it's public transport. it's putting a new kind of trackless tram on the road and tunneling, a new train line under the river. will it convince people to finally get out of their cars and categories been fixed? it's transit in time for the olympic games. the i am obsessed with public transport. it is essential to cleaning and greeting cities. everywhere i go, i take trains, buses, tramps, and fairies to get to know a city. and it's people. i'm looking for ideas that other locations can copy and mistakes that they should avoid. welcome to brisbin, also increasingly known by its indigenous name, the engines. it's a sub tropical city with close to 3000000 residents across its extended region. if you haven't heard much about the city yet, you will see because in 2032, it will host the olympic and power olympic games and it's public transport system will be vital to getting people to it stadiums. but today, the city is dominated by cars. governments have invested usually in a network of underground highways, but

if we have data transportation, we had a great public transportation system here, but there gaps in the services. so it, we could fill those gaps where we could get right to man. so where we need to go instead of taking several buses or where the bus and so go to for public transportations to employment child care, to our closer facilities. but we don't have to drag several buses uh bad the full on the, on the buses. oh, we don't have to take 3 or 4 kids or strollers on the bus is it is rainy that will help. what do people in the, in the outer world have to understand about what the reality is for many, many thousands americans actually when it comes to mobility and transportation. the reality for many people that most people don't understand is many people, one paycheck from the poor. in a shelter out on the street, homeless on house. so if it's between transportation and eating, they're going to eat. if it's between transportation and paying the rent on the mortgage, they want to pay the rent of the mortgage and we address it's also the determinants of health. and transportation is on

so if it's between transportation and eating, they're going to be able to between transportation and paying the rent on the mortgage, they want to pay the rent of the mortgage. and we address social determinants of health. and transportation is one of the social determinants of health. and this needs transportation is many things, access to public transportation that micro trends it's options are in ever growing an important part of it, even in the united states, but mobility in discounts, he comes back to one critical component the call and accessed it. that's why affordability plays such an important role for everybody. affordability, some somebody probably defined as exactly being 15 percent of your household income or to consultation costs. and so if you could tell me that most americans do by got to go to work and earn a living or to spend on the earnings, they have to go. so base, take a break and go to the theater, eat something they slept right. that's why the future of the economy trimming a lot in all things, transportation and with that's the future of the american life si

you cannot take, there is a public transportation the public transport authority here in indianapolis called in because those guys are trying to really do their best to transport thousands of people who can't afford the cost to places. they have to be that the work or for shopping. and of course also doctors appointments the most importantly to understand that public transportation always in the united states. if we're not talking about new york and the software there or maybe san francisco aren't the premises. there has to challenge and was always challenge public transportation and america. that doesn't roll off the tongue as easy as for example, in public transportation, customer numbers in indianapolis. and not only back to where they were before the cold, with 19 pandemic has been rising late in 2023 fixed round tried to ship was more than 6 point. 7000000 a 20 percent increase over 2020 to the city is fucking the trend that sees many metropolitan areas in the us traveling with writer numbers. and with funding however, even indianapolis is facing challenges with shifts and transp

why transportation policy, because transport nation is the one government thing besides sanitation that we do every single day. it touches on all of our lives and it all of those other issues that you just talked about, why topic as many of you are this year is 50th anniversary of the power. robert caro's classic but we tend to focus in obsess over that era and it's been longer since the power broker was written then the era that power broker covers so you think about the era when the automobile was in the ascendant in new york city and, in other american and global cities, roughly from the world war one era until, the mid 1960s. it's been longer since then than that era was. so i just got around to thinking something must have happened in these past 50 years. we don't have to constantly about the previous past 50 years. so what has happened in these past 50 years in terms of rebuilding the subway system starting in 1980s, the era of building bike lanes pedestrian plazas starting after the turn of the millennium, the activism involved not only in defeat in the highway era and some stree

