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Three categories and developing recommendations for the board consideration. This shows you bart key capitol priorities and our general outline is what we called the big three, and the state of good repair, the capacity, or the Stations Program and expansion, and so going back to the big three for a second and a year ago the board defined the new fleet, hayward maintenance complex and the system as the First Priority and we have substantial priorities for the three projects. We have the number o...

These issues that the staff have raised i just want to highlight a couple of things. The bart investment particularly the rather exseeulting ones about the new tube and the extensions we looked at those in a high level in the San Francisco Transportation Plan and just to answer your questions, commissioner mar, on a place holder basis we set about 10 billion of vin vest sxment that could be off by orders of ten of 20 percent perhaps and we just wanted to put something on the table. In addition a...

Part of china town, with a lot of affordable and low Income Housing and the impact on the neighbors when the bart station goes in will be of interest to me as well. Thank you. So, we intend to report to the board on the recommendations for the projects to advance for the further review and that completes my presentation and i am happy to answer any questions. So, i dont see any from my colleagues, so the director has the comments. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you, and thank you so much ...

Perspective it felt like there was procastination until we realized that agencies would be going out for vehicle procurement. Were actually hitting a crux at this point, where we have to make a decision on platform compatibilities. That we cant just have kind of parallel conversations happening in terms of what is best for each agency . And then rfps go out and we realized that we have procured two different types of vehicles that doesnt allow for the greatest flexibility moving into the future....

So you kind of brought up a number of different concepts there is system a customization issue, but you are saying at least that type of train has been built before . There is one set that i know of that is used on the east coast. It is not something that is common, that is available, and that is another thing that were trying to make sure that we dont wind up with only one manufacturer, that with provide the vehicle. Right. There is still a level of customization required even at 25, because i ...

Know, given the trajectory that you have been on that makes a lot of sense after two years of Service Within the agency. And i think that will kind of a consensus on the commission as well. So, what i would like to see with the motion to approve item number 3. And i guess, what will the motion be on item four . Okay. And so item four will be to maintain the current step. And item three will be to approve the over all rating of, you know, exceptionally good, and we have in the record as well. Our...

There is system a customization issue, but you are saying at least that type of train has been built before . There is one set that i know of that is used on the east coast. It is not something that is common, that is available, and that is another thing that were trying to make sure that we dont wind up with only one manufacturer, that with provide the vehicle. Right. There is still a level of customization required even at 25, because i know that is one of the issues that caltrain had with goi...

Were familiar with the acronyms, but if you could decipher some of those on the slides. Uprr. What else is on the slide . Hsr is highspeed rail. Is that the only one . California Public Utilities commission is cpuc and americans with disabilities act, ada. A followup why the compatibility discussion is happening right now . Why is the no, it happening now . Why its only happening now . The conversation as i understand it until about four or five months ago was to have the differential heights an...

Item number 9 was an additional appropriation of money to study, on the brt. And so, the project, and we again, were unanimous and of the dollars, 2009 million of that is still outstanding and in other words, they dont have any kind of a commitment for that yet and we understand that it is the early days in the project and it is a couple of years away and even at that, we think that there is something that they are watching and additionally we have an informational item that included an up date ...

Additional appropriation of money to study, on the brt. And so, the project, and we again, were unanimous and of the dollars, 2009 million of that is still outstanding and in other words, they dont have any kind of a commitment for that yet and we understand that it is the early days in the project and it is a couple of years away and even at that, we think that there is something that they are watching and additionally we have an informational item that included an up date on the cal train elec...