GLOSSARY OF TERMS
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| AC&C | Animal Care and Control, located at 15th and Treat |
| ADA | Americans with Disabilities Act |
| APN | Assessor's Parcel Number |
| Arterial | A major motor vehicle through route |
| BAAQMD | Bay Area Air Quality Management District |
| BART | Bay Area Rapid Transit — San Francisco Bay Area Transit service |
| BID | Business Improvement District; collects fees from local businesses for street enhancements, improvements, and maintenance |
| Bike route | A street or pathway designated by a city or county for use by bicycles. |
| Bikestation | A valet parking facility for bicycles, often located at transit terminals, often provides other services such as bike rental, repair, information, and refreshments |
| Bikeway | A bike path, lane, or route designed for use by bicycles |
| Bollard | A barrier post, usually 30 to 42 inches in height, used to inhibit vehicular traffic |
| Bollard (automatically retractable) | An electronic bollard that recedes into the ground, either on a fixed schedule or by remote control, frequently used in European central cities |
| Bulb-out | Another term for curb extension; a section of sidewalk at an intersection or mid block crossing that reduces crossing width for pedestrians and can help slow traffic |
| CAD | Computer aided design |
| Caltrain | Commuter rail between Gilroy and San Francisco along the Peninsula |
| Caltrans | California Department of Transportation |
| Catellus | Private corporation responsible for redevelopment of Mission Bay |
| CCC | California Conservation Corps |
| CEQA | California Environmental Quality Act |
| Class I | Exclusive non motorized pathway, usually used by both bicyclists and pedestrians |
| Class II | On street bike lanes |
| Class III | Bike route, usually slow speed neighborhood street, no specific design features |
| CMAQ | Congestion Mitigation Air Quality (federal grant program) |
| Curb cut | A ramp to allow wheeled vehicles access between street and sidewalk |
| Designated (signal) phase | A signal phase with no conflicting traffic, i.e. no right or left turns across a given path |
| DPT | San Francisco Department of Parking and Traffic |
| DPW | San Francisco Department of Public Works |
| EB | Eastbound |
| EIR | Environmental Impact Report |
| F Line | Historic MUNI streetcar line, runs from the Castro District to Fisherman's Wharf |
| Greenbelt | Protected natural or restored lands that provide a continuous corridor through or around urbanized areas |
| Greenway | A linear open space established along a corridor, such as a river, railroad, ridgeline, or other route for conservation, recreation, and transportation |
| HHP&L | Hetch Hetchy Power and Light, part of SF Public Utilities Commission |
| ISTEA | Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act, federal transportation bill authorized in 1991, predecessor to TEA21 |
| LOS | Level of Service; a measurement of the delay to motor vehicles at a given intersection; does not consider safety or convenience for bicyclists, pedestrians or transit riders; measured on scale from A to F |
| MBCAC | Mission Bay Citizen's Advisory Committee |
| MCB | Mission Creek Bikeway |
| MTC | Metropolitan Transportation Commission, responsible for transportation planning and distribution of federal transportation funds to the nine county San Francisco Bay Area |
| MUNI | San Francisco Municipal Railway (includes bus system as well). |
| NEMBA | Northeast Mission Business Association |
| Ohlone | The Native Americans who inhabited the San Francisco Bay Area before European Colonization; also referred to as Costanoan |
| Pedestrian style (left turn) | A bicycle maneuver intended to avoid merging left for a turn, esp. in heavy traffic; involves riding across an intersection, waiting at the crosswalk, and crossing with pedestrians, on or off one's bicycle |
| Pocket (left or right turn) | A short lane intended to separate vehicles making turns from those proceeding straight through an intersection |
| Pocket parks | A small park, often implemented on corners or other under utilized areas |
| PUC | Public Utilities Commission, responsible for approval of at-grade crossings of railroads among other things |
| RTC | Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, a national organization based in DC with over 100,000 members with an office in San Francisco; see http://www.railtrails.org |
| RTP | Recreational Trails Program, a subset of TEA-21 |
| SFBAC | San Francisco Bicycle Advisory Committee |
| SFBC | San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, with over 3,400 members, works to promote better bicycle facilities in San Francisco and greater numbers of people riding |
| SLUG | San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners |
| SOEX | Southern Exposure Gallery at Project Artaud in the Northeast Mission |
| SOMA | South of Market Area of San Francisco |
| SP | Southern Pacific Railroad Company, merged with Union Pacific in 1996 |
| SPCA | Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, located at Alabama and 16th St. |
| SPUR | San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association |
| TDA article 3 | Transportation Development Act funds intended for bicycle/ pedestrian projects, originates from state gas taxes and distributed based on population |
| TEA-21 | The Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century |
| TEA | Transportation Enhancement Activities, a funding program within TEA-21; see http://www.enhancements.org/ |
| TLC | Transportation for Livable Communities; a planning and capital program administered by the MTC using TEA funds to enhance the transit/ bike/ ped experience |
| Traffic calming | Techniques used to slow motor vehicle traffic, can include bulb-outs, chicanes, speed bumps, street parties, banners, statues, or other strategies to capture a driver's interest |
| UCSF | University of California San Francisco; the medical arm of the UC system; new campus is being developed at Mission Bay |
| Vacation (street) | The abandonment of a public thoroughfare for sale, trade, or development; must be approved by Board of Supervisors |
| WB | Westbound |
| Zebra style (crosswalk) | A crosswalk striping design, also called "ladder style" with parallel stripes, considered the most visible marking to drivers |