and then there's brt. bus rapid transit. it integrates technology like traffic signal transmitters that turn red lights to green as the bus approaches. and modern transport solutions like dedicated brt-only lanes. think of this as a rail system without the rails. >> i think brt is taking everything we've learned over the last 100 years of public transit and integrated into one mode. >> reporter: cleveland's health line is the top rated brt system in north america. for commuters this is the answer, a revolution. >> i'm actually getting rid of my car. >> reporter: jeff lives and works along the health line corridor. his commute door to door less than 13 minutes. the future of bus rapid transit around the world is to expand the stations deep into the community as societies grapple with efficiently getting more people from "a" to "b" bus routes like this bringing technology to the road represent the future of connected transport. ♪ who's going to do it? who's going to make it happen? discover a new energy source. turn ocean wave

highlight all of the great work that the city is doing and i appreciate the work on that. >> on the brt projects both van ness and geary are making the steady progress, they expect to reach, 65 percent design by the end of this month and to begin the construction, near the end of next year and on geary, we are also working with sfmta, but also in the package of early improvements that we will see in the safety and signalization and a rebalancing of the service to add more limited service at the urging and encouragement of commissioner mar and commissioner breed. so thank you for that work. on the geneva brt study i will highlight the workshops that are happening this week on thursday the 23rd at 6:00 we will be at brett heart elementary at 1035 gilman avenue and 25th, at the bay short center, and also cantonese, at the vision station valley. and i believe that commissioner cohen will also be joining for us that one and possibly at the other ones as well. and i encourage the neighbors from that part of town and along the brt route to come to see the designs that we are working on to bene

then there's brt, bus rapid transit.echnology like traffic signal that turn red lights to green as the bus approaches and modern transport solutions like dedicated brt only lanes. think of this as a rail system without the rails. >> i think brt is taking everything we've learned over the last 100 years about public transit and integrating it into one mode. >> cleveland's health line is the top rated brt system in north america. for commuters like swref, this is the outside. a revolution. >> i'm actually getting rid of my car. >> reporter: swref lives and works along the health line corridor. his commute door to door, less than 13 minutes. the future of bus rapid transit around the world is to expand the stations deep into the community, a society's grapple with efficiently getting more people from a to b, bus routes like this, bringing technology to the road that represent the future of connected transport. ♪ who's going to do it? who's going to make it happen? discover a new energy source. turn ocean waves into power. d

more planning so that this will some of the safety measures can happen and, of course, if we have the brt coming in having people how people can get to the brt without being hit by a car when they see the train commissioners, on that motion maybe on market street we close it off so there's no traffic would be the best things. >> so vision zero is very important to everyone in district 6 whether or not you make $1,006,050,000 a year a lot of us move to district 6 because of the flattening flat areas to walk and the beacon hill neighborhood move from russian hill where the homes have lots of stairs and elderly are effected the police force it's hard to get them to look at the existing laws in the chosen there was a pilot on harris street where i live and 2 of bryan street close to 2 thousand incidents of blocking the intersections or the cross walk in a timespan we need nor police improvement the mta has painted crosswalk lines and but we have to do more. >> the very first hearing i called for on the board of supervisors was a pedestrian safety hearing we know that the vast majority of vehi

coming into their neighborhood but they would like to figure out a process in which we can balance it brt since 2009 the rincon point area has grown and it is projected to bring 4 thousand plus units 6 thousand square feet of office and one hundred thousand square feet of roiflt retail this is a tremendous amount of growth we request from the city staff to present to us on the issuance of night time permits and the told her based on the city's ordinances and clarify the jurisdiction of the agency and look forward to working with dbi staff and contractors on this issue and appreciate the tremendous amount of pressure that dbi is under to respond to incredible needs for growth i want to recognize director tom huey he's not here but directed his staff in the interim to not permit night time permits until we have a solution that balances everyone's need ambassador before i - well, i'll list dpw and lynn that will describe our night time permit and provided an example of noise activities we have a lady to talk about the impact of the noise and quality of life and sfmta bryan who will describe

it would provide a lot more capacity in the core of the brt system that lead into this segment talks about our job growth. we are fort unate to be bringin in so many jobs. to support that, people have to get to work. we need more frequent service. >> are u dealing with high speed rail at all? >> we are deang with high speed rail. one of the key procts is the ele electrification. its right now a dee sill system. >> that's another project that has a lot of angst in connection wit it because of the dollar amount? r >>it's a big public works project and it will take a lot to get it right. >> and we touched on highway widening projects. can you tell us about some of the big projects? >> highway widening is not a big part of the plan. there are no new freeways. there is something called the regional express lanes network. most are familiar wi the high occupancy lanes. at this point they are probably also famili with the fact that there are segments that are not complete. that is a problem for buses and van pools and things of that sort that attempt to get people to and from work efficientl

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a couple of weeks ago i spoke and spoke with the brt and did several things around the issue of delivery system reform, and this is one of information and what you have raised has to be one of the fundamental anchors of that change. so right now what we're trying to balance is that pushback on speed, at the same time continue moving forward. >> thank you. cleveland "plain dealer." on the subject of provider networks, it can be quite a task for the consumer to go on healthcare.gov it becomes quite a process. you look at price, these plans my doctor int is there, is my hospital in their? concern --e any >> we asked the providers to list that on their networks, and updatedthese issues are and it is the providers that provide this information, what we do is link to that. that's how we are getting that information, trying to get access to that information for the consumer. >> but, again, not all are equally transparent, i'm finding. >> continue to work with the insurers on their levels of transparency. i would say this is an employer-based issue in terms of the entire market and gets to this

a couple of weeks ago i spoke and spoke with the brt and did several things around the issue of deliveryt you have raised has to be one of the fundamental anchors of that change. so right now what we're trying to balance is that pushback on speed, at the same time continue moving forward. >> [inaudible] >> thank you. steve -- [inaudible] cleveland plain deal canner. on the subject of provider networks, it can be quite a task for the consumer to go on healthcare.gov and figure out who's in the network, who's not in the network. in fact, you won't figure that out on healthcare.gov, you've got to contact the insurers. not all insurers are equally transparent about that, so it becomes quite a process. you're looking at price, okay, these plans might be equal, but is my doctor in there, is the hospital i wish to go to if i need to go to a hospital in there. has there been any consideration of requiring the insurers to be much more transparent about that, to post on their web sites, for for instance, here ae our networks? >> right now, actually, we do ask the providers to list that on their ne

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