1
00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:13,900
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.

2
00:00:17,490 --> 00:00:18,350
Commissioner Blasch.

3
00:00:20,670 --> 00:00:24,790
Commissioner Blasstein. Here. Commissioner Carmel. Here.

4
00:00:25,850 --> 00:00:34,610
Commissioner Cole Bearer is absent Commissioner Dowling, a kickoff Commissioner Fredricks,

5
00:00:35,110 --> 00:00:40,170
a kickoff Commissioner Jacobs is absent Commissioner Luc說urn is absent Commissioner Mark

6
00:00:40,170 --> 00:00:46,930
is absent Commissioner Molton Peters is absent Commissioner Paulson, here Commissioner Rudoni

7
00:00:46,930 --> 00:00:52,870
here. Commissioner Slesinger. Commissioner Thomas. Here.

8
00:00:53,590 --> 00:00:58,870
Vice Chair Sackett. Chair Collins. President, you have a quorum.

9
00:00:59,250 --> 00:01:04,730
Fantastic. Jennifer, if you could describe to the public how they could participate this evening.

10
00:01:05,550 --> 00:01:10,630
For those attending in person, the chair will invite audience members to speak during public open time

11
00:01:10,630 --> 00:01:16,790
or when a specific agenda item is being considered. Participants joining the Zoom may speak during the designated time

12
00:01:16,790 --> 00:01:21,690
for each item by using the raised hand feature or dialing star nine than waiting to be called upon.

13
00:01:22,030 --> 00:01:24,630
Please note that each speaker is limited to two minutes. Thank you.

14
00:01:26,210 --> 00:01:33,430
Thank you. We will start with the chair's report, which lucky you, I don't have one. So I will

15
00:01:33,990 --> 00:01:38,130
roll right into the commissioner reports. Commissioner Molten Peters is not here, so we will not have

16
00:01:38,130 --> 00:01:46,770
a report from MTC, but Commissioner Sackett is here, and she will provide two reports. One of them

17
00:01:46,770 --> 00:01:53,450
much. Marin Transit conducted a public hearing on September 14th to receive comment on fair policy

18
00:01:53,450 --> 00:01:59,650
changes. The changes are necessary to support the recently launched next-generation Clipper system.

19
00:02:00,610 --> 00:02:06,490
Under the proposal, the primary change for riders would be the elimination of free transfers when

20
00:02:06,490 --> 00:02:13,270
paying with cash. Riders making transfers would instead need to pay using a Clipper card or contact

21
00:02:13,270 --> 00:02:17,970
less credit debit card, and to educate writers on the proposed

22
00:02:17,970 --> 00:02:23,450
clipper changes and to ease the transition from cash to clipper outreach teams have been in the field all

23
00:02:23,450 --> 00:02:28,830
months answering questions and notifying writers of the benefits of clipper and handing out free clipper

24
00:02:28,830 --> 00:02:38,090
cards, and by all accounts that transition is going better than had been expected as far as uptick

25
00:02:38,090 --> 00:02:45,610
and utilizing Clipper. September is transit month, which is an exciting time. A lot of the transit

26
00:02:45,610 --> 00:02:52,050
directors and others have gone around the Bay Area on transit, and there are more promotional

27
00:02:52,050 --> 00:02:57,930
activities through the rest of the month. It's a good time to try transit. And finally, I'll give

28
00:02:57,930 --> 00:03:05,850
the smart report on behalf of Commissioner Lucan. August ridership was up 26% year over year.

29
00:03:06,770 --> 00:03:13,630
The board voted to add a station in Geyserville, and I think I may have reported on this last

30
00:03:13,630 --> 00:03:20,590
time, but this really breaks up a much longer section of track and will hopefully be easier

31
00:03:20,590 --> 00:03:21,170
to fund.

32
00:03:21,430 --> 00:03:27,290
And Geyserville, almost the entire town literally came out for the Geyserville meeting.

33
00:03:27,830 --> 00:03:29,290
There is huge excitement.

34
00:03:29,290 --> 00:03:39,030
and then you may have heard the Hillsburg station or Hillsburg work is underway hoping to open in

35
00:03:39,030 --> 00:03:47,230
in 2028. Under prior prior community meaning the decision was made to put the Hillsburg station at

36
00:03:47,230 --> 00:03:54,590
the old depot which is a little away away from downtown and there's new outreach happening in order to

37
00:03:54,590 --> 00:04:00,370
discuss whether or not the station should be right in the downtown or a little bit

38
00:04:00,370 --> 00:04:05,870
out of town and it is creating quite a stir. So but I think it's a really good

39
00:04:05,870 --> 00:04:11,170
time to before construction starts is to have that community conversation and

40
00:04:11,170 --> 00:04:15,070
when the conversation happened the last time there was only 20 or 30 people who

41
00:04:15,070 --> 00:04:19,690
engaged and given the number of people who showed up for Geyserville we know

42
00:04:19,690 --> 00:04:22,710
there's just a lot more interest now that people realize that the train is

43
00:04:22,710 --> 00:04:29,130
actually coming. That concludes my report. Thank you. I'll see if the commissioners have anything

44
00:04:29,130 --> 00:04:32,870
they'd like to share with the public or with each other. This is anything not on the agenda.

45
00:04:33,150 --> 00:04:33,990
Any commissioner matters?

46
00:04:36,770 --> 00:04:41,410
Yeah, commissioner Blasch. I'm just curious if anyone else has received

47
00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:26,050
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.

48
00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:32,940
Okay. Thank you, Chair. Good evening, everyone and Richmond executive director.

49
00:05:32,940 --> 00:05:41,480
and after not meeting in August, we have quite a few updates to share so there's a more

50
00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:46,960
comprehensive written report that was emailed out and posted and I just have some excerpts

51
00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:52,660
from that for this evening. So starting with the Safe Roots to School program, of course

52
00:05:52,660 --> 00:05:57,740
school is back in session and the Safe Roots program is kicking off the school year with

53
00:05:57,740 --> 00:06:03,460
this semester's theme, community, and consistency, which encourages students and families to make

54
00:06:03,460 --> 00:06:08,660
active transportation part of their regular routine, not just on special event days, but throughout the

55
00:06:08,660 --> 00:06:13,920
year. Having said that, there are a few activities coming up, including International Walk to

56
00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:20,260
School Day on October 7th, and Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day on November 18th, and I have to say

57
00:06:20,260 --> 00:06:25,200
there's a lot of great energy with the team this year and with the parent volunteers who are always

58
00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:30,480
so critical to this program, so we thank all of them for their momentum and involvement.

59
00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:37,160
A little bit relatedly, the annual Street Smart's campaign will be starting September 28th

60
00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:45,140
and running through November 13th. And during this time, you'll notice the eyes up Marin artwork on street banners, yard signs, and busbacks.

61
00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:53,660
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

62
00:06:53,660 --> 00:06:55,680
and make our streets a little bit safer.

63
00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:58,580
So we encourage everyone to help spread the word

64
00:06:58,580 --> 00:07:01,000
by sharing these reminders with your networks

65
00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:04,220
and including them in jurisdiction newsletters.

66
00:07:04,820 --> 00:07:06,560
And anyone can also order yard signs

67
00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:09,480
in English or Spanish at the link shown here.

68
00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:12,820
And just as a reminder, this program, actually,

69
00:07:13,020 --> 00:07:15,040
for all of its kind of good work,

70
00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:17,560
will be paused following this fall deployment

71
00:07:17,940 --> 00:07:19,580
in order to preserve the resources

72
00:07:19,580 --> 00:07:21,920
to help support the Crossing Guard program

73
00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:24,980
as we talked about with the board earlier this year.

74
00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:29,720
So a couple of you have mentioned this.

75
00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:33,280
There are some special promotions this fall related

76
00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:34,940
to the Marin Commutes program.

77
00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:37,000
So September is transit month.

78
00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:41,740
And during this time users can re-earn rewards for new

79
00:07:41,740 --> 00:07:43,300
or multiple transit trips.

80
00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:47,540
And then coming in October is ride share month with similar

81
00:07:47,540 --> 00:07:48,920
promotions and opportunities.

82
00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:52,540
So again, we always appreciate kind of amplifying

83
00:07:52,540 --> 00:07:54,860
or promoting these messages as well.

84
00:07:57,140 --> 00:07:59,260
Turning to some capital project news.

85
00:07:59,700 --> 00:08:02,940
In August, KELTRAN started one way traffic control

86
00:08:02,940 --> 00:08:05,600
to begin the work on their logonidas Creek Bridge

87
00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:07,460
replacement project in West Marin.

88
00:08:08,300 --> 00:08:10,200
The work includes replacing the bridge

89
00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:12,580
and widening the nearby culvert.

90
00:08:13,180 --> 00:08:15,580
In addition, the new bridge will have wider shoulders

91
00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:18,800
and will provide sidewalk and curb ramps

92
00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:19,980
that are ADA compliant.

93
00:08:20,780 --> 00:08:23,080
KELTRAN is also adding a crosswalk

94
00:08:23,080 --> 00:08:28,360
across the French Strait Boulevard at the State Route 1 intersection to improve access over

95
00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:34,860
Logonitas Creek and into Point Rays Station. For more information, Caltrans does have a specific

96
00:08:34,860 --> 00:08:42,620
project page for the Logonitas Creek Bridge project and they keep that updated. And I believe

97
00:08:42,620 --> 00:08:48,960
they've been sending out notices when there are construction detours or impacts as well.

98
00:08:51,660 --> 00:08:55,260
On State Route 37, a couple of things to mention.

99
00:08:55,540 --> 00:08:59,180
So one is that there is a new State Route 37 newsletter.

100
00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:02,940
And the first edition of this was published in August.

101
00:09:03,140 --> 00:09:05,780
It's available on the SCTA website.

102
00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:12,280
This newsletter was developed collaboratively by the Project Partners and is intended to

103
00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:15,520
keep the public informed about progress along the corridor.

104
00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:19,520
The project team anticipates having about two issues each year.

105
00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:25,160
And this first issue really provides an overview of the corridor and the project and highlights

106
00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:28,500
the different kind of priorities for each of the four counties.

107
00:09:29,680 --> 00:09:36,440
Some other exciting news about Stay Route 37 to share is that Caltrans has actually posted

108
00:10:00,110 --> 00:10:14,850
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.

109
00:10:18,510 --> 00:10:33,130
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.

110
00:10:33,130 --> 00:10:41,630
vehicle. The program provides $3,500 off a new zero-mission vehicle, up to $50,000 price,

111
00:10:42,290 --> 00:10:50,110
or $17.50 off of a used ZEV price up to $25,000. These savings are, I believe, not income

112
00:10:50,110 --> 00:10:55,910
qualified, so available to any Californian. They are a point of sale provided directly through

113
00:10:55,910 --> 00:11:02,150
participating manufacturers and dealerships, and the state is investing about $135 million

114
00:11:02,150 --> 00:11:07,950
dollars in this program, which is actually being matched by participating automakers. So there's

115
00:11:07,950 --> 00:11:14,130
a total of 270 million available. Participations on a first-come-first-erve basis until the funding

116
00:11:14,130 --> 00:11:22,050
is exhausted. And there's a certain number of vouchers essentially designated for different brands

117
00:11:22,050 --> 00:11:27,210
of car. And so I think Tesla has already used up all of their vouchers, but there are many other models

118
00:11:27,210 --> 00:11:29,750
for which the vouchers are still available.

119
00:11:32,620 --> 00:11:34,780
I wanted to mention two funding opportunities

120
00:11:34,780 --> 00:11:37,060
that are coming up on the state side.

121
00:11:37,180 --> 00:11:39,800
CalTrans has about $35 million available

122
00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:43,160
for their annual sustainable communities

123
00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:45,500
and strategic partnership planning grants.

124
00:11:46,220 --> 00:11:50,140
These grant programs are intended to strengthen the economy,

125
00:11:50,460 --> 00:11:52,160
promote equity and protect the environment

126
00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:54,720
and the results of the planning grant should lead

127
00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:57,780
to actual transportation improvement projects.

128
00:11:57,780 --> 00:12:02,940
And then on the federal side, there's a program in the infrastructure bill called promoting

129
00:12:02,940 --> 00:12:07,620
resilient operations for a transformative, efficient, and cost-saving transportation

130
00:12:07,620 --> 00:12:10,060
program, otherwise known as Protect.

131
00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:17,680
And this is a competitive program that is intended to make surface transportation more resilient.

132
00:12:18,220 --> 00:12:24,260
So protections from current and future weather events, natural disasters, changing conditions,

133
00:12:24,260 --> 00:12:29,120
applications and both planning and capital projects are eligible under that program.

134
00:12:30,060 --> 00:12:35,980
Applications for both of these programs are due on October 9th and both of those notices

135
00:12:35,980 --> 00:12:42,760
were circulated by TAM staff to Marin Public Works Association including the transit agencies.

136
00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:53,180
Turning to staff this month, we have a staff milestone to recognize, so Scott McDonald,

137
00:12:53,180 --> 00:13:00,940
Principal Transportation Planner has been with Tam for 15 years now. So congratulations to Scott.

138
00:13:04,990 --> 00:13:11,930
Scott, we really thank you for your contributions to Tam plans and programs over the years,

139
00:13:12,190 --> 00:13:19,150
to your continued dedication and to the fact that you are not exactly resting up because you are presenting two items tonight.

