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Member senator cantwell. And the administrator and planning director of the infrastructure in the us gao. And also jim dolinsky chief executive officer and executive director and with that implementation of positive train control ptc to meet the deadline of december 3t 2020 with Community Hearings have highlighted it is an Important Technology that has the ability to prevent accidents including derailments including the one in washington in 2017. Ptc enforcement and in 2015 however to apply for the extension if and only if that milestone i am pleased to say under secretary chao this is been faithfully implemented for all those of the deadline with that documentation to show the requirements go up with two additional years many real roads receive such an extension since the deadline they continue to make progress on ptc implementation. This provides an opportunity fo ....
There were young men who had rocks in their hand ready to throw them. They put them down. The good news is the scene has diffused for the most part and traffic is now flowing on north avenue again. Back to you. Leon all right, brad. You got it. We will get back to you in a bit now. Now turn to the weather here. We change gears here. The calendar says spring. It feels more like summer outside, though. Alison it does. Leon a very warm day outside today. Many of us putting the a. C. To good use today. Alison more like june than may. Big changes are coming as always. Chief meteorologist doug hill is here to explain those. Doug every few years we have a chilly early spring. Just like that we jump into a summer pattern. That is what we are experiencing right now. Lets get to the sums to tell you the weather summer and tell you the weather story. 82 degrees at Reagan National. Gusty breeze from the south. Its 83 in washingtondulles. 83 ....
Has been plenty of discussion on that. We run 63 on local labor and continue to hit the similar numbers throughout the general areas. San francisco still contribution about 20 of the labor to the project. And these around the house are the trades that are currently working and the numbers. Any questions . Director reiskin . Great news, that is more than 10 reduction and you suggested a little mvp might be coming bab, is that a significant analyst . The way the contract is written, that it was a price for the installation of the 125 and the change order to add the 72 for a total count of 207. Each shaft, each foot of the drilled shaft is what we calculated on. The original design length was 241 and that was what the bid was based on with a total estimated drill amount. So what we need to do now is wait until they are 100 done, the last shaft is drilled and from a quality perspective, approved, accepted. And then well say we add up the total feet drilled of each one and do the multiplica ....
If we didnt, it was because of that that we introduced the leftrunning ramp that avoids that crossover at that point where it causes a problem. Okay. Director reiskin. So i have one similar question. Do we know kind of at peak future capacity how many vehicles per hour would be going through that interchange . And would this be a triggered signal that is triggered as a bus approaches . Yes. Were modeling on 2030 projections for ac transit of 120 bus and hour. So two buses a minute during the peak periods. And it is prioritized, so that in the morning, when the majority of the passengers are inbound, that its inbound prioritized and that empty buses leaving the station would be held and would cue at the light. And the inbound buses would be prioritized. And the opposite in the evening, where the outbound buses, where the passengers are prioritized. And that keeps it all moving. And we have modeled that traffic for a sense of what sort of cuing is going to be happening . We have done tha ....