Year. Good evening and welcome to first ladies. The life of helen taft. Her husband served in the white house until 1913. Her lifepeak about and legacy is her biographer. The biography of her is helen taft, our musical first lady. You open the book by making the case that she is the most obscure of 27 20th century first ladies. Why do you think she deserves better than being obscure . She did things that were very constructive. The cherry trees, bringing the Classical Music and musicians to the white house, and, generally, trying to make washington the Cultural Center of the nation. That was her ambition. Out because of medical reasons. That wouldagenda have made her rank with Eleanor Roosevelt or lady johnson in terms of transforming washington if things had gone the other way. She had an agenda to get her husband to the white house. The story is that she decided when she visited the white , hey, i want to do that as well here there are a lot of women who wanted to have their husbands
Next, first ladys influence taft. Focuses on helen later, Chinese Foreign Affairs Minister talks about the relationship between america and china. Helen taft was more ambitious about getting to the white house than her husband, William Howard taft, and was willing to get personally involved in politics to get him elected. She overcame a serious illness to directly manage the white house. Invited top Classical Musicians to perform there. Helen taft also has one of the most visible legacies of all first ladies. Washington d. C. s famous japanese cherry tree. Bring tens of thousands of visitors to washington every year. Good evening and welcome to first ladies. The life of helen taft. Her husband served in the white house until 1913. Here to speak about her life and legacy is her biographer. The biography of her is helen taft, our musical first lady. You open the book by making the case that she is the most obscure of 20th century first ladies. Why do you think she deserves better than be
Turn im concerned about the cars and rails operating in the same space so generally speaking from our trains prospective to provide a dedicated rightofway for muni light rails in the urban environment its not also possible theres not space on the illinois rightofway for a dedicated muni facility because i think there is only room for one lane that prohibits all traffic from southbound illinois if im remembering the design correct. So the vehicles if thats the case the vehicles will have to share as many parts of the city. In terms of special events lib we do today theres Traffic Controls we put in place to general Traffic Controls in front of or front of the ball park we shut down the street to prioritize the traffic movements whether or not the loop or warriors we have a Management System in place like we do today so it could be a Traffic Control officer on illinois for example, well percentage that the way we do today all right. Thank you very much were going to go into Public Commen
And supervisor wiener do you have any questions for anyone i think what we can do is table this hearing as heard mr. Reiskin did you want to say anything in response to the Public Comment. Thank you mr. Chair, i guess a few things to the later two comments ive mentioned supervisor cohen has made it clear with the concerns at the end of the line i want to emphasize with or without this loop the two cars will double the capacity of the two lines before it will be creating a Significant Service over the length of the t line with regard to a guarantee we did adapt a policy this year my board adapted a policy by which which we looked at the different neighborhoods to make sure theyre getting muni service this looked at the bayview for example, relative to the system average and making scombrauchlts and Capital Improvements or Service Management accordingly so in effect this provides that guarantee. In terms of the balance of the comments they seem to understand the need for a turn around to
Mr. Reiskin did you want to say anything in response to the Public Comment. Thank you mr. Chair, i guess a few things to the later two comments ive mentioned supervisor cohen has made it clear with the concerns at the end of the line i want to emphasize with or without this loop the two cars will double the capacity of the two lines before it will be creating a Significant Service over the length of the t line with regard to a guarantee we did adapt a policy this year my board adapted a policy by which which we looked at the different neighborhoods to make sure theyre getting muni service this looked at the bayview for example, relative to the system average and making scombrauchlts and Capital Improvements or Service Management accordingly so in effect this provides that guarantee. In terms of the balance of the comments they seem to understand the need for a turn around to question this location. I think to call this a rush decision would be completing a Capital Project 18 years afte