new affordable transportation services. keyon helton what it mitigate financial impact for those who need it most. finally be gone at mitigating pricing, we believe such programs can help make san francisco's transportation more equitable. this is because traffic disproportionally affects poor neighborhoods. traffic reduction and revenue generation can greatly benefit low-income communities. we intend to involve these communities in the program design itself. we will seek input about how to invest that revenues for those most affected and we will explore innovative new approaches like enabling frequent transit riders to earn toll credits for those times when the need to drive. and conclusions in for a steep -- our agency are hopeful that the authorization will maintain policy and grow funding support for pricing strategies as well as for deployment of do technologies. federal support for pricing and technology deployment could build on existing programs like the advanced transportation management technologies deployment pro

transportation society of america. darren hawkins, president and chief executive officer of worldwide inc., on behalf of the american trucking association. timothy lomax, regents fellow at texas a&m transportation institute. also mark scribner, senior fellow at the competitive enterprise institute. i want to thank all of you for being here. i look forward to your testimony. before we hear from the panel, i would like to recognize miss wilson and introduce mayor gilbert, a constituent from her district. >> thank you. >>> i am honored to introduce my personal mayor. the mayor of miami gardens which will host the 2020 super bowl and chair of the miami- dade transportation planning organization, mayor oliver gilbert. when i heard the subcommittee was having a hearing on congestion, mayor gilbert was the first witness that i knew i had to recommend. he is a young lawyer with a long and distinguished career in public service that began as an aid in the florida legislature. he was regarded as an astute staff for both legislat

and people are using other methods to bring us into the 21t century on transportation. so we are looking at some of those questions and the nuances of federal polling policy on congestion pricing and technology solutions to address congestion. so while congress. >> but to negatively attack never before but not to mention the quality of the air that we breathe and the failure to deal with climate change. this was not even discussed at the time of the last reauthorization to indicate just how far time has moved and to catch up. the urban mobility report and you might want to look at what it says for your constituents but mine say $1840 per year in congestion cost and we here at the national council are the and then on 1840 per year per constituents and those are my constituents. nothing short of a test and in our case in this region as a result of 248 million hours of congestion delays in 2017 across the dc metropolitan area i invite you to look at what this means for the mobility report for your own area. harvard school found 83 percent of the largest urban areas contrib

and then how can transportation help facilitate that? the government is bringing all the state cabinet agencies together on this mission of trying to help these communities kind of develop that uniqueness that might give them that little bit of advantage. we're trying to move state jobs out into rural utah and provide the opportunity for state employees to telecommunicate more so they can have a state job and do it from rural utah. i think any type of flexible you can provide in the program to allow states to use the funding to be able to help these communities, because there is not one size fits all. ki go to so many rural counties and it will have different issues. >> mrs. wicks, i would imagine in delaware you have quite a few bridges. we have quite a few deficiency bridges. what we found i think, i think we're trying to remedy this in our legislation is, if a governor has a choice to build a 5 mile, four-lane highway or fix a deficiency bridge. we all know what's going to have a bigger kick back home. not to say they're ignoring defi

transportation. children are often at greater risk outside the school bus than inside it. 264ave figures showing students who died in school transportation related accidents in the last 10 years. 97 were struck by a vehicle while walking near the bus. we are going to hear today from what congress can do to stop violations by drivers who illegally pass school buses loading or unloading passengers , and to reduce fatalities or injuries as a result of these crashes. but as i indicated, i am interested in what we can do about children whether or not they are on or off buses. the burden of providing school transportation, we are aware of course falls on the states and local districts. some states are ahead of others in improving school bus safety. we know the state of new jersey which i'm pleased is represented today. i look forward to hearing what congress can do. to help ensure that we have safe vehicles. i want to thank each of the witnesses. for appearing today. we will listen attentively. what congre

