as requested by the board in december, the transportation association has concluded a peer review of the project management and oversight of the tjpa and would present their findings today. this peer review was led by the technical services and innovation department. the scope of the peer review includes an evaluation of the processes, procedures, and organizational structure implanted in phase one, and recommendations for improvements were phase two and the pennsylvania avenue extension. i would like to thank them for providing such valuable services , and i also would like to thank the peer review members for working hard to get the peer review completed in such a short period of time. you will get the pleasure of meeting them soon. as for leasing, as you know, they have been executed for the transit center. we currently have six leases of negotiations. i hope to bring two or more at the next board meeting. we also have another six leases that we are negotiating the letter of intent for. once that is done, then we will complete these negotiations, and expect several of them to move

to be a bad year for companies that are in air travel and i think you've got the international air transportation association the global a global trade group they represent about 290 airlines. forecast about how the industry is on track to have its worst year since 24 seen a few years you have to have high speed rail now you have right i mean and that's where those things that get all blends i mean the vehicles they pain the airline industry has been like cramming us into smaller and smaller seats and they're making us pay more making us pay more of those they're just bleeding money stealing money out of the consumer uses their products but man at the end of the day now it's like i don't want to get on a plane if i know that you guys like had one faulty thing wrong with that but now $23.00 legged more comes out when you have time to suddenly inspect the plane. i mean anybody who travels a lot especially internationally. so there are these very large years late to level airplanes are very large very was there a blames and you know it takes a lot to get them up in the air and i. error the is. i think that comp

earlier this month, the international air transport association warned that industry profits would fallmore than $7 billion this year following a dip in global trade. boeing has other, bigger problems. the 737 model has remained grounded since mid—march. from then, and throughout april and may, boeing had precisely zero orders for any of its commercial planes. boeing isn't about to run out of work just yet, it still has around 5,500 commercial planes on its order book, worth nearly $400 billion. the start of 2019 saw the european plane maker airbus suffer more cancellations than new requests. of those cancellations, around a quarter relate to emirates' decision to end production of the a380 superjumbo. however, some analysts believe the aviation industry will continue to grow despite the rising challenges. airbus and boeing are both sitting in an industry which is continuing to show strong growth. if we look at what is driving passenger growth, it's coming out of asia and to some degree the middle east. this seems to be no sign of that slowing down. every year there is a new —— reve nu

. >> the international air transport association that represents more than 80% of air traffic expect e sector to record its lowest profits in five years. this y year airlines will make a profit of $28 billion, down from the figure of 35 point $5 billion originally forecast in december. the main culprit, rising trade tensions between the world's two economic powerhouses, the u.s. and china. >> trade wars and protectionist measures are taking their toll on the cargo business. labor andts of fuel, infrastructure are squeezing margins. >> donald trump's escalating trade war with china has seen demand for air cargo dropping across the board in a downward trend that is set to continue for some time. with passenger growtwth expected to keep rising year on year, that could offset the drop in demand for airfreight. forecast doubled over the last decade. with the cost of travel 40% lower than a decade ago, the freedom to fly is reaching more people than ever. >> another headache for the air industry, the boeing 737 max 8. groundedaft was worldwide after an ethiopian airlines jet crashed in marc

the international air transport association expects the aviation industry will earn a $28 billion int forecast for the industry since 2014. the trade group also expects airlines costs to grow 7.4% this yo year mainly because of higher oil price, the group didn't mention the boeing groundings, that plane, the 737 still one of the industry's most important. airlines are dealing with cancelled flights because of that crisis and that's hurting their profits. >>> all right. there's a new king at the box office. yep, "godzilla" took the number one spot over the weekend, bringing in just over 49 million. the film beat out aladdin and "rocketman", two of the year's biggest films haven't hit theaters, disney's remake of the lion king debuts july 19th. many analysts think it could be one of the highest grossing fil films of the year, and there's this, yep, disney world released "star wars, rise of skywalker" in december. we'll be right back. ...when a plan stops being a plan and gets set into motion. today's merrill can help you get there with the people, tools, and personalized advice to help

