I understand that the original proposal for caltrain, that you want to mix in the Current Fleet along with 25 and keep the stations the same and provide a set of the steps for when the 25 trains roll in, correct . Yes. Lets say you went with the 50 and you kept some of the diesel trains, but now have steps that go to 50 inches . Correct. Is that possible . Yes. So the challenge, it seems to me from a laymans perspective, because im not an engineer. One second, she is still talking. If we get a 25 emu vehicle, its almost identical in the floor height to one that we have today, which is just one step to get into it. And so both our diesel system and future one would be able to serve our platforms. If we raised the platforms to level boarding you would raise the step and have emu. If we get a train that is being talked about that would have a couple different door heights, ones built at 25, because that is where people board from no matter what. You cant jump from a 50 door to where we ar
Been dreaming about for a long time and very happy that they are happening. On the compatibility issue, this is one that the Transportation Authority together with the city family we have been advocating for quite a while. In all deference to dave, with his relatively new to the area, we started talking about a compatibility two years ago, when the mou was first put together. And caltrain project was revived because it had been on the shelf because of lack of funding. From those days we have been encouraging highspeed rail and caltrain to have compatible height in the platforms. And were very happy to see that now they are moving in the direction that they are moving. It looks like there is a light at the end of the tunnel, so to speak and quite encouraged by the information that we have been getting. In order to address one of supervisor kims questions, it is true that the majority of the commuter rails doubleplatform doubledecker vehicles usually come in 25. However, there are manufa
Not anti bike or pro car or pro bike and anti car i want to look at an ideal legacy plan to make that work for both sides it is just not seeming to work for this weve been at this for two years didnt make sense for a small area to have this legacy Pilot Program with the congestion thats not been studied which that is the most dangerous from 5 to 8 00 p. M. Ill urge to look at this before approving it and think this over if its a great idea in theory but in practice take a closer lock thank please clapping calling names . Good afternoon. Im rose i have a different idea bikes want to use polk street because its flat they can move to a different street the businesses cant but van ness is pretty flat very wide situations and very few pedestrians and the new bicycle complain not buses every single minute why couldnt the bikes travel in the bus lane safely or make a lane for those very wide sidewalks are through could be one think each side be safer for pedestrians and safer for bikes for th
And since then there has been right now in the planning pipeline crossing to director ram another 68 thousand units being built on the polk side we have outdated traffic information were looking at as well as the development of the polk street plan as wrarpts to the corridor balloon with the hospital and have changes in the employment dominate when we started 51 percent of the hospital workers lived in San Francisco now were down to less than 40 percent more and more people are consulting in from longer distances to work in our hospitals and other critical businesses operation of the hospital and of so many other businesses in San Francisco but particularly in the van ness corridor a hospital cannot operate without the brt the brt Must Come First we strongly urge you to have Environmental Impact report done thank you thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names good afternoon. Good afternoon marching im here with the coalition of San Francisco neighborhood and i represent a number of
That work for both sides it is just not seeming to work for this weve been at this for two years didnt make sense for a small area to have this legacy Pilot Program with the congestion thats not been studied which that is the most dangerous from 5 to 8 00 p. M. Ill urge to look at this before approving it and think this over if its a great idea in theory but in practice take a closer lock thank please clapping calling names . Good afternoon. Im rose i have a different idea bikes want to use polk street because its flat they can move to a different street the businesses cant but van ness is pretty flat very wide situations and very few pedestrians and the new bicycle complain not buses every single minute why couldnt the bikes travel in the bus lane safely or make a lane for those very wide sidewalks are through could be one think each side be safer for pedestrians and safer for bikes for the elimination of the traffic on polk street its no one really wants to be walking we have to save