Speakers comments. When we stand united on the floor of the congress as americans, thats when we send the strongest message overseas to adversaries. I want to thank mr. Engel for his strong work, in working with me to get to a positive place where we can actually get to a solution, to whats been a challenging and very fluid situation. Its always an honor to work with you, sir, on the Foreign Affairs committee, and in these times of crises, we are, i believe, strongest on the world stage when the executive and legislative branch speak in one voice. I know in his testimony before our committee, ambassador jeffries, special envoy to sir ark said i saw firsthand the effects of congressional sanctions when we visited with the turkish negotiating team, that these sanctions have been helpful in getting turks to agree to the ceasefire. I believe the resolution that we passed helps helped get turkey to the ceasefire as well. Finally, i want to thank our partners in the Syrian Democratic forces
Chair seeing no other members of the public on this item, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] thank you for that brief, compressed update. Is there any introduction of new items . Im sorry, commissioner mandelman. I was going to express appreciation for chilly chang and ben rosenfield, who had done so much work to pull the group together. We have only had one meeting of the full group, but subgroups meeting. I thought the first meeting, it give me a little bit of hope that, you know, if you put smart folks in the room and start getting feedback from people from other systems, that we may figure some things out and get sort of path forward that is helpful. I felt really good about the first meeting. I want to thank everyone in the Mayors Office as well for their help in pulling it all together. Chair thank you for that closing comment on this ongoing item that we will hear more about. Is there any introduction of new items . Seeing none. Any commissioner walton . Supervisor walton thank y
Were working on is the track brakes. And as soon as i fish, ramona is going to come up here, because shes the expert in that field. Shes the one thats been driving them for quite some time. Another issue that were also trying to address is the mirrors. The lack thereof in terms of having them replaced. The track brakes, in terms of upgrading them and having them installed is not just a shortterm solution, but a longterm solution by saving money in terms of keeping all of these vehicles from breaking down through the flat wheels. Thats, indeed, good news. Id like to break up ramona to give a little more indepth explanation in regards to the track brakes. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for having me here today. Yes. The issue with the track brakes is something that we are pretty much concerned in terms of safety basically. The track basically we might defer in how we see through different lenses. We see track brakes like a secondary a secondary brake on the trains. Currently the l. R.
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Transportation authority to conduct a study, bringing back bus service on 3rd street. Bring back the 15 and potentially routing it to connect with exsettlor and the bart rain to station to the south. Chair all right. Noted. With that is there any general Public Comment . A call for the calvary to come. [laughter] to your rescue. Sounded like that. So im asking the supervisors. When we have our projects that do the asphalting, somehow we should keep in mind our children, school children, our youth and our elders when they cross from one side to the other. We kind of have those things the asphalt. And you dont have the crossing lines in place. Three months now. On san bruno. And i have spoken here four times. You know, i have to stand there and see that our kids are safe. I have to ask like a policeman. Why isnt m. T. A. Doing their job . Why isnt m. T. A. Talking to somebody. Do you all have a check list when you do the asphalting, the contractor did this, the work, asphalting, whatever