and having solution that works operationally for cal train, and the service. and in terms of a service pattern, and in terms of cost, is important because that is our economy. and that is our environment and if there is something that is problem matter in terms of operational costs, we are going to be paying for it as institutions and as taxpayers, and so that is going to be a critical element as well. and another critical element that the board has already mentioned. is about the importance of being able to send all of the cal train trains into the transbay, and the, and there are three times as many jobs around transbay as the rest of the line combined. and the transit oriented development is going to if anything, grow that, and that will have the connection to bart, and to muni and to the rest of the regional transit system and so all trains into the transbay and maximize that service, for

>> the rider ship term is pretty impressive and stunning in cal trans. it is certainly i don't know a victim of its success. but i think that there is nothing to suggest if you looked at the planned bay area that that trend will reverse. and so, understanding that thinking of about the fact that we are making what is at least in our building 100 year investment, you mentioned, the goal of 6 trains per hour, and or the plan for six trains per hour, and how do you see that working if we don't achieve comment platform heights, and we have one platform at the transbay transit center. there are two or three stations on the cal train system that will be greatly linked to the high speed rail and the majority of the stations, do not have any high speed rail stops and so we are going to talk about... (inaudible) and the new downtown transit center and i think that the best for all of us is to find a way to make it. and i think that with the change to a level boarding for cal train, at the other stations will greatly enhance our capacity but as he said, the choke

29th. >> and the panel members, were dave cal train, and ben from high speed rail and brian from the tjpa project team, and thompson from the high speed rail group and jillian the director of the policy of the city and county of san francisco and this panel was moderated by dina, and when i attended that discussion, really reaffirmed that the issue must be and that issue must be studied closely, providing the funders of the high speed rail and mou and the opportunity to collaborate on upcoming decisions. we must maximize our operational flexibility and capacity, and passenger accessibility. and it is critical, that the appropriate agencies and funding partners, be informed on the assumptions, alternatives, trade offs, and decision-making criteria to make the best decisions now. decisions to design and build in any up front constraints must be analyzed closely and approved at the highest levels and the key issue now is front and center is the question of uniform height and level boarding, which will drive the vehicle procurement decisions and these decisions will impact transportation

train that can help that. >> and it is from cal train. >> yeah. >> cal train --. >> so paralleling stations. >> it is complete because i applied for those. >> the paralleling station and switching stations are part of the electric part of, and they are the way side facilitis that help to regulate the energy throughout the corridor. >> okay. >> and so it is halfway facilities as well and so for those particular ones that is for the project. >> for the yellow dot in san francisco is that the fourth and king site or the transbay terminal site? >> it would be i would have to go and look at the exact position for it but it would be four and this king down to the line because this project is only from 4th and king down to santa fe. >> thank you. >> you are welcome. >> and just on the slide number six, he pointed out that there is a shortfall in the disadvantaged businesses and enterprise and participation but cal train is working on projects to meet the 12 percent participation goal, is that right? >> that is correct. >> just to clarify, so that the number that we have selected for the project, t

train electricification and the program that they will use and the new vehicles that the cal train is looking to buy and there are three stations where the high speed rail and cal train will share platform and we are sort of and the san francisco and if they have, different requirements or the platform, heights, then that will be an operational front of the one extent or another, so we encourage you, to monitor the situation, and insure that the two agencies and the high speed rail and the joint powers board work together as closely as possible to avoid any difficulties down the road. >> okay. >> thank you so much, mr. larkin. and i see no questions, and let's open this up for public comment, is there anyone from the public that would like to speak. >> seeing none, the public comment is closed. thank you. >> and could you please call the consent calendar, items 3 and 4. >> 3 and 4. comprise the consent calendar and they consider them routine, and they are present if desires and if anybody objects they may be removed. and accepted. >> thank you. >> i see no comments from the colleagues

ocii is thrilled to partner with am cal. we're glad to be your first project here in san francisco and of course ycd thank you so much shaman, percy and rob for your hard work in delivering these 60 units of affordable housing. just to put a fine point on that because it does matter, these homes will house families making up to 50% of area median income. for a family of four that means earning about $48,000. they'll be able to access these homes. these new homes are being built on public land so they will be permanently affordable. much, much needed. the residents at pacific point are a part of a larger development here in candlestick. lenar has provided all the funding and that vision stems from the mayor. our partner lenar has broken ground on five residential projects, delivering over 280 homes here at the shipyard. , a third of which, right now will be permanently affordable. these residential projects are just the start. once complete there will be over 12,000 housing units and a third of all those will be permanently a

