you think about the potential of having this space for a purpose it is demands for the best for bikes and families to gather. >> through a collaborative effort with the department we the public works and the municipal transportation agency pavement to parks is bringing initiative ideas to our streets. >> so the face of the street is the core of our program we have in the public right-of-way meaning streets that can have areas perpetrated for something else. >> i'm here with john francis pavement to parks manager and this parklet on van ness street first of all, what is a parklet and part of pavement to parks program basically an expense of the walk in a public realm for people to

hang anti nor a urban acceptable space for people to use. >> parklets sponsors have to apply to be considered for the program but they come to us you know saying we want to do this and create a new space on our street it is a community driven program. >> the program goes beyond just parklets vacant lots and other spaces are converted we're here at playland on 43 this is place is cool with loots things to do and plenty of space to play so we came up with that idea to revitalizations this underutilized yard by going to the community and what they said want to see here we saw that everybody wants to see everything to we want this to be

a space for everyone. >> yeah. >> we partnered with the pavement to parks program and so we had the contract for building 236 blot community garden it start with a lot of jacuzzi hammers and bulldozer and now the point we're planting trees and flowers we have basketball courts there is so much to do here. >> there's a very full program that they simply joy that and meet the community and friends and about be about the lighter side of city people are more engaged not just the customers. >> with the help of community pavement to parks is reimagining the potential of our student streets if you want more

information visit them as the pavement to parks or contact pavement to parks at sfgovtv.or just about expensive eat but food for everyone and there's organizations in the city that are doing really good work making sure that healthy food it assessable to everyone. more and more as follows are are becoming interested in upper arlthd they want to joy the open green pace sea know where their food it coming from we'll look at 3 programs talking

>> good morning and welcome to the treasure island mobility management agency meeting of december 12th. mr. clerk, can you call the roll? >> clerk: commissioner breed, breed absent. commissioner cohen. present. commissioner farrell, absent. commissioner fewer absent. commissioner kim. present. commissioner peskin. present.

commission commissioner ronen absent. commissioner safai present. commissioner yee, present we have a co have quorum. >> we have a motion to excuse commissioner fewer and seconded by commissioner yee. >> motion to excuse commissioner breed. >> we'll take this motion first, do we need to take a roll call on the motion? that motion passes without objection. commissioner peskin has made a motion to excuse commissioner breed. we have a second from commissioner yee and we can do that without objection. items two and three. >> clerk: items two and three, information item and executive

director's report and information item. >> i want to recognize my colleagues for your service, i will not read out a full report and moving to director tang for executive director's report. >> deferred. >> thank you. you'll post the executive director's report online. can we take public comment on items two and three. public comment is closed. mr. clerk items four and five. >> clerk: four and five compromise the consent calendar, considered routine. staff is not planning to present but are prepared to present if desired. if a member objects, they can be removed and considered separately. >> thank you mr. clerk. can we please take a motion on these two items?

okay. commissioner tang has made a motion to move this forward with recommendation, do we have a second? commissioner yee. and we can do it without objection. item six mr. clerk. >> clerk: authorize executive director transit district, this is an action item. >> we have rachel hyatt to present briefly on the item. >> if you want me to present i can. >> just a quick summary. >> as we plan to implement service on treasure island in 2020, the committee made a change to strike a reference to the trans bay fare and will work

on that before bringing it to the board for adoption. the transit board did adopt the agreement back in june and clarified some maintenance responsibilities and layover facilities in oakland in the agreement. >> thank you miss hyatt. at this time we'll open for public comment on item six. seeing no public comment, public comment is closed. mr. clerk, same house, same call, we can do it without objection. mr. clerk, can you please call items seven and eight. >> introduction of new items. item eight public comment. >> colleagues any commissions would like to make comments on items or introduce or request items for future considerations. seeing none, we'll open up for general public comment. seeing none, public comment is closed. mr. clerk, are there any other items before the board?