140
00:13:19,150 --> 00:13:21,970
so thank you again Scott.

141
00:13:24,700 --> 00:13:29,460
Finally we have the monthly chart of community events and meetings that

142
00:13:29,460 --> 00:13:34,960
Tam's participating in. I did want to highlight quickly two items that are described a little more

143
00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:41,960
in the written report. First is that earlier this month we held a clean fleet expo which we have had

144
00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:47,520
in the last few years as well but this year we really changed the format to be more of a workshop

145
00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:51,640
up style and to really focus on technical assistance and information sharing.

146
00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:57,080
And then on that same day, we had a workshop with the VOSIS day canal group to continue

147
00:13:57,080 --> 00:14:01,160
the community outreach related to the 101-580 project.

148
00:14:01,580 --> 00:14:06,740
And the nice photo included on this slide was from the VOSIS day canal meeting.

149
00:14:07,500 --> 00:14:09,120
So that concludes my report.

150
00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:11,540
And I would be happy to answer any questions.

151
00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:13,420
Thank you, Anne.

152
00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:14,320
Any questions?

153
00:14:18,350 --> 00:14:18,670
Yeah.

154
00:14:18,670 --> 00:14:25,550
Thank you, and first I know and thank you for the report and I wanted to call out the

155
00:14:26,670 --> 00:14:32,430
you know the safe routes to school successes you know I'm a daily consumer there and you know

156
00:14:32,430 --> 00:14:37,430
there's there've been accidents on temple pious and I see the guards and I see a lot of the

157
00:14:37,430 --> 00:14:42,870
improvements and I have to say it's a big hit so you know I just encourage the board we all support it

158
00:14:42,870 --> 00:14:47,770
to keep supporting it. One other thing that I think is very helpful is for transit month

159
00:14:47,770 --> 00:14:53,030
And I installed on my iPhone and it's super easy, the mascots program.

160
00:14:53,710 --> 00:14:59,690
So it's essentially you go to transit on iPhone and right now I punched in if I want to go to San Francisco.

161
00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:03,120
That's rather than questions, but excellent comments. Any other questions?

162
00:15:05,140 --> 00:15:25,920
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.

163
00:15:28,220 --> 00:15:29,680
Fantastic. Any other comments?

164
00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:33,160
I mean, executive director report, not seeing anyone on the

165
00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:36,180
dius. I don't see anyone in the room. I'd like to comment.

166
00:15:36,500 --> 00:15:37,680
Mark, is anyone online?

167
00:15:38,300 --> 00:15:39,120
No hands online.

168
00:15:39,660 --> 00:15:43,180
Okay, we'll close the public comment. Thank you so much, Ann.

169
00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:46,520
We will move to open time for public expression.

170
00:15:46,620 --> 00:15:48,560
This is anything or not on tonight's agenda.

171
00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:53,700
Open it up. Don't see anyone clamoring to talk to us in the

172
00:15:53,700 --> 00:15:55,620
room. How about online? Any comments online?

173
00:15:56,840 --> 00:15:57,700
No hands online.

174
00:15:57,700 --> 00:16:04,920
Okay. We will move along to our consent agenda. Any changes from the commissioners on the consent calendar? I'm looking to my left.

175
00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:12,680
Any changes? I don't see any changes to the right. So I'll go ahead and accept public comment on this item.

176
00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:19,140
I don't see anyone in the room. Anyone online like to comment on the consent agenda? No hands online.

177
00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:22,700
Thank you. I'll bring it back to the Commission for Emotion. Please.

178
00:16:22,700 --> 00:16:30,260
Please wait your microphone on, but Commissioner Friedrich's motion.

179
00:16:31,340 --> 00:16:31,740
Second.

180
00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:32,780
Second.

181
00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:33,580
Blowstein.

182
00:16:34,300 --> 00:16:34,560
Okay.

183
00:16:34,900 --> 00:16:35,480
All in favor?

184
00:16:36,100 --> 00:16:36,440
Aye.

185
00:16:37,060 --> 00:16:37,800
Any opposed?

186
00:16:39,180 --> 00:16:39,580
Okay.

187
00:16:39,660 --> 00:16:40,760
That passes unanimously.

188
00:16:41,380 --> 00:16:41,860
Thank you.

189
00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:43,780
All right.

190
00:16:43,980 --> 00:16:44,960
Here we're moving right along.

191
00:16:45,300 --> 00:16:48,280
We have the Youth E-Bike Safety Data Update.

192
00:16:48,740 --> 00:16:50,020
This is a discussion item.

193
00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:52,040
So there's no vote, but I'm sure we'll have a great discussion.

194
00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:57,080
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.

195
00:16:59,860 --> 00:17:04,800
So chair, if I may, just briefly. So tonight, we have with us in addition to our

196
00:17:06,060 --> 00:17:12,300
honoree of the evening, Scott. We have Bria Larson, who's an epidemiologist with the County Public Health Department.

197
00:17:12,940 --> 00:17:19,080
And Bria will be reviewing the data that County has been collecting over the last year.

198
00:17:19,080 --> 00:17:24,120
and I also wondered if Commissioner Sackett would like to if I may say a few words at the introduction

199
00:17:24,120 --> 00:17:28,920
of this item. Yeah, thank you very much for being here tonight, Brea. And Brea has really been

200
00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:36,440
a huge partner on teasing out, and I'm excited to hear this presentation tonight. But teasing out

201
00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:42,680
what we're trying to get, you know, from the very beginning of this e-bike work. We Dr. Willis was

202
00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:48,260
leading at that time and said, you know, we got to look at the data and but the data has been messy

203
00:17:48,260 --> 00:17:54,020
and complicated and so BRIA has really been a wonderful partner in helping us figure out what we're trying to track.

204
00:17:54,300 --> 00:17:58,820
We're trying to track it and then how we can report and share it. So, thank you.

205
00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:07,940
All right. Good evening, commissioners. Today we're bringing this item to you as an update on eBikes safety among youth in Marin County.

206
00:18:08,900 --> 00:18:14,600
As mentioned, we're lucky to have BRIA Larson with the county of Marin County Public Health here.

207
00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:20,040
I'm going to share some data that her department's been collecting, showing some trends in our

208
00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:20,380
county.

209
00:18:20,920 --> 00:18:25,700
As this also relates to Tam's Safe Rossa Schools program, just reminding that's a critical

210
00:18:25,700 --> 00:18:30,860
element of our program, providing information about e-bike safety to the students in Murin

211
00:18:30,860 --> 00:18:34,040
County, which we'll be discussed also with the presentations, so with that I'll turn

212
00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:34,500
over to Bria.

213
00:18:35,600 --> 00:18:37,000
Thanks Scott and congratulations.

214
00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:40,220
Thanks all for having me here tonight.

215
00:18:40,520 --> 00:18:42,360
As Scott mentioned, I'm Bria Larson.

216
00:18:42,360 --> 00:18:57,180
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.

217
00:18:58,340 --> 00:18:59,700
All right.

218
00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:10,820
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.

219
00:19:11,620 --> 00:19:23,280
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.

220
00:19:24,140 --> 00:19:38,620
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.

221
00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:29,020
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.

222
00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:37,520
We also heard clinical signals from clinicians, ED physicians and nurses in Marin County that

223
00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:42,400
raised the alarm about the severity that they were seeing and that some e-bike crashes

224
00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:47,680
looked more like motorcycle accident injuries than conventional bike accident injuries.

225
00:20:52,060 --> 00:20:57,360
So turning to our data, these are snapshots from our publicly available bicycle safety data

226
00:20:57,360 --> 00:20:57,900
dashboard.

227
00:20:57,900 --> 00:21:01,900
And I want to just point out these are from mid July, these stats.

228
00:21:02,120 --> 00:21:05,120
The numbers have changed slightly when I last updated the dashboard.

229
00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:09,940
But these are from an analysis I did for Commissioner Sackett back in July.

230
00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:18,740
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.

231
00:21:18,980 --> 00:21:22,720
Since we started collecting data on e-bikes versus conventional bikes.

232
00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:27,560
And you see here across the horizontal axis we're looking at age groups.

233
00:21:28,180 --> 00:21:34,060
Right here it doesn't seem like the number of youth accidents seems that much higher than other groups

234
00:21:34,060 --> 00:21:37,300
and it's even a little bit lower than the 60 plus age group.

235
00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:42,020
However, we're comparing very different sized populations here.

236
00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:47,660
There are far fewer 10 to 15 year olds and there are adults who are 60 and older in the county.

237
00:21:47,660 --> 00:21:52,320
So what is really helpful to look at this issue is to look at the rates.

238
00:21:52,820 --> 00:22:00,040
And so that's on the charts on the right are the accident rates per 10,000 people by age group.

239
00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:06,100
And we see here that the rate of e-bike accidents, that's that orange bar with the yellow arrow pointing to it.

240
00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:10,500
Among 10 to 15 year olds is much higher than any other age group.

241
00:22:14,690 --> 00:22:20,430
Just a brief reminder about the different classifications of legal e-bikes in California.

242
00:22:21,150 --> 00:22:28,470
They are classified related to if they have a throttle or not and their max assisted speed.

243
00:22:29,270 --> 00:22:35,010
We already had state law in the books restricting class three e-bikes to riders who were 16

244
00:22:35,010 --> 00:22:39,730
or older and for helmets of riders of all ages in class three.

245
00:22:40,410 --> 00:22:46,570
But Marin we were concerned about these class two legal e-bikes and the reason was that those

246
00:22:46,570 --> 00:22:52,750
Those are very easily modified to become out of class, to then become non-legal e-bikes.

247
00:22:53,110 --> 00:22:59,790
So there are a bunch of switches, apps, easy modifications to allow these bikes to go

248
00:22:59,790 --> 00:23:01,650
faster than 20 miles per hour.

249
00:23:02,270 --> 00:23:08,150
And so it was really this speed and the potential for high-speed crashes to result in more severe

250
00:23:08,150 --> 00:23:10,850
injury, which promoted action.

251
00:23:11,430 --> 00:23:19,290
I will say that information and real data on class of bikes involved in crashes is very,

252
00:23:19,510 --> 00:23:20,890
very difficult to collect.

253
00:23:21,430 --> 00:23:26,170
Currently, we do not have that in Marine EMS and our 9-1-1 calls, and they don't have

254
00:23:26,170 --> 00:23:28,410
it consistently in emergency department data.

255
00:23:28,950 --> 00:23:30,470
And this is not just a marine problem.

256
00:23:30,630 --> 00:23:34,750
This is, I've talked to colleagues across the Bay Area, and really across the nation.

257
00:23:34,750 --> 00:23:40,730
and everybody sort of struggling with this issue of how to capture either speed or class

258
00:23:40,730 --> 00:23:47,250
of e-bike to drill into like what which types of e-bikes are driving severe injuries.

259
00:23:48,030 --> 00:23:54,810
That said, the public health department is launching a renewed attempted image collection

260
00:23:55,090 --> 00:23:56,750
in the coming weeks and month.

261
00:23:57,190 --> 00:24:04,510
We are going to require that all bicycle accidents, not just e-bike accidents, have an image

262
00:24:04,510 --> 00:24:08,390
a picture of the bike attached to their EMS record.

263
00:24:09,130 --> 00:24:14,910
So I will be looking at a lot of e-bike pictures in the months to go if all goes according

264
00:24:14,910 --> 00:24:15,390
to plan.

265
00:24:17,690 --> 00:24:19,190
And then there's e-modos.

266
00:24:19,470 --> 00:24:24,890
As I said, many class 2 e-bikes can easily be switched to off-road mode or modified.

267
00:24:25,270 --> 00:24:31,290
And then they're veering into this classification of e-modos, which are actual motor vehicles

268
00:24:31,290 --> 00:24:35,990
and they require a driver's license and to be registered.

269
00:24:37,510 --> 00:24:39,530
And these are also hard to track in the data.

270
00:24:39,730 --> 00:24:42,330
I think sometimes these are conflated with e-bikes

271
00:24:42,330 --> 00:24:45,410
and it can be sometimes hard to disaggregate these

272
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:00,740
So,

273
00:25:03,780 --> 00:25:32,120
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.

274
00:25:32,120 --> 00:25:38,860
and really trying to implement a data collection system where we could answer some questions about this.

275
00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:43,140
And then finally, policy readiness from the Board of Supervisors.

276
00:25:43,220 --> 00:25:47,340
There was a real willingness and desire to address this issue in Marin.

277
00:25:48,120 --> 00:25:53,700
So we didn't just have data, we had political will, and that resulted in AD 1778.

278
00:25:54,580 --> 00:26:00,160
This bill was passed at the state level and then ordinances were adopted throughout the county

279
00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:09,280
by fall 2025. The county of Marin implemented it in July, for July 1, 2025, and I want you

280
00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:13,700
to remember that date because that's sort of the cutoff date for our analysis moving forward.

281
00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:21,760
But AB 1778 requires that class to e-bike riders are 16 or older, and that everyone wears helmets.

282
00:26:25,630 --> 00:26:31,250
And then the relationship to safe routes to school, our action in Marin was not just policy-driven,

283
00:26:31,250 --> 00:26:35,190
but it was also really leaning on the lever of education.

