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Heres why. [inaudible] i think not only you mentioned the central subway. I think the central subway will make a big difference but the other things we can do is were looking right now i think the key is to locate and move trains both more efficiently on the existing footprint and were looking at whats called a tram way system for the service that would allow us to load trains 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 existi...

Light it will get priority whereas preemption is a step up above that. Not only it holds everything in place as the vehicle is coming it stops Everything Else and gives preemption to the train, so any other signal you may have say if you have a traffic signal it would be downgraded and the train would preempt it so its just for us it should be able to give us when you look at the length of r from sunnydale say to carol and give us more and we will evaluate and come back to you on this. Do you have an estimate of what it will be . The engineers are estimating it should be from the trunk from su...

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 including light rail vehicles in the united states. Thank you. To switch over to the bus side i think th...

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. Again as i mentioned the new buses. On the infrastructure side we focused a lot on using signal priori...

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 incremental approach. Were looking at Little Things that we can do that will get us a minute or two ...