mr. gailondering in the examples that you gave of the (inaudible), what were the (inaudible) was it the leadership that we need to better (inaudible), was it a citizen based (inaudible) was it a (inaudible)? what were those things that (inaudible)? >> it's very interesting with all the cities which have turned around and there are many more than the nine i mentioned by now because when the first ones had started and it worked, then it's much easier to follow and learn prosecute the other examples. from all these these poone,rs e one thing in common. it's a diverse leadership. sometimes it the mayor and sometimes it's a group of citizens or the green partly that comes into power own one is elected mayor and he does it. sometimes it's the architect who has the about it to talk with continue. sometimes in copenhagen it was a mixture of a good city architect who liked a good traffic engineer who liked a good mayor. the three of them were great friends and go tot. normally city architect and traffi

mr. thang for saving $1 million. gail is also a lawyer and in addition to the advertising contract, she has been extremely helpful in negotiating some of the more complicated agreements of the agency. thank you for bringing that to conclusion. her negotiating skills are wonderful. thank you for all your hard work and for everything you have done for the mta. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. i just want to say i am a retired lawyer. director ford: that concludes my recognition for our honorees for the month of january. moving on to ongoing activities, i'm happy to say that we are moving very smartly with our major capital reinvestment project, that we are advancing, which we promise a much brighter future for bicyclist, motorists in the city. first project i would like to see on is the california cable car project. after months of preliminary work by the department public works, the second phase of the california cable car infrastructure improvement project of heavy construction on the california line. again, we are usi

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