director eaken? >> vice chair eaken: thank you, chair. in light of the long set of slides ahead of us. i will try to keep my remarks brief. one in terms of the representation. i largely agree with all of the recommendations. i want to call attention to the five minute network. it's a really strong vision. it's very con pelling -- compelling and concrete. also really love being to hear the repairing harm and reconnecting communities. that's come up in the context of federal infrastructure bill. really happy to see that on here. of course continuous network for walking and biking. the one area where i have a little bit of a question mark, i'm hearing this my colleagues too, is the rail expansion. one of the reasons for that, really thinking about the last year and everything we've learned and what director heminger said, we don't know what the future hold. we will probably get it wrong. rail sort of locks us into a certain pattern, whereas the bus network has been so resilient. i would want to have a very high bar what we determined, so con

thank you, director eaken. director hinze and director yekutiel. >> director: director yekutiel raised his hand before me but. >> director: go ahead, director hinzi. >> director: i just wanted to say there's a lot going down in that area now with the giants and the events around oracle center with that events. i wonder if you can speak to that and how this will affect or not affect the traffic and how we plan for that as we sort of re-open and hopefully there are more events there. >> certainly. so oracle events. the bridge is effectively transit-only northbound. so it's almost like we've implemented it's almost like the entire two-phase project has been implemented, it has been for several years, so we don't anticipate the project would have any effects there. for chase center, events, the northbound 4th street bridge is used for traffic routing following the event, but there's also typically a parking control officer stationed at 4th and berry who could override the turn. it doesn't seem like there would be m

[roll call] and we are expecting vice chair eaken today. madame chair, you have a quorum. pardon. item number three, announcement of prohibition of sound-producing devices during the meeting. we have no announcements since we are in a virtual meeting.

director eaken. >> thank you somuch .ust to add with any scenario planning process , typically we in the public would get to look at the performance metrics across the different scenarios to understand how they performed. soi'm just wondering, i'm not sure if i saw anywhere on the slide . it sounds like they are all the same cost in terms of the total number of writers or riders of different incomes or destinations, frequency, the cost of providing an hour of service. how will we be able to understandthe way these different scenarios perform ? >> that's what we were getting atwith these access maps and understanding how service in general was being provided . you're getting into kind of the forecasting and modeling process of these different scenarios. >>. [please stand by] or do we put those back on some of the lines that are not currently running and that's the crux of the situation. we continually and always monitor our service and so as we put service back into circulation, we'll be looking at ridership and data and m

[roll call] and we are expecting vice chair eaken today. madame chair, you have a quorum. pardon., announcement of prohibition of sound-producing devices during the meeting. we have no announcements since we are in a virtual meeting. item number four, approval of minutes for the august 3 regular meeting and august 17 special meeting. >> directors, are there any additions to the meeting minutes or changes? seeing none, i open up to public comment. for those of you on the line, if you'd like to comment on the approval of the minutes, which is item number 4, we have two meetings