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Much more of a custom vehicle, and fewer options in terms of the kinds of vehicles that you could consider for procurement and so that is what is really driving our consideration, the need for 2020 and the spectrum of vehicles available. So most are custom and are there any that are off of the shelf . Are there 24 inches . Not that meet the operational criteria. Okay. That we are looking for. That is the challenge that we run into. I think that that is the challenge for both entities that they are both looking to get the broadest number of bids and the, you know, the broadest swath of the comp...

San francisco, and from transbay joint powers authority, you know, our highest preference and need is really a common boarding platform, just because we are constricted in spa is space for the tunnel and the under grouped and we cant change that shape and it might be possible in san jose, and i dont know inaudible at all to add tracks, and with the different boarding platforms but that, and we are not going to have that same flexibility and i would reiterate that from our end that we have to see a common platform and i am glad that you are country confident that we are going to get there in 60...

What is going on here? stuart varney you came in here faster than those trains. >> it is not a bullet train. we understand if and when they get this thing going it will not be as fast between san francisco and los angelesç aspected. and they're having real trouble with the funding. they can't get the money together to pay for this boondoggle. the bottom line is i think this thing is on its last legs unless the federal taxpayer, you and i, step in with a subsidy from washington to california as a kind of a political payoff for all the support california has given to the obama administration. ...