earlier this month, the international air transport association warned that industry profits would fall than $7 billion this year following a dip in global trade. boeing has other, bigger problems — the 737 max model is still grounded since and since march, the jet maker had no orders for any of its commercial planes. but boeing still has around 5,500 commercial planes on its order book — worth nearly $400 billion. and it's been a challenging for european rival airbus too, which suffered more cancellations than new orders. theo leggett is at the paris airshow. this is bound to dominate the events this week what's going on with boeing and the 737 max. absolutely. the sun is shining here, for borrowing the show has begun under a cloud, let's look fine. boeing has an order book of around five and thousand aircraft at 4400 or so 737 max and that playing is not allowed to fly. it's not allowed to fly because after two accidents it's become apparent a software system incorporated into the aircraft, flight incorporated into the aircraft, flight control system was the root cause of two major acc

there was a meeting between the airline transport association and boeing executives yesterday. atement came up saying look, if there is any look for the max. we need to have everybody on board, which raises this question, would there be a greater demand further delaying this that's one part of the season this came out late in the day, they discovered simulator tests by faa flight test pilots. the root cause, maybe a question do they have to go back and replace the 500 planes that have been built that are parked and are now grounded when you look at the 737 max, guy, remember, there was an expectation that we could see a recertification flight everybody we talked to in boeing, as well as the faa, they were moving in that direction until this latest issue comes up, now it becomes, does that recertification flight get pushed back? again a part of that reason for the drop was the report, they said, look, we want to make sure there are standard when it comes to pilot training and does that include simulator time and can be costly and further delay the max returning to service, look a

major airlines are on pace for their worst year since 2014 the international air transport associationnnounced today, the aviation industry expects to earn $28 billion in profits this year. but that is 21% lower than the associations previous forecasts which came out in december. it would be the lowest profit for the industry that has recorded in the past 5 years, some factors affecting the industry include high fuel prices, an international trade war and the groundings of those 7.37 max planes. >>well tonight you want to check your fridge for this you can see right here perdue foods is recalling more than 31,000 pounds of it's ready to eat chicken products because they may be contaminated with pieces of bone material. the usda says the items were produced on march 21th and had been distributed nationwide. recalled items have best if used by date of may 20th 2019. they include organics refrigerated gluten-free breaded chicken breast tenders whole grain chicken breast strips and whole grain chicken breast nuggets also will close more than 400 of its stores this wednesday morning to host

you've got the power source in a single place, and a network power source associated with a large transportation infrastructure. the earliest steam engines built in the u.s. were imported from eglin. ngland. they are of interest technologically. the factors were different from an industrial standpoint. a huge amount of the application of steam power in england had to do with mining. there was not a lot of mining going on here. a lot of what was being extracted is very wood based economy. a lot of coal was visible on the surface. it comes down of how you apply steam power to a problem. the biggest problem in the u.s. was not extracting things out of the ground, it was traveling distance. often transporting goods. really, that is how it got its foothold in the united states. vessels, butr particularly the mississippi and missouri and ohio. if you think of western rivers, that was a huge potential transportation infrastructure. very easy to get from pittsburgh now to new orleans. very difficult to go the other way. steam power gets a foothold here in a way that solves problems that are real here. t

to that extent, the tjpa board also asked its own peer review from the american public transportation association in december of last year. that peer review was presented to tjpa board in may. and the results of peer review provided us with valuable recommendations, that would further strengthen the project and the tjpa agency itself. we also provided the report of the peer review to the staff to be used for this peer review. i look forward for the recommendations in july. i do want to emphasize to strengthen the tjpa, strengthen the team, and as i mentioned to you before, ever since becoming an executive director in 2016, we've been working in a transparent, cooperative way with the region, including ssta and caltrain. again thank you very much. >> chair peskin: thank you, mark. and i did not butcher your last name. with that, why don't we open it up to members of the public. james, bob, alita, peter, and that is all my speaker cards. if i did not call you and you want to testify, just line up. first speaker, please. mr. patrick. >> good morning. i'm jim patrick, patrick and company, representin

