i m julie haener. i m frank somerville tonight working from home. lots of new developments to tell you about this evening. governor newsom has put out an urgent call for doctors to help treat the expected surge of coronavirus patients. the governor says the number of people in the hospital in california has now doubled and the number of icu patients has tripled in just the past four days. across the u.s. more than 3,000 people have now died from the outbreak. among them the first u.s. service member, a new jersey national guardsman. today the navy hospital ship comfort arrived at new york harbor to ease the burden on hospitals by caring for people not suffering from covid-19. at the white house health and human services secretary alex azar said the u.s. has tested more than 1 million coronavirus samples, more than any other country. he also says the u.s. is now testing nearlysamples a day. experts say the u.s. to test between 100,000 and 150,000 patients a day to contain
to make trains that will be affective in the subway, we need four-car trains. that means that those trains out at west portal and at church and debois, have to couple from one-and two-car trains to four-car trains that run in the muni metro. we urge you to consider that type of coupling. thank you. chairman: thank you. mr. mason. thank you, edward mason. i would refer to the presentation that was made at the last meeting where operations in maintenance enhancements there were 20 operation enhancements and 22 maintenance enhancements. of course i wrote in the column here: well, what are they? and i think that is a question that should be addressed, and just not lightly take the recommendations that were just for brevity, but really peel apart the layers of the union and really get down into knowing what we re spending money on and how it is going to be. so the question is: what are all of these enhancements? let s have a full accounting of it? chairman: i can see s
at the last meeting where operations in maintenance enhancements there were 20 operation enhancements and 22 maintenance enhancements. of course i wrote in the column here: well, what are they? and i think that is a question that should be addressed, and just not lightly take the recommendations that were just for brevity, but really peel apart the layers of the union and really get down into knowing what we re spending money on and how it is going to be. so the question is: what are all of these enhancements? let s have a full accounting of it? chairman: i can see staff diligently writing that down. seeing no other members of the public, we will close public comment. ms. curshbalm, if i could just ask you if you could just answer the question that one member of the public brought up relative to a conversation she said she had with an operator relative to the flattened wheels not being fixed or fixed timely. the question that related to the wheel truing machine? chair
doors that are closing, i can tell you how to take care of that problem. you need an electromagnetic strip from the top of the door to become of the door. it s very simple. you have an electronic sensor sensor from the top of the door to the bottom of the door. when the doors close, if there is any obstruction, the doors automatically open up because you ve got something between the doors. it is called a control loop. it is very simple. it is hard for people in the administration to realize what kind of problem you ve got and how simple it is to take care of because you re not mechanically inclined, don t have any mechanical experience or construction experience. so that s how you take care of that problem. you ve got your sensors located in the wrong location. the point of contact that should be sensored is the doors, not off to the side, not over to the left. you ve got them in the wrong location. and as far as these wheels having flats, that s a manufacturing problem. yo
commissioners, jonathan rurers with. m.t.a. this is following up on a request that you made at last month s meeting regarding our construction mitigation program and the impacts to local businesses, as we impact major corridor projects throughout san francisco. i just want to quickly note we have an unprecedented amount of development going on in the city, both public and private. the infrastructure is important, and as we make these improvements to the city, it is something that benefits all of san franciscans, and people that come to the city on a day-to-day basis. this is no in discussing funds here at the transportation authority, there is a significant amount of infrastructure dollars that somewhere e here in sawe have here in sanfrancisco,o numerous grants that have passed and numerous bonds that the voters of san francisco have approved. it is more than $5 billion of work going on throughout san francisco. so we do understand and are very cognizant of all of the cons