Okay. Good afternoon. Hello. My name is doory ellis and i manage the marketing for San Francisco bay area zip car. Thank you very much for the opportunity to be here this afternoon and demonstrate our support for the on streetcar sharing pilot and thank you to the mta staff for your hard work and delcasion to this pilot. As mentioned the on streetcar sharing Pilot Program has many advantages for communities. It provides alternate forms of transportation to residents who live in communities that are under served by buses and trains, and the extension of Transportation Options will reduce Household Budgets and increase economic reinvestment into those communities, and also a reduction in Greenhouse Gas and other emissions through fuel efficient vehicles with low emission profiles. We are excited to participate in the on Street Program and funding from private funders is barrier to entry in partings of the city and now zip car can place cars in those communities that were otherwise under
Perhaps 100. I say small but its still quite a few and not do 450 spaces all at once and nevertheless we will be del gent and thorough and bring the spaces forward as quickly as we can. Evaluation of the pilot. At the conclusion we will of course look over what we collected for data with special attention to mode shift, ownership, perceived by the customers. Is it beneficial and served the goals of the agency and the city . We will consider a recommendation to make this into a permanent thing. It seems to us that this is a good idea but thats why were doing a pilot and at the conclusion we will gather up the evidence and bring you a recommendation and we will of course continue to evaluate one way car share for a future facilitation or pilot. Again one way will not be in this pilot. We are not facilitating one way car share right now but were interested and will continue to look for ways to bring it forward and in summary were here to propose this to are for your consideration. If it p
Its still quite a few and not do 450 spaces all at once and nevertheless we will be del gent and thorough and bring the spaces forward as quickly as we can. Evaluation of the pilot. At the conclusion we will of course look over what we collected for data with special attention to mode shift, ownership, perceived by the customers. Is it beneficial and served the goals of the agency and the city . We will consider a recommendation to make this into a permanent thing. It seems to us that this is a good idea but thats why were doing a pilot and at the conclusion we will gather up the evidence and bring you a recommendation and we will of course continue to evaluate one way car share for a future facilitation or pilot. Again one way will not be in this pilot. We are not facilitating one way car share right now but were interested and will continue to look for ways to bring it forward and in summary were here to propose this to are for your consideration. If it pleases the board and you appr
Can. Evaluation of the pilot. At the conclusion we will of course look over what we collected for data with special attention to mode shift, ownership, perceived by the customers. Is it beneficial and served the goals of the agency and the city . We will consider a recommendation to make this into a permanent thing. It seems to us that this is a good idea but thats why were doing a pilot and at the conclusion we will gather up the evidence and bring you a recommendation and we will of course continue to evaluate one way car share for a future facilitation or pilot. Again one way will not be in this pilot. We are not facilitating one way car share right now but were interested and will continue to look for ways to bring it forward and in summary were here to propose this to are for your consideration. If it pleases the board and you approve it at the end of the month we will have a call for qualifications and invite interested car share organizations to present their credentials, sign o
Hello, im ray suarez, a Brown University study puts the cost of the iraq war to the United States at over 2 trillion. The cost of war project at ground estimates 134,000 iraqi civilians died in the long years of war. Add Security Forces, aid workers, and journalists, and that number leaps to between 176 and 189,000. Just under 4500 american troops died. That eightyear american presence brought down the murderous rule of saddam hussein, disbathed the baath party and the army. Americans worked hard to rebuild the civil serves and the police. And u. S. Left in 2011. After eight years and eight months, unable to reach a deal with the Iraqi Government for keeping troops in the country. And today, less than three years later, the weaknesses, contradictions and unsolved riddles, with a postsaddam iraq are apparent. The Prime Minister of iraq has declared a state of emergency. After days of intensifying violence, some 1300 fighters from the Islamic State of iraq, besieged the Northern City of