Good evening, everyone. Let's go ahead and get started. I'd respect to everybody that was here at 6 o'clock. My name is Raul Lopez, and I'm an engineering manager with the TBW in City of Fort Worth. I oversee the design and construction of the thoroughfares in Fort Worth, you know, the four six-lane roadways. And this is one of them, University Drive. This is the pre-construction committee meeting for University Drive Improvements Phase 1. There will be Phase 2, and Mark is going to go, Mark, our PM is going to go over those details in a second. I want to remind everybody that there's a sign-up sheet towards the back if you want to sign up now or maybe towards the end, but don't forget to sign in. And then there's also a comment card if you want to write down your comments. And there's also a brochure on how to download the My Fort Worth app or FW app, which is pretty handy in reporting any kind of issues, whether it's university or anywhere else in the city. So, I'm going to do some introductions. I'm going to start with our interim assistant director over capital delivery, Martin Phillips. With us also is our interim director, Lauren Priar. And then we have Aaron Freaky with Cop Family. They are the design engineers. I have Jeff Allen, who is our communication specialist, responsible for putting all this together. And then with us, our project manager is Mark McCoy. He's Friston Nichols, but he's a contract project manager for the city of Fort Worth. So with that, I'm going to leave it up to Mark to get started. Thank you, Raul. I'm going to kind of, I think this will work so I can see you all and see the screen and see my notes at the same time. So thank you, everyone, for being here live and in person. I guess as we come out of COVID, it's nice to see people in real life. I'm the project manager, and we're going to show you tonight, among other things, what university drive is going to look like in the near future. So here we go. We're going to give you a little bit of background, and this is, a lot of this is courtesy of Lauren, by the way, but this is not just a one piece of this project. You can see there's several phases in the works. Phase one and two, phase one is coming first, phase two is a little, trailing a little behind, and then down south is going to be the next piece of this, but we're thinking of it as a corridor and not just an individual project, just so you know. So about five years ago, the Fort Worth Community Design Center completed a corridor and gateway strategy study on university drive and made recommendations for improvements. These university projects are the result of those recommendations. The corridor study stretches from the trail drive to West Cantey Street near TCU. You can see that on the screen. Phase one and two are only a portion of the entire corridor, so there will be future phases. So the reason we need this project is that university drive welcomes over five million visitors every year. The existing roadway has a wide and unwelcoming highway feel, so our project intends to make this corridor the gateway to Fort Worth's cultural attractions. And that's stated, we stated basically in a different way on these bullet points, but you get the idea if you've ever driven up and down university drive. Here's a picture of the limits of this particular project. You can see Rosedale on the north and Riverfront on the south limit. It does include old university. The scope of work consists of installing consistent street lighting, replacing the sanitary sewer in one portion, installing pedestrian safety elements, and installing new medians with left turn bays, as well as milling and overlaying the whole stretch. That's the new asphalt pavement in case you don't know that terminology. Another piece of the scope for this phase is installing new bus stop facilities and wayfinding signage. Trinity Metro is actually going to install the bus stop shelters, but we're putting in the concrete pads. Here's a satellite view, and in case you didn't know already, this area has a very car-centric feel to it. It's not really very pedestrian friendly or pretty to look at, so we're going to try to change all that with this project. This slide shows the overall phase one concept. After this, we'll get into close-ups at different pieces of the job, but you can see that we're installing a narrow solid median throughout the whole limits with various left turn lanes, and hopefully you can see that from where you're sitting, but the median is the tan shading here, the sewer is the green, the red or the crosswalks, and I guess it's obvious these are traffic signals, so the signal is existing. That signal is new. Okay, here's the north end, starting at West Rosedale. You can see, again, the sidewalks and the median and the sewer, just so you know, the sidewalk varies from four to six feet depending where it is and how much room we had to work with. Right away was kind of limited, so ideally we would have put in shared paths for wider paths for bikes to share with pedestrians, but there just wasn't enough right of way in this area, so we're doing what we can. Again, here's, as we move a little bit further south, here's where old university ties into university. Again, crosswalks are red. A little information here, the northern crosswalk here at old university was limited just due to safety and visibility concerns. We'll have ADA compliant curb ramps and stamped concrete crosswalks at these intersections, just to make it safer and prettier. The existing signal will be replaced with a new powder-coated black signal to kind of up the aesthetic quotient a little bit. All right, this shows the improvements south of old university, including continuous median on all the way to Collinsworth. And again, the crosswalks are red, the sidewalks are blue, and we're putting in new curb ramps also at this intersection. And again, the traffic signal poles will be the powder-coated black ones. Mark, there's also landscape in the islands. All right, yeah, that's what this, the multicolored section right here, and we'll talk a little bit more about that later, but there are, where we could, we put some landscaping areas. All right, so in case any of you don't already know this, this former resident in is being redeveloped. The developer is called Trademark, and so we've been coordinating with him on this project, and so there will be a signal installed for the future. There will be a driveway coming out of their development, so as part of this job is this, is the signal for that future driveway. So if you see action there, that's what's going on. Okay, talk about old university. The idea is to right-size this roadway to accommodate everybody, and that means providing two 11-foot lanes, a bike lane buffer, a bike lane, and a parking lane, and that's, those numbers are called out right here in the small print, but that is the idea. That's the only place on this job where there are bike lanes because we couldn't fit them anywhere else. Yes, sir? Are you open to questions now? Can we hold them to the end, please? Please, thank you. Yeah, yeah, well, I can flip back through and take care of your question. All right. Just to reiterate, there's no hard improvements on the pavement on old university-only pavement markings. And we're also just adding sidewalks as shown in blue just to kind of fill in the gaps and connect to the TRA trails. Okay, here's zoomed in views of the landscaping that rule pointed out before. And the landscaping consists of bands of plants and grasses of different coloring that can vary naturally with the seasons. We have specimen pictures on the next slide. The landscape islands will be surrounded by brick pavers, light tan tone, similar to this rendering, and of course, there will be irrigation installed also. And all those landscaping improvements have been coordinated with parks and recreation department. All right, I'm just going to read the names of these for any of you who are interested in the landscaping, if we have specific questions, I can go back and really get into the details. But so we have Fortner of Daisy, Pink Skull Cap, Desert Flamenco, Hesporello, Side Oats, Grandma, and Little Bluestem. So these are all, the idea is to make them all Texas native plants that give us some color and they're drought tolerant and that's it in a nutshell, but we can go back and talk about that more later if you are interested. Okay, so here we are to the cost slide. Construction, 3.4 million. Overall funding is, add that up, but coming from the 2018 bond program and there's some water and sewer money in here too, obviously because the sewer's being replaced as part of this job. Everything beyond the construction is what it costs to buy easements, do the engineering, do the permitting, manage the project, et cetera. So that's how your money is being spent. Here we are to talk about the schedule. The right-of-way is we have one easement remaining that is part of a deal with trademark that I mentioned, one little piece for a bus stop that is almost done. Utilities are in the process of being cleared right now. There's like one spot left on that too and construction start has not been finalized yet. We are still discussing that, but it will be somewhere towards the end of this year and we're scheduled to be exactly a year duration from whenever we start, so. Let's just take the opportunity to maybe get some impact, input on that. We were thinking about starting November, but we're thinking it's approaching the holiday season, so we'd rather put it off until February after the start show. If that's sort of the consensus. Get it done. If you guys have any. Does anybody oppose to that concept? It's starting February versus starting in November? It's gonna be a calendar year. Yeah, we'd rather start in February. We might be able to accelerate the construction duration. But any of these events that we're talking about. There's gonna be a lot of events in them, yeah, but yeah. It's gonna impact in one way or another. Right, but we'd rather start in February, yeah. You know what I'm saying? Start, get it done. Start, get it done? Yeah. Okay. Dive in, okay. All right, okay. Does anybody care that we're about having under construction during the Christmas shopping season? Does that bother anybody? Yeah, is there anybody here from University of Baku Village or? I brought in seeds that was there and I'd rather not have all the construction going on during November than December. Those are very busy months for us. Yeah, that's what we were headed with it.  