>> no other items. >> meeting is adjourned. ♪ >> i am so looking forward to the street fair tomorrow. >> it is in the mission, how are we going to get there? we are not driving. >> well what do you suggest? >> there are a lot of great transportation choices in the city and there is one place to

find them all, sfnta.com. >> sfmta.com. >> it is the walking parking, and riding muni and it is all here in one place. >> sitting in front of my computer waiting transportation options that is not exactly how i want to spend my saturday night. >> the new sfmta.com is mobile friendly, it works great on a tablet, smart phone or a lap top, it is built to go wherever we go. >> cool. >> but, let's just take the same route tomorrow that we always take, okay? >> it might be much more fun to ride our bikes. >> i am going to be way too tired to ride all the way home. >> okay, how about this, we can ride our bikes there and then we can take muni home and it even shows us how to take the bikes on the bus, so simple right here on my phone. >> neat. we can finish making travel

plans over dinner, now let's go eat. >> how about about that organic vegan gluten free rest rft. >> can't we go to the food truck. >> do you want to walk or take a taxi. >> there is an alert right here telling us there is heavy traffic in soma. >> let's walk there and then take a taxi or muni back. >> that new website gives us a lot of options. >> it sure does and we can use it again next weekend when we go to see the giants. there is a new destination section on the website that shows us how to get to at&t park. >> there is a section, and account alerts and information on parking and all kinds of stuff, it is so easy to use that even you can use it. >> that is smart. >> are you giving me a compliment. >> i think that i am. >> wow, thanks. >> now you can buy dinner.

sfmta.com. access useful information, any a once in a generation -- >> good morning, everyone. my name is ed riskin, i'm the director of transportation here in the city and county of san francisco. so glad to be with you all today under this beautiful sunshine to mark really what is a once in a generation milestone for muni, for the transit service and for the people of san francisco. today we are putting into service this beautiful vehicle that's behind us. and a lot of folks are responsible for getting us here. i want to acknowledge mayor lee, president breed who is, i'm sure, on her way. our state and federal and regional partners and the tremendous work of our transit director john halle and his 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 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 much better experience for our riders. quieter, smoother, better acceleration, deceleration. better amenities in terms of customer and rider information. but also for us, better a.d.a. access, better access for people with strollers, wheelchairs or just people who need more space. but also for us and for our riders much, much more reliability.

these are engineered to be reliable vehicles, to have -- to go much, much longer between times where they need to be serviced. they have advanced diagnostics that will make it easier for our folks to maintain, to do more not just preventive maintenance but predictive maintenance so these guys will spend more time out on the streets than they will in the shops. so i could go on about this. i feel very lucky to be the director at a time when we're introducing this. like i said, this is a once in a generation kind of thing. and we're only able to do this because of the leadership that we have in our city and our region and our state and our country that is supportive, all the folks working together to get us here. and the number one leader behind this, someone who, as a former public works director, gets the importance of information and supporting the quality of life and economy of our city is our chief executive.

so, please join me in welcoming the mayor of the city and county, ed lee. [applause] >> good morning! >> good morning! >> really great to be here on a sunny friday. we have a lot to celebrate. you look behind on that nice, new l.r.v. with a red bow, all we're missing is the tree. and so once we get the tree down, then we're going to really have an occasion. but the friday before thanksgiving, we have a lot of things to be thankful for and i want to begin by saying thank you to our partners at the state. i know phil and governors office and all of our s.f. delegation work really hard to make sure we got cap and trade moneys because it allows us to go from a planned stuff with our federal partners blessing us here today.

we originally planned for some 25 of these to arrive and in the same time period, we're going to get more than 5. -- 65. i think 68 is the number, mike, right? mike is from siemens. these are all built in the state of california by siemens corporation. but they also were designed with great input from our own staff. people who have years of mechanics, trouble and problem were in that design. our drivers for their ideas for safety and convenience of our ridership. of course, john halle and his whole operations had great input. and, of course, we get siemens, who is building rail cars for all over the world, but they gave us some priority here when we said we want more of new stuff in san francisco. so, we're getting that. this is the first one that rolls off. ed riskin to you and the commission and the entire staff, thank you. because you are delivering on a

promise we made to our ridership. the hundreds and thousands of people that want and do depend on muni, now you'll have cleaner, more reliable. it goes from an average of five years before major maintenance to some 49 years of operations before we with retire these vehicles. that is a huge, huge amount of years to add with these new l.r.v.s. so i'm particularly proud of all the agencies that we had from the state level, the federal transportation agencies, the state department of transportation, working with our m.t.a., our commissioners and all of the operators. but i'm also wanting to say this. that every day i ask people in san francisco to display their best to represent the city of love and compassion, to make sure they're always welcoming.

