That representation Transportation Safety issues along with my Ranking Member senator cantwell let me welcome our Signature Panel of witnesses and thank them for this hearing. Well hear from the department of transportation including neil szabat ron brinks and straygur of the federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and deputy minister of traffic and safety. Welcome to each of you. Fixing americas surface transportation act of 2019 better known as the fastback rasterized the administrations responsible for ensuring the safety of our surface transportation paid sns and fra. Identifying issues this committee should consider as we prepare for reauthorization. The fastback places a greater focus on our nations Multimodal Network that includes establishing the emperor Grant Program. This program and others such as formerly tiger grants are critical to improve our nations transportation infrastructure. I hope the winces will provide the committee with an update on efforts to improve our i
Santa rosa 52. City at 54. Below average even though jim came in above. The last week of june was very cool and first for five days are going to be similar as well with temperatures winning below average because of the slow which has been parked there for about a week continues to turn offshore that is sending in high clouds, keep the onshore breeze in place and temperatures are slow to recover and water temps went down. 5253 in San Francisco buoy, if this is your kind of weather this is your kind of week because temperatures are not going far. Most morning due to low cloud deck and onshore wind still in place and cost about 30 out of travis now southwest the 20 and will not going anywhere until after thursday, 60s, 70s. Good news or more issues . Good news. I will qualify that. Good news if youre in the bay bridge of that short commutes. Not great news if youre coming in from tracy because that is still going a new problem there to tell you about. This is westbound 588. Malt feel. Was
We are now getting people really does celebrate the fourth of july which is this coming thursday, i know the best thing about the fourth for me is going down to our local firehouse and have a big pancake breakfast and the children love it. Barbecues throughout the bay area. Parades. Its a week for it. And traffic was a little bit lighter. That may because people are extending the holiday. Speaking people enjoying the holiday, sal is off to after a ninemonth closure, the Salesforce Transit Center is back open but there is no Transit Service yet. What the public and do and what they can go see today. Reporter most people are coming upstairs to salesforce park, its five and have acres and includes a rooftop garden. These are native plants to chile and behind us you can also see the bus bridge, that remains close, there were no buses coming into the center today, that will happen a little later on this summer. I did get a chance to speak with some folks this morning and ask them how they f
Test. Test. Tom udall. Todd young. Captioning performed by vitac thats a really good question. Im glad you asked it. When something does become mandatory, it must have a very consistent repeatable Test Procedure and what we find is when a technology is new, for instance, a certain kind of alert or blind spot detection, we learn a lot from the fact there are a little bit of a difference in different folks that are adopting it or different manufacturers who are designing different systems. Thats a time of learning and then if it seems appropriate to adopt it as a mandatory standard, we can then identify which of them is best. So that is one of the reasons why when a technology is first introduced we allow some Consumer Experience and some innovation before a mandate you couldnt just make it mandatory and give them the flexibility to do it however makes sense while youre testing this. Under the laws that we execute we actually have to be to have a consistent Test Procedure. So we cant say
Today we will hear from department of transportation officials. The administrator of the federal railroad administration. The administrator of the federal Motor Carriers administration. And the deputy administrator of the national highway Traffic Safety administration. Welcome to each of you. Fixing americas surface transportation act of 2015 reauthorized many of the modal administrations responsible for ensuring the safety of our surface Transportation System. Fra. Ding fmcsa, nasa, and hearing provides our witnesses with the opportunity to discuss the implementation of and identify issues this committee should consider as we prepare for reauthorization. The act placed a greater focus on our nations multimodal freight i hope the witnesses will provide the committee with an update on efforts to improve infrastructure and how build grants are being utilized. Are the Commerce Committee considers reauthorizing the fast act, i plan on working with members on both sides of the aisle to auth