Okay, thank you for the input to the slide here where we talk about communication strategies. Sure, sure. And then there it is right there. So we're making a strong effort in this project to let you all know exactly what's going on at all times and keeping contact and make ourselves available. But here's kind of the details. Obviously we're meeting tonight. Here at the zoo, the plan is to have monthly website updates and there's a link here in the presentation and this'll be, I guess, how do we publish this? They can't see this presentation, but. The video links, we're recording the presentations and we'll put that video on this project page. Okay. It'll be on YouTube if anyone wants to know our YouTube. We also have a test message alert system that you can subscribe to by scanning this code or just texting hello to the phone number shown here and I can, if anybody needs that, I can read it out loud if anybody's taking notes. So that number, that service is down right now because apparently their server is down in Florida, South Florida, but we anticipated being back up December. Probably next November at the latest. So you can write the number down but you can't sign up yet because their server is down. So just hold on to the number and try to sign up probably mid-November. I'm sorry, mid, early November? Early November. Early November. They got hit by a hurricane. Yeah. We'll also be having monthly on-site construction meetings that you're welcome to attend. I envision this happening like right before our meeting with the contractor, like show up, voice your concerns. What is happening here? Thank you. Sorry, new equipment to me. Okay, yeah, so we'll publish when those are gonna be and where and open mic night, I guess. The next thing we're trying to include is quarterly city news updates and there will be a six month mailed construction update. So like I said, really trying hard to keep you all in the loop. Talking about access plans for pedestrians and vehicles, particularly for businesses like Eatsies during construction. In the contract, there are restrictions on the number of lanes that can be closed at certain times, okay? In particular, one lane will have to be closed in each direction to build an immediate, and obviously, cause it's right in the middle of the street. But we'll keep the construction to one section of median at a time so the entire stretch isn't closed at once. When we're building the sidewalks, there will be alternate routes for pedestrians that are accessible and we'll make sure those are signed properly and that there's advanced notice given. Driveway access will be maintained or will give you alternate access so you can always get, there's always a way to get where you're trying to go. And at the bottom here is my name, again, my phone number, my personal cell phone number, so there you go, that's me. I think Raul mentioned already, but there is the MyFW app that it really does work and if you don't have it, I would recommend getting it. So that's available in Google Play or what's the iPhone? Apple Store, yeah. Apple Store will be spring break in March. Yes. Do we have a copy of that, Mark? I don't think we do. Yeah, I thought I didn't read it, I guess. It was listed. Yes, we will be finished, yes. We know that for a fact. We don't want to start this until the 7th Street is finished. What happened here? What is the update on 7th Street? Construction is to be substantially completed by November 4th, and they're working on the median between Norwood and University, so just the last little block, and then the rest, what's left? Okay, thank you. What's left from there is finishing the landscape on the median, irrigation, and then mill and overlay and striping, so. And would the landscaping be in also? Yeah, everything should be in by November 4th. I think there was, I'm looking for the list of events that we're trying to avoid. Sorry, I got kicked out of my presentation here. Maybe it's the worst. There we go, there we go. Colonial golf tournament, Fort Worth Zoo, spring break with the kids, TCE home football games, the Zoo Run, Mayfest, Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo, and I think there's a couple more too, but yes, we're thinking about all that and trying to minimize the impact to all that stuff, so notice this says construction will be restricted, it won't stop, but it will be restricted. We need to stop for some reason. We'll talk to the contractor, but we'd rather not stop, but it'll be restricted to how many lanes can be worked on at the time. Thank you, that's a good point, yeah. Okay, I think that was basically the end of my slide. So now, I think, I know the turquoise shirt had a question, what was it on again, I'm sorry? Right here? The presentation changed significantly between, but in this project. There hasn't been any significant changes ever since. Placement of medians, things like that, everything is the same information. This is pretty much the same, yes sir. Right now, on an old university, that's not a solid median, in the middle is that just a, okay. It's a stripe, the center stripe, yeah. All right, and then sidewalks will be on both sides of the road, is that what you want to do? No, that's, we're only gonna have sidewalks along the, I guess you would call that the West East side, or North side, the West side, the side closer to the river. We're only, sidewalks are designated by the blue lines here. So there's only gonna be sidewalks up to that entrance to, I believe there was some development there when it's no longer there. And you see the red skip line, that's a crosswalk to get people from the North side, or the East side to the West side. There's already sidewalk all the way to the hotel. And then that's where we start the sidewalk. Right here, already exists, right? So where the blue picks up, that's where we start sidewalk again in front of the hotel. And then, so there's not gonna be a sidewalk along the side closer to the river, because that's all gonna be redeveloped, and that's in the works. So we don't wanna build sidewalk, and then the redevelopment will tear it all off. Right, right. Yeah. And then, from the sewage. Is it from the main top of the sewage from the park, coming out of Trinity Park? No, it's two ways. Yeah, it's, that would be Northbound, this is Southbound. Yeah, it's still gonna be two ways. It's one lane each way. Yeah. About the other side, in Trinity Park? Coming out of, there's a bridge there at the end of Old University that enters Trinity Park. I'm not familiar with it. You go into the bridge. Yeah. The public sector is open at the end, and you can get into Trinity Park there. Right, correct, yes. Is that remaining the same? Yeah, it is, yeah. That's not changing. Okay, I understand you're saying that. Okay, then we need to coordinate with our traffic guys. Yeah, but there's something that'll be one way out of the park. Okay. The road itself is the main two way, but coming out of the park, you don't leave the park, you can't enter the park. Okay. Did you say that you're gonna have some medians? Yes. Will there be fewer lanes to drive in? No, still the same amount of lanes. That's why the median has to be so narrow, because, yeah, we won't reduce the amount of travel lanes, no. Now, seven streets used to be two lanes on each side, and then a center lane. It's still two lanes. It just has a median instead of a center lane, but you still have the ability to turn, just like you used to. And this is gonna be similar. This, where the center line, the center, I'm sorry, where the median is gonna go, it's now the center lane, the common center lane. So that's gonna be a concrete solid median. You're still gonna have the ability to turn left at the median openings. The signals. Yeah, protect that left, yeah. Sure. Is there gonna be a bike lane on the university? No. I wouldn't get on that thing. But, why do you have a bike lane running on old university? Feeding now, that's the only place it feeds down to, and I don't understand that. So the idea is that, so for example, former residence inside, that's gonna be a hotel, residences, and commercial. There's also colonial apartments out to the west. Oh, I know, they're bigger than the buses. The idea is, it's connectivity to the Trinity Trails, yeah. I'm just saying that, you know, I'd rather see the bike lane over here than y'all widening the one that's going down the river.  We're also trying to use the bike lane as a means of transportation. As a means of transportation, we're just trying to use bikers or bicycles as a means of transportation to go shopping if you wanna go to University Park Village to go have lunch at, you know, whatever you wanna go have lunch. It's not just recreational, so that's...   Right, so that's what we're putting the bike lane here so you can go to University Park Village. You wouldn't be able to do that if you would stay on the river trails, yeah. Whatever. Yeah, yeah, that's the concept. Yes, sir. Well, maybe, see a lot of what turns out there. Right. And that's part of the concept of the project, the idea of the project is to limit those turn lanes that are proven to be very dangerous. There's been traffic studies that have demonstrated that, you know, it's a high injury corridor because of those turn lanes, the mutual turn lanes, and that's one of the concepts of the project, is to limit the amount of turn lanes at, say at the signal, concentrate on the signal where they're protected. There's two more single direction turn lanes towards the north. Are you going to be able to do a U-turn? You'll be able to U-turn at the signal, the traffic signal, yes. I'm sorry? But not at the other turning points? No, at the other turning points, it would be too tight of a movement, no, that's not allowed. That's just a single direction left turn lane. Then we expect to increase some population density for, say for sure, there at the former residence, yeah. How many drawing units do we expect there? We don't have that information, that's private development. It's not part of your study, but... We took it in consideration for the study, but we don't have that information at this time. That has changed over the years. The city's got the information. Well, the city might, but yeah, this group doesn't have it, I'm sorry. Yeah, we don't have it, yeah. It's the sort of thing you could give us tomorrow. I'm sorry? We could get it coming tomorrow at the prison point. We can do research. We, in conversations with Trademark, the developer, and they should be able to tell us what that number is. You can tell us the max, this whole app. We can do that, yeah. About a minute. Can you, did you have a comment card? Can you put that in your comment card? Or give me your name or something? Right, and then at the, there may be some more public information at the other end. You've got something along the university going, where it had taken out several office authorities that would be on the freeway, where we'll be originally divided. I think we see some dwellings planning. I'm not sure where you're, I'm not sure the location, yeah. You're talking about, I'm talking about the old university block. Oh, you're talking about that vacant lot? Here? Yeah, always. Yeah. Yeah, we sit, yeah. And there's more of those there toward the river. What population density of chemistry is that? We can chase those answers. Yeah, we can chase those answers. If you'll just provide. I don't think there's anything, I don't think there's anything proprietary about what you've done with the, about the plans, as they all are now, and developing privacy for the development. I don't think it is, no. We just don't have that information right there at this point, yeah. Tomorrow's fine. Actually, next week, it's fine. Yeah, I can't promise that I'll give it to you tomorrow, but I'll give it to you in a timely manner. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. And what is your name, sir? I am Charles Rodfus, VR and my friends. Are you going to start or not? I'll just get your email here in a second, yeah. Yes, sir. Joey, you touched on traffic a little bit, and to describe this, it brings up a good point. This will undoubtedly restrict a little bit of traffic on the university. And... You're talking about the construction or the alternative? I'm talking about just in general. Just with the turn lanes already get backed out into the left lane of Northbound and Southbound traffic. When there's a full turn lane for them, they already get backed out there, and we're going to add all of the stuff from Trademark, and like we were talking about stuff from old university, when we had this meeting in 2019, y'all have not done the traffic study yet. Have y'all done the traffic study? I figure out where all these cars are going to go. Carl? And where the... We talked about last time, people that are in the Apple Store that want to go Northbound, let's say. If that line for that light is going to get, is the only exit Northbound from the shopping center, is going to be crazy.  