mr. solomon? >> 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

mr. solomon made some reference to this. as more cars come into the city, that's going to challenge the operation of muni, what we're already have the dubious distinction of being one of the slowest transit systems in the country. the t.e.p. is going to help that. as the growth comes, those gains will be challenged. vehicles are currently at capacity. many vehicles are during the rush hours. and as you know, we have some vulnerability in the way our system's designed and some bottlenecks and hot spots that in the long term we're going to need to address. but the lack of resiliency of our system to address service disruptions is going to become more acute and more pressing need as the demands on the system grow. so, what we're focusing on and kind of the initial kind of thinking about the long-term strategy are the key corridors that are going to move people in the future. this is very high level and intentionally so. it's not even -- it's probably premature to call it a strategy. it's kind of initial thoughts on what a strat

mr. sullivan. >>> 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

mr. solomon from the community advisory committee says, citizens advisory committee. so, to me a 50-year plan for all this is fine, but if you want my feedback, let's not talk about 50-year plans. let's talk about how we take the existing network, your very first bullet point of your 50-year plan, and talk about how we improve the speed and the capacity there. because if i get stuck in castro street with my new friends who are so close to me that we don't really have a choice but to talk to each other and they recognize me and they say, how are you going to fix this, and i say, don't worry, reiskin has a 50 year plan, i'm not going to make it to church street. [laughter] >> so, that's what i think we've got to address. and if you want to come to this board and get our feedback, that's what i would appreciate. and as we go to our staff, while it's fun to talk about 50-year plans, i'd really love to hear what mr. haley has in mind for the pinch point at the van ness station or duboce. i'd love to hear about how signal priority for gear and i van ness works better than i

mr. solomon, there is a difference. but it is such a crazy difference.gle it, it tells you the reasons. host: if you missed our guest earlier, you can find his appearance on our website, www.c-span.org. look for "washington journal" there. the "washington post" looks at why it believes that the syrian regime is gaining ground, why president assad -- things are going his way. liz reports that perhaps most significantly, the syrian government has recalibrated its approach to the war -- host: we will ask our next guest about that pair do we will be joined shortly by a guest who can give us some insight into the military issue happening in syria, the capabilities of the syrian regime and also of the rebel forces. aram nerguizian will be our guest from the center for strategic and international studies. let's go to georgia, an independent call. welcome. caller: thanks. nobody is really talking about this, but 200 u.s. troops will soon be arriving in jordan. this is from the jordan times on april 8 seen. -- april 8 teen. there is the drill. was on the show las