And foreclose shures were mounting. When president came into office our economy was shrinking at an. 3 annual rate. The American People fought their way back from the brink. Cause of our nations resill resilience, we have seen our deficit shrink. Businesses have added more than two million jobs over the last year alone. Manufacturing has expanded while to Housing Market continues improve. At the same time our deficits are half what they were a few years ago. Even though progress has been made, our economy is not erforming at full steam. The pace of growth in hiring has ot been consistent enough, and the Government Shutdown and the debt ceiling impasse were examples of that brinksmanship. A manufactured crisis, but a crisis nonetheless. Even though we do not know the full exfent of the damage, we know it slowed Economic Growth and job creation in this quarter. What we should learn from this searing experience is that washington politics should not hurt workers and our economy nor be use
And the terrain tushes around and i totally get we have limited resources and constraint but its not great that the residents have to wait for another train to take you all the way you down to the bayview neighborhoods i understand the construction of the loops but what e, we do to provide Accurate Service thats one the Biggest Challenges in the southeast its connection to the Public Transit to the downtown neighborhood. No, i think youre absolutely right one of the first things that was on my desk was from supervisor cohen and the mayor talking about the two line service theirs obey a been a number i have things weve done all the transit signal priority that holds the Traffic Signals for the trains were not operating properly weve made additions and enhancements to the signal priorities in cases were preempting signals for the better flow of the trains and weve cut out a nov second detail anyone knows dollars painfully long waits in intersections so thats a fix theres a number of step
Illinois and 2120 third got its approval in 2011 because the old environmental approvals for the old mission loop we are old we refreshed those with the state and local in 2012 and file off 2013 weve finished the design you earlier this year and b will be going to the board to request approval the contract. The point being that while the recent set of approvals were refreshed based on newer information about the transportation and housing and land use situation that we have today, the original approval for the look like was approved in 1998 before those activities happened. The loop itself would do as i mentioned it will allow trains to turn to make a loop from third to 18 and 19 and illinois its part of the service plan for the central subway the environmental approvals limited use to daytimes and we expect those on 8 turnings per hour and more importantly it provides the flexibility for the t line the those folks that use our light rail know weve built an inflexibility unit so some o
Some real poison pills in it. Its good that the senator has stepped back. Its bare and it sends a message, but i dont think the message has to be brought to a vote. I agree and i just wanted to add i know we are on capitol hill and there are many staffers from the Republican Democratic sides. Congress has already played an Important Role. Iran is at the table in large part because of the sanctions booted into play the european union. So the congress has done a very effective job sending the signal and enhancing our leverage that we might look to the history to just recall how america has built with different crises in the past with the president in support. When president jefferson dealt with in the 19th century or Theodore Roosevelt in the japanese war of 1905. Franklin roosevelt in trying to negotiate to pretend before the second cold war these are all examples went on an exceedingly important Vital National security issue the interest of the president to lead. Congress always has th
Refreshed those with the state and local in 2012 and file off 2013 weve finished the design you earlier this year and b will be going to the board to request approval the contract. The point being that while the recent set of approvals were refreshed based on newer information about the transportation and housing and land use situation that we have today, the original approval for the look like was approved in 1998 before those activities happened. The loop itself would do as i mentioned it will allow trains to turn to make a loop from third to 18 and 19 and illinois its part of the service plan for the central subway the environmental approvals limited use to daytimes and we expect those on 8 turnings per hour and more importantly it provides the flexibility for the t line the those folks that use our light rail know weve built an inflexibility unit so some of the thinking in the 90s was to build in the flexibility so in terms of benefits the loop will significantly enable us to impro