Right. We did a traffic study, right, Carl? Yes, we did. I think the level of service was... The level of service was... Constant? It was constant. It was level of service C that came through during the just time, such as shopping center, it would go down to D, which means it would have a little longer in the lane to go through, but we tried to make it as... Make the exit for that intersection to be as consistent flow as possible. Holiday is their exception, but daily traffic as they have is to respond. I don't know at any of that level C, the area that means. I just mean, like, right now you can drive on Broadway Road at five o'clock in the afternoon, and it's backed up from the bridge all the way beyond the entrance to University Park Village. And now that becomes one of your major routes of egress out of University Park Village to go Northbound. And it seems like we're at it. Don't forget, there's going to be a signal there which doesn't exist today. So you see, Rogers... Is it set on College Road? Mm-hmm, yes. Yes, there's going to be a new signal. I think we've got to go out of College Road down out of the back road of University Park Village overnight. Right, but you have a lot of backup on Rogers because there's a signal now and you've got to wait for a gap from Northbound and Southbound University. You wouldn't have to wait for that gap. You'll have a signal protected left. Why is the backup from Rogers from Northbound and Southbound University? If you're here right now, today, you're trying to turn Northbound? I'm not talking about there. But the existing stop line. There's no stop line there. Now that's only a right line, which is a lot safer. Can we pull a map here? All right, I guess maybe right here? You talking about here? That's the stop line. I'm saying it is already congested and people are going, you're going to add, as cars are going from the outlet store, they're going to go, that's west, towards Banana Republic and all that stuff. And then they're going to have to get in that line. Last time we met, you talked about, you were just running to go out of the back of the TV through to Rogers Road. It is already incredibly congested. So Rogers Road is already congested, right? Yes. And I'm telling you, it's congested today because you don't have a signal there. That's not, I'm not going Northbound. Rogers Road is, we just missed. I'm sorry, this is calling north. I'm sorry, this is calling north. Canada's worth. Rogers Road runs down this way, yeah. You get an 18-wheeler that's trying to go east on I-30 on Rogers Road, and it will back up traffic well beyond the University of Art Village. Did we look at that, Carl? Did we look at that? Or have we looked at that? Rogers Road wasn't looked at because the purpose was to do the safety issues along the University of Art. Right. If I could interject, I think that if you're, one of your major traffic plans is to divert traffic to Rogers Road, that Rogers Road traffic has to be taken to a camp. I'm just going to go back to what y'all said in the 2019 meeting, which was to divert traffic to University of Art Village out of... To divert these states, it's not meant to divert, that is an option, to divert it directly to an option, but it's to make the University of State for all users. That's not what I meant. And what I mean is one of the options for alleviating traffic with this plan was to divert traffic. Can you not get to Collins Road from Rogers Road? I think you can. Yeah. So this is a bottleneck point that exists today that will not exist tomorrow. So all that traffic is rerouted. You have to compare improved situations with existing conditions. Existing causes a bottleneck because you have this big bottleneck here. Traffic diverges itself when you...  When you have an obstacle, you find out the way. So traffic reroutes and traffic engineering accounts for that. Yeah. So we'll take it from Apple Store to... trying to get northbound from Easties. And what was your question? You'll have to go out to the signal and turn around. And that's what happens when you're trying to balance safety and mobility. We cannot sacrifice safety to keep mobility the way it is. So we have to balance those things out. I'm not asking you to sacrifice mobility. I'm asking you to not sacrifice as much mobility and figure out a good way for people who still be able to move. I already... I've drive... University drive from North and South several times a day. And now I've gotten a habit of taking the right road. I just can't imagine how much more this is going to happen about the road. And it may be that a lot of traffic that goes down university might take Forest Park or something. Traffic just goes different routes. It's when you limit the flow. Yeah. So price... I mean, construction cost, date increase. Construction cost was estimated to be about 2.4 to 2.5 and it's now about a million more. It's not a whole million because the water department added scope that wasn't included at the time. So it's about $700,000 more. But it's funded. So from the same bond? From the same bond, yeah. Residuals from that bond. We're about to wrap up that bond program. So whatever wasn't used, some of it went to this project. One second. I got a question in the back corner there. Yeah, wait. Okay. Yeah, if you want an example of how, you know, of why I've got this trust, you know, when they restriped him pill, several people pitched connections about there will be a traffic apocalypse. Guess what never came. So I trust this plan has taken enough into account to make sure that won't happen here. Right? Thank you. Thank you very much for that. Yeah. That comes. Give him a chance first. Go ahead. Okay. We saw this about four years ago. There was going to be a temporary something for trademark and have a term behind the silver box restaurant. Is this going to be as delivered day one? Right. That's no longer needed. So that's out of the picture. Yes. And the other was that they had to move their entrance to that old residence inside by certain date. They'll just move it whenever they're ready to develop that. Yeah. So that's a private improvement. So we're just prepping the intersection for a signal to serve that driveway, but they'll just move whenever they're ready. So the last time we met with them, they were about to start construction right now, but you can see nothing's going on. So that's what happens with development. For all I know, that development may not happen. So development is market-driven. It's not a public book. It's not public work. Right here. Yes. Left turn line from the zoo. That's a left turn pocket. What's that? Oh, here? Yeah. I'm sorry. That is the left turn to go into riverfront. This pocket here is the left turn to go into riverfront. I'm sorry. That thing go away. That's dangerous. I mean, I know now there's a stoplight. So there will be a stoplight. And whenever this is red for these people, then these people will have a gap to get in. That's what I keep saying. This makes a big difference. And just so you know, level of service C is what's accepted in most roadways that you're driving in today except the freeway. So it's when we design roadways, we don't shoot for level service A. Level service A is a car every 500 feet. You don't want to design a road for that little traffic. You want to design a road that sort of keeps a balance between cost and service. So level of service C, which is what we're going to have after the project is constructed, is acceptable and that's what we shoot for. That's what the traffic engineering profession shoots for, to say, not just a city for work. So I drove this road, figured it out, and it's six times to the... and it's really this. Can you tell me the throughput capacity of this road is going to be improved? Yes. I mean, not improved. It's going to stay about the same. Level of service C to level of service C, right, Carl? Judging over the last five to eight years, it is a whole lot this year. And ever since first part was redone, a lot of traffic has moved over the University project. So I want to emphasize this. This is not a capacity-increasing project. This is a safety-improvement project. I understand it's a very difficult situation. Very shallow. There's no room for us to grow another lane. That's the challenge. I don't think we want another one. I see traffic back up all the way down at Rosedale to the bridge on the weekend. All the way to the bridge. This entire road, three lanes wide, is back up and caught. So what can be done to increase the fuel in the roadway to use that traffic route? The biggest stop gap, like I said, the biggest stop gap on northbound traffic along this route is not the through traffic. It's the light turns leading on the interstate. And right at that intersection right there, the tech stop will not stop the off-ranges because that's more of a safety issue because there's one 70 miles an hour and there's a backup on the ramp on there. So they have more free movements getting on to the university and they stop the university. That's why I'm asking. Can you explain where you're going? Sure. Can you see it going? You have ramps right here for 30. And you have off-ramps that come through. They are not going to stop the off-ramps because if you back up on the 30 and there was hold on at the light, you're going to have stoppages on the interstate. It's far more dangerous to stop the interstate than it is to stop this road. So that's why they have more dream time than the ramps do. And that's where your backups occur. Now, if you eliminated the interchanges here completely, you'd have through movement all the way through. I understand how you're saying the ramps that come from the freeway, the off-ramps. Off-ramps? Coming here and coming here on the opposite side of the university, those have more significant dream time than the university does going north and south. So text that gives them preference to be able to get onto universities so they don't back up into the freeway. Into the freeway. And so that stops the conflicting movement which is northbound. Is that single white barrier? It's... Yeah, this is... This is a case study for... Traffic signal congestion and freeway congestion. You have... That's NTTA. Chisholm Trail is NTTA. And then the next one over... Is it Chisholm Trail or is it... And I-30. You have the two lanes, the four straight turns, one south, and then you have the one lane that's the turn... Yeah, so it's only the Chisholm Trail. Chisholm Trail, yeah. So it's NTTA. I was at the central meetings for this before West 7th was the project started. And I appreciate the fact that everyone had the chance to have them for that. But that project was supposed to be finished in the spring and then in the summer and now we're going to have no limit. So if you all are thinking this project is going to take a year, it's going to be wholly held for others for those of us who have to drive it. And are we talking about a year?  