every morning for hundreds of thousands of people, the first person they see is the muni driver and for them to smile every time they see somebody, when everybody brings on all the things that we welcome in the city. when we welcome that diversity, we welcome everybody with whatever problems they have. whatever things they're experiencing. whatever things they can't solve. they hop on muni. for that short period of time, we experience their lives. and the first person are the muni. let's thank the transport workers union and every driver every day that has to put that smile on and make sure they're the fun face of our municipal transportation agency. that is why we're celebrating the family of larry martin. we'll say a few more words about that in a moment. i know iris is here as the daughter of larry b. martin. but i just wanted to begin with that praise and give the praise to people who work every day in the system.

and we honor them by getting their input in this design as well. so, these l.r.v.s are not just a train that came from some. they were literally design with the expert engineering at siemens, complimented by all of our experience in making sure that there were less parts to deal with. it will give us better diagnostics and maintenance and seating arrangements, color arrangements, material arrangements that are much more appropriate for the hundreds of thousands of people that ride every day that we will provide them with the best transportation system we can have. this is a good occasion, too, because we already tested this so we're not going to make any mistakes. right, ed? [laughter] in fact, i think there is a first driver on here. i forgot her name. i met her. she's already a little nervous. i said no. no. no. these have been tested. and i want to thank the public. when we tested them, we had to close down a few systems for a

few weekends and thank you to the general public for tolerating these testing periods so we can get everything right. when they roll on, we want everybody to have the positive experience of these new l.r.v.s. as voters and people time and time again when we get feedback, we've incorporated the public's demands that these be a better system and better l.r.v. and that is how you support future bonns and initiatives for the city to keep a high level of ridership and high level of the entire system working on time within budget, delivering more than what's promised and getting it to be people oriented and people friendly. so, that is my way of saying thank you to everybody that's involved. when you get everybody together and find all the room for people to have input, you're going to have some great gifts that we give each other. l.r.v.s are just the beginning because after that, m.t.a.'s going to deliver a lot of other things for the city, including

a new central subway very soon. thank you, m.t.a. congratulations. [applause] >> thank you, mr. mayor. it is not just on time, it is ahead of time. so, we're trying to exceed expectation with this procurement. and speaking of exceeding expectations, we're extremely fortunate here in san francisco to have such great representation in sacramento and generally speaking to have such a strong and progressive state legislature and governor in california. this here in particular was really an extraordinarily productive one for the legislature and the governor in terms of transportation. two bills were passed and signed by the governor that will allow people in the region to vote for increased bridge tolls, to better fund transit in the region as well as potential increased sales tax

across the three counties to provide cal trains for the first time with a dedicated source of revenue and even more significant, senate bill 1. again, like this rail car, a onces in a generation kind of change in the way we fund transportation in san francisco and in california. none of which would have been possible without the strength of our delegation, our elected representatives to the state legislature. and particularly in making sure, not just that these bills got put together and got through the legislature and the governor, but to make sure that they reflected the needs of places like san francisco. so, very pleased to be joined by one of our members, i guess the most senior member of our state delegation. join me in welcoming assembly member phil ting. [applause] >> thank you, ed. let me just begin to thank ed and the entire m.t.a. team for doing the fabulous job that you

do. i know it's a very hard job, a very challenging job. every day you're touching hundreds of thousands of members of the public but you are doing really god's work in this city. ed was totally right when he started by saying that we are growing as a city. we're trying to add more people in san francisco and have more people work in san francisco, live in san francisco. but that is only going to work if muni works. it is only going to work if we can connect bike lanes and pedestrian walkways into muni so people can get to and from work. that wouldn't happen without ed's leadership or the mayor's leadership or supervisor breed's leadership. it is an honor to represent san francisco at the state legislature. ed was totally right. we had an amazing year. we're rolling out sp-1 to pave our roads and fix our roads. but we demanded--our delegation demanded that a chunk of that money go to transit. when it started out, it was all about just paving roads and

