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line up over on side of the room , you know the drill, you have up to two minutes, try not to speak -- repeat other speakers, state your first and last name. >> everybody knows by now, because i am quick to react on differential treatment. i'm quick to react when a pathological has been told right in front of my face. i am quick to react when i see you undermine the people that are in an authoritative position , but don't have the mechanical skill and hands-on demonstrated experience on the issue at hand.
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>> you got the blueprints of all of the maps on the construction site before you start working and you know where the gas lines are. you said where gas lines are, you are supposed to use a shovel to make sure you don't use heavy equipment to punch a hole in the gas line. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good morning, supervisors, i am joleen turner, an attorney representing local 261. we have 55 members working in the construction industry in san francisco. one of them is here today representing a local, and like you we were shocked by the gas line explosion at geary earlier this year and it was likely caused by an employee a verizon subcontractor who struck a gas
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line. he was not in direct contract with verizon. verizon had contracted can math tech and they had subcontracted to a company not licensed in the state of california called advance fiber works. advance fiber works subcontracted to kill fred engineering which obtained the license in october of 2018. it was a kilf r.e.d. employee who was driving it. we are encouraging the committee to amend the permitting to improve quality of contractors with excavation work by requiring competent contractors with a skilled and trained work force. article 2.4 requires a permit to excavate in public right-of-way. we recommend to amend it to
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impose clear liability on public utilities and all contractors and subcontractors of all tears and a skilled work force to perform the excavation work. we did provide a memo to the members of the committee specifying 2.4.4 and 10 and .50 where we see an opportunity to improve contracting standards so we appreciate the committees consideration of this. >> thank you. next speaker. >> i am not used to the equipment. i have to start. i didn't do it right.
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>> good morning, supervisors. i have a slide show for you, and i also want be to present something on the overhead affidavit i go through the slides that you see. this is in actual time order, and you will see very quickly how this thing went through starting at mid block. that is a brick building to the right of parker avenue. the hoses go mid block up to this time this. is the traffic congestion and the 38 rapid line. nobody going rapid for sure on euclid at parker. this is a picture of the white fire hydrant at euclid and parker not in use at this time and the flames are still going. pretty soon i see houses 1,000 foot away from the flames, and i see they are full of water. it turns out engine 24 appeared and used the same hydrant.
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truck five shows the water spray and the same hoses are flat, no water from the hydrant. they are cleaning up. this is the aftermath on the 11th of the hong kong lounge at 3300 geary. this is h&r block. the red circles show where the hydrants are. upper right geary/parker intersection. overhead please. on the overhead this is the n.t.s.b. report the excavator damaged the natural gas plane. here is a slide of all of the things that occurred, the report from february 26th. it is not the richmond district downtown. that is two miles east. as far as notification, coordination these are the points as to who was notified and who wasn't and how my next
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door neighbor was allowed in but i wasn't until 5:40. this happened shortly after 1:00. accessibility to the evacuation center. >> thank you. any other members of the public to speak before i close public comment. seeing none, public comment is now closed. >> supervisor stefani: thank you for everyone that came out. please follow up with my office so we can have a meeting before the next hearing on this. i also want to thank local 261. everything you said is exactly the reason why we are calling for this hearing to see what we can improve. i look forward to working with you on the legislation to determine if we can prevent this from happening. i had great concerns. i look forward to getting into it.
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if we could work on that before we conclude this hearing, i think we can meet. i would love to meet with you and get started on that. with that, i would like to make a motion to continue this to the call of the chair. >> i think we can take that without objection. all right. mr. clerk, do we have any more items before us today? >> clerk: no further business. >> we are adjourned. thank you.