transportation systems. this bill would direct t.s.a. to conduct a feasibility study on using mobile phones and location data to allow employees to clock in for work upon arrival at the airport parking lots and bus transit stops. doing so would reduce commuting costs and improve quality of life for t.s.a. employees, while allowing t.s.a. leadership to manage the workforce appropriately and maintain order and discipline. this study will provide insight for t.s.a. and congress as we collectively seek innovative ways to recruit and retain top talent to help secure our transportation systems. i thank my colleagues on both sides of the aisle for working with me to develop this legislation. and with that, mr. speaker, i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york reserves. the gentleman from tennessee is recognized. mr. green: mr. speaker, i have no more speakers and am prepared to close after the gentleman from new york closes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserv

welcome to the meeting of the transportation authority board. i am rafael mandelman vice chair is melgar. i want to thank sfgovtv and our cleeshg amy saeyang. >> commissioner chan >> abdent. >> dorsey. >> present. >> engardio. >> present. >> chair mandelman. >> present. >> vice chair melgar. >> absent. >> commissioner peskin. present. >> commissioner preston >> present. >> commissioner ronen. >> absent. >> commissioner safai. >> absent. >> commissioner walton. >> present. >> chair we have quorum. >> thank you. i think you have opinion comment announce am. >> for members interested in participating in this meeting we welcome your attendance in person in the chamber room 250 in city hall. or you may watch channel 26 or 99. or stroll live at sfgov.org for those wish to comment remote the best way is dialing 415. 655-0001. you will be able to listen to the meet nothing real time. when comment is called for the item press star 3 to speak. don't press it again or you will be removed from the queue. when your line is un muted the operator will advise y

the contract says more than 2 to k t. public transportation is too expensive. her story is far from unique. turkey has a high unemployment rate, especially among young people. the struggle to find a job is something countless. young people are dealing with just like a leave public transportation costs can be a barrier for a job seekers. for at least it's already a challenge just to get to the job interview is done. both has recently introduced a new initiative to make public transportation free for job seekers. assembled is the largest city so far to introduce such a measure. i'm going to, most of the goal is that the participants can access certain job office and prepare them for the interviews i am on. the 2nd goal is to reduce unemployment and assemble. a beef is one of the 1st 8000 people to apply for the free travel passes . after registering with the local jobs center, she now has to attend an interview there. for interview was short. so it went well, but unfortunately they're looking for something else. it didn't match my qualifications. a leaf now only

do you think 3 transportation for a job seekers is a good idea? the driving the truck alone on a country road toward the sunset. a romantic image that has nothing to do with the demands placed on today's truck drive, it's traffic jams deadline, stress over crowded rest areas and low paid to boot. it's no wonder there is a shortage. one company is currently looking for drivers in eastern europe. bob, us, you on all the loves, starts his work day loading trouble from a construction site. how do you love is a truck driver for the path and bird construction company he's from is pakistan. which is one of the places german companies are looking for truckers. there's a shortage of around $70000.00 truck drivers in germany. but now what do you love is one after he did the training here and how the south west of berlin got things all it is a lot to do with the salary that plays a big role, of course, was the one that i do next. how do you love is one of the problem burges, many far and truck drivers, even as a trainee he was taking home up to $800.00 euros

only city to offer free transportation to the unemployed. in budapest, job seekers can travel on public transportation for free, but they also need to renew their past every month. meanwhile, the city of cape town went for a different approach. the city is partnered with employers to give job applicants travel vouchers to use for interviews. but do these measures actually help people find work? there were a few studies looking at the benefits of such measures and they show mixed results . one us study in washington dc found a job seekers or received a discount card for public transportation applied and interviewed for more jobs. but another study in seattle found that job seekers who are offered free transportation over a period of 6 months weren't any more likely to actually get a job. well, such initiatives can help job seekers in the short term. they're not enough to keep people working in the long term. it's very important to provide such friends of interest in the front of clicking but at the on the other side to make it more affordable