and we come together as the voices for public transportation, which is a coalition of transportation, housing, labor, healthcare, and social justice folks. about 20 folks have signed on to that voices, the vision and principle statement that we sent to you. i would like to note that faster at this point is an organization, voices is an organization, we don't know yet what this measure that comes, we hope will be on the ballot in 2020 will be. we hope it will not be, if not the faster measures as presented right now, but we do realize that everyone needs to come together on a single measure if this is going to get anywhere. pick up on the word transformational, used in the faster presentation. we agree it needs to be transformational but not just in terms of some of the things that we build. we feel very much needs to be transformational in terms of the revenue sources. we want to measure that will win. we don't believe a 1% sales tax ultimately will win if it can even get through the legislature. a lot of lot of criticism, including by legislators, and the approach should be seattle,

emily: you've asked people to think about uber like the amazon of transportation. amazon was an online bookstore for a very long time before they did all this other stuff. what if now is not the right time to do this other stuff? and now is the right time to focus on the core? dara: we have been in the ridesharing business for a long time, as well. and that business is developing and its profitability is developing. we're the top player in every market in which we compete, and generally we're either holding share or taking share in those market places, so we have a core business that provides the framework for us to build multi-billion dollar opportunities, and i think it will be criminal if we don't take advantage of that. you are seeing more and more apps and companies that are building ecosystems, super apps, so to speak, especially in the east, for example, in china. emily: right. you have grab trying to do a super app, tencent. is that the way to think about the future? dara: the super apps are winning, and we can be the super app of transportation, so to spea

future, look into the what does the future of transportation look like?e think we can bring it together. can have that singular app where every morning when you wake up, any way you from point a to point b, we can give you the information that is relevant to you with live pricing, inventory, et cetera. we now have mass transit in the we're going to tell you mass transit you can take subway, you can take a bus, you take an uber or a pool or elevate, as well. we are uniquely positioned to have all that information together and we can do the same thing for transportation, the same thing for local commerce eats restaurants are only the beginning and we can do the same thing for logistics. world iscompany in the positioned to solve local transportation, local commerce, logistics, as well, and i think we're in a spearhead position to do so. uber in fives years, 10 years? dara: with so much innovation and change going on, i have a time predicting for you what's going to happen in the next year but i do think what us is increasingly going into multimodal modes of

transportation is the fastest growing source of emissions in the state of california. we need to have a transit system which is clean, which has in the sustainability sense and also in the trash sense, and these investments should be significantly be reducing b.m.t. we would not want to embark on something like this without opinion research and so here are some of the kind of highlights from that. voters recognize the transportation challenges facing the region and there is significant interest in a solution of this scale. seeking a modern transit system that connects the whole bay area and a conceptual readiness above the two-thirds threshold level that would be required. tested a number of different mechanisms, a major regional measure is politically viable in the right environment. but, it is organized and funded opposition could very well end in defeat. so to be a little bit more specific. based on our research, $0.01 sales tax generates substantial funding, politically viable and funding source generated broad support for transportation investments in the bay area

when you look into the future, oft is the future transportation look like? think we can bring it together. have thatwe can singular app where every morning when you wake up, any way that get from point a to point b, we can give you the information that is relevant to with live pricing, inventory, et cetera. we now have mass transit in the app. we're going to tell you, mass transit you can take, subway, an uber, pool. if it's a long enough trip, you can take an elevate as well. uniquely positioned as a company to have all that information together and we can thing fore transportation, the same thing for local commerce. and with eats restaurants, only the beginning, and we can do the same thing with logistics. to other company in the world is positioned to solve local transportation, local commerce and i think we're in a spearhead position to do so. >> where is uber in five years, years? >> so much innovation, so much change going on, that i'd have a predicting for you what's going to happen in the next year. but i do think, what you will increasing going to m

i think we need better transportation and more people will flock towards public transportation. so that means paying muni drivers better, that means instituting the improvements that bart has been making on bart. they're adding new cars and making sure that the public transportation arrives in a timely manner, without it being completely packed with people and rush hour. so improving public transportation will have more people riding public transportation. >> moderator: thank you very much. thank you. ms. o'meara. >> oh, are we just attributing this transportation problem just to the octavia corridor? >> >> moderator: no. traffic problems in general. >> well, i think -- i talked to some of my neighbors last week about this transport situation in the city. and these are -- these are occasions. i understand the need for bikers. i'm a biker myself, et cetera. and that there are changes. one thing i want to share with you, what my constituency said, who are these people that are hired by city hall, when the person comes from washington, d.c. and what do they know about the streets i