rebuild of the parkway and the subway extension to china town, and the transbay transit center and calation as well as the bus and networks and looking around the city and in my own district, i can see evidence of a transportation evidence work of agencies and the community, from the ongoing improvements and new generations of vehicles at the balboa park bart station, and the plan studies and the capital improvements that emerge from them. we also celebrate, 25 years of community safety and safe routes to transit and kaoul and significant problem kay support of any transit program. and i know that our executive director has some special come menive activities, planned. and the colleagues on the board in the coming months to review the many accomplishments of the transportation authority. we will highlight the tradition of accountability and transparency and community, involvement here at the da and celebrate improvements in all san franciscans have benefited from, and look ahead to shaping our long range transportation vision, for the city and delivering the next century of transportat

cal down five. cal forces the turnover. tyrone wallace with the emphatic dunk. wallace has 23. cal wins by ten. bears improve to 9-1. >>> st. mary's, meanwhile, early season nonconference road test against creighton. aaron bright off the glass. had 22. tied at 61-61. we go to overtime. in the paint, 71-67, in omaha. >>> got the sharks, 49ers and raiders highlights tonight at 11:00 p.m. tag: sooner or later, everyone needs a helping hand, or a helping paw! so mattress discounters good deed dogs is raising money to help train assistance dogs for wounded veterans. veteran: i live independently because of what all it provides for me. and it's huge! there's a lot of wounded, ill, and injured out there just like myself, who just maybe need a little bit of help. tag: you can lend a helping paw too. give at mattressdiscountersdogs.com or any mattress discounters. mattress discounters good deed dogs-- helping dogs help people. >>> coming up tonight, we're keeping an eye on protests under way right now in oakland. police have ordered crowds to disperse and arrests have been made tonight.

we will see what's up with cal on monday. st. mary's at number 20, st.ew up against randy ben knelt of st. mary's, and it was 33-18 another the half. brad wall doe getting it on for the ç26-11 finish him. the red storm, they start the second half on the 27-8 run, and the gails only score in the 2nd half. >>> the warriors are back in action on monday night. great matchup. another triple overtime game for tim duncan and company. the nice move in overtime. 32 points, 10 rebounds for duncan, but dave yen. we off, 16 points in the 3 overtime periods. he basically won it for the blaze ores. the spurs lose their second triple overtime game in a row. it's the first time an nba tame played in back-to-back games since the bullets in 1951. we will leave you with this. cray thompson was down in palo alto w these young 6th graders for east side prep. he paid for the whole thing. sam, clay thompson, giving back. >> have a great weekend, everybody. good night. female announcer: get three years interest-free financing on brand name mattress sets. plus, get free deliver

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now, leading cal. with 21. they are 5-1. we go from fresno to chicago where stan ford pays a visit to depaul. tied at 16. now, taking on randall. 3 no good. brown cleans up the mess. 18-16, stanford. late 1st half, they are up 9.

cal basketball team takes on 6 rank wisconsin.ting out with hamstring >> red hot warriors play host to sacramento tonight. golden state looking for eighth straight win at home after missing 21 games for ham injury david lee returns to the line up. warriors had it under control from the start. curry steal and lay up. played 16 minutes. chipped in with 6 points and 7 rebounds. now in transition. curry with the lob to thompson. team high 35. the dish to him for the dunk. hotel difficult came off the bench with contrary high 18 points. warriors cross 128-108 improve to league best 23 and 3. cal hosting sixth rank wisconsin. wallace with the steal and dunk. he led the bears with 17 points. banners had one of the best big men in the country 7 footer frank who puts in the reverse. big guy can also hit from outside. finished with 14 points as wisconsin wins 68-56. bears drop to continue and two shark ins anaheim tonight. tied in the third. san jose young gun team up. him if to carlson first nhl goal for the 24-year-old. game over time les

