Treasure island. A great milestone there. And then my last notes is, one of the things they talked about, the great executive team that we have, what we have had a couple of holes. And one of the things that i have been very focused on is filling those holes, but also making sure that the central subway stays on a continued strong path to get to the finish line, so i am pleased to announce the appointment of someone who started yesterday as the new Central Subway Program director. Nadeem, as i said, he started yesterday, and it is his job to get the project to the finish line. This is not his first rodeo, he has more than 35 years of experience planning, designing, managing, construction of large, highly complex, domestic and International Rail transit projects. He has managed projects in l. A. , d. C. , chicago, and i met him when he was director of Program Management for the f. D. A. Office here in region nine, overseeing projects in california, arizona, nevada, and hawaii. He will b
Directing traffic or working in the back office, there are so many people who work so hard. They are why those good things happen, that and the leadership of the board and there are a lot of things we have brought you that have not been politically popular or easy for you to contemplate. With your direction and leadership there is a lot of good things that happened in San Francisco for transportation. There are some things that havent happened well as we would like. I will talk about some of them when it gets to my report which was properly on the agenda and is next. You know, as the director of the agency the things not gone wrong are on me. The good things that have happened is the staff, the leadership, support from the electeds in the building. I want to acknowledge my executive team. They work well together. They have the hard jobs. It is my job to support them in their hard jobs. The other department heads, one said we work closely together. The other Transit Agency leaders in th
Inland, 79 to 82. You can see what the sea breeze does. Brings our temperatures back below average. Real comfortable evening on the way from 60 at the coast to near 70 inland. How about the commute . Looking very comfortable so far as well. Very few issues on the board so far. Sounds like one minor problem on westbound highway 4 past san marco bld boulevard. Bay port area into concord, debris in the roadway and at least two vehicles hit that. We have debris blocking part of one lane. The vehicles are off on the shoulder. Chp on the way to the scene to investigate. Right now were still in the green through that stretch. A quick check on the richmond side of the richmondsan rafael bridge, nice and dry. No drops on our camera lens. Very light volumes on web 580. Unanimous vote went through for Safety Measures to prevent more deaths around smart trains. Five people have died in less than three weeks. The smart trains director is calling it a Public Health crisis. Two of the deaths were acc
Country seems to be fueling some kind of negative sentiment worldwide. Tom i agreed to start there for the western world. Its not just about china. There disinflation, we dont need a bunch of charts this early in the morning but the vector of deflation and disinflation in china from the beginning of covid and they did covid differently than we did but im sorry, its disinflationary and get you down to a run rate of a positive 1 even with the present deflation and thats not good enough. Jonathan at the same time, the western developed markets are finding inflation and we had deflation in china and people are asking, we are in it now so how long will it last . Lisa and is this the bottom . It could have a more inflationary time later on. How much does china matter as a disinflationary force for the rest of the world at a time were places like the u. S. Are moving away from importing some of their goods and the eu is trying to be more aggressive with lyft service. And we have budget defici
Stories, 6 00 a. M. On the east coast, markets extended losses as tech is pulling on the major intimacies, the Ripple Effect from the u. S. Downgraded credit status gallon gesture, nasdaq, s p 500 lower after the close the most highly Value Company apple at 3 trillion market value coming out with earnings along with amazon in numbers tonight we are previewing this morning. Initial jobless claims at 8 30 a. M. Eastern before the july job report dropping tomorrow. Check european markets, the bank of england making his decision on interestrate at 7 00 a. M. Eastern going into the number stocks are lower. In asia overnight check at the markets it was pretty much mostly lower with the exception of China Shanghai a small gain. President trump is expected in washington, d. C. This afternoon facing four charges related to the special counsel case on january 6. Meanwhile as President Biden lounges on the beach some coverage of the stunning testimony of Hunter Bidens former business associate de