[0:00] Is welcome, everyone. Today is Thursday, September 24th. This is a meeting of the Transportation Authority of Marin Board. I would ask that Jennifer, a conductor, roll call, please.

[0:17] Commissioner Blasch.

[0:20] Commissioner Blasstein. Here. Commissioner Carmel. Here.

[0:25] Commissioner Cole Bearer is absent Commissioner Dowling, a kickoff Commissioner Fredricks,

[0:35] a kickoff Commissioner Jacobs is absent Commissioner Luc說urn is absent Commissioner Mark

[0:40] is absent Commissioner Molton Peters is absent Commissioner Paulson, here Commissioner Rudoni

[0:46] here. Commissioner Slesinger. Commissioner Thomas. Here.

[0:53] Vice Chair Sackett. Chair Collins. President, you have a quorum.

[0:59] Fantastic. Jennifer, if you could describe to the public how they could participate this evening.

[1:05] For those attending in person, the chair will invite audience members to speak during public open time

[1:10] or when a specific agenda item is being considered. Participants joining the Zoom may speak during the designated time

[1:16] for each item by using the raised hand feature or dialing star nine than waiting to be called upon.

[1:22] Please note that each speaker is limited to two minutes. Thank you.

[1:26] Thank you. We will start with the chair's report, which lucky you, I don't have one. So I will

[1:33] roll right into the commissioner reports. Commissioner Molten Peters is not here, so we will not have

[1:38] a report from MTC, but Commissioner Sackett is here, and she will provide two reports. One of them

[1:46] much. Marin Transit conducted a public hearing on September 14th to receive comment on fair policy

[1:53] changes. The changes are necessary to support the recently launched next-generation Clipper system.

[2:00] Under the proposal, the primary change for riders would be the elimination of free transfers when

[2:06] paying with cash. Riders making transfers would instead need to pay using a Clipper card or contact

[2:13] less credit debit card, and to educate writers on the proposed

[2:17] clipper changes and to ease the transition from cash to clipper outreach teams have been in the field all

[2:23] months answering questions and notifying writers of the benefits of clipper and handing out free clipper

[2:28] cards, and by all accounts that transition is going better than had been expected as far as uptick

[2:38] and utilizing Clipper. September is transit month, which is an exciting time. A lot of the transit

[2:45] directors and others have gone around the Bay Area on transit, and there are more promotional

[2:52] activities through the rest of the month. It's a good time to try transit. And finally, I'll give

[2:57] the smart report on behalf of Commissioner Lucan. August ridership was up 26% year over year.

[3:06] The board voted to add a station in Geyserville, and I think I may have reported on this last

[3:13] time, but this really breaks up a much longer section of track and will hopefully be easier

[3:20] to fund.

[3:21] And Geyserville, almost the entire town literally came out for the Geyserville meeting.

[3:27] There is huge excitement.

[3:29] and then you may have heard the Hillsburg station or Hillsburg work is underway hoping to open in

[3:39] in 2028. Under prior prior community meaning the decision was made to put the Hillsburg station at

[3:47] the old depot which is a little away away from downtown and there's new outreach happening in order to

[3:54] discuss whether or not the station should be right in the downtown or a little bit

[4:00] out of town and it is creating quite a stir. So but I think it's a really good

[4:05] time to before construction starts is to have that community conversation and

[4:11] when the conversation happened the last time there was only 20 or 30 people who

[4:15] engaged and given the number of people who showed up for Geyserville we know

[4:19] there's just a lot more interest now that people realize that the train is

[4:22] actually coming. That concludes my report. Thank you. I'll see if the commissioners have anything

[4:29] they'd like to share with the public or with each other. This is anything not on the agenda.

[4:33] Any commissioner matters?

[4:36] Yeah, commissioner Blasch. I'm just curious if anyone else has received

[5:00] Anybody else is responded to that? Thank you. Any other comments? I know I received those emails, so I'd imagine that we probably all have. Thank you. I will turn it to the public to see if there any comments on the reports. I'm looking in the chambers. I don't see anyone coming up. Is there anyone online, Marcus? No hands online. Thank you so much. We will move along to the executive direct report.

[5:29] Okay. Thank you, Chair. Good evening, everyone and Richmond executive director.

[5:32] and after not meeting in August, we have quite a few updates to share so there's a more

[5:42] comprehensive written report that was emailed out and posted and I just have some excerpts

[5:46] from that for this evening. So starting with the Safe Roots to School program, of course

[5:52] school is back in session and the Safe Roots program is kicking off the school year with

[5:57] this semester's theme, community, and consistency, which encourages students and families to make

[6:03] active transportation part of their regular routine, not just on special event days, but throughout the

[6:08] year. Having said that, there are a few activities coming up, including International Walk to

[6:13] School Day on October 7th, and Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day on November 18th, and I have to say

[6:20] there's a lot of great energy with the team this year and with the parent volunteers who are always

[6:25] so critical to this program, so we thank all of them for their momentum and involvement.

[6:32] A little bit relatedly, the annual Street Smart's campaign will be starting September 28th

[6:37] and running through November 13th. And during this time, you'll notice the eyes up Marin artwork on street banners, yard signs, and busbacks.

[6:45] And just as a reminder, the goal of this campaign is to encourage people to adopt behaviors that will reduce the number of traffic related crashes

[6:53] and make our streets a little bit safer.

[6:56] So we encourage everyone to help spread the word

[6:58] by sharing these reminders with your networks

[7:01] and including them in jurisdiction newsletters.

[7:04] And anyone can also order yard signs

[7:06] in English or Spanish at the link shown here.

[7:10] And just as a reminder, this program, actually,

[7:13] for all of its kind of good work,

[7:15] will be paused following this fall deployment

[7:17] in order to preserve the resources

[7:19] to help support the Crossing Guard program

[7:21] as we talked about with the board earlier this year.

[7:28] So a couple of you have mentioned this.

[7:29] There are some special promotions this fall related

[7:33] to the Marin Commutes program.

[7:35] So September is transit month.

[7:37] And during this time users can re-earn rewards for new

[7:41] or multiple transit trips.

[7:43] And then coming in October is ride share month with similar

[7:47] promotions and opportunities.

[7:48] So again, we always appreciate kind of amplifying

[7:52] or promoting these messages as well.

[7:57] Turning to some capital project news.

[7:59] In August, KELTRAN started one way traffic control

[8:02] to begin the work on their logonidas Creek Bridge

[8:05] replacement project in West Marin.

[8:08] The work includes replacing the bridge

[8:10] and widening the nearby culvert.

[8:13] In addition, the new bridge will have wider shoulders

[8:16] and will provide sidewalk and curb ramps

[8:18] that are ADA compliant.

[8:20] KELTRAN is also adding a crosswalk

[8:23] across the French Strait Boulevard at the State Route 1 intersection to improve access over

[8:28] Logonitas Creek and into Point Rays Station. For more information, Caltrans does have a specific

[8:34] project page for the Logonitas Creek Bridge project and they keep that updated. And I believe

[8:42] they've been sending out notices when there are construction detours or impacts as well.

[8:51] On State Route 37, a couple of things to mention.

[8:55] So one is that there is a new State Route 37 newsletter.

[9:00] And the first edition of this was published in August.

[9:03] It's available on the SCTA website.

[9:06] This newsletter was developed collaboratively by the Project Partners and is intended to

[9:12] keep the public informed about progress along the corridor.

[9:16] The project team anticipates having about two issues each year.

[9:19] And this first issue really provides an overview of the corridor and the project and highlights

[9:25] the different kind of priorities for each of the four counties.

[9:29] Some other exciting news about Stay Route 37 to share is that Caltrans has actually posted

[10:00] It's bids to be posted for the, or kind of an RFP, if you will, for the Tollay Creek Bridge section in Sonoma County very soon as well. So pending the results of those bid processes construction on those two projects could start in 2027.

[10:18] Turning to kind of dollars and sense news. The California Air Resources Board announced the launch of what they call my first EV, which is a new instant rebate program for Californians buying or leasing their first zero emissions.

[10:33] vehicle. The program provides $3,500 off a new zero-mission vehicle, up to $50,000 price,

[10:42] or $17.50 off of a used ZEV price up to $25,000. These savings are, I believe, not income

[10:50] qualified, so available to any Californian. They are a point of sale provided directly through

[10:55] participating manufacturers and dealerships, and the state is investing about $135 million

[11:02] dollars in this program, which is actually being matched by participating automakers. So there's

[11:07] a total of 270 million available. Participations on a first-come-first-erve basis until the funding

[11:14] is exhausted. And there's a certain number of vouchers essentially designated for different brands

[11:22] of car. And so I think Tesla has already used up all of their vouchers, but there are many other models

[11:27] for which the vouchers are still available.

[11:32] I wanted to mention two funding opportunities

[11:34] that are coming up on the state side.

[11:37] CalTrans has about $35 million available

[11:39] for their annual sustainable communities

[11:43] and strategic partnership planning grants.

[11:46] These grant programs are intended to strengthen the economy,

[11:50] promote equity and protect the environment

[11:52] and the results of the planning grant should lead

[11:54] to actual transportation improvement projects.

[11:57] And then on the federal side, there's a program in the infrastructure bill called promoting

[12:02] resilient operations for a transformative, efficient, and cost-saving transportation

[12:07] program, otherwise known as Protect.

[12:11] And this is a competitive program that is intended to make surface transportation more resilient.

[12:18] So protections from current and future weather events, natural disasters, changing conditions,

[12:24] applications and both planning and capital projects are eligible under that program.

[12:30] Applications for both of these programs are due on October 9th and both of those notices

[12:35] were circulated by TAM staff to Marin Public Works Association including the transit agencies.

[12:45] Turning to staff this month, we have a staff milestone to recognize, so Scott McDonald,

[12:53] Principal Transportation Planner has been with Tam for 15 years now. So congratulations to Scott.

[13:04] Scott, we really thank you for your contributions to Tam plans and programs over the years,

[13:12] to your continued dedication and to the fact that you are not exactly resting up because you are presenting two items tonight.

[13:19] so thank you again Scott.

[13:24] Finally we have the monthly chart of community events and meetings that

[13:29] Tam's participating in. I did want to highlight quickly two items that are described a little more

[13:34] in the written report. First is that earlier this month we held a clean fleet expo which we have had

[13:41] in the last few years as well but this year we really changed the format to be more of a workshop

[13:47] up style and to really focus on technical assistance and information sharing.

