we have also done webinars and the newfangled technology things, and i have to give credit for the staffecause i would not be able to do that if you pressed me. as you know, we can do a 30-year plan and have all-day meetings here and people do not pay a huge amount of attention until you have a specific proposal to do a project. that is the challenge planning has all the time, and that is why we believe the education process is very important. to have that discussion, mutually educate each other, and get to the point several years down the line when there is a more robust body of information that can inform and actual decision. what i can tell you is that we have received three letters that are included in the record. one is the letter from the university of california supporting the continuation of the analysis. one is from the bay area air quality management district strongly urging the analysis, and we also have a letter from the san mateo county government, and i know my counterparte

our electronic town hall where we invited people to participate in a web march and it's from a -- webinar and it's from a panel what is random digit selection. we wanted to know more about the regional opinion. most of the outreach has been san francisco-based and we wanted to know the benefits and impacts in san francisco obviously. because it's a regional market, if you go towards the downtown, we wanted to hear from regional travelers as well. they are not tourists. they are folks who work in san francisco or come to san francisco a couple of times a month. we did want to at least get people who come to san francisco. commissioner o'conner: got you. president yee riley: director. >> so you had mentioned that it is the state that is the authorizing agent for trolling vehicular movement so disprove 26 affect the c. -- does prop 26 affect the c.t.a.'s inability to act? >> we are getting an opinion on that and other people are getting an opinion about prop 26. from what we understand today, if there is a vote when the implement takes decision comes and and that point the threshold if prop

we held public workshops, online webinars, town hall meetings that were focused on getting the regional travelers' feedback and we had multiple presentations at community neighborhood and business groups. for this effort, we launched some new tools. we wanted to engage people who couldn't come out and meet with us, so we also looked at tools like facebook and twitter and sort of increased our online presence as a whole. and people enjoy the opportunity to hear about this to give their feedback on the study. one of the things we note is it's a very complex concept and what you see here is opinions from our initial questioning and then we also asked the same question at the end during an exit poll. you can see that peoples' opinions change overtime when they see how the program could work, what the potential benefits might be and how the program revenue could be invested. so we asked people to tell us what they thought the top benefits of the program would be, the number one benefits that people perceive makes absolute sense, a reduction in congestion and travel times particularly for mot

students, parents, teachers, with the studentcam competition one month away, we are offering six webinars to get you prepared. to sign up for a session, up at c-span.org. the competition is open to middle and high school students. for more information, go to studentcam.org. host: ethan rome is the executive director for health care america now, a national grass-roots coalition court of more than 1000 organizations in 46 states. your group spent $46 million in the past few years to win passage of this health-care law. your reaction to what the judge in virginia said yesterday? henry hudson wrote, "neither the supreme court nor any -- -- guest: there are a couple of things the judge suggested. the most important thing, from our perspective, is he did not issue an injunction. so implementation can move forward. the law can move forward, and we can move forward in getting quality, affordable health care for everyone. he did rule that the individual mandate was unconstitutional. what he really did was give a green light to insurance companies to deny health care based on pre-existing condition

we are offering six free webinar's. to sign up for a 30-minute session email us at educate at c-span.org. c-span student cam video competition is opened to middle and high school students. the deadline to enter is january 20, 2011. for more information go to student cam.org. >> once again student protests have been continuing since the house of commons and britain approved a plan to allow university tuition frees to triple. going to show you the house of commons debate on the issue. it's an hour and 20 minutes. >> the terms narrow in terms of an instrument, but as i think you ruled yesterday evening you would like us to entertain debate on the wider issues involved because they arouse very strong feelings inside and outside the house. the ibstrumet we are discussing here is a central part of a policy that is designed to maintain high quality universities in long-term term which tackles the fiscal deficit and provides a more progressive system of graduate contributions based on people's ability to pay. let me just briefl