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Cheng, i am pleased to offer a update for Treasure Island in coordination for the request of 150,000 of prop k funds to support the conceptual design and the next stage system manager and engineering for the over all toll program and you should have the slides and hand outs in front of you and if could get them, great, thank you. That might not be quite the right. That is. Sorry this is the slide that presents the appropriation for 150,000. And if i dont, if you dont mind pulling up the Treasure Island, Mobility Program update . And so we recall and earlier this year we were he designated to b...

Concern, and so i would be concerned because as you probably are aware, there are a number of low income residents, who are on Treasure Island, and yes, many of them use the Public Transportation system, but, there are some who sometimes use the vehicles, and so, i would be really concerned about some level of congestion pricing on Treasure Island and i am not sure if i would be supportive of that effort. Understood, and we are certainly in touch with the island residents, and one of the things that we are going to be doing is bringing forward a discount policy for the board to consider as we ...

But are going to propose it. Well, the city identified this as the policy framework for the island development, and to support the over all Development Goals of the island and, that is something that the city by city policy and it is in the Development Agreement that we should do some form of demand management to compliment and to help to pay for the transit that we need. And i guess that the concern is someone who used to live there, who used to work there, and it is very difficult to get a transportation on and off the island. True. And i just, feel a little bit uncomfortable, requiring some...

Packet and the first one was taken from the original plan and it involved the total peak hour toll and the five dollar range for the weekdays oebl and we found that this one does not pencil in terms of the Financial Performance and we identified two other options and that will be to price the periods for all congestived periods and all days of the week and keeping the toll around 5, and on and off the bridge and then, finally a third option was identified that would, allow for a veriable toll for the toll to go up and down, as congestion vary and to reduce the toll for the bay bridge toll paye...

Difficult it has been that even when it was a navy base and even the students who come with me and the bus stopped at a certain time and i think that if you are going to do Something Like this, there has to be some sort of a Public Transportation system and that is sufficient to support it. Because, i dont think that it is a good idea. Otherwise. Otherwise, yes, thank you. No, i do appreciate that and absolutely, the plan is and i should be clear to dramatically increase transit to the island. And that is dramatically, and 108 already is very crowd and we know that. From both sides, but to the...