284
00:26:36,190 --> 00:26:41,030
So the county rolled out in collaboration with the Transportation Authority of Marin,

285
00:26:41,210 --> 00:26:48,150
this Youth Safety Campaign, which created wonderful resources targeting middle school and high school students

286
00:26:48,150 --> 00:26:49,150
and their parents.

287
00:26:49,910 --> 00:26:59,270
A lot of education and awareness around safe biking behaviors, ordinances, and really trying to tease out

288
00:26:59,270 --> 00:27:04,010
the conflicting information that parents were trying to wade through and then we have safe routes

289
00:27:04,010 --> 00:27:08,450
to school. I know they've gotten a lot of shout outs today but they have a soft spot in my heart.

290
00:27:08,570 --> 00:27:14,250
I am a former safe routes to school parent volunteer in Mill Valley. I love them. And they're

291
00:27:14,250 --> 00:27:20,310
educating thousands of students every year and are particularly focusing on e-bike safety among

292
00:27:20,310 --> 00:27:25,970
six graders. My son did that last year and trying to get to parents and really inform them around

293
00:27:25,970 --> 00:27:28,310
on the restrictions on class to e-bikes.

294
00:27:29,090 --> 00:27:30,750
So we couldn't do it without both these pieces,

295
00:27:30,930 --> 00:27:32,430
the policy or the education.

296
00:27:34,130 --> 00:27:35,630
So this is the good stuff.

297
00:27:36,470 --> 00:27:40,770
I looked at data on request for supervisor,

298
00:27:40,870 --> 00:27:44,790
Commissioner Sackett to look at any changes in the data

299
00:27:44,790 --> 00:27:48,370
before and after AB 1778 implementation.

300
00:27:48,930 --> 00:27:52,190
And so what this is looking at is a year-over-year comparison

301
00:27:52,190 --> 00:27:56,690
of the e-bike accident rate among 10 to 15 year olds.

302
00:27:57,530 --> 00:28:02,010
So it decreased by 28% from the year proceeding

303
00:28:02,010 --> 00:28:05,910
that July 1st, 2025 date to the year after.

304
00:28:06,250 --> 00:28:07,430
This is super encouraging.

305
00:28:08,410 --> 00:28:11,270
And I want to temper our enthusiasm

306
00:28:11,270 --> 00:28:13,370
because we're still dealing with small numbers

307
00:28:13,370 --> 00:28:14,770
as you'll see in the next slide.

308
00:28:14,770 --> 00:28:17,830
So this is very encouraging, but we are hopeful

309
00:28:17,830 --> 00:28:19,850
that getting another couple years of data

310
00:28:19,850 --> 00:28:21,590
will help us really understand better

311
00:28:21,590 --> 00:28:23,230
if this is a trend that's here to stay.

312
00:28:25,580 --> 00:28:26,620
And so here are the numbers.

313
00:28:28,060 --> 00:28:32,460
The number of e-bite crashes also decrease this time by 30%.

314
00:28:32,460 --> 00:28:35,260
If you look at this graph, the orange line

315
00:28:35,260 --> 00:28:38,140
refers to e-bite crashes and the blue line

316
00:28:38,140 --> 00:28:39,840
refers to conventional bite crashes.

317
00:28:40,300 --> 00:28:43,800
And so we see year over year e-bite crashes decreased

318
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:45,660
from 27 to 19.

319
00:28:45,820 --> 00:28:49,020
Again, this is encouraging, but you see these are small numbers

320
00:28:49,020 --> 00:28:54,120
of these 9-1-1 calls occurring among 10 to 15-year-olds.

321
00:28:57,220 --> 00:28:59,700
Another thing I wanted to point out, which is very encouraging,

322
00:29:00,020 --> 00:29:04,440
is the use of helmets among youth who are involved in crashes.

323
00:29:05,020 --> 00:29:10,520
This is looking at all bike accidents, both e-bike and conventional bikes,

324
00:29:10,940 --> 00:29:15,200
and their use of helmets before and after AB 1778,

325
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:17,700
and all these educational campaigns.

326
00:29:17,700 --> 00:29:22,720
And I just want to point out we didn't separate by eBiker conventional bike because the numbers

327
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:24,360
look very similar for both groups.

328
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:34,700
So this first year, EMS clinicians reported that 77% of these youth who were involved in

329
00:29:34,700 --> 00:29:37,880
a crash and who called 911 were wearing helmets.

330
00:29:38,300 --> 00:29:45,080
And then in the year after, the second year, 90% were using helmets when they were involved

331
00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:45,440
in a crash.

332
00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:51,620
this is great. And compared to national data, this is so much higher. There's a youth

333
00:29:52,660 --> 00:29:59,580
risk behavioral study. It's a survey that's done by the CDC. And those numbers are reporting

334
00:29:59,580 --> 00:29:59,800
Like

335
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:29,920
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

336
00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:35,700
50-50. So there's a really high percentage of e-bike accidents that are happening on

337
00:30:35,700 --> 00:30:41,860
our public roads and potentially in collisions with motor vehicles. And this echoes some

338
00:30:41,860 --> 00:30:48,540
national data. The CDC did a study looking at hospital data between 2020 and 2024, and

339
00:30:48,540 --> 00:30:53,480
they found the same thing that it's more likely to have motor vehicle accident if the bike

340
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:59,020
is an e-bike compared to conventional bikes. And so as the transportation authority, I know

341
00:30:59,020 --> 00:31:03,060
there's a lot of focus on infrastructure safety.

342
00:31:03,300 --> 00:31:05,160
And this is certainly something to keep in mind

343
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:07,320
when thinking through those considerations.

344
00:31:10,430 --> 00:31:11,550
Our next steps.

345
00:31:12,110 --> 00:31:15,090
So we're in public health is going to continue to collect data

346
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:18,170
from 911 calls and maintain our public dashboard.

347
00:31:18,790 --> 00:31:20,990
We're also, as I said, relaunching this initiative

348
00:31:20,990 --> 00:31:23,650
to collect images on all bicycle crashes.

349
00:31:23,710 --> 00:31:28,230
So we can get some more granular insights into the types,

350
00:31:28,230 --> 00:31:30,990
This makes in models of bikes that are involved in crashes.

351
00:31:31,790 --> 00:31:34,730
We're also collaborating with researchers at Stanford.

352
00:31:35,250 --> 00:31:40,850
There's an amazing emergency room physician who's also a researcher who's doing two studies,

353
00:31:41,090 --> 00:31:47,150
one, on looking at risk per miles traveled on e-bikes, which is so far nobody has been

354
00:31:47,150 --> 00:31:53,930
able to really estimate that, as well as looking at studies linking emergency room data and 9-1-1 data.

355
00:31:53,930 --> 00:31:56,610
and she's been connected to folks that were in health

356
00:31:56,610 --> 00:32:00,550
and Kaiser super encouraging and very interesting studies.

357
00:32:01,370 --> 00:32:04,810
And then finally, we're required by AB 1778

358
00:32:04,810 --> 00:32:09,710
to report out on January 1st, 2028

359
00:32:09,710 --> 00:32:11,610
on the number of serious accidents

360
00:32:11,610 --> 00:32:14,470
before and after policy implementation.

361
00:32:15,290 --> 00:32:17,850
And in addition to our data from public health,

362
00:32:18,070 --> 00:32:20,070
the Sheriff's Office and local police departments

363
00:32:20,070 --> 00:32:22,230
will be reporting out on citations

364
00:32:22,230 --> 00:32:28,810
and any of the stops that were conducted under these ordinances.

365
00:32:29,930 --> 00:32:34,130
And then finally, we're going to keep going strong with safe routes to school.

366
00:32:34,510 --> 00:32:41,190
E-bike education will continue, always advocating for safe, responsible driving or riding.

367
00:32:42,230 --> 00:32:47,690
And again, like promoting their events and really getting the message out across the county to youth and to parents.

368
00:32:50,030 --> 00:32:56,210
That was a lot. I welcome any of your questions. Thank you for that fantastic presentation,

369
00:32:56,470 --> 00:33:00,930
especially appreciate all the data trending in the right direction. So I will open up to the

370
00:33:00,930 --> 00:33:06,890
commissioners for questions. Yeah, go ahead. Are you doing questions and comments? I'm going to do

371
00:33:06,890 --> 00:33:12,890
because it's a discussion item. Why don't we do questions so we can hear each other's questions

372
00:33:12,890 --> 00:33:15,530
and then we'll also have comments after. Let's separate them out.

373
00:33:18,090 --> 00:33:20,110
So thank you so much. Super interesting,

374
00:33:20,110 --> 00:33:25,970
things super helpful. So just so I understand you said at the end that Stanford is now collecting data on

375
00:33:26,630 --> 00:33:32,830
per mile. So you're looking at like demographic data per mile so you could say like total number of

376
00:33:32,830 --> 00:33:41,770
miles or 10 to 15 year olds and number of miles for above 60. That's the dream. I think they're

377
00:33:41,770 --> 00:33:48,150
going to focus on youth accidents but it is really trying to get at this like risk-based rate of

378
00:33:48,150 --> 00:33:53,110
accidents versus, you know, we show a population based rate, but it's it's not

379
00:33:53,110 --> 00:33:58,210
getting to like how many ebikes are out there. How many miles are kids traveling

380
00:33:58,210 --> 00:34:03,870
on these ebikes. That is a big unknown and really hard to estimate. So yeah,

381
00:34:03,890 --> 00:34:07,430
that's what the stamp one of the Stanford projects is to try and and they're

382
00:34:07,430 --> 00:34:12,310
doing a mixture of bike census like going to middle schools and high schools

383
00:34:12,310 --> 00:34:17,950
and trying to count ebikes to try and get it some approximation. They're also

384
00:34:17,950 --> 00:34:23,830
going to be doing some like focus interviews. So that's in process and we're supporting that project.

385
00:34:24,250 --> 00:34:29,730
Yeah, you could do surveys and you can get probably an approximation just to do a representative survey

386
00:34:29,730 --> 00:34:34,370
and probably figure out how many people and how many miles they ride and multiple of the numbers

387
00:34:34,370 --> 00:34:39,710
together. Then you can get miles per user because what you've got right now is miles per capita,

388
00:34:39,850 --> 00:34:43,730
which is like number of people that I got injured in a football game and you're dividing by a number

389
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:29,980
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

390
00:35:29,980 --> 00:35:35,320
these kids intensively writing seven days a week doing many, many miles on them. And you've got

391
00:35:35,900 --> 00:35:40,200
this population of elderly people, sorry, I don't mean say elderly, I'm over 60 by the way, so

392
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:45,700
I'm continuing, I can include myself in that. But you know, they're just not using it as much,

393
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:52,140
yet they're generating the same number of accidents. So probably, you know, that's probably the

394
00:35:52,140 --> 00:35:58,040
group that's actually crashing the most on a per mile basis, which is really the only way to measure

395
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:00,160
or this in an accurate way?

396
00:36:00,780 --> 00:36:04,320
Yeah, and so in my other epidemiological life,

397
00:36:04,500 --> 00:36:06,600
I do a lot of work on injuries among older adults.

398
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:08,360
I just did a big analysis on falls

399
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:09,960
and you're hitting on something

400
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:11,980
not only may the risk be higher,

401
00:36:11,980 --> 00:36:15,160
but they also have like specific risk factors

402
00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:17,400
that could make injuries more serious,

403
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:20,680
being a blood thinner's osteoporosis.

404
00:36:20,900 --> 00:36:22,800
Like there's a whole suite of vulnerabilities

405
00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:24,900
in that older adult population

406
00:36:24,900 --> 00:36:27,660
that could make the consequences of a crash

407
00:36:27,660 --> 00:36:32,780
on an e-bike really severe. We haven't done a deep dive into that, but now you have me think

408
00:36:33,420 --> 00:36:37,640
maybe we should. Yeah, great. Thank you. Thanks so much. Thank you. A question,

409
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:39,920
commissioner Dowling. Yeah, and then commissioner Blasding.

410
00:36:40,060 --> 00:36:45,300
Brigielette, great public health project. This is really exciting. So how do you evaluate

411
00:36:45,300 --> 00:36:50,940
the e-bike safety education efforts? That must be a little difficult, although I was thinking

412
00:36:50,940 --> 00:36:57,300
if there's a greater use of helmets now, then there was like a year ago, is that based on

413
00:36:57,300 --> 00:37:01,900
in the safety education, or is it, I mean, how do you know how effective it is?

414
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:07,040
It's so hard, and I think that's a question that we're going to be grappling with over

415
00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:13,560
the next couple years until that final report on AB 1778, because just saying, like, oh,

416
00:37:13,700 --> 00:37:17,980
look, numbers went down or numbers went, it's not the whole story, because there are so

417
00:37:17,980 --> 00:37:21,860
many things happening at the same time, like the education plus the policy.

418
00:37:22,500 --> 00:37:26,880
So, I'm going to have to recruit some amazing policy analysts to help me with that.

419
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:28,640
Maybe you know of anybody.

420
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:29,900
We'll see.

421
00:37:30,220 --> 00:37:30,280
Great.

422
00:37:30,580 --> 00:37:30,700
Great.

423
00:37:31,980 --> 00:37:32,420
Thanks.

424
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:33,960
Thank you, Commissioner Bluffs.

425
00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:35,960
Really great presentation.