[13:52] And then on that same day, we had a workshop with the VOSIS day canal group to continue

[13:57] the community outreach related to the 101-580 project.

[14:01] And the nice photo included on this slide was from the VOSIS day canal meeting.

[14:07] So that concludes my report.

[14:09] And I would be happy to answer any questions.

[14:12] Thank you, Anne.

[14:13] Any questions?

[14:18] Yeah.

[14:18] Thank you, and first I know and thank you for the report and I wanted to call out the

[14:26] you know the safe routes to school successes you know I'm a daily consumer there and you know

[14:32] there's there've been accidents on temple pious and I see the guards and I see a lot of the

[14:37] improvements and I have to say it's a big hit so you know I just encourage the board we all support it

[14:42] to keep supporting it. One other thing that I think is very helpful is for transit month

[14:47] And I installed on my iPhone and it's super easy, the mascots program.

[14:53] So it's essentially you go to transit on iPhone and right now I punched in if I want to go to San Francisco.

[15:00] That's rather than questions, but excellent comments. Any other questions?

[15:05] Just real quickly. Thank you for sharing on the EV rebate. MCE clean energy also has a rebate that allows stacking that's like $3,500. Again, an instant rebate with certain qualifications, but take a look at their website if you're sharing that information with other folks.

[15:28] Fantastic. Any other comments?

[15:29] I mean, executive director report, not seeing anyone on the

[15:33] dius. I don't see anyone in the room. I'd like to comment.

[15:36] Mark, is anyone online?

[15:38] No hands online.

[15:39] Okay, we'll close the public comment. Thank you so much, Ann.

[15:43] We will move to open time for public expression.

[15:46] This is anything or not on tonight's agenda.

[15:49] Open it up. Don't see anyone clamoring to talk to us in the

[15:53] room. How about online? Any comments online?

[15:56] No hands online.

[15:57] Okay. We will move along to our consent agenda. Any changes from the commissioners on the consent calendar? I'm looking to my left.

[16:05] Any changes? I don't see any changes to the right. So I'll go ahead and accept public comment on this item.

[16:14] I don't see anyone in the room. Anyone online like to comment on the consent agenda? No hands online.

[16:19] Thank you. I'll bring it back to the Commission for Emotion. Please.

[16:22] Please wait your microphone on, but Commissioner Friedrich's motion.

[16:31] Second.

[16:32] Second.

[16:33] Blowstein.

[16:34] Okay.

[16:34] All in favor?

[16:36] Aye.

[16:37] Any opposed?

[16:39] Okay.

[16:39] That passes unanimously.

[16:41] Thank you.

[16:43] All right.

[16:43] Here we're moving right along.

[16:45] We have the Youth E-Bike Safety Data Update.

[16:48] This is a discussion item.

[16:50] So there's no vote, but I'm sure we'll have a great discussion.

[16:52] I'll turn it over to Scott. Congratulations, by the way. Every time you come up here, we're going to clap and appreciate you.

[16:59] So chair, if I may, just briefly. So tonight, we have with us in addition to our

[17:06] honoree of the evening, Scott. We have Bria Larson, who's an epidemiologist with the County Public Health Department.

[17:12] And Bria will be reviewing the data that County has been collecting over the last year.

[17:19] and I also wondered if Commissioner Sackett would like to if I may say a few words at the introduction

[17:24] of this item. Yeah, thank you very much for being here tonight, Brea. And Brea has really been

[17:28] a huge partner on teasing out, and I'm excited to hear this presentation tonight. But teasing out

[17:36] what we're trying to get, you know, from the very beginning of this e-bike work. We Dr. Willis was

[17:42] leading at that time and said, you know, we got to look at the data and but the data has been messy

[17:48] and complicated and so BRIA has really been a wonderful partner in helping us figure out what we're trying to track.

[17:54] We're trying to track it and then how we can report and share it. So, thank you.

[18:00] All right. Good evening, commissioners. Today we're bringing this item to you as an update on eBikes safety among youth in Marin County.

[18:08] As mentioned, we're lucky to have BRIA Larson with the county of Marin County Public Health here.

[18:14] I'm going to share some data that her department's been collecting, showing some trends in our

[18:20] county.

[18:20] As this also relates to Tam's Safe Rossa Schools program, just reminding that's a critical

[18:25] element of our program, providing information about e-bike safety to the students in Murin

[18:30] County, which we'll be discussed also with the presentations, so with that I'll turn

[18:34] over to Bria.

[18:35] Thanks Scott and congratulations.

[18:38] Thanks all for having me here tonight.

[18:40] As Scott mentioned, I'm Bria Larson.

[18:42] I'm an epidemiologist with Marin County Public Health, and I'm going to be sharing what we know about youth e-bike crashes, what's changed since the implementation of AB 1778 and then some remaining data gaps and next steps.

[18:58] All right.

[19:00] So you will all be very familiar with this background, but as you know Marin has long supported active transportation and has been a hub for bicycle culture nationwide.

[19:11] What public health and other community members saw over the last six or seven years was this growing popularity in e-bikes and rapid increase in youth e-bikes safety concerns.

[19:24] So the public health department from 2019 looked at data from 2019 through 2022 and they saw an increase in bicycle accidents at that time we were not distinguishing between conventional and e-bicycles.

[20:00] Our electronic health record that could distinguish if a crash was related to an e-bike or a conventional bike. So that means we have over two and a half years of data looking at bicycle crashes through this lens of, is it an e-bike or is it a conventional bike? Data analysis looking at data from 2023 through 2025 did show that 10 to 15 year olds had a five time higher crash rate than all other age groups.

[20:29] We also heard clinical signals from clinicians, ED physicians and nurses in Marin County that

[20:37] raised the alarm about the severity that they were seeing and that some e-bike crashes

[20:42] looked more like motorcycle accident injuries than conventional bike accident injuries.

[20:52] So turning to our data, these are snapshots from our publicly available bicycle safety data

[20:57] dashboard.

[20:57] And I want to just point out these are from mid July, these stats.

[21:02] The numbers have changed slightly when I last updated the dashboard.

[21:05] But these are from an analysis I did for Commissioner Sackett back in July.

[21:10] And what I want to point out here is that on the left, we're looking at total number of bicycle accidents by age group.

[21:18] Since we started collecting data on e-bikes versus conventional bikes.

[21:22] And you see here across the horizontal axis we're looking at age groups.

[21:28] Right here it doesn't seem like the number of youth accidents seems that much higher than other groups

[21:34] and it's even a little bit lower than the 60 plus age group.

[21:37] However, we're comparing very different sized populations here.

[21:42] There are far fewer 10 to 15 year olds and there are adults who are 60 and older in the county.

[21:47] So what is really helpful to look at this issue is to look at the rates.

[21:52] And so that's on the charts on the right are the accident rates per 10,000 people by age group.

[22:00] And we see here that the rate of e-bike accidents, that's that orange bar with the yellow arrow pointing to it.

[22:06] Among 10 to 15 year olds is much higher than any other age group.

[22:14] Just a brief reminder about the different classifications of legal e-bikes in California.

[22:21] They are classified related to if they have a throttle or not and their max assisted speed.

[22:29] We already had state law in the books restricting class three e-bikes to riders who were 16

[22:35] or older and for helmets of riders of all ages in class three.

[22:40] But Marin we were concerned about these class two legal e-bikes and the reason was that those

[22:46] Those are very easily modified to become out of class, to then become non-legal e-bikes.

[22:53] So there are a bunch of switches, apps, easy modifications to allow these bikes to go

[22:59] faster than 20 miles per hour.

[23:02] And so it was really this speed and the potential for high-speed crashes to result in more severe

[23:08] injury, which promoted action.

[23:11] I will say that information and real data on class of bikes involved in crashes is very,

[23:19] very difficult to collect.

[23:21] Currently, we do not have that in Marine EMS and our 9-1-1 calls, and they don't have

[23:26] it consistently in emergency department data.

[23:28] And this is not just a marine problem.

[23:30] This is, I've talked to colleagues across the Bay Area, and really across the nation.

[23:34] and everybody sort of struggling with this issue of how to capture either speed or class

[23:40] of e-bike to drill into like what which types of e-bikes are driving severe injuries.

[23:48] That said, the public health department is launching a renewed attempted image collection

[23:55] in the coming weeks and month.

[23:57] We are going to require that all bicycle accidents, not just e-bike accidents, have an image

[24:04] a picture of the bike attached to their EMS record.

[24:09] So I will be looking at a lot of e-bike pictures in the months to go if all goes according

[24:14] to plan.

[24:17] And then there's e-modos.

[24:19] As I said, many class 2 e-bikes can easily be switched to off-road mode or modified.

[24:25] And then they're veering into this classification of e-modos, which are actual motor vehicles

[24:31] and they require a driver's license and to be registered.

[24:37] And these are also hard to track in the data.

[24:39] I think sometimes these are conflated with e-bikes

[24:42] and it can be sometimes hard to disaggregate these

[25:00] So,

[25:03] this is our data to policy, our data to action story in Marin. As I mentioned before, we had four main pillars of interest in e-bike safety as an issue in Marin. We had providers raising the alarm with a clinical signal of more intense and severe injuries. We had the community raising safety concerns about youth on e-bikes. We had public health seeing this as an emerging trans-nation wide.

[25:32] and really trying to implement a data collection system where we could answer some questions about this.

[25:39] And then finally, policy readiness from the Board of Supervisors.

[25:43] There was a real willingness and desire to address this issue in Marin.

[25:48] So we didn't just have data, we had political will, and that resulted in AD 1778.

[25:54] This bill was passed at the state level and then ordinances were adopted throughout the county

[26:00] by fall 2025. The county of Marin implemented it in July, for July 1, 2025, and I want you

[26:09] to remember that date because that's sort of the cutoff date for our analysis moving forward.

[26:14] But AB 1778 requires that class to e-bike riders are 16 or older, and that everyone wears helmets.

[26:25] And then the relationship to safe routes to school, our action in Marin was not just policy-driven,

[26:31] but it was also really leaning on the lever of education.

[26:36] So the county rolled out in collaboration with the Transportation Authority of Marin,

[26:41] this Youth Safety Campaign, which created wonderful resources targeting middle school and high school students

[26:48] and their parents.

[26:49] A lot of education and awareness around safe biking behaviors, ordinances, and really trying to tease out

[26:59] the conflicting information that parents were trying to wade through and then we have safe routes

[27:04] to school. I know they've gotten a lot of shout outs today but they have a soft spot in my heart.

