we have a real technology wizard, dan howard, who went through our atcs data and looked at the travel time of every single train. and what we did was he created categories and broke the subway down into categories. for every time the train is stopped at a platform for more than 30 seconds which we consider kind of the typical what you need to get people on and off, he captured the delay. and anytime a train was between stations, not move, a he captured that as delay and broke it out by locations so now we can see in a very precise way, when we do an intervention on west portal, we can look the next day and see did that intervention work? what we've done is captured the overall minutes of delay, whether caused by congestion or caused by an incident and our goal would be over the next 90-day period to reduce that delay in the peak periods by 10%. and so what i like about this metric so much is that it captures not just the big incidents, but also the day-to-day congestion that customers are experiencing on the line. the second thing we looked at and we talked about this at the january m

: let's bring in wall street journal columnist and deputy editor, dan henninger, mary anastasia o'grady and james freeman. james, howardultz is a lifetime democrat. >> yes. paul: are you surprised that he is suggesting he might run as an independent? why do that? >> i think he's seeing an opportunity here where poyou ha a democratic nomination process that seems currently built to anoint a progressive extreme left as he is wondering if maybe, there is still a place for liberals in the american political system. we don't want to go all the way to venezuela type -- paul: you mean kennedy liberals and even bill clinton? >> right. not long ago there was ideological diversity within the party. and maybe it is an independent run but who knows! maybe he does well as an independent. he ultimately gets democrats to start thinking maybe they ought to move to the center too. paul: interesting. dan, independence, the last one to run, you know him well. abraham lincoln. he ran as a republican but that was the last one that has won a presidential race. so it is a real long shot. >> it is a real longshot but some how i think it was i

melissa: dan it speaks to a larger theme where we don't celebrate people who are self-made any longer. look at all the grief howardeone who grew up with nothing and he is still apologizing and attacked having so much money, that used to be what america is about, the tremendous opportunity. it is the only place where you can be born with nothing and work your way up to being one of these people on the screen right now. why don't we celebrate that any longer? >> we should and i think actually the average american still does. it is only the political class, or that crazy "new york times" reporter who says we should basically get rid of all billionaires in society. now let me make an important point, if you make big money because you're getting special favors from the government, let's say you're warren buffett, you profited from the tarp bailout or goldman sachs did the same thing, there are bad ways of making money, because you're in effect in bed with the politicians, but bill gates, the schultz guy with starbucks, they're are all sorts of rich people, steve jobs before he passed away, they are only rich because th