement
[1:08:58]
to be part of it, TCQ is still formulating their distribution plan, which will have to
[1:09:03]
be finalized and submitted before they submit the first request.
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So we anticipate getting more information about it at the end of summer that will be very
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important for both public entities, particularly school districts on how they move forward
[1:09:18]
taking advantage of the funding availability and on June 14th we will be hosting a school bus
[1:09:24]
workshop for school districts to really understand the funding and what could be available for
[1:09:31]
them as we move forward and to provide information on purchasing new diesel or alternative bus and
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you have buses. You have much more information in your report and until we have a permanent designation
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will keep giving you very lengthy details so you have it readily available in case you need to
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reference it and then after July we'll scale down to be a bit more concise in our written report.
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So thank you Mr. Chairman. Good. Thank you, Diane. Mike, city centre.
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Pretty quick things. One, the city is a member of NACTO that's the National Association of
[1:10:04]
City Transportation Officials and thanks to Councilwoman Gonzalez have been one of the leaders in
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that effort and part of the national organization.
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We back in December, we did some training for city staff.
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Tomorrow, we're going to have consultants come in for training
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about 50 or more consultants.
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And so we know the context of designing a freeway system,
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a highway system, is different than local streets.
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Because you're introducing all modes of transportation,
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pedestrian, cyclists, so forth.
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So it's good to understand that really the latest practices
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of city design so we're looking forward to that tomorrow. And then two awards at City Council
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I want to mention last Thursday Council approved a design build team for the Broadway
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corridor. So we've split Broadway into two sections. We have the low funded section from Houston
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up to the I-35 crossover and then we have the federally funded and text out participation
[1:11:05]
north of there. So this is the lower section first going forward and then we'll continue
[1:11:10]
the process working with Mario and others on the text out and federally funded version as
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the next phase. And then in the 2017 bond program we have $48 million set aside for pedestrian
[1:11:24]
mobility projects, expect that'll be predominantly sidewalk improvements and wheelchair ramps.
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We've City Council awarded two packages in that program last week so we're going to continue to roll out all that sidewalk work throughout the city as well.
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Thank you.
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I think I've mentioned a couple of times we have a major event in Wednesday.
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Our second annual State of Transit with Judge Wolfe Mayor Nernberg.
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Jeff Arnt, Hope Andrade is this key speakers.
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And I'm sure we'll learn a lot more about the direction transit headed and essay connect and things related to that.
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So, high expectations, we've got almost a sellout.
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I think we've got just a handful of seats left,
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if anybody is interested in that.
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And then also in the Nounsen August 15,
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we have the State Compton Protocol
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and Hager coming to address Sam Co.
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That will be a pearl.
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And that's about the time when he announces
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the preliminary projections for the next session,
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for the next biennium.
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And I expect he will help at that time be able to update
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This is a numbers related to prop 1 in 7 and other gas tax and other things that are part
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of text-outs budget, so we'll have a fly around and that very soon for all of you.
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Thanks.
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Mike, are you a text-out?
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Yes, Mr. Chairman.
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You all have a handout that I can't adopt for a year, so I'll speak off of that and I think
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you will have the slides.
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We received bits on 10 projects in May.
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So I kind of want to give you a quick rundown on the projects and I'll spend all the time talking about specifically I-10 on the east side
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But the first project we built out was on stay how we 16 and that's cause a county a bridge replaced at the
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Alice cause a river. It's an Arab pitch on a on a major energy energy sector corridor or Harper Brothers
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Oh, yes, man. I know. Yes
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Yeah, we'll do a grand picking in and ribbon cutting. How's that?
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Now, it's a really narrow bridge, but it's a big safety concern for us down there.
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And Harper Brothers is a log bear at 5.7 million.
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We also let it project to over...
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We laid the funderials on 51 from Weissman all the way to U.S. 90. Pretty pretty lengthy project.
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A bit was 7.3 million by angel brothers, so that we will start that.
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We led a project for landscaping with a partnership with the city of Santonio at the I-35 and Sarza Mora.
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So we're doing some hard and landscaping there, improved some of the area.
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We did quite a few core ramp ADA projects, sidewalks, there are three projects we built out,
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actually, yeah, three projects, one over in Bear County, one over in Manada, Skosa County,
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and another one in Bandera and Evalde. So the one involved in Bandera was F&D,
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the concrete, the better at 1.2, the one, that same page you see there, Michael Corporation
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got a high-master luminate project on 410 from 37 to WW White. That will help with some of the
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nighttime crashes we've had in that area, it's on the southeast side. The Alaska Medina and
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CURBRAM sidewalks and ADAP program. That was bit for 1.4 million. TIsAC concrete was a little biter.
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And then the one in Bear County or ADAP program with like I said various locations for sidewalks, ramps and curves.
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J-3 concrete was a low bidder at 4.5 and change.
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We bid a project on I-10 and worst buck.
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That would be some intersection and operational improvements.
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Something would be working on the city of San Antonio
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to try to improve the worst buck corridor.
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That came in a 1.6 million Dan Williams of the low bidder there.
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And then we did a project in Frio County in I-35 on the front of roads to rehabilitate the front of
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roads, had a lot of impairsop, quite a bit of pavement deterioration due to the energy sector there,
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and HL Sunwald construction was a little bit right, at essentially 14 million.
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And then the last project I want to talk about is the I-10 project from 410 to 16 or 4 on the east side.
