hen lead a push towards sustainable design at the department today in secretary kelly's leadership the team as led critical support to the aspects of our project i want to acknowledge the former secretary of housing who at the time served in governor schwarzenegger and was instrumental in securing the funding for the p-3 that led to the final close of the project thank you all for your strong aspirin now malcolm to share his thoughts on this happy day (clapping.) >> thank you tilly i'm glad to be here i want to express my prediction for all of you this is a good today, the good news

tilly thanked everyone i'll probably repeat because some folks deserve to be expressed by my appreciation for their work you'll agree there are few locations like the presidio parkway it is second to number in california and the bay area and likely in the entire country therefore it calls for a project that is a unique project and one of a kind project that is what we're delivering here today we confused shefk safety in phase one and now phase two we've achieved the mobility but still not done and we've got a long ways to go and escape work will land a dramatic improvement not only on mobility but a positive for the connection of the presidio park and thus, the presidio to the waterfront

i've mind recently you can do a transportation project but if that transportation project is a negative to the community or negative to the businesses or negative to the sourndz then tonsillitis that's not the right project it is the right project for mobility as well as the context of being here ♪ great location of studio presidio we celebrate this significant e significant milestone thank you to everyone and after another extended closer that was completed of the 79 hours that recommends me of the 55 hour closer we have traffic on to ultimate reside and it is a drastic change if you've not a had a children. >> to drive on it i want to thank iron and hewitt on the

concessioner for the work i've been talking to peter they went into the weekend with 8 hours and i want to thank flatiron and keeping you informed witness and all the men and women who worked with that organizations for they're successful work for the past weekend if you could give them a round of applause (clapping.) several of my team members have been highlighted and i certainly want to thank b june and his entire staff but i always want to put a point on the team in our organizational of public and private partnerships christina and express my appreciation for the former secretary without those champions we couldn't have done it without you as a

public-private partnering partner when caltrain and the san francisco transbay joint powers authority were tasked with replacing the drive we wanted to have a design for safety standards but rehabilitate the communities needs and reduce impacts to the local environment and if all all possible many improvements that was accomplished and ta that challenge met we've improved the traffic safety but it made a contribution to the beautiful presidio park we were initiative in delivering this project it's our first public-private partner and not create challenges because of the complexity of the challenge of the work it happens to the ingenuity in every speaker talked about the

partners and the partnerships are from both sides public and private and there are financing advantages to the deliver but access to streets and incongruity of all the folks ultimately traffic safety is our goal but improving the surrounding area happened it was talked about this project having 12 different funding sources i want to reiterate the number of partners it is not easy managing a project are that many financing mechanisms and contributions afro-from funding but not that easy to navigate through all the partsd involved it this group came together and certainly the san francisco tangle, the federal how administration and the prurd trust california transportation commission

department of veterans affairs and this department of the golden gate bridge and the municipal transportation agency and the city of san francisco and local community i can't get a project done without successful partnerships we'll continue to reconstruct streets and replace skaipz but as we drive in the new tunnels i'd like to remembered us all public and private perspires got us here thblgs you make meaningful investments in transportation and infrastructure and i want to congratulate you for a successful partnership and thank you for those who had the patience during the construction that was referred to not only in the counties to the north but san francisco congratulation to you all and thank you for coming

>> from congresswoman nancy pelosi please welcome alex lazzaro to say a few words (clapping) >> thank you tilly ambassador congress is in session and she says this is a great moment for san francisco as we complete the transformation of doyle drive and open the new presidio parkway that parkway insures safety in a earthquake and eliminates the proximate causes for the offer 1 thousand vehicles this represents the best of our city our initiative thinking and imperial spirit the respect for the natural resources and beneficial partners between the public and private sector i was proud for

this fight in congress to carry one hundred and thirty in the act and others and an initiative hundred and $50 million for this alone for the public-private partnering as we enjoy traveling along the new presidio parkway construction continues with extensive landscaping and restoration that will integrate the roadway into our magnificent presidio connecting the post with the field and establishing 13 acres of new presidio parklands as the congress races towards the transit trust fund on july 31st this remind us how our infrastructure creates jobs

and improves of quality of life for all the harding families that commute over our roadways we must make long time investments locally and nationally to achieve better paychecks and better infrastructure for oil hard work america families thank you to all who made this project a reality (clapping.) >> thank you alex thank you for leader pelosi leadership on the grow america act i hope in their successful in delivering a dedicated long time transportation doyle drive was to there the access for nancy pelosi another project it was a treasurer plays if the start we partnered with the presidio trust to expand assess while preserving its natural resources

now is where he a direct off-ramp from presidio parkway and the tunnel tops that provide more opportunity to expend the biking between the presidio and marina thank you to superintendent of the parks services and your staff and i'd like to acknowledge greg middleton who recently retire today, we're honored to have the presidio trust planning programs michael to say a few words on this historic occasion. >> (clapping). >> thank you tilly welcome to the presidio everyone it's a beautiful day you're right the sun does always shine here i have the great pleasure of talking about the future of the presidio in particular the

