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Our smart phones with the potential to make our lives easier in the palm of our hands, but could there be potential downsides like overreliance for example . We will hear from a professor and authors that has reservations about the Smart Devices and the programs out there. If you are looking for fun things this weekend, we have ideas from dog surfing to celebrating a bay area music legend all happening for free. We will talk to the curator of that list. We will start with the latest Health Headl...

Purpose people use muni for. The slide represent the primary use of muni. We tried for one response. No surprise, commute to work or workrelated business represents over half of the type of trips people take as primary usage. But people use it for a variety of reasons. We spoke to multiple respondents. We asked how you usually pay your muni fare. We broke it more than we had in past years. In the past we just had clipper as one groupings. In 2017 we broke it out between the pass and monthly pass...

We asked how you usually pay your muni fare. We broke it more than we had in past years. In the past we just had clipper as one groupings. In 2017 we broke it out between the pass and monthly pass. Adding those two you have 56 . One thing to call on the slide is cash at 27 . When you compare that sto 2016 its down slightly. It was at 29 last year. 27 . Not a big difference there in terms of the different types of fare payment as well as the rest of the options there. We also asked among riders w...

Of muni everyday riders and people who dont use it as frequently. But everybody used it at least once in the past six months. Here again youll have multiple purpose people use muni for. The slide represent the primary use of muni. We tried for one response. No surprise, commute to work or workrelated business represents over half of the type of trips people take as primary usage. But people use it for a variety of reasons. We spoke to multiple respondents. We asked how you usually pay your muni ...

Respondents. We asked how you usually pay your muni fare. We broke it more than we had in past years. In the past we just had clipper as one groupings. In 2017 we broke it out between the pass and monthly pass. Adding those two you have 56 . One thing to call on the slide is cash at 27 . When you compare that sto 2016 its down slightly. It was at 29 last year. 27 . Not a big difference there in terms of the different types of fare payment as well as the rest of the options there. We also asked a...

The ride hailing is up is an increase from 2015. When asked whats the main reason you would use uber or lyft rather than muni. One is really the top three have to do with speed and direct service. Those are the key reasons far and away. Its fast and goes direct to my destination. I dont want to wait. Doortodoor services and theres others but in terms of the top ones they have to do with that theme. The last slide was an asked of a different group. This represents those who havent used it in the ...

Relatively highly but not at the same level. Disability or condition impacting travel. The individuals who indicated that theyre pretty close to pretty on par with your regular users. Theyre at 73 versus 70 excellent or good. 10 poor versus 8 for regular users. Continuing this is still the same question broken out by income level. I tink the interest on this particular one is very clearly if you look at those whose income is less than 75,000 theyre more satisfied. You go over 75,000, theyre not ...

High speed rail aid ran new Education Centre designed to help close and engineering skills gap. I will talk to some of the students a little later. In sport, scotland say goodbye to their hopes of playing in next years world cup in russia. They needed a win in slovenia to guarantee a place in the playoffs, but could only manage a 2 all draw. That result for scotland means Northern Ireland are through to the play offs, despite losing to norway in oslo. What do you think is your better film . Godf...

Of trading, lets go to the close of trading where julie hyman has more. People are awaiting centralbank action, or inaction, as the case may be this week. Not Much Movement in stocks. On an intraday basis, we had a bigger pullback earlier this morning but then stocks have been bumping along in this range. If you feel that, look under the hood, you will see there is a lot of individual stock movement. It just has not been translating into much direction on the macro level. But of course it is ear...

Today after forecasting a 6 to 12 drop in earnings in fiscal 2017. The question is how much of a warning sign is it for other retailers and what is it telling us about the economy . Thats not the only story today. Its not just about equities. Take a look at the tenyear yield. The beige book came out an hour ago and the markets really didnt like it in terms of the growth stories, so were back below 2 on the tenyear. The dollar index is now at a sevenweek low. The euro has moved to a sevenweek hig...