We can go ahead and uh start the meeting.

Uh and I'll start with the uh the script to uh uh acknowledge that we're in our remote meeting.

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Okay, so um agenda item one is roll call and welcome in introduction.

Great.

Um I will start with the City of Alameda representatives.

We have Vice Mayor Pryor here.

Thank you for chairing this morning.

Uh Councilmember Deslag.

Here.

Representing AC Transit, we have Director Yellow and Director Sayed.

Here, we can quickly go through staff introductions.

Um good morning.

My name is Robert Bel Rosari.

I'm the director of service development and planning for AC Transit.

Um I'll turn it over to Crystal.

Uh Crystal Wayne Transportation Planner with AC Transit.

Lisa Foster, Transportation Planning Manager, City of Alameda.

We're in the side, Cheryl Fair's representative, legislative transit relations, AC Transit.

Uh Brendan Christelier, uh Engineer Public Works Department, City of Alameda.

Sean, these were contacting the planning manager, AC transit.

We'll read some friends and transfer.

And uh folks online, you can uh introduce yourself.

Good morning, I'm Rama Pochara, executive direct for planning and engineering, AC Transit.

Steve.

Good morning, Stephen Jones, Director of Legislative Affairs, Community Relations AC Transit.

Casey.

HeC Bruno, Senior Transportation Planner.

Deborah.

Deborah Garcia, Customer Services Manager.

And I'm Susan Davis.

I manage community affairs for the school district.

And Tammy Kailo, Secretary to this committee.

That's it for introduction.

I'd like to also welcome how we have Board President Ryan Lalon joining us from the Alameda Unified School District.

Thank you, Ryan.

Great.

Oh sorry, announcement.

So I don't believe there are any announcements at this time, right?

Tammy, anyone online, public comments?

There are no public comments at this time.

All right, and then um do we have public comments in the room?

Okay.

Well thanks.

I just wanted to reiterate at 9:30.

I will temporarily step out for a 10-minute phone call, and I'll be right back.

Okay, great.

So now we are on to item three.

Um so the notes from the previous ILC meeting.

Um, this is not an item, right?

Do we need to report?

Um the committee does uh take any action.

So great.

All right, there are any comments on the road.

Any comments on the notes?

Okay.

Um so main discussion item number four update of proposed ILC restructuring, AC transmit transit.

Um, uh and then we're doing the presentation and then.

Um yes, I will uh take this one.

Uh good morning again, Robert Delosari, Director of Service Development and Planning.

Um for AC Transit.

Um this committee uh may recall that there was a presentation about a year ago on updating the parameters of the uh the AC transit ILC meetings.

Um we had discussed um um different uh strategies to try to make the meetings a little bit more efficient, um and also acknowledging that AC Transit.

It runs about six of these ILC meetings.

Um, so there were a set of parameters that ultimately the the uh board of directors approved, I think it's uh in October, um which was uh shortly after our last ILC meeting here with the city, and so I want to give a brief update on those.

Most of the parameters have stayed the same, so the structure of the meeting will stay the same, which is which is great.

Um, in acknowledgement of the number of meetings that we've had, we are, and also feedback from this committee and from members of the of the city staff.

Um we've kept the city of Alameda meeting um on its own and not a joint meeting with Oakland or Piedmont in a direct response to the feedback that we heard.

Um we are conducting these meetings now three times per year instead of four times uh per year.

Um, and then um the uh time limit would be uh 90 minutes uh on the meeting, and also one other item that was discussed with the committee was the ability to have uh remote meetings uh potentially could uh just ease up ease the time needed for travel uh to get to meetings.

Um we're still exploring that.

Um Alamina's not that far from uh AC Transit General Offices.

Um so I think in-person meetings um can still happen.

Um but should we look at a remote option for um participation of uh of staff as well as uh committee members.

Um we'll let the committee know and work that through with staff, but at this point we're still in the person meetings.

Um, everything else in the charter, I think are parameters that we've used for the ILC meetings, so I won't go into those in any detail, but I do want to thank uh staff and um city committee members for for advocating for um uh individual meetings for the for the city.

Um with that, I'll take any questions or comments.

Thank you.

Okay, um moving on to item five, um, ongoing construction uh projects in Almeida.

Um, uh again, uh my name is Brendan Crystal.

Uh I'm an engineer in the public works department.

Um, would you want me to drive, Crystal?

Uh yeah, so I'm an engineer in the public works department and here to talk about our ongoing construction projects and how they um might impact uh the the AC transit services.

Um so this first uh image here is um I uh plagiarized a map from AC Transit and uh added some graphics um to sort of uh orient everyone to where these projects are located.

Um I'm gonna go um from the west side of the island um to the east side and then down to Bay Farm Island.

Um so this is an overall uh where everything's located.

Um number one is uh the Central Avenue project, uh number two is our sanitary sewer replacement project, uh number three is shoreline outfalls, four is Clement Tilden.

That will probably be the most impactful one.

Um, five is uh Lincoln Park Pathway, and six is the annual painting program.

And in the next slides, I'll go through these in more detail.

So here I've taken an aerial image and uh with my limited graphic design abilities uh tried to put the transit routes and where our projects are located.

Um so the Central Avenue project, um, many people in this room have probably heard of it.

Um it is basically goes from what you're seeing here is the intersection of uh Pacific and Maine and Central.

This is where most of our work is focused at the moment.

Um the project overall is 1.7 miles from this intersection, all the way down to uh the intersection of Central and Sherman.

Um that work from Lincoln, so approximately right here, down Central all the way to Sherman is substantially complete with the help of Crystal with AC Transit.

