New cars is important i have a key question on how were going to make sure that we dont as and transition to a new generation of l r vs thats opportunity to approve the car so how do we purchase cars that are not vulnerable to those types of issues. Well, i think the step is the appropriate one weve taken to take to the experts that build l r vs all over the world. This is a significant procurement. Were attempting to address the needs of a growing generation. I dont think its possible to over state the importance of it. So step one for us was to take a look at the kind of data and heres the issues were having with our currency fleet and talk to the administers. The car is too heavy and the doors have two many moving parts they too difficult to fix and diagnose par what could you do differently with the vrnd theres things in the system we cant change we have to have a short car because of the curves and even with all that what is the it you can over. So weve had several months of dialog with a number of manufacturesers that led us to go to a more performance factor. We want something down to specific dimensions. We need a door thats going to be kijd a minimum of 7 thousand times a week. We need it to be used on both high and low platform. A give us your best design. We had a discussion a really good dialog with car manufacturesers. We cannot is lets look at the car in sookt or london and say theres one we need that bring it here. We cant change the train control system. We have to have a car that operates in high and allow floor depending upon on the dimension. So thats the approach were taking. Thank you as you pointed out mr. Chairman. This is the numbers of the Current Fleet we have 1 hundred and vicars and 1 hundred and fourteen that are scheduled on a daily basis. This represents a longerterm rec weve been working on or theyre off the property and thats the Rehab Program weve undertaken. So theres 15 cars in there. Were very focused on a day by day basis. So on a typical day we have 14 l r vs getting inspections or running repairs. I have a renovate above our service of only 8 cars. A thats a pretty narrow margin. That would be for example, a giants game theres 8 cars theres where your additional cars are for special events. So when you made the point ear letter were careful in this process Going Forward that we set the system up for the next generation not just to replace it. So in the number i mentioned Going Forward its our gallows not only to replace the existing fleet but to make sure we begin to meet the needs of the central subway and meet the demand we all know is coming. I thought it was worthwhile to take a look at the car numbers. Were trying to work not only from the mechanical side but with the service and operational side to make improvements where were trying to improve the service. 3 car subway shuttle, you know, this is something weve been testing. The tests have gone extremely well. The purpose is to relieve the crowding in the inner part of the subway. One of the issues with the 3 car testing is the cup letters. Getting the cup letters able to have the Communication System all through the cup letters. So we want to attach the 3 cars together and we wont have to be cup listing and uncup listing. But both the number and the design of the current cup letter we have to Pay Attention to the trainline. So it requires us to an Something Like that on the 3 car trains to be cautious to get to that point i think the prospect of having 3 car trains during rush hour is exciting i think i speak for a lot of riders. So i understand what youre saying is right now because of the exchanges of cup listing and uncup listing 3 car trains would have to run exclusively from the west to embarcadero yeah. When we have a system, you know, thats looking to loot at ways to improve service we want to make sure what we introduce is successful. So were making sure theres other ways to do this but after three or four tests the biggest southerners was the trainlineing between car one and 3 so we had some issues as we tried to test with that. We made a decision to marry the 3 cars and keep them that way and, you know, weeping well run them into service and that would be within the subway itself . Yeah. And in terms of the exchanges of the kidnap listing and uncup listing thats a design issue. Yeah. Some of it not exclusively theres other factors like location but one of the things therapists perhaps longrange and overcoming so we can get to the point of start the the 3 car trains is solving the problem. The problem in all testing was keeping the trains communicating together in a 3 car train through the trainline and cup letters. And so by october you think well have at least for lack of a better term the 3 car in the subway. Yeah. Weve got one more test scheduled on wednesday night and if all goes well, well be coming forward to start them in service. I hope we dont get the publics hopes up its not like during rush hour were going to have 3 car trains because they cant go above ground. No. Were going to start with one and check the success. From our standpoint the other advantage is it helps you with capability have less trains it can move less people do you think well be in a better position to have more 2 car trains. Yes. We probably would be g but again weve got a car count issue. At some point weve need to look at the whole system and donates why the procurement Going Forward on the schedule is so important because theres other you know, we need to look at after the subway whether or not we could use different strategies. I think, you know, were trying to be as creative as we know within the constraints and you want to agree wholeheartedly. We have those needs that prevent us from doing some smart things i know muni wants to like running 