the b. r. t project we look at what are the utilities in the area. there are a lot of utilities p there are several pipes. there's also a pump station that keeps the water from pooling in the underpass. all those utilities need to be dealt with so we want to keep that in mind. for some technical constraints on us. the b. r t looked at those issues. from our standpoint as we've done our analysis many are not practical. you don't i won't go through all the options but to give you an example. we thought about how to put the b. r t lanes on top instead hang the stations over the underpass. we thought about how to narrow the underpass since it's 6 lanes wide. we also thought about ways to button the b. r t stations in there and we finally we thought about how to run a bus way on the viaduct which is buses staying near the surface on an evaluated structure. new from the standpoint of visibility this structure is is giant dip it puts constraints for example, we can't put a station under the underpass there's not enough flat surface. so there's an issue of v

the fillmore fill we need to look at a diverse ray of sources. we could shave some dollars off the project cost but - and we think it's appropriate for the b. r. t. project to contribute to the area in someway because there's a bus benefit but there are other benefits. not related to the buses in particular so we need to look at as many possible diverse resources as we can here so i think today's a great first step to moving this project forward. the agency, you know, has been in corroboration with the department public works and they have the actual underpass structure and the roadbed and some other utilities in the area. we want to talk about previous projects of this kind complexity and how the city has handled that in the past. we think this project deserves its own process to, you know, define the vision. so i think from here we can go forward and set and know scope and budget for that initial grade of work. this is the end of our prepared presentation. we're happy to take questions >> again, i want to thank all the different departments i know they are worked hard on gathering this information to seriously exploring this is this as a possi

side lynn b r t would be provided and the center lane b r t to 22 avenue and a consolidated bus service further to the west. other maples of accelerating deliver including looking at number one traditionally means of delivering the project. maria mentioned the designed risk and we've done that on the vanessa project we we can the same thing can be done on gary. we're confident we know what the alternative is and that's the time to begin van the work. we're looking at the non traditional means of construction. the construction management guaranteed management these are variations of construction methods that are generally proven to speed project delivery and they tend to be a little bit better of job allocation. we're also looking at strengthening our project management approach. we're moving forward with integrating the authority into a single team. i will say that the representative and team members from the two agencies meet twice a week on the project and we're seeing the people who are participating in the project more and more becoming a chief team. one of my falsifies is when we reach a joint decision to try to move on. the same thing in project delivery

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