we pay for transportation. and since the reagan era, since 1982, there has been this sort of like back room agreement in congress. we are going to spend 80% of federal transportation money on roads and percent of it on transit. and that was agreed upon for a long that's in the book related to an increase in the gas tax. but since that is how we have chosen to allocate federal money. and so that means that a state like textile gets a ton of money from the federal government spend on roads and local agencies like metro or transit agencies across the country get very little federal money, relatively speaking, to provide transit. so like the next congress considers the surface transportation reauthorization, like there are always introduced saying we should fund transit and highways equally 5050 at the very at the bare minimum. so that's the kind of federal thing. it's a bill no one really pays attention to, but it's hugely consequential to answer the question of like, why does the bus suck? and then the local leve

so how can their transport go? electric, enter the humble bus, just a few kilometers outside of the mega cities. sound power though, is a production site for the company. electra disposition firm has been making electric, trolley buses for decades. but in recent years, they added 100 percent battery electric buses to their catalogue. these buses are already on the streets of south power, though most likely it is we have 85 percent of the pure electric market. this is the ada olivera, the executive director of electra, she knows the best, is their company produces are more expensive to buy. so that initial investment needs to make long term sense for a city officials. and also if we put buses that costs a $3.00 times more than these, the buses and they last less than 15 years, we would undermine the transport system not only in brazil, but in that in america. these buses must last at least 15 years in the system. so let's just came up making sure our buses last is critical. here in south palo, which band, the purcha

no matter what mode of transportation you use. so it does require changes to our street infrastructure. you know when you are driving a car here to grove street, those cars sometimes wouldn't even look when they would turn as bikes would go past. it was extremely dangerous. now it's very intentional. you can't just make a turn without looking because of our new system. i don't know what it's called, but that little thing over there, it's going to prevent a lot of things from happening to people who are just trying to use these bike lanes to move from here to there. we have a lot of visitors to city hall for so many different reasons, and you know what they do? they just pull up in the front of city hall without looking. sometimes they just pull up in the front of the city hall without looking to see if a bike is coming, opening their doors, their car doors without looking to see what's coming behind them. we have got to change the culture of san francisco. we have got to change the culture by changing the design of our streets and

the transports into people who move -- transports that move goods and transports that move people. transports that move people don't predict anything. it's not the traps transport cs themselves, what tells the futcher futch er is the goods that they're moving. if you move more goods, you see higher asset utilization and higher margin, which gives you higher earnings and a higher stock price. so it's the goods, it's the underlying goods flow that predicts what's going on this the economy, not the stock. >> i'm looking at the chart of fedex. the stock popped big, and the next day it closed lower, and now down 1.5%. the rest of the companies this that ltl sector, all of them are trading lower. the freight spinoff was supposed to be good for the overall industry. what's going on? >> first of all, they think the spinoff is a good idea, but they announced it will take 18 months to spin it off, so nobody on wall street likes to wait 18 months for anything. second of all, if you spouted off the price where xpo is going to be, tell me what those stocks were two years ago? two years ago, it

>> (please standby for the san francisco county transportation authority meeting this morning at 10:00 am., tuesday, december 10, 2024.) standby for the san francisco county transportation authority meeting this morning at 10:00 am., tuesday, december 10, 2024.) >> good morning and welcome to the san francisco county transportation authority meeting this morning at 10:00 am., tuesday, december 10, 2024. i'm chair mandelman i serve as chair of the board and vice chair is commissioner melgar a this is an jane from sfgovtv with her help and our clerk clerk amy saeyang commissioner chan absent. >> commissioner dorsey here. >> combhirgd here. >> commissioner melgar absent. >> commissioner peskin, present. >> >> commissioner preston, present. >> >> commissioner ronen, present. >> >> commissioner walton chair we have quorum. >> thank you, madam clerk a comment announcement we welcome you are attention and >> location: legislative chamber, room 250, city hall watch sf cable channel 26 or 99 (depending on your provider) watch watch watch watch allowed 2 minutes to speak. when your 2 minutes are