keep our nation transportation systems secure. we appreciate the continued support of congress and are grateful for the protective relationship we have this committee. as well as the authorities provided in the tsa modernization act of 2018, the first reauthorization of us as an agency. on september 11, 2001, nearly 3000 people died of as a result of the worst act of terrorism ever committed on american soil. from this tragedy, we renewed our dedication to the ideal and freedoms that define our nation. 9/11 changed assault. with the goal to never again see such attack, congress created the tsa just two months afterwards. 18 years have passed since the tragic events of september 11. and many americans, including some of tsa's current employees are too young to have any recollections of that day. aviation and other modes of transportation remain highly sought after targets. by terrorists. methods of attack remain more decentralized and opportunistic than ever before. tsa must meet the challenge of pervasive and constantly evolving t

america's transportation systems are designed for accessibility and efficiency. the enduring challenge remains how to respond to terrorist attacks without unduly burdening travel, the economy and civil liberties. tsa's workforce includes transportation security inspectors, federal air marshals and visible intermodal response teams. congress has worked to support this dedicated workforce bypassing the first ever tsa reauthorization bill, the tsa modernization act. the modernization act includes provisions to streamline acquisition, expand the precheck program, support the screening partnership program, mandate more rigorous background checks of airport workers, strengthen airport access controls and enhance security in public areas of airports. thus far, tsa has done an admirable job of responding to the myriad directives and reporting requirements of the bill. however, i remain concerned about the pace of tsa's deployment of new screening technology. the rate of the precheck expansion, the seeming lack of urgency for implementing screening partnership program ref

we've got the planning department, we've got a director of transportation, we have a transportation authority, which is not related to our director of transportation. we have a mayor. but i think we are all unified in the very modest step of the joint powers board having independent counsel, which i think you'll all be considering on november 21st. i'm actually not having this conversation with staff. this is kind of more of -- i'm saying this for the benefit of the three j.p.b. members in santa clara members and the three j.p.b. members in san ma tarot county and the three members on the same page in san francisco county. it's not an easy conversation to have. and what i really want to underscore is it's not a conversation about any county wanting to have advantage. it's about making this agency an agency that will garner the billions of dollars that we need in order to implement this ambitious vision. with that i would like to open this up to members of the public. i have a number of speaker cards. you know who you are. bob, edward, -- actually just bob is the only speaker i have for item n

and welcome to this hearing on detecting the nation, transportation systems. we reflect on a summer day in american history, 18 years ago that terrorists turned a address the agency's progress towards implementing modernization the committee will exercise oversight to existing security programs. notably the passenger screening teams in february administrator pekoske briefed the committee on disturbing testing results from the ig and promised to revamp k-9 training. tsa is committed to making the federal federal air marshals program more intelligent space. improving today's frontline security programs is important but tsa must adapt to changing threats and technologies. emerging technology including biometrics, perhaps we will hear about that today. understand tsa has a biometrics roadmap but we certainly need to do this in light of concerns involving privacy, data protection and civil liberties. i look forward to a robust discussion today on the vital role the tsa plays. madam ranking member you are now recognized for opening remarks. >> thank you mr. chairman

i am not a transportation expert. we worked on two occasions with the two transportation authorities in san francisco. that is the sfmta on a project that was an 18 month project and most recently with the bayview community-based transportation project. specifically, the participator rebudget process recently. >> that being shade, bayview has five main lines 19, 54 and 29 and t line. for the four bus lines bayview happens to be the end of the line for those four bus lines. as up mentioned, commissioner sweet when you are at the end of the line most lightly it is not on time. we experience that a lot on the bayview particularly on the 19, 54 and the 29. also was mentioned similar to the hill it is photography issues which creates isolated community. the shuttle program was targets seniors and young people. as well as unreliability of muni on the evenings starting as early as 43. if i need to come downtown to get here by 530 i have to leave before 430. you have to wait half an hour to 45 minutes. this happens on most of

