Constituents about muni and its timeliness. Thank you to the drivers. Thank you to the m. T. A. Team, thank you to all of those who have worked on this contract. Thank you to siemens for just working with the city and being patient with us. Thank you to the mayor for his leadership on transportation issues. Thank you to phil ting for always bringing home the bacon. We have got to do a better job in improving our Transportation System and today we demonstrate that this is a start. Were not done. Well keep moving muni forward. Thank you so much for being here today. [applause] thank you, president breed. It is great to have that passion leading our board of supervise source and supporting transit in San Francisco. So i had mentioned, as did the mayor and the Assembly Member and the president that the growth in San Francisco is part of what we need to accommodate on sustainable modes in the highest capacity sustainable mode of transportation we have in San Francisco is our light rail syst
A once in a generation good morning, everyone. My name is ed riskin, im the director of transportation here in the city and county of San Francisco. So glad to be with you all today under this beautiful sunshine to mark really what is a once in a generation milestone for muni, for the Transit Service and for the people of San Francisco. Today we are putting into service this beautiful vehicle thats behind us. And a lot of folks are responsible for getting us here. I want to acknowledge mayor lee, president breed who is, im sure, on her way. Our state and federal and regional partners and the tremendous work of our transit director john halle and his staff [applause] a lot of whom are in bright colored vests and jackets. As well as many other parts of our agency, the safety division, the training division, the communications division. Materials division. Maintenance. Everybody coming together. Accessible services. Everybody coming together to get us to this point. The reason why this is
Demands on rail Service Continue to grow in San Francisco. And if you look at the cranes in the sky, if you look at the projections of growth, thats only going to continue and so we need a better, more reliable, higher capacity, more enjoyable way for people to be able to get through the city and that is exactly these rail cars signify for us. This car is the first of 24 of the first batch that will be going into service. Those 24 will be in service before the end of next year. Following that, there is another 44 that come and these are all in addition to the 151 cars that we currently have in service. So, this is expansion. That means more service. That means longer trains. More twocar trains. More threecar trains and more frequent service along our raillines, which is really the workhorse of the muni system. And it is not just capacity. But these vehicles have been exceptionally engineered and meticulously designed to provide stateoftheart, much better ride and much better experience
Barrier between pesticide application and trades and play areas and areas frequented by children to 50 feet. In the future well probably ask for 200 but the problem is we need the city to expand the safety barrier because 15 feet not enough. So thats the rest of them so i wont have to bring it up at future agenda items. It looks like i thought there was some meetings planned in november around this and it looked like that doesnt happen. Maybe one meeting didnt happen so it looks like our schedule is slipping so do outreach to the public so let them know the meeting and whatevers happening in january, february and march. Commissioner thank you. The next item . The clerk item nine, announcements and items for discussion. Commissioner commissioners, any announcements . Public comment on no announcements . Hearing none, next item. The clerk the next item is new business and future agenda items. The speaker is valdez and the document is the 2018 push on the environment meeting schedule the
Staff [applause] a lot of whom are in bright colored vests and jackets. As well as many other parts of our agency, the safety division, the training division, the communications division. Materials division. Maintenance. Everybody coming together. Accessible services. Everybody coming together to get us to this point. The reason why this is so exciting for us is because the demands on rail Service Continue to grow in San Francisco. And if you look at the cranes in the sky, if you look at the projections of growth, thats only going to continue and so we need a better, more reliable, higher capacity, more enjoyable way for people to be able to get through the city and that is exactly these rail cars signify for us. This car is the first of 24 of the first batch that will be going into service. Those 24 will be in service before the end of next year. Following that, there is another 44 that come and these are all in addition to the 151 cars that we currently have in service. So, this is e