2014, and we also have done the survey result and we have good things to share about that and we ask some questions, specific about jefferson street, and some questions that we have asked throughout the years to see how the people think about the wharf and gauge it what we have seen the down trend of the neglective comments and the respondents were asked an open question and do you dislike most about the wharf, the number one response is that there is nothing. And so i love that and so the issues are regarding the public realm that shows the wharfs improvement, and the answer is too crowded and lack of seating appeared in all three surveys but the numbers have decreased as you can see in 2006 it went from 25 and up in 2010 and now at 15 percent and the people that answered and lack of seating and they dont like it decreased 3 to 1 percent and when one of the goals was to create an atmosphere that stays at the wharf and those staying one hour less been on the decline in 2006, eleven per
Occupancy rate in 2014 was 97 and expected to be 94 in 2015. Pier 39 conducted Visitor Research every two 2 years and the most recent Research Conducted in 2014. You can see the most recent findings here. Interestingly the port of visitors have been great. The percentage of the visitors using the internet has increasedover the last 5 years. The mode of arrival has varied over time with automobile use ranging from 33 and 50 of visitors. 96 of customers were satisfied or very satisfied with their visit to pier 39. Pier 39 operates with the bay and continues to grow. Pier 39 holds dozens of events and with complete week in october and Tree Lighting in november. These events bring an additional half million visitors each year. Pier 39 recognizes the unique asset to control and manage and committed to keeping the property fresh and first time visitors and the others are repeat visitors and creating an enticing environment. Pier 39 began its program for its operating expenses. Weve eliminate
To jefferson street and also the expansion of tail lor street and the pier 43 promenade where a lot of seating was added. Something else that exciting to see that in 14, 15, 121 million, by private businesses and there is one on here, no, i remove this sorry, but the wax Museum Building and the pirepresentative, and the hotel and all of these businesses have been putting a lot of money in, considering 14, 15, 121 Million Dollars is more than the years of 2013, 12, and 11 combined and so this is a trickling of a Capitol Improvements being put in by private businesses in the wharf and the visitors reactions have been good as well when asked what they thought about the changes and three fourths of the visitors approved or strongly approved of the changes and only less than 2 percent dressed any degree of disapproval of what has been done and phase one of a redesigned jefferson street in june of 2013, and two years since this completion and we see these numbers and these survey results to
And this week on the communicators we talk to members of congress about the legislation they are proposing. First up senator al franken. Senator senator al franken, you hailed a failure of the comcasttime warner merger as a win for consumers. Why . Guest because i firmly believe if comcast were allowed to buy time warner they would have been to go big anticompetitive, led to higher prices for consumers, less choice and if it is even possible they would surface. Host is it because of the size . Guest the size and parts of different markets. They have 30 of cable between them and 57 of internet broadband, highspeed internet broadband, that is just too big. I had a lot of content providers, networks come to me and say they were opposed to this deal but this gives you some idea of what happens when you get this big, they were afraid to say so to be public because they feared retrobution. Host did comcast come to you and try to influence your opinion guest they did not. I have been against
We have a vote on the floor which should be over in the next ten minutes. I will talk a little bit and tell you what i want you to know. I will start with testimony from sloan gibson. Make the note that his staff said that was okay. I want to take extra time because this is an important hearing. Last year culminating with the passage of the veterans choice bill problems in raleigh, denver come orlando and answers that were in completed for understandable reasons. Just left about a year early. Gone as well. There was a transition. There is no excuse for the plethora of problems, and the transition should have been much better, but was not. Va demonstrated that they were finally listening. All i was hearing was nothing but stonewall until finally sloan walked into the hearing, pulled out a new rule to make the number of miles driven which i think everyone in this committee appreciates and agrees with. I believe we are satisfactorily working toward the care you need. It will happen in the