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Agenda Item # 17

BOARD MEMORANDUM

FOR DISCUSSION ONLY

At its meeting of September 12, 2007, the CTA requested that the workplan be a standing item on the agenda.   The workplan has been updated since the November 7, 2007 meeting with the items shown below.

The following items have been added:

• Space Park Bus Shelter
• Southline Platform Retrofit Project

The following items have been updated:

• Talking Signs
• Mobility and Travel Training as a Subset of Talking Signs
• CTA Motion Tracking Report
• Origin to Destination Service
• Paratransit Service Impacts Due to COA
• Nominating Committee
• Appointment of 5310 Review Committee

CTA Approved Workplan

Current Activities:

1.   Talking signs to allow people with disabilities to use fixed route as independently as possible.

Status: The CTA received a presentation on the Dynamic Passenger “Real-time” Information project.   The Committee was asked to provide locations along the Rapid 522 bus line that would be appropriate for DPI technology.  Outreach, VTA’s paratransit broker, provided a list of suggested locations along the 522. 

Agenda Date:  November 7, 2007

Category: Information

V T A Assignment: Technology, and Transportation Systems and Operations

2.Mobility and travel training as a subset of talking signs

Status: The CTA was given a presentation of VTA’s Mobility Options program.   The CTA created a subcommittee that will meet on a monthly basis and report back to the larger committee every month.  The subcommittee members are Randy Tamez, Katie Heatley, Linda Gallo, David Julian, Linda Gouveia and Laura Michels.  The subcommittee had a planning meeting on November 7, 2007.  Each subcommittee member was tasked with obtaining information about local travel training resources and providing that to Accessible Services to be compiled and forwarded to the entire subcommittee.  The local resource information was forwarded to the subcommittee by Accessible Services on November 19, 2007.

Agenda Date: October 10, 2007 / November 7, 2007 / monthly as needed

Category: Information and Discussion

V T A Assignment: Accessible Services

3.Review of CTA motions and to determine what needs to come back for further review and how motions can be placed on the Board’s agenda for action.

Status:  At the request of committee members, the motion tracking form that was presented at the August 8, 2007, meeting was revised and will be presented monthly to the committee.   The CTA chair’s report is a standing item on the TP&O committee’s agenda.  In addition to providing this report, the CTA chair was invited by the chair of the TP&O committee to speak to any issues related to the CTA at the October 18, 2007 meeting.  At the October 2007 CTA meeting, committee members stated that they wanted the motion tracking report separated into current motions and archived motions.  At the November 2007 meeting, CTA members advised that they wanted to continue to receive both the current and archived motion tracking reports in their packets.

Agenda Date: October 10, 2007 / November 7, 2007 / Monthly

Category:  Discussion

V T A Assignment: Accessible Services

4.Fixed route training specific to bus stop issues which involves trip planning, travel training, etc.

Status: CTA received a presentation on V T A’s Mobility Options Program.

Agenda Date: October 10, 2007

Category: Discussion

V T A Assignment: Accessible Services

5.Joint partnerships with cities for walkable sidewalks for blind and wheelchair users with curb cuts.

Status: V T A’s Congestion Management Program published a Community Design and Transportation Best Practices Manual for Integrating Transportation and Land Use.   The Community Design and Transportation Program and its manual were developed in partnership Santa Clara County , its cities and towns, developers, designers, community members and member agencies.  The program has a strong emphasis on pedestrian environments, transit, street design, and the interrelationships with sites and buildings.    Accessibility integration, to ensure that individuals with all levels of ability can easily traverse the pedestrian environment, is a component of this program.

Agenda Date: To Be Determined

Category: To Be Determined

V T A Assignment: Congestion Management Program

6.Change CTA Bylaws so that they are similar to the Policy Advisory Committee’s Bylaws regarding the number of members that it will take to pass an item.

Status: 

Agenda Date:   To Be Determined

Category: Action Item

V T A Assignment: Accessible Services and General Counsel’s Office

7.Receive a report on National Transit Database reporting.

Status:

Agenda Date: January 9, 2008

Category: Discussion

V T A Assignment: Fiscal Resources

8.Origin-to-Destination Service

Status: CTA requested that staff provide a memo on this issue.   Staff will give a presentation at the December 2007 meeting.