[27:08] I am a former safe routes to school parent volunteer in Mill Valley. I love them. And they're

[27:14] educating thousands of students every year and are particularly focusing on e-bike safety among

[27:20] six graders. My son did that last year and trying to get to parents and really inform them around

[27:25] on the restrictions on class to e-bikes.

[27:29] So we couldn't do it without both these pieces,

[27:30] the policy or the education.

[27:34] So this is the good stuff.

[27:36] I looked at data on request for supervisor,

[27:40] Commissioner Sackett to look at any changes in the data

[27:44] before and after AB 1778 implementation.

[27:48] And so what this is looking at is a year-over-year comparison

[27:52] of the e-bike accident rate among 10 to 15 year olds.

[27:57] So it decreased by 28% from the year proceeding

[28:02] that July 1st, 2025 date to the year after.

[28:06] This is super encouraging.

[28:08] And I want to temper our enthusiasm

[28:11] because we're still dealing with small numbers

[28:13] as you'll see in the next slide.

[28:14] So this is very encouraging, but we are hopeful

[28:17] that getting another couple years of data

[28:19] will help us really understand better

[28:21] if this is a trend that's here to stay.

[28:25] And so here are the numbers.

[28:28] The number of e-bite crashes also decrease this time by 30%.

[28:32] If you look at this graph, the orange line

[28:35] refers to e-bite crashes and the blue line

[28:38] refers to conventional bite crashes.

[28:40] And so we see year over year e-bite crashes decreased

[28:43] from 27 to 19.

[28:45] Again, this is encouraging, but you see these are small numbers

[28:49] of these 9-1-1 calls occurring among 10 to 15-year-olds.

[28:57] Another thing I wanted to point out, which is very encouraging,

[29:00] is the use of helmets among youth who are involved in crashes.

[29:05] This is looking at all bike accidents, both e-bike and conventional bikes,

[29:10] and their use of helmets before and after AB 1778,

[29:15] and all these educational campaigns.

[29:17] And I just want to point out we didn't separate by eBiker conventional bike because the numbers

[29:22] look very similar for both groups.

[29:25] So this first year, EMS clinicians reported that 77% of these youth who were involved in

[29:34] a crash and who called 911 were wearing helmets.

[29:38] And then in the year after, the second year, 90% were using helmets when they were involved

[29:45] in a crash.

[29:45] this is great. And compared to national data, this is so much higher. There's a youth

[29:52] risk behavioral study. It's a survey that's done by the CDC. And those numbers are reporting

[29:59] Like

[30:00] If they were involved in accidents that were traffic-related or non-traffic-related. So in this chart on the left is conventional bikes and on the right is e-bikes, and that those pink bars are what I want you to focus on, those are the percentage of accidents that involved traffic. So a collision with a motor vehicle, some sort of collision with another bike on a public roadway. We see among conventional bikes, it's pretty low, it's 21%. But among e-bikes, it's almost

[30:29] 50-50. So there's a really high percentage of e-bike accidents that are happening on

[30:35] our public roads and potentially in collisions with motor vehicles. And this echoes some

[30:41] national data. The CDC did a study looking at hospital data between 2020 and 2024, and

[30:48] they found the same thing that it's more likely to have motor vehicle accident if the bike

[30:53] is an e-bike compared to conventional bikes. And so as the transportation authority, I know

[30:59] there's a lot of focus on infrastructure safety.

[31:03] And this is certainly something to keep in mind

[31:05] when thinking through those considerations.

[31:10] Our next steps.

[31:12] So we're in public health is going to continue to collect data

[31:15] from 911 calls and maintain our public dashboard.

[31:18] We're also, as I said, relaunching this initiative

[31:20] to collect images on all bicycle crashes.

[31:23] So we can get some more granular insights into the types,

[31:28] This makes in models of bikes that are involved in crashes.

[31:31] We're also collaborating with researchers at Stanford.

[31:35] There's an amazing emergency room physician who's also a researcher who's doing two studies,

[31:41] one, on looking at risk per miles traveled on e-bikes, which is so far nobody has been

[31:47] able to really estimate that, as well as looking at studies linking emergency room data and 9-1-1 data.

[31:53] and she's been connected to folks that were in health

[31:56] and Kaiser super encouraging and very interesting studies.

[32:01] And then finally, we're required by AB 1778

[32:04] to report out on January 1st, 2028

[32:09] on the number of serious accidents

[32:11] before and after policy implementation.

[32:15] And in addition to our data from public health,

[32:18] the Sheriff's Office and local police departments

[32:20] will be reporting out on citations

[32:22] and any of the stops that were conducted under these ordinances.

[32:29] And then finally, we're going to keep going strong with safe routes to school.

[32:34] E-bike education will continue, always advocating for safe, responsible driving or riding.

[32:42] And again, like promoting their events and really getting the message out across the county to youth and to parents.

[32:50] That was a lot. I welcome any of your questions. Thank you for that fantastic presentation,

[32:56] especially appreciate all the data trending in the right direction. So I will open up to the

[33:00] commissioners for questions. Yeah, go ahead. Are you doing questions and comments? I'm going to do

[33:06] because it's a discussion item. Why don't we do questions so we can hear each other's questions

[33:12] and then we'll also have comments after. Let's separate them out.

[33:18] So thank you so much. Super interesting,

[33:20] things super helpful. So just so I understand you said at the end that Stanford is now collecting data on

[33:26] per mile. So you're looking at like demographic data per mile so you could say like total number of

[33:32] miles or 10 to 15 year olds and number of miles for above 60. That's the dream. I think they're

[33:41] going to focus on youth accidents but it is really trying to get at this like risk-based rate of

[33:48] accidents versus, you know, we show a population based rate, but it's it's not

[33:53] getting to like how many ebikes are out there. How many miles are kids traveling

[33:58] on these ebikes. That is a big unknown and really hard to estimate. So yeah,

[34:03] that's what the stamp one of the Stanford projects is to try and and they're

[34:07] doing a mixture of bike census like going to middle schools and high schools

[34:12] and trying to count ebikes to try and get it some approximation. They're also

[34:17] going to be doing some like focus interviews. So that's in process and we're supporting that project.

[34:24] Yeah, you could do surveys and you can get probably an approximation just to do a representative survey

[34:29] and probably figure out how many people and how many miles they ride and multiple of the numbers

[34:34] together. Then you can get miles per user because what you've got right now is miles per capita,

[34:39] which is like number of people that I got injured in a football game and you're dividing by a number

[35:00] This thing from this work, and it is so widely used in like motor vehicle accident analyses, and it's something that we'd really love to get at to better to truly understand the risk. Yeah, just observationally, you have far more kids riding than you do people over 60 yet you have roughly the same number of accidents. So, you know, this sort of the comment that it's like more dangerous for youth than everybody else. Probably not right, frankly, because you've got all

[35:29] these kids intensively writing seven days a week doing many, many miles on them. And you've got

[35:35] this population of elderly people, sorry, I don't mean say elderly, I'm over 60 by the way, so

[35:40] I'm continuing, I can include myself in that. But you know, they're just not using it as much,

[35:45] yet they're generating the same number of accidents. So probably, you know, that's probably the

[35:52] group that's actually crashing the most on a per mile basis, which is really the only way to measure

[35:58] or this in an accurate way?

[36:00] Yeah, and so in my other epidemiological life,

[36:04] I do a lot of work on injuries among older adults.

[36:06] I just did a big analysis on falls

[36:08] and you're hitting on something

[36:09] not only may the risk be higher,

[36:11] but they also have like specific risk factors

[36:15] that could make injuries more serious,

[36:18] being a blood thinner's osteoporosis.

[36:20] Like there's a whole suite of vulnerabilities

[36:23] in that older adult population

[36:24] that could make the consequences of a crash

[36:27] on an e-bike really severe. We haven't done a deep dive into that, but now you have me think

[36:33] maybe we should. Yeah, great. Thank you. Thanks so much. Thank you. A question,

[36:37] commissioner Dowling. Yeah, and then commissioner Blasding.

[36:40] Brigielette, great public health project. This is really exciting. So how do you evaluate

[36:45] the e-bike safety education efforts? That must be a little difficult, although I was thinking

[36:50] if there's a greater use of helmets now, then there was like a year ago, is that based on

[36:57] in the safety education, or is it, I mean, how do you know how effective it is?

[37:02] It's so hard, and I think that's a question that we're going to be grappling with over

[37:07] the next couple years until that final report on AB 1778, because just saying, like, oh,

[37:13] look, numbers went down or numbers went, it's not the whole story, because there are so

[37:17] many things happening at the same time, like the education plus the policy.

[37:22] So, I'm going to have to recruit some amazing policy analysts to help me with that.

[37:27] Maybe you know of anybody.

[37:29] We'll see.

[37:30] Great.

[37:31] Thanks.

[37:32] Thank you, Commissioner Bluffs.

[37:34] Really great presentation.

[37:36] It's so exciting to see what the county has been able to achieve on this.

[37:40] I just, there's one thing that was a little concerning in the data,

[37:42] which is that the total number of accidents overall seems to be going up

[37:46] and the number on conventional bike, not on e-bikes, but on conventional bikes is going up.

[37:50] Is there any way to track that?

[37:52] Is there a concern that maybe those are e-bikes that just aren't noted or even people are

[37:58] switching back because they think it's safer and it's less safe?

[38:00] What is that data telling us in so far as you know?

[38:04] So I can't speak to where people thinking it was switched back and are still engaging in

[38:12] like unsafe behaviors.

[38:13] That's a little harder to answer with the data sources that I have at my disposal.

[38:17] I will say, though, we were also a little surprised by that and we went and looked at all the

[38:22] other age groups and we didn't see that drop off in e-bike rates or numbers among any

[38:30] other age group.

[38:31] So that was a signal to us that it wasn't just some fluky data collection problem that it

[38:36] was we were actually seeing a drop.

[38:39] Yeah, and the increase in conventional bikes, I'm not sure.

[38:42] I think it is very interesting and I don't know if a population that may have been involved

[38:48] in more risky riding is not riding conventional bikes.

[38:51] I don't know, and I can't really answer that from my data, but it's a question on my

[38:55] mind as well.

[38:56] And I think it also speaks to the importance of just keeping with bike education across the

[39:02] board because a lot of the bicycle safety education is relevant for e-bike and for conventional

[39:08] bikes.

