and people are using other methods to bring us into the 21t century on transportation. so we are looking at some of those questions and the nuances of federal polling policy on congestion pricing and technology solutions to address congestion. so while congress. >> but to negatively attack never before but not to mention the quality of the air that we breathe and the failure to deal with climate change. this was not even discussed at the time of the last reauthorization to indicate just how far time has moved and to catch up. the urban mobility report and you might want to look at what it says for your constituents but mine say $1840 per year in congestion cost and we here at the national council are the and then on 1840 per year per constituents and those are my constituents. nothing short of a test and in our case in this region as a result of 248 million hours of congestion delays in 2017 across the dc metropolitan area i invite you to look at what this means for the mobility report for your own area. harvard school found 83 percent of the largest urban areas contribu

finally, on transportation, we have a lot of comments on transportation. there's a lot of support for thd transportation goals and policies which are new additions to the draft plan. but i think the comments we got on the transportation policies are a reflection of how much the transportation challenges are that we are constantly facing here, whether it is on a bicycle and pedestrian safety perspective, whether it is on reduction of vehicles to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or to maintain industrial good's movement, to support our maritime industries. we've got comments that have been logged on to all of those fronts. and finally, on the environmental sustain ac sustaid resilience and all work done on the seawall and resilience team on the sea-level rise planning has paid off because people are understanding the importance of really effective environmental sustainability practices and strategies and the regulatory programmes that we deploy to put us in better position for planning for the resilience. so a lot of comments and positive feedback on that fron

obviously we are doing better on the transportation of our precious kids on school buses. but it is not perfect. we will hear conflicting testimony today. and i would hope that members of the panel might depart from their prepared remarks and respond to someone who goes earlier. for example, mr. benish from the and sta will come out strongly against any federal mandate for seatbelts on school buses. the ntsb will talk about what they see and have felt for a long time for lap and shoulder. we will hear from chief fulton about how new jersey is doing what others say is not possible because of seat configuration, size of children, et cetera. that will be an interesting contrast. i think there's more substantial agreement on finding ways to better identify the bad apples. those who have had poor driving records or significant health issues and other things. there have been states that moved forward with prompt notification. new jersey is on a daily basis. any violations by school bus drivers. looking at the national cdl registry and other things that the federal government doe

on u.s. roads and strategies to deal with traffic congestion. held by house transportation infrastructure subcommittee. two hours and 45 minutes. >>> i asked for consent that they be authorized to declare recesses during the hearing without objection to order. members not on the subcommittee be permitted to sit with the subcommittee at the hearing. >> i want to welcome witnesses in particular. but all of you to the hearing, as we are galloping toward the need to -- the act. cities and localities are looking to us to see what we are to do. i met with a group this morning and congress. >> it is in the most difficult -- we have had to do. the issues haven't waited for congress to catch up on revenue. after and in the using other methods. to get rid of congestion and to bring us into the 21st century. on transportation. in today's hearing, we will look at some of those questions. the nuances of federal towing policy and congestion pricing. off technology solutions. to address congestions or congestion and many other transportation needs today. while congress failed to solve the

transportation. nist states, the school bus is the safest vehicle on the road. they operate in road and highway environments where approximately 36,000 fatalities happen annually. mourn with the entire school transportation community and families when the rare instances occur and learn from these. despite the safety record, children are made vulnerable during the courses of the trip when they are waiting for the bus stops, crossing streets, and loading/unloading from the school bus. d.o.t. statistics show an average of 22 students are killed annually outside the school bus. that is compared to the average of four to six students that are killed inside the school bus. observational surveys indicate an estimated 15 million vehicles schoolly passed stopped buses, and a 180 day school year. sometimes pictures speak louder than words, so i would like to ask you to view this short video clip of an illegal passing that occurred with one of our members in new jersey last summer. [video clip] >> this child walked away with a few broken bones, but sometimes, illegal passin

