. >> john hailey owns one of those pubs. >> what is the community like?ou say people keep to themselves or is it tight-knit and kind of everybody knows everybody's business? >> it's a good mix. no, nobody knows nobody else's business, but they do look after each other. >> hailey has known the middletons for 16 years. >> they're just part of the community and they mix well, they've got loads of friends because they've been here many, many years. so they're just like any other family. they're just great, a great family. >> carol goldsmith and michael middleton met while working for a british airline. they married in 1980. the oldest of three children, kate was born in 1982. >> what i've heard from other folks is that she was as normal as normal could be. she came from a normal upbringing. >> just a normal working class family. i mean, they both work, because the parents, carol and mike, and all the family are. so just a normal working class family. >> kate was baptized at this church. she was a brownie in the local scout group and loved being in school play

thank john hailey for this experience. i'm glad to be part of the mta. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> thank you, mr. mr. chairman. i had the pleasure of working with him. we are very grateful to have his partnership in helping us keep these buses. i love the mayor's challenge at least i heard of the challenge that years down the road we should look at these buses to look as good as they do today. we have support from all of san francisco to keep these great investments to continue to look good. the other one is our transit director john daleey who has spent a lot of time to get these buses to hit the streets as soon as possible in a way that they will be providing great service for us for the next decade and more. to tell you a little bit more about the specifics of the buses i want to welcome job to -- john, to say a few words. >> thank you, everyone for coming. just a couple things to point out. we heard about the investment. one of the things about our bus fleet is it carries 3/4 of our rider ship. 7,000 trips a day are done on our bus fleet. th