fixing pot holes and we said hey, that is not going to work for san francisco. we need to make sure that there are resources into transit to help and make sure that people can use rail cars to get that along. the other piece of passing cap and trade. people say what is cap and trade? cap and trade is a simple idea. it says that, hey, if you're a companies that polluting the air, the air is not just something that you can put pollution in, that that is something that is going to cost us to mitigate, require citis to make the air cleaner. one of ways we make the air cleaner is funding transis sit programs. so, this grant of $45 million came out of inner city rail program and that is a competitive program. it is a program that the m.t.a. team had to compete against other jurisdictions and the fact that they were able to win the grant shows how compelling what we're doing here in san francisco and how important it is to moving people, not just here locally but really in our

region. so, we want to be doing more of that. i am so honored to be representing san francisco in the legislature. we see what's happeninging in washington that very little is getting done. the exact opposite is happening in san francisco. every day we're trying to make a difference on transit, on housing. ed mentioned the ballot measure. we hope to bring to people next june to raise tolls which i know are never popular. but that is going to pay for $5 billion worth of projects. that is going to help bring high-speed rail into the cal train station, into the downtown station right there. it is going to be a huge winch it is going to be more money for muni in that particular project. so, again, that's where this money come fr.s it comes from the voters. it comes from your will to decide to say, hey, we're going to be transit first. we won't be transit first when we feel like it but when we go to the ballot box and vote for that, it requires your requirement.

again, thank you for working with us to make this a huge victory for all of us and look forward to keep working to make this really as transit first a city as we can. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, assembly member ting. there are other elected officials that are represented here. danielle chen u.s. director for our senator. and a district representive for senator scott weaner and genesis ga si i can't, a district director for david chu. [applause] thank you for being here, very much. i can tell you all three of them obviously are -- those electeds are from san francisco and particularly for david chu and scott weaner when they were on the board of supervisors, very strong advocates for transit and muni and they've take than advocacy to

sacramento, which we're benefiting from along with the leadership of assembly member ting. but the board of supervisors has retained strong championship for muni, for transit in san francisco and we're very lucky to have a president of the board of supervisors who represents an area just really immediately to the north of here that is one of the more transit-dependent, more transit-using areas of the city. very low levels of car ownership. very high levels of transit usage. so, when we were bringing what would be somewhat of a daunting prospect to the board of supervise source and $1.2 billion procurement, at the time the largest light rail vehicle procurement in united states history, we had the support led by the president of the board of supervisors who was so eager for these trains to be here. she joined me and the mayor and john halle and a trip to sca. toe earlier in the year to make

sure these cars were getting done and to make sure that the first one would be running on the adjuda line. please welcome the president of the board of supervisors. [applause] >> thank you. i kind of had to threaten ed riskin to get these in juda trains, these new trains running. but in all honesty, i just really want to say i appreciate the m.t.a. for working so hard on making sure that we pushed this city forward. this is a once in a generation purchase. to have these incredible new trains ready to be used, ready to be driven by the over 300 drivers that we've hired in the past couple of years. this is what's going to change, what happens with our public transportation system in the city and county of san francisco. as someone who grew up here, and dependent on muni for so many years of my life, just

watching the transformation, watching muni become more efficient and looking towards a future, rather than doing what we need to do to repair old trains that we know are past their useful lifetime, we have these new trains that are bigger, that are better, that are stronger than ever, that are going to take us into the next century. i'm excited about this opportunity. i know the riders are excited about this opportunity. these trains are not only new and they will smell a lot better than the existing trains -- [laughter] but more importantly, they will be able to accommodate more people and they will be quieter because they're lighter than the existing trains. so many of you who live in the neighborhood where these trains travel, you will not hear as much noise. these are the things that we have done. they are better for the environment. they have a different seat configuration so they could accommodate more people. so the work we put in to making

