Again, an ideal long term partnership. For us to begin the process to improve this to be the best light rail system in the country, and the other point, again, is everything is local. And as opposed to why you could say, yes, it is a German Company and there are in fact no rail manufacturers entirely based in the United States but this is as close as you are ever going to get. 90 miles away, again, planning, designing and engineering, and manufacturing, warrantty support, and all in sacramento, and the other thing that we have highlight is the price. And we got a very Competitive Price when you look at the price that we have compared to any high floor car purchase in the u. S. And in the last three to five years and, we did very well in that regard. So, in terms of the two proposals that we received, one really stood out. And there is a sampling of one of the cars. By the way it was not our intention to confuse you in either of the presentation or the in the slide show, and just to cau
For the reason of identifying an entity to have and to hold the liability they are working with tma sf connect, to be that over arching umbrella who is going to be the designated operator of the shuttle they will obviously contract out on the ground operations but then, once that comes on board, they will be considered a nonprofit, and entity but, the folks that they are benefiting are zenga and adobe and folks like that. Okay, thank you. You are saying that they were already stopping in bus stops . Yes, they are. It sounds like many of them are on one end using white zones and tend to use at some locations a red zone or just if they want to continue to use any of the muni zones and those are in this approved network, that we have put forward, they must get a permit. We are not requireding them to use the muni zones and they are welcome to pursue the white zones or find other places to do their loading or unloading. I know that there has to be a nexus related to the fee that is charged
Going to be the designated operator of the shuttle they will obviously contract out on the ground operations but then, once that comes on board, they will be considered a nonprofit, and entity but, the folks that they are benefiting are zenga and adobe and folks like that. Okay, thank you. You are saying that they were already stopping in bus stops . Yes, they are. It sounds like many of them are on one end using white zones and tend to use at some locations a red zone or just if they want to continue to use any of the muni zones and those are in this approved network, that we have put forward, they must get a permit. We are not requireding them to use the muni zones and they are welcome to pursue the white zones or find other places to do their loading or unloading. I know that there has to be a nexus related to the fee that is charged and i would think that different axels or kind of weight of the vehicles could trigger that, no . There are so many complicated parts and developing so
Are on one end using white zones and tend to use at some locations a red zone or just if they want to continue to use any of the muni zones and those are in this approved network, that we have put forward, they must get a permit. We are not requireding them to use the muni zones and they are welcome to pursue the white zones or find other places to do their loading or unloading. I know that there has to be a nexus related to the fee that is charged and i would think that different axels or kind of weight of the vehicles could trigger that, no . There are so many complicated parts and developing something new that we have, not, that is not something that we have used as a differential. And it could be something that we look at for a longer term, proposal, but, we are keeping the fee as something that is set for an individual stop event, which is one time loading and or unloading at a stop. Thank you, members of the board . Director . No i have no other questions, thank you, you have ans
This is generally when you have a very hightech cal score, and a high quality car and you end up with a high price, and this process for us reversed that. And you had a high, technical score and a comparive price and the other thing to go back to highlight is the alternate approach and what we did in addition to saying that this is the car that we want, and we in this spirit of following the process, where we partnered with the industry, we said, look, we may not have thought of everything. And you build the cars for a living and you may have a better approach on the technical side and you may have a better approach on the business side, tell us what they are. And for example, on the technical side, semans presented 35 or so potential enhancements and one of the things, for example, something called a mary pia. Which was fairly common in railroads but we never tried it and what we will do is basically take and right now we reverse the ends and there is an a and a b end and there is pow