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[♪]nk you. >> coming to san francisco on june 11th, the earthquake safety his fair from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. as the auditorium at 99 grove street. meet with contractors, design professionals professionals, engineers and architects, along with city agencies and hundreds of booths on the main floor. attend one of the workshops at 11:00 a.m. the seismic safety strategies study. what you need to know is the city strengthens buildings 240 feet high and higher, and to get ready to the next -- for the next big one. 12:00 p.m., changes in the updated citywide vacant commercial storefront ordinance. 1:00 p.m., comply with the accessible business entrance program to enable everyone to enter your business. 2:00 p.m., home modelling process made stress-free, meet
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the experts and understand the permit review issuance and inspections process. 3:00 p.m., making the best use of the accessory dwelling unit and legalization program to at affordable housing. learn from these three workshops at the june 11th d.b.i. earthquake safety fair, and begin to get ready for the big one by taking immediate steps to protect both family and property we hope to see you there, so register now. [ >> welcome to another episode of safety on today is episode we'll show you how 0 retroactive you're home let's go inside and take a look. >> hi and patrick chief officer
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and director of earthquake for the city and county of san francisco welcome to another episode of stay safe in our model home with matt we'll talk about plywood. >> great thanks. >> where are we we if you notice bare studs those are prone to failure in an earthquake we need to stabilize those they don't lean over and plywood is effective as long as you nail along every edge of the plywood for the framing we'll nail along the sides and top and on the bottom 0 immediately you'll see a problem in a typical san francisco construction because nothing to nail the bottom of the plywood we've got to wind block between the studs and we'll secure this
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to the mud sill with nails or surface screws something to nail the bottom of the plywood. >> i notice we have not bolted the foundation in the previous episode thorough goes through options with different products so, now we have the blocking we'll a xoich attach the plywood. >> the third thing we'll attach the floor framing of the house above so the top of the braced walls one to have a steel angle on top of this wall and types of to the top of the wall with nails into the top plate and the nails in this direction driving a nail it difficult unless you have a specialized tool so this makes that easy this is good, good for about 5
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hundred pounds of earthquake swinging before and after that mount to the face of wall it secures the top of wall and nailed into the top plate of the with triple wall and this gives us a secure to resist the forces. >> so you now see the space is totally available to dots blocking that he bottom and bolted the foundation in corneas what the code in the next what the code in the next episode you'll see you apply
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>> my core responsibility as city hall historian is to keep the history of this building alive. i am also the tour program manager, and i chair the city advisory commission. i have two ways of looking at my life. i want it to be -- i wanted to be a fashion designer for the movies, and the other one, a political figure because i had some force from family members, so it was a constant battle between both. i ended up, for many years, doing the fashion, not for the movies, but for for san
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franciscan his and then in turn, big changes, and now i am here. the work that i do at city hall makes my life a broader, a richer, more fulfilling than if i was doing something in the garment industry. i had the opportunity to develop relationships with my docents. it is almost like an extended family. i have formed incredible relationships with them, and also some of the people that come to take a tour. she was a dressmaker of the first order. i would go visit her, and it was a special treat. i was a tiny little girl. i would go with my wool coat on
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and my special little dress because at that period in time, girls did not wear pants. the garment industry had the -- at the time that i was in it and i was a retailer, as well as the designer, was not particularly favourable to women. you will see the predominant designers, owners of huge complexes are huge stores were all male. women were sort of relegated to a lesser position, so that, you reached a point where it was a difficult to survive and survive financially. there was a woman by the name of diana. she was editor of the bazaar, and evoke, and went on and she was a miraculous individual, but she had something that was a
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very unique. she classified it as a third i. will lewis brown junior, who was mayor of san francisco, and was the champion of reopening this building on january 5th of 1999. i believe he has not a third eye , but some kind of antenna attached to his head because he had the ability to go through this building almost on a daily basis during the restoration and corrects everything so that it would appear as it was when it opened in december of 1915. >> the board of supervisors approved that, i signed it into law. jeffrey heller, the city and county of san francisco oh, and and your band of architects a great thing, just a great thing. >> to impart to the history of
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this building is remarkable. to see a person who comes in with a gloomy look on their face , and all of a sudden you start talking about this building, the gloomy look disappears and a smile registers across their face. with children, and i do mainly all of the children's tours, that is a totally different feeling because you are imparting knowledge that they have no idea where it came from, how it was developed, and you can start talking about how things were before we had computer screens, cell phones, lake in 1915, the mayor of san francisco used to answer the telephone and he would say, good morning, this is the mayor.
