See it is a clear morning looking at the city of San Francisco. A little chilly in some spots, santa rosa only 36 degrees, livermore 32, concord 44 and san jose 46 degrees. It is going to be mild to warm for everybody this afternoon and sunshine as well. Some changes coming up in our 7 day forecast. Well have a look at that, coming up in a few minutes. A manhunt is underway in the bay area for an inmate who fought off deputies and escaped. The inmate apparently faked an injury to be taken to Valley Medical Center in san jose. That is where he slipped past deputies. With search dogs and helicopters overhead police searched the perimeter near the hospital for janel carter. It is not clear if carter planned his escape or had help on the outside. We will go back and do investigation work, and see if it was a planned escape. Reporter the Sheriffs Department says carter was arrest in march of last year on five counts of molestation. For the second time in less than three weeks, an attempted
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 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 wer
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 sunnydale up to cal train five to seven minutes with all of these in place which would be significant. And when do you plan to put this in place . It is in place. Were in the process of measuring it, its effectiveness right now. Its been turned on for about three weeks. Thats good to hear and i was under the impression it was in place so im glad you confirmed that. Absolutely. We will get back to yo
Serving and protecting animals so i think this is a great honorary name change. Okay. So with that we will open it up to Public Comment. I am here today to thank you. I Patty Stanton and a board member with a dog rescue and one of the four agencies on alabama street. We are headquartered in one of the San Francisco sfspca and theyre next door and down the street is the shelter, acc, and we have been working together from a year and a half to get more animals adopted so thank you so much for having this deem come true and naming the street rescue row and we i think it will bring more to the area and first in the nation and we are happy about it. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Supervisor campos office. Hi. I am carolyn. We rifted a little bit. I was watching sorry. I am running late. Its quite all right. As you know the resolution before you today to add the honorary name of rescue row to alabama street between 15th and 16th streets in recognition much the groups on the block
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 priorities in getting the system up and running. We will continue to do that and also to maintain it. One of the problems with the system that was on 3rd street wasnt properly maintained. We believe we now have a system in place where we will be maintaining it and on 3rd street were in the process of gathering information now. Not only do we have signal priority but signal preemption at six intersection