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safer, more reliable and heck of a lot more fun. so, we re very proud and we have more sales tax dollars in line for the next options to expand our fleet even further. i just want to say that we need this team to stay together because we re looking forward to securing additional regional measures three. that s senate bill 1 funds, cap and trade funds and local new revenue measures to expand the fleet and upgrade the facilities so we can keep these running perfectly through the end of their useful life. thank you. [applause] thank you, pa maria for reminding us of the voters and their foresight and making the difficult decisions that we ask of them that will impact their pocketbooks and wallets. there will be possibly and likely many such occasions coming up in 2018. we need to do our job to continue to educate our own voters so that the next generation of us standing here can look back on 2018 and 2020 for insightful good voting. the first vote that had to take plac ....
demands on rail service continue to grow in san francisco. and if you look at the cranes in the sky, if you look at the projections of growth, that s only going to continue and so we need a better, more reliable, higher capacity, more enjoyable way for people to be able to get through the city and that is exactly these rail cars signify for us. this car is the first of 24 of the first batch that will be going into service. those 24 will be in service before the end of next year. following that, there is another 44 that come and these are all in addition to the 151 cars that we currently have in service. so, this is expansion. that means more service. that means longer trains. more two-car trains. more three-car trains and more frequent service along our raillines, which is really the workhorse of the muni system. and it is not just capacity. but these vehicles have been exceptionally engineered and meticulously designed to provide state-of-the-art, much better ride and ....
barrier between pesticide application and trades and play areas and areas frequented by children to 50 feet. in the future we ll probably ask for 200 but the problem is we need the city to expand the safety barrier because 15 feet not enough. so that s the rest of them so i won t have to bring it up at future agenda items. it looks like i thought there was some meetings planned in november around this and it looked like that doesn t happen. maybe one meeting didn t happen so it looks like our schedule is slipping so do outreach to the public so let them know the meeting and whatever s happening in january, february and march. commissioner: thank you. the next item? the clerk: item nine, announcements and items for discussion. commissioner: commissioners, any announcements? public comment on no announcements? hearing none, next item. the clerk: the next item is new business and future agenda items. the speaker is valdez and the document is the 2018 push on the en ....
staff [applause] a lot of whom are in bright colored vests and jackets. as well as many other parts of our agency, the safety division, the training division, the communications division. materials division. maintenance. everybody coming together. accessible services. everybody coming together to get us to this point. the reason why this is so exciting for us is because the demands on rail service continue to grow in san francisco. and if you look at the cranes in the sky, if you look at the projections of growth, that s only going to continue and so we need a better, more reliable, higher capacity, more enjoyable way for people to be able to get through the city and that is exactly these rail cars signify for us. this car is the first of 24 of the first batch that will be going into service. those 24 will be in service before the end of next year. following that, there is another 44 that come and these are all in addition to the 151 cars that we currently have in ser ....
miss chang, thank you for that process as well as your work over the last many years and the floor is yours. thank you so much to you, chair peskin, and the commissioners and your staff. we are grateful for your time that you and your staff have given to us in taking briefings and meeting as a committee as a whole. the year is marked by fantastic discussions at this body. we appreciated the guidance, input throughout, and wanted to highlight a few of the accomplishments we documented this year. we were able to achieve with your help and guidance. here is a reminder of goals and objectives set for me and the agency over the past year. i want to start by saying the year was marked by a lot of it focused on infrastructure, policy and revenues and projects that were under development that were being prepared for a big funding opportunities that was the tremendous focus with the measure three setting up next phase investments in extension of caltrain and host of other big ....