Active Transportation Infrastructure Committee Meeting - October 23, 2019
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Active Transportation Infrastructure Committee Meeting - October 23, 2019
The committee met to discuss dockless scooter operations and a public works construction update. No votes were taken; the items were informational.
Consent Calendar
None.
Public Comments & Testimony
- Martha Welch provided disjointed comments about buses, bathrooms, and alleged government misconduct.
- Jennifer Hunt, San Diego County Bicycle Coalition, announced the upcoming CicloSDias event on Sunday, October 27, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., inviting the community to enjoy open streets.
- Lime representatives Katie Stevens and Kimia Tolebian presented an update, noting that e-scooters are successfully replacing car trips. They proposed potential regulatory changes: expanding corrals to keep sidewalks clear, establishing a curfew to reduce nighttime misuse, reducing operator response time from three hours to one hour, requiring ID scanning to prevent underage riding, and linking fleet increases to performance metrics.
- Bird representative Tim Harder presented an update on compliance efforts, supporting corrals but noting challenges with street sweeping fines due to scooters in corrals.
- Alec Goosy, a Bird charger and user, emphasized the importance of micromobility and the need for more corrals, citing data that riders who start in corrals are more likely to end trips there.
- Councilmember Kercy expressed strong initial support for scooters but noted a recent lack of them downtown and urged against placing enforcement burdens on police.
Discussion Items
- Vice Chair Ward thanked staff and operators for the update. He supported expanding the corral program and suggested requiring riders to end trips only in corrals downtown. He advocated for continued education via scooter apps, license scanning to verify age, and commended Bird's parking discounts.
- Councilmember Kate asked about the timeline for the Gold Coast Drive project (a separate public works project). Staff clarified that designs will be completed this fiscal year, with construction funding needed in fiscal year 2021. He also expressed interest in seeing proposed scooter regulatory revisions at the next meeting.
Key Outcomes
- No formal actions were taken; the items were for information and discussion only.
- Staff and the mayor's office will bring back proposed revisions to scooter regulations for consideration at the next committee hearing on Wednesday, November 20, 2019, at 2 p.m.
Meeting Transcript
Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for joining us for today's meeting of the Active Transportation Infrastructure Committee. Today is Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019. Let the record reflect that Vice Chair Ward and Councilmember Kate are with us. Councilmember Morena is unable to join us this afternoon. We also have our city attorney representative Mark Mercer, IBA Representative Lisa Byrne, our male representative Lee Friedman, as well as our active transportation infrastructure committee consultant Justin Garber, and Quentin Grounds from my office as well. I'd like to thank everybody who's here with us today. We'll start with as always with non-agenda public comment. And we have one, and that is Martha Welch. Please come forward. You have two minutes, Ms. Welch. And she'll be followed by Jen Hunt with the bike coalition. Martin Spot, you're not following California. We didn't vote for this two minutes in the committee. You're following uh um the uh buses are not working. No bathroom. You lied to guns the government um the federal government, you you lied to them. There's no bathrooms, you lied to that. You always um lie to the government. They know about that. I work with the FBI for over a year, and I know um I I'm a whistleblower, and I know what to do in the city does all the time. And MTS uh would give um um buses to the Chinese, they don't pay. That's that's why they're mad at that. Anyone else those um Chinese, they're next for the government. Now also in instruction. Prompt two. We voted for uh about 12 million and two years ago, and not list and nowhere. We didn't build anything. This is what we voted for what we vote for, we don't get. That's what happens in the city. We vote for something to happen. That's why we can't financial um um audit because we can't we don't build anything. Where's the money? We want to know. This is gone too long in the city. Pure water has not been built. This is a wrong. Uh the everything is wrong here in the city. It's you lie, the staff lies, everybody lies. The government knows, they're very mad at you. People come here and look now. It's safe to look here, but what's going on is nothing happens. If you think the the the um the mad caller um is nice and not called you, you're out of your head. He can't call. The federal government uh so mad at him. Indictments and all that stuff's happening. And this is going on because um uh uh I've been working this 2015 to the meetings, and I know what goes on here. I've not seen much built here. The libraries are private, for example, but you put your name on it, so you it looks like you built it, but it's all private money.
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