sure that we got this thing right was so important the community played a part in giving us suggestions. those suggestion, years later, are finally playing themselves out through trains which will be running on this line and there are more to come. we will be replacing the entire fleet. we have drivers that have been trained and ready to go. so i'm just anxious to get these things on the road so that we can have a more efficient system and i can get less complaints from my constituents about muni and its timeliness. thank you to the drivers. thank you to the m.t.a. team, thank you to all of those who have worked on this contract. thank you to siemens for just working with the city and being patient with us. thank you to the mayor for his leadership on transportation issues. thank you to phil ting for always bringing home the bacon. we have got to do a better job in improving our transportation

system and today we demonstrate that this is a start. we're not done. we'll keep moving muni forward. thank you so much for being here today. [applause] >> thank you, president breed. it is great to have that passion leading our board of supervise source and supporting transit in san francisco. so i had mentioned, as did the mayor and the assembly member and the president that the growth in san francisco is part of what we need to accommodate on sustainable modes in the highest capacity sustainable mode of transportation we have in san francisco is our light rail system. and so one of the first impetuses for this rail car expansion, and then eventual replacement, was the central subway project that the mayor mentioned. an expansion of light rail service from visitation valley up through bayview, dog patch, mission bay and into the heart of the city in chinatown. one of the most densely populated neighborhoods in the united states.

so, this expansion we got as a part of a deal we made with the federal government. and the federal government entered into -- we entered into a grand agreement to the town of $982 million i think at the time. anyway, the biggest federal grant san francisco had ever received and as part of the deal, they say we'll give you that money to build the subway, but you need to start expanding your light rail service. so these first 24 cars are partly funded by the central subway project, but also a requirement that we had to meet in order as part of our obligations and the requirement was that we would have these cars in service by the time the central subway was done. and as i said, we're ahead of schedule. we'll have these first 24 cars ahead in service well in advance of the central subway opening and all that was made possible and driven by the leadership at the united states department of transportation and particularly the federal

transit administration, federal transit administration is the one that oversees the grant programs that authorized and supported our grant for the central subway as well as this procurement. they will be funding in part, we expect, a large part of the replacement of the existing fleet. so, it is a partnership that we absolutely couldn't do without. one that we value significantly. and it's been led here in san francisco and the western united states for many, many years very well and ably by the regional administrator of the f.t.a. please join me in welcominging leslie rogers. [applause] >> good morning, ladies and gentlemen. as i was standing back there, i was mindful that we usually refer to everything as being all about location, location, location. but today i think it is really about timing, timing, timing. thank god that ed fortuitously

planned this event for today rather than yesterday. but on behalf of the federal transit administration, i'm especially pleased to join you all here today. as ed mentioned, when we signed the full funding grant agreement for central subway, and it recognized the need for improvements to address and expanding and dynamic city, we also committed muni to addressing its state of good repair needs. and as we go about systems' expansion, this -- these light rail vehicles represent that effort to indierdre men ish and address our capsule investment needs. congratulationss to muni. i sat down trying to calculate how much we really might be invested in this project. and i think i just will conclude to say it is multimillions of dollars.

again, we're pleased to join you here today. as a resident of san francisco and a daily muni rider, i can tell you how very much i'm looking forward to the roll out of these vehicles. and i will conclude with two words -- let's roll. [applause] >> thank you, leslie. thank you for your many, many years of greater leadership and support of transportation in the western region and whole western part of the united states. at the federal level, that support was critical and likewise at the state. assembly member ting made reference to the cap and trade program. $86 million of cap and trade funds in this curement. we will be submitting our application in the coming weeks for the next round of funding for which we hope to be as equally competitive and successful and a lot of that, the existence of that program,

the focus of that program on transportation, recognizing the linkage between air quality and transportation has been from the leadership of the california state transportation agency, secretary brian kelly who was appointed by governor brown to lead that agency and really to bring the cap and trade program as well as many other programs, supportive of good transportation in california into being. so, we're pleased to be joined by deputy secretary of transportation, kate white. she herself is from san francisco so she gets it not only at a policy level from sacramento, but as somebody who rides muni herself. please join me in welcoming deputy secretary kate white. [applause] >> good morning, san francisco! it is absolutely wonderful to be here today. thank you very much to everyone for the invitation. love to be home. have a chance to come home for this wonderful occasion. and i wanted to give greetings