cal now 7 and 1, 63-56 victory.cal women had a tough time in kansas, averaging 90 points a game, shot 24% today. gardner at 22, floyd at 13, unranked kansas, 62-39 upset, cal's first loss of the year following to 8 and 1. alabama gets ohio state, florida state and oregon, stan>>> comin we are continuing to follow breaking news tonight in berkeley, north oakland as well, where protesters are on the move. right now they're blocking traffic on highway 24 but police are on the highway, as well. working to clear those protesters. we'll continue to monitor the situation and will bring you the very latest at 11:00. >>> plus, american embassies brace for possible trouble. the new report coming out this week and what it could mean for americans overseas. that is tonight on abc 7 news at 11:00. >>> it was a slow weekend for big hollywood blockbusters. but independent showings had success. mockingjay part 1 claimed the top spot, horrible bosses 2 stayed near the top. the movies you will hear about also opening to strong number

that was very nice those lights. >> it was at cal train. >> cal train, thank you. >>> cloudy skies. light rain already reports in san jose. all the way up to the north bay. i will tell you it looks like one little cell wants to hang out over medesto. we do have cloudy skies. some rain will pick up as the system gets closer. it's not the most organized system i have ever seen. a lot of this may not be showing up on radar. it could be a bit below the beam but it's cloudy skies and rain working its way up from south to north. there was that light rain for san jose it looks like it let up a little bit. 50s on the temps to near 60- degrees. everybody is pretty close. heaviest rain looks to be to the north along the coast. sal, i think we will get through most of the morning commute but there is light rain out there. >>> we have seen some wet roads. we will keep an eye on all the commutes. when it does rain, it tends to be correlated with more crashes. let's take a look at westbound 80. as you can see traffic is moving along pretty well heading out to the mccarthur maze. there are no majo

. >> if i may, thank you very much, and if i may ask, how the cal train representatives come back up? >> i am sorry. >> and i just wanted to thank you for being here and i wanted to ask you if you could comment or provide a report on where things are on the issue of compatibility? >> and i would be happy to and it is a hot topic these days. and we have heard loud and clear that there is a great interest to understand this on a deeper level and what the trade offs are and what the implications are of going down. and we have been committed to working with high speed rail to do a deep dive on this issue to see if there are other vehicles that may be more appropriate that may have the compatibility of sitting at the exact same station at the same height and if we do go down that route, what are the cost implication and any impacts to service and what are the impacts to capacity and so we are going to layout the analysis that we are doing and we have committed to giving updates to the funding partners on a monthly basis and also coming back to the policy makers to explain what that trade o

compatible with the high speed rail, operation and the platform or the vehicle high is the key issue and cal train and high speed have become engaged and working closely and we are seeing the hopeful signs and we are hoping that that does lead to a truly operatable system with the shared platform and vehicle, height, to enable reliable operations of both systems. also consider approval for the cal train system and we will see it in december, at the board of supervisors and the transportation plans and programs committee, moving on transbay, transit center celebrated an above ground milestone to first deal that was put in place and i was pleased to join the celebration this month to celebrate the progress being made on that project and in addition, the focus on the future conference happened, which is the annual meeting of the sales tax county, and the projects like transbay, a major capitol projects that the voters are improving and helping us to implement those up and down the state. and those are hosted in santa clara and linking transportation through the future through technology and on

the good news here is that cal transhas vetted the process and indicate that had there is no real fatal flaws that they have identified and it looks like the concepts are generally workable and it will take the time to rev through the designs and come up with a more specific list of improvements and phasing in particular, for this very large, and ambition project that is seeking to redesign, 19th avenue and the mline service to be more reliable and safer. the neighborhood, transportation center has been making great progress and what is nice to see that the neighbors there took a site visit to see what the improvements over there look like, and to try and learn from that experience. there are temporary traffic calming and improvements associated with that triangle area, and the park lit, that is there, now, which will turn into a permanent improvement. and with the support of prop k and other funds and, so this project provided as we say a example of what the safety and the space improvements are possible and i think that the neighbors were very excited to learn from that experience. th

cal basketball team takes on 6 rank wisconsin. sitting out with hamstring >> red hot warriors play host to sacramento tonight. golden state looking for eighth straight win at home after missing 21 games for ham injury david lee returns to the line up. warriors had it under control from the start. curry steal and lay up. played 16 minutes. chipped in with 6 points and 7 rebounds. now in transition. curry with the lob to thompson. team high 35. the dish to him for the dunk. hotel difficult came off the bench with contrary high 18 points. warriors cross 128-108 improve to league best 23 and 3. cal hosting sixth rank wisconsin. wallace with the steal and dunk. he led the bears with 17 points. banners had one of the best big men in the country 7 footer frank who puts in the reverse. big guy can also hit from outside. finished with 14 points as wisconsin wins 68-56. bears drop to continue and two shark ins anaheim tonight. tied in the third. san jose young gun team up. him if to carlson first nhl goal for the 24-year-old. game over time

