Time fighting the drivers that are rushing to get their kids to school. Thank you. And then, i also wanted to say about the light rail that i want to thank t. A. For actually putting in these recommendations. My vote is 50 on whole on reserve. Thank you very much for putting those in and those assurances that those moneys are going to be spent most effectively. I just want to be completely transparent that im concerned about, you know, places like chinatown that are already suffering an economic crisis there do, quite frank due, quite frankly, to subway and other issues. I just wanted to be completely transparent as you start the study. I look forward to the results and happy to approve the funding to do the study, but i just wanted to be transparent of my other colleagues on this commission that i am right now im sort of not digging it and not in favor. Thank you very much. Chair peskin thank you very much for those transparent comments, commissioner fewer. Commissioner mandelman . Su
Spec. So for example, in the bredas, we said exactly how we wanted the doors and steps are designed, which ended up with a model that have about 100 mechanical levers, all of which have to be perfectly aligned to work. Second, we said the doors and steps arent going to breakdown except maybe once a year. How do you want to design them to meet that criteria. That was the first issue we encountered with the bredas. The second issue is whether thiss a bus, a train, any sort of public vehicle, when we say the useful life is 25 years, it really means the shell can last 25 years. So the system, to continue to perform at a very high level, it needs a full new life overhaul, which we have built into and is sort of one of the cornerstones of our bus program, but its not something historically that the agency has done. So for the bredas, weve done these sort of periodic capital campaigns of the worst failure point, but we didnt do a completely rebuild of the train, which is also why theyre not l
Historically that the agency has done. So for the bredas, weve done these sort of periodic capital campaigns of the worst failure point, but we didnt do a completely rebuild of the train, which is also why theyre not lasting their full intended 25 years. Supervisor mandelman are we anticipating changing that do we have a different protocol in place for our negaw acquisition. Absolutely. Were developing new Performance Specs and really trying to learn from the industry. The second is were making sure all of our vehicle requirements meets or exceeds the manufacturer recommendations. And then, the third leg of that stool is were programming for midlife overhauls, which is basically a major rebuild which is the subsystems, Like Computers a computer doesnt last 25 years. That technology doesnt last that long. Supervisor mandelman i want to thank c. T. A. Staff for coming back to us with this proposal, but as indicated by my colleague to my right, i think this is a heavy lift. Today, i was a
Children. Please approve this project and consider extending the length of valencia. Thank you for your time and attention. I appreciate your service pic i understand you dont get paid a lot. Thank you. Thank you for all your work with bikes and caltrain. Picnic speaker, please. Is. Here cloth. Good afternoon, commissioners i am a bicyclist who occasionally rides on valencia and i am from the netherlands which was mentioned earlier. Everything he said about this design was right. I think the only thing he got wrong was the notion that people will be dropped off by car to go to school. That is crazy why we do that. I have never been dropped off at school by my parents in a car because they have Better Things to do and because everybody bikes there or walks. It is an obstacle course. There is double parking everywhere. It is not uncommon for there to be three double parker seen anyone block, which is crazy. These changes are long overdue. They are fantastic. There are mixing zones involv
Attention. I appreciate your service pic i understand you dont get paid a lot. Thank you. Thank you for all your work with bikes and caltrain. Picnic speaker, please. Is. Here cloth. Good afternoon, commissioners i am a bicyclist who occasionally rides on valencia and i am from the netherlands which was mentioned earlier. Everything he said about this design was right. I think the only thing he got wrong was the notion that people will be dropped off by car to go to school. That is crazy why we do that. I have never been dropped off at school by my parents in a car because they have Better Things to do and because everybody bikes there or walks. It is an obstacle course. There is double parking everywhere. It is not uncommon for there to be three double parker seen anyone block, which is crazy. These changes are long overdue. They are fantastic. There are mixing zones involved. It looks like there is an intent to say it does change those and i would repeat the call from the other speak