much as ken alluded to, the challenge for all of us is how we think about the region growing. by "we," i mean the region growing. these are trying times. we are looking at housing finance and other key components that supports this kind of growth and know how hard our challenge is. we have the resources to make to the best we can. i think also, just to carry forth on your line of questioning, there is work for us to do going forward. with supplying new sources of funding. really, we do not have the tools we need. to look forward in a visionary fashion, we tried to do was take what we know about our future transportation system, and assume we're able to continue with identified funding sources, but also to expand services across the network -- caltran, muni, bart in the city. we have been working very closely with your staff on the availability of transit service. we've had a clear back and forth. you can see we are trying to propose the initial vision scenario, increasing by roughly 15%, for the ability to increase a substantial amount of service capacity for rail transit. i w

you have heard a lot today about our plans to upgrade our network as ken just alluded to and i wanted to hit on a couple of key points. we have spent the last many months meeting with your constituents, neighborhood groups, merchants, condo associations all across the city with an outreach and wanting to work insighting new pieces of infrastructure in the city. a couple of questions have come up that i wanted to address specifically. one about undergrounding. there have been questions about whether we can underground and what the technological feasibility of doing so is and some of the technologies you have heard about today. our equipment is sensitive computer equipment. if you have ever been in a computer server room of an office or i.t. environment, this equipment gets hot very quickly and when you bury it underground, that exascerbates that issue. if we need to underground this, it needs to be placed in a controlled environmental vault and that vault needs to be dry. that vault needs to be air conditioned and cooled and because this equipment requires access by our technicians, it