[39:09] Thank you.

[39:12] Other questions?

[39:13] Yeah.

[39:13] Commissioner Paulson.

[39:14] Thank you.

[39:15] I just want to go a little further on the conventional by question.

[39:19] So AB 1778 is a pilot, right?

[39:23] So they're waiting for more data.

[39:25] How significant.

[39:27] I mean, I would imagine for the legislature seeing the 35% drop in the 10 to 11.

[39:33] I mean, 10 to 15 year old cohort is reason to, you know, make it more permanent.

[39:37] but what about just for conventional bikes? Because I just looked up quickly, it seems like

[40:00] We're in, but conventional is quite a bit higher. And I'm wondering what the overlap is between those two different forms of transport. Yeah, I'm not sure. I mean, I agree conventional bikes are more prevalent and there are more miles ridden, but again, it's it is a little hard. We haven't conducted like a real risk rate analysis, looking at those two. But it's something we're going to keep looking at, especially in this youth age group.

[40:28] And we can glean some insights from the EMS narratives.

[40:32] I mean, I read a lot of, I review these, all of these crashes.

[40:36] I review the patient chart and read the actual narrative.

[40:39] And so far nothing has jumped out as like the overarching explanation of why there was this

[40:46] increase in conventional bikes, but it's something we're continuing to look at and we'll do so moving

[40:52] forward.

[40:53] And if this continues, if the increase continues, then, you know, maybe it means doing

[40:58] some like focus groups are working closer with these bike education groups that are like in the

[41:03] field talking to youth. I'm just wondering also if AB 1778 is helping, you know, though it's

[41:10] trending up, maybe it's holding down, you know, a greater, I mean, is there any indication that

[41:15] it's helping in that age group? Because, you know, all the focus is on, you know, e-bikes and kids and

[41:20] tend to, you know, 15, but, you know, just for the broader, because that is a really big part of,

[41:28] you

[41:28] You know, I could reach that as well.

[41:30] Yeah, I can just add, you know, I think it was the last safe routes update we did we report some data from the office of traffic safety from California.

[41:37] I think the since the pandemic we have seen, maybe a higher prevalence than previously in terms of accidents that affect youth 15 age or below.

[41:48] And I think part of that could just be the increase of the amount of time.

[41:52] people in that demographic have been writing since the pandemic.

[41:56] Just the overall increase has led to maybe some increase.

[41:59] The year over year increase that we're seeing here, I can't speak to that,

[42:02] but I could be just a part of this, part of the situation.

[42:06] Just one more question on the EMS indicators.

[42:10] You said speed is really hard to, you know, to capture or document.

[42:15] Ebike class is really hard to capture.

[42:17] What about just the severity of the accident?

[42:18] Yeah, we do collect that and the encouraging thing is a very small proportion are classified as either critical or emergent like the two top tiers of severity as as described by an EMS clinician.

[42:34] More of the accidents are described as non-acute or like fine no injury.

[42:43] The tricky thing is, this is like the best that EMS can do to describe severity with

[42:50] the tools they have.

[42:51] They don't have imaging, they don't have X-rays or MRI machines, so there are injuries

[42:56] that on the surface in the initial EMS assessment, the child may be cleared or maybe they're

[43:04] transported to the ER, but more severe injuries may not show up until they're in the ED and hours

[43:12] later when symptoms of a concussion show up or there's a fracture that you just can't quite tell

[43:17] if it is or it isn't in the field. But we do capture severity and we do capture if any rider was

[43:25] transported to an emergency department. Great, thank you. Yeah, you're welcome. Thank you, Commissioner

[43:30] Blash. Yeah, I'm just really intrigued by the relationship between the e-bike accidents and traffic

[43:38] And I'm wondering if we know why that is.

[43:40] I mean, I think a lot of multi-use paths now

[43:42] so you can't use your e-bike on them.

[43:44] So maybe people are more likely to be riding on the streets.

[43:46] Or, you know, I know that people complain about kids

[43:49] like racing down the middle of the street on their e-bikes.

[43:52] You know, so I'm wondering if we have any idea

[43:53] as to why there is that relationship.

[43:56] I don't.

[43:57] I've thought about some of those suggestions that you made.

[44:00] I know that, I mean, speaking anecdotally,

[44:03] I know a lot of kids use e-bikes as like transportation,

[44:06] especially in Mill Valley to get up the big hills and so they're just writing more on streets than they are on trails.

[44:15] You know, there's this whole other worlds of conventional bike and mountain bike trail culture.

[44:19] And that, and it's hard to make broad generalizations from the EMS data on this.

[44:25] But I do wonder if it's being used more for like transportation versus like biking fitness recreation.

[44:34] Yeah, because I just, I mean, I know in San Francisco like if you want to ride along the Embarcadero, if you're on an e-bike

[44:39] They tell you got to be out on the street. If you're on a traditional bike, you can be on the bike path

[44:43] And I'm not sure if we have that role here, but

[44:46] That's always kind of I'm like, okay, I'm taking the traditional bike. I'm fine, you know

[44:52] Yeah

[44:54] Thank you commissioner Sustenger

[44:56] Just a couple of a couple of questions

[45:00] Questions, slash, suggestion would be for more linguistic specificity or methodological rigor on the slides themselves. I think there are a couple of places where what you have just presented to us kind of does all the heavy lifting of caveating what the limitations of the data are that sort of thing, but some of the slides present the data as though they are representative of something that they may not actually be saying, right? So, for example, you know, we're we're showing

[45:29] the reported 16.25 and 11.65 rates, right? And you already acknowledged that that's not for

[45:36] e-bike trips, riders, or miles traveled. That's for her 10,000 youth residents, right? So it's not

[45:42] actually a measure of the risk of riding becoming safer. It's just, it could be representative of fewer

[45:50] youth bike riders. As you don't know, so it would be helpful sort of in the presentation of that

[45:56] data say like, okay, well, here's the limitation of what this might actually represent, which

[46:01] was very helpful to hear from you tonight. Similarly, the data trend following AB 1778 seems

[46:11] to suggest in the data presented that we can causally attribute the decrease in the year

[46:17] following 1778 to the enactment of 1778, because it follows immediately in the presentation,

[46:23] But we don't actually have any control group, we don't have a longer pre-policy trends to evaluate against. It's just a one-year snap.

[46:32] Yeah, that's why I'm advising caution, because we also had education. It wasn't just the policy that was at play in this last year.

[46:43] Right, which all makes sense, but if I remember the public and picked up this slide deck and we're not privy to all of the sort of framing that you have done tonight, I wouldn't be able to understand all of those cautionary and all that sort of thing.

[46:58] So perhaps it's just a slide at the end that presents, you know, the limitations of the data out of the data or what they actually represent, what they don't, you know, those kinds of things that would help frame and contextualize those data.

[47:12] going forward so that there's like a way for not only us but other consumers of this data to also understand what you've so helped play presented tonight. Thank you.

[47:22] Thanks.

[47:23] Other questions.

[47:28] Okay.

[47:29] I will entertain momentarily comments from the commissioner, but let's open up the public comment first.

[47:36] So any members of the public like to comment on this item. I don't see anyone in the room. Anyone online, Marcus.

[47:46] Carol, you made unmute.

[47:51] Hi, this is Terrell Cullaway Executive Director. Can you guys hear me?

[47:56] We sure can. Okay, the clock wasn't going down. I thought oh my goodness. And this is Terrell

[48:02] Cullaway Executive Director from Marine County Bicycle Coalition. I'm concerned about this report.

[48:08] It keeps getting coded in the media and the national media. Again, I know I've said this in the past,

[48:16] but our counts of e-vehicles at school show that 90% of the vehicles at schools are actually

[48:25] e-modos and not e-bikes and conflating the two is really causing problems nationwide both for

[48:31] the industry, for the movement, and also for the safety of our kids. It also is I think adding to

[48:39] the confusion that parents are feeling when they go to purchase a vehicle for their kid.

[48:44] And I just wanted we were talking about the analog uptick you guys were talking about that and I wanted to comment that it might be that the uptick is due to more people riding.

[48:55] There could be a bunch more people riding, but we don't know because we don't yet have bite counters. I know that's a project that Tam is working on.

[49:02] But we currently have no idea how many people are riding bikes in our community and how that number is going up or going down.

[49:09] Although, I mean, looking around, I would say that it has increased, so I would expect

[49:14] that collisions and crashes would go up as a result.

[49:18] And then one other thing I just wanted to comment is we really try not to use the term

[49:24] accident when we're referring to these things.

[49:26] We say crashes are collisions.

[49:28] The word accident implies that it's nobody's fault and nothing can be done.

[49:32] And so I just want to beg that we stop using that word when we're referring to collisions and crashes. Thank you.

[50:00] Okay, I'll bring it back to the commission. I thought that was an excellent point about words matter. Last point, the tarot made. I'd love to hear comments from the commission. Go ahead, urban. Yeah, thank you, again, for your report and for all the excellent work. So this is having a huge, I think, positive impact. So education is really critical. The fact that people are now using helmets much more than the word before, I think is a really important outcome from this.

[50:28] and just getting people aware of the risks that they've got.

[50:32] So I think all of the outcomes here are really excellent.

[50:35] Just a couple of comments just been reflected

[50:38] in some of the other commissioner comments

[50:39] and also from online.

[50:41] I think how we phrase this in the press is really important

[50:44] because it is being picked up and repeated

[50:47] and the context is lost in it.

[50:50] So the fact that you're normalizing us

[50:53] on population is interpreted as risk and it's not risk.

[50:56] It's just I mean, it's just I don't think it's helpful. I would frankly just drop it because it's just not it's not a valuable measurement at all because what matters is how many people are writing, not how many people happen to be in that cohort.

[51:09] So you're just skewing the data and confusing people. So until we have the right data, I would recommend just dropping that entirely.

[51:17] just kind of like rough estimate just and again this is AI so there's huge

[51:22] caveats associated with all of this but if you did it per capita per trip

[51:27] right try to come out the miles you'd get roughly you know six for the

[51:32] youth you'd get more than six for the 40 to six year olds and you get 27 for the

[51:40] elderly right so it's a really different picture so I just think that you're you're

[51:44] not doing yourself any favors by normalizing on a number that's not valuable.

[51:49] Secondly, the increase in number of crashes for least e-bikes is absolutely a function

[51:54] of the number of e-bikes out there, and that's what you'd expect, right?

