The sky and traffic is undergoing easy. I want to equilibrium everyone here it is an amazing today to be here here in the presidio in building 211 if so the center of press over the last few years here the doyle drive presidio Parkway Project that is such an amazing project that is decades and decades in the making. There is a Service Safety reasons. It happening so much visualizing over the past decades in San Francisco and to think that now we have the Presidio Parkway in place it is the gateway to San Francisco and will be for generations to come an amazing piece of art and transportation infrastructure hub for our bay area but simply more than anything or anything an amazing asset for our bay area region when you go out to the Presidio Parkway which you look 30s 30s thorough this is you can vision to the parks over to the freeway onto the beaches simply a vision that is crafted over decades and im so proud were here like supervisor wiener i want to take a mom to thank you, supervisor wiener certainly as charged i have Transportation Authority for to project in particular make no mistake supervisor wiener was critical in his role with the executive director and thank you, supervisor wiener i want to thank our home team the Transportation Authority thank you tilly and jose and someone that retired a few weeks ago has sense moved to austin, texas lee thank you for youre under arrest hardy want to give a round of applause clapping. lee promises hell continue to have sf giants in the back of his pickup truck well hold that you i want to thank hearing officer and others for working on this clapping. and to caltrain, to gotten link and the golden Transportation Authority and thank you to everyone from of the government prospective there are a few people individuals i want to thank first and foremost the person when is the driving force behind had vision thats michael i dont know where michael painer is michael clapping. for those who dont know this is michaels design this is michaels vision and we had a chance of run into each other with the tour to meet i there in the middle of construction thank you for your hard work make no mistake this is your project to the many members as supervisor wiener mentioned a circulation of the fables to our Citizens Advisory Committee and all the people that tricked to it i live on on behalf of the many district 2 residents that picking up put up with the late night beeping and the hoptsz a few years ago were finally here this is the construction not ended yet a lee low to clean up and a time to celebrate and finally i want to thank the mayors in particular mayor newsom and mayor ed lee who is sick but on behalf of the board of supervisors to the sfmta and the Police Department aid the Fire Department and members of laborer and the other mr. Mulligan and to the Highway Patrol and state mash and thank you for your support the final sign is ouch thank you. laughter . Ill end with this ill say about two years ago i had the future of waking up in the morning joining jose and tilly and my parents i grew up here in the marina we took a muni bus starting owe Golden Gate Bridge we were the 1 people to drive across the one part of the presidio we plan to do with molly first a big round of applause for molly back there clapping rightfully gets the loudest round of mrous applause weighing well do it this morning but low and behold thanks for the hard work the reside opened earlier i came with my daughter and jose and tilly and parsons and others to take a tour to be the 1 people to drive on the Presidio Parkway it is an incredible experience for those who who didnt come i hope you leave here do create a traffic jam it is unbelievable makes it amazing a different experience and something that we will all be proud of to all involved on behalf of the a grateful city this is a product for generations thank you all for your support clapping thank you supervisor farrell and supervisor wiener for those wonderful remarks that captured the moment mayor ed lee and supervisor farrell mentioned was unfortunately unable to come he felt ill he called our office and he sends his congratulations to all of us and we are pleased and effort to have the mayors partnerships of the office of Economic Workforce Development will be telling us a little bit more about the roll in partnering to create jobs and Economic Development as a result of this project ed mulling begin the new director mr. Michael carr joining us to say a few words clapping . Actually pat is still the director of the city of city build system changes in the last few weeks the mayor is sick and sends his regrets San Francisco is a city of innovation im sure youre aware of and it is a place where inspired people turn great ideas into realty as you look to the leaflet they say an infrastructure is not sexy but it beautiful and it is vital to our city this project is special to the oewd it a great collaboration between caltrain and the plazas sector in the city of San Francisco we participated introduce the city build group and put a hundred percent of our folks to work this project created jobs for the local San Francisco bay area residents a partnership between oewd and ta one last things id like to congratulate the Many Community members and planners and engineers and construction workers that worked hard and long to cooperate this project all the partners here especially g lc for hiring the workers thank you very much on behalf of the mayor and the city of San FranciscoJob Well Done thank you very much clapping. thank you michael im sorry, i didnt mean to get that wrong id like to mention our fell highway theyre providing critical funding and coveted a long time federal financing were fortunate to have the california administrator inconvenience vince to represent the administration and represent mr. Kim that that a family issue please help me in joining my guest on his thoughts of thank you. I appreciate thank you for the opportunity to come today greg immediate our acting administrator is prepping for his nomination