Thank you, chairwoman brown. I now recognize mr. Gardner, you may proceed. Mr. Gardner thank you, chairman lipinsk lipinski, the Ranking Member, and thank you for the opportunity to testify today Service Transportation boards key role in enabling amtrak to effectively serve the nation. Strongly support the s. T. B. Needs ieve the board updated authority for Passenger Rail so we can achieve the ontime evels and erformance your constituents deserve. Ongress took amtrak on for the job. Common carrier obligations for assengers and the associated operating losses for passenger service, the freights agreed to whereverrak to operate and whenever it wanted over their lives. Trains with trak dispatching preference over freight and to empower what is the s. T. B. To ensure amtraks access to the rail network. 50 years since the Freight Railroads agreed eagerly to this bargain and yet many of our host railroads fall short in ulfilling some of these key obligation obligations. Mr. Gardner, if youll
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I understand results differ compared with existing metrics. The secretary and i think everyone including cpb and the Border Patrol is frustrated with either the lack of metrics or the metrics that exist, what do they really tell you. Head of u border protection, testifies about the budget request for 2017. Since november 2015, Paul Wiedefeld has been in charge of washington, d. C. Transit system known as metro. At the National President club, he spoke abo he spoke about improving service and safety for passengers. This is just under an hour. A fatality during a spoke related incident, derailment, a drop in ridership and other worrisome event might be what keeps our guest, mr. Wiedefeld up at night. Work with vendors to develop a Smart Phone App surely make the days more exciting for the new general manager and ceo of the washington metro pol. He was the ceo of baltimore washington airport. He is credited with leading growth as the busiest passenger airport of the three airports in the
Committee meeting of San Francisco Transportation Authority. Im katy tang and to the left is commissioner peskin, avalos and to my right, commissioner cohen. The clerk is steve steamose and like to thank jim smith and [inaudible] with that if we can go to roll call. Item 1, commissioner avalos, present. Cohen, present. Commissioner farrell, absent. Commissioner peskin, present. Commissioner tang, present. We have quorum if we can call item 2. Item 2 Citizen Advisory Committee report. We have chris [inaudible] our cac chair good morning commissioners. Here to report on 4 items in the packet. Improving west side. Most of the comments include things like need to look more closely at non commute hours, [inaudible] to bart which is item 9. More attention paid to commuters traveling to south bay and multiagency efforts to create private commuter shuttles. Our comment were mostly about clarification on the selection of Fund Allocation and Public Comment include concerns about geo graphic equi