but the city also faces major difficulties like lack of public transport and traffic pollution. electric scooters could help reduce the burden of air pollution especially if. we get some research and found out that only 15 percent of india actually have the driver's license so there was a majority of indians didn't have a license and that was the market that we wanted to we did a little bit more research and found out that electric scooters where the speed of 25 kilometers an hour doesn't require a license to write and that was the aha moment. and that's when we decided that we want to start this company. founded his rental service is over 2 years ago with 60 scooters now he runs a feat of $85.00. the rental service. clients can pick up and drop off discounters x. 7 different points across cog on average a scooter is used by 3 to 4 right as a day. all of us who does have probably came on batteries so 8 time battery is green or about to be green customers can go to any of the points and swap out the battery free of cost if a customer has any problem middle of the road we have roa

but do the alternative forms of transport in my home city berlin make the great and can i still adopt it nearly 50. my family and i are planning a day trip taking the train you want to go to italy looking up the ticket prices on line i discover it's more expensive than taking the car the train leaves every 2 hours that's not good and it's. not called for trouble more on that later. for every day purposes i find myself renting in a lot for short distances it costs of 2 euros a trip but that does add up. during the last weeks i have been taking these very often best i mean all over the city. and they move me from a to b. very fast and i have to admit sometimes i prefer to take busy. in school and walking. my friends keep telling me if you want to cut your costs use public transport and i do live in a very central location with good access to the metro overgrown trains bought honestly i'm not a fan of public transportation during the rush hour it's so crowded and sometimes it's so crowded that i can't get into the train there's no air conditioning so i don't like. still 4 hour day trip m

transportation barriers are sited as barriers to healthcare access. they do lay care and miss or delay medication use. these may lead to poor management of chronic illness and that is poor health outcomes. transportation is necessary for medication access particularly for those with chronic disease. chronic disease can require a limb visit and medication and access. change to evidence based care. without transportation and intervention results, it may lead to lack of appropriate medical treatment or unmet health care needs which can accumulate and worsen the healthcare outcomes. many studies identified transport barriers with lead to early death with those with chronic disease. in addition the prices have risen. they are up to $3 per ride. the rides provide a transfer good for 120 minutes. if they are out of the patient's control the patient has to pay another $3. their costing up to $12 round trip. the alice griffin housing complex is home to the patients. they have to take two to three buses to visit their provider and four buses to san francisco ge

there is no way of getting transportation off there. the m.t.a. has said they can't provide the extension of the ocean avenue, which means there will be gridlock. there is gridlock now and you want to encourage more gridlock for the people of san francisco not to be held accountable for the terrible situation with the warriors with two stadiums now, the hospital, two hospitals and people can't go to their own facilities. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i will remind members of the public that the purpose of the hearing is to set testimony and the accuracy and adequacy and completeness of the environment impact report. >> good afternoon. that is a tough one to follow, but i've got a few concerns. my name is dr. andrew currier, i am representing archbishop riordan high school as its president. has a multitude of concerns, bus at -- but as it relates to this report, we serve 680 boys ages nine to 12, and a quarter of them, 170 of them have diagnosed learning needs. if i could pull this up, this circle, that represents the learning area. it is

we are a transportation advocacy organization. we've been working for better muni service for the part of a decade. we are a transportation think tank. we've been working on policy issues for much of that time. we're mystified as to why our organization has been excluded from membership on this task force. i'm not clear who exactly has appointed the task force. but we have asked both supervisors peskin and mandelman, as well as the mayor's office for inclusion on this group. we have members who have decades of experience in working with muni and in working with policy issues. we continue to be mystified as to why we were excluded. this is not a task force, as i understand that has mandateed members. and it's not a task force that has a designated number of members. we continue to ask for representation on the task force. so that, unlike the public, who are constrainted from speaking, we will be able to have a voice and offer our valuable suggestions to improving muni service. [bell dings] thank you. >> chair: thank you. next speak

we're going to be live in paris for a rather over pension reform has led to a massive transport strike. hello this is very heavy rain across the south east of spain also pushing into the western end of the mad some flooding rains across into the body areas you can see on the satellite here some very bright as a cloud that is where we have seen these floods and there is more in the forecast also warnings in place as well and rain continue to push across into i beat the yorka and really just sitting across the entire region away from the very unsettled weather cools northern europe particularly through scandinavia it's very warm though ahead of this system in the north so 28 celsius in kiev that does cool down quite noticeably as we head into south of it out front swinging through bringing the clouds and showers and that cool pretty good 3 essential end of the med but still those showers and thunderstorms really lingering to the southeast of france and again into the western end of the mediterranean woman powers as well as the next couple days of sandwiched in between those 2 different m