hearing later this week i get to play and saw mr. Kim he apologized for his family emergency hes a native xalg living californian first congratulations to everybody i wouldnt point out, too many groups here but some struck me when we walked in the door they would can you see the project and someone looked at this and said no, thats the point you cant see the project you cant see the project from here thats why this project is where it is at a beautiful and expressive view as you come through youre not seeing the construction im from the east coast i have a brother that will be flying out here in a couple of weeks im going to bring him by bring him into this room if you can leave a couple of sandwiches hes a big guy other thing we had 12 Funding Sources we have recovery act money 83 million in recovery act and 46 money that medians if theres 12 there are 12 eyes look at this i want to thank the eyes Janice Williams and poppa john can you raise your hands they were part of the team clapping. and i know ive heard malcolm say thank you to the people that live around here for your patience to allow us to do this type of work but . The type of innovation we at federal highway one of our job is look dont be front yard of taco an aon a project it takes a village but it strikes me in california the leadership in the bay area this great coordination a lot of people focusing to get the work done so on behalf of the acting administrator greg immediate and secretary antonio fox thank you and keep up the great work thank you. clapping . Thank you so much benson and thank you to mr. Foxs leadership next to the next transportation were fortunate to have representatives in the California Transportation Commission the cpc one minute bob one minute let me say a few nice words i want to sorry the cpc prioritized funding for the transportation cross our state and a few folks thank you for being with us the funding and the oversight doyle drive is the First Partnership on the Highway Network and focuses on taxpayers investment and insuring this investment benefits our local community im pleased to recognize the hard men and women of the building trade from local 261 to the 4ru7 and local 377 and local engineers on local 3 and 6 theyre the ones building this project from the ground up and deserve our premeditation please join me in welcoming all businesses and labor mr. Bob. clapping . Thank you and you know it theres a lot of thanks going around i want to take a moment and give a special thanks to the men and women of the Building Trades theres michael came up with this beautiful idea and vision to replace doyle drive but it takes the men and women someone to implement that vision and dreams with two of those one of those and a whole love of this that is a pleasure to be here to celebrate the opening of doyle drive California First c3 Publicprivate Partnership to be approved by the California Transportation Commission i wanted to be here to celebrate as a key gate to the heart of San Francisco this project is a significance it will have a positive input on the commuters and the visitor that use the bridge the commission has a longstanding interest in seeing the state and local and federal partners to deliver the partnerships those partnerships are important and we must continue to Work Together to make the projects a reality on behalf of the California Transportation Commission i want to thank caltrain and the Transportation Authority, golden link and all the other partners for in their dedicated efforts and contributions and congratulations and thank you for letting me me be a part of this and on behalf of the men and women in the Building Trades thanks for making the last couple of christmases pretty good to go clapping. thank you very much vice chair alvarado now continuing with the rule we turn to caltrain the owned and operated of doyle drive San Francisco has been fortunate to work with the caltrain in the region led by our project manager and others we have a great team dan and others calling names im sure im missing many, many folks at district 4 i hope you feel proud as headquarters we have our partners led by malcolm and tom and also cit teen from the headquarters thank you for your hard work and partnership earlier this year the department was recognized by the green roads Sustainability Certificate Program for the orchestras think the doyle job this recognized the green methods and materials sweethearts the Sustainable Design of the project as well as the exclusive communitybased process that came up with that decision to id like to thank build f this alternative our joined team have the discover of the plan youll recall this plant was considered extinct it was excited to find it a preserve it for our management felt program in envelope governor jerry brown pointed out the director of caltrain and since then lead a push towards Sustainable Design at the Department Today in secretary kellys leadership the team as led critical support to the aspects of our project i want to acknowledge the former secretary of housing who at the time served in governor schwarzenegger and was instrumental in securing the funding for the p3 that led to the final close of the project thank you all for your strong aspirin now malcolm to share his thoughts on this happy day clapping. thank you tilly im glad to be here i want to express my prediction for all of you this is a good today, the good news tilly thanked everyone ill probably repeat because some folks deserve to be expressed by my appreciation for their work youll agree there are few locations like the Presidio Parkway it is second to number in california and the bay area and likely in the entire country therefore it calls for a project that is a unique project and one of a kind project that is what were delivering here today, we confused shefk safety in phase one and now phase two weve achieved the mobility but still not done and weve got a long ways to go and escape work will land a dramatic improvement not only on mobility but a positive for the connection