important role this project plays in troovrment this army base into one of the greatest parks in america think back to the moment the presidio transition from presidio to a national park a hundred acres of hard packed dirt and asphalt and it went from an army office it was about 15 or 17 years ago and look out the window how this has pan transformed it is a vibrant park full of thousands of people you come to here on sunday and off the grid and enjoy a beautiful picnic with our families and the rich history but regardless of those improvements doyle drive is a barrier between the two park experience so this project by

transforming the intermediately zone creates the opportunity for us to create and urban park ensemble on the waterfront it is unlike any in america we're grateful to all of the organizations that got involved in this we're grateful to caltrain and the transportation authority and we're grateful to everybody who worked to build this road the g lc and others but mostly grateful to the community the community worked for decades tirelessly to make sure that was not a freeway but parkway it honored the rich history and ecology and came up with a vision i think will set a new standard for design in national park settings and any settings frankly it is won into that

features that go beyond the tops we say see we're to the other set of tunnel tops and the christie field that allows us to expand this to meet the bay this is a project that has myriad benefits to the presidio i want to know or think this will be the cherry on top that makes the presidio the would have park my hats off to everyone in the room that played a role thank you very much for our ongoing roll in the presidio thank you very much. >> thank you very much michael thank you, michael we're looking forward to see what happens your final speaker the ceo of the

consortium peter is the private entity that build and will operate and maintain the project just as cultivates before them g lc keeps the traffic moving while constructing their portion of the road our trpt said this is like doing surgery on a tense player while she's playing intelligence folks worked around the clock and congratulations to the entire team please join me in welcoming peter on this wonderful accomplishment (clapping.) >> thank you very much tilly this is a very special moment for all of us on behalf of the gotten lincoln in their and our

contractors trans field i'd like to thank the agencies that support us during the 71 hour closer specifically caltrain sfmta, golden gate bridge, and not c h b they were there ever minute of the day and the tdr trust and all other agencies i forgot to mention when the golden link began in project a little bit over three years ago there was only one very duct and one tunnel we installed 3 additional tunnels between 8 hundred and 50 and one thousand foot long and a second 50 feet high and 12 hundred feet long viaduct you know structure and an improved highway 101 to the scombaj and roads to the

beautiful presidio park we get a lot of questions why did you need to close the are road for 74 hours this was necessary from richmond and the marina and golden gate bridge obtaining and the tunnel and the other tunnel a massive undertaking as you've seen on tv and photos we worked krunl that tie together i know we've recognized them before i want to recognize flatiron that orchid 10 thousand man-hours in 70 without a single injury and that's worth a round of applause (clapping.)

now for all reasons they're not not room their sleeping and getting deserved rest not only the 71 hour closer but the weeks and months leading up to the closer then the 3 hundred and 50 construction workers their managers and others again without a single incident they excavated millions of dirt and placed 28 tons of asphalt and removed almost that much and put down concrete and placed 7 thousand feet of cable and striping all in 71 hours not to for the software engineers and not to forget the state fire marshall that working or worked

around the clock to get state of the art systems working commissions and made safe and worked the way they were supposed to work thanks again for that and finally i'd like to recognize molly graham for responding to all the media responding to the public your outreach efforts is second to none anyone else i've missed thank you for your support we're proud to be part of this one of a kind setting and one the california's project the tlc will continue to be part of this beautiful project for the next thirty years while we operate and maintains thank you for the achievement of that major

milestone (clapping.) >> okay thank you passport now i hope you and your team can rested and sleep for the next 71 hours this project that the result of several of individual many large and small businesses i want to recognize our expert advisors of the joint speaker hearing officer and others thank you for your principle support and advise to our project team and local small businesses and women and minority owned firms did amazing work julie from cal pumping they provided the pumping services and rooftop of both tunnels and from solutions i'm not sure if dot is here they provided the monitoring to help us carefully around historic buildings only a couple of

examples of small and minority owned firms that helped i want to thank our hard work spokeswoman molly again for leading the communication molly you're amazing and we're grateful to you to our hard work and finally i'd like to thank our aids staff and the ta led by many and my final thanks to our transportation authority led by jose who dedicated himself to this project and led the organization through many stages from planning and approvals and designs lee saga our fearless project manager carried the project introduce and the task force so many members jackie and others and we also had support

from spur i saw jim and others thought that process our staff and as planning deputy work hard and deputy director who is here and anna and cheri and bob from our staff thank you very much well with that, on behalf of caltrain at transportation authority thank you for joining us for our celebration now time for the ribbon cutting practical stay for that ceremony and enjoy our newly presidio parkway presidio parkway our newly presidio parkway presidio parkway

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