426
00:37:36,300 --> 00:37:39,500
It's so exciting to see what the county has been able to achieve on this.

427
00:37:40,340 --> 00:37:42,700
I just, there's one thing that was a little concerning in the data,

428
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:46,880
which is that the total number of accidents overall seems to be going up

429
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:50,900
and the number on conventional bike, not on e-bikes, but on conventional bikes is going up.

430
00:37:50,900 --> 00:37:52,720
Is there any way to track that?

431
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:58,180
Is there a concern that maybe those are e-bikes that just aren't noted or even people are

432
00:37:58,180 --> 00:38:00,700
switching back because they think it's safer and it's less safe?

433
00:38:00,860 --> 00:38:03,360
What is that data telling us in so far as you know?

434
00:38:04,780 --> 00:38:12,860
So I can't speak to where people thinking it was switched back and are still engaging in

435
00:38:12,860 --> 00:38:13,820
like unsafe behaviors.

436
00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:17,240
That's a little harder to answer with the data sources that I have at my disposal.

437
00:38:17,240 --> 00:38:22,780
I will say, though, we were also a little surprised by that and we went and looked at all the

438
00:38:22,780 --> 00:38:30,120
other age groups and we didn't see that drop off in e-bike rates or numbers among any

439
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:30,760
other age group.

440
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:36,940
So that was a signal to us that it wasn't just some fluky data collection problem that it

441
00:38:36,940 --> 00:38:39,220
was we were actually seeing a drop.

442
00:38:39,740 --> 00:38:42,120
Yeah, and the increase in conventional bikes, I'm not sure.

443
00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:48,240
I think it is very interesting and I don't know if a population that may have been involved

444
00:38:48,240 --> 00:38:51,360
in more risky riding is not riding conventional bikes.

445
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:55,880
I don't know, and I can't really answer that from my data, but it's a question on my

446
00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:56,540
mind as well.

447
00:38:56,660 --> 00:39:02,360
And I think it also speaks to the importance of just keeping with bike education across the

448
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:08,820
board because a lot of the bicycle safety education is relevant for e-bike and for conventional

449
00:39:08,820 --> 00:39:09,280
bikes.

450
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:10,280
Thank you.

451
00:39:12,380 --> 00:39:12,840
Other questions?

452
00:39:13,100 --> 00:39:13,200
Yeah.

453
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:14,020
Commissioner Paulson.

454
00:39:14,220 --> 00:39:14,560
Thank you.

455
00:39:15,300 --> 00:39:18,760
I just want to go a little further on the conventional by question.

456
00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:23,240
So AB 1778 is a pilot, right?

457
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:25,380
So they're waiting for more data.

458
00:39:25,940 --> 00:39:27,420
How significant.

459
00:39:27,780 --> 00:39:33,300
I mean, I would imagine for the legislature seeing the 35% drop in the 10 to 11.

460
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:37,800
I mean, 10 to 15 year old cohort is reason to, you know, make it more permanent.

461
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:43,100
but what about just for conventional bikes? Because I just looked up quickly, it seems like

462
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:28,180
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.

463
00:40:28,180 --> 00:40:32,460
And we can glean some insights from the EMS narratives.

464
00:40:32,720 --> 00:40:36,100
I mean, I read a lot of, I review these, all of these crashes.

465
00:40:36,100 --> 00:40:38,880
I review the patient chart and read the actual narrative.

466
00:40:39,700 --> 00:40:46,700
And so far nothing has jumped out as like the overarching explanation of why there was this

467
00:40:46,700 --> 00:40:52,400
increase in conventional bikes, but it's something we're continuing to look at and we'll do so moving

468
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:52,880
forward.

469
00:40:53,020 --> 00:40:58,160
And if this continues, if the increase continues, then, you know, maybe it means doing

470
00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:03,480
some like focus groups are working closer with these bike education groups that are like in the

471
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:10,360
field talking to youth. I'm just wondering also if AB 1778 is helping, you know, though it's

472
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:15,900
trending up, maybe it's holding down, you know, a greater, I mean, is there any indication that

473
00:41:15,900 --> 00:41:20,860
it's helping in that age group? Because, you know, all the focus is on, you know, e-bikes and kids and

474
00:41:20,860 --> 00:41:25,620
tend to, you know, 15, but, you know, just for the broader, because that is a really big part of,

475
00:41:28,140 --> 00:41:28,140
you

476
00:41:28,140 --> 00:41:30,040
You know, I could reach that as well.

477
00:41:30,500 --> 00:41:37,460
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.

478
00:41:37,460 --> 00:41:48,420
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.

479
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:51,880
And I think part of that could just be the increase of the amount of time.

480
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:55,740
people in that demographic have been writing since the pandemic.

481
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:59,080
Just the overall increase has led to maybe some increase.

482
00:41:59,420 --> 00:42:02,060
The year over year increase that we're seeing here, I can't speak to that,

483
00:42:02,220 --> 00:42:05,900
but I could be just a part of this, part of the situation.

484
00:42:06,500 --> 00:42:09,880
Just one more question on the EMS indicators.

485
00:42:10,500 --> 00:42:14,580
You said speed is really hard to, you know, to capture or document.

486
00:42:15,220 --> 00:42:17,060
Ebike class is really hard to capture.

487
00:42:17,180 --> 00:42:18,960
What about just the severity of the accident?

488
00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:34,020
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.

489
00:42:34,900 --> 00:42:43,700
More of the accidents are described as non-acute or like fine no injury.

490
00:42:43,700 --> 00:42:50,740
The tricky thing is, this is like the best that EMS can do to describe severity with

491
00:42:50,740 --> 00:42:51,480
the tools they have.

492
00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:56,160
They don't have imaging, they don't have X-rays or MRI machines, so there are injuries

493
00:42:56,160 --> 00:43:04,660
that on the surface in the initial EMS assessment, the child may be cleared or maybe they're

494
00:43:04,660 --> 00:43:12,220
transported to the ER, but more severe injuries may not show up until they're in the ED and hours

495
00:43:12,220 --> 00:43:17,520
later when symptoms of a concussion show up or there's a fracture that you just can't quite tell

496
00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:25,060
if it is or it isn't in the field. But we do capture severity and we do capture if any rider was

497
00:43:25,060 --> 00:43:30,300
transported to an emergency department. Great, thank you. Yeah, you're welcome. Thank you, Commissioner

498
00:43:30,300 --> 00:43:38,400
Blash. Yeah, I'm just really intrigued by the relationship between the e-bike accidents and traffic

499
00:43:38,940 --> 00:43:40,740
And I'm wondering if we know why that is.

500
00:43:40,900 --> 00:43:42,720
I mean, I think a lot of multi-use paths now

501
00:43:42,720 --> 00:43:44,280
so you can't use your e-bike on them.

502
00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:46,460
So maybe people are more likely to be riding on the streets.

503
00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:49,480
Or, you know, I know that people complain about kids

504
00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:51,740
like racing down the middle of the street on their e-bikes.

505
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:53,640
You know, so I'm wondering if we have any idea

506
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:55,480
as to why there is that relationship.

507
00:43:56,060 --> 00:43:56,560
I don't.

508
00:43:57,440 --> 00:44:00,060
I've thought about some of those suggestions that you made.

509
00:44:00,580 --> 00:44:03,720
I know that, I mean, speaking anecdotally,

510
00:44:03,820 --> 00:44:06,600
I know a lot of kids use e-bikes as like transportation,

511
00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:14,520
especially in Mill Valley to get up the big hills and so they're just writing more on streets than they are on trails.

512
00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:19,140
You know, there's this whole other worlds of conventional bike and mountain bike trail culture.

513
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:25,400
And that, and it's hard to make broad generalizations from the EMS data on this.

514
00:44:25,700 --> 00:44:34,420
But I do wonder if it's being used more for like transportation versus like biking fitness recreation.

515
00:44:34,420 --> 00:44:39,640
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

516
00:44:39,640 --> 00:44:43,600
They tell you got to be out on the street. If you're on a traditional bike, you can be on the bike path

517
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:45,620
And I'm not sure if we have that role here, but

518
00:44:46,620 --> 00:44:51,380
That's always kind of I'm like, okay, I'm taking the traditional bike. I'm fine, you know

519
00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:52,880
Yeah

520
00:44:54,100 --> 00:44:55,740
Thank you commissioner Sustenger

521
00:44:56,680 --> 00:44:59,000
Just a couple of a couple of questions

522
00:45:00,110 --> 00:45:29,870
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

523
00:45:29,870 --> 00:45:36,670
the reported 16.25 and 11.65 rates, right? And you already acknowledged that that's not for

524
00:45:36,670 --> 00:45:42,930
e-bike trips, riders, or miles traveled. That's for her 10,000 youth residents, right? So it's not

525
00:45:42,930 --> 00:45:50,750
actually a measure of the risk of riding becoming safer. It's just, it could be representative of fewer

526
00:45:50,750 --> 00:45:56,850
youth bike riders. As you don't know, so it would be helpful sort of in the presentation of that

527
00:45:56,850 --> 00:46:01,730
data say like, okay, well, here's the limitation of what this might actually represent, which

528
00:46:01,730 --> 00:46:11,490
was very helpful to hear from you tonight. Similarly, the data trend following AB 1778 seems

529
00:46:11,490 --> 00:46:17,710
to suggest in the data presented that we can causally attribute the decrease in the year

530
00:46:17,710 --> 00:46:23,590
following 1778 to the enactment of 1778, because it follows immediately in the presentation,

531
00:46:23,590 --> 00:46:32,330
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.

532
00:46:32,450 --> 00:46:43,190
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.

533
00:46:43,190 --> 00:46:58,250
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.

534
00:46:58,370 --> 00:47:12,350
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.

535
00:47:12,350 --> 00:47:22,310
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.

536
00:47:22,690 --> 00:47:23,210
Thanks.

537
00:47:23,990 --> 00:47:24,990
Other questions.

538
00:47:28,140 --> 00:47:28,520
Okay.

539
00:47:29,260 --> 00:47:35,560
I will entertain momentarily comments from the commissioner, but let's open up the public comment first.

540
00:47:36,140 --> 00:47:41,600
So any members of the public like to comment on this item. I don't see anyone in the room. Anyone online, Marcus.

541
00:47:46,490 --> 00:47:48,710
Carol, you made unmute.

542
00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:56,260
Hi, this is Terrell Cullaway Executive Director. Can you guys hear me?

543
00:47:56,780 --> 00:48:02,560
We sure can. Okay, the clock wasn't going down. I thought oh my goodness. And this is Terrell

544
00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:08,100
Cullaway Executive Director from Marine County Bicycle Coalition. I'm concerned about this report.

545
00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:16,360
It keeps getting coded in the media and the national media. Again, I know I've said this in the past,

546
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:25,640
but our counts of e-vehicles at school show that 90% of the vehicles at schools are actually

547
00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:31,940
e-modos and not e-bikes and conflating the two is really causing problems nationwide both for

548
00:48:31,940 --> 00:48:39,240
the industry, for the movement, and also for the safety of our kids. It also is I think adding to

549
00:48:39,240 --> 00:48:43,840
the confusion that parents are feeling when they go to purchase a vehicle for their kid.

550
00:48:44,500 --> 00:48:54,680
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.

551
00:48:55,160 --> 00:49:02,160
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.

552
00:49:02,900 --> 00:49:09,020
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.

553
00:49:09,020 --> 00:49:14,020
Although, I mean, looking around, I would say that it has increased, so I would expect

554
00:49:14,020 --> 00:49:17,280
that collisions and crashes would go up as a result.

555
00:49:18,220 --> 00:49:24,340
And then one other thing I just wanted to comment is we really try not to use the term

556
00:49:24,340 --> 00:49:26,180
accident when we're referring to these things.

557
00:49:26,180 --> 00:49:27,760
We say crashes are collisions.

558
00:49:28,580 --> 00:49:32,620
The word accident implies that it's nobody's fault and nothing can be done.

559
00:49:32,620 --> 00:49:41,660
And so I just want to beg that we stop using that word when we're referring to collisions and crashes. Thank you.

560
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:28,960
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.

561
00:50:28,960 --> 00:50:32,140
and just getting people aware of the risks that they've got.

562
00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:34,900
So I think all of the outcomes here are really excellent.

563
00:50:35,180 --> 00:50:38,120
Just a couple of comments just been reflected

564
00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:39,780
in some of the other commissioner comments

565
00:50:39,780 --> 00:50:40,940
and also from online.

566
00:50:41,300 --> 00:50:44,360
I think how we phrase this in the press is really important

567
00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:46,460
because it is being picked up and repeated

568
00:50:47,130 --> 00:50:50,220
and the context is lost in it.

569
00:50:50,680 --> 00:50:53,320
So the fact that you're normalizing us

570
00:50:53,320 --> 00:50:56,260
on population is interpreted as risk and it's not risk.

571
00:50:56,260 --> 00:51:09,300
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.

572
00:51:09,700 --> 00:51:17,260
So you're just skewing the data and confusing people. So until we have the right data, I would recommend just dropping that entirely.