that means having senior accusations on transportation. >> moderator: thank you very much. miss o'meara. >> there's one thing that everybody left out. it got me thinking a little while back on the senior issue. like i would like people to hear it and know how you respond. wellness centers is one thing i associate with seniors. i know this from personal experience, because having lived with my in-laws a little while back -- hold on. i'll be real quick. the wellness center is critical to the well being of seniors, when you have a pool. >> moderator: thank you. >> a gym, a jacuzzi. it's critical condition the affordable housing range. that's something that needs to be implemented. thank you. >> moderator: thank you. thank you very much. i went out of order. but you had answered already. but thank you for that information. >> thank you. >> moderator: it was spoken about when dealing with seniors that traffic is an issue. crossingthe streets can be an issue. so starting with mr. preston, what is your plan to address traffic problems until district 5? the question being crossing o

phasing out fossil fuels from their economies of us action on transport those drugs action on our housing setters the proper concrete policies and proper ambition not like what we saw in germany of the weekend which is a pretty pathetic plan a plan that had plans to carry on but burning coal or into the future that's not the right thing to do what we want to seize ambitious policies that shows they listen to the public they listen to people's concerns and they get this message and they're going to take action clitheroe would you like to see from this un climate change conference. well it's hard to say isn't it because you know the international negotiations have been absolutely terrifyingly ineffectual and it does seem to me that using only. only science as a sort of guide and then allowing sort of politics and economics to come in and say that some realistic for the economy that would be better for our economies keep things same it's also to do with an attachment to what exists now and sort of lack of imagination for what the future could look like but i guess what i would say is the com

those efforts by some estimates part perhaps five years so that's real and i started says on the transportation projects it kept people employed at a time when they needed jobs so i think that had a very positive impacts and in that sense you may recall some of our colleagues on my side of the aisle so that the time we are going to take a federal money is that driven and we don't want to cross town telling us what to do in the end of course almost every governor took almost all the money so i think they understood that it was beneficial >> what was the easiest and hardest and most difficult during that journey? >> i think a direct ground so the school to history and connecticut program for the best. my argument with me with here is that i don't think it was enough and i'll tell you where. i think federal stimulus should have been directed towards homeownership and trying to keep people in their homes and not lose their homes. a lot of people had their homes going the foreclosure and to be very frank with you i think that some of the bitterness you're seeing played out the body quality today is

>> guest: i do research mostly related to cybersecurity and its consequences on transportation systems. i have a large group of students with radio communication, on connected, some are railroad security, some on uavs, meaning unmanned areas. everything related to industrial automation, i i apologize, whas that word you are using? >> guest: quakers, like buses and trains and so on. tremont okay, good. do you teach any classes as well? >> guest: yes, i do. i teach different kinds of cybersecurity classes. this fall i'm going to teach a class on connected and automatic quakers. we have pretty good direction of graduate students and faculty and very supportive administration that lifts us up day i day. we are fairly encouraged to do whatever we can to reach out to get cybersecurity and look at the new areas that are merging, both industrially and through karmic initiatives and participate to the best extent that we can. >> host: now, , you also have worked at the national institute of standards and technology. what is that and what were you doing? >> guest: so the national institute of st

on q&a. >> a look at the federal role in improving school bus safety. the house transportation and infrastructure subcommittee on highways and transit heard from brenda sue fulton, among others. i'm interested in keeping them safe not only as a get on and off school buses but in keeping them safe in the streets as they go to school. it is true that school buses have a relatively safe safety record. it is also true that children are injured every day or every year in bus related crashes. more than, i believe, and most accidents, we owe it to our children, to these students, to examine why these fatalities occur and what can be done to prevent them. there are school buses in my own district. most take other modes of transportation, including walking, biking or riding in a car, going on public transportation. children are often at greater risk outside the school bus than inside it. we have figure showing 264 students who died in school transportation related accidents in the last 10 years. 97 were struck by a vehicle while walking near the bus. we are going to hear today from what