Let me stop by saying this. This is not as complicated as West 7th. It's number one, it's a lot shorter. Number two, we're not doing as much as we're doing on West 7th. On West 7th, we're constructing concrete bike lanes right in the middle of an existing lane. We're not constructing anything within the existing three lanes. We're constructing the median in the middle in the existing left lane. The other thing is this is not as congested with utilities as West 7th was. West 7th is one of the oldest part of town, right? So it's congested with all utilities right underneath the road. And they were, you know, when we were locating the street lights, the street lights took on that project, we were getting water lines and we were getting all the utilities. It is very, very congested with utilities because of the density of the development there. This is not as dense as West 7th is. And the other thing that caused delays on West 7th was the reaching agreement with the railroad. That just takes too long. Railroads have an upper hand over anybody else because they were here first. And so, finally, we were able to reach agreement with them, I think it was towards July, end of the summer. And that crossing is now complete, substantially complete. So, none of that is going to happen here. We don't have railroad crossing, we don't have utilities that many utilities underneath. We need to talk about making sure that we do SUE and any potential conflicts. I've already told you this in a different venue. So it's not going to be, this is not as complicated as a project as West 7th was. In terms of utilities, conflicts, potential findings while you're doing construction, it's not going to be that bad. You and I talked before about we're not very utilities with this right now. The franchise utilities, and whatnot. That will continue. That will continue, yes. We're going to have purple lights. We've not seen some of those going in. Purple lights, no. Like, you made the freeway? I thought about that initially. I don't know. Oh, okay. I've seen purple lights on and purple, the bluish over the new Trinity River Vision Bridges. And those are cool. They're cool blue, I should call them. Not purple. Oh, really? Well, we should have done purple here. We should have done. No, I thought about that, but budget. Yeah. Sir, I use that a question for a while now. Thank you. Mr. Greifers. Hi, folks. The tracking is important. But what is really going to impact father and wife in the neighborhood is changes in population density. So, while we're having meetings, I think that should be addressed very, very soon. Probably by one officer that can't say not my department. You really should see the city managers out here. Pitching pub. Pitching part of the plan for increasing population density. That's part of what we're interested in. That's not part of what we know about. It is. If the city manager's office is doing it, you can't say not my department. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Greifers. It's not me. It's not me. Yeah, make sure you put your comments on that. Yes, sir. Good morning, Carl. We get traffic. Peak hours are identified as 6.30 to 7.30 in the morning. In the evenings, I believe, were 4 o'clock to 5 o'clock. And you had a noon peak that went from noon to one o'clock. No excuse me. 11.30 to 1.30. So it's peak time. That's typically when the traffic studies are done. Well traffic counts were taken for a week and we also at the intersections did peak hours to for all the terms that went along for an hour period that captured those peak periods. We got the we got the seven-day counts which gave us the weekday peak hours and within those hours that's when we identified the terms. So that's important. We took counts on the left turns as well. And so that's all accounted for with this assignment. Right. That's how the driveways and the left turns were targeted because those were the primary ones were the majority of the left turns either on the northbound and southbound to the place. And that's why the meeting was placed as it was based on the traffic volume they had. And what was the traffic status? Traffic City was done in 2019? 2019. 2019 I think towards the end of 2019. I want to say without having the benefit of the knowledge that's that's development is dealt by a different department. Transstitial public works as a small portion and it's not our department our division. I want to say that they're required to do a traffic study before they're permitted but I don't quote me on it. I would have to. Typically they are. Yeah, typically they are. But I don't know if that's the case on a what we call an established thoroughfare. I can't tell you if they have or not but that's that would be the requirement. I can tell you if they have I cannot tell you if they have or not but that would be what I would think. Yeah. I'm sorry. Tom Simmerly is yeah and so I can provide that information to you. I'm sorry I said TPW had to do they used to be part of TPW now they're part of development services. Yeah. So let's. Access from that department area to supply still is that still going to be required? I wouldn't know that either but I can I can chase down who might have an answer for you on that and that might be Tom. Are you Margaret? Catherine. Catherine. I know Margaret. Okay. Okay. I spoke with the Margaret. I'm sorry. We had a meeting with Margaret about the same issue. Any other questions? Any other questions? Phase two is probably four or five years from now to start construction. Yeah. What that's still that's in the early phases hasn't even been signed. We're just barely engaging an engineer in the contract. I don't know what the what I don't know the timeline for I-30. Yeah. So then the bridge part and up to university grads won't happen for them. That's future. Yeah. And I won't be here by then. Yeah. That's future. Yeah. University phase two is federally funded. So that takes a little longer. Yeah. Probably six year from now construction. That's what kind of stretches it out. Yes, sir. No, we do not anticipate taking part in no, it's got some we don't anticipate that again on university phase two is kind of the same scope that we're doing a phase one. We're not widening road. We're just providing sidewalks, connectivity, crosswalks, street lights and repaying the road the existing road. So it's not a wine and project out in lanes. Trust me, we deal with parks department. We try to avoid that. That's not the folks we deal with. All right. Oh, no, that's not the folks that we usually deal with. They do protect their parks. Yeah. They do. All right. All right. Thank you. Thank you very much coming tonight. Again, make sure you put your comments and writing and turn them in of a better chance of getting responded to in writing. So thank you for being here, what is here?


So we will first discuss you can install python by this URL python.org and also very good documentation is available on this website. I will side by side show you the practical example also. You can run the terminal and just type python. So this is the python interpreter. It is an interpreter language. So in normal mathematical operations you can directly perform like any operation and it will give the results. And you can exit the prompt by control d. Now you can also write files as you write in c like .c extension. For python it is .py extension. And to make any file like normally if you will take example. This is a file run this file by python and then file dot the file which you have to execute. So it will show you the output. Also if you want to execute it like a executable file like how you execute the share script. So then you have to add this line that is hash. So it will provide the .exe file for python in Linux the executable file. So we will take a basic code and we will understand it. So I just wrote six lines and we will understand it line by line. So for comment in python it starts by hash. Anything followed by hash is the comment.  So it calculates a value and it will assign the value to x. And in python you do not have to declare the variables. It is dynamically typed. For assigning the string you can type a string by either in double quotes or in single quotes. The meaning is same. For float value just decimal is required as you all know. And now double equal to is the comparison operator and the single equal to is the assignment operator. And plus it is doing the concatenation. If both are the strings then it will do concatenation otherwise it will add the operands. And to display the value on the command is the print command. Now as you can see I wrote print x and print y. So it printed the values on the different lines. Now if I want on the same line then you have to give comma. So it will just add a space after that. And when I first wrote my first line was x equal to 34 minus 23. So I did not declare what is x. It is integer or anything. So whenever I assign a variable, assign anything to a variable. In the first assignment it is declared. And then in the further assignments the reference will be changed. Because python treats every variable as an object. So it will assign different references to the object. And suppose if you write any division operator like z equals to 5 divided by 2. Then it will not take the float value. By default it will consider it as integer. And for float you have to assign it separately. And as I told for strings you can specify double codes or single codes. And if you want to assign multi-line strings then triple codes. And in the multi-line strings you can write if you have in your string any double codes or single codes then it will take. In python one more thing is very important. Like in C language we have braces. If you write any for loop then we start the brace. Then we write the function or the loop. And then we close the brace. In python the intentation is very important. If I write if x equal to equal to 3. Then it will give error. So it is saying expected and indent in block. So to specify that this print statement or any statement is inside the if loop. You have to give a space or a tab. So anything like how it knows that print y is outside the if block. Again the intentation should be maintained. If you are putting one tab for this print x. Then if you put two tabs then it will give error. So you must take care of the intentation. Like for the if loop I wrote the colon. Normally we have braces. So if there is any colon that it means that new block has to be started. So new block means you have to put either tab or a white space. To specify that that particular block is inside that block. Now what happens when we assign a variable any value. It only creates a reference. Because when first assignment is made it will allocate the memory. Like if I write x equal to 3. So what it will do? It will create the memory. It will store the integer 3 and create a reference and x. And that reference will contain the link to the integer value stored 3. And also garbage collection like Java it also handles it automatically. First assignment is very necessary. Like if you have not assigned the variable once also. Then obviously you cannot use it. And multiple assignments like x comma y equal to 2 comma 3. Then the first variable will be assigned to the first value. You can put any name except it should not start with a number. And some reserved keywords are there. You learn about them as I go on. Some data types in Python now. Normally like in C we have in Python also integer, float, strings etc. Now some additional data types they are tuples, strings or of course they are. But some modifications are there in strings. Now a tuple is an immutable data type. I will explain how it is immutable. The difference between tuples and list is tuple is immutable and list is mutable. And some syntax differences are there. Otherwise in list you can store like it can be of mixed data types. The first element can be of integer type. The second can be of string type. The list may contain an element as a list data type also. Or a tuple data type or string. And strings of course you know which we write in double quotes. And they are immutable. I explain about the immutable. So tuple is defined by the small parenthesis. So the elements can be specified by comma like 23 comma some other element etc. So you see that this 2 comma 3 is a tuple. So a tuple may contain a tuple also as an element or any other data type as an element. It may contain a list also. Similarly a list it is defined by the square