just real quickly and i guess i should briefly say, i think you're aware of the american public transportation association, we are a 1500-member association that represents the transit center. some of our members are stakeholders and operators of this facility now and in the future. so, we certainly appreciated the opportunity to be able to come in here and assist tjpa in this effort and the scope that they have defined that we'll talk about. so the peer review process is a service that provides its members and others associated with the organization and it is a valuable resource. what it does is allows the opportunity to bring in highly experienced and knowledgeable professionals that are peers, you know, to the industry and really come and do a brief, deep dive into whatever the scope so we certainly appreciate the abilities for having our members be able to come in here and spend their time voluntarily and participate in these peer review processes. for the panel that conducted the peer review by reviewing documentation that was provided to us by tjpa, we did a -- we had some interviews and a series of

international union local 1021, t.w., 250-a for automotive works, one with the international association of machinists, one with transport union local 200, one with the international brotherhood of electrical workers and one with the municipal executive associations, all setting wages, benefits and working conditions for represented employees fort term july 2019 to july 2020. >> chair heinicke: 2022? through 2022? >> yes, through 2022. >> chair heinicke: i asked they all be called together because i get the sense there is no concern about these agreements at the board level, in fact, real happiness with the way this has all gone down. let me see if there is public comment on the contracts, seeing none, public comment is closed. director riskin, i assume it is your strong recommendation we adopt the contracts? okay. board members, any questions. >> please, just pardon the new guy a couple of questions. i must say i thought the formatting of this was opaque. and i'm trying to get to a big bottom line financial impact and if i'm adding these together correctly, the three-year financial impact is about $150 million or therea

david wells is the chief executive of the freight transport association. hrow is a huge port in the uk. bigger than dover. we have heard how important dover is for brexit. heathrow is bigger than dover. how do you want heathrow to look in 20 yea rs' do you want heathrow to look in 20 years' time. heathrow as part of the vitality. the importance of heathrow is itself so many destinations. in freight terms, an hundred 85 destinations. post brexit we need to be gauging —— like engaging with countries outside the eu, particularly china, south america and india. so the importance of heathrow is that it needs to keep growing and expanding but it also needs to be aware of the environmental impact and the impact to locally caught —— communities. you say it needs to keep growing and expanding. the environmental impact is too great on the local area. the way that heathrow works is that it isa way that heathrow works is that it is a habit for many aeroplanes coming in and going out. so 80% of aircargo coming in and going out. so 80% of air cargo travels in the early h

commission on america's nuclear future which involved laying the groundwork for implementing interim storage as well as the associated transportation to support that. we are a leader in the effort to maintain and expand the lives of america's nuclear reactor fleet. visa safe, efficient, and high-performing systems produce 20% nation's electricity, more than half of our carbon free electricity. that's more than solar, wind, hydro and geothermal combined. we also work with the energy for designs including micro reactors, small modular reactors and advance designs with a greater inherent research , as we heard on the april 30 discussion a strong and vibrant industry is a vital to united states environment, power grid reliability, security, economy and national security. accordingly, we must address the major impediments to developing and employing advanced reactors. congress to its credit has passed the two important pieces of legislation, the nuclear energy innovation compel these act and the nuclear energy is innovation and modernization act, and reduce a third referred to earlier yucca. now time to address the waste issue. first an

the senate commerce and transportation committee held a hearing yesterday with the president and ceo of amtrak. the president of the association of american railroads, and a member of the national transportation safety board also testified. >> good morning. today the committee gathers for a hearing to examine amtrak, next steps for passenger rail. i'm grad to convene the hearing with my friend and krieg. member can'twell. i thank you our witnesses today we heard from richard derds president and ceo of am fireman ian jeffreys. president and ceo of the american association of railroads. jim souby commissioner of the southwest chief and front range passenger rail commission. and jennifer homendy. member of the national transportation safety board. i candidate to be a strong supporter of our rail industry, freight and passenger. rail service is safe and efficient and also reduces congestion on highways and spurs economic growth. in mississippi for example we have 26 freight railroads. 2,400 miles of track, 5 of the seven class ones. two long distancing amtrak routes pb ten stations and more than 100,000 annual riders. rail is vita

