are there any questions to miss kirschbaum from members? supervisor safai? >> supervisor safai: yes. thank you, miss kirschbaum, the flat wheels, i didn't see anything in your presentation, but that was the real reason that i wanted to have this presentation. what we learned from previous presentations is there's the way you all are training or have asked the operators to operate these vehicles is to hit the emergency mushroom versus using the manual break. the mushroom worked well, i think on the older brada -- is that how you say it? >> brada. >> supervisor safai: i heard a life span of 100,000 miles versus 120,000. i know it is a mechanism that you just talked about. you'd have to ask the contractor, siemens to retrofit and change. what's the cost of that overall to the entire system to fix that defect that was not known before purchase? >> it's about 30,000 per vehicle and about $5 million to $6 million total. >> supervisor safai: so is that something you'll have to come back for approval or is that something you're asking the t.a. for? >> it's build int

no disrespect to miss kirschbaum. it sounds absolutely crazy to me that we're using an emergency brake. if i use the emergency brake to stop my car every time i got a red light, a car would last probably about three weeks. so i really don't understand why this is the method that we're using. >> chair peskin: commissioner, you are making a very good point. i'm hereby asking our staff to recheat to the representatives, the appropriate representative at the transit workers' union local 250a to see if they would like to come and give the operators' perspective the next time we hear this item. >> thank you. pes with that, mr. clerk, next item please. >> clerk: this is information item. >> chair peskin: all right. who are we going to start with, tilley? all right. >> good morning. >> chair peskin: good morning. >> commissioners, erica cordova, happy to kick off the critical item here, d.t.x., governance oversight on project delivery and finance update. you know, as i reported back in the spring of this year, we've assemble

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[gavel] so miss kirschbaum spoke about why they were not part of the original procurement. i would like to further discuss that as well, as well as the issue raised by mr. lebrun, with regard to the sand box. >> i would like to bring the sandbox issue to the next meeting. i'm afraid that that steps a little outside of my technical comfort zone with the staff that i have at this meeting. i do believe that we have a sanding feature on this vehicle. but to the extent that it may be similar or different from the breda, we can bring those details forward. in terms of the flat wheels, as i discussed at the last hearing, the siemens braking system is in place across the country. and over the course of a year, a property may hit the emergency brake two or three times. so they experience a minor flat wheel and then the flat wheels get trued. and the reason for that is because our operators are taught to pull back on the propulsion unit, as a way to quickly stop the vehicle. so the operator training is to just do a quick pullback. on the bredas, it requires the two-step movement. and