Yeah, thats true. I am going to keep this short, but i also need your involvement. I was asked to do a blessing but those that know me we need to bless each other and today i just want you to say these four words. Bless the central subway. Say that. Bless the central subway. Now, whenever i say this word this is it i am borrowing from michael jackson. Then you did a blessing. Okay. This has been the moment we all been waiting for. This is it. inaudible . A community dream is being actualized. This is it. [inaudible] communities from the bay view to chinatown are being connected. This is it. Central subway. Affordable transportation is the life blood of all cities. Right . This is it. Central subway. From washington dc to San Francisco we are here to accept brait a federally supported and grassroots driven transit project that represents access for all to jobs, health care, their families. This is it. Central subway. Okay. A little extra. In the National Play offs of life itself like bu
Commerce and the San Francisco chamber of commerce and the Market Street association and the Business Improvement district and joe an hayes and mike from the building and trades construction council. Anytime i get a chance to speak on the mta board i say i am so proud of what we do and we move 700,000 people in the city and its a difficult task. We have a wonderful staff. We are privileged to have the talent of ed of course for his leadership and i couldnt tell you how proud i am to work with the people on the board of directors and christine, the newest member. And the other members and malcolm couldnt be here today but we are proud to Work Together on behalf of the people of the city and we are happy to have john fung head this up and behalf of the board and all of us and thank you mr. Secretary. Mr. Administrator. Senator feinstein, leader pelosi, Congress Woman spear and mayor lee and thank you all for being here and now its time to make it official. Its sign that document. Okay. [
Traffic for us. It is friday, january 24th im pam cook. And were off and running. Im dave clark. Steve is talking about the dryness again. Oh my gosh. Well 13 months of dry. A little system in Southern California will wrap back around. A little bit of high cloud deck. There is still breezy conditions. Higher elevations. Nothing compared to yesterday. It was roaring up in the oakland hills. 40s for some. 30s for others. Near 50 for a few. Fairfield is 58 degrees. Breezy conditions there. Red flag warning for everybody above 1,000 feet. And a few high clouds give us partly cloudy skies. It will be mostly sunny here. You can see a lot of this building up into the sacramento valley. Also issued with the low. It is a weak low. Even though High Pressure is much stronger. Breezy for some. Again it is not predominantly all offshore. So some patchy fog for a few that will be really mild. Here is sal. Steve, good morning. We are looking at a commute that is mostly good. Now we talked about that
That will create a 22nd century of transit for the tronst century of jobs so thank you to secretary lahood and thank you to the leadership for all that we have accomplished here today. [applause] peter rogof was dominated to serve in the federal administration by the department of transportation in 2009 by president barack obama. He has over see the disbursement throughout the country through the american reinvestment act and has done so meeting every milestone established by that act. Getting money into hands of transit operators whose budgets were severely strained by the worse economic downturn since our great depression. Please welcome fta administrator peter rogof. [applause] well thank you mayor lee and let me just say as the federal transit administrator its great to be in a federal transit city. As many people know a Rail Connection was promised to the people of union square and chinatown going on two decades. They made that promise because this quarter is the most densely popu
Senior i mean high ranking. I was a senior too so i take it as a complement but thats where a lot of this work is done so without president barack obama and his commitment to build america we wouldnt have this success today and its a Global Vision but it has an impact on everyone that comes to San Francisco and especially those that live in San Francisco and makes a great difference in the lives of our friends in chinatown and we celebrate their work too and thank you very much for this very important day. [applause] so please check that score for me again nancy. Our next speaker was once our mayor will always be our mayor, one that has served so well in the senate and now while she has a higher calling she still finds time to remind me make sure i Pay Attention to the streets of San Francisco but she has also been a great supporter of not only transportation, but this year shes also said were going to make sure we protect the cleanest water system this country has, our hetch hetchy. P