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another important form of transport is very often the fairy company operates 74 different connections and they are more than 20000 sailings each year with fuel use and shipping by the polluting. david for david hitt, who works with a company create hydrogen is part of this plan to clean up c authoration. and they all happens below that. i have no idea what we're getting to here, but here we go. the shift towards using hydrogen is system engine surprises, eating safety systems and the the late in the future. hydrogen used to be stopping state funds in phase powered by green hydrogen just part of the picture in ok. pioneering research into how the fuel could play a global role in transport and beyond. it's happening here at the organ, the research and innovation campus. one of the most important projects is an aviation, the in a normal year, nearly $14000000.00 sites will weigh each result in heavy c o. 2 emissions searched for an alternative fuel urgent. the one company collaborating with scientist in orkney is 0. i contact direct to surrogate kids who live from is excited about the 1s

so for a long time, we're talking about electric vehicles as being the future of green transportation. what do you get? a hydrogen powered vehicle that you wouldn't get of an electric vehicle? this is also a battery runs off the battery. but then the hydrogen is yours to basically extend the range on it. so if you're either traveling long distances, you can potentially double wide range and is another advantage. it's quick to review with an electric battery. you might take from half an r t it or the charge of operating, whereas this is pretty much instantaneous. you know, talking couple of minutes. normally we'd expect to see an exhaust stick that the back of a van like this. yeah. and you can see there's no source here and the same as any over electric vehicle. obviously we've got hydrogen, but then the as sort of emissions of thought as water paper is worth a basement here. yeah. right. all right, really thank you. said with results is me. it's great to hear how it seems to be going all the time. and there's an awareness of the importance of this type of network or this ecology of e

standby for the san francisco county transportation authority meeting this morning at 10:00 am., tuesday, december 10, 2024.) >> good morning and welcome to the san francisco county transportation authority meeting this morning at 10:00 am., tuesday, december 10, 2024. i'm chair mandelman i serve as chair of the board and vice chair is commissioner melgar a this is an jane from sfgovtv with her help and our clerk clerk amy saeyang commissioner chan absent. >> commissioner dorsey here. >> combhirgd here. >> commissioner melgar absent. >> commissioner peskin, present. >> >> commissioner preston, present. >> >> commissioner ronen, present. >> >> commissioner walton chair we have quorum. >> thank you, madam clerk a comment announcement we welcome you are attention and >> location: legislative chamber, room 250, city hall watch sf cable channel 26 or 99 (depending on your provider) watch watch watch watch allowed 2 minutes to speak. when your 2 minutes are up, we will move on to the next caller. calls will be taken in the order in which they are received. best practices to speak clearly and t

this is the december 3rd san francisco county transportation authority personnel committee. i want to thank jaime echeverri from sfgovtv for producing today's meeting, as well as our clerk today, amy young. madam clerk, will you please call the roll? chair mandelman. present. mandelman. present. vice chair. melgar. melgar. present. commissioner. ronen. present. ronen. present. chair. we have a quorum. great. and i think you have a public comment announcement for members of the public interested in participating in this board meeting. we welcome your attendance here in person in the legislative chamber room 250 in city hall. or you may watch cable channel 26 or 99, depending on your provider or stream the meeting live at sfgovtv. for those wishing to make public comment remotely, the best way to do so is by dialing (415) 655-0001 and when prompted, entering access code 26646432030, and then press pound and pound again. you will be able to listen to the meeting in real time. when public comment is called for the item you wish to speak on, press star three to be added to the qu

most of that was routine where we pay for transportation. since the reagan era, since 1982, there's been this sort of back room agreement in congress where we'll spend 80% on roads and 20% on transit. that was agreed upon for a long story that's in the book. related to increase in the gas tax, but since then, that is how we've chosen to allocate federal money. that means an agency like tex dive gets a ton of money from the federal government to spend on roads and transit agencies get little money to provide transit. so, like, the next time congress considers this sort of transportation reauthorization, there are always bills introduced saying we should fund transit equally. 50/50 at the bare minimum. it's a bill no one pays attention to, but it's hugely consequential. in the state legislature, state lawmakers, including our governor, get a lot of money from highway contractors. that's something that's skewing the policy they make. i think there's a pretty fundamental story of political corruption in terms of how much money highway builders a

