Talking about how different that service would be from the Caltrain Service today. We really are talking about migrating from something thats a traditional Commuter Rail service, where you have a few trains an hour, you have to remember your train number. To something that is for most stations in the system going to be much more of a showupand go service. By directional, allday, really an urban transittype service, where we would have express trains running all day. Express trains by directionally from gilroy all the way to downtown San Francisco. Faster, more frequent service, show up and go at most stations. Something that would have the capacity to triple our ridership and remove more than five freeway lanes worth of traffic from the system. Where we are in the process, we laid this draft vision out to our board in great detail in august. Weve been out taking input. And the t. A. Board is one of our last stops before we kind of go back and really try to distill everything we heard t
Highgrowth scenario being achieved. That said even the baseline scenario requires huge financial commitments. I just want to raise one other issue that potentially further complicates that. If the region is going to be making such huge financial commitments, its also important that all of the relevant local governments make the appropriate commitments about land uses, close to the caltrain stations. And that will necessarily mean that in many cases the density of Development Close to these caltrain stations. They need to be substantially increased, parking requirements will have to be reduced. But it really would be a squandered opportunity if the region makes significant investments in a system, but then typical suburban landuse patterns continue to persist around many of these stations. Thank you. Chair thank you for those comments. Are there any other members of the public here for item number 6 . Seeing none, we will close Public Comment. Thank you to caltrain staff for coming here
Washington, d. C. A couple weeks ago to testify before the house highways and transit subcommittee on the topic of pricing strategies. Americas roads. This is the first hearing that the Committee Held to talk about the way to pay for infrastructure. Not only did they discuss the gas tax, the traditional source, which is a declining source, but also explored permile tees, tolling and congestion pricing. So my testimony certainly emphasized the need for more longterm federal funding, in particularly raising the gas tax. But also to be exploring other innovative, diverse sources of revenue as well. On the federal fuel economy standards, as youve seen in the news, the e. P. A. And department of transportation announced new lower standards. Theres a conflict, of course, with our california standards and our stricter requirements. And really pleased that the governor has, along with other 20 other states, filed a lawsuit attorney general has filed a lawsuit to overturn the new rule. Were tra