the equilibrium of a canal system is much more finely honed thing. engines like this would be a fundamental part. that's an interesting conceptual lead. a network power source associated with a large transportationnd restructure. the earliest steam engines are imported from england. they're not a huge success. amount of the application of steam powered england had to do with mining. there was a lot of mining going on. a lot of what was extracted was very wood-based economy, and a lot of coal, a lot of iron or visible on the surface. how do you apply steam power to a power? the biggest problem in the united states, it wasn't extracting things out of the ground. it was distance. traveling distance. transporting goods over distance. that's how it could say foothold in the united states. coastal vessels, river vessels like on the hudson, but more particularly, the mississippi and missouri and ohio. if you think about in terms of western rivers, that was a huge potential transportation infrastructure. it's very easy to get from pittsburgh down to new orleans. very difficult to go the other way unless you propel yourself. steam power gets a foothold here in a way that sells problems that are real. thi

the 2014 transportation bond and the p.u.c. received a small amount of money with some of the projects associated with mission street involving sour infrastructure. so we were involved with that review and no findings there. abouin terms of the final quartf the year, we will wrap-up our royalties lease administration and i.t. network penetration testing audit. we will continue and wrap-up that data privacy audit for clean power and we have a single audit that has to do with looking a lot how federal money is sent so we're abiding by all the regulations. it's may, one more month and wore done with fiscal year '19 and that involves a number of things including an annual physical inventory count and again the point there is we want the warehouses and physical inventory match with our record keeping so when we record things at year-end it ties out and is accurate so we'll count widgets so to speak. our financial statements audit addhas gotten underway. the interim work begins within the next week or so and they'll come on site and then the wrap-up of the audit will occur in july and august for fiscal '19. this last slide here just giv

the state of california is involved. san diego, the association of governments, the california department of transportation, they do a lot of work. what happens is, once you start implementing these programs, and he give you the examples of the sand ysidro reconfiguration of the port today. san ysidro port reconfiguration. it will be done in august or september. what happens on the mexico side of the border? we did not know. we did not know what the mexico side would do when it came to those new lanes opening up. a wonderful port. the u.s. side has most of the financing done. the land has been purchased. the road seven built. really, it is just the last segment where they need to build the port. the mexican side is way behind in sense. part of this is, yes, the u.s. and mexico did work together on it. the other part is, do we have a timeline from the mexican side to get things done? sometimes, we do not have that information. jorge was talking about the cooperation between the cbp side. it is true. we have had enormous cooperation . one thing that happens lately, starting in january, was when the former alliance administ

the senate transportation committee on july 9th. we hope for a favorable approval there as well. and finally, on the management front, and administration front, we held a -- we participated -- staff participated in construction management association of america night. that was featuring in all businesses and d.b.e. opportunities, public agency night. so together with dozens of other agencies, we featured the projects that we have coming forward, so that we can provide networking and learning opportunities to contractors large and small. keynotes from a number of folks really drew the community to the event. and we were happy to participate and support business participation and access. finally, reporting on those statistics, deputy director of finance cynthia fong has provided some updates here. we have small business enterprise firms participating in all of our contracts. we track these figures to ensure we're making progress on a quarterly basis and during the period from july 1st through march 31 -- july 1st last year up until march of this fiscal year, we made 30% of our vendor payments to d.b.e. firms, 27% to l.b.e. firms and 25% to s.b.e. firms. so we're pleased with that -- those types of figures and can only strive to do m

the bay area transportation seminar. she and two other honorees a, annette williams from accessible services and danielle harris, from innovation and new mobility, were recognized by their peers in this transportation industry, professional association, whose mission is to recognize excellence and promote the leadership of women and minorities. because i was at my last coastal commission meeting in san diego, bart director janice lee represented me at the awards ceremony and managed to capture a great image of director chang, fist triumphantly raised, last seen trending on twitter. [laughter] thank you, vice chair mandelman, for joining our staff and celebrating with tilley it he event. the contributions of women to city planning and transit management are truly significant and we are all very proud to have you steering this agency, miss chang, well done. and with that, i conclude my remarks. before i turn it over for the director's report, is there any public comment on the chair's report? seeing none, madam executive director. [gavel] >> thank you so much, chair peskin and commissioners, for those kind words. it was really an honor to be there and to be recognized with my peers and all of the other great honorees. thank vice chair