Agenda Date: November 7, 2007 / December 12, 2007

Category: Information

V T A Assignment: Accessible Services

Note: This item was requested by Chair Randy Tamez.

9.Analyze travel patterns of individuals with disabilities and senior citizens

Status:

Agenda Date: January 9, 2008.

Category: Discussion

V T A Assignment: Operations Analysis, Reporting and Systems

10.Receive a presentation on the V T P 2035 Plan

Status:

Agenda Date: December 12, 2007

Category: Information

V T A Assignment: Congestion Management Program

11.Paratransit service impacts due to COA

Status: Staff gave a presentation on the Bus Service Plan and Impacts to the ADA Paratransit Service Area.   Staff asked CTA to choose between 2 options.  CTA members passed a motion to support Option 1:  Continue existing policy and practice to conform to ADA paratransit service area and charge a Service Area Surcharge for trips originating or ending outside the service area.  The CTA motion allowed for a 90 day grace period from January 14, 2008, before imposing the surcharge.

Agenda Date: November 7, 2007

Category: Action

V T A Assignment: Accessible Services

12.Nominating Committee

Status: At the November 7, 2007 meeting CTA members selected their nominating committee.   The nominating committee will provide names of officer candidates for the December officer elections.  CTA members may also select nominations from the floor before the vote.    Nominating committee members are Thomas Slack, Barbara Stahl, and David Grant.

Agenda Date: November 7 / December 12, 2007

Category: Action

V T A Assignment: Accessible Services

13.Appointment of 5310 Review Committee

Status: Staff provided a presentation on the Bay Area’s Coordinated Public Transit Human Services Transportation Plan.   A 5310 review committee will meet Spring 2008.

Agenda Date:November 7, 2007

Category:Action

V T A Assignment: Accessible Services

14.South line Platform Retrofit Project

Status:   At the November meeting the Chief Operations Officer, in his monthly report, informed the CTA that the TP&O committee would be considering the construction contract for the south line platform retrofit project. 

Agenda Date: January 9, 2008

Category: Information

V T A Assignment: Construction

15.Space Park Shelter

Status:  The Chief Operations Officer gave verbal reports to the committee at their October 10 and November 7, 2007 meetings.   A detailed written report will be given at the December 12, 2007 meeting.

Agenda Date: December 12, 2007

Category: Information

V T A Assignment: Operations-Service Planning

Monthly Agenda Items:

1.Motion Tracking Spreadsheet

CTA requested that this item be agendized monthly.   At the October 10, 2007, CTA meeting, the Committee advised that they were satisfied with the updated format presented by staff.   Staff will not provide an accompanying report every month but will update the spreadsheet accordingly. 

2.Mainstreaming Individuals with Disabilities into VTA

At the September 12, 2007 meeting, the CTA requested that staff agendize this item on a monthly basis even if staff does not have anything to report.   Although CTA initially requested that staff mainstream individuals with disabilities into VTA, at the October 10, 2007 meeting, the CTA requested that staff not use the term “mainstreaming.”   CTA will provide staff with their preferred terminology.  Until then, staff will continue to use the term “mainstream.”

3.Workplan

Future Items:

1. Accessible bus stops, access to the bus stops, safety at the bus stops, etc.   A photo of each bus stop and full descriptions should be up on the web site.
2. The calling of bus stops is still an issue and the CTA must have a better response from staff to ensure stops are and will be called.
3. Buses stopping at stops of all sizes
4. Being able to feel confident on the bus that the driver will call out stop at the requested destination.
5. CTA should get quarterly reports from the various functional areas at the V T A to know what is going on in Congestion Management with long range plans, with ITS (Intelligent Transportation System) planning; features in the Rapid Bus Transit that make it easy or hard for disabled persons to access, etc.
6. CTA wants to receive legislative reports.
7. Identify a lead staff person at V T A for implementing the Hay Report to 1) Make sure CTA can comment and be involved (thus far CTA has had no involvement); and 2) CTA follow up on the Hay Report sections that address the Accessible Services Department and the recommendation that V T A staff needs to work to take steps to improve their relationships with the disability community and the Broker.
8. Elevator announcements---educational/outreach activities
9. Increasing CTA membership

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