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I believe, director brinkman, youre referring to option 3. Yes. The benefits of option 3, it does allow the construction of 3,000 feet of critical thank youerctionv that could make the possibility of an extension be real. Right. The downside of option 3 is that in order to accommodate for north beach station, you would the likelihood would be that you would have to remove these machines, which would be from a difficult operation in the future. Were currently looking at, though, to look at ways of perhaps diverting the machines, kind of off the path so that would either minimize or, you know, p...

That would be difficult and disruptive to remove at a later date. This option would also complicate a future extension of the line and or station. And abandoning the tbms in the ground object columbus would require the sfmta to compensate the contractor for the loss of resale value to machines, removing the tbm trailing gear, and also could cause some potential schedule delays to the existing tunnel contract and station work. Option 4 is removing the tunnel blowing machines at 17 31 powell street, commonly known as pagoda palace. This would require additional study. The property is a former ci...

We have written a joint letter that id like to read to you today in support of option 4. The Chinatown Community Development Center is a proud longtime supporter of the central subway. With the north beach business association, we endorse the concept of an extension to north beach and Fishermans Wharf. We support director reiskins proposal to study extraction of the tunnel Boring Machine at the pagoda theater with an alternative of behring the tbm under columbus avenue. We also support the mtas efforts to plan for a station at the pagoda theater and additional stations to and from Fishermans W...

Real. Right. The downside of option 3 is that in order to accommodate for north beach station, you would the likelihood would be that you would have to remove these machines, which would be from a difficult operation in the future. Were currently looking at, though, to look at ways of perhaps diverting the machines, kind of off the path so that would either minimize or, you know, prevent the need to remove these machines. And normally when you use a tunnel Boring Machine at the end of the project, that tunnel Boring Machine comes out and it i guess goes onto another project somewhere to dig ag...