573
00:51:17,260 --> 00:51:22,800
just kind of like rough estimate just and again this is AI so there's huge

574
00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:27,120
caveats associated with all of this but if you did it per capita per trip

575
00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:32,020
right try to come out the miles you'd get roughly you know six for the

576
00:51:32,020 --> 00:51:40,040
youth you'd get more than six for the 40 to six year olds and you get 27 for the

577
00:51:40,040 --> 00:51:44,760
elderly right so it's a really different picture so I just think that you're you're

578
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:48,560
not doing yourself any favors by normalizing on a number that's not valuable.

579
00:51:49,300 --> 00:51:54,140
Secondly, the increase in number of crashes for least e-bikes is absolutely a function

580
00:51:54,140 --> 00:51:57,220
of the number of e-bikes out there, and that's what you'd expect, right?

581
00:51:57,900 --> 00:52:05,040
But like the number of crashes went up by 100%, but the number of e-bikes between 2019

582
00:52:05,040 --> 00:52:07,920
and 2022 went up by 400%, right?

583
00:52:07,980 --> 00:52:10,160
So of course, the number of crashes is going to go up.

584
00:52:10,420 --> 00:52:12,660
That's just like important context for people to understand.

585
00:52:12,660 --> 00:52:22,160
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.

586
00:52:22,720 --> 00:52:25,940
So until we've got that, we probably should just stick with the sample data.

587
00:52:26,680 --> 00:52:36,360
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.

588
00:52:36,360 --> 00:52:48,020
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?

589
00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:58,920
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.

590
00:52:59,420 --> 00:53:00,060
Thank you so much.

591
00:53:00,060 --> 00:53:01,720
Thank you.

592
00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:02,900
Commissioner Blasting.

593
00:53:03,420 --> 00:53:05,940
I just wanted to make sure that we give supervisor,

594
00:53:06,340 --> 00:53:11,120
a lot of thanks for pulling all of this together,

595
00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:16,060
because she did significant work in forming the smaller task force

596
00:53:16,060 --> 00:53:18,020
in working with Assemblymember Connolly,

597
00:53:18,700 --> 00:53:22,360
in really navigating the hugely successful eBikers Club.

598
00:53:22,360 --> 00:53:25,100
I've seen kids with stickers, and I just wanted to say,

599
00:53:25,760 --> 00:53:27,760
we all really appreciate it,

600
00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:33,020
And really, we would, Marin would not be where it is on e-bike safety without you supervisor

601
00:53:33,020 --> 00:53:33,300
second.

602
00:53:33,460 --> 00:53:34,860
So just wanted to give you a shout out.

603
00:53:36,900 --> 00:53:37,420
Plus one that.

604
00:53:37,580 --> 00:53:38,140
Yeah, go ahead.

605
00:53:38,320 --> 00:53:38,520
Thank you.

606
00:53:38,720 --> 00:53:39,480
I appreciate that.

607
00:53:39,640 --> 00:53:45,900
But I, you know, I think it's this, frankly, is an interesting question as we make policy

608
00:53:45,900 --> 00:53:46,420
decisions.

609
00:53:46,560 --> 00:53:48,440
We oftentimes want to have data.

610
00:53:48,960 --> 00:53:53,620
And we frankly, I don't know about you all, but most of the decisions we make, we don't have

611
00:53:53,620 --> 00:53:54,240
a lot of data.

612
00:53:54,240 --> 00:54:05,220
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.

613
00:54:05,740 --> 00:54:16,480
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.

614
00:54:16,480 --> 00:54:21,240
So if you went out and took the kids are going back to analog bikes on in that school district.

615
00:54:21,240 --> 00:54:33,520
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.

616
00:55:00,110 --> 00:55:30,090
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

617
00:55:30,090 --> 00:55:38,350
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.

618
00:55:38,990 --> 00:55:59,490
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.

619
00:55:59,490 --> 00:56:06,210
at what works. And I don't think any of us thought AB 1778 was going to solve this issue.

620
00:56:07,030 --> 00:56:13,630
But I do think that the conversation amongst parents is much more elevated than it was four

621
00:56:13,630 --> 00:56:20,390
years ago about what is what asking what the laws and the rules are. And so just having that conversation

622
00:56:20,390 --> 00:56:25,510
versus I'm going to buy something off the shelf because everybody else has it. So thank you for

623
00:56:25,510 --> 00:56:31,570
your participation in working on transportation and we want to see more kids out on bikes

624
00:56:31,570 --> 00:56:32,250
and e-bikes.

625
00:56:32,450 --> 00:56:34,470
I think it's also always an important message.

626
00:56:36,670 --> 00:56:37,490
Come on down here.

627
00:56:38,050 --> 00:56:38,530
Did you see that?

628
00:56:39,030 --> 00:56:39,630
Anyone down here?

629
00:56:40,230 --> 00:56:42,090
No additional comments?

630
00:56:42,310 --> 00:56:42,450
Okay.

631
00:56:42,570 --> 00:56:43,250
Commissioner Downlink.

632
00:56:43,350 --> 00:56:43,570
Go ahead.

633
00:56:43,990 --> 00:56:50,250
I just want to say I actually like what urban was talking about, about older adults and accidents.

634
00:56:50,250 --> 00:56:58,430
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.

635
00:56:59,170 --> 00:57:08,650
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.

636
00:57:08,850 --> 00:57:09,370
It's a great suggestion.

637
00:57:09,770 --> 00:57:10,870
Yes, I really like that.

638
00:57:12,670 --> 00:57:13,470
Thank you.

639
00:57:13,850 --> 00:57:15,930
My husband and I both have.

640
00:57:18,730 --> 00:57:22,070
We don't want you to show up in the dock in the data, however.

641
00:57:23,590 --> 00:57:25,110
Any other commissioner comments?

642
00:57:26,370 --> 00:57:27,390
I'll just fill them what's already been said.

643
00:57:27,470 --> 00:57:29,370
Maria, thank you so much for all the work that you've done.

644
00:57:29,450 --> 00:57:33,010
The public health perspective always is such a valuable lens.

645
00:57:33,690 --> 00:57:34,770
And again, commissioner socket.

646
00:57:34,970 --> 00:57:37,710
Thank you for your driving force and bringing this forward.

647
00:57:37,710 --> 00:57:40,230
having a special legislation after state level

648
00:57:40,230 --> 00:57:41,410
and continuing to build on that.

649
00:57:41,870 --> 00:57:44,290
I found Commissioner Carmell's comments

650
00:57:44,290 --> 00:57:46,270
really interesting about who,

651
00:57:46,430 --> 00:57:48,070
what population is having accidents.

652
00:57:48,910 --> 00:57:51,290
We have Embrace Vision Zero here as a community.

653
00:57:51,390 --> 00:57:53,090
I can speak for San Rafael, we really have it.

654
00:57:53,170 --> 00:57:55,590
And I don't know if it pertains necessarily

655
00:57:55,590 --> 00:57:57,490
to this campaign and what's going on here,

656
00:57:57,510 --> 00:58:02,010
but having that information is really critical.

657
00:58:02,070 --> 00:58:03,530
So I think that's a really interesting point.

658
00:58:03,650 --> 00:58:05,750
And I also think having the Commissioner,

659
00:58:05,750 --> 00:58:07,750
or second just said having the helmet wearing.

660
00:58:08,470 --> 00:58:10,130
Like let's, nothing's low hanging fruit

661
00:58:10,130 --> 00:58:12,110
because it's behavior change and that takes time.

662
00:58:12,650 --> 00:58:13,770
But how do we continue to do that?

663
00:58:13,950 --> 00:58:15,070
And I will also be interested

664
00:58:15,070 --> 00:58:17,190
how do we continue to build on it over time?

665
00:58:17,790 --> 00:58:19,090
Because right now we have a lot of momentum,

666
00:58:19,570 --> 00:58:21,630
a lot of conversation, the folks on this dius

667
00:58:21,630 --> 00:58:23,010
are talking about in their communities,

668
00:58:23,150 --> 00:58:24,630
but what about three or four years from now?

669
00:58:24,790 --> 00:58:27,490
So I'm really interested in how it does intersect

670
00:58:27,490 --> 00:58:29,090
with the ideals around vision zero

671
00:58:29,090 --> 00:58:29,990
that we're trying to do.

672
00:58:30,250 --> 00:58:33,110
So it was a discussion item.

673
00:58:33,270 --> 00:58:34,370
So thank you so much.

674
00:58:34,370 --> 00:58:35,270
That was a great question.

675
00:58:37,250 --> 00:58:43,210
We will move along to our next item, which is an action item.

676
00:58:43,410 --> 00:58:46,190
We're not letting Scott leave yet because he's celebrating his anniversary.

677
00:58:46,770 --> 00:58:53,130
This is a funding to extend the bike share pilot program and amend the FY2627 budget.

678
00:59:02,520 --> 00:59:02,740
Great.

679
00:59:02,880 --> 00:59:03,480
Thank you so much.

680
00:59:03,920 --> 00:59:08,980
This is a milestone update on the Redwood Bike Share Program, which includes the recommendation

681
00:59:08,980 --> 00:59:13,440
the TAM Board approved funding to extend this program for an additional three years.

682
00:59:14,880 --> 00:59:19,780
For background, this program is a partnership between TAM and the Sonoma County

683
00:59:19,780 --> 00:59:25,600
Transportation and Climate Authorities to oversee the program. We were grateful to receive a grant

684
00:59:25,600 --> 00:59:31,820
from MTC to kick this program off for the first two years of the program and that period runs through

685
00:59:31,820 --> 00:59:38,720
October 13th or next month. We have a contract with drop mobility, the program operator for a program

686
00:59:38,720 --> 00:59:43,380
that provides 300 pedal assist e-bikes in seven cities along Smart Quarter.

687
00:59:43,800 --> 00:59:52,280
The program was rolled out in October of 2024 across five cities and was fully deployed in all seven cities by March of 2025.

688
00:59:52,980 --> 00:59:59,920
Currently it includes about 60 hubs with an additional about 120 public bike racks that expand.

689
01:00:13,820 --> 01:00:25,540
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.

690
01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:33,300
about 1.7 miles in an average trip length.

691
01:00:34,000 --> 01:00:36,960
In this slide, you'll see the increase over time

692
01:00:36,960 --> 01:00:38,080
in terms of fleet utilization.

693
01:00:38,960 --> 01:00:41,840
We have seen some fluctuation based on the season,

694
01:00:42,260 --> 01:00:44,620
but overall, we're seeing an upward trajectory

695
01:00:45,300 --> 01:00:49,540
and notably between 2025 and 2026.

696
01:00:49,720 --> 01:00:53,260
We've seen about a doubling in fleet utilization year-over-year.

697
01:00:55,860 --> 01:00:59,360
Throughout the system, there's a range in trips per city.

698
01:00:59,360 --> 01:01:03,220
In Santa Rosa, we've seen the most trips, followed by Santa Fel, Petaluma,

699
01:01:03,440 --> 01:01:07,120
Larkspur, and Ronard Park. I do want to point out Nevada launched their

700
01:01:07,120 --> 01:01:09,940
system about five months later than the other cities in Marin County.

701
01:01:10,700 --> 01:01:13,760
Nevertheless, the trips in Nevada have inched up to about the level of

702
01:01:13,760 --> 01:01:18,060
Katadi. So we have seen a range throughout the different cities, but it is being

703
01:01:18,060 --> 01:01:23,080
used in all participating cities. We're looking at Marin, the connection between

704
01:01:23,080 --> 01:01:28,920
transit and bike share becomes really clear. Our high-use stations include

705
01:01:28,920 --> 01:01:35,540
Luxper Smart Station, the hub at Golden Gate Ferry, the Civic Center Smart Station,

706
01:01:35,820 --> 01:01:39,860
center-felled downtown Smart Station, reflected in the percentages here.

707
01:01:40,080 --> 01:01:44,640
So that does, that is encouraging in terms of providing a service that meets

708
01:01:44,640 --> 01:01:47,640
the intended purpose, which is really a first-last-mile program.

709
01:01:49,440 --> 01:01:52,960
We've been, consider a variety of strategies since the program,

710
01:01:53,000 --> 01:01:56,800
launch to try to increase awareness and utilization. Here are some of the more

711
01:01:56,800 --> 01:02:01,080
effective things that have worked. In April of this year we've doubled the daily minutes

712
01:02:01,080 --> 01:02:05,940
allowed for members going from 30 minutes of ride time all the way up to a full hour per day.

713
01:02:06,800 --> 01:02:11,040
So year-over-year, the following months we've seen pretty notable increase in use since we've

714
01:02:11,040 --> 01:02:15,140
made that change in the program. There's also been some great partnerships that have kicked off,

715
01:02:15,580 --> 01:02:20,000
one of which includes the Canal Alliance and MCE that have partnered on some outreach and education,

716
01:02:20,620 --> 01:02:24,780
equity-oriented education outreach including classes about how to use the system,

717
01:02:24,780 --> 01:02:26,940
and that includes equity memberships

718
01:02:26,940 --> 01:02:28,860
that are sponsored by MCE as well.

719
01:02:29,500 --> 01:02:31,980
We're looking at doing a lot more outreach to employers

720
01:02:32,510 --> 01:02:35,200
to discuss opportunities around bulk memberships

721
01:02:35,200 --> 01:02:37,460
that's something that's been very successful in Santa Rosa.

