Im the political register. The rules are, be iowa nice. If you do things that are interfering with other people, dont do those things. Thanks for sticking with us. We will have more tomorrow. The speeches are o desm oinesregister. Com. And now, senator cory booker. Senator booker hello, iowa. Hello, everybody. Thank you, thank you. A low, mean to start on but it is actually a high. I began today giving a eulogy for my great aunt, who was born and raised in des moines. My great aunt and my grandmother, born and raised in des moines, i am not the first of my family to be at the iowa state fair. Is that my lore goes grandmother and my great aunt who i eulogized this morning, they actually competed at the iowa state fair during the depression. Their story is that they took second prize to Shirley Temple back then. The only thing i can say, i will not saying. But i am really proud of those iowa roots. I said at the eulogy this morning, we buried a 100yearold iowa one, and the story of this
Second thing going on, which is we are taxing a mode of transportation that is shown to create congestion and using that money to fund modes of transportation that could reduce transportation. There is an economic benefit. Unfortunately, the first of phnom economic impact, with the data to analyse, and the second we dont. When i say, as we conclude in the report, that this is a mildly negative economic impact. That is a result of placing the tax on the consumers and spending the money at the city. It is a fairly small impact of 25 milliondollar reduction to the g. D. P. , which is less then the tax that is raised. We are not able, because of Data Limitations to estimate how responsive t. N. C. Ridership would be to be an increase in fares, although we expected to decline somewhat. The only kind of caveat that we mentioned in our report is about the proposed tax and it also includes Autonomous Vehicles. At present, there are no Autonomous Vehicles doing rides in San Francisco. The case
Aspirations on phase 2 and this is not just a megaproject, it is a megaregional project. So with that, john. Right . You are john fisher, arent you . I am. [laughter] thank you, mr. Chairman. And commissioners, we concluded with our draft recommendations today. So really opportunity to take any of your questions. And certainly field them to any of our colleagues on the panel. So i know, folks, insofar as were hearing this again on julr of speakers, if anybody has questions, have at it. Youll have another opportunity. The one thing that obviously you have not touched on is the big question. Clearly what i heard you say is that this expert panel national, International Experts is recommending a transitional phase. And then ultimately in a couple of years, an entirely new governmental phase. The multibillion dollar question is what does that look like . I think well hear more about that and more about what the criteria around that will be. I also heard the last speaker say rather bluntly
Comprehensively getting this right, amongst stakeholder agencies, with the public and the words that youve just heard reposition, redefine are really both a comment on phase 1 and a road map to our aspirations on phase 2 and this is not just a megaproject, it is a megaregional project. So with that, john. Right . You are john fisher, arent you . I am. [laughter] thank you, mr. Chairman. And commissioners, we concluded with our draft recommendations today. So really opportunity to take any of your questions. And certainly field them to any of our colleagues on the panel. So i know, folks, insofar as were hearing this again on julr of speakers, if anybody has questions, have at it. Youll have another opportunity. The one thing that obviously you have not touched on is the big question. Clearly what i heard you say is that this expert panel national, International Experts is recommending a transitional phase. And then ultimately in a couple of years, an entirely new governmental phase. Th
Might have. Otherwise excuse me, theres a general item for an upcoming meeting, perhaps in august. I think it would be timely with the onboarding of commissioner gray and commissioner smith joining us that we can have a deeper policy dive in terms of exploring not just the one of the items that are here before us today, but also other things that we had previously considered as a commission and can go through what we have been calling the policy prioritization station plan. I think we have done this on a quarterly basis, but looking at the overall portfolio of potential projects, it has been some time. I think it would be a good time to do grounding in terms of all that has come forward and matters before is now, and have a robust discussion of the full commission on where to go in the future both on the short medium and longterm. I think the timing would be good, because as you can see, a lot of these projects are in the later stages right now. The regulations that you approved hopefu