we got a bill across in one year that both the head of transportation and ways and means, both of which i sat on said it was going to be too complicated to do. but we did it. because the need was there. we were losing infrastructure to the tune of 5% a year in maintenance and deter youriation. long story short, that was 17, 18, we tee'd up that bill with a regional development authority, raised 7 million bucks between local governments, lead first by a local industry to shame the local governments into matching it, paid for the eis, environmental impact study. we're now doing something that we talked about for 40 years. we also did something called community crossings grants. and that was cities and counties always asking for the state to do more. well, someone had a novel idea and as soon as i heard it, i got with it. and said, hey, let's throw $100 million out there on a 50-50 match. >> that complaining was, it's your responsibility. we don't want to pay for any of it over subscribed the first year. it's now into it's third, second or third year, it's the most popular program there. w

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southeastern spain hundreds of people have been evacuated from the regions of the land and mercia on transport networks have seen significant disruptions some municipalities have reported record rainfall. across southeastern spain streets have become rivers. and many of the rivers have broken their banks. some municipalities have reported the heaviest rainfall on record. we're. in the last 24 hours almost 200 liters of rain have fallen but importantly in the last 6 hours alone there have been 120 years according to experts this will not be repeated in 100 years. price range continues to soak the region's military units have been dispatched to assist. but there's only so much they can do against the forces of nature. landscapes are underwater the flooding has closed schools and airports roads are the danger zones. 2 people died when their car was washed away by floodwaters another man died trying to drive his car through a flooded tunnel. this man almost met a similar fate but was saved from the sub merged road. you know that he was holding on to a traffic light he wasn't responding to and so t

and welcome to this hearing on detecting the nation, transportation systems. we reflect on a summer day in american history, 18 years ago that terrorists turned a address the agency's progress towards implementing modernization the committee will exercise oversight to existing security programs. notably the passenger screening teams in february administrator pekoske briefed the committee on disturbing testing results from the ig and promised to revamp k-9 training. tsa is committed to making the federal federal air marshals program more intelligent space. improving today's frontline security programs is important but tsa must adapt to changing threats and technologies. emerging technology including biometrics, perhaps we will hear about that today. understand tsa has a biometrics roadmap but we certainly need to do this in light of concerns involving privacy, data protection and civil liberties. i look forward to a robust discussion today on the vital role the tsa plays. madam ranking member you are now recognized for opening remarks. >> thank you mr. chairman

percent on transportation and digital infrastructure berlin has come for shock criticism from its international partners from not spending more as my nose each in my view it is essential if that with a solid financials basis that we now half we can react with many many billions of euros if they're through recession and germany or europe and we will do it then after opposition parties see that differently are as is is fairly fun for the as law it's completely irresponsible act nobody nicely set as would have to wait until the financial crisis is getting really bad i'm yours and then we might take steps against it or we see that us strategy to focus on xmas surplices has lead to resentment from a european neighbors great excited that the german government's bad no new dat should be lifted so that more money can be invest it in a climate protection is all fun is usual no new dept it's not an end in itself we need a grain boston charge by have to save money in still invests in the same time investing means building up a fun for climate protection and that also hopes invest and huge upside close in

i am not a transportation expert. we worked on two occasions with the two transportation authorities in san francisco. that is the sfmta on a project that was an 18 month project and most recently with the bayview community-based transportation project. specifically, the participator rebudget process recently. >> that being shade, bayview has five main lines 19, 54 and 29 and t line. for the four bus lines bayview happens to be the end of the line for those four bus lines. as up mentioned, commissioner sweet when you are at the end of the line most lightly it is not on time. we experience that a lot on the bayview particularly on the 19, 54 and the 29. also was mentioned similar to the hill it is photography issues which creates isolated community. the shuttle program was targets seniors and young people. as well as unreliability of muni on the evenings starting as early as 43. if i need to come downtown to get here by 530 i have to leave before 430. you have to wait half an hour to 45 minutes. this happens on most of the bus line