from secretary brian kelly and the secretary's office in sacramento. and i am very pleased to be here to celebrate one of the very first california climate investments out of our cap and trade program. i recently heard a quote that the future happens first in san francisco. and the state, we are thrilled to be investing in that future. both climate investments and as several speakers mentioned also recently passed senate bill 1, the transportation funding package, provides a great new opportunity to invest more seriously than a new generation in transit and rail across california. so, please -- thank you and i wanted to welcome the new train car here to san francisco and see it as part of the future of

decarbonizing, creating a major sustainable, resilient future. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, kate. so, there's federal support. there's state support. and, of course, the local support is crucial. our county transportation authority under the leadership of executive director tilly chang, its chair aaron peskin and vice chair tang have been critical to putting together the planning and funding so we can do things like get the central subway done, get this largest ever light rail procurement done so we're very pleased to be joined by our great partner, deputy director of the county transportation authority, maria lombardo. [applause] >> hello. i'm very pleased to be here. on behalf of our chair aaron peskin i want to issue a

congratulations on the entire mmta for reaching another milestone ahead of schedule. let's keep that up. as has been said before, i really have to recognize that making an investment of this significance is a team effort and we are so fortunate to have a wonderful set of team players from the federal level, the state level, mary lee, the board of supervisors, the m.t.a. and so on. i want to add to that team, though, a very important group. which is san francisco residents and voters. [applause] yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, rights? thanks to their foresight back in 1989, we authorized the first half cent transportation sales tax for san francisco, which was reauthorized in 2003. under the direction of the transportation authority board, we allocated $131 million to this base procurement contract with siemens for the l.r.v.s. that was the largest single grant we have ever made from the sales tax program. and it is very fitting that that was the grant.

because there is no single investment we can make that immediately touches so many people, makes transit ridership 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 place in order to advance this project, again, maybe i'm repeating myself. but the largest ever light rail vehicle procurement in the united states history, the first vote to move that forward was put before the sfmta board of directors and i was a big ask that we were making of them. and they came through. and i want to acknowledge the leadership of our chair k cheryl brinkman, our vice chair malcolm heineke who is a regular rider of the system.

i know the daily feedback that i get when things aren't quite as they should be and those incidents will become less and less as more and more of the new trains come into service. we're joined today by one of our directors and would like to welcome another one of our directors to come forward on behalf of the board. [applause] >> good morning, everyone. if there was ever a day to wear a bow tie, today is that day as a director. i couldn't be more proud and pleased to welcome these trains on to our streets. you know, the most exciting thing about it as a daily and judo rider, i'm awakened every day at about 5:30 in the morning by the sound of these trains going by my apartment so to hear that they will be lighter is going to be welcomed. most importantly, though, i think we're all just trying to get to work. we're all just trying to get to school. reliably and in a time we can predict and move at the speed of commerce.

and to really grow the economic vitality of this city. and these trains, the reliability of them in addition to the new great train smell that i'm so excited to experience, they are going to provide the reliability that so many of us depend on. if you are not a regular transit rider, you depend on these trains to keep our streets clear and moving. if we can just get those double parkers out of the way of the new trains, they'll move a lot faster as well. and we're working on that, too. i'm also really excited about the potential for the new capacity. these trains. i get on in the sunset and by the time we get to tend, there's not enough to let people on. we will be able to squeeze a lot more folks on there and there will be a whole lot less people on there told oh, there's a train right behind you. right? and so looking forward to that. and seeing, again, us being able to deliver a reliable

service that san franciscans can depend on. this wouldn't have happened without the leadership t great leadership of everyone that's been mentioned so far. i'm not going to repeat all the names because there is a lot of other people to mention. we've got our former chair of the m.t.a., mr. tom nolan, back here joining us. couldn't keep him away from this event. 12 years of leadership on the board of directors. it is too bad senator scott weiner couldn't be here because he was such a wind in the sail of getting transportation victories and we need that kind of leadership for these hard fights. i really want to re-emphasize the vision of this city and the residents of this city. we truly are a world-class city. if that is not a testament to it, i don't know what is. so, thank you all for the vision of implementing this service and let's get this train on the road. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, ed . i didn't see the former chair here. now he is f