help me to get to and from public transportation, especially in times of difficult frequencies of associated public transportation. to me i am concerned about what i call the constructive denial of service. i see the arbitrary limitation of these mobility services, that only hamper those of us with challenges and disabilities to navigate. [bell ringing] i have had good conversations with these scooter operator. and nevada just passed a.b.4le 5, a landmark statewide scooter bill with minimal opposition. i ask that this city help and remember those of us who have challenges, who need these services. that's why i speak to you today. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> commissioners, what i want to bring to your attention is that long before the bills go through the motion in sacramento, that we have a mechanism on our site, s.f. gov, to the public can give their input. now what we have here is that this so-called representative in sacramento have no understanding that this is the city and county of san francisco. even your supervisors don't take that seriously. this is the city and county of san francisco. at one time san francisco had jurisdict

the senate commerce and transportation committee held a hearing yesterday with the president and ceo of amtrak. the president of the association of american railroads, and a member of the national transportation safety board also testified.

a network power source associated with a large transportation infrastructure. steam engines that are built in the u.s. are imported from england. they are a huge success. they of interest technologically. the factors were different. a huge amount of the application of steam power in england was that it was mining. not a lot of mining going on here. a lot of what was being extracted on the surface was very wooden based and a lot of coal. really, it comes down to how do you apply steam power effectively to a problem that needs solving and the biggest problem in the united states was not extracting things out of the ground, it was distance, traveling distance. transporting goods. really that is how it gets its foothold in the united states. coastal vessels, river vessels like on the hudson. more particularly the mississippi, the missouri. if you think of what was then western rivers, that was a huge attentional transport infrastructure. easy to get from pittsburgh down to new orleans. difficult to go the other way unless you can propel yourself. steam power gets the foothold in a way that solves pro

at that time, the jit was looking at about 100 individuals who could in some way be associated with the transporttics of this vehicle, based on which we were able to identify it. we also said that the group of about 100 individuals had to decrease. the role of many of them had become a lot clearer to us. in the meantime, it appeared that a large number of these persons were not criminally involved. translation: ladies and gentlemen, in the past five years, we have been able to decrease the number of persons we were investigating. throughout the years, the investigation consisted of finding and interrogating witnesses and experts, the analysis of satellite images, evaluating big quantities of telecom data such as recorded phone conversations and also the analysis of big data. and the area of investigation in the eastern ukraine is still inaccessible for the research team. this leads to the fa ct we research team. this leads to the fact we have not be able to accomplish certain investigative act, and some other investigations ta ke act, and some other investigations take more time than usual. on th

transporting child pornography. nader has been questioned by mueller's team in arranging a meeting between erik prince and betsy devos' brother and the head of russia's sovereign wealth fund and close associate of russian president putin. he had been charged with transporting child pornography back in 1991. he pled guilty but his sentence was reduced after the court was told he played a role to free u.s. hostages in leb bone. >> pete buttigieg said democrats were too quick to attack al franken. >> should al franken be pushed from the senate >> it was his decision to make. the way that we basically held him to a higher standard than gop does their people has been used against us. >> do you think he should have been pushed to leave? >> again, it was his decision. >> i'm not asking about his decision. should the other members of the democratic caucus in the senate starting at the top, chuck schumer down and the other people who pushed him to get out, were they right or wrong? >> i think it's not a bad thing we hold ourselves to a higher standard. >> were they right to push him out of the senate. >> i would not have applied that pressure at that time. . >> senator kirsten gillebrand's name was n

