before i start, i just wanted to acknowledge and thank sf mta staffing paul bernardi who has part of the team during this project. this has been a partnership between the transportation authority and sf mta. the project is in the environmental review process. i will talk more about this. we are putting together the interviewal document and we plan to release that in the summer of this year. i will give a project background and talk about the staff recommended alternatives and details and next steps. the geary quarter is a six 1/2 mile corridor. the busiest bus lines in the corridor that sf mta operates. 60 thousand trips are carried per day. the 38 local and 38 limited are the current and main line that run on the geary corridor. very heavily used very high frequencies today to 6 minutes at each peak. they travel less and not as reliable to show up when we want them to show up and when they show up, they are crowded when they get behind schedule. so these are the kinds of issues that we are intended to address with our project. our proposal is what we call bus rapid transit. brt whic