We've already relocated a number of bus stops, giving them, you know, fresh red curve paint and all of that.

So the current impacts are to the stop and the routes that go.

And then these routes that go through here have already been rerouted because this intersection has been closed for over a month at this point.

As far as how long this impact will last, so the project from at the beginning, the project was scheduled to end August 2026.

We've pretty much been ahead of schedule the whole time.

We ran into several weeks of significant rain.

We're getting more rains this week.

So that's pushing us out a little bit further, but we're still feeling like we're ahead of schedule and we'll finish ahead of that August timeline, sometime late spring, early summer.

The other project you're seeing on here is so our sanitary sewer replacement project, it's on multiple streets in the city, but this is the only location that I was able to identify that coincides with AC transit routes.

While they will be doing work in the roadway, there will be flaggers, there will not be any lane closure or anything like that that will keep vehicles from going this way.

Now we move down to South Shore near the South Shore Center.

This project shoreline outfalls.

So some of your drivers are probably aware that when it rains, shoreline floods, and so this project is going to be installing four new outfalls and then rehabilitating four segments of existing storm drain to help alleviate the flooding that happens along here.

This work is entirely on the Crown Beach area.

It's not in the roadway, so we don't expect any impacts to AC transit AC Transit's activities.

So this is one that's going to be a significant impact to AC transit.

Our contractor is been in contact with AC Transit operations already.

They will continue to do so throughout the duration of the project.

Right now we are in stage one, and stage one basically has the one southbound lane on till then closed.

Where we'll start doing some more impactful closures.

Fern side, fern side, will be closed as they construct this portion here.

So that will require some rerouting, and then landing when they're constructing this portion here, that will be closed about mid-September to November.

And sorry, I didn't say that out loud, but Fernside is expected to be closed late March to June.

The bus stop that's here has already been demolished, and it should be reconstructed September to November.

They are expecting to pour the concrete in about a month.

So depending on what they have going on in the area, you know, we might be able to temporarily open the stop back up before it's fully 100% functional, but we will continue to work with Crystal on that.

Oh, I did want to mention that we are planning on putting changeable message signs for folks coming off of the high street bridge into the city, and then also people coming from Bay Farm Island over that bridge when they get to High Street and Otis, having a changeable message sign, directing folks to take High Street and Incidental as a detour, trying to trying to keep folks uh from doing their normal route where they turn on to Fernside.

I think they can go through.

Oh no, I can't.

Now I have to go down Versailles.

Um, trying to avoid uh that so that's the plan there.

Uh Lincoln Park pathway lighting um within the park um we're redoing uh most of the pathway lighting.

Um there is no work on the roadway.

There is some work on the sidewalk.

Um so at that point when they're doing work on the sidewalk, they may stage vehicles in the roadway, but it will not impede traffic.

People will be able to get drowned, so that's not expected to impact AC Transit service.

Um we are this area again.

This is another program where it's multiple streets, but these are the streets that um would impact AC Transit.

Uh over the next month, uh we will be doing work in the roadway, but that work is limited to things like striping and signage, things that uh vehicles can be detoured around and not have to uh you know detoured around in the same in the same route.

Um, so uh with flaggers and things like that.

So we're not expecting uh any impacts as far as that goes.

Um I will mention there the resurfacing of the roadway is done, but there are a couple of areas where the contractor didn't do a good job and they're gonna have to go back.

But those spots are limited, and again would be able to use flaggers for uh transit to get around that area.

So those are all of the current um projects, and I did want to mention an upcoming project is we've we've been working with uh Crystal and AC Transit uh on some temporary bus stops for Starjil, because we we do have in the works a you know, basically redoing that corridor, but that's going to take some time.

So there's a couple stops on Star Drill that we're gonna do some temporary upgrades for folks.

We should be going out to get bids on that in the next month or two, and then construction should start.

I would say two to three months from now for that, and it should be a fairly quick um quick project.

So looking forward to that.

Are there any questions?

I do have a question.

It's and I it could be completely beyond your control and a weird question.

But when you were talking about the you know, doing the signage for Otis and the and you know, basically the bridges.

Um, is there a way that our phone apps for like GPS like Waze and Google Maps for example get updated?

So, yes, so we do um routinely for all of our construction projects.

Um, um there's a way that there's like an email address you can send to for to update Waze, and then um that that also gets Google, and then we can do Apple as well.

Um so what we do is we send emails to to those uh those addresses and and they update.

Yes.

Okay, that was my last question.

Alright, great.

Okay.

Um I will vacate to someone else can proceed.

We're crowded, I think.

Okay, and um item six.

We're on item six.

It says summary of February uh 2026 service change in Alameda.

Um I can just I wonder there's no slide about this, but um we regularly make service changes uh three or four times a year, and we most recently made our adjustments um on February 1st to address some overcrowding that we heard about and to further increase reliability following the implementation of realign in August.

Um, those updates that we made respond to rider and operator feedback as well as changing traffic conditions.

I mean, uh just for example, some if we know there's construction happening like Brendan just talked about, we'll try to adjust to that.

Um the changes of relevance to Alameda.

So uh we changed line 19 slightly so it terminates at um Fruitville Bart instead of going to uh our AC Transit Division 4.

Um we made some minor schedule changes on lines 30, 31, and 96.

Um, I think the biggest change uh for Alameda is line O.

Um we heard a lot about the overcrowding, so we've added um one morning weekday trip into San Francisco and one afternoon weekday trip into Fruitville Bart.

Um, so those are the changes to be aware of in Alameda for February, and it'll be um yeah, that's just the new network for now.

All right, and then I just have a question for this one.

Um, do we because in council we have comments after each time?

