Subsection f. Supervisor scott weiner okay. Can we take that without an objective. Can we move that forward. Without objection. Madam clerk any further business . That concludes the business of todays meeting. Supervisor scott weiner we are adjourned. Thank you very much. [ meeting is adjourned ] good afternoon, and welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors land use and Economic Development committee. I am scott wiener, the chairman of the committee, to my right is supervisor jane kim, our committee vicechair and to my left is supervisor malia cohen. And supervisor cohen i would like to welcome you back. Our clerk is lisa miller and i would like to thank sfgtv for broadcasting this hearing specifically larson and any announcements . The clerk yes. Please silence all electronic devices. Any speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear in the agenda on january 28th unless notified. We have a robust turnout for todays hearing. We have overflow
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 this is something. I want to point out while the numbers look are steadily going up and dramatically. The blue represents the trolley coaches. Theyre the oldest and most unreliable equipment. We continue to work on those on a campaign basis but the message is the fleet is getting more reliable and part of the investment you have been so supportive in new buses and over haul buses is playing off and
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 priorities in getting the system up and running. We will continue to do that and also to maintain it. One of the problems with the system that was on 3rd street wasnt properly maintained. We believe we now have a system in place where we will be maintaining it and on 3rd street were in the process of gathering information now. Not only do we have signal priority but signal preemption at six intersection
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 here or there in terms of moving capacity. For example if you look at coming out of the sub way portal when you get to folsom and look at the traffic light and took the train across you might be able to save some time with those things. There are a number of things were looking at to do those, so theyre all worked out and laid out. When you begin to look at those things i think it will make a diff
And move them with some cross over strategically placed. In other words, i think one of the things to add capacity there are two ways. One is add more vehicles. The other is more 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 here or there in terms of moving capacity. For example if you look at coming out of the sub way portal when you get to folsom and look at the traffic light and took the train across you might be able to save some time wit