of the Presidio Park and thus, the presidio to the waterfront ive mind recently you can do a transportation project but if that transportation project is a negative to the community or negative to the businesses or negative to the sourndz then tonsillitis thats not the right project it is the right project for mobility as well as the context of being here great location of studio presidio we celebrate this significant e significant milestone thank you to everyone and after another extended closer that was completed of the 79 hours that recommends me of the 55 hour closer we have traffic on to ultimate reside and it is a drastic change if youve not a had a children. To drive on it i want to thank iron and hewitt on the concessioner for the work ive been talking to peter they went into the weekend with 8 hours and i want to thank flatiron and keeping you informed witness and all the men and women who worked with that organizations for theyre successful work for the past weekend if you could give them a round of applause clapping. several of my team members have been highlighted and i certainly want to thank b june and his entire staff but i always want to put a point on the team in our organizational of public and private partnerships christina and express my appreciation for the former secretary without those champions we couldnt have done it without you as a publicprivate partnering partner when caltrain and the San FranciscoTransbay Joint Powers Authority were tasked with replacing the drive we wanted to have a design for Safety Standards but rehabilitate the communities needs and reduce impacts to the local environment and if all all possible many improvements that was accomplished and ta that challenge met weve improved the Traffic Safety but it made a contribution to the beautiful Presidio Park we were initiative in delivering this project its our first publicprivate partner and not create challenges because of the complexity of the challenge of the work it happens to the ingenuity in every speaker talked about the partners and the partnerships are from both sides public and private and there are financing advantages to the deliver but access to streets and incongruity of all the folks ultimately Traffic Safety is our goal but improving the surrounding area happened it was talked about this project having 12 different Funding Sources i want to reiterate the number of partners it is not easy managing a project are that many financing mechanisms and contributions afrofrom funding but not that easy to navigate through all the partsd involved it this group came together and certainly the San Francisco tangle, the federal how administration and the prurd trust California Transportation Commission department of Veterans Affairs and this department of the Golden Gate Bridge and the Municipal Transportation Agency and the city of San Francisco and local community i cant get a project done without Successful Partnerships well continue to reconstruct streets and replace skaipz but as we drive in the new tunnels id like to remembered us all public and private perspires got us here thblgs you make meaningful investments in transportation and infrastructure and i want to congratulate you for a Successful Partnership and thank you for those who had the patience during the construction that was referred to not only in the counties to the north but San Francisco congratulation to you all and thank you for coming from congresswoman nancy pelosi please welcome alex lazzaro to say a few words clapping thank you tilly Ambassador Congress is in session and she says this is a great moment for San Francisco as we complete the transformation of doyle drive and open the new Presidio Parkway that parkway insures safety in a earthquake and eliminates the proximate causes for the offer 1 thousand vehicles this represents the best of our city our initiative thinking and imperial spirit the respect for the Natural Resources and beneficial partners between the public and private sector i was proud for this fight in congress to carry one hundred and thirty in the act and others and an initiative hundred and 50 million for this alone for the publicprivate partnering as we enjoy traveling along the new Presidio Parkway construction continues with extensive landscaping and restoration that will integrate the roadway into our magnificent presidio connecting the post with the field and establishing 13 acres of new Presidio Parklands as the Congress Races towards the Transit Trust Fund on july 31st this remind us how our infrastructure creates jobs and improves of quality of life for all the harding families that commute over our roadways we must make long Time Investments locally and nationally to achieve better paychecks and better infrastructure for oil hard work america families thank you to all who made this project a reality clapping. thank you alex thank you for leader pelosi leadership on the grow america act i hope in their successful in delivering a dedicated long Time Transportation doyle drive was to there the access for nancy pelosi another project it was a treasurer plays if the start we partnered with the Presidio Trust to expand assess while preserving its Natural Resources now is where he a direct offramp from Presidio Parkway and the tunnel tops that provide more opportunity to expend the biking between the presidio and marina thank you to superintendent of the Parks Services and your staff and id like to acknowledge Greg Middleton who recently retire today, were honored to have the Presidio Trust planning programs michael to say a few words on this historic occasion. clapping . Thank you tilly welcome to the presidio everyone its a Beautiful Day youre right the sun does always shine here i have the great pleasure of talking about the future of the presidio in particular the Important Role this project plays in troovrment this army base into one of the greatest parks in america think back to the moment the presidio transition from presidio to a National Park a Hundred Acres of hard packed dirt