brackets. And it may also contain any data type. And strings of course you can declare by the double quotes, single quotes. And in case of multiple line you can declare by the triple quotes. So if you want to access any element of the suppose I declare a tuple. Now if I want to access any element it starts from left side starts from 0. You can also access from the right side. And it starts at minus 1. So you can access both ways. Also like if I want to print whole tuple. Then either you can just write the name of the tuple or a colon. So it will display whole tuple. Also if I want that I should write the tuple from second element to the second last element. Then when you write like this then the number which is before the colon it starts from that number. And the number after the colon it does not go for that number just before that element. So just remember that also like if you want to write till the second last element. So it will start from the beginning and till the second last element. The same is applicable for the right side. You can start from second element till the end. Because it is starting from 0 so you should write 1. The same is applicable for list also and for strings also. Now you can also check if some element is present in the tuple or list etc is not. I can check if 3 in T. So 3 is present in T. If not then it will say false. You must be getting this very flexible language till now. We will use N keyword in for loops etc also which we will see later how to use it. And plus like we used for concatenation of strings can be also used for concatenation of tuples and lists. And if we write like tuple star 3 then it will repeat the tuple 3 times. And same for the strings and list. The concepts in list tuple and strings are similar except that tuple and string are immutable and list is mutable. So what is mutability? Now if like I have declared a tuple here. If I want to change the second element that is T of 1 to suppose 6. Then it gives error that the tuple object does not support item assignment. That is it is immutable. But if I declare a list and if I want to assign something to the element then it is allowed. And some other operations that are performed that is append operation. If I want to add anything to the end of the list. You can append any data type element. Also you can insert any particular position by the insert command. Suppose at the second location. Also semicolon is not required in python. Now we have two methods for adding something at the end of the list. That is extend and append method. In append if I want to add two elements then I cannot. Because it only accepts one argument. But in extend I can add by the syntax. So in append we can only add the immutable elements. Because whatever we add will be considered as one element in the tuple or list in append. Now if I want I can change again any element like which I recently added. Some other functions are there like index. You can find index of any element. You can count the number of occurrence of some element. And you can remove. And you can reverse the list by the dot reverse function. And the sort built in function is available. That is the sort function. And also a tuple can be converted to list and list can be converted to tuple. There are functions list and tuple. So in python many libraries are provided. You can just add the libraries, use the functions. So now as I said that it is object oriented. And it creates references to the value which we have assigned. So how does it work? We will see. Suppose I declare a variable. Then I assign the reference to some other variable. So when I write a equal to 3 then what exactly will happen? First the integer 3 will be created will be stored in a memory. Now the reference x will be created. The address will be of the memory allocated will be stored in the reference x. So that now x is referencing to the memory 3. Now when I write b equal to a then what will happen? It will copy just the same address value in b also. So if I change now 3 what will happen? Like the memory which it is referencing if I change it. Like in the case of list I append something. Then if I print it will print the same value. I mean b and a will print the same value because they are referencing to the same memory locations. However if I instead of a list which is a mutable data type. If I write a immutable data type like a integer value. And then if I change the integer value then what will happen? First we will understand it here. What happens when we assign it again? The memory location is again a new memory location is assigned for the new variable. Like first if I assign x equal to 3 here. Then I incremented x. So the incremented value will be stored at the new memory location. And then the new reference will be provided to the x variable. So the previous memory reference will be lost. And if we have assigned some value to the y. If we would have written here y equal to x. Then y would be still referencing to the previous memory location 3. So y will print 3 but x will print 4 even if you have changed it. So this is the case in the mutable data types. And if you have not assigned y anything to that memory location then it will be used for the garbage collection. The same concept is explained with the list. Now a very important data type that is dictionaries. It is a mapped data type. So it stores keys as to the value. And it is declared by the curly braces. And the elements are separated by the comma. Again it can be of mixed data types. Both keys and values. I will try giving a list here. Now the keys should be only of the mutable data types. So you cannot type a list in place of keys. It should be like only tuple, swings. But values are flexible. You can write immutable also here. Now there are several operations you can perform on dictionaries. If you write in packet if you write any key value then it will give the value of that key which we have stored in the dictionary. And if the value is not present then it will give a error. You can also assign a different value to a particular key by just assignment operator. But the keys must be unique because the values are identified by the keys. It is like an index. And suppose you add any new key. Like then it may be inserted at any position. Similarly you can delete a key by the del command. And you can clear hold the dictionary by clear. Now if you want to see all the keys then d dot keys is the function. All the values can be seen by d dot values. And each element is an item. So you can see all the items by d dot item. Now functions we can also declare functions like any other language. So the syntax is def. Def is the define short form of define. Then def then function name. And in the brackets you write the arguments. Then indentation is required. I mean one tab or one white space you have to give to show that it is inside that function. Then write the code and return statement is required. So that it will know that the function is it is returning after that statement to the column. And yeah so as new block is starting. So you have to give a colon after the function name in argument. Now as in C language you have to write up function prototype in the starting of the file. So in python it is not needed. So you can just define the function and call it. So as we have seen that just we directly write the variable and assign it. So it is using dynamic typing. And yeah of course you must be knowing that we can't coordinate two different data types string and integer. So it is a simple function. It has two arguments. The function name is my fun. X and Y are the arguments. We have defined the function as return X star Y. Now the function is called similarly as in other languages that is the function name and in packet the arguments. So it will return the value. And if you have not written any return statement then by default it will return none. So null is like null in C language and it is equivalent to false. And also like the prototype of function is not important in the python. Only the function name is important. So you can't have any other function name my fun and having some other different number of arguments or different type of argument. Because type is not matter in python language and number of arguments doesn't matter either. So function overloading is not supported in python. Operator overloading is supported because the data type changes of each variable. Now I have written two functions here. First is my fun and the applyer. Now the applyer is returning Q bracket X. It is returning a function. So the argument can be any function also. It may return a function also. So now like if I call the applyer function the Q argument has to be a function name which you have defined. So here it will be it is my fun suppose comma 7. So now if I call this function applyer what will happen? Ideally the score which is written inside the parenthesis should execute first because it has high preference. But here the function applyer will be called first because we are calling the function applyer. My fun is just and it is just like other variable like an object which is referencing to some code. So my fun won't be called first. Applyer will call and then my fun of 7 will be called and then the result 21 will be returned. So again we have two and false as the logical expression. Comparison operator like C only double equal to not and less than equal to. So this is also same like C, A and B. So both should be true. Either of them should be true in case of all. N0 is the if it is true then false vice versa. Yeah in case of complex Boolean expression you need to write parenthesis. Now like if the complex expression is there x and y and z then if all are true then it will return of course the value of z. And otherwise it will return the value of first false sub expression. So it returned 0. So how? Because first one value is false. So it will return the first of course the first expression is only z. So but if in case it was y then it would have returned the value of y which would be same again. So it uses, this means to say that it uses lazy evaluation. The first value which returns false it will return that it won't evaluate further. The conditional expression which we saw in C is like using and and or together. So we will go to the control flow statements if, while and assert statements. As we have seen the if statement, if and then condition, colon and then intentation. Now in case instead of else if there is elif. So it is else if. And again there is a else statement as same as C. And in while loop it is also similar like C.  