Regional Transit Partnership (2017-2025) Meeting   5/25/2023

Lucinda, can you start, please?

I am a planner at the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission, and I staff this committee.

Lucas Ames representing John Urban.

Ted Rieck with John and I will send his twin today.

Oh, I'm Jen Fleischer from the New Year's Health Service.

There you go.

Susan Sells, Dallika McKeel, Haewon Dottie Woodson-Waltzes, Ken Allen, Haewon McKeel, David Harris, Christine Harris, Sara Pinkston, VDOT, TJPDC in High Care, Juan Lewis, Director for Child Care, I'll give you that, thank you.

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So Dan and Zeke is, go ahead Dan.

So thanks to hear what everyone has to say.

Yeah, thank you very much, Dan.

I'll put a little bit of this into the chat as well since maybe it's not coming across that well.

Anybody else?

And Ethan, it is your turn to talk.

Thank you.

There's no one else on the line.

So could you come up just in the front?

So not a separate one we have here.

All right.

So I think this is your time to shine, Ted.

Wishful thinking, I guess.

So if you can get in the chat, raise your hand.

And then there's a green line, which is CNG.

The variant at the bottom is electric.

We were testing them out.

So being part of possible country geology.

There's quite a bit of marginal gas in the green.

So this would be a new party.

Can I do it in 15 minutes?

Oh, I wasn't keeping track.

Pretty close?

Yeah, we were going to take questions at the end.

Back out to D. Yes.

And it's for a technical study to implement this stuff, and it's been recommended for five years.

I'm aligned with my homework, and I have not read the full packet, but it tells what RFP is and your name.

If they would like to, I would certainly be able to do so.

I just was curious.

Right.

No, the proposal is just the information.

No, no, no, that's what we did.

They like speaking.

By invitation we'll sit down.

From our presentation,

It's a PDF.

It opens up the website.

That's why I closed it.

And if you can invite Mike Swingle down.

And then that will lead us into, all right, what does that mean for space programming at the CASP?

Thank you very much.

We appreciate you coming in.

I have a family in the area, so I'm always happy to make a quick trip.

Well, then we'll call you more often.

You can reach me at Daniel.Wagner or drpt.mercuny.gov.

Can you hear us?

Can you hear me all right?

All right, welcome.

Can you see the whole presentation screen?

I can see a white screen with VDOT.

And then if you have any questions.

Do I see questions?

I'm just interested and wondering maybe if the gentleman from DRPT or someone else

Do you want to try to hear?

He is promoted.

Yeah, I'm here Garland.

Okay, great.

So I'm just wondering, is there anyone out there really, really taking hydrogen seriously, or is this just something that we should talk about?

I'm happy to take this one, unless...

I don't mean brutal, like harsh, I'm just...

Yes, to answer your question, it is very much a viable fuel source.

Pinkston, was there a slide that you had?

Are you talking about 30 fewer buses?

So it's less of a financial feasibility and more of a physical constraints of the network that we're working with.

We have some members online who have their hands up and Ms. Belt from VDOT is one of them.

Great, because we do need our presenters to be able to address as we go through this if you want to let her approach.

So there are large, heavy-duty vehicle companies asking the question because they're making long-term business decisions on whether they should go electric or hydrogen.

Very interesting.

And I would ask that members of the public that have questions, please put them in the chat and we'll capture them with our minutes later, but we're trying to get the questions answered by the board members here.

Likewise, those online that can put it in the chat, if anybody in the room wants to email us comments, we can also include those in the email.

I mean this is ancient history I guess and it shows I'm not current, but what's the deal?

And Mike, correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding in my initial research is that hydrogen storage and safety precautions are not terribly dissimilar to CNG.

But if you could expand upon that, because I know that you dealt deeper into that.

Don't quote me on this, but I don't believe we've had significant hydrogen issues in terms of an event or anything like that, ignition, at least not within our industry that I have on record.

Well, other questions?

Thank you.

You've been a little bit interactive with your expressions.

So it should be a method to talk about, that's all.

Are there any other questions?

So admittedly,

Or there's some private making company that's running charging stations from the place that they don't do their job.

and that's what alcohol is like because the school system is fighting with the sanctions.

Supervisor McKeel, Erin Belt from VDOT online has a... Oh sure Erin, go right ahead.

So there's only a couple hours of the day that buses are not operational on campus.

Yeah, just a couple of quick things.

In fact, on July 1.

So Green and Buckingham.

They have the money, but they decided to use it to sell it.

Then we're gonna move back to Barbara.

Oh, absolutely.

The CAT is currently kicked off their transit

I can't tell who's there.

No, I don't see her anymore.

So with that, our TP activity update, Lucinda, I think this is you.

We presented on the Transit Vision Plan and the Regional Transit Governance Study to continue to share information and gather support for those initiatives.

And how was it received?

But I've seen people that are very engaged listen to anything to add to that.

Yeah, today people were really interested in light rail going up and down 29, and I know we have that study and they just could... That always grows up.

There's no think we have a population right now.

Always.

There's just a few more people up there.

The density just doesn't work here.

Those past couple months.

I can see that.

So when you see the slides,

They actually recorded today's presentation, so if they send me the video I can send you the link.

Lucida is going to be an agent once that recording goes out.

I'd like to hear what they think they need.

Yeah, I contacted the Chamber of Commerce and I'm working on that.

Great, so as we did that, we tried to do that a few years ago,

Any other comments or questions?

We did not have a quorum, so we will take care of the minutes.

Yeah.