and asphalt and it went from an army office it was about 15 or 17 years ago and look out the window how this has pan transformed it is a vibrant park full of thousands of people you come to here on sunday and off the grid and enjoy a beautiful picnic with our families and the rich history but regardless of those improvements doyle drive is a barrier between the two park experience so this project by transforming the intermediately zone creates the opportunity for us to create and urban park ensemble on the waterfront it is unlike any in america were grateful to all of the organizations that got involved in this were grateful to caltrain and the Transportation Authority and were grateful to everybody who worked to build this road the g lc and others but mostly grateful to the community the community worked for decades tirelessly to make sure that was not a freeway but parkway it honored the rich history and ecology and came up with a vision i think will set a new standard for design in National Park settings and any settings frankly it is won into that features that go beyond the tops we say see were to the other set of tunnel tops and the christie field that allows us to expand this to meet the bay this is a project that has myriad benefits to the presidio i want to know or think this will be the cherry on top that makes the presidio the would have park my hats off to everyone in the room that played a role thank you very much for our ongoing roll in the presidio thank you very much. Thank you very much michael thank you, michael were looking forward to see what happens your final speaker the ceo of the consortium peter is the private entity that build and will operate and maintain the project just as cultivates before them g lc keeps the traffic moving while constructing their portion of the road our trpt said this is like doing surgery on a tense player while shes playing intelligence folks worked around the clock and congratulations to the entire team please join me in welcoming peter on this wonderful accomplishment clapping. thank you very much tilly this is a very special moment for all of us on behalf of the gotten lincoln in their and our contractors trans field id like to thank the agencies that support us during the 71 hour closer specifically caltrain sfmta, Golden Gate Bridge, and not c h b they were there ever minute of the day and the tdr trust and all other agencies i forgot to mention when the golden link began in project a little bit over three years ago there was only one very duct and one tunnel we installed 3 additional tunnels between 8 hundred and 50 and one thousand foot long and a second 50 feet high and 12 hundred feet long viaduct you know structure and an improved highway 101 to the scombaj and roads to the beautiful Presidio Park we get a lot of questions why did you need to close the are road for 74 hours this was necessary from richmond and the marina and Golden Gate Bridge obtaining and the tunnel and the other tunnel a massive undertaking as youve seen on tv and photos we worked krunl that tie together i know weve recognized them before i want to recognize flatiron that orchid 10 thousand manhours in 70 without a single injury and thats worth a round of applause clapping. now for all reasons theyre not not room their sleeping and getting deserved rest not only the 71 hour closer but the weeks and months leading up to the closer then the 3 hundred and 50 construction workers their managers and others again without a single incident they excavated millions of dirt and placed 28 tons of asphalt and removed almost that much and put down concrete and placed 7 thousand feet of cable and striping all in 71 hours not to for the Software Engineers and not to forget the state fire marshall that working or worked around the clock to get state of the art systems working commissions and made safe and worked the way they were supposed to work thanks again for that and finally id like to recognize molly graham for responding to all the media, responding to the public your outreach efforts is second to none anyone else ive missed thank you for your support were proud to be part of this one of a kind setting and one the californias project the tlc will continue to be part of this beautiful project for the next thirty years while we operate and maintains thank you for the achievement of that major milestone clapping. okay thank you passport now i hope you and your team can rested and sleep for the next 71 hours this project that the result of several of individual many large and Small Businesses i want to recognize our expert advisors of the joint speaker hearing officer and others thank you for your principle support and advise to our project team and local Small Businesses and women and minority owned firms did amazing work julie from cal pumping they provided the pumping services and rooftop of both tunnels and from solutions im not sure if dot is here they provided the monitoring to help us carefully around Historic Buildings only a couple of examples of small and minority owned firms that helped i want to thank our hard work spokeswoman molly again for leading the communication molly youre amazing and were grateful to you to our hard work and finally id like to thank our aids staff and the ta led by many and my final thanks to our Transportation Authority led by jose who dedicated himself to this project and led the organization through many stages from planning and approvals and designs lee saga our fearless project manager carried the project introduce and the task force so many members jackie and others and we also had support from spur i saw jim and others thought that process our staff and as planning deputy work hard and Deputy Director who is here and anna and cheri and bob from our staff thank you very much well with that, on behalf of caltrain at Transportation Authority thank you for joining us for our celebration now time for the Ribbon Cutting practical stay for that ceremony and enjoy our newly Presidio Parkw presidy our newly Presidio Parkw presi y