mr. hailey. >> thank you mr. chairman i will -- i appreciate your incites and the opportunity to speak to the board. i will say regarding the report card and how it looks after the first year i think you did an excellent job of summarizing it, but there is clearly good news. number one maintenance is improving. the reliability of the fleet is up, and all across the board i should say fleets, and number two the number of delays and the duration of the delays is down. i think that's a very important point that speaks to both improvements in the operations and maintenance side. secondly, as we hope to show with some of the information today your help, your support particularly in investing in the system. today we will talk more perhaps about vehicles, but also targeted and focused efforts to deal with systemic problems on the vehicles are paying dividends. across the board the fleet is up. the number -- i guess the third thing i would say we're sitting on a five year high with ridership growth. we don't expect that

mr. hailey one of the challenges that they have and you spoke about and how long it can take to get from the subway all the way down, and i know you're working to improve that, and sometimes there can be -- there's not enough service on the line which is partly because of the shortage of lrvs but particularly with the warriors new proposed site and rely on the t since it's not walkable on bart lik piers 30 and 32 but this is a t station there so theoretically it will do the trick so assuming that the central subway is up and running by the time the warriors open up, 2018 or thereabouts. what do you think that we can -- what is your level of optimism that muni will have enough frequency and capacity on the t line, on the central be subway so we can efficiently get people in and out of the arena whether it's for concerts or basketball games? >> it's eight on a scale of 10. here's why. >> [inaudible] >> i think not only you mentioned the central subway. i think the central subway will make a big difference but the other things we can do is we're looking right now i think the key is to locat