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It's an expansion to six lanes, a three-nice direction.
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So we did that project when we call it,
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on what we call an A plus B bit,
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which the contractor puts in his bit in two different parts.
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Part A is the construction cost of the actual work.
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So they bid for individual bid items that give us a construction cost.
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And then part B is the time,
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what they would actually bid the number of days
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that they can do the project in.
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So, obviously, the lower, the number of days, the lower, the bid, overall bid and therefore, we get the benefit of the time, the time.
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So, that's how we, this low bid is determined both A plus B component. So, if you look at the next.
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So, the A part of the low bid and whether, whether it was the low bid or by the way,
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LLC, they're doing 21, they're doing also a portion of 16 or four.
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So the eight part of the date was $18 million, 806, 144 dollars and 24 cents, which was
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2.9 per cent under the estimate of 12 and change.
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Beep part was 685 days at the press and use a cost amount of $15,898 per day.
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And so that was just one to indicate the estimated contract time was 913, so we had a huge savings in the time.
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So again, that's a huge benefit for the project. So the A plus B total for the low bay was 119 million, 770,000, 274, with 24 cents.
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That was 5.43% under the corresponding estimate of 126 and change. And in the contract time, this is the big one for us.
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The contract time will be 700, they take 75 that they bid for substantial completion for 15 plus 15 days for contract completion.
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There's also an incentive if they can beat that substantial completion amount by a 94 days.
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So the bid results in an estimated time savings of 213 days, that's without counting the incentive which if they meet the incentive,
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If you're talking 300 days ahead of what a normal schedule would be so we'll really
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have to be about this particular bit and the A plus B type of building for one of
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the use in it in quite a few projects, it'll have to be the right type of project that doesn't
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have a whole lot of right away utility conflicts, but you can see how we gained or the public
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really gained almost a year worth of time by just making a competitive for the contractors
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to look at the resources that they can put on a project and how they can face it in.
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And so, very, very happy with that. And I think the last slide just has the kind of,
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just the running place that I've been showing you on projects that we are kind of bit this year.
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We still have quite a few projects to build in the next couple of months.
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June July and August, I tend to waste. We've got to finish that project and some of the
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on the south and east side, north east side as well on 16 or four.
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Paging in burning in 46, prudging in the lotus on 1560, and so we're rapidly not going
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on 21 or bit of the big one and July that goes to the county line.
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So all of that's still coming and like I said, we do plan to have really healthy lighting.
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So every month I'll be reporting to you quite a few projects that we put out for a bit.
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And then the last thing I have in this term is just wanted to kind of inform the report
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that pretty excited about a training that we're holding on May 23rd is the first joint training
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for traffic incident management.
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Something we've been trying to do for some time.
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It's going to be held at the Syrosan Antonio EOT on Brook City Base.
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and we've got multiple agencies,
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Santoni, fires, Santoni, PD, as well as others
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from around the area.
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And so we're pretty excited
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as the first joint training that we're having,
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but we do hope to have quite a few more of these
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double training, we feel like it really will help us
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work together on clearing these incidents
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faster and preventing, the most importantly,
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preventing those secondary crashes that
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resulting in people getting hurt, so we were excited about that.
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Right, I'm glad you bring that up Mario.
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It was actually a subject of my lunch earlier today.
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That's the judges' pet peeve is, you know,
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how can we get these things cleared up quicker?
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And it truly does mean a lot in regards
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to the efficiency of flow of traffic.
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So, thanks for bringing that up.
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Jeff, I would just point out, I thought
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was one slide that was very interesting
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that we saw earlier today.
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I was at S. shape curve that correlated the degree to which people were interested in.
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In transit, compared to frequency of transit. And you notice, when you're at 10 minutes, it's up at 83% and when you're
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half an hour to an hour, it's down at 5%. And as we've been speaking, about three quarters of
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our services, half an hour to an hour. But through the contribution of the city of San Antonio,
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we've been able to increase free, on a series of routes and a WCEO keythumb presented to be session last
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If we can just give you the short response, if you look at April at the set of routes that
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have the improved frequency, and then you look at the rest of the system as a whole, the
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rest of the system dropped 4.5% in ridership.
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This piece grew more than 12% and that's a 17 point gap on services that were only improved
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a few months ago.
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So it kind of proves out that chart, and I think when you come Wednesday, you'll see how
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we want to push the system in that direction to make it an option that would be attractive
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to a lot more people.
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Diane, I had planned to sing my new song Unclassifiable, but they've taken that off the
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agenda.
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I apologize for that.
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But you can find out what mobility on demand is, and you can find out what happens when
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you widen the Katy Freeway to congestion.
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I'll be sure to include that.
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Good.
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When were they?
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Yeah, I think Mike got a little silence and didn't mention that last week he was recognized as
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top and leader, fighting back in public, what's association, a lot of Mike does a great job
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here locally, of course, but when you're recognized that appears, obviously means a lot
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more. So congratulations, Mike, on your recognition.
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Mr. Chair, I just wanted to double check, do we have an air quality stakeholder meeting
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on June the 8th at 1 30 day call? It's on my calendar. So let me look at my calendar and I'll
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I just want to. I know that back to you. Alright, I think it's there. Let me look real quick. Just a second.
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Alright, with that folks, we have no executive session. We are adjourned. Thank you very much.
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Thank you.