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Passenjures are on those systems for less time than cal trains. For ace it is a Commuter Rail system and it more so cal train is in the middle for what the riders experience and how long on the system, but when we look at the future for lect fiication we have to keep in mind will the system look more like bart and muni and [inaudible] or ace and capital cor dor. We have to balance that and understand the needs of the riders using our system. Our riders have told us a lot about their capacity, wa...

The morning youre going to be project solving and seeing the project go to me thats fun, i like coming to president director nolan. Present. Vice president brinkman. Present. Director borden. Present. Please be noted that director heinicke is cant join us today. Announcement of sound producing devices. [gavel] ladies and gentlemen, please, please. Cell phones set on vibrate and call interference and the board ask theyre off. Item 4 is approval of the minutes. Is there a motion and a second. Seco...

Waiting for the folks in the building to crunch the numbers and let us know what that impact will be so thats how we came out of the election and i am sure there will be more discussion as we go further down the road and we learn more about the final results as well as what changes will come as a result of what the voters did last tuesday. I wanted to just to note that i am sure that nobody has missed it at this point but we started the first stage of construction along van ness this past weeken...

The record for 12. Okay. No other comments. Ms. Boomer next item. Citizens Advisory Council report. Chairman nolan i dont see the cac chair here actually and due to fire codes gentlemen i need you to find a seat please so there will be no report. Okay. Item Public Comment. This is the opportunity for the Public Comment to address matters within the jurisdiction of the sfmta and not on todays agenda. We do have several members of the public who have indicated their interest in speaking with you o...

Agenda. We do have several members of the public who have indicated their interest in speaking with you on matters not on todays agenda starting with eileen boaken. Good afternoon. Okay. [inaudible] okay. I will explain to you. I am a terraval neighbor. The California Traffic Control Devices Committee will be meeting in several weeks. Mike sal bury of mta is a Voting Member on the committee. At its march 3, 2016 meeting the committee was presented with a request for experimentation which involve...

President director nolan. Present. Vice president brinkman. Present. Director borden. Present. Please be noted that director heinicke is cant join us today. Announcement of sound producing devices. [gavel] ladies and gentlemen, please, please. Cell phones set on vibrate and call interference and the board ask theyre off. Item 4 is approval of the minutes. Is there a motion and a second. Second. Okay. Is there Public Comment. I guess there s good afternoon. Good afternoon. I am the executive dire...

Garner today. Stubs constitute the y for the i on that. Thank you for clarifying. One of the things were watching we had his in the lower 90s. Its temporary decrees. By midweek, we may be back up around 90. Well track that out for you in the 7day forecast in about 15 minutes. Temperatures ranging from low 60s to around 70 across the north. 62 henderson, here at the station in raleigh, 69 with 70 degrees at durham and chapel hill. Moving to the south a little more, 73 for irwin, same thing for cl...

Was good this week on the communicators a discussion about the guidelines and rules proposed for self driving cars. Our guest, Mark Rosekind who is the administrator of the national highway Transportation Safety administration. Doctors rosekind what should the public right now know about self driving cars . Guest they are here. The question not even a year ago , six months when are they going to right . They are here and they are on the roads. Really all of us need to focus on how do we make sur...

It includes certification, connectivity, safety, and then they are offshore by regulation and also by advancement. If i look at theres mainly three years, one is commission engines and one is electric vehicles, the next one is fuel cells. We see many improvements and right now with all the low friction advanced cooling and others we have bringing you efficiency and provement by 35 to 50 reduction in fuel efficiency. Roughly at a cost of 2000 or 2500 per car. This is why we see today a landscape ...

And preferences, how should the federal government handle, or should they had all in promoting fuel and efficiency related that inadvertently or not may push in the direction that perhaps does put us in a situation where we are picking winners and losers. So the short answer is, our members prefer an approach that is Technology Neutral. So that the short answer. The longer answer is more complicated. We identify with the goal of reducing carbon. We identify with the goal of reducing fuel depende...