There will be needed improvements and, of course, the extension to downtown but also high speed rail is anticipated to have is a station at milling before a and were looking at additional grade separation as necessary that we the complete the l t k study that looked at 5 potential areas not decided where they will be but the passing tracks will enable the 4 high speed rail trains. We need to taking a look at system improvements not only for the high speed rail up to 110 but those will require additional funding. Throughout the process weve been cropping with key folks no San Francisco. Our Engineering Group has been working with the taurj to review designs and provide approvals as well as looking at the d t y. Weve been collaborating the tjpa study and most recently were continuing to work on a blend system concept of systems not only with tjpa but high speed rail at the table. Oakland were working with the city of San Francisco were going to be working with them on the i 280 study and
Full excavation 4 blocks especially on our are are early integrations everyone. I wanted to note following up on steves prosecution prosecution were employing a lot of people in San Francisco but in construction alone people in will you will i and a canada and oregon and more in parts of the country so the project our project is really providing a lot of economic benefits not only to the bay area of california but to the rest of the country were proud of that that concludes my report thank you. And that brings us to item 6. Actually, we have a member of the public we have i want to be brief on the construction update. I was at the cac two days ago i was surprised at the early excavation zone 4 is not as deep as zone 1 because of the 10 foot elevation so the first thing thats strange or weather that introduces an interesting thing the floor height on the east and west is 5 feet higher than the platform level between the east and west the real reason im addressing the board weve got to a
Increment projects and now delay them. As we venture into longterm vision making im a planner i think im in the wrong line of work but i believe we have to find the balance i think the nervousness coming out of caltrain to that agency we have aggressive schedules for immediate modernization projects and how did or does this fit in trying trying to balancing those interests are important thank you director lee. Director harper. Im glad to see this the city of San Francisco would be extremely remiss if they werent doing this Human Resources im revved i would have liked to seen it happen years ago because this project that were doing was greatly energy jisz with the prospective of high speed rail. That prospect has been severely diminished. I think we have to do this to replace that Energy Although i think high speed rail is coming it may not come for 25 years thats the reality. The only way to proceed with our project is to somehow do Something Like that with this holistic thinking that
For the high speed rail and the 16th street theres been work from the tjpa pled on the analysis and the opportunity to remove that barrier in the future. Some of the other barriers are the railway areas. The goals are simple they are to determine the best methods of the construction and coordinate the improvement 69 upper environmentalist and increase job growth needs and potential revenue sources. I want to state up front its not to do work thats completed but to assess the continued validate and in moving on to understand and built the net infrastructure. To step back a bit theres been a lot of work completed in this area and no one, you know, is going to think otherwise we have the high speed rail and the caltrain and other plans that have been done throughout the see. I can will see see the area and understand it as a whole is imperfect to plan and not react after the fact. So what does the proposed projectile set out to complete. This is t this is the first time well try to study
Secure the second phrase wheel were hoping for tangling funding. I think its important for us to examine the possible scenarios as we continue to move forward with two of the most important projects what the elect causation of the caltrains. Im wondering about the finally, my priorities are the input to the final plan we have many residents that live around the areas and second, of course, is moving forward with the alignment that allows the electrification to occur at the fast rate that we possibly can so one the initiate to provide a revenue stream or whether the alignment is a more efficient route we all want to see d t x and the alignment happen we could maybe bring those two together. Understanding, of course, that caltrain has is started to move ahead with electrification and the last piece i want to reiterate i hope we can connect with the waterfront project were looking at the waterfront so as we examine peer 70 and the proerptd warriors stadium on pier 33 and im hoping we can