722
01:02:38,040 --> 01:02:40,180
We're talking to the county and Marin currently about this

723
01:02:40,180 --> 01:02:41,480
and I think that's gonna be a big part

724
01:02:41,480 --> 01:02:43,160
of our outreach in the coming months.

725
01:02:44,180 --> 01:02:45,300
So building on that momentum,

726
01:02:45,600 --> 01:02:48,060
we're gonna do a lot more outreach to targeted demographics,

727
01:02:48,780 --> 01:02:50,520
to college students in particular.

728
01:02:51,020 --> 01:02:52,600
We think there's a lot of opportunity there,

729
01:02:52,600 --> 01:02:56,400
equity populations, as I mentioned, and transit riders.

730
01:02:56,400 --> 01:02:59,580
We're going to be working more with the transit operators working through their

731
01:02:59,580 --> 01:03:04,460
forms and channels to promote the program, to transit riders, and using

732
01:03:04,460 --> 01:03:09,420
opportunities to work with advocacy organizations and developers to get the word out,

733
01:03:09,420 --> 01:03:11,220
and particularly large employers.

734
01:03:12,920 --> 01:03:18,120
Starting to get into our recommendation tonight, with our current contract,

735
01:03:18,120 --> 01:03:21,020
with throttle mobility that SETCA manages.

736
01:03:21,740 --> 01:03:22,940
It's expiring next month.

737
01:03:23,060 --> 01:03:25,280
We've done quite a bit of work in the past few months,

738
01:03:26,500 --> 01:03:28,680
discussing opportunities to extend this program

739
01:03:28,680 --> 01:03:31,000
with SETCA, Smart and MTC.

740
01:03:32,000 --> 01:03:35,920
The operating costs are estimated to be about $300,000

741
01:03:35,920 --> 01:03:37,920
per year over the next three years.

742
01:03:38,700 --> 01:03:40,640
So we worked on an arrangement with these agencies

743
01:03:40,640 --> 01:03:43,640
where TAM, SETCA, and Smart could cover

744
01:03:43,640 --> 01:03:46,380
the operating costs over the next three years.

745
01:03:46,380 --> 01:03:53,020
and then MPC could kick in funding for capital cost specifically, specifically to pay off the

746
01:03:53,700 --> 01:03:59,040
bicycle leases that we have currently with the 300 e-bikes as well as provides additional

747
01:03:59,040 --> 01:04:05,120
funding for batteries and signage. And in this slide you'll see $4,000 and $12,000 recommended

748
01:04:05,120 --> 01:04:12,000
would be leveraged to yield about $1.4 million investment. I do want to point out as of yesterday,

749
01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:17,940
Today, all the three other agencies listed here have gained approvals or authority from

750
01:04:17,940 --> 01:04:22,420
their agencies to contribute the funding, so TAMS recommended funding tonight would complete

751
01:04:22,420 --> 01:04:23,160
the funding plan.

752
01:04:25,530 --> 01:04:29,250
The fund source we're recommending that we think would be appropriate for this is coming

753
01:04:29,250 --> 01:04:35,210
from measure AA category 4.6 as you may recall from the sales tax expenditure plan.

754
01:04:35,530 --> 01:04:40,510
This fund source or this category, I should say, specifically geared around first and last

755
01:04:40,510 --> 01:04:45,390
mile services to regional transit, and the pass that's been used for services such as

756
01:04:45,390 --> 01:04:51,130
the wave shuttle to Luxber Ferry, or the pilot shuttle between the Ferry and Smart Station

757
01:04:51,130 --> 01:04:57,970
and Luxber, that revenue that accrues from this category is in the $150,000 range.

758
01:04:57,970 --> 01:04:59,950
In other words, if you have any questions, please let us know in the comment section.

759
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:06,300
The pilot shuttle between the ferry and smart station in Larkspur, that revenue that accrues from

760
01:05:06,300 --> 01:05:15,140
this category is in the $150,000 range. And if you may recall, in the 2026 review of

761
01:05:15,140 --> 01:05:21,960
measure A and amendment, the definition around this category was defined to specifically

762
01:05:21,960 --> 01:05:29,620
include by share with this program in mind as it relates to this funding. So that's why

763
01:05:29,620 --> 01:05:35,240
we're recommending this source of funding, it would contribute about $137,000 annually

764
01:05:35,760 --> 01:05:38,760
or $4,000 and $12,000 roughly over the three-year period.

765
01:05:39,820 --> 01:05:44,120
And it would allow us to invest in a program that's been established and is growing.

766
01:05:46,750 --> 01:05:53,170
In other news, we also received an announcement recently of a state earmark back in February

767
01:05:53,170 --> 01:06:00,050
10, collaborated with SCTCA to submit a state earmark request for this program among others.

768
01:06:00,050 --> 01:06:07,310
We requested $2.8 million, and we're very grateful to find out that Senator McGuire included

769
01:06:07,310 --> 01:06:10,430
$1 million for Redwood Bikeshare and Assembly Bill 113.

770
01:06:11,270 --> 01:06:15,830
Since we printed this item and developed the presentation, we actually heard the governor

771
01:06:15,830 --> 01:06:20,070
actually sign this legislation within the past couple days, so that's great news.

772
01:06:20,590 --> 01:06:25,390
However, there's potentially lengthy process to actually access this funding and go through

773
01:06:25,390 --> 01:06:26,530
that administrative process.

774
01:06:26,530 --> 01:06:39,450
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.

775
01:06:42,210 --> 01:06:49,470
With the funding we're recommending tonight, a lot goes into the operations of this program and we would be contributing to the operations.

776
01:06:50,510 --> 01:07:19,450
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

777
01:07:19,450 --> 01:07:21,150
by contributing to the operations.

778
01:07:23,290 --> 01:07:25,870
We had a great discussion with the funding programs

779
01:07:25,870 --> 01:07:29,390
and legislative executive committee of TAM earlier this month,

780
01:07:29,590 --> 01:07:33,870
which approved the three-year extension that we're recommending tonight,

781
01:07:34,130 --> 01:07:35,950
and I referred that recommendation to the TAM board.

782
01:07:37,670 --> 01:07:40,890
And there were some suggestions that came out of the discussion as well,

783
01:07:41,370 --> 01:07:45,870
one of which I think we could definitely focus on within our outreach program

784
01:07:45,870 --> 01:07:47,990
moving forward, which would be to promote this program

785
01:07:47,990 --> 01:07:53,130
beyond a first last mile connection to transit because there are other use cases that could benefit from

786
01:07:53,130 --> 01:07:59,430
bike share. We also talked about the state earmark and the reports that come back to talk about

787
01:07:59,430 --> 01:08:06,310
that opportunity and how those funds could be deployed when they become available. The fact that

788
01:08:06,310 --> 01:08:12,590
there would likely need to be some type of subsidy into the future, but we could continue to evaluate

789
01:08:12,590 --> 01:08:16,710
performance in the long-term funding need to potentially even extend this program further.

790
01:08:16,710 --> 01:08:21,410
And then there were some discussions about other first last mile programs that we could

791
01:08:21,410 --> 01:08:25,410
also be looking into in the future, including potentially with autonomous vehicles.

792
01:08:25,770 --> 01:08:27,970
So that's more that we can discuss in the future as well.

793
01:08:29,570 --> 01:08:34,630
So tonight's recommendation is really three-part recommending the foreign and 12,000 for measure

794
01:08:34,630 --> 01:08:43,550
AA, category 4.6, to support a three-year extension of this program that would equate to 137,000

795
01:08:43,550 --> 01:08:49,850
roughly per year and we would amend the TAM budget accordingly. The framework for this program

796
01:08:49,850 --> 01:08:55,290
would continue where SCTCA would be designated as the fiscal agent so they would hold the contract

797
01:08:55,290 --> 01:09:01,650
with drop mobility and we would enter into an agreement with SCTCA basically as a cooperative

798
01:09:01,650 --> 01:09:05,670
funding agreement to provide a TAMS contribution. So that's what we're here to recommend tonight

799
01:09:06,690 --> 01:09:10,710
and happy to answer any questions or any suggestions you might have. Thank you so much.

800
01:09:10,710 --> 01:09:13,810
Thank you, Scott. I'll look down here any questions. Yeah, Commissioner Blash.

801
01:09:15,450 --> 01:09:21,290
Yeah, this is really good news. So I'm very excited to hear this and I did have a question

802
01:09:21,290 --> 01:09:26,570
about just, you know, vaguely the process for the earmark would be, it would come back to the

803
01:09:26,570 --> 01:09:31,750
tam board at some point for a decision about use. I would assume and then maybe go to the councils

804
01:09:31,750 --> 01:09:37,550
of the individual jurisdictions impacted if indeed there's expansion funding, right?

805
01:09:37,550 --> 01:09:44,290
I think there's kind of multiple parts to that question, so one is it's important to remember,

806
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:29,480
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.

807
01:10:30,620 --> 01:10:35,220
Because it is kind of an unusual process, these earmarks, you know, it's a little different

808
01:10:35,220 --> 01:10:39,740
than kind of a standard state grant program that we're more used to with Keltrans, for

809
01:10:39,740 --> 01:10:40,100
example.

810
01:10:40,320 --> 01:10:43,660
So, we need a little information on both of those fronts.

811
01:10:44,300 --> 01:10:51,100
In terms of working with local councils, the way it has worked in the initial two-year pilot

812
01:10:51,100 --> 01:10:56,400
is that we actually, we have a working group that involves staff from all of the jurisdictions

813
01:10:56,400 --> 01:11:06,940
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.

814
01:11:07,280 --> 01:11:14,560
It could be some other sort of authorization, potentially some kind of agreement that needs to be approved.

815
01:11:15,080 --> 01:11:24,840
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.

816
01:11:24,840 --> 01:11:25,840
Thank

817
01:11:28,210 --> 01:11:45,770
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.

818
01:11:45,770 --> 01:11:51,170
You know, the batteries get to a certain point, they're basically taken out of the system.

819
01:11:51,330 --> 01:11:53,670
So we'll have 300 bikes that are part of this program, right?

820
01:11:53,810 --> 01:11:58,270
And when we have a battery life within any given vehicle that gets down to a certain

821
01:11:58,270 --> 01:12:02,190
percentage, let's say 30% battery life only, those are actually taken out of the network

822
01:12:02,190 --> 01:12:04,970
temporarily until those batteries are swapped out.

823
01:12:05,150 --> 01:12:10,630
So we found that we've had sufficient capacity at all times so far, even if we had to take

824
01:12:10,630 --> 01:12:14,890
a couple bikes or a few bikes out of the network at any given point in time to swap out

825
01:12:14,890 --> 01:12:20,510
batteries. We've provided a sufficient number of bicycles within the field at any given point in time

826
01:12:20,510 --> 01:12:25,390
that battery life or range really hasn't been an issue that's been brought to our attention so far.

827
01:12:26,150 --> 01:12:32,010
Okay, and another, I mean, I know Fairbox Recovery is slow, it's slow for smart, it's not really

828
01:12:32,010 --> 01:12:37,970
necessarily the best metric, but what in your opinion is a metric of success? You know, we've been at this

829
01:12:37,970 --> 01:12:43,070
for two years. At what point could we say this is really, you know, succeeding or better than

830
01:12:43,070 --> 01:12:49,450
micro-transit, or Marin Connect, or partnering with UberLift, better than other alternatives?

831
01:12:50,930 --> 01:12:54,670
Yeah, I think the value of the trips are need to be considered in the context of the fact

832
01:12:54,670 --> 01:12:59,550
that they do connect to these trans-assistants that we've invested heavily in, but that's

833
01:12:59,550 --> 01:13:05,970
said, there aren't a lot of comparable systems, so our level of ridership might be compared

834
01:13:05,970 --> 01:13:13,050
to smaller cities out there, cities that are small and tend to be cities like Long Beach

835
01:13:13,050 --> 01:13:21,770
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.

836
01:13:22,650 --> 01:13:31,510
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.

837
01:13:32,570 --> 01:13:38,170
The trending upwards I think if that continues we're going to be in a much higher rate.

838
01:13:38,170 --> 01:13:50,750
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.

839
01:13:51,090 --> 01:13:56,050
You know, I think a positive outcome that that we can consider.

840
01:13:57,610 --> 01:13:58,530
Thank you.

841
01:13:58,530 --> 01:14:08,370
Commissioner Sessinger. Yeah, two quick questions on what feel like potentially missing data points, but you may have them.

842
01:14:09,290 --> 01:14:17,610
So do we know trips per rider? It seems like you report individual riders and then a total number of trips.

843
01:14:17,830 --> 01:14:25,290
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.

844
01:14:25,290 --> 01:14:28,210
and 100 people who are riding all the time.

845
01:14:28,590 --> 01:14:30,810
Do we have a sense of attrition, trips,

846
01:14:30,870 --> 01:14:31,870
or a rider, anything like that?

847
01:14:32,130 --> 01:14:33,330
We have access to that data.

848
01:14:33,370 --> 01:14:35,070
It's not part of the presentation tonight

849
01:14:35,070 --> 01:14:36,610
and any of the points that we really emphasize

850
01:14:36,610 --> 01:14:37,430
in this presentation.

851
01:14:37,430 --> 01:14:39,490
I think we could get that type of data.

852
01:14:39,770 --> 01:14:42,270
I mean, we have the 4,900 unique riders

853
01:14:42,270 --> 01:14:44,730
over the life of this program to your points.