3 car vehicles its an important process. Can you and i want to know you dont have to commit were going to have a hearing on the programs and the Transportation Authority relating to the possibility of reconvene figuretion but additional standing room i look forward to that. In terms of other improvements id like to mention. The third or fourth down were trying to manage the service. One of the things we need to be better at is recovering from displays in the subway. The faster you can recovery and the complexity of the vehicles if you will, and findings what the problem is and getting everybody the pro bono proper tools. So this is Something Else in the destine of a car well look at the cab. I would point out there are a number of things that will improve the system in the near term. Fourth and king area getting an adjustment made to the signal weve completed over labor today weekend will reduce the wasting time along embarcadero will benefit the t line and the t line will be able to make the turn down third street. I think, you know, weve made a number of component adjustments and component rebuilds. Were working on a Rehab Program. Its not the scope was not optimized so were rescoping and working to get more of the key systems weve tubed in there. So, you know, our plan as it stands right now is to continue with the improvements. I think we need, you know, weve made a big investment in the last couple of years and our maintenance staff is doing is good job. Were looking at other things but again, were on the verge of going to 0 significant procurement for the whole region, you know, in numbers youve got both we might not be buying as many cars as bart but we carry a lot more people and the importance cant be overstated. Were commented to applying the best Lessons Learned to working with the experts who manufacture and make real cars all over the world and to an open and competitive process that will give us the best quality vehicle in the timeframe we need in a good price hazmat mat had challenges getting Replacement Parts for the light rail vehicles. Im sorry. Have there been challenges in the agency with getting Replacement Parts for the l r vs. Well, yes. I mean part of it theres not the reasons are complex. Part of it you dont go to the manufacturer store and say i need this system. Their designed especially for this car so, you know, thats been a challenge as well. Were working through the mirror i cant do of regulations and city processes that we have to do to buy parts but clearly parts have long been an issue. We have an are Experimental Program going on right now to try to work with an outside vendor to work with us in the city to help. Its part and then part you need parts and you need to turn the parts into components because whether its compressors or other parts of car so its been a chain of thing we need to get the parts put together and when you get them on the vehicle. Its been a challenge for is a variety of reasons so right now muni has a total number of 1 hundred and 51 l r vs and 1 hundred and fourteen of them are scheduled and only half the time do we have half of them in service and a well, in the last 60 days weve made pretty much consistently were over the 1 fourteen or at it. Thats because for example, as we looked at the portal entries either at church or west portal where the train enters we during this trial drill down and look for repeat vehicles and repeat operators and look to see why it was failing was it mechanical back in april the majority were on the vehicle. Were in the process of replacing antennas and its made a difference. I think were going to continue to do that kind of thing to deal what the reliability issues and the procurement is up to two hundred and 15 light rails and that would really address a lot of the exchanges in terms of not having enough of light lights rail vehicles. In terms of the expansion in central subway and the growth on Market Street were going to need more light rail vehicles. I also understand that muni will be replacing its antiquated train system both but weve tried to set up the procurement process to take care of any car needs for the next generation. You know, with multiple optioned so as we refine our needs subject to funding and a anything else else but clearly our goal was to meet the need for the central subway and the question is not if but a question of the right number and to start the process to make the existing cars more reliable in service by begin the process of replacing them over a long period of time. Those cars are about 15 years old and we need to get another 10 years out of them so we need to make sure were set up to do that so the investment we realize in the car thank you. Anything else . No, thank you. Thank you very much. Colleagues if theres no questions or comments. Well open it up to the public on item number 3. Any comments . Come on up good afternoon. Ron austin Vice President for the transport union. Just to piggy back on some of the things. Frail were very much behind mr. Hail i didnt to improve the spa service. We gone along with mr. Hale i didnt to do the night time testing. What weve seen is its going to be a huge success to increase our subway capacity. When you initialing mentioned the boeing cars the one thing about the car was you could cup he will and decup he will. We lost that ability with the brady car but were going to get our capacitate back up in the plan. We also have a Software Plan that allows us to stop 2 trains simultaneously and continue the movement through the subway. Those are other steps were going to try to increase capacity. And with the explosion of growth in the mission bay corridor we have a shortage of light rail vehicles in that we are looking at other ways of possibly expanding service. We know in the valley corridor complaints of noise of the vehicles. Were proposing the plan we have a number of historical vehicles and the possibility of supplementing the service on the l and weve increased that service on the j line and supplements other areas we can have to push our way to maximizing our resources that we have currently great thank you very much. Thank you. Any additional comment. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Mr. Hale i didnt i want to thank you for your presentation and i want to thank t w u or on our very shared goal of improving other reliability on our system. We know what needs to happen with muni to make it more reliable. Its just a matter of having the political will to make that happen. I wont repeat many of the comments my colleagues have heard them to make sure were adequately funding muni needs. But this is die weve heard this is indicative of what we need to do. We need more light rail vehicles to rehabilitate them and get more useful life out of the ones we have. We need to make sure as we go through the procurement process were getting light rails that meets the need of the san franciscans. Whether that means they dont breakdown because of doors that fail or easier cup listing or dekidnap listing so we can once again have 3 car service. Those are very, very important aspects of making sure we get the right kinds of l r vs. Im very excited were going through this processing process. I hope we see the light at the end of the tunnel and we have better designed vehicles so colleagues if there are no more comments can we have a motion to continue this 80 to the call of the chair. That is adopted. Madam clerk any additional business before the committee. No, that includes our business before the committee. Ladies and gentlemen, were hi, im lawrence corn field. Welcome to building San Francisco. We have a special series, stay safe. Were looking at earthquake issues. And today were going to be talking with a residential Building Owner about what residential Building Owners and tenants can and should do before earthquakes and after earthquakes. Were here at this wonderful spur exhibit on Mission Street in San Francisco and i have with me today my good friend george. Thanks for joining me, george. And george has for a long time owned Residential Property here in San Francisco. And we want to talk about apartment buildings and what the owners responsibilities might be and what they expect their tenants to do. And lets start by talking a little bit about what owners can do before an earthquake and then maybe after an earthquake. Well, the first thing, lawrence, would be to get together with your tenants and see if they have earthquake insurance or any renters insurance in place because thats going to be key to protecting them in the event of a quake. And renters insurance, there are two kinds of insurance. Renters insurance coffers damage to goods and content and so forth. Earthquake insurance is a separate policy you get after you get renters insurance through the california earthquake authority, very inexpensive. And it helps owners and it helps tenants because it gives relocation costs and it pays their rent. This is a huge impact on Building Owners. Its huge, it really is. You know, a lot of owners dont realize that, you know, when there is an earthquake, their money flow is going to stop. How are they going to pay their mortgages, how are they going to pay their other bills, how are they going to live . What else can Property Owners do in Residential Rental housing before an earthquake . Well, the first thing you want to do is get your property assessed. Find out what the geology is at your site. Get an expert in to look at structural and nonstructural losses. The structural losses, a lot of times, arent going to be that bad if you prepare. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Get in there and get your property assessed and figure it out. So, what is a nonstructural issue that might cause losses . Well, you know, pipes, for instance. Pipes will whip around during an earthquake. And if theyre anchored in more numerous locations, that whipping wont cause a breakage that will cause a flood. Ive heard water damage is a major, major problem after earthquakes actually. It is. Thats one of the big things. A lot of things falling over, ceilings collapsing. But all of this can be prevented by an expert coming in and assessing where those problem areas and often the fixes are really, really cheap. Who do you call when you want to have that kind of assessment or evaluation done . The Structural Engineering community is great. We have the Structural Engineers association of Northern California right here in San Francisco. Theyre a wealth of information and resources. What kinds of things might you encourage tenants to do besides simply get tenants renters insurance and earthquake insurance, what else do you think tenants should do . I think its really important to know if they happen to be in the building where is the safest place for them to go when the shaking starts. If theyre out of the building, whats their continuity plan for connecting with family . They should give their Emergency Contact information to their resident manager so that the resident manager knows how to get in touch. And have emergency supplies on hand. The tenants should be responsible to have their extra water and flashlights and bandages and know how to use a toilet when theres no sewage and water flows down. And the owners of the building should be proactive in that regard as well. So, george, thank you so much for joining us. That was really great. And thanks to spur for hosting us here in this wonderful exhibit. And thank you for joining us good morning, everyone. Wg to welcome back to the San Francisco budget