a storing and storing hyphen it's transported by trailer and used all over or some in domestic heating. but most of the commercial vehicles and series in the trailers, the hydrogen is stored under pressure at a $184.00 times it's original density. that's a lot of energy. i'm meeting with james ferguson, a specialist in hydrogen storage. the highly inflammable gas is locked away in compounds and the key sites that us. oh wow. oh gosh. so one of the big advantages of hydrogen is that is a, is a kind of option for seasonal energy storage. and that's when we want to store a lot of energy over months. so we know of in the u. k during the winter is very blue. it's very wendy. if we go to a wind turbine based energy system, we're going to have a lot more generated in the winter then we need. and so we can capture that and store it in the form of hydrogen, and then keep it until the summer when we don't have any wind blowing and, but we still using energy was. so how is hydrogen use as a few where? well, james has a rather not a way of demonstrating this with a toy car that looks about. what's

up to the ranks, becoming illinois' 13th transportation secretary in 2019. he was first person of color to be confirmed in 2021. along the way, he became a proud graduate of bradley university, located in my district, with a master's degree in civil engineering in 1995. in his role as transportation secretary, omar oversaw over 80 airports, an expansive waterway infrastructure system, 300,000 miles of roads and bridges, the railroads that transport 25% of the country's freight that passes through illinois. the bottom line is, secretaries toman has lived the -- secretary osman has lived the american dream and has been an integral part in growing the infrastructure we have here today in illinois and his legacy will last for years to come. it is my privilege to congratulate my good friend on his retirement and wish him and his lovely wife, magda, and their three children all the best. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. pursuant to clause 12-a of rule 1, the chair declares the house in recess subject to the call of the chair.

whether we look at power generation and distribution or whether we look at transports. there is no doubt that we are in the middle of the most constant windshield transition in the energy space that we have seen in a 100 years. it is a very exciting moment. it's also a nerve wracking moment because we know that if we don't get to half emission by 2030, it will be too late to do anything substantial about climate change. this is our last window of opportunity to spend the curve of emissions and get on to a different and trucks. and doing society would be a society that has a 100 percent clean energy. that energy would be decentralized, cheap, big, which we would be able to provide our to every single home on this planet. we currently have 800000000 people who do not have access to power. meaning they're in abject poverty, by moving over to a 100 percent clean energy decentralized. we can make energy big, which is and we can bring those work under the line of poverty over that line. a green society would be an economy that has smart grid that has storage available to all

. passenger vehicles would offer transport as a service, not being a possession of any individual. and heavy time would be using clean seals and finally, city would be clean wyatt because the would have put the internal combustion engine into them. and cities would be organized into smaller communities, around food and enters at the beginning of the most decisive decade in the history of human kind. this was all of us to understand that this has been challenging and will continue to be challenging. but we can do that, we can address climate change in a timely fashion. we can avert the worst just after supply of change. and in so doing, we can bring a much better quality of life for oil citizens of this planet. and certainly to the ecosystems upon which we depend the people across the planet and spending an increasing amount of time online. from what meetings and catching up with friends to move it streaming and shopping. we're now more reliant than ever on platforms which generate and store data. but this data doesn't just vanish interesting as it comes to the very real environment

the cause of transport? minnesota state is that 6 patients are currently being treated as, as the hospital that is behind me, 3 of them off from my set of, by john on 3 off from can get sun. and we actually heard from the relatives of those who are being treated like you should have with them. i heard that there was a plane crash and then they called me and said that my brother and his wife were on that plane. we just managed to get here from us, or by sean to the hospital. there isn't any news yet. it is unknown whether they are alive or not. i do not know if they are here at all or if they are already in the morgue. we hope that everything will be fine and that they are alive to the the so, but that's a bit of a sudden i came here to see my cousin, but i didn't find him here. so the doctor said they had sent him to the morgue. i live in africa and myself and my relatives called me and told me about the disaster . i came here thinking that i would find my brother alive. well, we have to say, hey, there's ac