mr. riskin pointed out, over a number of years, we have looked at a number of options, and the potentialions are dwindling, and quickly. and so, we feel that if we do not move forward on this facility, that without, without over statement, it does jeopardize our ability to deliver the high quality of standards in service that we have come to expect as well as to meet the future service demands, in march of this year and early next month, we will do the fourth service, increase. and we are very pleased to be aible to do that. and we and one of the reasons that we can do it is because of the effective training that we want to be able to keep able, and keep doing that. and so, in finally, again we ask for your support for this, and it is critical to the essential provicious of transit services and of high quality and safe and reliable service and we appreciate the opportunity to clarify the previous questions and i am here and as mr. riskin said there are otherwise from the agency to respond to your questions, thank you for your pashgs /* pashgzpatience. >> thank you. supervisor yee? >> yes

mr. riskin pointed out, over a number of years, we have looked at a number of options, and the potentialions are dwindling, and quickly. and so, we feel that if we do not move forward on this facility, that without, without over statement, it does jeopardize our ability to deliver the high quality of standards in service that we have come to expect as well as to meet the future service demands, in march of this year and early next month, we will do the fourth service, increase. and we are very pleased to be aible to do that. and we and one of the reasons that we can do it is because of the effective training that we want to be able to keep able, and keep doing that. and so, in finally, again we ask for your support for this, and it is critical to the essential provicious of transit services and of high quality and safe and reliable service and we appreciate the opportunity to clarify the previous questions and i am here and as mr. riskin said there are otherwise from the agency to respond to your questions, thank you for your pashgs /* pashgzpatience. >> thank you. supervisor yee? >> yes

mr. riskin pointed out, over a number of years, we have looked at a number of options, and the potential are dwindling, and quickly. and so, we feel that if we do not move forward on this facility, that without, without over statement, it does jeopardize our ability to deliver the high quality of standards in service that we have come to expect as well as to meet the future service demands, in march of this year and early next month, we will do the fourth service, increase. and we are very pleased to be aible to do that. and we and one of the reasons that we can do it is because of the effective training that we want to be able to keep able, and keep doing that. and so, in finally, again we ask for your support for this, and it is critical to the essential provicious of transit services and of high quality and safe and reliable service and we appreciate the opportunity to clarify the previous questions and i am here and as mr. riskin said there are otherwise from the agency to respond to your questions, thank you for your pashgs /* pashgzpatience. >> thank you. supervisor yee? >> yes, i

mr. riskin pointed out, over a number of years, we have looked at a number of options, and the potentials facility, that without, without over statement, it does jeopardize our ability to deliver the high quality of standards in service that we have come to expect as well as to meet the future service demands, in march of this year and early next month, we will do the fourth service, increase. and we are very pleased to be aible to do that. and we and one of the reasons that we can do it is because of the effective training that we want to be able to keep able, and keep doing that. and so, in finally, again we ask for your support for this, and it is critical to the essential provicious of transit services and of high quality and safe and reliable service and we appreciate the opportunity to clarify the previous questions and i am here and as mr. riskin said there are otherwise from the agency to respond to your questions, thank you for your pashgs /* pashgzpatience. >> thank you. supervisor yee? >> yes, i really appreciate you valuing and having enough drivers out there, that are probab

mr. riskin you are totally incorrect in your assertion about costs. yes, i don't know where you are getting the 40 percent, it's been booted around between 25 and 35 percent, but that is irrelevant if you ever took a course in statistics you should know that correlation does not equal causation and you are saying it's the fault of the management here and you have no evidence whatsoever. what you need to do, sir, is produce information from every other large construction project in this time to see what their cost increase were and then you might have more than one leg to stand on. finally, i'm going to say that this stinks to such high heaven i'm surprised all of you up there don't have your gas masks on. thank you. >> further? >> actually, mr. kaufman is next. >> my name is gerald kaufman, i am representing the bay area transit working group this morning. i didn't hear this covered and i'm not casting aspersions on anybody but i want to point out another extremely unattractive and unsatisfactory arrangement you are talking about. you have a member si

mr. riskin you are totally incorrect in your assertion about costs. yes, i don't know where you are getting the 40 percent, it's been booted around between 25 and 35 percent, but that is irrelevant if you ever took a course in statistics you should know that correlation does not equal causation and you are saying it's the fault of the management here and you have no evidence whatsoever. what you need to do, sir, is produce information from every other large construction project in this time to see what their cost increase were and then you might have more than one leg to stand on. finally, i'm going to say that this stinks to such high heaven i'm surprised all of you up there don't have your gas masks on. thank you. >> further? >> actually, mr. kaufman is next. >> my name is gerald kaufman, i am representing the bay area transit working group this morning. i didn't hear this covered and i'm not casting aspersions on anybody but i want to point out another extremely unattractive and unsatisfactory arrangement you are talking about. you have a member si