[51:57] But like the number of crashes went up by 100%, but the number of e-bikes between 2019

[52:05] and 2022 went up by 400%, right?

[52:07] So of course, the number of crashes is going to go up.

[52:10] That's just like important context for people to understand.

[52:12] So just to kind of like when you're framing the data, I'm hugely interested and we've talked about this before here about the Stanford data where they're going to try to come up with the real stuff.

[52:22] So until we've got that, we probably should just stick with the sample data.

[52:26] And then once we get that, we can kind of normalize all this. But this is all really great work. It's super important. I mean, kids getting into trouble on bikes is really unhelpful.

[52:36] It is absolutely the case that there are motorcycles, not e-bikes, and I think that's an important part also because we have kind of vilified e-bikes where really may not be the case, right?

[52:48] It really might be e-modeer cycles that are really the villain here, and e-bikes are safe. That's why data is really important before we form any conclusions and before we make any policy decisions.

[52:59] Thank you so much.

[53:00] Thank you.

[53:02] Commissioner Blasting.

[53:03] I just wanted to make sure that we give supervisor,

[53:06] a lot of thanks for pulling all of this together,

[53:11] because she did significant work in forming the smaller task force

[53:16] in working with Assemblymember Connolly,

[53:18] in really navigating the hugely successful eBikers Club.

[53:22] I've seen kids with stickers, and I just wanted to say,

[53:25] we all really appreciate it,

[53:27] And really, we would, Marin would not be where it is on e-bike safety without you supervisor

[53:33] second.

[53:33] So just wanted to give you a shout out.

[53:36] Plus one that.

[53:37] Yeah, go ahead.

[53:38] Thank you.

[53:38] I appreciate that.

[53:39] But I, you know, I think it's this, frankly, is an interesting question as we make policy

[53:45] decisions.

[53:46] We oftentimes want to have data.

[53:48] And we frankly, I don't know about you all, but most of the decisions we make, we don't have

[53:53] a lot of data.

[53:54] And so it's been an interesting for a and how do we collect when we don't have a sample from the beginning we don't have a sample from you know the day before this past.

[54:05] And frankly, I'm thinking again anecdotally that for example Miller Creek Middle School is not barely has any ebikes this year, but they had a bunch over the last two years.

[54:16] So if you went out and took the kids are going back to analog bikes on in that school district.

[54:21] I think because of enforcement and so I think we still are never going to have a clean path to the data and so does that mean one, we don't collect data or two, we only collect data when we have it perfect.

[55:00] And so I appreciate that we've had this opportunity to try to flush some of this out. And I think we all acknowledge that it's not, you know, absolutely perfect. And I think when we really entered this stage, I will tell you the first conversation I had with Dr. Willis was like if you can do anything, if you can get more kids wearing helmets, you have succeeded because that is really, that's one of the few, the things that can improve outcomes is if they have that. So that is, and I think anecdotes

[55:30] totally I'm seeing that more too. I think kids know that there's more law enforcement. And if you don't have a helmet on you're going to get pulled over much more quickly.

[55:38] I think is the word on the street so if nothing else that has been accomplished. And then I think number two when we started on this pathway, none of us knew the difference between in class two and a class one in an emoto and you know it's really been over the course of this so I really appreciate public health has been part of this so we aren't just guessing.

[55:59] at what works. And I don't think any of us thought AB 1778 was going to solve this issue.

[56:07] But I do think that the conversation amongst parents is much more elevated than it was four

[56:13] years ago about what is what asking what the laws and the rules are. And so just having that conversation

[56:20] versus I'm going to buy something off the shelf because everybody else has it. So thank you for

[56:25] your participation in working on transportation and we want to see more kids out on bikes

[56:31] and e-bikes.

[56:32] I think it's also always an important message.

[56:36] Come on down here.

[56:38] Did you see that?

[56:39] Anyone down here?

[56:40] No additional comments?

[56:42] Okay.

[56:42] Commissioner Downlink.

[56:43] Go ahead.

[56:43] I just want to say I actually like what urban was talking about, about older adults and accidents.

[56:50] And I hope that you actually take some time to look at older adults because many of them have been buying those class 1 bikes.

[56:59] So seeing where the accidents occur with the standard bikes in the class 1 and 2 bikes, people over the age of 60 would be really helpful.

[57:08] It's a great suggestion.

[57:09] Yes, I really like that.

[57:12] Thank you.

[57:13] My husband and I both have.

[57:18] We don't want you to show up in the dock in the data, however.

[57:23] Any other commissioner comments?

[57:26] I'll just fill them what's already been said.

[57:27] Maria, thank you so much for all the work that you've done.

[57:29] The public health perspective always is such a valuable lens.

[57:33] And again, commissioner socket.

[57:34] Thank you for your driving force and bringing this forward.

[57:37] having a special legislation after state level

[57:40] and continuing to build on that.

[57:41] I found Commissioner Carmell's comments

[57:44] really interesting about who,

[57:46] what population is having accidents.

[57:48] We have Embrace Vision Zero here as a community.

[57:51] I can speak for San Rafael, we really have it.

[57:53] And I don't know if it pertains necessarily

[57:55] to this campaign and what's going on here,

[57:57] but having that information is really critical.

[58:02] So I think that's a really interesting point.

[58:03] And I also think having the Commissioner,

[58:05] or second just said having the helmet wearing.

[58:08] Like let's, nothing's low hanging fruit

[58:10] because it's behavior change and that takes time.

[58:12] But how do we continue to do that?

[58:13] And I will also be interested

[58:15] how do we continue to build on it over time?

[58:17] Because right now we have a lot of momentum,

[58:19] a lot of conversation, the folks on this dius

[58:21] are talking about in their communities,

[58:23] but what about three or four years from now?

[58:24] So I'm really interested in how it does intersect

[58:27] with the ideals around vision zero

[58:29] that we're trying to do.

[58:30] So it was a discussion item.

[58:33] So thank you so much.

[58:34] That was a great question.

[58:37] We will move along to our next item, which is an action item.

[58:43] We're not letting Scott leave yet because he's celebrating his anniversary.

[58:46] This is a funding to extend the bike share pilot program and amend the FY2627 budget.

[59:02] Great.

[59:02] Thank you so much.

[59:03] This is a milestone update on the Redwood Bike Share Program, which includes the recommendation

[59:08] the TAM Board approved funding to extend this program for an additional three years.

[59:14] For background, this program is a partnership between TAM and the Sonoma County

[59:19] Transportation and Climate Authorities to oversee the program. We were grateful to receive a grant

[59:25] from MTC to kick this program off for the first two years of the program and that period runs through

[59:31] October 13th or next month. We have a contract with drop mobility, the program operator for a program

[59:38] that provides 300 pedal assist e-bikes in seven cities along Smart Quarter.

[59:43] The program was rolled out in October of 2024 across five cities and was fully deployed in all seven cities by March of 2025.

[59:52] Currently it includes about 60 hubs with an additional about 120 public bike racks that expand.

[1:00:13] We've been tracking the trips since the program kicked off, and through August of 2026 we've seen more than 28,000 trips in total with 4,900 total unique users.

[1:00:30] about 1.7 miles in an average trip length.

[1:00:34] In this slide, you'll see the increase over time

[1:00:36] in terms of fleet utilization.

[1:00:38] We have seen some fluctuation based on the season,

[1:00:42] but overall, we're seeing an upward trajectory

[1:00:45] and notably between 2025 and 2026.

[1:00:49] We've seen about a doubling in fleet utilization year-over-year.

[1:00:55] Throughout the system, there's a range in trips per city.

[1:00:59] In Santa Rosa, we've seen the most trips, followed by Santa Fel, Petaluma,

[1:01:03] Larkspur, and Ronard Park. I do want to point out Nevada launched their

[1:01:07] system about five months later than the other cities in Marin County.

[1:01:10] Nevertheless, the trips in Nevada have inched up to about the level of

[1:01:13] Katadi. So we have seen a range throughout the different cities, but it is being

[1:01:18] used in all participating cities. We're looking at Marin, the connection between

[1:01:23] transit and bike share becomes really clear. Our high-use stations include

[1:01:28] Luxper Smart Station, the hub at Golden Gate Ferry, the Civic Center Smart Station,

[1:01:35] center-felled downtown Smart Station, reflected in the percentages here.

[1:01:40] So that does, that is encouraging in terms of providing a service that meets

[1:01:44] the intended purpose, which is really a first-last-mile program.

[1:01:49] We've been, consider a variety of strategies since the program,

[1:01:53] launch to try to increase awareness and utilization. Here are some of the more

[1:01:56] effective things that have worked. In April of this year we've doubled the daily minutes

[1:02:01] allowed for members going from 30 minutes of ride time all the way up to a full hour per day.

[1:02:06] So year-over-year, the following months we've seen pretty notable increase in use since we've

[1:02:11] made that change in the program. There's also been some great partnerships that have kicked off,

[1:02:15] one of which includes the Canal Alliance and MCE that have partnered on some outreach and education,

[1:02:20] equity-oriented education outreach including classes about how to use the system,

[1:02:24] and that includes equity memberships

[1:02:26] that are sponsored by MCE as well.

[1:02:29] We're looking at doing a lot more outreach to employers

[1:02:32] to discuss opportunities around bulk memberships

[1:02:35] that's something that's been very successful in Santa Rosa.

[1:02:38] We're talking to the county and Marin currently about this

[1:02:40] and I think that's gonna be a big part

[1:02:41] of our outreach in the coming months.

[1:02:44] So building on that momentum,

[1:02:45] we're gonna do a lot more outreach to targeted demographics,

[1:02:48] to college students in particular.

[1:02:51] We think there's a lot of opportunity there,

[1:02:52] equity populations, as I mentioned, and transit riders.

[1:02:56] We're going to be working more with the transit operators working through their

[1:02:59] forms and channels to promote the program, to transit riders, and using

[1:03:04] opportunities to work with advocacy organizations and developers to get the word out,

[1:03:09] and particularly large employers.

[1:03:12] Starting to get into our recommendation tonight, with our current contract,

[1:03:18] with throttle mobility that SETCA manages.

[1:03:21] It's expiring next month.

[1:03:23] We've done quite a bit of work in the past few months,

[1:03:26] discussing opportunities to extend this program

[1:03:28] with SETCA, Smart and MTC.

[1:03:32] The operating costs are estimated to be about $300,000

[1:03:35] per year over the next three years.