finally, on transportation, we have a lot of comments on transportation. there's a lot of support for thd transportation goals and policies which are new additions to the draft plan. but i think the comments we got on the transportation policies are a reflection of how much the transportation challenges are that we are constantly facing here, whether it is on a bicycle and pedestrian safety perspective, whether it is on reduction of vehicles to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or to maintain industrial good's movement, to support our maritime industries. we've got comments that have been logged on to all of those fronts. and finally, on the environmental sustain ac sustaid resilience and all work done on the seawall and resilience team on the sea-level rise planning has paid off because people are understanding the importance of really effective environmental sustainability practices and strategies and the regulatory programmes that we deploy to put us in better position for planning for the resilience. so a lot of comments and positive feedback on that fro

chris thinks despite fedex transports are rev up.ntrarian notion i think chris, it is is it not. >> i think it's contrarian notion and certainly fedex down 10% after hours. i want to remember this 150, 55, of a level we'll talk about that in a minute. but the bigger question is there a read from what fedex told us about the transportation group i'll show you a couple charts that injury are important. the dow transports still below the highs from 2018. but what is already breaking out is the transportation advance decline line so if we took a cumulative sum of shares that's already made new highs. breath under the surface for the frrpting is good we see that with a number of transports making one-month highs. you had almost 75% of transportation stocks making a one-month high over the the last several days you see the spanx in new highs pb, the ad highs breath under the surface for the group is better than it gets credit for we see fedex certainly down after hours. i think the big test for this won if we view it as a bellwether can it

public transport because i thought you told me that even until a transport workers a protesting against the french president emanuel macro's planned pension reforms the french government says it wants to streamline the complex and costly pension system to make it fairer and financially sustainable in general don't but yet we're going to build a truly universal system which for every year contributed gives everyone the same rights whether they are workers shopkeepers researchers farmers civil servants doctors or entrepreneurs these transport workers say they have worried their pensions could be reduced or they could be forced to work longer most people in france can retire at 62 but some transport workers can retire in a 50. pension schemes a sacred except of jobs we shift where we are responsible for public safety but now they want to take our rights away but one of them all this we are being asked to take on increasingly difficult working conditions were losing what little compensation we had. many people in france regard the state public pension scheme as a pillar of the french social

animal drawn transportation with the situation we're in with the blockade that the country has on it solves a lot of problems and the situation. and this is why a seemingly never ending line reveals the extent of the islands was there the long wait to fell on us sanctions are beginning to bite here cuba is running out of fuel its people losing patience all. these have been very difficult days quite complicated because everyone from the transport workers to the population is restless here that you know all our free market look at the queue you can see it goes around the whole block. the last problem yes there's a problem with the petrol there's no petrol anywhere. the president himself arched residents to give up gasoline. little selector wanting money you have to go back to using animal drawn transport on a larger scale than what we are using at the moment in all tasks where it's feasible to find good. at home to cubans are adjusting their oil dependency to help the country sustain critical services doing whatever they can to relieve the pressure on the system. almost all to one day

you see good that's what i'm cured but i now transport people you couldn't transport once you've been cured you can't get the disease again. despite some resistance bill says he's determined to keep spreading the information. it takes time for people to understand the disease i'm living proof of that. is to prevent needless death. we all want to be employed and make money to pay the bills but in most parts of africa finding a job can be such a headache especially for persons with disabilities social stigma discrimination and little or no efforts from government affecting many after a long fight by advocacy groups nigeria i did use it's fast to discrimination law to improve job opportunities ability for people living with disabilities in general there's yet correspondence allowed you know reports from lagos nigeria on how persons with disabilities have been coping so far. 100 kilograms 114 these are the kinds of weights the power left at the lego stadium oystering all of the athletes have a physical disability they need to lift at least double their weight to enter a competition kingsl