854
01:14:45,050 --> 01:14:47,630
There's some power users that I think what we have seen

855
01:14:47,630 --> 01:14:49,650
and we've reported in other presentations

856
01:14:49,650 --> 01:14:51,830
is the people that are actually members

857
01:14:52,330 --> 01:14:54,050
that use this each month.

858
01:14:54,050 --> 01:14:59,970
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-

859
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:29,500
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?

860
01:15:32,020 --> 01:15:38,960
It feels to me like we'd want to know how much we are subsidizing per rider, per active

861
01:15:38,960 --> 01:15:46,300
user, or active rider, and how that number changes depending on ridership.

862
01:15:47,580 --> 01:15:47,680
Right.

863
01:15:48,040 --> 01:15:53,560
So to date, the grant from MTC was for $8,000 or $26,000, right, and we're looking at probably

864
01:15:53,560 --> 01:15:57,400
reaching over the first two years about roughly 30,000 trips, right?

865
01:15:58,080 --> 01:16:01,860
So the $300,000 annual system-wide operating cost,

866
01:16:02,660 --> 01:16:06,860
prospectively, if we were to reach 26,000 trips, for instance,

867
01:16:07,560 --> 01:16:12,480
when I run those numbers, we're getting to about $11 per trip,

868
01:16:13,300 --> 01:16:15,280
prospectively based on that operating cost.

869
01:16:15,640 --> 01:16:17,620
That's just the TAM contribution, the total cost.

870
01:16:17,740 --> 01:16:19,540
If you wanted to look at the total public contribution,

871
01:16:19,540 --> 01:16:22,940
and Tams funds being leveraged and more funding,

872
01:16:23,460 --> 01:16:24,780
it's a higher cost per trip.

873
01:16:24,980 --> 01:16:27,600
But yeah, so something we're looking at carefully

874
01:16:27,600 --> 01:16:30,140
with MTC, we want to bring that cost per trip down

875
01:16:30,140 --> 01:16:31,480
as much as we possibly can,

876
01:16:31,760 --> 01:16:33,580
really by boosting that utilization rate.

877
01:16:34,760 --> 01:16:37,980
But yeah, I think based on the trending upward

878
01:16:37,980 --> 01:16:40,420
in terms of utilization, I think that cost per trip

879
01:16:40,420 --> 01:16:41,320
would go down.

880
01:16:42,320 --> 01:16:43,640
You'd say if we had fewer bikes,

881
01:16:43,880 --> 01:16:46,140
the cost, you know, it would be a different equation.

882
01:16:46,620 --> 01:16:48,900
So going forward, could we have that

883
01:16:48,900 --> 01:16:54,560
as part of these reports because I do think ultimately we who are responsible for stewarding

884
01:16:54,560 --> 01:17:00,300
the use of these public funds should ideally know how much are we really subsidizing per trip.

885
01:17:00,680 --> 01:17:06,340
I mean $11 is not nothing. If that's actually the number and that's only representative of

886
01:17:06,340 --> 01:17:13,640
CAM's contribution as you said. So driving that utilization and that ridership clearly important

887
01:17:14,180 --> 01:17:18,540
but it would also be there for something we'd want to track over time so that we could see

888
01:17:18,900 --> 01:17:25,140
when we approved this extension in 2026, it was $X dollars per trip or per active rider and in

889
01:17:25,140 --> 01:17:29,960
2028, when we're looking at it again, it's now Y. Yeah, it's certainly something we could bring

890
01:17:29,960 --> 01:17:33,860
forward in the future. Thanks. Great. Thanks. Thank you. Additional questions? Yeah,

891
01:17:34,000 --> 01:17:42,300
Commissioner Blossy. Scott, congratulations. And I really appreciate the report. I have some

892
01:17:42,300 --> 01:17:46,160
hard questions, so I'm just going to preface it by saying I really appreciate the report and the

893
01:17:46,160 --> 01:17:50,080
work and, and Redwood bike share, but I am the representative from

894
01:17:50,080 --> 01:17:53,880
Saucleo, and I, from what I can see here, correct me if I'm wrong?

895
01:17:54,020 --> 01:17:57,220
There's no plan in this extension to serve Southern Marinadol.

896
01:18:00,110 --> 01:18:02,030
The commissioner, I'll, I'll jump in here.

897
01:18:02,190 --> 01:18:07,410
So the, the funding that we are asking for tonight is to extend the existing

898
01:18:07,410 --> 01:18:09,530
system for three years.

899
01:18:09,770 --> 01:18:12,990
So same locations, same number of bikes, same operator.

900
01:18:13,770 --> 01:18:18,570
The million dollar earmark does potentially give us some opportunity to

901
01:18:18,570 --> 01:18:25,230
expand the locations as well where exactly those might be. We don't really have an answer yet,

902
01:18:25,570 --> 01:18:31,370
and you know it is important to keep in mind this is a connected network, so we want it to be

903
01:18:32,090 --> 01:18:38,570
useful in terms of sort of point to point, right? So there probably are some locations that are

904
01:18:38,570 --> 01:18:45,390
a better fit for that than others. I can't answer your question exactly now as to what those locations

905
01:18:45,390 --> 01:18:51,950
may be. But the funding for measure for 4.6 was recently changed so that it could apply to

906
01:18:51,950 --> 01:18:56,870
not just Santa Fel and that corridor but to all of Southern Marin. So that would imply

907
01:18:56,870 --> 01:19:02,910
the ferry in Tibran, the ferry in Sosalito, maybe Nolvalley. It wasn't that part of the

908
01:19:03,290 --> 01:19:06,330
thought process when we opened up what category 4.6 can do.

909
01:19:07,150 --> 01:19:12,030
There was some expansion in terms of the definition of that category, including the explicit

910
01:19:12,030 --> 01:19:16,690
call out for bike share to be an eligible use. There's a lot of options within that category.

911
01:19:16,850 --> 01:19:20,530
What we're recommending tonight is Ann mentioned, is really to extend this program as it's

912
01:19:20,530 --> 01:19:25,370
constituted within the current service area. Potential expansion of the program would

913
01:19:25,370 --> 01:19:30,490
be considered as, and mentioned as well, during further discussions in regards to the air

914
01:19:30,490 --> 01:19:35,030
mark funding, but at this point in time, what we're recommending tonight is to extend this

915
01:19:35,030 --> 01:19:39,430
program within the existing framework and the existing service area.

916
01:19:39,430 --> 01:19:39,510
Yeah.

917
01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:04,800
In Sausalito and Tim run between the fairies, or serving the fairies, or any of the southern

918
01:20:04,800 --> 01:20:11,680
marine transit spots. This would, yeah, this would use up most of the 4.6 money that is correct.

919
01:20:12,360 --> 01:20:17,460
However, this is the program that we have in place. Now, we are always open to looking at

920
01:20:17,460 --> 01:20:23,380
new opportunities. And this came up at the committee as well about looking into automated vehicles

921
01:20:23,380 --> 01:20:28,160
or other kinds of micromobility, which we certainly can do. We have done those kinds of pilots

922
01:20:28,160 --> 01:20:33,520
in the past and we are open to looking at that again whether it's from this funding source or

923
01:20:33,520 --> 01:20:38,640
something else in the future. Did we consider doing this for one year and then see where the

924
01:20:38,640 --> 01:20:43,600
million dollars went and having it come back just so we would have some and I know I missed the

925
01:20:43,600 --> 01:20:50,420
meeting. I'm so sorry I had a family emergency come up but I'm wondering if if there's a path where

926
01:20:50,420 --> 01:20:55,180
some of the funding can be put as if there's a way when we fund this tonight there's still a path

927
01:20:55,180 --> 01:21:00,080
for us to find the funding for micro-mobility exploration for some of the southern marine sites.

928
01:21:01,360 --> 01:21:04,620
So Commissioner, of course, what the board does is that your discretion,

929
01:21:04,780 --> 01:21:11,580
but I will say that the other agencies and our vendor have all committed to a three-year extension.

930
01:21:11,840 --> 01:21:20,340
And I think at this point, it would be quite disruptive to that process to have TAM do something else.

931
01:21:20,340 --> 01:21:29,420
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.

932
01:21:30,700 --> 01:21:49,160
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.

933
01:21:49,160 --> 01:22:09,240
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.

934
01:22:11,600 --> 01:22:14,340
Thank you. Good questions. Any other questions?

935
01:22:14,340 --> 01:22:19,680
and I don't see any, so we'll go to public comment on this item.

936
01:22:20,500 --> 01:22:21,420
I'm not seeing anyone in the room.

937
01:22:21,600 --> 01:22:23,620
Marcus, anyone online like to comment on this item?

938
01:22:23,900 --> 01:22:24,760
No hands online.

939
01:22:25,320 --> 01:22:29,240
I will close the public comment and bring it back to the commission for additional comments.

940
01:22:29,440 --> 01:22:30,240
Yeah, first share a second.

941
01:22:30,820 --> 01:22:36,500
Yeah, I just want to acknowledge the money that is leveraged by this TAM allocation.

942
01:22:37,000 --> 01:22:41,760
And in particular, give kudos to commission or

943
01:22:41,760 --> 01:22:49,720
Walton Peters who did spend a lot of time meeting with MTC to join this equation and

944
01:22:49,720 --> 01:22:52,600
to get the close to $500,000 from MTC.

945
01:22:53,080 --> 01:22:59,260
I always thought from the beginning, MTC should have paid for the whole thing, but she

946
01:22:59,260 --> 01:23:05,480
had to really scramble to get this allocation and I think if there's been hard conversations

947
01:23:05,480 --> 01:23:14,860
across all of the agencies knowing that these smaller discretionary numbers are hard to come by for all projects.

948
01:23:15,740 --> 01:23:24,340
I also want to take a moment just to thank Senator McGuire for getting a million dollars for this and doing that earmark.

949
01:23:24,720 --> 01:23:32,840
That is incredible. I think the other part that I appreciate about this program and I recognize it.

950
01:23:32,840 --> 01:23:38,780
I recognize where it doesn't go and where the bike's here doesn't go and you know, how do we

951
01:23:39,320 --> 01:23:45,280
expand it and allow people from the Ross Valley? I know if Commissioner Cole bear were here,

952
01:23:45,440 --> 01:23:50,180
you know, is very focused on that in addition to a lot of comments from court of Madera and Southern

953
01:23:50,180 --> 01:23:57,860
Marin. But I think I really appreciate our vendor in this project because as he is presented here

954
01:23:57,860 --> 01:24:02,620
a couple of times like they are committed to the nuances of Marin County and I think that's

955
01:24:02,620 --> 01:24:10,100
actually pretty unique. So I'm glad to see this approval and how it split out and everybody's

956
01:24:10,100 --> 01:24:11,620
got a vested interest in it.

957
01:24:13,800 --> 01:24:19,100
And it continued to see, you know, ridership. I continue to see the

958
01:24:19,100 --> 01:24:23,420
moving around this building in particular where when it was launched six months ago, I wasn't seeing

959
01:24:23,420 --> 01:24:28,160
nearly as much activity as I am now, but I hope to continue to see that in the reporting as this comes

960
01:24:28,160 --> 01:24:36,260
back. Thank you. Commissioner Cornel. Great, thanks so much for your report. Yeah, I think it's

961
01:24:36,260 --> 01:24:40,780
going to be really interesting to see how this utilization rate moves up. I mean, that's kind of a

962
01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:29,980
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

963
01:25:29,980 --> 01:25:36,040
nice. And just like as an example, you know, the the bus that goes into the city, you know,

964
01:25:36,040 --> 01:25:40,720
least for Mill Valley people goes to Manzanita. You know, by chair, the kind of gets you to Manzanita,

965
01:25:40,720 --> 01:25:45,620
that is closing a mile. I mean, that's a really important mile to close. You know, the airport

966
01:25:45,620 --> 01:25:52,420
goes that way also. I'm getting from the Soslito ferry to Mill Valley or from Tibran to, you know,

967
01:25:52,540 --> 01:25:57,780
Mill Valley or you know, Tibran to Soslito and the triangle, right? So that would be really useful

968
01:25:57,780 --> 01:26:08,360
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.

969
01:26:08,500 --> 01:26:18,480
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.

970
01:26:18,480 --> 01:26:26,020
and being able to use that in a way that incentivizes people to kind of employ that technology would be really helpful.

971
01:26:26,280 --> 01:26:33,540
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.

972
01:26:34,060 --> 01:26:35,520
Thank you so much for your work on this.

973
01:26:36,580 --> 01:26:39,280
Thank you, additional comments on this item.

974
01:26:39,840 --> 01:26:46,280
If I may, I would like to say that we love the interest in the program, we're very happy

975
01:26:46,280 --> 01:26:50,860
to hear that so many jurisdictions are excited about this and want to make it happen in

976
01:26:50,860 --> 01:26:51,420
their areas.

977
01:26:51,780 --> 01:26:53,580
So I don't mean to sound entirely negative.

978
01:26:53,700 --> 01:26:59,360
We just are trying to get one thing done now, but I definitely appreciate and we welcome

979
01:26:59,360 --> 01:27:00,020
all the interest.

980
01:27:01,440 --> 01:27:02,400
Thank you.

981
01:27:02,820 --> 01:27:06,720
And I know when it was brought up, we had the last presentation from Robert Bikeshared.

