Happy. Thank you. Okay. Next speaker, please. James bosworth, craig fonaro, lance carnes. Good afternoon. Hello, my name is James Bosworth and i am here in support of the chinatown and north beach business communities in their opposition to the central subway. Ever since the construction of this project, this organization known as the mta has been using lies, trickery and deception to economically terrorize the chinatown and north beach business communities by limiting consumer accessibility, by using the construction blockade the mta has been committing larceny against these business communities and will curtail them from enjoying the economic boom from the americas cup. As we all know, this public hearing is a formality. The decision to approve this project has already been made prior to this hearing. It is a huge waste of money because you could have just run rails up concern i street instead. The polls are still there where the 16th streetcar were. For what . So you can be reliable
[speaker not understood]. It says it would be encased in concrete and it would be more difficult to continue the tunnel along if we were to continue to north beach or Fishermans Wharf in the future. Is that correct . I believe, director brinkman, youre referring to option 3. Yes. The benefits of option 3, it does allow the construction of 3,000 feet of critical thank youerctionv that could make the possibility of an extension be real. Right. The downside of option 3 is that in order to accommodate for north beach station, you would the likelihood would be that you would have to remove these machines, which would be from a difficult operation in the future. Were currently looking at, though, to look at ways of perhaps diverting the machines, kind of off the path so that would either minimize or, you know, prevent the need to remove these machines. And normally when you use a tunnel Boring Machine at the end of the project, that tunnel Boring Machine comes out and it i guess goes onto an
Real. Right. The downside of option 3 is that in order to accommodate for north beach station, you would the likelihood would be that you would have to remove these machines, which would be from a difficult operation in the future. Were currently looking at, though, to look at ways of perhaps diverting the machines, kind of off the path so that would either minimize or, you know, prevent the need to remove these machines. And normally when you use a tunnel Boring Machine at the end of the project, that tunnel Boring Machine comes out and it i guess goes onto another project somewhere to dig again . Yes. Typically these machines have a useful life. The particular machine thats being used to construct the central subway are brandnew machines. So, they have a significant quite a bit of useful life left in them. All right, thank you. Other members of the board . Mr. Reiskin . Yes, i guess i want to add a bit more context and explanation and perhaps offer that, since weve been working very
And i should have at least a preliminary review from the fta by the end of this week. Those are the only three approvals and funding, and additional local funding. Would that be the ta here were talking about . We have not yet identified funding source. Okay, thank you. Other questions before we hear from the public . Yes. Just to clarify, 3 [speaker not understood]. It says it would be encased in concrete and it would be more difficult to continue the tunnel along if we were to continue to north beach or Fishermans Wharf in the future. Is that correct . I believe, director brinkman, youre referring to option 3. Yes. The benefits of option 3, it does allow the construction of 3,000 feet of critical thank youerctionv that could make the possibility of an extension be real. Right. The downside of option 3 is that in order to accommodate for north beach station, you would the likelihood would be that you would have to remove these machines, which would be from a difficult operation in the
Approvals and funding, and additional local funding. Would that be the ta here were talking about . We have not yet identified funding source. Okay, thank you. Other questions before we hear from the public . Yes. Just to clarify, 3 [speaker not understood]. It says it would be encased in concrete and it would be more difficult to continue the tunnel along if we were to continue to north beach or Fishermans Wharf in the future. Is that correct . I believe, director brinkman, youre referring to option 3. Yes. The benefits of option 3, it does allow the construction of 3,000 feet of critical thank youerctionv that could make the possibility of an extension be real. Right. The downside of option 3 is that in order to accommodate for north beach station, you would the likelihood would be that you would have to remove these machines, which would be from a difficult operation in the future. Were currently looking at, though, to look at ways of perhaps diverting the machines, kind of off the