the next project is peninsula electrification project.the cboss ptc project has two requirements one is a federal requirement, a safety feature assuring that trains won't be running into each other and making sure it minimizes any accident and derailments. second part really improves caltrain performance. trains are able to run closer together and we're able to get through throughput and capacity. this highlights some of the key milestones we're preparing for the testing and we have been doing the installation for the last year and we're on-track to meet the 2015 deadline. the electrification project, we hit a huge milestone last thursday and released the final eir for this project. this project includes electrification from caltrain to san josÉ. we're not electrifying south of that, because that is owned by union pacific. our project hits 17 cities in this, san francisco to san josÉ area. and it really includes two key elements for this. electrification for the overhead systems and the electric vehicle. we'll have a service that includes

as we get into the analysis of the electrification process and development for follow on blended service, we saw potential elements for precluding future service as a result of not having common level-boarding. that is really what drove us to look at it far more vigorously as we are now, and that is why we're confident that we'll land on a solution that resolves the issue and allows us to land on a common, level-boarding platform and maximize the level of integrates service we can have in the corridor. the follow-on elements of blended service in the corridor we touched -- dave touched briefly on the fact that we'll be coming forward with our follow-on environmental review for future high-speed rail service. to ensure that we are operating in truly an integrated configuration, some of the follow-on analysis that we'll be completing will include a full environmental review of stations, passing tracks, grade separations, maintenance facilities, and all of the support elements in order to accommodate a system that will allow us to operate high-speed rail and caltrain trains at 110 miles per

we also understand the need to move forward in a timely manner on electrification and high-speed rail and to minimize costs overall. however, please ensure no decisions are made, which could limit reasonable options and alternatives before this joint review is completed, and can be taken under consideration by the various funding partners of the high-speed rail mou. any decisions made premature could limit possible options. thank you very much. >> thank you very much, mr. lazarus and i will call two more names. >> good afternoon, jim lazarus, san francisco chance chamber of commerce. whatever you do, i think the leadership of peninsula in san francisco cannot make the mistake of ending up with a system with differential heights of platforms. anything that can result in reduced flexibility at stations and certainly at the end of the line at transbay has to be avoided. it wasn't a height issue, but those of us who have been around since muni metro went into embarcadero station, know we have end of the line problems with capacity in san francisco with muni medical center metro. we though

to move forward next year being respectful of caltrans environmental clearance process on the electrification process and as soon as they have a document we are looking forward to move forward for the high speed rail service in the corridor and include many of the elements impacted by level boarding and platform heights, lengths, station modifications, passing tracks, the actual service rail and operation of the corridor so it speaks to the core element of our partnership aiming at integrated rail and not prohibiting high speed rail in the corridor and we're moving in that direction. just briefly this is a sketch of the base vehicle we're looking at and discussing with the industry for your reference the kind of bilevel multi-unit where we can look at the location of the doors on the train to accommodate both future level boarding at a 48 or 50-inch level and still have available a 25-inch boarding level that we can utilize for that transition period acknowledging that the transition to level boarding at a higher level at each station will take many years to accomplish. it's not going to be a

so as many of our transportation players know, as we move forward with high-speed rail and electrification of caltrain, there has been a lot of discussion on how we can ensure shared compatibility of vehicle and also platform heights. in the near-term procurement to help us supplement and drive capacity and operational reliability and flexibility of a blended high-speed rail. caltrain service at transbay and for the entire caltrain high-speed rail blended service corridor into the foreseeable future. caltrain and the hawai'i .r.s. high-speed rail and regional partners in cooperating and developing both technical and operational solutions. this again is just a hearing. it's an informational hearing with our multiple agencies. certainly i know the city and county of san francisco has a strong interest in policies and imperatives moving forward and this is an opportunity to hear from all agencies on how discussions have been going thus far. we know that a lot of headway has been made over the last couple of months. i want to appreciate all of our agencies for working so closely together and t

under this government, stations, lines and electrification are all taking place. >> will my right honorable friend meet me to help get more beds for hereford hospital? will he send a minister to meet the magnificent staff and, possibly, welsh patients who have acquired addresses in england so that they can access life-saving cancer care drugs that are not available under the labour-run welsh nhs? >> i am sure my honorable friend will welcome the £2 billion for the nhs in england, which the chancellor announced at the weekend. that money will go directly to the front line. obviously, we want to see continued improvements at the hereford hospital. there are pressures from people from wales crossing the border and wanting to use services in england. that is why it is so important that the welsh nhs has the improvements that we have been talking about. in terms of meetings and visits to the hospital, i will look very carefully at what we can do to help. >> cutting net migration to tens of thousands, reducing spending on welfare and, yes, eradicating the deficit by the end of this parliament for

