We have quorum. Commissioner stephanie and vice chair melgar asked to be excused and unless there are objections i will grant that request. I also think your have a Public Comment announcement. Members interested in participate this meeting we welcome your attendance in city hall. For those wishing to make Public Comment the best way is call 4156550001. Enter access code 26608075143. Press pound and pound again. You will be able to listen to the meeting in real time. When Public Comment is called for the item you wish to speak press star 3. Do not press star 3 or you will be removed from the queue. The live operator will advines you can speak. When your two minutes are up well move to the next caller. Calls are taken in the order received. Speak slowly, clearly and turn down the volume of televisions or radios. Public comment will be taken from members in attendance and after the telephone line. I like to welcome commissioner chan to the meeting. That concludes my announcements. Thank
[background noises] [background noises] [background noises] called the committee on transportation and the structure to order. I would ask an ms consent the chairman be authorized to declare a racist at any time during todays hearing. Without objection that is so ordered. As a reminder if went to answer the document to the record please also email it documents mail house. Go if you need that repeated talk to staff that got that. I would not recognize myself for the purposes of an Opening Statement. I want to think secretary buttigieg for being here today. We certainly have a lot to discuss. Thank you very much for coming in. As we near the two year mark since passing Infrastructure Investment and jobs act, my focus remains on oversight and the funding and ensuring buttons implement efficiently, effectively heres the letter of the law. Due to persistently high inflation americans continue to struggle to pay for food and clothing and gasoline. With her hard earned dollars. Companies in t
Her head. That would be ideal that is similar to the london mobility congestion plan. When the pricing went into place they had invested in Public Transit options. That is for people who did not want to pay the fee there was an option on day one available to them. In the plan study i was shown yesterday, it is not a tippuous express continuous expression lane going north until the end where there is congestion on the 280. The hov lane is focused on southbound in the p. M. Hours. You know, i know thi this is thn the study place. I would like to see the outcomes. Yesterday it asked about the hov lane. That would have a tremendous negative impact on the 101 for the traffic coming south of San Francisco and an that is why it is not stud died. I dont know if that is the concern you expressed and that is why we are not moving forward with that. I very many interested in the outcomes. We want to see less vehicles coming downtown and more people using alternatives. I am struck by a fact the ca
Through the chair, we are monitoring the traffic flow carefully that we didden game significantly with our open traffic engineers as well as caltrans in identifying and approving the road configurations and communication plan, signs for them. As needs if we need resources such a pco or Police Officer at any particular location that is something we will moptor and put monitor and put in place. I am not aware of plans to do so. If there are areas that you see are concerning we would welcome that feedback. Would you explain how you monitor and make decisions around those kinds of issues for this particular project . The decisions around those issues we have a group of folks within our Traffic Engineering group that focus exclusively on these changes that relate to construction. They will analyze what the contractor is proposing. They informed development of the specs and they review the Traffic Management plans the contractors submit. There is a lot of it involved because we need to make
Debate that. You know, weve had the for 52 Consecutive Years and this is going to be the 5rd consecutive 53rd Consecutive Year weve been able to pass it. But it seems each year its always hard to do. Because at the last minute, there are always other people that want to get things in the bill that were not there. But you have to keep in mind, and i want to say in defense to the bigfour approach to this, we came down we passed this bill. We passed it out of the Senate Armed Services committee on may the 23rd. And weve been wanting to get it on the floor since may the 23rd. Senator levin and i have come down countless times and begged our colleagues on the democrat side and the republican side to get their amendments down so we can consider their amendments. And we had a lot of amendments that did come down. And of the amendments that came down, im very proud to say that we incorporated almost all of those, 47 of those amendments are a part of this bill. So its not as if the amendments w