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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...

Priority needs that helps to answer the mayors call of addressing the concerns about sunday parking in prairie the high rate of citations and those have a high revenue impact but given the strength of the mayors resolve and the concerns from the community that pursuing one of the options would be a good faith gesture while preserving the meter. I made reference to that with discussions about Market Street and the evening rush hours generally using the beneficiary marks to which is one of the reasons the voters wanted this we want to focus on managing traffic at special events but throughout 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 ...

We believe is required in terms of infrastructure and well be proposed some new Revenue Sources to fund a portion of that gap. So the three recommendations that will be brought forward from the task force is to invest in programs with the greatest impact to first maintain the current Transportation System which we found in great disrepair and enhance the system and sfand expand the city system to meet new growth and also set to pursue three new Revenue Services combined to address that significant portion of that gap and as well as to continue to support and seek additional state and federal F...