i'm certainly happy of the commitment from our city in terms of hoping in the funding gap and electrification is a priority and there is a little urgency that caltrain has to move forward because you are already at capacity and congratulations on meeting those numbers. it's great that so many people are riding our public transportation system to get around. i'm hoping that we can make a motion to continue to the call of the chair. it would be, i think, a good use of our time to get an update in the next couple of months here in san francisco. thank you. >> great. thank you, supervisor kim. supervisor kim has made a motion to continue item 2 to the call of the chair and we'll take that motion without objection. [ gavel ] >> thank you everyone. madame clerk, can you please call item no. 3. >> item no. 3 is ordinance approvion extension of moratorium in the south of market plan area. >> supervisor kim is the author of item no. 3. >> thank you. it's a continuation of the interim moratorium extension on production, distribution and repair conversion in the proposed central south of market plan are

biggest rail investment program since the victorians, and, under this government, stations and electrification all taking place. >> will my right honorable friend beat me to help get more beds for the hospital? will he send the minister to meet the magnificent staff and possibly welsh patients who have acquired addresses in england so they can access life-saving cancer care drugs that are not available? >> i am sure my honorable friend will welcome the 2 million pounds for the nhs in england which the chancellor announced over the weekend. that will be money that goes directly to the front line. i obviously want to see continued improvements at the hospital. there are pressures him people from wales crossing the border and wanting to use services in england. that is why it is important that the welsh nhs has the improvements we have been talking about. i will look very carefully at what we can do to help. to tensng net migration of thousands, reducing spending on welfare, and the remicade deficit by the end of this parliament, the triple crown of the prime minister's promises to the british pe

under this government, stations, lines and electrification are all taking place. >> will my right honorable meet me to help get more beds for hereford hospital? will he send a minister to meet the magnificent staff and, possibly, welsh patients who have acquired addresses in england so that they can access life-saving cancer care drugs that are not available under the labour-run welsh nhs? >> i am sure my honorable friend will welcome the £2 billion for the nhs in england, which the chancellor announced at the weekend. that money will go directly to the front line. obviously, we want to see continued improvements at the hereford hospital. there are pressures from people from wales crossing the border and wanting to use services in england. that is why it is so important that the welsh nhs has the improvements that we have been talking about. in terms of meetings and visits to the hospital, i will look very carefully at what we can do to help.

you brought up the issue of electrification. for energy we cannot talk about it and you still talk about access to energy for the poor. the first point is the governmentsgovernment all have energy to access to energy programs but if you look at the countries that still don't have access to electricity, india, indonesia 50/50% elected by. i've had conversations with indonesian government officials, i say to them apparently your government is elected without providing access to electricity. so until it becomes an important part of the political agenda, it's never going to happen in indonesia. if that doesn't happen, how do we do it? and our work we've been trying to get a lot more of the private sector involved, vendors and to get them to invest in solar charging systems many grids micro grids. that's a very important part of the equation. we cannot forget about access in asia. so those are the three pillars i wanted to highlight to keep in mind sort of the importance of the human side of behavior, the human side of equality makin

so one of the things that was developed was to set up the rea, the rural electrification administration and farms were eliminated. farmirony, the first eliminated during the new deal was in western ohio, a town called miami, ohio, and now what is the eighth congressional district of ohio. the eighth congressional district is today the home of john maynard -- john boehner. ofn boehner, the archetype anti-big government, his district benefited hugely from the biggest government that america has ever known. the final thing i want to say, the square i bring in the telephone, i hope it is going to work. .t relates to radio you will all know that radio was invented by marconi in 1902. the image you can or member from school days, marconi sitting on newfoundland,in for theaerial listening possibility of the letter f in morse being transmitted by his colleagues a dozen miles away. about 2:00 in the morning this magical moment when suddenly he heard and ultimately her with great clarity, being broadcast all the way across the atlantic ocean. radio and transoceanic radio was suddenly a reality. t

a great application for electrification.epping up and saying, we will branch out into that. thein a move towards future, given that we cater to delivery companies, if this is going to be part of the mix, we want to lead the way. this resides on the top of the truck. it rides with the truck. ae claw sticks down through portal where the driver can load it up with packages. spot, ando a specific the driver can tell it not just a specific address, but right on the stoop. >> i have to say i would coined as the decapitate her. this thing makes me a little worried. what happens if there is legislation against drones, because there have been accidents the past few months. this one does look like a real danger. we're working with the faa and the university of cincinnati. this is a toy -- this is not a toy drone. this is not something you are buying for your kids. this is industrial -- actually military grade. to quell the common fear, gps house.t above your it pilots to a call center. there are four cameras. they take it down the las

electrification, which was enormously important to fdr, was on the drawing board. restructuring of the federal reserve system to take power away from new york and place it in washington dc was on the drawing board. in portland, social security. these ventures would be enhanced by issuing a condemnation of textile manufacturers in 1934 and alienating a good number of southern politicians that fdr absolutely needed to achieve these goals. , thesenator robert wagner real author of seven a, and a liberal senator from new york, in sense that began to use symbolic, proposed the enactment of a real law, a real law with real substance and teeth for labor. roosevelt did not initially given his support. wagner persuaded him, as did others. the national labor relations law, motivated and inspired general motors in 1937. it was a violation of this law that the sit downers felt legitimated their strike. fdr waited in vain to hear champion their cause. however, i think entailment you must be united auto workers on one hand, united textile workers on the other, that the account o

