If this is the first time for you to visit a special welcome to you. We have a fabulous library which is available to the public for research this evening tony from the Historical Society will do the honors so well take a moment to greet everyone and now we will turn it over to tony. [applause] thank you gavin has put on a number of programs here including some definitive conversations well over a year ago which is where i first met him. Its a pleasure for me to have the task of introducing. Before i began its a lifetime of a career based in the premise vital to civilization and i think liz has captured that i will tell you one story about ed how i felt about him. The first time i met him i was about 25 years old the first week in the urban Development Corporation although i knew the agency and very anxious to go to work for him again. It happened on a very odd day we were working at the Burlington House we were the only tenants in the building at the time because the fisher brothers c
It gives me great pleasure to the death as they try to tackle Climate Change. To declare open this 25th session. And top of the class. Just how does one of europes smallest nations outperform so here in madrid, as the annual un its richer neighbours . Weve been to estonia to find out. Talks on Climate Change get under way, one of the loudest demands is from the countries most vulnerable to those bigger storms. We worry about our livelihoods. We worry about the future generations. We worry about our country. We exist as people. We in the small islands, we exist as people. We have our cultures, we have our families, we have our livelihoods, and we face extinction. You cant get away from that. Good morning. And its not a nice it is 9 00am in singapore and 1 00am in the uk. Thought, its scary. An investigation by bbc panorama has all the time, the gases that discovered that lawyers for five of the accusers ofjeffrey epstein, the convicted sex offender, are heating up the atmosphere have ma
We have a quorum. Thank you, colleagues. I have a request from commissioner valley brown to be excused from todays meeting. Is there a motion to that effect made by commissioner stephanie and seconded by commissioner mandelman and we will take that without objection, even though it might upset council. With that, can we go to the Citizens Advisory Committee. Mr. Larsen, good morning. Turn your microphone on, john, and go ahead. Good morning. Im the care of the Citizens Advisory Committee and im here to report on the most recent meeting of the cac. Beginning with item 5, allocation and appropriations of prop k funds for 6. 5 million, cac members expressed concerns of tacs used the express lane by the doorpool and express lane project request. The main issue was t n cs adding to congestion in similar ways to add congestion on city streets. There was also keen interest in the equity study and how it would be structured and conducted. They were to free up regular lanes from slower moving h
We have a quorum. Thank you, colleagues. I have a request from commissioner valley brown to be excused from todays meeting. Is there a motion to that effect made by commissioner stephanie and seconded by commissioner mandelman and we will take that without objection, even though it might upset council. With that, can we go to the Citizens Advisory Committee. Mr. Larsen, good morning. Turn your microphone on, john, and go ahead. Good morning. Im the care of the Citizens Advisory Committee and im here to report on the most recent meeting of the cac. Beginning with item 5, allocation and appropriations of prop k funds for 6. 5 million, cac members expressed concerns of tacs used the express lane by the doorpool and express lane project request. The main issue was t n cs adding to congestion in similar ways to add congestion on city streets. There was also keen interest in the equity study and how it would be structured and conducted. They were to free up regular lanes from slower moving h
And so, theyre able to space them out very far. I mean bart is the same way. When were running short, twocar trains we have to deliver the same number of people. So right now, were running about 42 were scheduling 42 trains an hour and thats a signal of muni to run as many trains to fit into the tunnel. What this graph is showing is that were falling short of that because the tunnel is not able to handle the volume of trains that were scheduling for it. And so we need to provide upgrades to the tunnel in order to increase the capacity of the tunnel. As a comparison, cities like boston are running 15 trains an hour through their most congested corridors and were running 32. So were about double some of the other larger cities with major metro systems. And the result of that is that we run fewer, longer trains, which is something that were looking into. And that is one prong of the strategy and the other prong is increasing the number of trains that we can run in the subway, so looking a