Joint power board meetings as well as the Land Use Committee of the board of supervisors will be holding hears on this toing. And the program, at the top priority for us as well as for many of the partners in the region and there is a critical, assessment choice before the jpb on the Vehicle Selection it replace the Current Fleet with the electric vehicles, and here we want to be sure that the future fleet will be compatible with the high speed rail, operation and the platform or the vehicle high is the key issue and cal train and high speed have become engaged and working closely and we are seeing the hopeful signs and we are hoping that that does lead to a truly operatable system with the shared platform and vehicle, height, to enable reliable operations of both systems. Also consider approval for the cal train system and we will see it in december, at the board of supervisors and the Transportation Plans and Programs Committee, moving on transbay, Transit Center celebrated an above
Therefore, reducing the we have a lot of work to do, but we are far behind and unfortunately the countris in asia and europe but we are doing well in the u. S. But we have a lot more work to do and we are able to learn and share the best practices. If we can go to the Public Comment on this item. Commissioner mar and yee . There were a lot of take aways for myself, and i mean, that it was nice and comforting that we had really the largest con tining ent and i felt like we were in San Francisco, even though we are in brooklyn and it is one of the boroughs that are larger than San Francisco and it was interesting to hear some of the streets and the pedestrians itself and the message that they are trying to get across is that the human beings make the mistakes and pedestrian ans will make the mistakes and they can be distracted and we should Pay Attention to that. And one of the things that was interesting, was the opening sort of keynote address, in which the professor there talked about
Sf. Com and for those interested, check that out and then the glen park plan, transportation improvements are beginning transportation this month and both again park and balboa are now seeing, i think that finally the construction happening after many years of planning and design and community involvement. And my very last, mention here will be a big thank you, to fong and her team, and we conducted an audit and that was a big achievement in the last month or so, even as the team was implementing and watching our enterprise resource project, erp system and a big Financial Accounting system that she has also been leading so thank you for that, and if you would endudge me, i want to recognize erika and she moving to another position in the finance and admin group, and she will be working on the management analyst, working on contracts and a bunch of other really great things. And steve has accepted the position of clerk and we want to thank him for serving the authority in this way. Than
Between the freeways network and the Arterial Network that parallels the 101 and 208 facility and that work is happening right now through a visioning study and that will be bringing forward to the plans and Programs Committee as well. There are a number of plans that are in the report, beginning the 19th avenue, mline, project and we are supporting this work. The good news here is that cal transhas vetted the process and indicate that had there is no real fatal flaws that they have identified and it looks like the concepts are generally workable and it will take the time to rev through the designs and come up with a more specific list of improvements and phasing in particular, for this very large, and ambition project that is seeking to redesign, 19th avenue and the mline service to be more reliable and safer. The neighborhood, Transportation Center has been making great progress and what is nice to see that the neighbors there took a site visit to see what the improvements over there
Of out reach and Community Workshops and i attended one and this is the corridor traversing San Francisco and daily city as well as multiple different ways that we are trying to address the safety and reliable issues and there is a need for a Rapid Transit route for the transand muni buses and also a need for bus routes and connectivity and we continue to work with the city and the city of brisbain and we want to address the issues and the concerns of the little hollywood, and the visitation valley area who are looking to see if we might be able to explore the different ways to work with the neighbors to the south and the rocology site to find the optimum bruding through the area. On the brt, the bus, ra pit transit project, we want to congratulate the board for approving legislation, for that project, and last week, the legislation dedicated the bus only lanes on van ness avenue and consolidated several bus stops and it adds to the term and reconfigures the parking to support the proj