that one of transport to have a price. this conflict between transport is free -- transport has a price, was essentially cap slated in the next challenge the debate -- net neutrality debate. when it was good guys versus bad guys, it was an easy public policy wing to say we are on the side of the good guys, the white hats, google, facebook, and netflix and everybody was against the bad guys, at&t, verizon, and comcast. there are no good guys in the room left. google and facebook in particular are no longer viewed as good guys in anybody's book, but are viewed just as suspiciously as the cable operators and the telephone thatnies, so in some ways, debate has lost its emotional energy for most voters. lash is reallych directed not so much at the isps but directed at the google and facebook's and the edge providers of the world. it has relaxed some of the public policy pressure that used to be on the isps. lurch left in the next election and some of the policies that have been espoused by the more left-leaning candidates in th

and welcome to this hearing on protecting the nation's transportation systems. this morning we reflect on a somber day in american history. it was exactly 18 years ago that terrorists turned civilian aircraft into weapons, killing nearly 3000 americans and injuring thousands more. today, we honor the memories of those who perished, and those first responders who ran into harms way to help their fellow citizens. the tragedy of 9/11 led to the creation of the transportation security administration. tsa. within the new department of homeland security. tsa is charged with protecting our nation's transportation systems from attacks and ensuring freedom of movement of people in commerce. acting deputy administration, administrator, patricia cogswell is here to update the committee on tsa's prime -- achieving these goals. america's air, land, and marine transportation systems are designed for accessibility and efficiency. -- challenged to deter and respond to terrorist attacks without unduly burdening travel , the economy, and civil liberties. tsa's workforce includes t

i'm a senior strategist focused on transportation, energy and climate. previously, i spent a number of years software company s.a.p. doing marketing and community engagement as well as internal and external and most recently spent a short stint with j.p. morgan chase. >> why are you excited to be here. >> i had always been passionate about the environment and i had run a number of sustainable initiatives at s.a.p. and have done things such as volunteer my time and i'm excited to be here and have an impact. >> thank you. i willing overseeing the department's climate action strategy that the environmental justice program and also the green building program. before joining the department, i was with the city of san jose for a year-and-a-half and previous to that i managed policy and planning and districting the departments sustainability initiative. so i am very excited to be back in san francisco and working with a great group of colleagues that i previously had an opportunity to work with and also working with debbie and the commissioner here. thank you f

transportation. i recall a comment that was made about really understanding about coming to your point, how the ports can be working further together on growing water transportation services from the water. i think we spent a lot of time in the planning process to try to educate people about their transportation agencies that, you know, operate or use the property, for which we do not have direct control. some of that was taken to heart. on the water transportation side that is someplace where we actually do have more impact, so we had comments calling for more of that. a lot of it was, give me safer bike lanes and pedestrian zones, and can we get more public transit service, to be able to relieve some of the congestion concerns. there has been a lot of chatter around the transportation network companies, it has become a more complex issue. >> the other one that scored higher, is the maritime. is there any more color you can add to that i people commented in that regard? >> that there are some people that don't think maritime is a strong use for the san francisco waterfront. again, we do not know who these people are, and how much tim

out the stability of medicine shortages, shortages on shelves in the high street, possible chaos on transport of europe. ministers will say they don't expect things to work out that badly even if we end up with no deal but as things stand mps are unable to thrash the cells because —— thrash this out because parliament is closed. the split which has written this country from —— riven this country from end to end is getting wider and deeper. whatever happens with brexit, an election, a conceivable referendum, the wounds look so deep under all that it is impossible to imagine this country stealing any time soon. —— healing any time soon. and you can find out all the latest on brexit as it develops throughout the evening on bbc.co.uk/news. university leaders have welcomed government plans to allow international students to stay in britain for up to two years after graduating, to find work. a four—month limit was introduced in 2012, amid concerns that the system was being abused. the government says today's decision will help talented students build successful careers here and demonstrates the uk'