Break statement is there to break the loop and continue will go to the next iteration. Now assert function is there which can check if the condition is true or not. So if it is false then the whole program will stop. So like assert can be used to stop a program if the condition is not satisfied. Similarly for the for loops. Now we can use the list data type very effectively while writing the for loop. For example if we take suppose I declare a list here. I can just write this. So it will the x value it is like iteration. And the x will take each value which is present in the list. So first it will take one so on till x and will print the value of x. You can also use some range here if you want how many times you have to iterate the loop. Then range and some value you can write. So it will iterate for five times. So previously when we saw in it was used for checking if a condition if an element is present in the list or tuple or not. Now here it is used for assigning the value and iteration. And suppose if the variable which is used here is a string then it will iterate for each character. And whatever variable you have written will take each character value from the string. Wherein you have to process each character of the string and find something such string etc. And also if you have a tuple or a list then you can directly match if a tuple is present here or not. Like if I would have given here. So it will print each tuple. So normally you would have assigned it manually. So python does the job directly. As I explained the range variable is there if you want to iterate the loop particular number of times. So if you have written five then it will take from zero to four. Five would not be included. Some other functions are there like a lambda function is there. So you have any queries till now? Some of you might be actually you can try using python language for writing some mathematical programs etc. It's very flexible and easy to write. So default value you can assign. Like while defining a function you can also put default values. C equal to three. So if you don't give the argument it will by default take three. It won't give error that it should have three arguments. Also while calling the function you can use the variable and assign it and as pass it that way. It works in C also and multiple assignment. As we saw that x,y equal to 2,3 then it will take the first variable to the first value. Similar is the case for the tuple type or the list data type. That it will match each element in the order which we have specified. Like x will be matched to two. Also the element type should match. Like first is integer. It can be like integer or anything. But if you have specified it as a tuple and you don't have as a tuple for anything then it will give error. And that tuple should also contain two elements. Empty list and empty tuples and empty dictionary can be created. Because suppose where it can be used the empty containers. Suppose you are writing a program and you are adding something. You are calculating the values of a list and you are adding it. You want to collect all the values as a list. All the values which you have generated. Now if you directly append it then it will give error. That list doesn't exist. So you should assign data empty list before. Same the string operations. There are upper which will convert to upper case. There is a strip function which will strip of all the new lines. The percentage operator which we use in C language. The person D, person S, etc for string and integer. So that can be used here also. And also like to avoid the new line you can give comma. If you want to join some list. You have a list and you want to join the list as a string. Then there is a join function. You have to specify by which character you have to join each element. And similarly you can split directly on some particular character. It's very helpful if you like have a log file and you want to separate it. You want to find each every different column. Then you can just give a tab or a new line. And then split the whole file. And str function converts any integer or float into a string variable. So that you can concatenate. So if you want to import any header file in Python. There is an import command. And you can write your own files or classes or functions. And you can just import that particular function in your own file. Like if you have written some Python file. Let's see for example. We have written this a.py file. I will create one more file. So you have to like the file name is a.py. We will write here import a. So when you write it everything gets imported. All the variables or functions. Suppose we write a function here. So I just I should write a.myfunk here. So it will print the value which is written. So don't forget to write the file name and dot that variable. Now sometimes you might not if you have a very big file. And many classes many functions. You don't want to import everything. Then you just write from that file name. Only import some module. Some particular function. Like from the a.py from a import. The class name or some function myfunk. There is built in modules also. Like sys module and os module. So os module you can traverse the directory parts. And you can access all the directories and files in the os module. sys is used for like command line arguments. For accessing the command line arguments you have to import sys module. Then math module is there which math functions you can use then random. And as I specified you can include your own code files. So one example of if we use the sys module. We can add like a path sys.path is a variable. You can specify which path you want like pwt. You can get the current directory. So if you want to set something to your current directory just use sys.path and some path name. As a string. So how to define classes in python. A string or everything in python is object only. So class how to define it. Class then class name. Then all the methods or variables in the class should be again intended by one space or tab something. Then again you can define some functions or variables in class. So by normal function declaration. And there is a by default function underscore underscore init underscore underscore. So this is a default constructor which will be called if you create any object of that class. So like if you create any object of the student class. This is a student class. So you have to just write when you create any object in class name and in bracket the arguments which you have to give to the default constructor. And equal to whatever object name it is. And yeah like in Java we have this variable which refers to the self object. In python there is a self keyword for the same purpose. Yeah like if any object is there and you want to assign a value to its variable. Then you can just define a function and write self dot the variable name equal to the value. And whenever the variable is object is not used or then it will be automatically deleted by the garbage collection. You don't have to write free or delete statement. Yeah and any object name dot the variable name or function this is the way we can access it. And sometimes the problem is the attribute name or the method. The name of the variable is not known at the runtime. So what you can do just write get argument get attribute is a function. You can write the object name comma the name of the value you want to access. Because the object you might not know. Like if you created a f object here. Then you can access the full name variable. Instead of writing f dot full name you can also access this way. And you can check first of all if that argument is present or not by has ATTR. Now files. So for opening a file open command is there. Just open and the file name you have to write. And a file pointer will be assigned. Then to read the file there are two functions read or read lines. So we will use read line functions suppose for x in p dot read lines. So suppose the file contains many lines. So what x will do now it will take value of each line line by line. And then you can process each line. If you want to do any operation like if you want to split the words by space etc. Then just close the file by the close command. So it will save all the changes.  Then there is a pass keyword. So it is like no operation in assembly code. There is actually lot more to study about in python. So like I specified file operations there are many things. Also regular expressions are there in python. So just study what it depends on the libraries which you are importing. So the more libraries you are importing the more kind of functions you can use.


Okay, before I get into what I read in October and what I'm reading now and what I bought or acquired in October, first of all, the YouTube subscribership here is at $592 as of today, October 31st. Eight more and I'll be at actual $600. So everybody please press the like button down there and please subscribe and become a patron. There's a link in the description below for my patronage site at 50th Street and speaking of which I want to thank my three patrons by name. They are Darren Vanaria, Greg Kruski and Sean Bell and I did get permission from each of them to thank them by name here on the video. So guys, thank you. All three of them have been with me for more than a year, I believe. I just have the three patrons. They totaled $26 a month. So again, please go become a patron. If you've been watching, I've been doing a lot more than the science fiction book reviews recently. So you're supporting the book reviews and all of my other work too. Greg Kruski wrote me a very kind email complimenting me on the book reviews. He said that it was my review of Hal Clement's mission of gravity, which was years ago, I think three years ago, that led him to me. He said something along the lines of that I consistently addressed the things that he actually wants to know about the book, which is an important point because that's why I started doing the short book reports in the first place, book reviews. I always say book reports as if I'm a sixth grader standing in front of a class. Maybe I should keep calling them book reports because it was important to me, and this is one of the reasons that I don't watch most book reviewers on YouTube. It was important to me to be very concise and get to the point about what the book is actually about, how it's written, what kind of a job I think the author did, and get all of that condensed into a very short amount of time. Because I see so many book reviews where the reviewer just gushes about how much they love the book, and they go on for 12 or 15 minutes, and they don't tell you what it's actually about or what kind of style it's written in, how the author addressed something or other. I think it's possible to address those kind of things in just a few seconds, maybe even in just a sentence or two. If you noticed the last few reviews, I've been starting with a teaser that's only one sentence or so, and then doing my little music introduction, and then a 30 second description, and then I talk a little more about the book. That's what I'm going to continue to do. I'm going to start the video with a one sentence encapsulation of what I'm going to say after the introduction. Now, about what I read in October, at the beginning of the month I finished reading Hex by Thomas O. Lee Wavell, that was my most recent review. I gave it a more glowing review than I usually do, if you haven't seen it, go back and see it. I really liked the book. And I also finished the Callisto Symphony, which is going to be my next review, and it's going to be the opposite of Hex. You shouldn't miss this one. I also finished reading The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers. I was both impressed and disappointed with this at the same time. This will be, I think, my second review of November, and I'll explain what I mean by that. In my last monthly roundup, I introduced these two books, Robert Sheckley's Shards of Space and Children of the Wind by Kate Wilhelm. These are story collections. I've read a few of these, and it's Robert Sheckley, so it's fantastic. This will be one of my reviews in November for sure. This, I'd never read Kate Wilhelm before, and I was very excited about reading some Kate Wilhelm. The first story didn't do anything for me. I started reading the second story and was bored with it immediately. So I moved on to the final story in the collection, which is the big award winner here. It's called The Girl Who Fell Into the Sky, and I was immediately bored with it as well. But this is such a well-known author that I'm going to try to push through these and finish these so I can review the book someday and talk about it with some authority. Now, about the books that I bought in October. After the big book apocalypse in September, and I still have to publish my video of The Chamberlain Bookmine in Jacksonville. That is coming, and it will be on the 50th Street channel. So go look for that. Well, I said I wasn't going to buy any books in October, or I was going to try to avoid it. But I did. In fact, the day before I recorded the last monthly Reads video, I bought these at a local library. Not the library that I usually go to, but they had a really nice bookstore, too. 50 cents a piece.  