. >> my name is mark solomon i want to talk to you about the parking plan. staff is doing what it wants to do and it's not being honest and forth coming with the neighborhood. the ideal elegant solution to this is that we have meters and the residential parking permit that work in hybrid that would require legislation changes by you all. put the needs of existing residents first. and then the commute ers. it would seem to work together but staff is just not hearing it we need leadership from this body and executive staff and it benefits the most folks and less maintenance and i appreciate you guys moving forward on that. >> thank you. >> would you like me to address -- if i could just for miss m u.n. i i think we certainly agree with regard to the difficulty of the higher floor buses all of the buses that we will be purchasing will be low floor buses the buses that we're purchasing now are hybrid buses and some of the lines you referenced are trolley buses. and the 38 uses generally the 68 buses and we're purchasing the 40 ones first we will as quickly as we

>> good afternoon mark solomon again. of course you should approve the bike plan. however the significant impacts -- there's a pyramid there of impacts but a wide range of impacts down to 10, 22 nds they basically add up to your savings it's difficult to tell there's many contingencies on different options but we can not be digging ourselves deeper on the transit system. the transit for sustainability has to be paramount we can't be delaying that. we're going to end up with a really bad transit system. people getting into their cars further slowing the system down. that's your capital right there and to give it away for any project no matter how good you guys can't stand for that. because if we've seen the population grow over the past 15 years by a hundred thousand we're already seeing transit delays. you know how many more cars are out there and how much more dangerous it is. there is no free lunch here we have to balance this equation. this is ronald, reagan's environmental law. otherwise they do really bad environmental work and that the costs of that are outso

. >>> good afternoon again, director mark solomon. working on the parking and the north mission we try to work with people who are very car focused on what true north is for transit. saying that if we take these steps we'll have transit for you and you can give up your car and it will be okay. but i have no north star to point them to saying this is where we need to go. this could be that but it's not quite there yet. in 50 years we'll have transporters and jet bags. we have video phones. we're on our way there. let's focus on next 10, 15 years here at the latest. t.e.p. is supposed to be to be this but it's been put on an anorexic diet. [speaker not understood]. we already spent 4 million on the t.e.p. it's been sundowned. [speaker not understood] there is no real push to make it happen. the 25-year plan is for the ta. it's currently having constituency saying give me this, give they this. there's no real vision, no coherent star that says this is where we want to go to make it so you can give up your car. 3.1 billion out of the bill

since mid two thousand and eight while the unrest marks a decade since washington's brough claim of victory in this operation iraqi freedom norman solomon director of the a.n.c. good for public accuracy things instability there is only likely to deepen. there's a very corrupt interest drop sure and a lot of political repression torture and chilling both in public and behind prison walls which was also the case under saddam hussein but i think by most measures the magnitude has been the worst in the last ten years and going forward prospects look very grim i think that the united states government should be apologizing to the american people for the lies and especially to the iraqi people because of so much evil and injury that continues to take place because of and in the aftermath of the invasion occupation under the bush cheney administration it was all effort to justify a pump up the war is something glorious a lot of the problem that we have is the reality of the war is followed up by president bush and then president obama to the extent that there is not honesty about the why is that the basis of the war and the suffering that is t

mark shields and "washington post" columnist michael gerson. david brooks is off tonight. so, gentlemen. we had good jobs numbers today but you listen to that report just now from paul solomon it makes you angry, doesn't it? >> it does. you look at geoffrey weglarz who has had 481 job applications and no job. i mean, the long-term unemployment -- unemployed in this country, more than four million out of work for six months. judy, there's been a study done of employers looking at resumes and if your resume comes in and it's the same and michael has not been working for a month and i haven't been working for seven months, 11 month miss and we have identical resume it is employer will go to the person who's worked most recently. there's almost a stigma that attaches. it become asterbly vicious cycle. when you're out of work you remain out of work and obviously that was cited as you're expected -- younger workers are more flexible in salary, they're more flexible supposedly on training or employers willing to invest the time and the money and training. i mean, it's a terrible, terrible dilemma and that's a terrible waste of human capital. i thought joe was just elegant the subj