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>> at times, my clothes make me feel powerful. powerful in a different sense. i am not the biggest person in the world, so therefore, i have to have something that would draw your eye to me. usually i do that through color, or just the simplicity of the look, or sometimes the complication of the look. i have had people say, do those shoes really match that outfit? retirement to me is a very strange words. i don't really ever want to retire because i would like to be able to impart the knowledge that i have, the knowledge that i have learned and the ongoing
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meeting minutes. are there any questions or concerns about them? is there any public comment on this item? seeing then, public comment is closed. i will entertain a motion. >> moved to approve. >> second. >> all in favor say aye. >> i have no communications for you at this time. item six, his introduction of new ordinances. >> any board members that have newer unfinished business? we have a lot of unfinished business on the agenda so we will get right onto that. item seven, director's report. the floor is yours. >> nice to see you. >> nice to see you, as well. members of the board, public and staff, i have a couple quick things, and then we will have a monthly update on munimobile from our no longer acting transit director. a couple of things, and first, it is my sad responsibility to let you all know that we have
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had another two people who have lost their lives on our streets since we last met on saturday, may 11th, the 13th and 14 th traffic fatality. both lost their lives on our streets that night, and like every one of these, both tragic and preventable. the first one involved a pedestrian who was struck in the crosswalk while crossing, struck by a right turning vehicle. we do not have a lot more of the circumstances by the police department. the second fatality that night was a motorcyclist who was struck by a left turning vehicle at the intersection of pine and poke. likewise, we are awaiting the
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investigation results on the police department. we did, as per our protocol, sin folks out to evaluate the intersections absent the investigation report, and looking at the existing conditions, and anything we can do to enhance them. for golden gate, we will be restriping some of the lines around the intersection, and we will be implementing a pedestrian scramble, which is and always stop for motorists that gives all directions of travel a right of way to pedestrians. we won't initially be able to put in a day i can all crossing because we will need to upgrade the infrastructure to allow us to do so, so it would still just be perpendicular crossings, but we will put those two in place,
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and then at pine and poke, we will implement a lagging north north turn left arrow so that we can better separate the traffic. in terms of the scramble, it is something that is part of, we have reported to you before on the north of market, south of market signal timing project. it has been underway for quite a while. we have been evaluating as part of the project scrambles, as one of the potential tools. it does, you know, have traffic congestion impacts, and in this case, potential munimobile impacts for the 31 balboa, but we will be doing this intersection, as well as a few others in the tenderloin area as part of the timing upgrade. so that, unfortunately, is -- is vision zero update. the only other thing i was going to touch on our some service changes that are going into effect on june 15th.
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one of them is the extension of the ll service. this is in response to the late-night transportation task force planning from a few years back. increasing nighttime service on the 25 treasure island, and route adjustments to the 30 x. marina line marina line. we will be extending to fishermen's worth, to ferry plaza, to serve as a direct connection to market street and other regional providers. munimobile provides the late-night service every 30 minutes from 1:00 a.m. until 5:00 a.m. monday to friday, and this is really responses -- responsive to concerns that we heard over the years the folks in the fishermen's wharf area, many work in the hospitality or restaurant industry, they have a hard time getting to or from work when they end late or start
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early, so i believe this was funded by a lifeline grant that we got from the t.a. or from the region that will allow us to close that gap in the network and make it easier for folks to get down to the markets where they can connect to other transit. for the 25 treasure island, will be increasing the frequency for 1:00 a.m. to every 20 minutes. this was based on feedback that we got from supervisor haney, and also from community meetings in treasure island where folks said the evening service was not as frequent as the folks who use that service really need it. after a lot of community outreach, we were able to work this increasing service into the existing schedule. we are also hoping that it will
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be complement it soon by the reopening of the transbay transit centre, which, as you know, the 25 is a great beneficiary that gets direct connection from the centre to the bridge, does not have the timing with traffic. the all the other thing we heard from outreach, our reliability challenges, which we think are somewhat associated to having to be on the streets downtown. that will change once the center reopens. and then a small change on the 30 x., we will be removing the bush and battery stop because it puts the bus into a very traffic congested area, but we will have new stops on the new inbound route to california and battery, and on davis and pine. just some efficiencies there. we got feedback from operators and writers about the challenges that they have expressed during rush hour. that completes my portion of the
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report, and i'm happy to take questions and turn it over to the director of transit. >> director, any questions at this point? dr. eakin, please. >> thank you for the update. i've been thinking a lot about vision zero recently and just how many of the fatalities are pedestrians, not just in this year's data, but in the previous years. in thinking about the conversation we've had with respect to bicycles and the desire to continually upgrade to a protected bicycle facility, and thinking that that conversation, that thread, has stayed pretty relevant when it comes to pedestrians. thinking about this idea that you are waiting across the street, then you get the little walkman and he says go. there is a signal, i believe it says it is safe for you to be here at this time and in this place. the problem with allowing the right turn to cross that space -- it is truly not always safe.