[1:03:38] So we worked on an arrangement with these agencies

[1:03:40] where TAM, SETCA, and Smart could cover

[1:03:43] the operating costs over the next three years.

[1:03:46] and then MPC could kick in funding for capital cost specifically, specifically to pay off the

[1:03:53] bicycle leases that we have currently with the 300 e-bikes as well as provides additional

[1:03:59] funding for batteries and signage. And in this slide you'll see $4,000 and $12,000 recommended

[1:04:05] would be leveraged to yield about $1.4 million investment. I do want to point out as of yesterday,

[1:04:12] Today, all the three other agencies listed here have gained approvals or authority from

[1:04:17] their agencies to contribute the funding, so TAMS recommended funding tonight would complete

[1:04:22] the funding plan.

[1:04:25] The fund source we're recommending that we think would be appropriate for this is coming

[1:04:29] from measure AA category 4.6 as you may recall from the sales tax expenditure plan.

[1:04:35] This fund source or this category, I should say, specifically geared around first and last

[1:04:40] mile services to regional transit, and the pass that's been used for services such as

[1:04:45] the wave shuttle to Luxber Ferry, or the pilot shuttle between the Ferry and Smart Station

[1:04:51] and Luxber, that revenue that accrues from this category is in the $150,000 range.

[1:04:57] In other words, if you have any questions, please let us know in the comment section.

[1:05:00] The pilot shuttle between the ferry and smart station in Larkspur, that revenue that accrues from

[1:05:06] this category is in the $150,000 range. And if you may recall, in the 2026 review of

[1:05:15] measure A and amendment, the definition around this category was defined to specifically

[1:05:21] include by share with this program in mind as it relates to this funding. So that's why

[1:05:29] we're recommending this source of funding, it would contribute about $137,000 annually

[1:05:35] or $4,000 and $12,000 roughly over the three-year period.

[1:05:39] And it would allow us to invest in a program that's been established and is growing.

[1:05:46] In other news, we also received an announcement recently of a state earmark back in February

[1:05:53] 10, collaborated with SCTCA to submit a state earmark request for this program among others.

[1:06:00] We requested $2.8 million, and we're very grateful to find out that Senator McGuire included

[1:06:07] $1 million for Redwood Bikeshare and Assembly Bill 113.

[1:06:11] Since we printed this item and developed the presentation, we actually heard the governor

[1:06:15] actually sign this legislation within the past couple days, so that's great news.

[1:06:20] However, there's potentially lengthy process to actually access this funding and go through

[1:06:25] that administrative process.

[1:06:26] So we're not exactly sure when the funding could be available, therefore additional discussions need to take place to determine how to deploy these additional funds, potentially augment this program to extend or expand this program further. So more to come on that.

[1:06:42] With the funding we're recommending tonight, a lot goes into the operations of this program and we would be contributing to the operations.

[1:06:50] That includes rebalancing of bikes to meet the man where it's needed, moving bikes around throughout the system, swapping batteries because in our case these are electric bikes, keeping the bikes maintained, providing all the software and customer service, the job mobility has been doing and I will say they think they've done a really good job so far and providing additional outreach and events where MTC would be providing the funding to actually contribute to the capital cost, which we'd also act

[1:07:19] by contributing to the operations.

[1:07:23] We had a great discussion with the funding programs

[1:07:25] and legislative executive committee of TAM earlier this month,

[1:07:29] which approved the three-year extension that we're recommending tonight,

[1:07:34] and I referred that recommendation to the TAM board.

[1:07:37] And there were some suggestions that came out of the discussion as well,

[1:07:41] one of which I think we could definitely focus on within our outreach program

[1:07:45] moving forward, which would be to promote this program

[1:07:47] beyond a first last mile connection to transit because there are other use cases that could benefit from

[1:07:53] bike share. We also talked about the state earmark and the reports that come back to talk about

[1:07:59] that opportunity and how those funds could be deployed when they become available. The fact that

[1:08:06] there would likely need to be some type of subsidy into the future, but we could continue to evaluate

[1:08:12] performance in the long-term funding need to potentially even extend this program further.

[1:08:16] And then there were some discussions about other first last mile programs that we could

[1:08:21] also be looking into in the future, including potentially with autonomous vehicles.

[1:08:25] So that's more that we can discuss in the future as well.

[1:08:29] So tonight's recommendation is really three-part recommending the foreign and 12,000 for measure

[1:08:34] AA, category 4.6, to support a three-year extension of this program that would equate to 137,000

[1:08:43] roughly per year and we would amend the TAM budget accordingly. The framework for this program

[1:08:49] would continue where SCTCA would be designated as the fiscal agent so they would hold the contract

[1:08:55] with drop mobility and we would enter into an agreement with SCTCA basically as a cooperative

[1:09:01] funding agreement to provide a TAMS contribution. So that's what we're here to recommend tonight

[1:09:06] and happy to answer any questions or any suggestions you might have. Thank you so much.

[1:09:10] Thank you, Scott. I'll look down here any questions. Yeah, Commissioner Blash.

[1:09:15] Yeah, this is really good news. So I'm very excited to hear this and I did have a question

[1:09:21] about just, you know, vaguely the process for the earmark would be, it would come back to the

[1:09:26] tam board at some point for a decision about use. I would assume and then maybe go to the councils

[1:09:31] of the individual jurisdictions impacted if indeed there's expansion funding, right?

[1:09:37] I think there's kind of multiple parts to that question, so one is it's important to remember,

[1:10:00] Very closely with the SETA and smart staffs. So there would need to kind of need to be some discussion about how that earmark gets deployed in both counties. Along with discussions with MTC who is contributing significant amount of funding to this extension funding plan. So I think we would probably start with some staff level discussions and then come to the board when we have a little bit more information. We also need to know from the state the process to actually access the funds.

[1:10:30] Because it is kind of an unusual process, these earmarks, you know, it's a little different

[1:10:35] than kind of a standard state grant program that we're more used to with Keltrans, for

[1:10:39] example.

[1:10:40] So, we need a little information on both of those fronts.

[1:10:44] In terms of working with local councils, the way it has worked in the initial two-year pilot

[1:10:51] is that we actually, we have a working group that involves staff from all of the jurisdictions

[1:10:56] that are on the initial corridor and where it comes to the council is typically if there's a council action needed and that could be an encroachment permit.

[1:11:07] It could be some other sort of authorization, potentially some kind of agreement that needs to be approved.

[1:11:15] So we have done presentations at the council, at some of the councils for the initial pilot and certainly would be happy to do that when we get to that point with the extension as well.

[1:11:24] Thank

[1:11:28] you. Yeah, Christopher Paulson. Thanks. I'm wondering in the program what has been the experience with like battery down time and vehicle down time because I, you know, read somewhere that it's 10 to 15% and that's really eating away at the effectiveness of the program.

[1:11:45] You know, the batteries get to a certain point, they're basically taken out of the system.

[1:11:51] So we'll have 300 bikes that are part of this program, right?

[1:11:53] And when we have a battery life within any given vehicle that gets down to a certain

[1:11:58] percentage, let's say 30% battery life only, those are actually taken out of the network

[1:12:02] temporarily until those batteries are swapped out.

[1:12:05] So we found that we've had sufficient capacity at all times so far, even if we had to take

[1:12:10] a couple bikes or a few bikes out of the network at any given point in time to swap out

[1:12:14] batteries. We've provided a sufficient number of bicycles within the field at any given point in time

[1:12:20] that battery life or range really hasn't been an issue that's been brought to our attention so far.

[1:12:26] Okay, and another, I mean, I know Fairbox Recovery is slow, it's slow for smart, it's not really

[1:12:32] necessarily the best metric, but what in your opinion is a metric of success? You know, we've been at this

[1:12:37] for two years. At what point could we say this is really, you know, succeeding or better than

[1:12:43] micro-transit, or Marin Connect, or partnering with UberLift, better than other alternatives?

[1:12:50] Yeah, I think the value of the trips are need to be considered in the context of the fact

[1:12:54] that they do connect to these trans-assistants that we've invested heavily in, but that's

[1:12:59] said, there aren't a lot of comparable systems, so our level of ridership might be compared

[1:13:05] to smaller cities out there, cities that are small and tend to be cities like Long Beach

[1:13:13] or Tucson in the greater scheme of things as compared to cities like New York City or Montreal where you're seeing a far over one trip per bike per day.

[1:13:22] Within the Bay Area you have some smaller cities but there's still much bigger than Marin County cities or Sonoma County cities and typically so.

[1:13:32] The trending upwards I think if that continues we're going to be in a much higher rate.

[1:13:38] You know, in terms of utilization, I think of trending in the right direction, but I think the year-over-year change we've seen over the past year, if that continues over the next three years, I definitely think that that would be successful.

[1:13:51] You know, I think a positive outcome that that we can consider.

[1:13:57] Thank you.

[1:13:58] Commissioner Sessinger. Yeah, two quick questions on what feel like potentially missing data points, but you may have them.

[1:14:09] So do we know trips per rider? It seems like you report individual riders and then a total number of trips.

[1:14:17] But do we know actual like a trips per rider? Because there could be 4,800, 4,700 people who tried it once and never tried it again.

[1:14:25] and 100 people who are riding all the time.

[1:14:28] Do we have a sense of attrition, trips,

[1:14:30] or a rider, anything like that?

[1:14:32] We have access to that data.

[1:14:33] It's not part of the presentation tonight

[1:14:35] and any of the points that we really emphasize

[1:14:36] in this presentation.

[1:14:37] I think we could get that type of data.

[1:14:39] I mean, we have the 4,900 unique riders

[1:14:42] over the life of this program to your points.

[1:14:45] There's some power users that I think what we have seen

[1:14:47] and we've reported in other presentations

[1:14:49] is the people that are actually members

[1:14:52] that use this each month.

[1:14:54] they're taking a lot more trips. I don't know if you consider like the 80-20 rule but like they're taking that small-

[1:15:00] No, that makes sense. I think it would be a useful data point, just to understand sort of like broader utilization of the program, right? Really? Because the numbers reported here, don't give that sense of what is real news. What is the monthly active users, right? Of the program kind of thing. And then the other question I have is, do we know the fully loaded total public subsidy per trip?

[1:15:32] It feels to me like we'd want to know how much we are subsidizing per rider, per active

[1:15:38] user, or active rider, and how that number changes depending on ridership.

[1:15:47] Right.

