Some breakdowns and other mechanical problems. So, we need to know with the Current Situation is, what the plan is to get us out of this Current Situation, and how muni sees the next 3, 4, 5 years going in terms of not just angel writers dont worry at some point in the future its going to be all fixed but how is it going to function the next number of years as we continue to grow as the city and is more more people are relying on this transit system. I look forward to the conversation. Thank you thank you supervisor wiener. Supervisor yee thank you. To become i like to adjourn the memory of in memory of state senator john for rent, who passed on september 11. At his home in district 7. Senator for ram shape californias transportation policy over 22 years career in legislative state legislation. He also played a major role in acting california clean air act. After his retirement from the state center in 1986 the San Francisco section of the interstate [inaudible] 280 as you know the 280
Also established the metropolitan Transportation Commission in the bay area. Some of you are members of that. Which became the countrys 1st regional Transportation Authority. Legislation that allowed [inaudible] orange district to conclude does include very transit systems. Several of us are also on that particular board could his work continues to make an impact on Bay Area Transportation and will for the long into the future. Senator for ram has a lifelong interest in politics and law. He graduated near the top of his class at usf school of law and served as a Deputy Attorney general before running for public office. He retired in 2004 and traveled extensively and enjoyed spending time with family and friends. Senator for ram is survived by his friend of his wife of 56 years his 2 sons and 2 daughters and 4 grandchildren assessment thank you supervisor you. Resident should thank you colleagues of a couple of items today. 1st i want to start with the difficult memorial. I want to reco
Question im glad supervisor wiener spoke line of questioning is clarified that theres consequences in this. Im just curious, and i dont know how much we can divulge on this, but what happened but it fell apart . Can you clarify . I guess rather than mean any specific names, i think that the issue is that the compromise were the new payment plan as a preferred to call it requires from the beginning that all 6 developers were agreeable. Otherwise if we dont get promises not to sue from all 6 its pointless because of one sues its the same as as if they all sued. So, we werent able to get that. There were 2 or 3 that were on board from the beginning and a couple that we couldnt get in the end. We thought we had assurances. We do have assurances in the beginning but minds change or something changed. So thats pretty much what happened. By late last week and began became clear we were not going to get the agreement from all the. Again, avoiding any names, there were several that were on boar
News of the we dont even have a replacement and writers you can consequences every day with their big gaps of service when there are vehicles that you cant even squeeze onto because theyre just not enough vehicles, when vehicles breakdown in the system and clog up and shut down, the subway, its entirety,. So while its exciting and important that were going to have this next generation of light rail vehicles, we need to know what muni is doing now. To make sure that this system becomes more reliable and that we do the absolute most with what we have. The next number of years. The 1st wave of lrps from siemens the new ones will arrive in 2016. For the central subway. It will be several more years after that until we start seeing these new lrps in the system as a whole and then there will be a gradual transition over time as we decommission the defective [inaudible] and put siemens into exclusive use. So, this hearing will explore with mta with the Current Situation is and i will say that
One is even a fender bender with no one being hurt something minor ones of the news of the we dont even have a replacement and writers you can consequences every day with their big gaps of service when there are vehicles that you cant even squeeze onto because theyre just not enough vehicles, when vehicles breakdown in the system and clog up and shut down, the subway, its entirety,. So while its exciting and important that were going to have this next generation of light rail vehicles, we need to know what muni is doing now. To make sure that this system becomes more reliable and that we do the absolute most with what we have. The next number of years. The 1st wave of lrps from siemens the new ones will arrive in 2016. For the central subway. It will be several more years after that until we start seeing these new lrps in the system as a whole and then there will be a gradual transition over time as we decommission the defective [inaudible] and put siemens into exclusive use. So, this