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Passengers on a u. S. Air flight from philadelphia had to evacuate the plane after the front wheel collapsed during take off. U. S. Air flight 1702 was headed to texas and airport spokes woman said there are no reports of injuries. This selfie was posted to twitter who said she was a passengers on board the plane. You can see the aircraft nose down. Again, a u. S. Air passenger jet had to aport a take off abort a take off. All of the passengers and crews safely evacuated from the plane. New deve...

I believe, director brinkman, youre referring to option 3. Yes. The benefits of option 3, it does allow the construction of 3,000 feet of critical thank youerctionv that could make the possibility of an extension be real. Right. The downside of option 3 is that in order to accommodate for north beach station, you would the likelihood would be that you would have to remove these machines, which would be from a difficult operation in the future. Were currently looking at, though, to look at ways o...

That would be difficult and disruptive to remove at a later date. This option would also complicate a future extension of the line and or station. And abandoning the tbms in the ground object columbus would require the sfmta to compensate the contractor for the loss of resale value to machines, removing the tbm trailing gear, and also could cause some potential schedule delays to the existing tunnel contract and station work. Option 4 is removing the tunnel blowing machines at 17 31 powell stree...

We have written a joint letter that id like to read to you today in support of option 4. The Chinatown Community Development Center is a proud longtime supporter of the central subway. With the north beach business association, we endorse the concept of an extension to north beach and Fishermans Wharf. We support director reiskins proposal to study extraction of the tunnel Boring Machine at the pagoda theater with an alternative of behring the tbm under columbus avenue. We also support the mtas ...

Real. Right. The downside of option 3 is that in order to accommodate for north beach station, you would the likelihood would be that you would have to remove these machines, which would be from a difficult operation in the future. Were currently looking at, though, to look at ways of perhaps diverting the machines, kind of off the path so that would either minimize or, you know, prevent the need to remove these machines. And normally when you use a tunnel Boring Machine at the end of the projec...

Thank you. [speaker not understood]. Stephen taylor, [speaker not understood]. Good evening. My name is stephen tabor. Central task force, im also the transportation chair for russian hill neighbors. Youll be hearing from russian hill neighbor president so i will confine my remarks to spur. Spur has supported this project vigorously since its inception. We have supported the four corridors plan which is based on this project, encompasses two of the four corridors. Our major criticism against thi...

To take the equipment out of the center of columbus occur. I would like to endorse what mr. Reiskin, the director of the mta suggested was the possibility at the beginning of todays meeting. That is that you accept the return here if option 4 and option 3 are not possible, that they would ask the mta to come back here to the board with or without Public Comment but certainly just to listen for all of us in public to know why option 4 and option 3 are not possible. And i commend mr. Reiskin and d...

[speaker not understood]. It says it would be encased in concrete and it would be more difficult to continue the tunnel along if we were to continue to north beach or Fishermans Wharf in the future. Is that correct . I believe, director brinkman, youre referring to option 3. Yes. The benefits of option 3, it does allow the construction of 3,000 feet of critical thank youerctionv that could make the possibility of an extension be real. Right. The downside of option 3 is that in order to accommoda...

So, thank you very much. You make your decision better than the one they do. Next speaker, please. Kathleen dody, maria [speaker not understood], and [speaker not understood]. Good afternoon. Hi, kathleen dooley. Im here speaking today as a representative from the north Beach Business Association and chinatown cdc. We have written a joint letter that id like to read to you today in support of option 4. The Chinatown Community Development Center is a proud longtime supporter of the central subway...

Stephen taylor, [speaker not understood]. Good evening. My name is stephen tabor. Central task force, im also the transportation chair for russian hill neighbors. Youll be hearing from russian hill neighbor president so i will confine my remarks to spur. Spur has supported this project vigorously since its inception. We have supported the four corridors plan which is based on this project, encompasses two of the four corridors. Our major criticism against this project that we have had for some t...