Commissioners, first on your agenda is general Public Comment. At this time, members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter, jurisdiction of the commission exempt agenda items. With respect to agenda item, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. Each member of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes. I have no speaker cards. Does any member of the public wish to speak on a nonagenda item . If so, please come forward. Mr. President and commissioners, my name is michael levin. Im just here to ask about something that im very concerned about and that is the Albert Samuels clock on market street. Im sure youre all aware how it is constantly attacked by vandals. The last time someone deliberately smashed three of the small clock faces at the base and managed to stop the mechanism so it has been totally stopped for a long time. And i know
Wish to comment . Seeing and hearing none, well close Public Comment. Do we have a motion to adopt them . I move we adopt them. Second. Thank you, commissioners. On that motion to adopt the minutes, for february 7, 2018 [roll call] so move, commissioners. That motion passes unanimously 60. Commissioner, that will place us on item five for commission comments and questions. Commissioner johnck . Id just like to give a brief mention of a wonderful tour that i went on with the port of San Francisco Central Waterfront advisory committee. After the pier 70 historic core. I know the commission has expressed an interest in having an update on how the progress is going. On the restoration. We had a presentation on the historic core as distinguished from the balance of the development, which is also very exciting. But jim maza, whos a major assistant to eddie orton and another gentleman, led us through the spectacular site was building 113 and i just have to say was astounded on the brilliance
Pouring down. So make sure you stay cool, and stay in the shade. Dry walkways headed back home. Temperatures in the mid 90s. The feels like temperature up near 100 this afternoon. Temperatures right now nearby suburbs in Montgomery County, prince georges, fairfax, low 70s. Mid 70s around the chesapeake bay. Next weather and traffic on the 1s 4 41. Now melissa is looking at that backup on 95. Still looking at this backup. This is our Biggest Issue right now. Had some normal construction around town this morning but this backup 95 south there, just south of route 234 through that dumfries area. You can see how slow it is because of two different construction projects. One block in the right side of the road. One block in the left. Really making it kind of a pain for everyone headed southbound. Here es map of that right now. 16 Miles Per Hour two mile backup this morning. 270 into and out of town no problems there. Northbound and southbound youre looking quite good and then in Prince Geor
Slow for about four miles this morning. Beltway at kenilworth avenue, a little bit of volume. No problem there. In laurel, brock ridge road between Whiskey Bottom and 198, still the overturned vehicle. A look at 95 northbound here through dale city, the slowest spot at 29 miles an hour. Back in ten minutes with travel times. Right now, your commute is about to get easier. Heres a live look from inner loop of the beltway at virginia in Northern Virginia. In less than an hour the crews will open the shoulder from the express lanes to the g. W. Parkway parkway. News4s Megan Mcgrath will show you whats happening. Some relief, megan. Reporter well, this is the choke point, the merge area where the northbound express lanes end and that traffic has to go over into the regular lanes. Well start driving it now to see the merge point here up ahead. You can see all the traffic that we have here. Those are the folks in the regular lanes. Were in the express lane. Well have to go move over and that
Today is going to be a fine day to be outside. Nicer than yesterday. Even though yesterday afternoon was nice, we sure started off with the rain around. And today we dont need to worry about rain drops, pretty much start to finish. Except for the Shenandoah Valley, out to the mountains of West Virginia. But otherwise a nice morning. Your weather headlines for sunday morning, plenty of sunshine and near perfect afternoon for Outdoor Activities here in the metro area. Clouds coming back in tonight and tomorrow and stronger storms as we get into tuesday afternoon. More on that coming up. Out the door some thick fog, half mile visibility in frederick, maryland. A mile visibility in culpepper and over a mile in winchester. So locally dense fog first thing this morning. Temperatures cool 60s to around 70 downtown. Nice morning, 60s for most of the morning. Might touch 90 degrees at national airport. More about the rain chances increasing as we go back to work tomorrow coming up. All right ch