Mission Bay Elementary School Steering Committee and Friends, 

Supervisor Dorsey’s office, along with the MTA and CTA, are engaged on the topic of safe/sustainable transit for the Mission Bay Elementary School.  You might recall there was a community meeting in February at the Mission Creek Pavilion to get input about this.  Their presentation is attached to this email.

Sarah Bertram and Peter Belden have volunteered to lead an effort for our steering committee working on the topic of transit (bike/ped emphasis) surrounding the Mission Bay school.  I joined them for a brief call with Madison Tam in Supervisor Dorsey’s office earlier this week.  At Madison’s request, Sarah and Peter are working on a draft “nitty gritty” priority list – with the goal of providing this to Madison in the next couple of weeks. They welcome input from members of this committee to support this effort.  If you’d like to participate, here’s a link to a doodle poll for a zoom call on this topic.  Sarah Bertram will follow-up once we land on a call date/time with specifics.  

One of the clear priorities is the traffic circle adjacent to the school site.  Here are some visuals (one, and another) to give you a sense of what alternatives could look like. And here’s a website where you can toggle the proposed redesign of the current circle: https://mission-bay-es.glitch.me/

It sounds like the CTA will be sharing the findings of their community input efforts thus far with Supervisor Dorsey’s office in the coming weeks.  We appreciate their focus on this, and see a real opportunity here to identify and implement some bike transit improvements from which both the school and neighborhood will benefit.