And, uh, this. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. That's quite an intimidating title. And it's got them listed alphabetically by title of nursery rhyme, not by subject. This is something I'm going to dig into. This is the kind of thing that you could spend an afternoon just thumbing through and enjoying just for its own sake. And it has this strange, like, almost hospital grade plastic cover over it, which caught my attention. Again, these were 50 cents a piece. Uh, the other stuff I bought. I went to an actual bookstore, retail bookstore, which I never go into. Barnes & Noble. They had this on sale for five dollars. Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. I've never read any Octavia Butler. I have a couple of her books. I didn't have this one, so I got it. And I visited another local bookstore, which I rarely get to. And I got these. Blue Heart by Allison Sinclair. This is another female author and a book series that I've never heard of. Big book. Look at this. And, uh, this. If you don't recognize this, The Girl with All the Gifts by Irmar Carey, which is another one of these books that I've been hearing an awful lot about. I hear nothing but praise for it. I started reading it just this morning. I read the first three chapters and it's very engaging. But it's always a mistake for me to say that I'm enjoying a book before I finished it. Because every time I do that on camera, it turns out to be a mistake. Um, and then I was at a local dollar store and they had stacks and stacks of these, five dollars a piece. Giant Stephen King hardback books, Dr. Sleep, the sequel to The Shining, which is not a book that I'm familiar with. Um, and I mean this one. I'm familiar with The Shining. Haven't read it. Maybe I should read The Shining first. And then just yesterday, I published an unboxing of something that came in the mail. It's a DVD of Space Janitors. If you've not seen Space Janitors, you need to go see that. Um, really funny stuff. Really good for science fiction fans. Um, I'll leave it at that. The, uh, oh, the other thing I did, uh, dollar store has these four packs of Marvel comics. I don't buy current comics anymore. I don't, uh, I used to read comics in the 70s and 80s avidly. When I try to read mainstream comics, Marvel and DC these days, I don't recognize any of the characters. I can't tell what's going on. The stories make no sense. The art is usually really bad. But they had these four packs for five dollars. This has a Skrull Girl number three in it and Thor's Plural Thor's number one. I don't know what else is in it. I think I'll do an unboxing of it because I haven't done an odd comics episode in a long time and there's a reason why is because I wanted my next episode of iComics to be, to also be the next installment of my 2001 Space Odyssey epic review. I still need to do that someday. And once I've finished that, then I'll go ahead and do more odd comics episodes. I think that's it. 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The Supreme Court dismisses Attiku's appeal to file fresh evidence against Tinumbu. I am Bola Oba and this is Plus Politics. The Supreme Court of Nigeria has dismissed the application by the candidate representing the people's democratic party PDP in the 2023 presidential election, Allaji Attiku Abubaka had to submit fresh evidence in his case, which he filed asking the court to void the pronouncement of the all-progressive country's candidate, Bola Mehtinumbu, as the president. Justice in Nyango Koro will let the seven-member panel of justices while reading the judgment said, The 180 days imposed for airing of election petitions is immutable and cannot be extended on court. He also went on to say, There is no paragraph in the petition to accommodate the case of forgery on court. The court held that facts and documents not filed in the petition cannot be considered In the appeal before the APS court and added that Since the law court has no jurisdiction to allow fresh depositions, this court also cannot allow tendering of fresh and additional depositions on court. The fresh evidence Attiku and his party sought to tender the academic records of Tinumbu which were handed over to him by Chicago State University CSU on October 2nd, 2023. In the appeal before the APS court and added that Since the law court has no jurisdiction to allow fresh and additional depositions on court. Finally, my noble lord on this application, I wish to state that fresh evidence is not received as a matter of course. There are conditions which must coexist before the court can grant this type of application as can be granted from the decided authorities of this court. Joining me to dissect the decision of the Supreme Court is Olukaya Deneiton, senior advocate of Nigeria SCN Senior advocate, it's good to have you on the program. Thank you. Thank you for the invites. Can you give us a synoptic review of what transpired at the Supreme Court today? Well, yes. What is that the Supreme Court of Nigeria delivered its judgment on the appeal in respect of the decision of the presidential election petition court which is a court of appeal sitting as court of first instance. And the decision of course was too strong because there was a fresh application brought by the appellate in the person of Alaji Atiku Agubaka to have this Supreme Court admit fresh evidence by way of the position made by the registrar of the Chicago State University in respect of whether President Bola Metinogu attended the university and secondly in respect of his certificate which had been to the INEC when his forms were submitted the Supreme Court made short work of that application declaring it as being unmeritorious and in doing that the Supreme Court went ahead to state the conditions under which it can receive fresh evidence which are five particularly and that's applicable to civil matters or civil appeals generally. The court went ahead to vote that with written petition limited this from the and lots of these are comes to every court sitting as an election petition court whether called court or transgender because the PDP made an argument which my love Garuba stated to be spacious in the fact to the extent that the submission was made that the court of appeal was not mentioned in the constitution and as such the 180 days should not apply but the Supreme Court made short work of that the 180 days applies to every court sitting as the court of first instance in respect of an election petition and they went for that to say that that limited period having expired they cannot receive fresh evidence because even the lower court cannot receive any fresh evidence so declined the decision in respect of that application that to the extent that the presidential election had exhausted its time limited under the constitution whatever it cannot do the Supreme Court cannot for what to be doing the line under section 22 for many of us who are not lawyers and who are not in any way shape or form knowledgeable as you are about the akin nature of the law perception wise they are thinking why would the Supreme Court refuse what they believe to be a bona fidee as you people will call it you lawyers will call it a prima facie evidence is it the tradition of the Supreme Court to refuse accepting new evidences at this stage or was this just peculiar okay thank you the basic and primary take off point is that election persistence are sent to the sui generis they are in a class of their own election the con the line is made under the electoral act so it is not at large ordinary civil matters usually there is no time limited for hearing for instance a case of land trespass to land with same cases that have lasted 35 years it goes to the Supreme Court it comes back for a hearing another issue goes up it comes back for a hearing but in election petition and the Supreme Court went to town specifically stating the mischief that was sought to be eliminated by limiting the time for conduct of petitions at the tribuna what we all remember at least those of us who are old enough would remember what happened with the petition in I think this will be 2007 last stage put up went to seek his mandate and it is the trip or the journey of that petition to the Supreme Court took almost 4 years and the person who was to be unseated had almost completed a term when the final decision was to be a a a a person who valiantly won that election so it was to correct such anomaly that the constitution was amended to now provide that at the tribuna at the court of first hearing it should not go beyond 180 days then the court of in respect of governorship election also has a limited time to take a decision so this was the mischief and to go and say in respect of this one let us bring fresh evidence he said no then we will be going back to what it was which we tried to cure in limiting the period so election petition is a totally special kind of case that has timelines which you cannot extend you cannot circumscribe and I am listening to you now trying to think in the very way a manner that an average person who is not as old as we are who may not know the history, the electoral and the litigational history of elections in Nigeria thinking but you know what this is like this lawyers come people can be very funny sometimes why would they not just find the way of accepting the evidence and they even want for that to say that the evidence may not be useful when ordinary an average person will think okay although he may have graduated from the school but the school said they did not issue the certificate and yet he presented the certificate just trying to seek opinion unfortunately I am not able to appreciate who you meant is looking at the jury I am thinking in young stars many of our young stars I am thinking many of the young ones who probably are supporters of a particular candidate or party and who feel the akinness of the law may be too restrictive to allow for what they believe to be right well you see cases are not tried on the basis of beliefs or suggestions cases are tried on facts and law so once you do not have facts that the law would accept from you your case is bound to fail in this instance the deposition that was brought had nothing incriminating as it were and the supreme court said that very clearly that look this deposition and I think it was my lord again who took the pains to actually also state the grounds under which even the deposition if it were to be looked at at all he held it to be inadmissible because it does not even meet the conditions for admissibility that is if they want to say let us be magnanimous which unfortunately the law does not permit them to do but assuming they have done or let us be magnanimous they will still have found that document as being inadmissible because there is nothing to authenticate it according to law so the court was very very very very very very let's go for a short break your line is a B4G let's go for a short break we'll bring you on back welcome back we sorry the line was a B4G we need to get the gentleman to give us his contribution is very much invaluable contribution without all the disruptions of the line my lord I see are you back can you hear me please continue you were making some point the other time I had to cut it because of deny yes so the supreme court equally went ahead to hold that this deposition that was really sought to