Equal or less than penguin that is the affordability weve leading with the affordability and cannot you know deliver the program equal or less than penguin we will have the policy come back to you so milestones that are upcoming i want to make sure youre aware of and barbara will talk about that one we talked about last time was that pg e recently put forward their pc i a their power charge and adjustment which is pretty sure the exit fee if you no longer choose to be receiving the power from pg e or go to the cca that actually charge a fee they went to the california puc and they have something that item before the california puc which they would like to increase by 94 percent increase that has we talked about last time the way were offering our product were making sure that our customers total bill is equal then it was if they were in pg e customer which means our jurisdictions has to be low enough to absorb it by increasing the pc i a were actually having to put a lower generation t
Commissioner caen is on her way the approval of the minutes pr the approval of the minutes of the november 10, 2015. So motion to approve the minutes. Second any questions any Public Comment on the minutes all in favor, say i. I. Opposed . That motion carries next item. Is general Public Comment under any Public Comments on matters that are currently not on the agenda today. Hearing none next item, please. Item 5 communications. You have before you all the communications that have been forwarded which youve had a chance to review any questions or comments on the Communications Commission . Any Public Comment on communications . Hearing next item, please item 6 other Commission Business 6 a authorize the general manager for a new recognize program for excellent 0 performances for the Public Utilities commission we the puc and contractor and consultant and or other audit partners and ms. Ellis. Im julia i was the resolution before you authorizes. A new recognize program to recognize the
Construction through the information a method that is less disruptive to the method and costs more another method slightly less but more disruptive the yellow t open the side that has another spur those are areas under the most disruptive Design Method youll have to open up the street called cut and cover construction to put a station and tunnel and continual north the less disruptive will produce that by half the more disruptive is 400,000 and the less is still not cheap at 350 million that is i have issues this station is build by itself youll need the turn around facility and at the end of columbus avenue youll have a turn around facility the cost estimates is a turn around and plus you have to fully utility i utilize the tunnel they have no track to mta still holds an active lease on the property to remove. The t and the owner is prepared to go forward with construction on 19 unit at some point after the lease is over or it is removed early at this point our director ed reiskin sai
Involved with that, one of the first decisions we want to keep the study looking at existing transit loimentsz figuring we didnt time to go into other areas so the alignments you look at are columbus with the stopping bus and United States powell street and beach street with the Transit Service on that out of those alignments we came up with 14 actual alignments implicit we will look at in a second so in addition to the twoway ones on columbus are back down up to the minute powell it goes over beseech and one way loop alignment it connects the loop together all alignments assume the existing tunnels between chinatown and north beach will be used for some sort of service okay. Next slide so the 14 alignments are many the 4 colors columbus and the loop is in light green all of them have a two or three stations not a requirement but thats how this plan was laid out and they looked at subway and surface this large number of alignments some under the subway and the subway in the first part
40 minutes the green line which will be phase two t third and potential phase 3 the running times are 14 to 17 minutes a little bit longer than for the loop twice as fast next one im going to turn it over to bob at this point. Thank you. Well turn on the milking for you. Okay. The Transportation Authority lead the writing with the large improvements on the travel times it attracts a lot of rear view mirrors over 40 thousand additional trips on the t line thats is a 50 percent increase new riders to the muni system so folks taking cars or not making the trips the remaining trips are from the tooift to the slower transit that existing e exists today it is a balance out of the overcrowded like the cable car and the bus one concern we had are ridership this slide shows the peak hourly load that explicit increase with the daily ridership thats due to the all day ridership that is attracted to the extension you see that the 3 minute head ways the upper red line on the graph is sufficient to