the perspective on the interference concerns associated with spectrum sharing, i would appreciate it. >> absolutely. we are committed to preserving all seven channels for transportation safety regulations across the transportation system. we are still doing reform on expect to e and we have some findings by late summer and we'll move into phase 3 should those findings be positive. i want to flag that someone very, very visionary 20 years ago held the spectrum back in the day when we were dreaming of 3-g. we held that spectrum. we have had experts designing property colorados, buildingology -- protocols and registration and security requirement protocols now after 20 years of designing and building this fantastic life-saving technology it would be a terrible thing to see it riall indicated to other uses . one doesn't design and build a dream house, furnish it and decide not to move in because you were living there while it was being designed. now is the time after 20 years of effort to take advantage of this life saving technology and wn we need to remove a technology requirement that is f.c.c.'s regulations that restricts dsrc technologies to be used on the bond and

chat, one of the bigger themes that may be discussed and very important theme is that of turning green and you wouldn't associate the airline industry with turning 13% of all transportationted emissions and certainly there is an increasing amount of public awareness from the younger community mostly and from businesses about our carbon footprint. so how is that going to impact the aviation industry in coming years? >> i think aviation industry is actually going to be a bit more proactive in embracing this than other industries like autos or shipping the green market or smaller planes, we reckon, is worth $170 billion from delivery starting with first plane in 2028, which is not that far out, actually. and you would have 16,000 deliveries market and you would have planes taxiing on electric power, landing with electric power and take off would be shared so jet engine and electric and cruise is jet engine. >> how close are we to that actually happening you said just now that it will be easier for the aviation industry to embrace it everything you hear about autos, even today, for example, they're doing an ipo, plan to invest proceeds on the rollout of the electric vehicle

you've got the power source in a single place, and a network power source associated with a large transportationnfrastructure. the earliest steam engines built in the u.s. were imported from england. they are not a huge success. they are of interest technologically. the factors were different from an industrial standpoint. a huge amount of the application of steam power in england had to do with mining. there was not a lot of mining going on here. a lot of what was being extracted is very wood based economy. a lot of coal was visible on the surface. it comes down of how you apply steam power to a problem. the biggest problem in the u.s. was not extracting things out of the ground, it was traveling distance. often transporting goods. really, that is how it got its foothold in the united states. vesesels, river vessels, but particularly the mississippi and missouri and ohio. if you think of western rivers, that was a huge potential transportation infrastructure. very easy to get from pittsburgh now to new orleans. very difficult to go the other way. steam power gets a foothold here in a way that s

we did hear a report from the american public transit association invited by the tjpa board to undertake a similar organizational assessment as we are doing here at transportation authority. i do recommend that report to you and i it is on your desk. essentially they found that the projects are very strong projects, however, the administration of these could benefit from both during the internal staffing of the tjpa, particularly in certain areas and overall capacity as well as to understand lessons learned from the phase one project to better understand how the construction management could be better administered and strengthening the oversight going forward for the downtown extension. we would be happy to ask them to come back and present perhaps next month or in the future as we conclude our report and these findings did inform the deliberations of our peer panel and they did resonate with them. the appeals court ruling that chairman chin was welcome news. we ensure the trip data can be made available for analysis and forming policy on vision zero, this is our major initiative to applease to ensure safety of the streets. we want that to be timely activities

the argentine grain exporters trade association gustava diego to us said told reuters that tit for tat terrorist between the u.s. and mexico would neutralize u.s. exporters advantage and lower transportcosts to mexico and change the game for argentina exporters mr david us told the news agency right now argentine corn has a very competitive price and there is plenty. volume available for export to mexico u.s. president donald trump announced last week that his terror threat against my sco was indefinitely suspended and suggested he may still impose the tariffs if he finds fault with mexico's implementation of their agreement on migration issues. and here to give us his usual bracing economic update is richard wolfe professor emeritus members of economics at the university of massachusetts and hurst and the author of democracy at work a cure for capitalism welcome back professor wolf. glad to be here glad to be here the 1st item i wanted for you is this apparent admission by the congressional author of the trump tax cut former house ways and means committee chair kevin brady of texas that the tax cuts will not pay for themselves it's a little bit like the emperor saying well i may be