>> just to follow up on the terms policy of fairness that commissioner mccarthy raised in the new accela contract system all of the costs of the permitses be listed based on the type of construction so that if somebody went in because they had questions about their own evaluation, they will look and say hey. i may not like it but it's there, everybody else who did the same thing more or less paid similar? >> yeah commissioner mar, you can look at each type of permit. construction type, cost put in and there will be rise cost everything is there. the new pps system will have the same thing. >> deputy sweeney, i don't know -- just one question for you. >> as he's coming mr. chair i wanted to ask, as you look at this document what fear do you think we face in this document and how we address those fears, is our fear that someone's going to say the value of this is wrong? is the fear that it's too high? what is our fear and how have we addressed it? >> i'm not sure what you would fear if the document for calculating our permit fees and usually, the questionses i get all the time are usually

. >> good afternoon, commissioners, i'm the project manager for the accela project -- the functional items of the system development. we have eight of the 21 punch list items that are remaining, finish and ready to test we started the testing of those remaining items part of the uat that testing started last week will continue this week and next and continue to test the remaining items, on the 21 item list without the remaining weeks in may, as well as mid july, when the balance of those will be finished. that does include the grandfathered fees, we have talked about previously to correctly charge fees that were filed from years past. date of migration, we have a significant milestone that is achieved. this is all scheduled. this is a committed date to do the final date of migration run on may 29th. that say 3-4 day process, by the middle of the polling week we will start our last qa, activity around the migrated data. this is a milestone that has been worked on very hard to get to this point, as you know over the history of the data migration has been one of the most difficult items

that positions us on the project team to restart our qa of reports being developed bell accela 21 tech, we caused the q and a, for the final migration runs, so we have a clean set of data to test against. i wanted to make sure everybody understood the significance of that milestone. on the reporting front, we will restart the accela 21 tech report qa in the first few weeks of june when we have the migrated data shg the dbi team they have a set of report they're continuing to qa many of their reports, don't require the migrated data. for the process to continue, which is why we continued that process. we have two accepted reports at this point, 8, and 26 are in development. the other item for the full date of migration is the end to end business migration, we have been able to set a date for the end to end business simulation to start the week of july 13th. that we will start that simulation. that is our point to both take measurement of how long it takes to go through the typical processes, for permit issuance. it happens, on the 5th floor group of the counter. it's also a point to be

well on a corridor where you're running trains 125 to 150 miles per hour as some of the accela trains do, you're talking a matter of second being the difference between getting your train down and not being able to get it down at all. when you come to that situation that's happened here you either do one of three things. you do the right thing, the wrong thing or nothing. if you do nothing, it disturbs me. the possibility that he was distracted and the possibility that he lost his concentration. even if only for a matter of seconds might have been the difference between getting to that point and putting his brake on and dropping the throttle and realizing after a few seconds that he was by the point of i guess the point of no return you might want to call it. he looks up and you realize that as he's getting ready to go in the 50-mile-per-hour curve. at that point, he realizes it's

i travel the accela, which is supposed to be the high-speed rail. it's like shake rattle and roll. as a member of the senate foreign relations committee i've traveled in other countries in the world like japan and they have a bullet train for which you virtually cannot feel anything while you're on the train going in speeds far in excess of what we call high-speed rail. now, there are still many questions we don't know the answer to. was there human failure? was there a mechanical failure? were there infrastructure issues? or was it a combination of issues? what we do know is that our rail passengers deserve safe and modern infrastructure. new jersey, for example is at the heart of the northeast corridor. it has long held a competitive advantage with some of the nation's most modern highways and extensive transit network and some of t some of the most significant core doors in the world and some of the largest and busiest rail lines and ports. in a densely populated state like new jersey, the ability to move people safely and efficiently is critical to our quality of life. unfortun

i travel the accela, which is supposed to be the high-speed rail. it's like shake rattle and roll.s a member of the senate foreign relations committee i've traveled in other countries in the world like japan and they have a bullet train for which you virtually cannot feel anything while you're on the train going in speeds far in excess of what we call high-speed rail. now, there are still many questions we don't know the answer to. was there human failure? was there a mechanical failure? were there infrastructure issues? or was it a combination of issues? what we do know is that our rail passengers deserve safe and modern infrastructure. new jersey, for example is at the heart of the northeast corridor. it has long held a competitive advantage with some of the nation's most modern highways and extensive transit network and some of the most significant freight corridors in the world that the confluence of some of the largest and busiest rail lines, interstates and ports. in a densely populated state like new jersey, the able to move people and goods safely and efficiently is critica

i travel the accela, which is supposed to be the high-speed rail. it's like shake rattle and roll. as a member of the senate foreign relations committee i've traveled in other countries in the world like japan and they have a bullet train for which you virtually cannot feel anything while you're on the train going in speeds far in excess of what we call high-speed rail. now, there are still many questions we don't know the answer to. was there human failure? was there a mechanical failure? were there infrastructure issues? or was it a combination of issues? what we do know is that our rail passengers deserve safe and modern infrastructure. new jersey, for example is at the heart of the northeast corridor. it has long held a competitive advantage with some of the nation's most modern highways and extensive transit network and some of the most significant freight corridors in the world that the confluence of some of the largest and busiest rail lines, interstates and ports. in a densely populated state like new jersey, the able to move people and goods safely and efficiently is criti