tonight with cal hosting montana.rmer cal assistant was hoping to replace montgomery after he was fired after six years. the job went to martin. he gave the bears all they could handle tonight. his team lead by three late. tie itself at 63 and we are going to over time. mario dunn and for the win. misses and we go to double over time. cal will hold on for a 78-76 victory. they are 4-0 at home. they are are facing milwaukee and game tied. time running out? are you kidding me? that's sick. 107-105. mavs have won five straight. this abc7 sports report has been brought to you by ebay. >> thank you, shu. i'm sure kap will love it. >>> abc7 news continues on-line, on twitter, facebook and on all of your mobile devices with the abc7 news app. >> our next

the contractor never worked on the provisions before and cal trans never dealt with them. there was a learning curve, but we are encouraged moving forward. we can provide all of that data detailed by demographics, by zip code. >> this is great news. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. cynthia, i don't know if you have anymore. >> i would like to just mention the fact, before -- the committee on december 3rd, a unanimous motion of support. in terms of financial impact, we are currently able to fund this $164,000 contract with an appropriation previously approved by the board. any adjustments that need to be made for the physical year 15-15 budge -- 14-15 would be made at the midyear point. with that i'm happy to answer questions that the committee would have. >> thank you, staff for coming back and make the presentation. it is important for us to call this into the record and the folks not here in this chamber and that home watching and listening it is important that we are making efforts to expand local hiring at every opportunity that we have. so thank you for your pre

tonight with cal hosting montana.mer cal assistant was hoping to replace montgomery after he was fired after six years. the job went to martin. he gave the bears all they could handle tonight. his team lead by three late. tie itself at 63 and we are going to over time. mario dunn and for the win. misses and we go to double over time. cal will hold on for a 78-76 victory. they are 4-0 at home. they are are facing milwaukee and game tied. time running out? are you kidding me? that's sick. 107-105. mavs have won five straight. this abc7 sports report has been brought to you by ebay. >> thank you, shu. i'm sure kap will love it. >>> abc7 news continues on-line, on twitter, facebook and on all of your mobile devices with the abc7 news app. >> our next newscast is at 4:30 tom nice clothes? not on her list. what these kids want, your kids have... their health. at st. jude children's research hospital, we're fighting for kids who aren't as lucky as yours. the discoveries at st. jude can help save children close to you. our tr

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this is -- advancing high-speed rail, including the cal train and the city vision zero effort. so many bills last year, as mark referenced that were aimed at dealing with motorcyclists and infarctions against bikers and pedestrians. we will be following those and any other transportation. and we will be supporting mta's effort as we indicated moo move forward with other legislation related to vision zero. and then, also -- another level of planning -- [ no audio ] so we plan to engage as much as possible in the state's new pilot program. they are funding and piloting a vehicle miles traveled fee to supplement or replace the state gas tax. and finally there is an item to support the federal market place fairness act that applies tax to internet purposes. not just in the state. this is good for the local economy and raises the sales tax revenue. we are seeking approval of the 2015 program. and i would be happy to answer questions that you have. >> no questions from colleagues. public comments and then call the votes for item number 5 and 6 together. it isoten for item 5. it is cl

tonight with cal hosting montana.r cal assistant was hoping to replace montgomery after he was fired after six years. the job went to martin. he gave the bears all they could handle tonight. his team lead by three late. tie itself at 63 and we are going to over time. mario dunn and for the win. misses and we go to double over time. cal will hold on for a 78-76 victory. they are 4-0 at home. they are are facing milwaukee and game tied. time running out? are you kidding me? that's sick. 107-105. mavs have won five straight. this abc7 sports report has been brought to you by ebay. >> thank you, shu. i'm sure kap will love it. >>> abc7 news continues on-line, on twitter, facebook and on all of your mobile devices with the abc7 news app. >> our next newscast is at you've been part of this family for as long as i can remember. and you just mean so much to all of us. the holidays wouldn't be the same without your crescent rolls. we got you a little something. we got you jeans. it's about time. pipin' hot pillsbury crescent r