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First a bit of background. President trump was born and raised in southwestern pennsylvania, where he followed his father and grandfather into the coal mines and worked his way through college and law school. O the coal mines and worked his way through college and law school. He graduated from penn state then received his jd from villanova. Upon graduation he joined the legal staff of the United Mine Workers of america and eventually became president at the age of 33. Since 1989, he has been working on the aflcio executive council and was elected president of the federation and 2009. Now for t...

A more robust way. All of the gaskets were replaced again under warranty. So that we didnt have water in the cameras. The second issue that were experiencing and that were still troubleshooting is in some instances, the cameras will freeze or pixelate, requiring them to bring the train in or have a mechanic review it. We would never operate a train without fully functioning monitors. So we are working through those issues, as we experience them. But they are software related. Chair peskin thank you for your candor around all of those issues. We have a number of people for Public Comment. Commi...

Safia, my apologies. Supervisor safai i was not going to say anything. I just have to say that the issue with using the emergency brake to essentially, you know, run out the tires, it would be great if we could get maybe someone, a representative from the transit operators to come in here and talk to us as well. Id like to hear their perspective. I understand that management doesnt want to take that risk. Were also putting millions of dollars worth of vehicles on the line. And not exactly sure if its true that they cant do a twoarm motion and why were doing that. No disrespect to miss kirschba...

On the bredas, it requires the twostep movement. And what we found, several years ago, is that operators could not do that movement quickly and reliably in the face of an immediate danger. So we went through a very big campaign. It was titled, you know, the mushroom is not poisonous. The mushroom is your friend. We basically invested all of this training and muscle memory for our operators to hit that emergency button. I am not willing to try to ask our operators to modify that muscle memory, whether or not theyre in a breda or an lrv4. Were continuing to emphasize pushing the mushroom for saf...

Of going through our train washer, the way the cameras were sealed with an exterior gasket, was not holding up to our washers. And that was something that shouldnt have been designed in a more robust way. All of the gaskets were replaced again under warranty. So that we didnt have water in the cameras. The second issue that were experiencing and that were still troubleshooting is in some instances, the cameras will freeze or pixelate, requiring them to bring the train in or have a mechanic review it. We would never operate a train without fully functioning monitors. So we are working through t...