Signal maintenance crew. Thank you for outstanding work on these two vital projects. Director heinicke. Sure. I will say a special thank you. This has been as you know, terry and young, its nice to see you. Something of particular interest to me. And i think it would be remiss if i didnt note particular interest to director beach who i suspect is smiling for a brief moment and then will continue yelling at you guys. [laughter] so, on that note i will say this is a very tangible and significant thing. The speed and the curve is significant. When you multiply the number of people that go through the curve, by the time lost because of that track wear, youre talking about very significant losses and people capital to the city. And, you know, taking away from people spending time with their families and other important things. So, cheryl bringtionctionv man and i have a chance to walk the tracks with you during the project. You stayed up late, even gave me a ride home which i appreciated. A
Lead and you know the list, like a quarter of the periodic table. Reporter the push to get one company to cleanup its act after contaminating 70 miles of a river. Good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America, im stephanie sy, russias military making an aggression move in effort to take over crimea. The troops seized three Ukrainian Navy vessel in sevastopol and quickly changed the flag over the flag to russia colors and president obama is warning russia not to go further ni in, ukraine and they have close ties to russian president putin and he signs an agreement for closer ties with the eu and we have Team Coverage this morning and phil is in kiev but lets begin with Jennifer Glasse in sevastopol where the navy ships were seizeed and you have been following the take over of the vessel and what do we know at this point . Reporter well, you know, we noticed a lot of activity with ukraine navy yesterday, activity with the ships and blocked in the port for nearly three weeks but that is
Project done. So, i appreciate all of them, all your crew and all of the signal maintenance crew. Thank you for outstanding work on these two vital projects. Director heinicke. Sure. I will say a special thank you. This has been as you know, terry and young, its nice to see you. Something of particular interest to me. And i think it would be remiss if i didnt note particular interest to director beach who i suspect is smiling for a brief moment and then will continue yelling at you guys. [laughter] so, on that note i will say this is a very tangible and significant thing. The speed and the curve is significant. When you multiply the number of people that go through the curve, by the time lost because of that track wear, youre talking about very significant losses and people capital to the city. And, you know, taking away from people spending time with their families and other important things. So, cheryl bringtionctionv man and i have a chance to walk the tracks with you during the pro
Everyone else is sleeping, theyre the ones out fixing the problems and getting the project done. So, i appreciate all of them, all your crew and all of the signal maintenance crew. Thank you for outstanding work on these two vital projects. Director heinicke. Sure. I will say a special thank you. This has been as you know, terry and young, its nice to see you. Something of particular interest to me. And i think it would be remiss if i didnt note particular interest to director beach who i suspect is smiling for a brief moment and then will continue yelling at you guys. [laughter] so, on that note i will say this is a very tangible and significant thing. The speed and the curve is significant. When you multiply the number of people that go through the curve, by the time lost because of that track wear, youre talking about very significant losses and people capital to the city. And, you know, taking away from people spending time with their families and other important things. So, cheryl
Been with the agency for 13 years. And were really recognizing them for two specific projects, one of which director heinicke is well familiar with, the eureka curve track replacement project which was replacing the track that you heard updates on often at the directors request over the course of the project. Very significant in terms of the basic service of the muni Metro Service through the tunnels and that the track had gotten worn to the point where we couldnt run. It was not safe for us to run the trains at full speed. And the diminished speed diminished the level of service we were able to provide. After the rest of us went to sleep every night over the course of many, many months, young and his crews went in and worked very efficiently, very costeffectively to systematically replace those rails to put that part of the system into a good state of repair to raise the speeds. Its painful when youre on those trains coming leaving forest hills and you suffer through that agonizing sl