i had a quick last question for the mtc. are there resources that will be provided to the mta to help us implement this? these talk about the support you are providing on that level. >> it does give me an opportunity to follow up on leadership and those things. muni is the leader on this but the mtc is fully behind it. our commission has had its troubles. this has been a tumultuous task. but the commission is so behind this and we want to make sure that our resources make this a success. certainly as far as that transition, we had a great meeting last week. strategy's were in place to supplement what they saw as gaps in support. things that were just ideas on monday, friday be finely worked out contract approaches. we are continuing to work with them to read out by the particulars of the question. do we have sufficient support for limited english proficiency? we will be looking at those strategies to make sure that they're used in the most appropriate way. subsequent impasses in the fall and spring, those are still in the wo

with that, i know there are two presentations from the mta and mtc. at that point, we can hopefully have a good conversation. >> i work for the metropolitan transportation commission. the plan is for me to cover the first two items. the last two will be covered by mta. to ensure we are fully responsible, we have a member of the executive team here. just to briefly start off by talking about the over all clipper implementation, as mentioned it is the all in one transit card and it is currently working on five of the largest transit areas in the bay area. bart, caltrain and golden gate are currently accepting golden -- clipper kurds. with that, the seven agencies represent over 90% of bay area transit rider ship. that provides a great opportunity for interoperability and convenience to the customer. the clipper card has been accused of being complex. part of that is our willingness to extend the willing fare structure that transit agencies have. as we brought these transit agencies on, we except that their products at discount. all told, the clipper car

site from which the mtc was not directly involved. they did support us in oversight. the automatic fare collection program, the project utilize two contractors. ours was the one that did all the infrastructure to get all of the old gates disconnected to get our systems and infrastructure preparations done. that is on track at about two and a half million dollars. the second contractor that is utilized for the installation is cubic. they perform the installation of the fare gates, the ticket vending machines, both displays for the subway stations. that contract value is roughly at $90 million. the demolition and infrastructure preparations began earlier this year and were substantially completed in july. equipment installations began on august 2 and were substantially completed earlier this month. just a point of clarification, i think there was a lot of information in the media about the program cost being $30 million. i believe the publication or directing the cost at cubic. if you the contract is $90 million. the overall program to install the infrastructure is roug

what i want to talk about is some of the specific things that mtc has done to support it. mta will be talking about the planned activities in place but based on our lessons learned we have dedicated a special efforts to ensure a transition is moved. the first is we have increased staffing of the customer service center. we have added five additional staff this month. they have been trained. secondly, an important aspect is a refresher training for frontline personnel. they are our best chance at helping a customer when they are on the site trying to choose a card for the first time. we have given a change order and are providing additional support. as well, we have just authorized last week additional outreach teams to serve as ambassador. implementing the decision for the frontline personnel are key teams at bus stations, other locations try to coach people, trying to teach them what is going on. you mentioned for this month only we have the existing fast pass members, that we are providing them with a pre loaded card so that people will not be left in the woods. what the

mtc knew that as far as a regional program, we needed one consistent way. our request was to find a common approach that looks for all the rules to be implemented. we were somewhat agnostic to what the process looked like but it seems to be consistent throughout the region. we are going through some challenges now with the senior car distribution. seniors need to learn about how to work with the clipper card, how to get one, and that is something great that the staff has done. we are reaching out to various senior centers across san francisco, but the work is not dead yet. there is still time to get this card into the hands of seniors who want that discount. once a senior gets the card, they do not need to worry about their discount. they can ride on anybody's vehicle. yes, we it knowledge it may be difficult now. we think we have the right strategies but it will take time to work through the senior center. once we are done i think you will see a happy constituency. it is just getting through tough times. the youth program is similar. supervisor chu: we did

i have asked evac and mtc if they could serve as a coordinator for follow up meetings. i look forward to their leadership in facilitating those meetings. colleagues, in the future, when these meetings occur, i would advise you to take part in these meetings. they show both original commitment and what we will have to shoulder municipally. i also spent time educating people over the past month to support the vehicle registration initiative. that will increase transportation revenues at a time where we need more help. many of you do not know that if prop aa is enacted, we would have to double the amount of money we give to street cleaning services. i also made sure that our ability to share those remarks is copacetic. we also have a report from the municipal transit agency. i worked closely with commissioner campos and his staff through the process to provide guidance to the consultants during the initiation phase of the audits. several of you have met with the cgr team to provide your views, and i want to thank you very much for those. for those of you who have not, plea