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i think about this because my daughter is starting to walk home from school by herself. it is not always safe to be a pedestrian in that place and at that time. when you have left turning cars, you have right turning cars. you actually have to be on guard as a pedestrian in the crosswalk i just wonder, i would love to hear you guys think about the idea of unprotected bike lanes, and we are moving towards protected, which are truly safe, to me, it seems the only truly protected crosswalk is a pedestrian scramble. when you stop other vehicle movements, and only pedestrians are allowed to move, and i understand that these upgrades are very costly, but it feels to me as though if most of the fatalities we are experiencing are pedestrians, that is the right conversation for us to be having about what is truly a safe, protected intersection for pedestrians, and i just wanted to know that washington, d.c. has introduced legislation to ban a right turns on red city citywide as a safety measure and new york city has done the same.
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i wonder if we are thinking about that kind of bold move to take that serious step forward to reach vision zero that the mayor has challenged us to do. >> yes, i think those are great points, and definitely looking at separation where we can through signalization. the idea of banning rights on red citywide is not something that i have really discussed, it is something that i think would be great for us to look at. i presume that we have the authority locally to do that, so definitely bring that back to staff. >> i would add on that, if i may interrupt, it could -- i mean i don't -- i'm not saying it has to be citywide, but we could be more targeted than that, in figure the intersection floor there is heavy traffic on red right turns and then fix the problem. >> absolutely. we can look at it in a few different scales. you may have noted, i probably should have included this in my
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report to the board of supervisors, we will be doing it today, or last tuesday, a resolution urging us to significantly reset the amount of daylighting we do. this is perhaps -- to provide signalized protection everywhere , i mean the reason why we don't do separated phases or scrambles everywhere is that just because of the time delay that it adds to the whole transportation system, including munimobile's system. we are always trying to balance the need to permit for the flow of traffic, but particularly the flow of munimobile, so we can provide reliable service. we can give you a more comprehensive review of where we have them, how we use them, what it would mean if we use them a lot more, i think that would be a good policy discussion to have
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, and what the trade-offs associated would be, what benefits we think we could gain. of course, there is still the compliance issue that is relevant, but i think that would be a good discussion for us to have with the board. >> i would just say, i would disagree with that comment. i have worked for five years of the corner of bush and montgomery, and the only time when pedestrians do dart across -- i mean, the combination of having the separated turn, if known as and the one lane, he would dart across, even though they didn't have a walk, and the safest time was when you had the full scramble, and everyone moved about. wouldn't having signal privatization help get rid of the issue with munimobile, if then munimobile then triggered that everything stayed in a certain way, and then we did the scramble afterwards, wouldn't that solve the problem in terms of being worried about timing? that is a question i have.