[1:15:48] So to date, the grant from MTC was for $8,000 or $26,000, right, and we're looking at probably

[1:15:53] reaching over the first two years about roughly 30,000 trips, right?

[1:15:58] So the $300,000 annual system-wide operating cost,

[1:16:02] prospectively, if we were to reach 26,000 trips, for instance,

[1:16:07] when I run those numbers, we're getting to about $11 per trip,

[1:16:13] prospectively based on that operating cost.

[1:16:15] That's just the TAM contribution, the total cost.

[1:16:17] If you wanted to look at the total public contribution,

[1:16:19] and Tams funds being leveraged and more funding,

[1:16:23] it's a higher cost per trip.

[1:16:24] But yeah, so something we're looking at carefully

[1:16:27] with MTC, we want to bring that cost per trip down

[1:16:30] as much as we possibly can,

[1:16:31] really by boosting that utilization rate.

[1:16:34] But yeah, I think based on the trending upward

[1:16:37] in terms of utilization, I think that cost per trip

[1:16:40] would go down.

[1:16:42] You'd say if we had fewer bikes,

[1:16:43] the cost, you know, it would be a different equation.

[1:16:46] So going forward, could we have that

[1:16:48] as part of these reports because I do think ultimately we who are responsible for stewarding

[1:16:54] the use of these public funds should ideally know how much are we really subsidizing per trip.

[1:17:00] I mean $11 is not nothing. If that's actually the number and that's only representative of

[1:17:06] CAM's contribution as you said. So driving that utilization and that ridership clearly important

[1:17:14] but it would also be there for something we'd want to track over time so that we could see

[1:17:18] when we approved this extension in 2026, it was $X dollars per trip or per active rider and in

[1:17:25] 2028, when we're looking at it again, it's now Y. Yeah, it's certainly something we could bring

[1:17:29] forward in the future. Thanks. Great. Thanks. Thank you. Additional questions? Yeah,

[1:17:34] Commissioner Blossy. Scott, congratulations. And I really appreciate the report. I have some

[1:17:42] hard questions, so I'm just going to preface it by saying I really appreciate the report and the

[1:17:46] work and, and Redwood bike share, but I am the representative from

[1:17:50] Saucleo, and I, from what I can see here, correct me if I'm wrong?

[1:17:54] There's no plan in this extension to serve Southern Marinadol.

[1:18:00] The commissioner, I'll, I'll jump in here.

[1:18:02] So the, the funding that we are asking for tonight is to extend the existing

[1:18:07] system for three years.

[1:18:09] So same locations, same number of bikes, same operator.

[1:18:13] The million dollar earmark does potentially give us some opportunity to

[1:18:18] expand the locations as well where exactly those might be. We don't really have an answer yet,

[1:18:25] and you know it is important to keep in mind this is a connected network, so we want it to be

[1:18:32] useful in terms of sort of point to point, right? So there probably are some locations that are

[1:18:38] a better fit for that than others. I can't answer your question exactly now as to what those locations

[1:18:45] may be. But the funding for measure for 4.6 was recently changed so that it could apply to

[1:18:51] not just Santa Fel and that corridor but to all of Southern Marin. So that would imply

[1:18:56] the ferry in Tibran, the ferry in Sosalito, maybe Nolvalley. It wasn't that part of the

[1:19:03] thought process when we opened up what category 4.6 can do.

[1:19:07] There was some expansion in terms of the definition of that category, including the explicit

[1:19:12] call out for bike share to be an eligible use. There's a lot of options within that category.

[1:19:16] What we're recommending tonight is Ann mentioned, is really to extend this program as it's

[1:19:20] constituted within the current service area. Potential expansion of the program would

[1:19:25] be considered as, and mentioned as well, during further discussions in regards to the air

[1:19:30] mark funding, but at this point in time, what we're recommending tonight is to extend this

[1:19:35] program within the existing framework and the existing service area.

[1:19:39] Yeah.

[1:20:00] In Sausalito and Tim run between the fairies, or serving the fairies, or any of the southern

[1:20:04] marine transit spots. This would, yeah, this would use up most of the 4.6 money that is correct.

[1:20:12] However, this is the program that we have in place. Now, we are always open to looking at

[1:20:17] new opportunities. And this came up at the committee as well about looking into automated vehicles

[1:20:23] or other kinds of micromobility, which we certainly can do. We have done those kinds of pilots

[1:20:28] in the past and we are open to looking at that again whether it's from this funding source or

[1:20:33] something else in the future. Did we consider doing this for one year and then see where the

[1:20:38] million dollars went and having it come back just so we would have some and I know I missed the

[1:20:43] meeting. I'm so sorry I had a family emergency come up but I'm wondering if if there's a path where

[1:20:50] some of the funding can be put as if there's a way when we fund this tonight there's still a path

[1:20:55] for us to find the funding for micro-mobility exploration for some of the southern marine sites.

[1:21:01] So Commissioner, of course, what the board does is that your discretion,

[1:21:04] but I will say that the other agencies and our vendor have all committed to a three-year extension.

[1:21:11] And I think at this point, it would be quite disruptive to that process to have TAM do something else.

[1:21:20] No, that's not to say we couldn't come back in the future and consider the sort of thing that you're talking about but we also don't have a program like that we don't have.

[1:21:30] Sort of a contract or a vendor if you will in hand right now so you know that is why we have the recommendation tonight to focus on these funds on this contract and then as as I've said we can come back in the future for more discussion about additional micromobility options if the board is interested in doing that.

[1:21:49] Okay. Thank you. I appreciate it. I really appreciate the work that Bikesh are doing. I'm just trying to find a path for Southern Marin to have engagement around it, even if it's perhaps figuring out how that million dollars could be part of expanding it to serve the Sosleto ferry and the Tebron ferry or, you know, a bike sure that goes from the ferry and Tebron and Sosleto to Mulvalley or something like that.

[1:22:11] Thank you. Good questions. Any other questions?

[1:22:14] and I don't see any, so we'll go to public comment on this item.

[1:22:20] I'm not seeing anyone in the room.

[1:22:21] Marcus, anyone online like to comment on this item?

[1:22:23] No hands online.

[1:22:25] I will close the public comment and bring it back to the commission for additional comments.

[1:22:29] Yeah, first share a second.

[1:22:30] Yeah, I just want to acknowledge the money that is leveraged by this TAM allocation.

[1:22:37] And in particular, give kudos to commission or

[1:22:41] Walton Peters who did spend a lot of time meeting with MTC to join this equation and

[1:22:49] to get the close to $500,000 from MTC.

[1:22:53] I always thought from the beginning, MTC should have paid for the whole thing, but she

[1:22:59] had to really scramble to get this allocation and I think if there's been hard conversations

[1:23:05] across all of the agencies knowing that these smaller discretionary numbers are hard to come by for all projects.

[1:23:15] I also want to take a moment just to thank Senator McGuire for getting a million dollars for this and doing that earmark.

[1:23:24] That is incredible. I think the other part that I appreciate about this program and I recognize it.

[1:23:32] I recognize where it doesn't go and where the bike's here doesn't go and you know, how do we

[1:23:39] expand it and allow people from the Ross Valley? I know if Commissioner Cole bear were here,

[1:23:45] you know, is very focused on that in addition to a lot of comments from court of Madera and Southern

[1:23:50] Marin. But I think I really appreciate our vendor in this project because as he is presented here

[1:23:57] a couple of times like they are committed to the nuances of Marin County and I think that's

[1:24:02] actually pretty unique. So I'm glad to see this approval and how it split out and everybody's

[1:24:10] got a vested interest in it.

[1:24:13] And it continued to see, you know, ridership. I continue to see the

[1:24:19] moving around this building in particular where when it was launched six months ago, I wasn't seeing

[1:24:23] nearly as much activity as I am now, but I hope to continue to see that in the reporting as this comes

[1:24:28] back. Thank you. Commissioner Cornel. Great, thanks so much for your report. Yeah, I think it's

[1:24:36] going to be really interesting to see how this utilization rate moves up. I mean, that's kind of a

[1:25:00] You're looking for other point-to-point opportunities that might be able to drive up that utilization, right? So, I do think Southern Ren and maybe Ross Valley also, I don't live there, so I have no idea. But like Southern Ren is very cut off from everything that has to do with smart and a lot of these programs. So, you know, we are always like interested in what's going on, but we're not really participating in any way. And I think trying to find opportunities for us to participate in these programs also would be

[1:25:29] nice. And just like as an example, you know, the the bus that goes into the city, you know,

[1:25:36] least for Mill Valley people goes to Manzanita. You know, by chair, the kind of gets you to Manzanita,

[1:25:40] that is closing a mile. I mean, that's a really important mile to close. You know, the airport

[1:25:45] goes that way also. I'm getting from the Soslito ferry to Mill Valley or from Tibran to, you know,

[1:25:52] Mill Valley or you know, Tibran to Soslito and the triangle, right? So that would be really useful

[1:25:57] And we've got a great multi use path that runs through there that kind of connects these cities Stereo 131 is you know across our fingers. It's actually going to happen in the next year.

[1:26:08] We'll actually get some really great bike mobility there. So those are just some opportunities I think to open this up. And then of course Waymo is that you know a great thing out there in the future.

[1:26:18] and being able to use that in a way that incentivizes people to kind of employ that technology would be really helpful.

[1:26:26] So I do think that this board should probably think a little bit about how we can kind of bring everybody into the fold on this program going forward would be really helpful.

[1:26:34] Thank you so much for your work on this.

[1:26:36] Thank you, additional comments on this item.

[1:26:39] If I may, I would like to say that we love the interest in the program, we're very happy

[1:26:46] to hear that so many jurisdictions are excited about this and want to make it happen in

[1:26:50] their areas.

[1:26:51] So I don't mean to sound entirely negative.

[1:26:53] We just are trying to get one thing done now, but I definitely appreciate and we welcome

[1:26:59] all the interest.

[1:27:01] Thank you.

[1:27:02] And I know when it was brought up, we had the last presentation from Robert Bikeshared.

[1:27:06] that interest was also echoed across the Commission and a desire to have this program continue,

[1:27:13] continue. So this, to me, is the next step by having us vote on this extension to possibly build

[1:27:18] upon. And I think some of the comments that were brought up are very thoughtful. And if it's not

[1:27:23] read with a picture, are there, is there another micro-mobility? That's not what's in here tonight.