it does have its growing pains, and we will experience those, but you have a commitment from the mtc and mta that we will try to make this is painless as possible. i think it is a great day to have these new fare gauges, just another indication of how the mta is reinventing capital dollars to make sure the system is reliable and efficient and on time. we're going to have the project manager of m from theta -- from the mta take us over to the ticket machine. they will give us a demonstration of how the machines work, and they will give us cards from the new gates. we will come back and use the clipper cards on the new fare gates. >> and they will want to thank them for the lumir willingness. i want to recognize that we also have a very diverse group of individuals serving on a diverse group of boards and bodies. have the pleasure of reappointing someone who has a connection that goes back generations, larry mazzola, sr. i'm pleased that subject to approval, p.j. johnson will serve again. president of the arts commission, who has been doing an outstanding job, really raising the bar in

it was about the time that steve came forward with that mtc report that showed it some likely scenarios that might need to be adjusted slightly. in the next 25 years, we expect to grow to another 1.2 million people. the question at the time, and again today, what do you do to accommodate that growth? how do you compete? we had to think differently. we are blessed because one of the things we are celebrating is the visionary leadership of leaders that have come and gone, establishing a framework for transportation, recognizing that than today with transit, near and around jobs, we will continue to grow, we have to prosper. this is the ultimate manifestation of smart growth. the first and substantive thing we are doing is this $1.2 billion transit center that links 11 transit agencies. the second thing we are celebrating a is a brand new neighborhood. 2600 housing units, 35% of them below market, 3 million square feet of commercial space. when we get done with this, we will be talking about not just the transamerica icon, the golden gate bridge, the new span on the bay bridge, but a new i

ab 744 found on page two, dealt with mtc's hotline program. they pretty much abandoned that bill midway through this year, and that did it fail passage. they will be pursuing that funny, scaled-back -- they will be pursuing that funding. ab 987 passed through, and that deals with transit village and expands the radius of the area of improvement within the transit village from a quarter mile of the parcel to half a mile. a little more flexibility for transit village development. your other local members has been very active, mr. amiano, pushing the bill that would kill -- pushing the bill that would deal with right turns, pushing the mechanism there. that did pass handily. we do not expect problems because i think he worked out his issues with the state and highway patrol. the other bill we watched, ever since it has been introduced, ultimately did failed passage -- fail passage, but having said that, we have all suspected that some flexibility will ultimately play itself out in the budget, although sb 10, as a vehicle, is no longer available.

the mtc has reported a spike of put electronic hotspot support just. >> we have a weather system up on the north coast for this evening. i will let you know how we will impact our sunday whether coming up. the world series that two to one as the texas rangers beat the san francisco giants winning game 3 today. well there's our guy was in arlington, giants fans walked to local sports bars to cheer on the home team. kron4 is dahlin was there. doll lot of people down there but apart? >> there are lot of people down here, the game and that are around 7:00 there a lot of folks that have left. but there's still a couple of fans walking around here. also you can get it to get at the texas stadium. at&t part is probably the best place to watch the game. we understand that a lot of the bars are packed, a lot of fans say they want to come near the park to cheer on the giants. >> the giants on saturday and didn't play as well as it burst two world series kids, and fans had a tough time watching it. you can see the nail biting covering of the face, and disappointment as fans watched the texas rang

we're still looking at a backup further north from the toll lane looking at that along with mtc to sort things out. so continued improvements expected there. pricing is another issue. congestion pricing. i'll give you a note from our cfo coming up in our next report about 680. rob, we also know that sunol can see low clouds and fog and we might be seeing that today. >> i actually saw that driving down 680 this morning on the way to work. right there at the summit of the sunol grade you run into this some clouds. 54 in san jose, oakland 55. we've had some fog around 880 this morning and over into san francisco, 54 degrees. a lot of low clouds and fog and plan on a cool game time forecast. temperatures probably only in the upper 50s around game time. if you've been sniffling and sneezing, it's probably pine and elm. once i talk about a chance for rain, maybe good news for your allergies. right now the rain is in southern california. the system here that is offshore will spill clouds our way tomorrow and be the first in a big change in our weather as we approach the weekend. today a bit co

the agency, and we were fortunately able to fast for this project through our partnership with the mtc and the clipper program, through federal stimulus dollars that were presented to us by president obama's economic recovery program. it was clearly a partnership that got us here today, and it is i guess a signal of future unveilings we will be doing over the next couple of months over the -- with other projects that will be coming to fruition. we started this work a few years ago as it related to the clipper card. we started work as it relates to the trolley buses being rehabilitated. we have a host of projects that we are implementing at this time to get our system in a good state of repair, and today is just one of them. with that, i would like to turn it over to our regional administrator -- regional fta. >> i am especially pleased to join you here today and celebrate this wonderful partnership. this project has been forwarded with $11 million of federal stimulus dollars, and that is only one portion of the upward of $70 million in stimulus money that came to the mta here. we're ve