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>> you know, it starts getting the logic of the program and of the signal controllers is part of a network that is getting complicated, but we can definitely -- i think, how to address munimobile flow issues as part of thinking about more protection, which is essentially lengthening the time that it gets to reach the cycle of an intersection, it is something we can definitely bring forward as part of this discussion. >> the other question i had is the l service. maybe you can bring this up in another report about how things are going with the earlier hour with bart now being open an hour later, and s. doing the early morning service. i want to know how that is coming along, and how that has impacted many of our other service sprouts. >> okay. and if there are no other questions, i would like to ask our transit director to come
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>> there it is, perfect. welcome. is this your first one of these know that you are permanently in this position? >> yes. [laughter]. >> we didn't scary of the first three times. >> not yet. i'm the director of transit. >> congratulations. >> congratulations. >> i'm really proud and excited to be doing this. despite the fact that we have had a very difficult six months and, you know, we are -- we have been in a leadership transition, we are struggling with some basics like, you know, getting the service out on the street and dealing with a pretty significant operator shortage, we are renewing our entire fleet and dealing with some of the challenges that go along with that, particularly on the rail side. our customers are feeling that impact and i am acutely aware of
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that, and i don't want, in this presentation, to give the impression otherwise. i can say that i am personally committed to redoubling our efforts, as is the team asked -- at sfmta in supporting this work people are really passionate about delivering quality services to our customers, and i think you'll see, i will start first with some of the difficult things that we have faced recently, but as you see some of the progress that we have made in the 90 day plan, i thank you will see some of that passion for the work come through and why i am confident that even though we do have these difficult problems, we also do have a strong foundation to build on. so the recent challenges i want to cover our the major subway delay, we talked about it briefly at the last meeting, but given the extent of the scale of
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it, i wanted to make sure we covered it again. the operator availability issues , i will cover as part of the 90 day plan because while we haven't seen some of the results of the progress that we made, i'm very confident that we have turned this ship and that we are going to see a reduction in open service. i have really positive updates to share on the l r.v. four door and coupler issues. we shared some of the findings in a memo to you, but i will share some of the results, and then just to say that subway reliability continues to be a challenge, but also to be something that we are razor focused on. the subway overhead wire delay that we experienced on april 26 th was extensive. we had over 1,000 feet of
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overhead wire go down. i think it is worth noting that had this incident happened with a new l r.v. four, we wouldn't have had the level of damage that we had because those pantograph his are designed to retract when they have something unusual happening like in this case, significant amounts of wire getting wrapped around the pantograph, and then dragging the train through. what i heard loud and clear at the board meeting two weeks ago, was two sets of complement tree instructions. first, was to put on our astronaut caps and to really make sure that we are anticipating and working through all of the problems that we could have in the subway and making sure that we have good plans to address them, and the second was to do a full assessment on problems, and fix them before they break.
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we are, -- we are at the beginning of both of those efforts, starting, first and foremost, by going through the subway with some of our senior management team, with our preventive maintenance checklist , and making sure that the preventive maintenance has a q.a., q.c., so any immediate vulnerabilities can be addressed , and not with the intent of being punitive towards staff who may have overlooked something, but to really use it as a training opportunity, and also to look at our standard operating procedures. are we specifying that you have to measure something with a gauge, verses eyeballing it, those kinds of things that are going to get us to the type precision that we need. on the l r.v. four we have made
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good progress on two significant design issues that are creating an immediate customer impact. we are currently only running single car trains, and we are locking out the back door because of two challenges that we are experiencing on the system. while these challenges are creating a significant customer impact, the way that we are approaching them is not unlike how we are approaching other issues that we are experiencing, and that are very typical of a new train, an example that i will give is the cameras. we rely on camera monitors instead of a traditional mirror on this train. some of the benefits of that is that we can see looking behind, as well as looking forward, so we get the cameras in two directions. but we have already made two
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modifications to the cameras. the first was based on operator and trainer feedback, so now, the split screen that shows a two cameras is actually a touchscreen, so if you touch it, it can zoom out to the image that the operator wants to see more closely. the second thing was more mechanical related. after we brought the train in, the first season it rained a lot , and we didn't have any issues with the cameras. we did not have a lot of trains out there, but we experienced no issues. in the second year, we were starting to get water on the surface of the camera, which meant that the camera -- the train could not be in service. and what we found was that the washer pressure on the cameras for the 18 months that the train was in service was not meeting our expectations of wear and tear, so we have now implemented
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a new design that siemens designed and paid for under warranty. it has been implemented on 90% of the trains, and by our next rainy season, it will be 100% through that process. we are constantly learning and going through issues. we will be much more diligent moving forward that we are transparent about those issues, both including on this report, and also sharing them with customers, so that they understand if there is a short-term fluctuation in something like availability, why and how we are addressing it. on the single panel door, which is at the front and the rear of the train, we have been working to make the door more sensitive. in this photo here, you will see a yellow line.
