i understand the needs of the capacity at the daly city bart station. i am a little bit disconcerted about the time line you are proposing here, but i want to be helpful as we move forward, where i can assist -- relationships with dailies city, bart, any way that my office can be assistance, i am available. my question was, there are a lot of people in my district and sean elsbernd's district who want to the daly city bart. we walk -- walk to the daly city bart. questions about whether or not we can even use our clipper card. there were discussions about how we can share that usage with san francisco at the daly city bart. >> i do not have that answer. that is something that i can come back to you on. we look forward to your guidance, going forward. commissioner campos: on the issue of the time line, the study is scheduled to conclude in the fall of this year. what is the timing on this? when can we expect to see something concrete? >> it depends on the final station improvements, what part is allocated to this particular extension proposal. and then we

if we were to extend the 49 to daly city bart, we could make a better connection for people going straight to the bart station and then downtown, reducing the time to about 25 minutes. with the changes being presented by the mta, particularly in the park merced, the m line, this could turn out to be a much larger transit hub then and is currently. it would make sense to provide this service who are more on the southern part of san francisco, who i represent. i appreciate the work that the mta has done so far on this, transportation authority, jose moscovich is here to speak about it. i know there is a long way to go, but we had a commitment from mta last year that this would be something they would do. jose moscovich? >> we have a presentation from mta today. john haley is in charge of operations. perhaps he could speak about the issue of switchbacks. i would invite mr. haley to the podium. commissioner avalos: a key part of looking at the 14th line is how often these switchbacks happen. certainly, there is an issue that we have heard already, in city operations, our light rail vehicles, switchbacks happen th

option a is to extend to the daly city bart station using motor coaches, neither the 14 limited or 14 local. both would provide service seven days a week with hybrid coaches which are cleaner and quieter. option b is to confront a neutral in overhead system along the route and extend service to the daly city bart from there. commissioner avalos: if i could cost you. we met in my office one year ago with daly city

option a is to extend to the daly city bart station using motor coaches, neither the 14 limited or 14 local. both would provide service seven days a week with hybrid coaches which are cleaner and quieter. option b is to confront a neutral in overhead system along the route and extend service to the daly city bart from there. commissioner avalos: if i could cost you. we met in my office one year ago with daly city, the city administrator, bart was there -- i believe you were there as well. we put option b on the table because of infrastructure needs, it was something that daly city was not really interested in, and the cost was sort of prohibitive. we do not need to discuss option b. >>

bart delays to report about 10- to 15-minute delays at the 24th street mission and montgomery station. track maintenance, so affecting you sfo, daly cityand, heads up, give yourself some extra time. eastshore freeway approach no problems. 42 miles per hour of the if you are approaching the bay bridge we had an earlier stalled vehicle that's cleared out of the way. traffic not bad towards the toll plaza. friday light, the metering lights are still off. elsewhere, if you are out and about you can see traffic actually not too bad through oakland. northbound 880 looking pretty good past the coliseum. we had an earlier accident at 66 now cleared. no troubles on the southbound side headed into hayward. traffic looks good all the way towards the south bay. now, we have a weather-related closure highway 29 shut down between tubbs and livermore road. they are hoping to have that re- opened sometime this morning but for now use an alternate route. 4 not too bad. typically we see delays it time of the morning but friday light maybe folks taking a long weekend, no delays just a little sluggish out of antioch but overall problem-free. nice ride on