Yes, so Tanya is monitoring everything online, so you can ask Tammy if we have any comments on public comments online or if we guys ask the room.

Oh hi Tammy, do we have any public comments online?

There is my no public comments yet online.

Okay, I will reach out to you when I see one, and then we're in the room.

Okay, great.

It's great to see the flexibility uh to address and respond to the crowding.

I've been hearing quite a bit about it.

Um so um I'm just curious.

How are we able to accommodate that?

You know, after we had uh just approved realign and launched it.

So do we have some savings or some new efficiencies?

Um, I can yeah, I can uh take that uh Robert Del Rosario, Director of Service Development of Planning for ASV.

Um we had looked at our um extra board requirements um and for those who are not familiar with the extra requirements are those are our spare operators um that we have on a daily basis uh to cover any open um pieces of work uh out there.

Um and the the district has made some great strides over the last um a couple years, but definitely in the last year with um with um operator availability and attendance um and we've seen that number of uh increases we measured something called service operated, so that's the um the percentage of service that we operate on a daily basis.

The district has a goal of 99.5 percent.

Um but for for many years uh we were operating in the in the mid-90s, and you know, you can compare that to you shouldn't compare that to like a test you got on a on a on a paper.

That's not a great number, it's uh to uh be missing about five percent of your service.

Um so but we we we've made improvements.

We're not quite at the 99.5% goal yet, um, but we were regularly above 98.

Uh 98%, um, which was great, um, which then um uh meant that we have more uh available extra uh operators um that we're not needing on a daily basis, and we were able to uh use those operators to then make some service adjustments for the February service change, including an improvement on the wonderful.

Let's hope those trends continue.

Yeah, okay, great.

So we're on item seven.

Sorry, sorry, Tony.

Let's talk about that.

Still we can read from the cold, but I'm okay.

Um, no, I don't know if this is a positive or a negative, so take it outhouse away if you want.

Um, and uh it isn't anyway, I meant it's not meant to be a it's not a criticism, it's um just a question.

Um, so as I've been taking the bus more regularly now uh to San Francisco, um I noticed that the W comes to Santa Clara and um and Webster Street basically at the same time that the O does, there are three morning runs for the W.

So the two of the for the first two morning runs basically arrived, maybe at the same time that the O arrives.

The third does not there's a maybe a five minute stagger.

So the question that I just want to would we want it to be a slightly more staggered, like like the third um uh I don't know I mean so it's just it's just a point.

So just in case someone arrives like a little bit late or a little bit early, you know, they could oh, okay, I still have the W copy.

Yes, exactly.

Um we can take a look at that.

It might just be one of them that's running late, and they're and the schedule is just um scheduled so that there's not enough streamer.

So we can take a look at that.

Okay.

We should also look at the the ridership.

Um so if not everyone can fit on the one bus, then there is some logic to having the two buses there at the same time, but we don't uh we'd have to look at the data.

Um if there if there are if everyone can fit, um then we should try to work on staggering restrictions.

That's right, if possible, but we'll look at it.

Yeah, because on the paper um schedule, the O arrives at 65, um, and the first W arrives at 654.

Okay.

And then the O arries, the next O at 725, and then the second W arrives also at 725.

Got it.

Okay.

So um, but the third one though, the third W is there is a uh a good stagger.

So just wanted to raise that.

Oh, that's good.

Thank you.

I keep cutting people off so no one like okay, great.

Um okay, great.

So we are on seven update on supplementary service to schools.

One of the things that we're doing at this uh next round of ILC meetings and that's true.

Okay, that was kind of different.

That's a short term trip.

Yeah, yeah.

Stack and talk about, yeah.

Or you can come sit here.

Okay, I'll gladly.

All right, guys, we can hear you again.

Brian, do you want to come up to the table?

It's a good one.

Are we good?

Yeah, okay.

Well, good morning.

Um, again, my name is Sean Dislajone.

I'm the acting service planning manager at AC Transit, and I'll be presenting a brief overview of the supplementary bus services uh within the city of Alameda.

Next slide.

Oh, yeah.

So the big question uh we always hear is: Well, what is supplementary service?

Um essentially, it's the additional bus service that AC Transit puts out on school days to meet the demand for the increased capacity at bell times.

Supplementary service can take two forms.

Essentially, we could have unique lines, typically numbered as in a 600 series, made of segments of other routes.

And then in some parts of the district, we add trips on existing local services.

And we're not able to, you know, we're not able to provide supplementary service everywhere.

We're constrained by the resources that we have available.

Every year it seems like we're trying to do a little bit more with a little bit less.

These trips are really no different than any of our other local lines.

They're open to the public, including adults.

And essentially the critical piece of the service is to make sure that the trips are lined up with school bell times.

We typically want to drop off at a school between 15 and 20 minutes, 15 to 20 minutes before school, and pick up after school about five to 15 minutes, really depending on the size of the campus, where the bus stop, the proximity of the bus stop is in relation to the school.

So we we do vary that at different campuses.

Every year, schools that have bus service coordinated with some of our schedules, whether it's local or supplementary, we try to reach out, we send a letter and email, via email, to the schools requesting bell scheduled information.

That letter typically goes out, the email typically goes out in the next week or two.

And we ask for those to we ask for the information to be submitted back to us by the first Friday of March.

So it sounds like a lot of time in between March and say August, but because of our long process, everything has to be put to bed, you know, in the next few months in order to actually implement the service in August.

And really, you know, just the last the last uh the bullet, the bell schedule changes, bell schedule changes that a school makes.

Say they um make a change they will uh at a last later date, um but not the school service is not coordinated with us.

