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Next item. Clerk item 2, Community Advisory report. Chair peskin and mr. Larson you are not mr. Larson you are mr. Larson. You shaved. I am. Good morning, commissioners and supervisors. My name is john larson, and i am the chairman of the citizens Advisory Committee. This time, there was particular interest in how the save routes to safe routes to School Program served the needs of concern. Sfmta would be providing Safety Training in areas of concern such as moorely feeling safe engaging in these activities and getting from home to school in those communities. The items related to shop around,...

Chair peskin thank you, mr. Quintanilla. Can can you please call the next item. Clerk item 2, Community Advisory report. Chair peskin and mr. Larson you are not mr. Larson you are mr. Larson. You shaved. I am. Good morning, commissioners and supervisors. My name is john larson, and i am the chairman of the citizens Advisory Committee. This time, there was particular interest in how the save routes to safe routes to School Program served the needs of concern. Sfmta would be providing Safety Training in areas of concern such as moorely feeling safe engaging in these activities and getting from h...

Talking about how different that service would be from the Caltrain Service today. We really are talking about migrating from something thats a traditional Commuter Rail service, where you have a few trains an hour, you have to remember your train number. To something that is for most stations in the system going to be much more of a showupand go service. By directional, allday, really an urban transittype service, where we would have express trains running all day. Express trains by directionally from gilroy all the way to downtown San Francisco. Faster, more frequent service, show up and go ...

Highgrowth scenario being achieved. That said even the baseline scenario requires huge financial commitments. I just want to raise one other issue that potentially further complicates that. If the region is going to be making such huge financial commitments, its also important that all of the relevant local governments make the appropriate commitments about land uses, close to the caltrain stations. And that will necessarily mean that in many cases the density of Development Close to these caltrain stations. They need to be substantially increased, parking requirements will have to be reduced....

Washington, d. C. A couple weeks ago to testify before the house highways and transit subcommittee on the topic of pricing strategies. Americas roads. This is the first hearing that the Committee Held to talk about the way to pay for infrastructure. Not only did they discuss the gas tax, the traditional source, which is a declining source, but also explored permile tees, tolling and congestion pricing. So my testimony certainly emphasized the need for more longterm federal funding, in particularly raising the gas tax. But also to be exploring other innovative, diverse sources of revenue as wel...