concern colors of money so to speak concern dollars for certain things i understand the money for the brt project can't be used for projects after it has been implement if i can make that request. >> we don't have staff unfortunately but certainly we're looking at that my understanding of the long term economic issues is whether or not the construction has changed the situation on the street and in a negative way instead of a positive way because of changes that were made for example, eliminating parking spaces or doing other things that don't seem to be working on the street is it so my understanding that is the important part of it not to take over an oewd function of the success of that street but that if the agency and the design that was executed and built has missed something somewhere a way to correct the mistakes i'm not sure you've got money for that but that's the prime thing nobody expects you to be primarily responsible for the development in the neighborhood i would think i'll bring that message back to the cac. >> the motion we're on the on the same page especially a clarify

you have to expand take into consideration people didn't - people are a little bit skeptical of the brt they're excited but that's been back then they wanted the light rail project and at that time muni had a plan that quoted the puc quoted the only way to expand affiliate the traffic on geary boulevard is a light rail system on geary from prop k that is in prop k f that doesn't have fund since i worked on prop k we'll have to expand go before the voters again to expand extend prop k so we can finish what we started but we have to expand remember there's a gear light rail project still on the back burner still needs to be built it is supposed to be light rail ready if we have it does board halfway it is not light rail ready so take into consideration thank you. >> thank you very much any others is there anyone from the public that wishes to speak on item 8. >> bay area two thousand 40 2 thousand 20 this is 72015. >> this morning everywhere in san francisco there are people 28th i mean the mayor allow 40 govern and the u.s. want, of course i was too young see but 20 years the mayor 2025

and the transbay terminal, and the cal train receives ten percent and the brt will receive 7 and parkway will receive 7 percent and all of the other projects will receive the remaining, 41 percent and that includes, street resurfacing, and the state of good repair and the muni forward. and for you these expenditures represent and anticipates 53 percent of future allocations that will come forward for the board for a full approval. and our estimates are from and the reimbursement for the past fiscal years and received on a quarterly basis and any additional sponsor information and the adopt the strategic plan and the five year prioritization programs. and with that, if there is not any other questions, and i would like to and end my presentation. >> no other questions here? >> thank you. >> great. >> so this item is now opened for public comment and any member of the public who would like to comment? >> and seeing none, we will close the public comment. and we have a new house, and so the first the motion from commissioner campos and seconded by commissioner kim and i will have a roll cal

it would provide a lot more capacity i the core of the brt system that lead into this segment talk about our job growth. we are fort unate to be inging in so many jobs. to support that, people haveo get to work. we need more frequent service. >> are u dealing with high speedail at all? >> we are deang with high speed rail. one of the key procts is the ele elerification. its right now a dee sl system. >> that's another project that has a lot of anst 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. >>nd 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 exess lanes network. most are familiar wi the high occupancy lanes. at this point they are probably also famili with the fact that there are sments 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 efficiently. that program would

we were pleased in the senate finance committee we did see funding support for van ness brt [inaudible] 150 million for central subway project. geary is right on the heels of van ness and following the environmental work and in anticipation mta plans to bring in prop k sales tax request fwra the near [inaudible] improvements and full [inaudible] in just a couple months. in terms of neighborhood planning in china town, outreach was held last month. we were pleased working with commissioner christensens office to incorporate stack holdser out reach to china town community low the china town trip project and neighborhood association. we'll provide more final report information on that study in the next month in coordination with the other agencies sfmta and planning department. there is a host of opportunities to improve broadway and kearny and the raisk of north south and east west streets that will provide better access. the west side transit access makes progress and make opportunity to organize community input through focus group jz also work on the rest nof neighborhood transportatio

the centers of the brain are developed language and literacy are most active, 80 prosecuti 080% of brt takes place in the first three years of life. it's important to talk, read and sing to their children and by the time they reach kindergarten will be able to succeed in school and beyond in life. >> your campaign is very aggressive, not only have the kit you can get but also the outdoor signage that will be everybody where. why is this signage so important? >> we're launching in oakland with a pilot program. you'll see these bill boards and bus shelters going up in oakland in the next month or so. we're partnering with a national organization called too small to fail and they have a number of national collaborative partners, bill and hillary clinton foundation who you mentioned in the piece. american academy of pediatrics, sesame street, whole slew of the best and brightest in early education. this campaign hopefully will succeed in oakland. we'll take the best pieces of it, including the clothing line and the outdoor signage, which by the way designed by silverstein, they are the fol

and the transbay terminal, and the cal train receives ten percent and the brt will receive 7 and parkway will receive 7 percent and all of the other projects will receive the remaining, 41 percent

and the transbay terminal, and the cal train receives ten percent and the brt will receive 7 and parkway will receive 7 percent and all of the other projects will receive the remaining, 41 percent and that includes, street resurfacing, and the state of good repair and the muni forward. and for you these expenditures represent and anticipates 53 percent of future alloca

learning from the transport ministry from the websites that tracking movements of ships is that minute brtsornado struck the eastern star it did make a dramatic turn. and it would team that that certainly took place before it capsized. if we go you know according to the transport ministry's official timing. but we don't know whether it was the actions of the captain or the crew on board whether there was some malfunction on the ship or whether it was the result of weather, but, this of course christine was part of the ongoing investigation that went so wrong on the yangtze river. >> only 15 survivors. 400 people. we saw for a long time yesterday, we were watching those images of workers tapping on the hull trying to see if there were survivors inside. is there any criticism of the government over the relief efforts at this moment. so few people are found alive so far. in fact you know they didn't know that the ship had capsized until one of the survivors had actually swam to shore to alert people. it took a while to get there. >> yeah it took several hours, obviously, the families distrougt