This hearing will come to order. Thank you all for being here, good morning. Today the committee can means to discuss the status of the National Rail network in the country is 140,000 miles of freight rail in class one railroads over 600 freight railroads and thousands of Companies Using braille to ship products and raw materials, we also have an intercity passenger real service amtrak operating on 22000 miles of the same network including over 500 stations. Todays first panel of witnesses will feature mr. William flynn ceo of amtrak and the executive director of the Development Corporation in Montana Development association who will testify remotely. Todays second panel will include mr. Frank Vice President Global Supply chain on behalf of of the council testifying remotely, mr. Randy, the president and ceo of the association, the chairman and National Council testifying remotely in the association of American Railroad and mr. Dennis pierce, president teamsters real conference testify
That we need to address and adding more service. Or whether we can bring back a new route. Those are the things that we have. Two other factors are geographic distribution. From the beginning we only had 17 routes. We made sure that every single neighborhood was within a mile of a transit. We are now getting closer to half a mile i. In normal times we have a standard of quarter mile. The last factor is essential destination. Making sure each neighborhood, especially neighborhoods where people are less likely to have other options are connected to hospitals, Grocery Stores and other essential business. Thank you, i will open up now for questions. Just to remind participants who are listening, the council has chance to ask questions. We will open it up to people who are in this meeting. I will start off. Sandra, when you were talking about how you approached your decisionmaking for where the routes are going, was that a decisionmaking base on traffic prior to covid or during covid . I wo
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And tom keene. A postdebate bloomberg surveillance. We welcome all of you on bloomberg television, Bloomberg Radio across this nation after an extra ordinary evening observed by all last night. We have good analysis through forward in the view towards october 15 and the second debate. I know we are going to try to focus on where we are in economics, finance, investment and that. Ive just got to go to your observation of seeing the debate from london. Was london engaged in that of a last night in the debate last night . Jonathan it was the talk of breakfast this morning, i can tell you. I was watching it on my phone and the waitress came over and discussed what she thought as well. I think many were surprised come about at the same time, what else did you expect when you were going to put these two people in the same room on the same stage . Tom you are absolutely dead on. When they started in last night with Chris Wallace, at times almost debating with the president , to see what they
Good morning, everyone. This is the october 6th, 2020 special budget and finance committee meeting. Im sandra lee fewer, chair of the budget and finance committee. Today im joined by Committee Members supervisor Rafael Mandelman and supervisor mat haney, substituting today for supervisor walton. Our clerk is miss linda long. Id like to thank sfgov tv for broadcasting this meeting. Id like to put a motion to excuse supervisor shamann walton. Do i please have a roll call vote. Clerk on the supervisor, supervisor haney . Comments are opportunities to speak during Public Comment period, theyre available via phone call by calling 415 6550001. Again 415 655000 415 655000g i. D. 146 407 0690. Again 146 407 0690. Then press pound twice. You will hear the meeting discussion, but you will be in mute and in listeningmode only. When the item of interest comes up, dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. Best practices to call from a quiet lotion, speak clearly and slowly and turn down the tele