be brought in is not anchored on any of the grounds of appeal that were filed it is not anchored on any issue that has been presented to agitation before the supreme court so there is actually nothing even if they want to say let us admit it though they held it to be inadmissible for want of jurisdiction but if they had chosen to lean over backwards to bring it in there was no nail in the grounds of appeal or in the issues formulated the seven issues formulated none of them could anchor this fresh evidence so it was rightfully swapped into the dustbin of ignominy let me take you now in the direction of the second petition because two petitions were dealt with today we know that on Monday the petition of the APM was withdrawn or somewhat was withdrawn and accordingly dismissed you have taken quite a good number of time within the context of the limited time we have to give illumination to the reasoning of the law lots on Vice-President Natyukou's petition on the petition of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party was your take of the reasoning of the court the Labour Party petition also in respect of the appeal six issues were argued his lawship Okoro JSE held that of those issues five had already been taken care of in the article petition and the only one that was unique to the OPP petition has to do with the issue of double nomination of the Vice-President and they held clearly that that issue should not even of course having resolved five of the issues in the article petition similar issues that were raised in the article petition there was no need to go step by step analysing the arguments yes they held that those issues which are common should abide what has been decided in the article appeal so they then zeroed in on the only one that was unique to the OPP appeal and that was on the specific issue of double nomination of the Vice-President which they held should not even have been raised at all because whilst the petition was being had the Supreme Court had decided that issue that the Vice-President was not doubly nominated and having decided that issue to bring it before them again that they should look at it is totally unwarranted unnecessary and the waste of scarce judicial time so they were not going to look at that one because a decision had been made and that in the decision of the president of the election court they had referred to the decision of the Supreme Court on that issue so if the lower court has referred to the decision of the Supreme Court on that issue why are you still appealing on that singular point in respect of which the decision was on the Supreme Court decision so they threw that out immediately and the other five issues have been abided what had been decided in the article that appeal was dismissed in fact it is the fastest decision that most of us have witnessed in respect of an appeal that was strenuously argued and in respect of which the grounds of appeal had well over 50 grounds the entire thing took less than 5 minutes somebody said Justin Lines that he took the Supreme Court Justin Lines to dismiss the appeal of the Liberal Party candidate Lannesik we really really have to thank you for this wonderful session with you and the illumination you've given to the reasoning of the court on the two appeals had today thank you very much my pleasure, thank you for inviting me we all look forward to the government now facing the work of governance oh yes, without any distraction at this juncture Nigeria needs sit and needs sit badly thank you, we have to go for a short break we continue from another perspective what I mentioned on the ruling of the Supreme Court today President Bond at Inugu has welcomed the Supreme Court verdict which appealed is electoral victory at the February 25 presidential election he also sought the buying of Nigerians promising to exceed expectations in terms of service delivery in the remaining years of his administration he added that the court has done justice to all issues put up for consideration in the partitions on the merits of the law without fair or favour however there has been various reactions to the Supreme Court's decision and one to discuss at this juncture is how a Nigerian in the UK diaspora views today's Supreme Court judgment joining me to discuss this is Eric Chike Eunze Kwe Eric Chike Eunze Kwe Humanity Advocate Eric is based in the UK diaspora Eric, good to have you on our side virtually this evening thank you we really want to thank you so much Eric, what has been the reactions that you have taken since the pronouncement of the Supreme Court today in your locale there in the UK or from around you majority of Nigerians in diaspora in the UK in diaspora I must say I'm not interested in party politics the only thing they want is good governance and whoever they can bring about good governance is the person they will embrace they can for a change in government and the style of governance that have continued for years in Nigeria and which has not fervoured the masses so that was that was this bathroom about having a younger person to govern the country so that at least we can be able to see a change so as it is the court has spoken the only thing I believe that we will all do is to embrace the new government and support him in whichever way possible I believe a lot of people are not happy some are happy but then that is our country and we don't have any other country but Nigeria so it is incumbent on the presidents are maintainable to change the narrative and for all those negative views and the negative stories that have lingered it's just for him to change the narrative and bring about good governance because in Nigeria there are only two industries in Nigeria at the moment and there is politics and religion and the people are the commodities so if Tinibu can bring about a positive change I think he will rewrite history things that have surrendered he is winning the election people can easily forget it but if it continues with what happened with previous government of Buhari then there will be a big problem and he will not get the diaspora support but if he begins to change things now and then I think and I believe the diaspora will certainly embrace it but if things continue to go the way it is going then the yearning of change will continue and if I may ask what are some of the specific things that those of you in the diaspora are not quite pleased about at this point the diasporas have not been pleased with Nigeria the system of government in Nigeria as far as I can remember from the time of Buhari or not Buhari, Shagari to that I don't think Nigeria have really gotten it right considering and in comparison with what we experience in diaspora it's very simple to govern it's all about jettison and selfishness jettison and tribal politics I believe if we can do all that and I believe that whatever wealth we accumulate someday we will leave it behind and we will not be here anymore so I don't think the diasporas have been happy with the style of government in Nigeria from time of Shagari to that so hopefully if Tinibu can change the narrative that would be good and I believe that the diasporas don't have any trust in the judiciary in Nigeria so today's they don't have faith in Nigerian judiciary and the Nigerian system and the federalism or the federal system of government have been happening in Nigeria for years so today's ruling of the court somewhat to some of you who are somewhat cynical about the judicial system is the further validation of your cynicism is that what you're saying will I put it like that it's so obvious it's not all about the diaspora even the Nigerian masses the Nigerians are home and the diasporas I don't think they are happy with the judiciary there are a couple of judgments that have happened not prior to this current issue I am presidential tribunal and appeal and the Supreme Court judgment I believe previously there are a lot of things that the judiciary has not gotten right one we need the independent can you be specific it would be nice if we can speak to specifics without just being generalistic it would be nice to speak to be honest I am not here to play politics that's why I don't want to single anyone out there are a lot of I don't want to single specific issues or judgments out but there is one that happened where the guy the former senate president Lawa where he did not contest primary he did not take part in the election the primary election in his party and because he lost the presidential primaries that he contested with Tinibu and some of the candidates how the court turned around to make him the candidate of APC is what is still baffling and when you look at it you will now be able to ask yourself where did the judiciary or where did the court get the evidence to make him the APC candidate what is going on in Africa what is going on in Nigeria these are things I believe that the current the incumbent who happened to win the court case to the Borla Tinibu I think he need to do a lot so that he can write his name he can write his name on marble so for you at this point is more about looking at the future and leveraging the opportunity to make a positive turn around in the quality of governance to be delivered to the people exactly you nailed it that's exactly you know this meeting was impromptu you just informed me you just informed me half an hour ago I've got a lot to say a lot of things to say but you know Nigeria is ours it's me and you it's all of us so I want Tinibu's slogan to be the language of we in God we really decided to to he should yeah can you hear me I can hear you well enough alright the reason Tinibu should embrace all every tribe in Nigeria his government must have a national collaboration his government I repeat must have a national collaboration he must not be like Buhari Buhari was more of a ethnic how I don't know how to describe Buhari but in the appointment he has made close for are you satisfied no not at all looking at it even one of his supporters sorry the public I just watched a few minutes ago complained about Tinibu's appointment recently his appointment is drifting towards tribal and ethnic alignment so Tinibu should if he wants to get the masses behind him he should get this in such thought process even if he has made some mistakes he should address it and make sure he carries every tribe every state along with him some people even intend to take him to court to ensure that his appointment must have a national collaboration he should practice through federalism is it from your understanding of federalism do you think that with the present contraption constitutional contraption in Nigeria through federalism can be practiced I don't think federalism is working in Nigeria but if someone can come in and make it work so be it for me I am an advocate of regional government we are all regions who have been powered to contribute their best to the center that's my belief that's my thought Nigeria is too big if you go to you Nigeria should look at things and do some study if I were to be in Tinibu Shoe what I would do is to ensure that by the time I leave government or by the time I finish my tenure there won't be any other agitation and this should not be by military intervention or anything but by dialogue he should call a national conference we are Nigeria will discuss the way forward and how best Nigeria can be governed Eric we really have to let you go now we want to appreciate the fact that we like almost impeded you to do this and yet you have been very very engaging and quite valuing thank you thank you so much Eric we look forward to some other opportunities in the not so distant future thank you you're welcome thank you for giving me the privilege thank you thank you Eric