Looked at this aspect in more detail in regards to having these benefits of having the canopy. In the sort of the gut feeling, which is not supported by any analysis, i would have thought that the canopy would have saved on maintenance and is desirable when you are walking down or coming down those escalator and nobody is spitting at you from on top and so forth. And it is pretty much throughout the world and in the u. S. The escalators are actually not exposed to the elements they are usually inside or they gate and so forth. So, i would like to support the notion that we do a good analysis of whether as you mentioned between what exists today and in terms of the Maintenance Costs between the ones that are internal verses the ones that are external. Because, if indeed it does not make any difference, im wondering why we are spending so much money, if it does make a difference, then we need to fast forward to basically support or to, yeah, support our investment. So, that, and i dont h
This going, because our money man had a call for clearly, the edge of our escalator system is there and just like the gentleman indicated in the 5 years and 30 years of the expensive e system and we need to have it going and until it is, they have a plan in place and by doing this pilot, we are also learned the process of the design, and derive the design solution and take all of these issues and so it is ready to work with mta. And there is a department in San Francisco. And so, there is no doubt that we will have this resource and readiness to move forward in the project as one time in the dpw, and the deputy director. Thank you. We still have a number of other commissioners that wanted to comment. Thank you. I have to say that the more that i hear about the canopy issue, the less i understand what the point of having them may be. And it seems like there is a difference of opinion between what the mta and bart is saying and so that is a concern. And so, i would ask that we figure out
Possible. And our old ones have laminated parts and in the water and do the lamb nation and the new escalators and the way that you designed them and we are not having the issues. We probably have as much problem with human waste, okay . And we probably have more problems with that than with other things. And plus, we are now going to have the additional cost of maintaining the canopy which everyone will want to put the graffiti on and use it for the shelter and we will have a lot of other factors that will come into play . There is no data that exists that canopies or that escalators that are covered and not covered as it relates to outdoor, there is not necessarily a life extension of the escalator. Like i said, if you worked the numbers, if you did not have to maintain it for 25 years, he would still be hard prelsed to break even on the price of the canopy. Okay, thank you. He wanted to respond from bart on his design and probably other benefits that we might not be thinking about.
Presentation. That is correct that there is no plan that has been finalized . So, there is a so the scopes and the timing and when we will do maipt nens and how that works will be included in the contract and it does exceed the standard that sets themselves for these escalator and so our maintenance is higher than the recommended maintenance level and then scott broder here in the transit division, manages all of those contracts. For the maintenance of the escalators. I mean that i understand that, but maybe, i am off point here, but, to my mind, there is a difference between a maintenance contract and a Maintenance Plan. I mean, the maintenance contract with this, the cone may be a part of the Maintenance Plan, but i dont necessarily think that the Maintenance Plan, it is necessarily, you know, limited to just, you know, a maintenance contract. And so that. For instance, a question that i have is, what is there a document that outlines what it is, that internal and mp a staff, and the
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