i'm chester fong with the transportation authority. i'm going to talk about and share some of the design and analysis work with the brt has done in the area. this is only one angle that we think is needed to look at. josh talked about what was in the area. this slide shows you an overview it's an aerial photo of the under pass. it's a giant dip. it's between webster and steiner with the bridge at fillmore street with the board passing. if you take a theoretical slice of gary at the bus stops you'll get what is shown on the slide here. there's 3 traffic lanes that go underneath. on the top there's two service roads on the sides where the bus can stop for loading. that's what we're working with. in the b. r. t project we look at what are the utilities in the area. there are a lot of utilities p there are several pipes. there's also a pump station that keeps the water from pooling in the underpass. all those utilities need to be dealt with so we want to keep that in mind. for some technical constraints on us. the b. r t looked at those is

chester you fong >> thank you committee members i'm the principle of the transportation with the authority. i i know there's a lot of appointments on your calendar this is for the gary citizen advisory committee. it begins on page 57 on your packet and the attachment is a summary of the application. i've give a few remarks and close up. this item is a remindeder it's from an action to a two term gary dedicated c ac the results is 8 members have expired terms. now the board can reappoint those folks or appointment someone else. it's been meeting bio monthly but in relation to this item the staff said we're recruiting in august we're got many languages russian and chinese and we did an e-mail in multiple languages and also tasered it on facebook and we also previous applicants from the spring >> just to remind i staff doesn't make any recommendations but i'll note we welcome new members in any prospective they bring. we help keep the project moving quickly by - i'll walk through the structure and vacancies quickly before i enclose my remarks so i'll turn now to the attachments to the memo. t