We may put out the bus and the bus arrives after school starts or in the morning, and then in the afternoon, maybe we have the buses leave before school's out, and that's like the one thing that we really don't want to do because then it's just we're just wasting resources.

So it's really critical that we can get little school that school information.

Um, and you know, what we do ask of the schools is if there's planning if they're planning to make changes to their bell schedules, um, and they don't they're not sure what the schedules are, we we ask that they can give us their best guess.

What's the latest time you're gonna start school or the earliest time you're gonna start school?

What's the latest time you're gonna get out?

Um, and then we try to adjust accordingly for that.

And then, of course, we try to make adjustments in our in in January, in case we have a little bit too much time in between the schedules.

Uh, next slide.

Um, this is a map of the service, though the various lines that we have in Alameda and some of the ridership.

I do want to point out that this ridership table, there's a sort of an error in this right, a big error in this ridership table.

Um, it's showing that the ridership is there's about 60 passengers per trip.

Um we made a mistake when we grabbed the data.

It was double counting our extra Wednesday trips.

So essentially, there's probably about 300 riders per day, not 500 and 550 or whatever the total here is.

It's about 300, so we operate nine trips a day in Alameda on supplementary lines.

So we're roughly in that 30 to 35 passengers per trip, which is actually pretty much a seated load on every bus.

Um, there's the various lines, the schools that do have coordinated service include Alameda High School, uh, Island High School, NCNL Junior Senior High School, and um and Lincoln Middle School along for Insight.

Uh there are a couple of other line schools, Academy of Alameda and Wood Middle School that are located along some of these routes, and some of these routes are actually, you know, some of the students do use the services, but the bell schedules may or may not be coordinated.

It's really focused on the other schools that I mentioned earlier.

Next slide.

And then last the last thing I wanted to talk about was the ACTC student transit pass program.

Um, this program started in 2017.

Um, the program has about a hundred around 132 schools district-wide that are participating in the program.

It's within Alameda Unified.

The program is offered to sixth through 12th graders, and it's a means-based program.

So essentially, if students qualify for the refree and reduced lunch program, they're able to get a free transit pass.

This is like a clipper card that'll be given to the kids, the students.

For folks who don't qualify for this program, they could always apply for a youth clipper card, which gives them the reduced uh 50% discount on AC transit and as well as part.

And of course, students can also pay cash as well.

And so that's the end of my presentation.

If there's any questions, I'm free to I'm here to answer.

I was just gonna say, I I don't have questions.

I know there's gonna be a comment.

So I was going to shoot.

We go online first, and we've got some hands raised.

All right, um, Tammy.

Uh can we hear uh and sorry who's doing the two-minute time?

I tell you, that's great.

So we don't have okay, great.

Susan, go ahead.

Thank you for that presentation.

Um, it's actually helpful for the representative to see that one now, showing where all of the roots are, so I really appreciate that.

I think I'm gonna print it out and put it on the wall.

One question I had for you when you were talking about coordinating the schools around the bell schedules.

Are you having trouble getting uh response from the schools in the spring about what the best bell schedules will be?

Um we haven't really had that difficult, a difficult time um in Alameda.

Um, all of our, you know, we most of we haven't had any issues where the services are scheduled incorrectly.

Um it's been pretty good over the years.

I've been doing this for a number of your different years now, probably since 2007.

So it's been a while.

Okay.

I've been coordinating with the various school districts.

So um yeah, no, it um it's so far it's been great, but again, you know, every year sometimes you get new principals in a school, things can change, or a new principal would like to have a new a different schedule.

Um but uh it has been I was gonna say recently in the last couple years, there was uh that uh Senate bill path that passed which changed how um it made sure that I guess high schools have to start by 8 30 and junior highs by 8 o'clock.

And that's sort of changed uh the the flexibility, I guess, or changed that how much how flexible schools can be.

Um so this kind of it's kind of standardized that in the mornings, uh but yeah, we have many additions over the years.

Right.

Because I was going to say if there's ever a hiccup or you're having trouble getting a hold of someone, you can contact me and I can help facilitate that.

Great, thank you.

Okay.

Public comment.

Any other board member comments?

I did want to uh just thank Sean for the presentation and the overview, and um also just thank the Alameda School District and uh Director Lalonde for uh for spearheading coordination on around Otis elementary schools, particular challenges that will be you know uh coming up soon uh as they move to a temporary campus locally.

So I really appreciate all the work that staff are doing to coordinate to figure out if are there any adjustments we can make to help provide uh to meet the students' transportation needs?

So uh so thank you for the efforts and leadership, so I think they're okay.

Um, okay.

We're on um item eight, uh Park Street TSP and signal optimization.

Yeah, that's a good hopefully.

Um, equal choice.

Okay, right.

All right.

Good morning, everyone.

My name is Maria Henderson, External Affairs Representative, Legislative Affairs and Community Relations at AC Transit.

I'm here with my colleague Will Blueler, traffic engineer at AC Transit, and Ryan Dole, engineering design consultant with Kinley Horns.

Today we are presenting on the Park Street Transit Signal Priority and Signal Optimization Project in the City of Alameda.

This is funded by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, MTC bus accelerated infrastructure delivery program, also known as bus aid.

It is an initiative that reduces transit travel times, improves transit reliability, and emphasizes short-term quick build solutions at locations identified by transit operators.

This project focuses on improving transit operations along the Park Street corridor between Blanding Avenue and Otis Drive through targeted signal timing upgrades, the installation of transit signal priority technology at key intersections, as well as the installation and configuration of wireless devices along the project corridor, which together serve to improve transit reliability through integrated and efficient signal operations.

City staff have been involved since the launch of this project and have provided input since the beginning of design development.