impose jewish religious law on the secular majority they have already mom age 2 imposed bombs on public transport on the sabbath strict laws and also gender segregation we asked people just going about their daily lives how this affects them in tel aviv. the ultra orthodox establishment have a very strong hold on for the israeli politics and israeli government i think it affects our lives. that the orthodox make their own rules and they want to make themselves it different from the other people i don't think kid there is taking too much of steps from probably things like. public transportation in israel. in saturday i don't have buses instead on several days i want to go to the beach they loved it they tried to pass not. according to my opinions but we should accept them as well as much as we accepted in laws from other communities i truly believe in diversity but still i think they should live their lives and we should we supposed to live our lives. still ahead the u.k. government is accused of social ringback engineering after london revealed to have been secretly funding young muslim t.v. webs

could you take a quick look at what other support dhs could provide to these ngos on the transportation front and work with us on the ground in arizona on those possibilities? >> we will do that, senator. innovation and partnership are going to be critical as we managing this crisis. they have been to date with state and local authorities in arizona and elsewhere. just highlight one quick example of that innovation and creativity. our acting commissioner john sanders at cbp has been instrumental in bringing together faith-based organizations and ngos with resources away from the border that want to or are able to help that ngos at the border that doing so much work in your state, and el paso, in south texas, and really that's brought in lots of additional resources and funding that supporting the board entities. we can do the same kind of thing on transportation not only engaging our greyhound partners to increase routes would also look at other creative solutions. in addition to applying the funding quicken from congress, we are buying buses cbp, borrowing cdl drivers from the departme

minority of seeking to impose jewish religious law on the secular majority they've imposed bans on public transport on the sabbath strict marriage laws and gender segregation we asked people in jerusalem if this affects their daily lives. the ultra orthodox establishment have a very strong hold of the israeli politics in israeli government i think it affects our lives. that the orthodox make their own rules. they want to make themselves different from the other people i don't think they're affected too much except from things like. public transportation in israel. in saturday i don't have buses instead on saturdays i want to go to the beach and the laws that they try to pass not. according to my opinions but we should accept them as well as much as we accept our the laws from other communities i truly believe in diversity but still i think they should live their lives and we should we supposed to live our lives. it was democratically joe biden was pushing his campaign with a focus on the fight against racism on sunday he delivered a speech or to the african-american church just days earlier during

so we really want to make sure that it is a space that is going to be fully accessible on transportation lines, all of those things. nicole bond, who is the director at the mayor's office on disability -- and i have been shopping this idea around to various city departments, trying to find out who might be able to help us find the right spot. we've met a lot of people who have been very helpful, and i think we'll get there, but it is challenging to find a space that has all of the requirements that we need. normally we wouldn't put the work in at the department level -- or the city level, and we just kind of say, okay, non-profits, you can figure this out. but because this is so important, and because there may be an opportunity to partner with -- you know, in a retail space, or something that was initially designed for retail, given that there are vacancies, there may be something else available. we're continuing to work on that together. we have a fantastic partnership with the mayor's office on disability. i'm really grateful for nicole's partnership. we will be letting you know about

. >>> on the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a senate committee heard from the acting deputy transportation security administration administrator about the agency's needs. tsa was created after the attacks 18 years ago. the administrator updated lawmakers on how the agency has changes and issues the agency is working to address. >>> good morning and welcome to this hearing on protecting the nation's transportation systems. this morning we reflect on a somber date in american history. it's exactly 18 years ago that terrorists turned civilian aircraft into weapons, killing nearly 3,000 americans and injuring thousands more. today we honor the memories of those who perished and those first responders who ran into harm's way to help their fellow citizens. the tragedy of 9/11 led to the creation of the transportation security administration, tsa, within the new department of homeland security. tsa is charged with protecting our nation's transportation systems from attack and ensuring freedom of movement of people and commerce. i'm pleased that acting deputy administrator patricia cogswell is her