982
01:27:06,720 --> 01:27:12,320
that interest was also echoed across the Commission and a desire to have this program continue,

983
01:27:13,420 --> 01:27:18,340
continue. So this, to me, is the next step by having us vote on this extension to possibly build

984
01:27:18,340 --> 01:27:23,560
upon. And I think some of the comments that were brought up are very thoughtful. And if it's not

985
01:27:23,560 --> 01:27:27,280
read with a picture, are there, is there another micro-mobility? That's not what's in here tonight.

986
01:27:27,740 --> 01:27:31,020
That's something we can talk about as a board, probably in the beginning of the new year,

987
01:27:31,160 --> 01:27:36,060
and really looking at that, because all those points are really well taken. And I want to echo

988
01:27:36,060 --> 01:27:40,580
advice, chairs, comments, thank you to Senator McGuire. I know we'll figure out how to use the air

989
01:27:40,580 --> 01:27:45,900
mark in a way that do a pilot expansion or whatever that looks like. We'll do something that makes

990
01:27:45,900 --> 01:27:50,940
sense and really appreciate Commissioner Moulton Peters because it's always challenging when you're

991
01:27:50,940 --> 01:27:57,720
working with really big agencies. So when I look at this stack of different funders, I mean that's

992
01:27:57,720 --> 01:28:01,500
awesome to have four different funders that have all agreed that this is a project worth looking at.

993
01:28:01,500 --> 01:28:07,460
So, thank you. Thank you Scott for all the work and I would entertain a motion on this item.

994
01:28:08,080 --> 01:28:12,360
I'll move the extension of the funding as laid out in the staff report.

995
01:28:12,940 --> 01:28:15,400
Second. Moved and second in all in favor.

996
01:28:15,960 --> 01:28:17,460
Aye. Aye. Any opposed?

997
01:28:18,640 --> 01:28:20,480
That passes unanimously. Thank you Scott.

998
01:28:21,180 --> 01:28:21,920
Thank you. Thank you.

999
01:28:22,820 --> 01:28:31,570
Our final agenda item this evening is an action item and it's accepting, considering

1000
01:28:31,570 --> 01:28:35,150
accepting the final Marin County Mobility Hub plan.

1001
01:28:35,790 --> 01:28:36,750
That's what we'll be considering.

1002
01:28:39,370 --> 01:28:40,150
Chair was a little bound to.

1003
01:28:40,150 --> 01:28:41,370
Director's joint does.

1004
01:28:41,630 --> 01:28:43,610
Good evening commissioners.

1005
01:28:44,350 --> 01:28:45,630
Director McGill, director of planning.

1006
01:28:46,250 --> 01:28:51,250
Staff is pleased to present the final Marin County Mobility Hub plan

1007
01:28:51,250 --> 01:28:52,970
for acceptance by the Tam board tonight.

1008
01:28:53,750 --> 01:28:55,310
This effort has been underway for a while.

1009
01:28:55,410 --> 01:29:00,290
We started back in June of 2024 with the presentation to the board in July of 2024.

1010
01:29:00,290 --> 01:29:06,270
before, and sped up a lot in winter of 2026 when we developed an admin draft for public

1011
01:29:06,270 --> 01:29:11,470
agencies to review. Following the development of an admin draft, we presented the board

1012
01:29:11,470 --> 01:29:18,130
at our May 2026 meeting, public review draft, and solicited that for public feedback. Just

1013
01:29:18,130 --> 01:29:23,870
as a refresher on the process, this plan was funded by a $400,000 MTC technical assistance

1014
01:29:23,870 --> 01:29:29,890
grants to support local jurisdictions compliance with MTC's transit-oriented community policy,

1015
01:29:30,170 --> 01:29:37,450
also called the TOC policy. This applies all jurisdictions across the Bay with major rail and

1016
01:29:38,470 --> 01:29:44,190
transit stations and in Marin County that applies to all Marin jurisdictions with rail or

1017
01:29:44,190 --> 01:29:49,610
ferry stations. So jurisdictions that are subject to this policy will need to align their station area

1018
01:29:49,610 --> 01:29:55,310
densities, both on residential and commercial densities, housing policies, parking management,

1019
01:29:55,530 --> 01:29:59,830
and station access elements with this policy to be best positioned for future.

1020
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:29,820
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.

1021
01:30:29,820 --> 01:30:37,060
that weren't identified in the plan and so those areas were not addressed in the final version of this plan.

1022
01:30:38,240 --> 01:30:43,720
A lot of comments that we received were also geared towards the appendices.

1023
01:30:43,960 --> 01:30:46,020
This is the plan. This is the appendix.

1024
01:30:47,980 --> 01:30:51,620
And those appendices are mostly completed in 2025.

1025
01:30:52,460 --> 01:30:59,540
So many of the comments were related to the current status of proposed facilities and how that's changed since 2025.

1026
01:31:00,540 --> 01:31:07,200
The draft proposed there are draft proposed facilities that weren't adopted by local jurisdictions and their bike and ped plans.

1027
01:31:07,760 --> 01:31:13,620
And then there is sort of comments on both the text aspects and the graphics of those appendices.

1028
01:31:14,380 --> 01:31:19,720
And so we weren't able to make those changes on plan. We had budget and sort of logistical challenges with doing that.

1029
01:31:19,720 --> 01:31:26,320
But where those graphics and the text changes were applicable to the actual final plan, we made those changes.

1030
01:31:27,080 --> 01:31:31,340
I do want to note that overall almost all of the comments were supportive of the plan.

1031
01:31:31,580 --> 01:31:36,860
And they were also supportive of transit priority and access improvements to the relevant ferry stations in the county.

1032
01:31:37,120 --> 01:31:40,920
So there's a lot of support from the public comments as well as the agency comments.

1033
01:31:42,080 --> 01:31:45,560
And those are, as I said, noted in the staff report.

1034
01:31:45,560 --> 01:31:53,620
So moving forward, if the plan is accepted tonight, staff will then reach out to our local

1035
01:31:53,620 --> 01:31:57,800
jurisdictions and asking them to accept this report either directly or through their CIP

1036
01:31:57,800 --> 01:31:59,680
or local bike-ped planning processes.

1037
01:32:00,440 --> 01:32:06,740
Staff also anticipate releasing $8 million in RM3 funding for North Bay Transit Access Improvements.

1038
01:32:06,920 --> 01:32:14,340
Those are specifically limited to trans operators in Marin, but those funds would be released

1039
01:32:14,340 --> 01:32:18,200
in spring and that would advance access to rail and ferry stations in Merit and County.

1040
01:32:18,980 --> 01:32:24,600
And then subsequently in spring as well, MTC will be releasing sort of future rounds of

1041
01:32:24,600 --> 01:32:29,880
an OBAG regional funding and there is a category for mobility hub development and many of the concepts

1042
01:32:29,880 --> 01:32:34,140
identified in this plan would compete favorably for those regional funding sources.

1043
01:32:35,120 --> 01:32:39,820
So with that, we are seeking acceptance at the board tonight. We were unable to present this

1044
01:32:39,820 --> 01:32:43,520
the executive committee and so we are just seeking acceptance from the board directly

1045
01:32:44,020 --> 01:32:47,480
and happy to answer any questions that the board may have. Thank you.

1046
01:32:47,600 --> 01:32:50,260
Thank you, Derek. I'll see if there are any questions from the commission.

1047
01:32:54,240 --> 01:32:56,120
I'll go to Chris. Yeah, go ahead. Thank you. I'm sure Paul.

1048
01:32:56,180 --> 01:33:02,640
Derek, just on the report, maybe you could talk a little bit about, you know,

1049
01:33:02,760 --> 01:33:10,460
parking, which I think is, you know, one of the stipulations for the mobility hub and, you know,

1050
01:33:10,460 --> 01:33:13,420
sea level rise, and I'm kind of as, you know,

1051
01:33:13,540 --> 01:33:15,780
larks for representative thinking of the larks for smart

1052
01:33:15,780 --> 01:33:19,380
stations. So building within that transit area around the

1053
01:33:19,380 --> 01:33:22,700
ferry terminal, what, you know, what sort of constraints and

1054
01:33:22,700 --> 01:33:25,220
possible conflicts would there be in those areas, you know,

1055
01:33:25,340 --> 01:33:26,440
parking and sea level rise?

1056
01:33:28,260 --> 01:33:31,720
Great question. So the mobility hubs plan doesn't really talk

1057
01:33:31,720 --> 01:33:35,240
about parking management, but the MTC TSE policy does have

1058
01:33:35,240 --> 01:33:38,080
areas that are applicable for parking management that is

1059
01:33:38,080 --> 01:33:40,160
intended to make sort of the maximum amount of space

1060
01:33:40,160 --> 01:33:45,680
available for housing development in these areas. That's still subject to local zoning

1061
01:33:45,680 --> 01:33:50,080
codes and local parking management codes, so that's still entirely within local discretion.

1062
01:33:50,780 --> 01:33:57,040
But compliance with that policy basically aligns and makes you make a local jurisdiction

1063
01:33:57,040 --> 01:34:02,520
compete more favorably for funding. I don't believe the parking management actually applies to

1064
01:34:02,520 --> 01:34:07,760
public facilities such as the Largsburg Ferry Terminal, but we can look into that a bit further,

1065
01:34:07,760 --> 01:34:17,980
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.

1066
01:34:18,360 --> 01:34:19,500
Okay, thank you.

1067
01:34:19,660 --> 01:34:21,560
Thank you. Yes, Commissioner for projects.

1068
01:34:23,920 --> 01:34:37,500
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.

1069
01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:28,780
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.

1070
01:35:28,780 --> 01:35:50,660
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.

1071
01:35:56,920 --> 01:36:06,080
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.

1072
01:36:06,400 --> 01:36:09,200
I'm sorry, that's like for 27 of the report itself.

1073
01:36:09,840 --> 01:36:19,800
It does identify access gaps and improvement opportunities within Tiburon and there are limited sort of locally identified by competitive projects to that location.

1074
01:36:19,800 --> 01:36:29,300
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.

1075
01:36:31,680 --> 01:36:43,420
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.

1076
01:36:43,420 --> 01:36:48,760
So, not recovering at the same pace as like the LARX for a ferry or the rail and transit

1077
01:36:48,760 --> 01:36:50,880
systems, bus transit systems in the county.

1078
01:36:51,920 --> 01:36:57,560
So this is, you know, this is something that will support compliance with the policy,

1079
01:36:57,820 --> 01:36:59,280
but it's not an end-all-be-all.

1080
01:36:59,420 --> 01:37:05,900
It's sort of one starting point and sort of setting a county-wide look at access improvements

1081
01:37:05,900 --> 01:37:06,900
that could be considered.

1082
01:37:07,620 --> 01:37:12,980
And we're happy to continue and engage with the town staff on the Tibron traffic work follow-up

1083
01:37:12,980 --> 01:37:19,680
or in future conversations to about increasing access opportunities for Ferry and Selen Brinn.

1084
01:37:21,480 --> 01:37:29,780
Go ahead. And while this is not a burning issue because it has been on the screen for decades

1085
01:37:29,780 --> 01:37:37,620
of the peculiarities of our Ferry terminal are well noted in your report, one of the brilliant ideas

1086
01:37:37,620 --> 01:37:44,780
is now is perhaps there'll be more very ridership without really having to confront the mobility

1087
01:37:44,780 --> 01:37:51,120
hub problems. If there is a service that is approved in Marin where there are multi-passenger

1088
01:37:51,120 --> 01:37:57,940
autonomous vehicles that can just drop people off from the hills. I mean we're not Holland,

1089
01:37:58,220 --> 01:38:06,700
we're not a little center of commercial opportunities and workplaces surrounded by flat land where

1090
01:38:06,700 --> 01:38:07,620
Are there the residents?

1091
01:38:08,560 --> 01:38:20,320
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.

1092
01:38:20,840 --> 01:38:25,080
We don't see that at a number of our ferry terminals or rail stations that we have.

1093
01:38:25,640 --> 01:38:29,920
Sort of really good and kiss and ride locations or curb management.

1094
01:38:30,240 --> 01:38:34,320
So I think this is an area where there is going to be ongoing work in particular.

1095
01:38:35,320 --> 01:38:40,300
regardless if it's a way mo or if it's you know carpool or other type of shared

1096
01:38:40,300 --> 01:38:44,360
service. Well I think you're right one of the hardest things is behavioral

1097
01:38:44,360 --> 01:38:49,520
change and how to get people to connect with each other and car share to get

1098
01:38:49,520 --> 01:38:53,940
to public transportation is is a hard problem to sell.

1099
01:38:56,220 --> 01:38:58,160
Excellent point. Other

1100
01:38:58,160 --> 01:39:00,480
questions on this item okay

1101
01:39:02,750 --> 01:39:04,930
I don't see any at the moment there might be some

1102
01:39:04,930 --> 01:39:19,610
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.

1103
01:39:24,750 --> 01:39:31,490
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.

1104
01:39:31,490 --> 01:39:37,270
Um, identifying across the county, uh, what the needs are and, and, uh,

1105
01:39:37,390 --> 01:39:40,590
Christian Frederick's did a good job of talking about that specific one.

1106
01:40:00,000 --> 01:40:18,120
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.