AC Transit staff have also provided regular updates to the City Council at the AC Transit City of Alameda ILC meetings like the one today.

Staff has also presented recently to the City of Alameda Transportation Commission at the January 28th meeting.

And AC Transit staff will also keep the mayor and city council informed with regular project updates.

I just want to take a moment to thank the City of Alameda for just being great partners to AC Transit.

Next slide, please.

Today, Ryan will begin with a brief overview of the project, improvements, and scope, and then cover some frequently asked project and construction questions.

Will will then discuss the project benefits, overall project schedule, and key milestones.

Lastly, I will wrap up this presentation with resources on how the City of Alameda can stay informed and engaged throughout every step of the project.

Ryan Kimley Horn, AC Transit's engineering consultant for the project.

Park Street is a one and a half mile corridor that's served by bus lines of 30 and 31, and it's designated as one of the 12 major corridors in AC Transit.

As well as maintain the parklets out there.

So as a transit vehicle approaches the signalized intersection, that equipment will make a request for additional green time to the intersection using GPS and radio technology.

The controller, when receiving that, may grant additional time to the movement for the bus.

That time is taken as borrowed from other unused movements at the intersection.

And it's only given if there's available time.

Actually, move to the next slide, please.

So uh the this project, Park Street Transit Signal Priority Project aims to enhance transit operations and reliability through four main actions.

First, extending the TSP.

There is existing between landing and central avenue.

This project will be extending it all the way to Otis.

Additionally, the project will be extending wireless interconnect along the corridor.

That is from NCL to Otis to allow the signals to talk to each other and maintain coordination between them.

The third element is upgrading traffic signal controller as well as wiring at the older intersection of Park Street and San Jose.

That allows for the integration of the TSP and interconnect.

And then lastly, the project will conduct a pre- and post-project evaluation to look at what the baseline and post implementation projects have done for the TSPs.

Next slide.

For an overview of what the public can expect to experience during the construction of the project, we'll cover several frequently asked questions.

First one, will there be closures and detours?

The project does expect half uh half day lane closures while the work is being performed, mostly for uh what you see on the screen to do work overhead.

But importantly, traffic will be maintained in all directions and affected lanes will be opened at the end of each workday to minimize disruption.

Per the city's work permits, construction is only allowed to be performed between the hours of 8 30 and 3 p.m.

outside of peak hours.

At the intersection of San Jose Avenue and Park Street closures and of lanes and sidewalks are needed to complete the cabinet work as well as underground conduits.

Traffic will be maintained for the roadway approaches, though flyers may be used when alternating traffic conditions due to temporary land closures.

For sidewalk closures, an accessible detour route for pedestrians will be maintained to ensure safety around the work area.

Support the construction activities, there may be some temporary no parking restrictions and bus stop relocations implemented on some blocks.

Those restrictions and relocations are expected to be about a day.

The second question that we normally get is what will the traffic impacts be during construction.

There will be some minor traffic delays along the corridor and intersecting side streets, primarily related to the lane closure that you subscribe.

These closures are going to be on weekdays and will avoid the peak morning and evening periods to reduce interventions for travelers.

Generally, construction will occur at one intersection unless otherwise approved by city to limit impacts during construction.

For construction at the San Jose Avenue intersection, may be temporarily put in red flashing or in stop control to facilitate the work.

The third question: how long will construction take?

We are expecting construction to uh expand uh extend over three months, though the active uh construction will be probably only more about a month, but the most of the phase will be uh doing the programming of equipment as well as the updating of signal timing.

For all construction activities, AC Transit will send out rider alerts and post notifications at the bus stops.

Riders register for rider alerts through the AC Transit website at ACTransit.org forward slash subscribe.

One additional frequently asked question that didn't make it on the slide, but we'd like to mention here is if there is any TSP currently implemented in the city and how is it affected uh travel times for road users.

Um, as mentioned and shown on a previous slide, there is existing on Park Street from landing down to Central.

But outside of that, uh AC Transit had a line 51 project about 10 years ago that implemented a TSP between Central Avenue and Willie Startup Avenue.

Uh post project uh study for that line 51 improvements found that Webster travel times and the commute directions was decreased by an average of 28%, uh demonstrating overall benefits to both transit and general traffic through these types of projects.

I'll pass it off to Will to discuss those benefits and overall together with morning, Will Buller Traffic Engineer with AC Transit.

The improvements Ryan described on a previous slide will result in several key benefits for Park Street and the residents of Alameda.

First, the project will improve transit reliability and efficiency by helping buses move more consistently through signalized intersections to help reduce delays and improve transit time for AC Transit buses.

These reductions in delays will encourage more residents to use public transit and reduce the number of vehicles on the road.

Second, transit signal priority reduces passenger delays by minimizing unnecessary stopping at red lights and providing more reliable transit pickup and drop-off times for AC transit riders.

Third, by improving traffic signal coordination, the project helps decrease corridor-wide congestion and travel times for all users, including vehicles, cyclists and pedestrians.

And finally, these improvements are designed to have minimal impact on other modes, including vehicles, pedestrians, and bicycles, as the green time needs for the transit vehicle will only be taken if green time is not needed for these other modes of transportation.

The current project schedule is shown on this slide.

We currently are in the design phase of the project with the design anticipated to wrap up at the end of February and shortly after the project will be ready for construction contract bidding process.

The construction along Park Street is anticipated to begin this spring and be completed in the summer.

After construction is completed and at the end of summer of 2026, additional fine-tuning of the traffic signal timing would take place.

The planned project closeout and new transit signal priority along Park Street would be ready and in use in the fall of 2026.

