lam bardo. >> if i might and commissioner yee's meetings and this might be your second meeting but your questions are spot on. we will address this later on talking about the needs assessment as part of the county update but in with respect to the n judah area and we have to deal with significant crowding problems today and reliability issues with the transportation system but plans for significant growth in the future and it's a double whammy that not everyone has to deal with it. this is one of several projects we received funding from the metropolitan transportation commission. it's specific intended to grow ridership and reliability. i know the numbers seem strange but a minute savings is significant for this investment. we can come back to that later. commissioner breed. >> [inaudible] just so this for the grant received. it's specific to that. i am wondering why this and why not additional trains? and if this is to increase ridership if you have a crowded train, if people can't get onto these trains during commuter hours i mean what is the point? >> i completely understand. we rea

lam bardo, i did want to ask a question. i know this is a significant shifting away from local projects to the bigger arterial ones and it makes sense because the most accidents seem to be occurring on the arteal yars, but there is a lot that occurs in the neighborhood that supervisor kim just mentioned. i have some concerns that the mta is maybe focusing on too much on the arterials when there isn't the cast capacity to do that. i would like to see the smaller projects and the rich mand traffic calming that has been delayed and i am corresponding if we have the. >> have the capacity to shift towards the funding here and kufting it in half and adding to this track. do we have the capacity in the mta to do that? >> yeah, one of the things that happened in the existing local program we have applications for a specific location and then we look at a broader area around that and that could include locations not necessarily the top most in need of traffic calming based on speeding and collisions but because we're looking at an ar