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Home My WebLink AboutTrans 2014-06-23 Item 3B - SCATBd - 5/20/14 Meeting Summary and 6/17/14 Meeting AgendaSOUTH COUNTY AREA TRANSPORTATION BOARD (SCATBd) May 20, 2014 MEETING SUMMARY Members Councilmember Marcie Palmer (Chair) Councilmember Bill Peloza (Vice - Chair) Councilmember Carol Benson Councilmember Dana Ralph Councilmember Wayne Snoey Councilmember Mike Sando Deputy Mayor Jeannie Burbidge Chris Arkills Councilmember Jeanette Burrage Councilmember Linda Johnson Councilmember Stacia Jenkins Mayor Dave Hill Councilmember Barry Ladenburg Chelsea Levy Dezerae Hayes Charles Prestrud Maiya Andrews City of Renton City of Auburn City of Black Diamond City of Kent City of Covington City of Enumclaw City of Federal Way King County (Alternate) City of Des Moines City of Maple Valley City of Normandy Park City of Algona City of SeaTac Sound Transit Muckleshoot Tribe of Indians WSDOT (Alternate) City of Burien (Alternate) I. Open Meeting After opening comments and introductions the Board adopted the meeting summary of their April 15, 2014 meeting. II. BNSF Briefing on Oil Train Traffic — Johan Hellman, Executive Director, State Government Affairs, BNSF Railway Company Mr. Hellman presentation included a brief history of the railroad's Northwest operations; a discussion of supply chain in Washington State's trade economy; new private infrastructure investments to the region and BNSF's safety program. Mr. Hellman said that a common question asked of him is where are the trains going and what volumes do they carry? He said that BNSF is reluctant to answer those because of the proprietary and confidentiality nature of the cargo and because of homeland security concerns. He said the May 08, 2014 U.S. Department of Transportation order, railroads will have to tell emergency responders when and where shipments of crude oil are traveling on the rails. Mr. Hellman said that BNSF is currently sharing this information with local responders along with a disclosure agreement not to publicly disclose this information. Because of an increase in domestic multimodal and oil train traffic on its system, BNSF is making a $225 million investment in its Washington State system in 2014. Nationwide, BNSF will invest $5 billion across its rail network, including a $2.3 billion investment in its core network and a $1.6 billion investment in locomotive and freight cars. 55 Mr. Hellman said that BNSF does not own its own oil tank cars; but they recently put out a request for proposal to build 5000 state of the art oil tank cars. He said BNSF wanted the safest tank cars available and noted that other rail companies are following their lead to build stronger oil tank cars. BNSF also has a network of over 200 first responders at 60 locations and are trained in hazmat response. In Washington State they are located in Seattle, Tacoma, Vancouver, Pasco and Spokane. BNSF also provides free training for first responders, and trains 3,500 local first responders each year. Mr. Hellman said that one of the major issues for cities along it rail tracks is the traffic impacts at rail crossings. Rail roads are federally required to provide 5% of the cost for rail crossing improvement projects. He said if the region takes a coordinated and comprehensive analysis on grade crossing improvements, similar to the FAST Corridor Partnership approach, it will get the attention of the rail roads. III. Public Comment Councilmember Peloza reported on his attendance to Regional Access Mobility Partnership (RAMP) meeting on May 7. He said he presented the SCATBd priorities brochure, and discussed the possibility of a joint SCATBd /RAlVIP meeting in near future. Will Knedlik representing Eastside Transit Riders United commented on the need to resolve the subarea equity issue and for Metro to get its costs under control. Todd Woosley representing the Eastside Transportation Association said Prop 1 failed because voters understood that Metro needs to get its costs under control. He also said there needs to be subarea equity in transit service and fair box recovery needs to be addressed. Vic Bishop representing ETA also commented on transit service subarea equity, and said south King County area was paying more in transit supporting taxes and not getting back its fair share in transit service. IV. Post - Election King County Transportation Impacts, King County Metro /Roads Division Chris Wiezerbiki, King County Roads Services Deputy Director and Marty Minkoff, Metro Service Planning Supervisor, reported on the service impacts resulting from voters not approving Proposition One in King County. King County's Road Services Division (RSD) maintains over 1,500 road miles and 181 bridges in unincorporated King County. Forty percent of the funding in Proposition 1 would have provided $51 million in local transportation funding for all cities in King County, including more than $6.4 million for unincorporated King County. The majority of RSD's funding pays for regulatory required and safety programs, with little left for maintenance and preservation. With declining revenue in the unincorporated area, RSD has less capacity to preserve roadways, reducing road overlays annually from 44 miles in 2009, to 2.5 miles expected in 2016. In 2014, serious storm events caused more unplanned failures than RSD budgeted for, totaling $7.1 million when RSD budgeted for $2.5 million. 56 King County Metro Transit's proposed service reductions are guided by Metro's Service Guidelines, which measure productivity and performance, connections to regional growth centers, manufacturing - industrial centers and transit activity centers, and consider impacts to historically disadvantaged. Target ridership levels are set by considering ridership, locations served, and the number of low- income or minority riders. Service reductions will total approximately 550,000 hours over four service changes starting in September 2014. The first reduction will be all Priority 1 service, consisting of routes in the bottom 25 percent of performances that duplicate other routes. The next reductions in February 2015 and June 2015 will be Priority 2 service reductions, which require changing multiple routes, including highest used routes in an area to use fewer service hours by providing buses in fewer route patterns. The last service change in September 2015 will be a mix of Priority 3 service reductions, which consists of routes in the lowest 25 percent performance and already are below target service levels, and some additional Priority 2 service reductions SCATBd Action: Board members approved the drafting of two letters, on to the King County Executive regarding the regarding the proposed transit service reductions unfairly impacting the South King County area, and a letter to the Governor asking his office to coordinate an oil train accident response plan and local hazmat training in order to address the safety of our residents. Other Attendees: Johan Hellman, BNSF Marty Minkoff, King County Chris Wierzbicki, King County Doug Johnson, King County Monica Whitman, Kent Tom Gut, SeaTac Will Knedlik Todd Woosley, ETA Vic Bishop, ETA Paul Takamine, King County Rick Perez, Federal Way Evette Mason, Port of Tacoma Jason Brown, Councilmember Reagan Dunn's Office Andrew Merges, Des Moines Tamie Deady, Black Diamond 57 SOUTH COUNTY AREA TRANSPORTATION BOARD (SCATBd) MEETING Tuesday, June 17, 2014 9:00 — 11:00 a.m. SeaTac City Hall 4800 South 188th Street SeaTac Agenda 1. Open Meeting • Introductions • Approve summary of May 20, 2014 SCATBd Meeting (Attachment A) Action 9:00 a.m. 2 Reports, Communications and Citizen Requests to Comment • Chair or Vice Chair • Participant Updates from RTC and Other Regional Committees • Public Comment Reports and Discussion 9:05 a.m. 3. SR 167 HOT Lane Briefing — Craig Stone, WSDOT Report and Discussion 9:20 a.m. 4. Transportation Futures — Charlie Howard, PSRC Report and Discussion 9:40 a.m. 5. PSRC Regional Centers Monitoring Report - Liz Underwood - Bultmann, PSRC Report and Discussion 10:00 a.m. 6. Sound Transit Long Range Plan Update — Chelsea Levy and Karen Waterman, Sound Transit Report and Discussion 10:30 a.m. 7. • July 15, 2014 Treats — Enumclaw • For the Good of the Order • Adjourn 58