I'll now hand it back off to Maria to discuss additional information, resources, and wrap up the presentation.

Thanks, Will.

Thanks, Ryan.

So to stay updated on the Park Street project, we've made several resources available online.

The primary hub is our project web page on the AC Transit website.

That is located at ACTransit.org forward slash park-street-project.

That's where you'll find the latest background and project details as they evolve.

If you're looking for a quick summary, we also have fact sheets available on the website.

It covers the project scope, timeline, and specific benefits that we're bringing to the corridor.

We've also published an FAQ that explains exactly how transit signal priority works and why it was selected for Park Street, including details on funding and the long-term benefits to the community.

Next slide, please.

This concludes our presentation on the Park Street Signal Priority and Optimization Project.

We appreciate your time and continued partnership as we work to improve bus service here in Alameda.

You can monitor our progress through every phase of the project again at ACTransit.org forward slash park-street-project.

The site is available in English, Spanish, and Chinese.

And you're also welcome to reach out to us at AC Transit by phone, postal mail, or email if you have specific questions.

Thank you again, and we're happy to answer any questions you may have.

Okay.

Should we go to public comment first?

Yeah, you're looking at a line.

I don't see any.

No public comment online, Tammy.

That's correct.

There's no public comments online.

Alright, and we do have somebody in our live audience who would like to make a comment.

Hi, Christina.

I did work on transportation with community action for sustainable Alameda.

And uh I'm very excited about all these projects.

They're all great.

And uh I'll just say again, as I say often, that uh the coordination with AC Transit and Alameda is very impressive.

Um I'm a very well-informed transit writer.

I come to a lot of meetings, I get a lot of emails.

Um, so my comment has to do with you explaining how you're communicating with transit writers.

And that combined with a comment that Lisa made, our staff person um at a recent uh transportation commission meeting about construction fatigue in Alameda.

And AC Transit has this project, but you're being affected by all these projects and the Oakland Alameda Access Project, which is starting soon and in about six months is gonna have a major impact, especially on west end ridership.

And uh so my feeling from what you said is the primary way you're gonna get to people on the street that are gonna get on a bus, is by posting at the stops, um, which I think is great.

I think probably most of your ridership doesn't get emails from you only because they haven't signed up.

They don't know.

Um but if you could include information on how to get to the website for the Oakland Access project, I think that would be excellent.

Um because people can get to computers if they have phones or not.

They can and use public computers.

Um I've also noticed at the libraries, the city of Alameda has um a really important flyer posted on how to use roundabouts, and so it it made me realize that that's also a good place to post materials, is at our libraries that are well used and especially by transit writers because they're very convenient to transit.

Thank you.

That is for the one.

Okay, um, I just had a couple of questions.

Um was um, so there was the comparison made to the um that this is ongoing right now.

There's 28% improvement on was it Willie Stargeal?

Line 51 project on all the Webster's area Santa Clara, okay.

Is are we do we think that um the results on Park Street once we compare baseline to after this gets implemented will be similar?

Well, we don't know because that project was longer, um, also uh had different characteristics along that uh corridor, okay, and um a lot more signal.

But we hope you know we're hoping we'll do the best we can.

Um there was a road diet done, you know, as you mentioned, the project.

So we're uh we're trying to get things back to normal, but we'll do the best, you know, best we can.

And then when um so after everything is completely after construction is complete, um, when do we look or when do you look at results?

Uh, like three months, six months.

Well, we're hoping that we can perform it very quickly.

We're trying to do it so that um it doesn't have an impact by other projects.

So no, I'm sorry.

The whole ambition is to get the project finished as quickly as possible, then do our before and after study so that we can evaluate what those results will be.

Oh, yeah, I'm just curious what the timeline of the study is.

I just said if it was in two months.

Oh, yeah, it only takes a couple months.

It's an on and off at this point.

It used to be like that, but let's give it three because I'm speaking for consults that have to do all their data collection and research and write-ups and everything else.

Okay, yeah, okay.

Oh, great.

Um, and then um, and then this is just a question I have.

So, um, when so I I'm guessing that when the buses are going through and they're like, hey, we want a red light, but someone's yeah, cross traffic that it that it we don't give it to them.

But I'm I'm just wondering why not.

Like, why can we not have cars wait a little longer or pedestrian?

Anyway, I'm just curious of why we defer.

Um, just different agencies and residents feel differently about all of that.

So we've adopted a policy that accommodates the majority of all agencies and riders.

Okay.

I was like that to induce people to take public transportation.

I say that now, but I'm not waiting at a light like that.

You know, there's and then um and and I really like the suggestion of putting this information on um at the bus stops is and um and I know that uh you had talked about doing the different languages is that um I didn't know if like in this communication if like you're at the bus stop and we can just get that information with a key like a for example, we're about like QR codes and people just access that information quickly.

So we do different languages, the notifications at our bus stops when there's construction happening, the temporary notifications, and then we also have the rider alerts, which we send out automatically when there is construction happening.

Um we also regularly update the project website.

Um, so those are and we also promote information on our social media channels as needed to.

Yeah, I um I guess my because you know I've ridden uh usually I write my mic to parts, so that's you know, where to say, oh, we're having these things and you can click on the QR code, and I just didn't know if that was part of it was having that accessible in different languages.

The QR coordinate?

Or it doesn't have to be a QR code, but when the information, yeah.

Oh, okay.

That was that was really the end of my questions.

Okay.

And any comments or questions by anybody else.

Great project.

Really excited to have this corridor integrated and complete this uh additional questions.

Okay, great.

We are now to status briefing items.

Um number nine, the free bus pass pilot program for seniors and people with disabilities.