you brought up the issue of electrification. and we cannot talk about an issue without talking about access to energy to the poor. the first point there is, yes, the governments all have energy access to energy programs. but if you look at the countries that still don't have access to electricity, a large india, bangladesh, indonesia is only 60% electrified. and i've had conversations with officials because i'm an indonesian, i can say this. i say to them. you know, apparently, the government gets elected without providing access to electricity to people. until that becomes an important part of the political agenda, it's never going to happen in indonesia. that doesn't happen, how do we do it? in our work, we've been trying to get a lot more of the private sector involved. vendors, and to get them to invest in solar charging systems. mini grids, microgrids. a lot of that has to be that. and i think that's an important part of the equation. we cannot forget about access in asia. so those are the three sort of pillars i wanted to

we do not take our eyes off the ball of continuing to reduce oil dependence electrification of vehicles we are actually seeing it's not a huge number. substantial penetration, increasing penetration. next going to renewables, efficiency we do have a large number of states that remain a strong renewable portfolio standard. that is one way of continuing the employment. policies which are not economy wide like the proposed epa rules on power plants mechanisms to keep pushing toward low carbon future. finally going back to the technology issue in the cost reduction which is absolutely central. making tremendous progress on the butt the problem of energy and technology focus, maria showed the research development demonstration portfolio and that is clearly important for addressing that continued challenge that we we will have in one year, ten years, 30, 30 years to keep driving toward lower and lower carbon. there there is a third deed that i don't want to forget, deployment. as for addressing the much more immediate term. the loan program. $34 billion of commitments often, all of the above,

stevens tells the financial times it's a very important part of the company's strategy to pursue l electrificationof vehicles. >>> and our next guest says now is the time to buy the euro. stay with us after the break to find out more. >>> 5:30 a.m. in new york. welcome to "worldwide exchange." i'm seema mody. >> and i'm louisa. these are your headlines from around the world. >>> japan says it will support washington but president obama strikes a balanced tone. >> i don't think it was an act of war. i think it was an act of cyber vandalism that was very costly, very expensive. >> the sensor rally set to continue after the best week in wall street in almost two years. a rebound in oil prices drives energy stock prices higher in europe. >>> and saudi arabia's oil minister stands his ground to say the country won't slash production even if non-opec nations do. >>> and mourners continue to leave flowers and candles at the memorial for the two new york city police officers killed by a gunman this weekend. >> you're watching "worldwide exchange" bringing you business news from around the globe. >>> and w

technology that will allow us to do that will stop next generation biofuels, for example and electrification of the eccles. it's nottually seeing a huge number but we see substantial and increasing penetration there. renewables and efficiency, we do have a large number of states that remain with strong renewable portfolio standards. that is one way of continuing the deployment. we do have and it was alluded to policies which are not economy solution area advocated for, but in different sectors like cafe standards and the proposed rules and power plants. we have a variety of mechanisms to keep pushing toward a low carbon future. finally, going back to the technology future which is absolutely central and i want to about thoset's not oil and gas prices being low, it is about driving down the cost of the alternatives. we are making tremendous progress on that across the board. but i will go to our technology focus -- maria showed the research development and demonstration for olio or at least the budget for that portfolio. that goes to addressing the challenge in one year, 20 years, 30 years to

alternative fuels and electrification and as maria said we are seeing it's not a huge number but we areing substantial increasing penetration there. next, going to renewable efficiencies for example. first of all we do have a large number of states that remain with strong renewable portfolio standards. that is one way of continuing the deployment. we do have and it was alluded to policies which are not economy wide as the solution that maria advocated for but in different sectors. like cafÉ standards like the proposed epa rules on power plants we have a variety of mechanisms to keep pushing towards low-carbon future. finally going back to the technology issues and the cost reduction which is absolutely central. i want to emphasize it's not about those oil and gas prices. it's about driving down the cost of the alternatives. we are making tremendous progress on that across-the-board. and now i will go to the department of energy and our technology focus. maria showed the research developments demonstration portfolio or at least the budget for that portfolio and that is clearly important

rail investment program since the victorian, and actually under government stations, lines and electrification, that's all taking place. >> will my friend made me to help get more pledge for the hospital quickly sent a minister to meet the magnificent the staff and possibly welsh patients who have acquired addresses in england so they can access life-saving cancer care drugs that are not a bill under the labour run welsh health secretary? >> i'm sure my although friend will welcome the 2 billion pounds for the nhs in england which the chancellor announced at the weekend. bb money to go strictly to the front line. want to see continued improvements at the hospital. there are pressures from people from wales crossing the border and wanted to use services in england and that's what it's so important that the welsh nhs has the improvements we have been talking about it in terms of getting the hospital to look carefully to what we can do to help. >> thank you, mr. speaker. cutting net migration to tens of thousands, reducing spending on buffer and eradicating the deficit by the end of this parliame