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Right now and hope to make an award later this summer in terms of who to get our lrvs under contract and as we talked about before weve tried to learn a lot of lessons from the purchase of the cars 15 years ago. Who are the manufacturers of that submitted bids . Have those bids come in yet . The bids are here and being evaluated. We have two responsive bids from two firms. One is a firm called caf and a spanish firm and the other one is semens. Both make a lot of vehicles all over the world incl...

Microphone interference, so the board respectfully place that theyll placed in the off position. Item 4, approval of the minutes. The the march 4th. Motion to approve. Second. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Thank you. Item 5, communications. Members of the board, with your consent i like to rearrange the agenda. And well go to the directors report and then Public Comment. Members okay with that. Okay. Please be advised that there will be no discussion of labor negotiation anticipate litigati...

Priority needs that helps to answer the mayors call of addressing the concerns about sunday parking in prairie the high rate of citations and those have a high revenue impact but given the strength of the mayors resolve and the concerns from the community that pursuing one of the options would be a good faith gesture while preserving the meter. I made reference to that with discussions about Market Street and the evening rush hours generally using the beneficiary marks to which is one of the rea...

Theyre working and i think you can tell for anyone that actually rides the buses its working well, so i think its terrific. And again same approach and because of were under contract to buy new trolley coaches the first will be here we expect in january of 2015, and the first ones will be 60foot and go on critical lines like the mission and on the Mission Corridor, and in the meantime were going through the fleet and continuing to focus on components that are failing, and taking care of them. Ag...

Efficiently move the trains in the existing space and i think having some kind of an advanced, if you will im not talking about star wars kind of thing. Its simple signal system that both identifies trains and moves them. Allows us to place them in cross overs so you could bring three trains in at the same time and run them down typically against the current of traffic, those kinds of things. I think that will make a difference. What were also doing and its back to page four as i mentioned this ...

Areas. Bicycle has gone up over the five year period given our interest of improving those areas and traffic areas are showing large increases. So this is a new slide as well. So this is slide 27. So on safe and complete streets program, if you remember is a combination of a variety of our programs which is bicycle, traffic, our school program, access ability and traffic signals. Were projecting to spend 275 million over the five years gip and 1. 9 billion on reality and transportation sub group...

We believe is required in terms of infrastructure and well be proposed some new Revenue Sources to fund a portion of that gap. So the three recommendations that will be brought forward from the task force is to invest in programs with the greatest impact to first maintain the current Transportation System which we found in great disrepair and enhance the system and sfand expand the city system to meet new growth and also set to pursue three new Revenue Services combined to address that significa...

Deny it and tell them to go back and do it right. Thank you. Next speaker. Commissioners joe. Were here because again backing up what owen said i live in the strict sea contrary to what the speaker representing, you know, muni has stated deborah the outreach has been worse than awful and it was like a gentleman said it will put a draft up the body of a dead man in his casket and thats what its done its impacting our neighborhood we just tloefrd this a week ago we didnt know that the Public Comme...

But effectively there will be enforcement between 4 and 6 00 p. M. To get the turnover that comes from time limits. The third option which is what id like to recommend is that we significantly redeploy our resources away from the sunday improvement we have higher pressing responsibilities than traffic improvement not change the requirements but really just focus our resources on high priority needs that helps to answer the mayors call of addressing the concerns about sunday parking in prairie th...

And move them with some cross over strategically placed. In other words, i think one of the things to add capacity there are two ways. One is add more vehicles. The other is more efficiently move the trains in the existing space and i think having some kind of an advanced, if you will im not talking about star wars kind of thing. Its simple signal system that both identifies trains and moves them. Allows us to place them in cross overs so you could bring three trains in at the same time and run ...