Liz Escobar from the city has just good morning everyone.

I'm Liz Escobar, and I'm the paratransit coordinator for the city of Alameda.

I don't have presentation today, but I will be providing a very brief verbal update on the program for those of you who are not familiar with the program.

This initiative is part of our commitment to enhancing mobility for older adults and people with disabilities in the city of Alameda.

Uh, looking at the ridership data from July through December of 2025, there were nearly 116,000 rides or taps recorded.

This averages approximately 19,300 rides per month.

Uh currently we have 730 members enrolled in the bus program, which is about a 24% decrease from our enrollment at the end of last fiscal year.

This number does reflect the recent deactivation of individuals who did not renew the free bus enrollment, as well as the enrollment of nearly 30 individuals from the wait list.

Um this program continues to be extremely important.

I cannot stress enough the importance of this program because even without additional public outreach, I'm consistently seeing two to three individuals come into my office every day, and that number does not include the many many phone calls I receive daily um expressing interest or questions about the program.

Uh this level of engagement clearly highlights how important this service is to our community.

Um, just recently I assisted a lovely 85-year-old individual who had been on the wait list for nearly a year, and she finally received her free bus pass after being cleared from the wait list.

She came into my office and was in tears.

She let me know that receiving this pass truly meant so much to her, not only because it allows her to attend her medical appointments, but because it gives her the freedom to finally leave her home and regain a social life.

Um, and I feel like moments like these are the type of moments that truly demonstrate the impact of this program, and I sincerely hope we can um continue to sustain the program and provide these critical programs and services.

Um, and with that, I'd like to thank you for your time and continued support of this incredible program.

Thank you.

Do we have any uh do we ask for public comment on this?

Yep any public comment?

Okay.

Thanks Liz I have a question about uh the wait list currently so it's great you know 30 got moved off but are there still a large number on the wait list and now is there room to reach out to those given the unenrollment of folks who weren't extended.

Sure um yes we still have about 35 people remaining on the wait list um I guess it would just depend on our on the funding and our ridership we are waiting for um our latest writership reports to see um what that trend is looking like if um the cost has improved um based on the lower ridership um then there may be a chance that we can um you know accommodate those remaining folks and um Lisa I don't know if you'd like to add more about the um general flight request um yeah there's uh a budget um fix in the mid-year budget update from the city council asking for 7000 per fiscal year to support this program to help uh cover the uh rate increase that we pay per ride um plus be able to clear this wait list we did have um some kind of logistical delays with with the the um seeing the deactivation of cards through that enrollment so we haven't seen a whole month of data since that happened and because these rides are unlimited and we have limited budget we need to see that before we can go further with the wait list to see because we did have some of the riders who um were not using their passes and we don't know which one was which uh so there's a fair amount of uncertainty with the way this is set up in terms of of managing a budget and figuring out how many people we can enroll uh so we are we are making decisions as we get information.

I think as I mentioned that prior meeting is part of regional measures ACTCs and we potentially having 10 million dollars in discretionary money which should be in 2020 or making certain commission push to use that on furly transit assets for students.

It's possible that with additional efficacy expanded to see because I just want to put that on your radio potential pilot money to address some needs there.

And I said on the steering committee for the regional measure it looks like or just like it's been qualified for that case I'm not sure just um keep an eye on that.

I would say this program has been a clear test case there that is it is a desired and valued service to provide free fairs to adults and so whoever the next mayor around me that's going to be really important ACTC and you raise this that person faces this as an issue of the regional passes.

Well I just want to add that because it's an amazing program and I'm very excited about it and I'm very excited to see it expand and we're working towards that.

Great all right all right moving on number 10 Transportation management association update.

Oh, sure, of course.

Good morning.

I'm uh Michael Hara.

I'm the president and chair of the Almeda TMA uh I am we're always thrilled to be here uh because we very much value our relationship with both the city of Alameda and AC Transit we you all do this this.

This meeting is an excellent example of how well how well uh everything kind of works with you with you all.

I want to introduce our new general manager, Ars Singh Hothi, who's here to give us an update.

Just wanted to introduce him.

He hit the ground running with us in November and got a lot going on, and so he's here to just give you a quick update.

Yeah, thanks, Mike.

Three months sort of flew by.

But we've been busy at work.

I see familiar faces and new faces.

Just wanted to give an update as to sort of the data collection we've been doing and the expansion of the Easy Pass program that we're running.

So as of April 2025, we had 2500 uh easy passes, 2,572 to be exact.

And at our most recent count, we're pushing almost 2900, so at 2,886.

So delta of about 314 passes, and a lot of those passes came from new housing that's being built.

CEOs being issued, almost 80 units in the Alameda Point area, and uh employers at the point that are also expanding head count.

So there are more people living and working in the point and West Alameda in general, and they're using transit.

Um a couple things I wanted to bring up.

Uh some sort of uh you know, kind words that I was asked to pass along, uh, especially from our partners at APC and building features who provide housing to marginalized and disabled groups of our community.

Um, they have said to me that the Easy Pass is a lifeline for their residents, and it enables them uh to turn you know their residents in the in the point, which currently you know does not have a grocery store or um other other things that they would need access to, a gym, health care, um, and turns that into an easy place to live because they can hop on the 19 or the 96 and be wherever they need to be.

Um, so yeah, I I really appreciate um Liz and and uh uh this help on this and I appreciate the partnership that we have with AC Transit as well.

All right, Greg uh our I have to be done with the presentation.

I was trying to.

Uh yeah, um, I mean, he's gonna also say William Davis is also joining us here today, and he he does a lot of the pass administration for us.