i'm here to speak on behalf of adina le vin for voices for public transportation, a at a meeting today. she writes it's a community of, a group of community, neighbor and environmental advocation, visions and principles. our approach is lead with the vision in principle, and focus on the outcomes we want and develop a measure we can win at the ballot. we have several concerns about the approach of faster and the presentation today, at least as it was submitted in the slide deck, some details said today were missing from that. the, she emphasizes the groups behind this proposal are not public agencies, they are the bay area council, and spur, so business groups, not public agencies. the -- we have concerns about the $0.01 sales tax, good to hear some of that being addressed, but it would be really great to explore other taxation measures as well, especially if the polling shows differences and seems good to explore other ones, too, and we have not heard what they are. they just said they explored a bunch of things and presented this one. and finally, the process in which the faster coal

on iran. the u.s. national transportation safety board is investigating the boat fire that killed 34 people off the california coast all but one body has been recovered and rapid d.n.a. tests are needed to identify the victims 5 of the 6 crew are the only survivors. security has been stepped up in south africa and nigeria after attacks on foreign owned businesses in your highness bird reprisals carried out against south african stores in nigerian cities with diplomatic tensions rising nigeria has announced it's boycotting the world economic forum currently meeting in cape town. hurricane dorian has returned to category 3 strength as it approaches the u.s. east coast u.s. authorities are warning residents of strong winds heavy rains and coastal flooding meanwhile in the bahamas which took a direct hit the task of clearing debris were storing power and reaching survivors is underway the full picture of the damage and death toll is still coming into focus but hurricane dorian is being described as one of the worst in the nation's history the legendary beauty of the bahamas liason tasha's aerial photos show the b

to deliver energy efficient services right here in san francisco and we're working on new transportation electrification initiatives consistent with the electric vehicle road map that was issued earlier this year. for example, we're working on a proposal for a new commercial electric vehicle rates to help overcome some rate barriers that exist to support growth of electric vehicle charging. we're also looking at alternatives to cars, and we really want to think of the transit first policy and what we can do to help get people around electrically without the use of a personal vehicle. with that, i'm done. i'm happy to take any questions you might have. >> colleagues, any questions or comments? i just have one question. on our i.r.p., i wanted to know if we are taking into account what's in the pipeline currently and planning that's been approved. when we're looking at what are the energy needs may be for the next 20 years. we're comparing it also to this sort of, all the factors. so i am just wondering, when you are looking at this, are you taking into account what has been approve in the

now in this role, being able to work with some of the students at my district that are working on transportation equity across san francisco. i just wanted to congratulate you on 40 years and thank you for the work you continue to do with our young people. >> it is good to see you all. for those of us who are on the board of education, we miss you and we feel like there's no doubt that the school district is in great hands as long as you all are there and the 40 years as supervisor fewer said is an extraordinary contribution and an exponential contribution to our schools and our city. there's there so many young leaders like chelsea, who was shaped by her peers and have shaped our city because of what you all have taught them and the way that you have empowered them to really step up themselves and make sure they are heard and their leadership is centred in decisions that are made about them. i really want to thank you and say it was such a privilege to be able to work closely with you all when i was on the schoolboard, and i'm just so glad that you all are still there and still doing what you a

i need more clarity on the impact to transportation on our school. the other thing is, there's not nearly enough detail about the blockage of light into our building. it was designed to have natural light coming in to warm the building, to enhance the culture of learning for our students in the classroom. that is all going to be blocked thank you for listening. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello. thank you very much. my name is christopher peterson , a resident of ingleside. i strongly support the additional housing option version of this project because it is environmentally superior to options and alternatives that provide lust transit-oriented affordable housing and/or more public parking. to reduce the amounts of housing would increase pressure on housing in areas that are more automobile dependent and have more extreme climate, to provide more public parking would undercut at first to address climate change by reducing automobile use. that said, this draft fails to evaluate how the developers proposed the public parking garage would un