Yesterday stocks had steady gains throughout the day the s p 500 snapped a threeday losing streak and the dow was up for the first time in three sessions overnight in asia, nikkei was up by 1. 4 . Hang seng positive, up by 1. 2 shanghai composite up by a half percentage point breaking news out of europe. Uk reached a brexit deal with the European Union willem marx has more on that story. Good morning good morning. This is good news for theresa may, the british prime minister, she can go back to london from brussels and present her cabinet and the country with evidence shes managed to get the conversation moved on to truck being britains future trading relationship with the European Union, a major factor driving that brexit vote last year in terms of the european side, theyre happy that some concerns have been addressed, specifically over the irish border neither side wanted to see a hard border between Northern Ireland and the republic of ireland. Leo varadkar, the irish prime minister
Those alignments were built from chinatown under the construction phase two project that is roughly 14 to 20 miles an hour and the loop will roughly be in that area significantly faster im going to turn it over to for bob for the next several side. Thanks Paul Mccartney u paul. With those large improvements this extension as strong ridership riders about a quarter of those riders will be new trips open metropolitan folks moving to the subway and including the f line he etc. This is a good benefit those lines are over crowded and projected to get norway crowded youll see this relieving the situation one of the concerns we have with the ridership whether the subway can handle it it doesnt includes as much of the area because of the neighborhoods the upper red line shows it is something on the order of 3 minutes train a 2 hundred 5 minute train our partners in this study is the Planning Department analyzed the geographics in the areas those neighborhoods are largely built out there are a
Major interchange and not serving a residential concentration in the northern part of the city so were enthusiastic the importance of this extension extension is part of the four corridors plan it has been stated earlier our northeast residential neighborhood have a serious transportation issue i assume you are aware of we have high indents and low automobile ownership yet low transit rider shvp people using it as 32 percent as a whole we had 40 perris but our transit trips are equivalent to the speed of walking that will make a great contribution to the citys rail system and we emphasize you do whatever to get the theatre site thats an essential thing for the project to move forward thank you. calling names. good afternoon, sir. Hello gentlemen and ladies im Bill Schwartz a resident of dog patch and im here to say that the loathing of the loop around 18th and 19th and illinois street is a very bad location to place the loop dog patch is changed so dramatically over the years since thi
Serving a residential concentration in the northern part of the city so were enthusiastic the importance of this extension extension is part of the four corridors plan it has been stated earlier our northeast residential neighborhood have a serious transportation issue i assume you are aware of we have high indents and low automobile ownership yet low transit rider shvp people using it as 32 percent as a whole we had 40 perris but our transit trips are equivalent to the speed of walking that will make a great contribution to the citys rail system and we emphasize you do whatever to get the theatre site thats an essential thing for the project to move forward thank you. calling names. good afternoon, sir. Hello gentlemen and ladies im Bill Schwartz a resident of dog patch and im here to say that the loathing of the loop around 18th and 19th and illinois street is a very bad location to place the loop dog patch is changed so dramatically over the years since this was first planned in the
Thank thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names. good afternoon. Im steven tobacco eerie have a couple of 3 capacities for the last 8 years ive been spurs spokeswoman in favor of the phase two of this project im currently the chairman of the transportation of the russian hill neighbors i this by far the largest Neighborhood Association in the service area of the phase 3 project spur support did phase two project and were proud we had a major kroichl it have not been designed to stop at chinatown it implicit makes sense from a prospective to have this enable stopping one stop away it from a major interchange and not serving a residential concentration in the northern part of the city so were enthusiastic the importance of this extension extension is part of the four corridors plan it has been stated earlier our northeast residential neighborhood have a serious transportation issue i assume you are aware of we have high indents and low automobile ownership yet low transit rider shvp