He's on our admin stuff, and I appreciate him as well.

Um thank you.

That's a lot.

Oh, all right.

Thank you.

Can we get just your name for the minutes?

I think it's Arsh, is it?

Yeah, Arsh A R S H Singhofi.

Okay, very thank you.

Welcome.

All right, any uh public comments?

Okay.

Okay, great.

I'm gonna go to the number of level, which is Oakland Alameda Access Project.

I mean, I was sure I did.

I can just you know use this platform to express our City Valley's appreciation on the CTC and the Altrends for being able to change the construction uh plans for extra tube from continuous single link closure to just overnight closures, and then in addition to shortening the expected hours from ending at 6 a.m.

to 5 a.m.

for uh for for the purposes of AC transit runs.

Um so you know, they have been very focused on you know getting this started, focused on Webster 2, you know, posy tubes next year, and um my understanding is there is no option that doesn't have a single lane continuous closure for the posey tube, unlike the Webster tube, but you know, we will all be working together to try to keep that as low as possible.

Yeah, um thanks, Lisa.

That's a good uh segue into our operations.

We're working internally with staff to determine if we can um put together some uh detour schedules um as part of a potential April uh service change.

Um we do have service that travels through the tube um 24 hours uh a day.

Um the service is of course much less um from 10 a.m.

10 p.m.

to 5 a.m.

which is when the tube will be fully closed, what so two will be fully closed.

Um so looking at uh what we're going to do with those trips that go through, probably detour them to the other end of the island, uh, go through Park Street Bridge and then come on back.

We actually have a standard detour in place uh that we um that we um implement when there's regular maintenance um on the tube that happens also um overnight.

Um, this of course will be up for a much longer uh period, so we want to make sure that we're um sensitive to our operations and also to the to the riders.

Um as Lisa mentioned, it was a big plus for us to get the uh closure first one down to um full closures at night, um, but also um controlling that span of when the consumption will occur.

Um, so there's a there's our our main start of service is um um after 5 a.m.

Um so there was an original plan for ACTC and Caltrans to actually have the tube closed until 6 a.m.

They've been um able to scale that back uh to 5 a.m.

Uh thanks in part to advocacy from from the city, and and that'll work much better for our morning commute operations.

So um as we'll still work uh internally to this, but we hope to have uh potential changes to our schedules in April.

I think the last tricky thing that we have at least for the website tube closure is uh when will those tube specifically be closed, um, and then how that will um time with our potential service change.

Um so try to coordinate those two things.

Um, and then there's also some um the the tube is closed um, I think it's Sunday nights to Thursday or to Friday mornings.

Um, so that we have to um make sure we make adjustments to our Sunday schedule, which is different from our weekday schedule, and then not make adjustments to our Friday schedule, which is also part of our weekday schedule.

So it's a little bit of trickiness there that we have to uh work through, but we're we're making good progress and and hopefully we can accommodate the the closure.

Any public comments?

I was just gonna say I really appreciate it.

This just sounds very daunting, and you guys are doing a great job of communicating, so I appreciate this.

Thank you.

Great, thank you.

Just to clarify, the so the closure has been pushed back from instead of starting at 5 to start at 6 a.m.

Is that what you're doing?

No, um, it's the other way around.

It's uh the closures were originally um, I believe actually it was originally like 12 to 5, midnight to 5, and then expanded to 10 pm to 6 a.m.

to get a full construction shift uh in there, and then we spoke to the uh project leaves and told them that we have a we have a decent amount of service that starts up between 5 a.m.

and 6 a.m.

So they scaled back the closure, and so everything will fully open at 5 a.m.

on weekdays.

There are no closures on weekends, so um our service impact will be a lot less than we originally anticipated, you know, say six months ago.

Excellent.

Thank you.

All right, um item 12 AC transit ridership and complaints or actual misprocess.

I'll go back to the um, so your uh crystal lane transportation plan is in transit.

Um, the agenda packet includes an attachment and performance summary for life operating Alameda for September through December 2025.

Um so this is post-real life animation.

Um, when looking at ridership uh compared to this same time period last year, so September to December 2024.

Um lines 20 and 21, which have since been renumbered to lines for the 31, are basically the same.

There's not much change in ridership there.

Um line 19 ridership is actually up about 14% on average compared to the same time last year, uh, which is likely related to the um increased ridership.

The TMA just talked about, and also the housing and employers and also the extension of line 19 into Alameda Point.

Transvay line W is also up about 6% on average compared to the same time last year, and that's probably related to the elimination of uh line OX.

Um lines 51A 96 and O are down slightly compared to the same period in 2024.

Uh on time performance continues to struggle on some routes.

Um, and as a reminder, for us, on time means no more than one minute early or five minutes late.

Um, on time performance is something that we monitor um regularly, and we have an opportunity to make changes during our service changes that we talked about earlier, which occur three to four times per year.

Um, and as noted earlier, service changes were just recently implemented at the beginning of February in response to rider and operator feedback that we heard about the overcrowding and uh insufficient running time and other factors uh that can impact on time performance.

So we should see some improvement here by the next ILC.

Um, the agenda packet also includes some information about customer complaints received, which were largely around late buses, uh canceled trips, and a lot on the line O overcrowding, which uh as mentioned earlier, uh, is hopefully addressed with the added trips.

That's it for me.

Okay.

Sorry, any public comment?

Um, any comments from anyone else?

Okay, great.

Um, well, uh, I guess we are at item 13, which is uh just going over our next meetings June 11th and October 8th.

Um that is correct, June 11th, October 8th.

Okay, uh, do we have any announcements or public comments?

All right, then we may come.

All right.

Okay, I mean,