roland labrun. >> >> thank you, chair mar and i wrote to the entire board about this item and so first of all, somebody could help me out i want everyone to understand what the authority is, you see, she could display this? okay, at some point. but, the question is why are we refurbishing these, the way that we are and the counter issues that potentially that we are going to have down the road. as they are, these trains are really not powerful enough to put gas in and these are the direction that cal train is headed at. and i think that one of the issues and i wish that supervisor kim was here, is as long as these are around, we will never, ever be able to... (inaudible) because they are not cap able of going to the transbay terminal and a few other points, but the plan is to refurbish them as new. and it is a serious issue because when they were new, they were zero emission's compliant and if we do an engine swap, we can do three things, we can improve the performance and we will be able to reduce pollution by 90 percent and since we are reducing emissions we now basically become qual

labrun? >> thank you, chair mar and i appreciate the comment that you made about the san francisco tia. and you you know, believing in equity and being opened to the public. and this is what allows me to show you today. could somebody please bring up the slide on the bottom line? it is on the lap top right now. okay, so, as you know, right now, we are trying very hard to come back to the transbay terminal to the east bay and what i would like to share with director yee, is that currently, the current thinking that we have. and so basically we coming up the transbay terminal, and we are working and this is members of the public doing this. and we are working on two alignments. and both of them end up with the bay bridge is, if you go north and to emeriville and if you take the other fork that allows the high speed rail to have the maintenance facility on third street in oakland but to go directly to commissioner yee's point, we have two alignments and we have to go under the transbay tube and