on the surface tend to arrive at the subway bunched and that results in congestion subway arrive vanesse station and congestion in-bound at the embarcadaro, as well as west portal. those are caused by trains entering into a fashion and in an unplanned based on the service operations. as i mentioned, the three portals multiply -- that handshake multiple flies system failures. each system provides an opportunity for the systems to not communicate. in other metro major systems, chicago, d.c., atlanta, those handshakes at portals are typically performed once from when the train leaves the yard. when we do it in san francisco, we perform that handshake every time a train goes into the sub subwasubway and back out. so we're multiplying the amount of times for that delicate procedure to take place and that, in turn, multiplies the amount of failures. the system is 20 years old and probably closer to 30 by the time we replace it with the new system. every morning or train-control operators load the system on a series of three floppy discs. in the age of the internet and usb sticks, we can unders

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my name is vaness a i have lived in district 2 for 22 years. i understand the prado group is proposing to bulldoze and flatten the hill at 3333 california and sho chop down 200 trees and face the oldest landmark. laurel hill gardens cemetery. as well as the cemetery, for san francisco pioneers u.s. senators and civil war heroes, it's a tree-filled park for san francisco residents. since i noticed the historic cemetery plaque missing from the red brick wall a few years ago, i wondered why would anyone want to erase this history. it made me sad. well, as a result, it seems that the job of marking and memorializing this important san francisco landmark has been left to its survivors, the trees. some of these large, old growth trees are monument to this lost history. in addition to the history, many studies have reported that the loss of large, old trees leads to an over all loss of urban biodiversity. they are critical ecological structures because relative to their size, they are disproportionate providers of resources crucial to wildlife. it's t

can run those trains closer together and eliminate the primary bottlenecks at embarcadaro and have vanesse te what we're scheduling. >> so the train-controlled system is not really the issue in us not meeting the number of scheduled trains and it's more the physical issues with the tunnel and so, are there -- is there also a separate plan to address that. >> the solution to that will be capitol intensive and more tracks, more opportunities to turn back trains at embarcadaro, it's the most effective way to achieve an increase in capacity. i would call that a modest increase in capacity. we're looking at, probably, 20% as opposed to a paradigm shift of changing capacity which would require a major capital expend tour oexpenditure and the train control is not to blame for the situation we're in now but more the physical lay-out of the system, but what we're limited in the options that we have with the capital that we're able to expend at this time. >> thank you. >> thank you for that cojent answer. any other questions from members of this body? seeing none, any members of the public who would

underway here and the sea water pump station, we're upgraduating that second one located at the foot of vanesse by the giradeli square and a 19th avenue pipeline project happening in february of 2020. phase two is currently out to bid. another key way that we get additional efws infrastructure installed in the city is via large development projects. so what the fire department and puc staff do is negotiate with the developers of these large projects to install the pipelines, infrastructure, not just within their development area but we negotiate hard with them to install it on the areas outside of the development project. so that brings pipelines to existing neighborhoods that didn't have them as they feed these newer districts. so it benefits the new developments but the existing developments and this is key in the south and southeast part of the city. a lot of these redevelopment projects are occurring. so it will bring the pipelines through existing neighborhoodeds to the new projects and benefits both. but we negotiate hard with these developers and these are some of the projects committed

my name is vaness a i have lived in district 2 for 22 years. i understand the prado group is proposing to bulldoze and flatten the hill at 3333 california and sho chop down 200 trees and face the oldest

south vaness is a street on our high-injury network. there was an emergency resolution passed which will be going to the full board of supervisors this month, essentially declaring a traffic safety state of emergency and focusing on vision zero enforcement programs and projects. the resolution calls for the mta to increase the number of officers dealing with bike lane violations and double parking and also increase the red light enforcement. the sustainable streets division is working with our colleagues in finance to figure out the best way to implement and accelerate these efforts. particularly on october 22, the calsta had its third workshop about posting speed limits and automated speed enforcement. this came out of a legislated mandate in 2019. the task force expects to issue draft findings by the end of november. and our own director is representing all the policies we've been talking about in vision zero as part of that. finally, with the end of daylight savings this week, pedestrian accidents increase because of the shorter dayl

have this presentation should talk to those that retired so they can tell you what happened with vaness. it has caused a lot of congestion and traffic issues that overflow into some other areas. i came here once -- not once, but three times. on san bruno, it took you three weeks to repaint the crosswalk. we talk about vision zero. we had people -- we're all over the place talking about valencia, talking about this and that. but we pay our contractors, but they don't do the work. and we put our children and seniors in harm's way. so this presentation must be to the point. anyone can give presentation and get the statistics. they have to be to the point. thank you very much. >> next speaker, please. >> >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is richard rothman. i live in district 1 off of fulton street. that is like the international speedway. cars speed there. i represent district 1 on the park and open space advisory committee. one of my combols is to make that safer for people to walk to the golden gate park. i never see any traffic cops on fulton street because there hasn't been a c

vaness areally interesting to have you there talking to voters.od stuff. a military homecoming for the holidays in appleton, wisconsin. >> troy has been gone seven months. he was deployed. and he hasn't seen our kids since april. >> mary says her two sons, above all, want their father home for christmas. he's been serving with a marine unit in japan. this weekend, just as they were writing letters to santa, their wish suddenly came true. >> drake. >> honestly, none of it felt real until right in this moment when i walked in the tent. >> oh, my gosh. >> that's amazing. troy says he knows everyone who serves doesn't get the chance to make it home for the holidays so he has this message. >> thank you for doing what you have to do so that i can come home, and be with my family, and then maybe in the future we'll reciprocate that and so that you can be home and i'll be in your place. >> that is so beautiful. >> gets me every time. >> every time. i love the creativity of how these soldiers show up. >>> meanwhile, the justice department has just filed it