[1:27:27] That's something we can talk about as a board, probably in the beginning of the new year,

[1:27:31] and really looking at that, because all those points are really well taken. And I want to echo

[1:27:36] advice, chairs, comments, thank you to Senator McGuire. I know we'll figure out how to use the air

[1:27:40] mark in a way that do a pilot expansion or whatever that looks like. We'll do something that makes

[1:27:45] sense and really appreciate Commissioner Moulton Peters because it's always challenging when you're

[1:27:50] working with really big agencies. So when I look at this stack of different funders, I mean that's

[1:27:57] awesome to have four different funders that have all agreed that this is a project worth looking at.

[1:28:01] So, thank you. Thank you Scott for all the work and I would entertain a motion on this item.

[1:28:08] I'll move the extension of the funding as laid out in the staff report.

[1:28:12] Second. Moved and second in all in favor.

[1:28:15] Aye. Aye. Any opposed?

[1:28:18] That passes unanimously. Thank you Scott.

[1:28:21] Thank you. Thank you.

[1:28:22] Our final agenda item this evening is an action item and it's accepting, considering

[1:28:31] accepting the final Marin County Mobility Hub plan.

[1:28:35] That's what we'll be considering.

[1:28:39] Chair was a little bound to.

[1:28:40] Director's joint does.

[1:28:41] Good evening commissioners.

[1:28:44] Director McGill, director of planning.

[1:28:46] Staff is pleased to present the final Marin County Mobility Hub plan

[1:28:51] for acceptance by the Tam board tonight.

[1:28:53] This effort has been underway for a while.

[1:28:55] We started back in June of 2024 with the presentation to the board in July of 2024.

[1:29:00] before, and sped up a lot in winter of 2026 when we developed an admin draft for public

[1:29:06] agencies to review. Following the development of an admin draft, we presented the board

[1:29:11] at our May 2026 meeting, public review draft, and solicited that for public feedback. Just

[1:29:18] as a refresher on the process, this plan was funded by a $400,000 MTC technical assistance

[1:29:23] grants to support local jurisdictions compliance with MTC's transit-oriented community policy,

[1:29:30] also called the TOC policy. This applies all jurisdictions across the Bay with major rail and

[1:29:38] transit stations and in Marin County that applies to all Marin jurisdictions with rail or

[1:29:44] ferry stations. So jurisdictions that are subject to this policy will need to align their station area

[1:29:49] densities, both on residential and commercial densities, housing policies, parking management,

[1:29:55] and station access elements with this policy to be best positioned for future.

[1:30:00] Public comment period for this plan starting in May of this year. Tam received four public comments and six agency comments on the draft. And those are summarized in the staff memo, but I'll go over them briefly. In general, the consultant team accommodated changes to the draft plan, where they could be accommodated. But there were some areas that required further design or addressing like word geared towards transit changes and operational conversations related from the recent mascot changes or areas where further study may be needed.

[1:30:29] that weren't identified in the plan and so those areas were not addressed in the final version of this plan.

[1:30:38] A lot of comments that we received were also geared towards the appendices.

[1:30:43] This is the plan. This is the appendix.

[1:30:47] And those appendices are mostly completed in 2025.

[1:30:52] So many of the comments were related to the current status of proposed facilities and how that's changed since 2025.

[1:31:00] The draft proposed there are draft proposed facilities that weren't adopted by local jurisdictions and their bike and ped plans.

[1:31:07] And then there is sort of comments on both the text aspects and the graphics of those appendices.

[1:31:14] And so we weren't able to make those changes on plan. We had budget and sort of logistical challenges with doing that.

[1:31:19] But where those graphics and the text changes were applicable to the actual final plan, we made those changes.

[1:31:27] I do want to note that overall almost all of the comments were supportive of the plan.

[1:31:31] And they were also supportive of transit priority and access improvements to the relevant ferry stations in the county.

[1:31:37] So there's a lot of support from the public comments as well as the agency comments.

[1:31:42] And those are, as I said, noted in the staff report.

[1:31:45] So moving forward, if the plan is accepted tonight, staff will then reach out to our local

[1:31:53] jurisdictions and asking them to accept this report either directly or through their CIP

[1:31:57] or local bike-ped planning processes.

[1:32:00] Staff also anticipate releasing $8 million in RM3 funding for North Bay Transit Access Improvements.

[1:32:06] Those are specifically limited to trans operators in Marin, but those funds would be released

[1:32:14] in spring and that would advance access to rail and ferry stations in Merit and County.

[1:32:18] And then subsequently in spring as well, MTC will be releasing sort of future rounds of

[1:32:24] an OBAG regional funding and there is a category for mobility hub development and many of the concepts

[1:32:29] identified in this plan would compete favorably for those regional funding sources.

[1:32:35] So with that, we are seeking acceptance at the board tonight. We were unable to present this

[1:32:39] the executive committee and so we are just seeking acceptance from the board directly

[1:32:44] and happy to answer any questions that the board may have. Thank you.

[1:32:47] Thank you, Derek. I'll see if there are any questions from the commission.

[1:32:54] I'll go to Chris. Yeah, go ahead. Thank you. I'm sure Paul.

[1:32:56] Derek, just on the report, maybe you could talk a little bit about, you know,

[1:33:02] parking, which I think is, you know, one of the stipulations for the mobility hub and, you know,

[1:33:10] sea level rise, and I'm kind of as, you know,

[1:33:13] larks for representative thinking of the larks for smart

[1:33:15] stations. So building within that transit area around the

[1:33:19] ferry terminal, what, you know, what sort of constraints and

[1:33:22] possible conflicts would there be in those areas, you know,

[1:33:25] parking and sea level rise?

[1:33:28] Great question. So the mobility hubs plan doesn't really talk

[1:33:31] about parking management, but the MTC TSE policy does have

[1:33:35] areas that are applicable for parking management that is

[1:33:38] intended to make sort of the maximum amount of space

[1:33:40] available for housing development in these areas. That's still subject to local zoning

[1:33:45] codes and local parking management codes, so that's still entirely within local discretion.

[1:33:50] But compliance with that policy basically aligns and makes you make a local jurisdiction

[1:33:57] compete more favorably for funding. I don't believe the parking management actually applies to

[1:34:02] public facilities such as the Largsburg Ferry Terminal, but we can look into that a bit further,

[1:34:07] And I'm sure there will be a point of discussion when the bridge district releases the environmental report for the ferry landside and service frequency enhancements.

[1:34:18] Okay, thank you.

[1:34:19] Thank you. Yes, Commissioner for projects.

[1:34:23] Yes, I do appreciate this report and because there are just questions about the general access to ferries in the southern Marin, I just wanted to point out that there are a couple of problems.

[1:35:00] Mobilities Center, which is where the ferry comes in, one of them, and there are two ways to do it either drive and park or drive and have someone drop you off or get on the bus. But there's no parking. Often it's a two parent working group of family who work in different places. They don't both take the ferry. And the other problem is just getting down those hills to public transit if you really are trying to do the right thing.

[1:35:28] So while I really appreciate that there is a need to improve what is at the mobility hub itself, we really need to address how to get people there at this present time, a report that I heard last week is at least to Timber on the ferry ridership has not recovered from pre COVID times.

[1:35:56] Yeah, that's definitely one of the things we looked at closely in the development of the study on the page 25 of the report itself.

[1:36:06] I'm sorry, that's like for 27 of the report itself.

[1:36:09] It does identify access gaps and improvement opportunities within Tiburon and there are limited sort of locally identified by competitive projects to that location.

[1:36:19] and through our engagement with the jurisdictions through this process, we weren't able to identify a substantial amount of more access improvements for this.

[1:36:31] On the ferry ridership growth, we are also familiar that the post-COVID sort of recovery response is different amongst the various ferry lines with Tiburon and Sausleto.

[1:36:43] So, not recovering at the same pace as like the LARX for a ferry or the rail and transit

[1:36:48] systems, bus transit systems in the county.

[1:36:51] So this is, you know, this is something that will support compliance with the policy,

[1:36:57] but it's not an end-all-be-all.

[1:36:59] It's sort of one starting point and sort of setting a county-wide look at access improvements

[1:37:05] that could be considered.

[1:37:07] And we're happy to continue and engage with the town staff on the Tibron traffic work follow-up

[1:37:12] or in future conversations to about increasing access opportunities for Ferry and Selen Brinn.

[1:37:21] Go ahead. And while this is not a burning issue because it has been on the screen for decades

[1:37:29] of the peculiarities of our Ferry terminal are well noted in your report, one of the brilliant ideas

[1:37:37] is now is perhaps there'll be more very ridership without really having to confront the mobility

[1:37:44] hub problems. If there is a service that is approved in Marin where there are multi-passenger

[1:37:51] autonomous vehicles that can just drop people off from the hills. I mean we're not Holland,

[1:37:58] we're not a little center of commercial opportunities and workplaces surrounded by flat land where

[1:38:06] Are there the residents?

[1:38:08] And just to that point on sort of curb management and parking management, we do actually identify that at the Tibron ferry as a need to promote rideshare and carpools and efficient space utilization.

[1:38:20] We don't see that at a number of our ferry terminals or rail stations that we have.

[1:38:25] Sort of really good and kiss and ride locations or curb management.

[1:38:30] So I think this is an area where there is going to be ongoing work in particular.

[1:38:35] regardless if it's a way mo or if it's you know carpool or other type of shared

[1:38:40] service. Well I think you're right one of the hardest things is behavioral

[1:38:44] change and how to get people to connect with each other and car share to get

[1:38:49] to public transportation is is a hard problem to sell.

[1:38:56] Excellent point. Other

[1:38:58] questions on this item okay

[1:39:02] I don't see any at the moment there might be some

[1:39:04] that arise. I'll open up public comment on this. Don't see anyone in the room. Is there anyone online, Marcus? No hands online. Okay, I'll bring it back to the commission for additional comments before I entertain a motion. Other comments on this item.

[1:39:24] I'm stunned. I'm just waiting. There are a lot of people sitting up here, but obviously I will add my comments. No, thank you, Derek, for all of the work.

[1:39:31] Um, identifying across the county, uh, what the needs are and, and, uh,

[1:39:37] Christian Frederick's did a good job of talking about that specific one.

[1:40:00] I would like to outline with the county wide transportation plan because it's all connected, like to me, this is a really critical part and conversation and gathering this information when we look at it because it is a network. And that's what to me, this report really highlights that. So appreciate all the work. And if there are no other comments, then this is an action item.

TAM Board of Commissioners Meeting - September 24, 2026

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