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the initial train design had a sensitive edge only on the car body, which meant that unlike one train that you catch midstream, the door will close all the way before it would retract. we have worked with siemens and the door designer to put in two additional sensitive edges. the first is the red stripe which is on the door itself, and then the second is at the blue stripe which is on the outside of the train. in addition, what we found was that if we overwork the door enough, the sensitive edge didn't behave as designed, but our testing procedure, which was following the industry standard, it was only testing it straight on, it wasn't picking up that
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wear and tear, so we had a situation where the test we were using were telling us that the door was working, and common sense, you know, my hand specifically being stuck in the door and it was not working. and so we have redesigned our approach to the test, so we are now testing it at multiple angles, in addition to straight on. we have now, i think, a much more sensitive door. we have a better testing procedure that will allow us to make sure that the train that we put out today continues to function as expected throughout. we are going to watch the third sensitive edge over the next several months. that is the blue edge. is a little bit unusual to have a sensitive edge on the outside of the train, and it may come
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with added maintenance burdens. so we are going to continue to look for other design solutions in case that becomes something, not from a safety perspective, but from a maintenance perspective, we don't think is worth continuing. this design has been reviewed by our outside expert, our l r.v. four safety committee, the cpuc, they came out and looked at it yesterday and had no concerns. based on some of the feedback we here today, we are looking forward to putting the train back in service with all of the doors operating. [indiscernible] >> not that i'm aware of.
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>> my understanding is that we may be one of the few, if not the only that has the single pain design. the problem does not exist at the center doors which are double pain, and i think the typical product is all double pane doors, so while we are not aware of this problem happening everywhere else, we are not aware of that -- this design anywhere else. >> i think based on fitting with the rest of our system, this was the design that is somewhat akin to the doors we have on the existing trains. >> so do we have a city attorney for any litigation in this area? >> just to clarify, and i want director torres' question answered, please, but just to clarify, siemens is paying for this. >> yes. >> the manufacturer is paying
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for all of these upgrades and fixes. >> i was also referring to the potential losses that could be filed. >> deputy city attorney, i believe that the train, as far as we understand at this point, was designed to the specifications, but perhaps the director of transportation can confirm that, at least as far as we know at this point. that would be the question. if it wasn't, then perhaps there would be some kind of action. i don't think we need to answer that question here. >> has a lawsuit been filed? >> i think she has filed a claim >> a claim, okay. >> thank you. >> thank you director torres. >> the second issue relates to this year bolts that connect two parts of the coupler. as you may recall, we had share bolts break in service.
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at no point did the train separate. there's actually several redundancies that keep two trains connected, and at the time that the bolts broke, there was nobody on board. it happened at the terminal. that being said, this year bolts are not supposed to break as part of regular service, which is why we have been running the single car trains, until we had a better understanding of why these bolts were breaking. as we discussed at the last meeting, we eliminated two causes. one was that we confirmed that this year bolts were built to design, and the proper strength and mental aspect, and that there were no unexpected turns or curves in our system that were already captured in the initial design of the vehicle. we remapped the entire system where they two car train travelling through, not only our
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revenue service, but also the terms in our rail yards. what we did find is there was a design flaw. that the end stop, which is equivalent to a door stopper on your door, in a couple instances , it was getting too close to the plate above it, and so instead of being able to swing all the way open, and allowing the train to turn, it was only moving about halfway, creating a lot of pressure, which then backed up onto other parts of the coupler head and broke the bolts. we will be addressing that issue in the short-term by removing the end stop, which will allow for a full swing, and we will also be repairing the couplers that had scraping as a result of this condition. and then finally, just an
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abundance of caution to give ourselves a new baseline, we are going to replace all of this year bolts. that is probably more than what is needed, but to give us a comfort level, we will be replacing all of the bolts. that also has follow the overall review process with no concerns raised by the safety committee or the cpuc. this photo here, this is the end stop shown on the left-hand side the red circle is an example of some of the scraping i was talking about that will need to be fixed at siemens' expense. >> company bolts will we replace >> there are two per and, on the order of like 200. >> how long will it take to do
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