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with Union Station in downtown TICKETS ROUND MONTHLY .A. Metrolink service operates Monday # OF ZONES 10-TRIP ONE-WAY TRIP PASS through Friday, except on certain holi- days. See page 2 for schedules. 1 25.00 3.50 6.00 80.00

1. Plan Your Commute 2 35.00 4.50 8.00 112.00 3 45.00 5.50 10.00 144.00 Call 1-800-371-LINK for Personal Commute 4 55.00 6.50 12.00 176.00 Planning. We'll teil you exactly how to get from ozr your door to your destina- tion. Beginning next month, a personal- At the station, purchase your ticket or ized computer itinerary and a Line and pass prior to boarding the train. Ticket Station Map will be sent to you as well as vending machines are located at every A clean break — Powerful low- emission Metrolink locomotives give your specific fare. station. The type of ticket best suited for both you and the air a break from you will depend on how often you plan to automobiles. ride Metrolink. 2. Figure Your Fare Based on Distance Traveled There are four types of tickets you can Metrolink fares are based on commuting Ticket Types buy as well as a monthly pass. If you are distance, measured in "zones." The price taking a bus to catch the train, ask for a of any ticket or pass is based on the One Way transfer on the bus. At the train station, number of "fare zones" traveled. buy the discounted "transfer upgrade" The map shown above right illustrates 1 Round Trip ticket and be prepared to show both after the fare zones. r you board. [ 1111 10-trip Locate your starting and destination lo@ continued on next page stations on the map, then count the m> Nm> Transfer number of zones you will pass through on Upgrade the trip, including the zones in which you INSIDE begin and end your trip. For example, a PASS Monthly Pass Metrolink Train Schedules trip from Pomona to Union Station travels through three zones. Red Line Moves Ahead Then, refer to the fare chart above. Select Close-up of ticket vending High School Students machine ticket type choice the row which represents the correct Go To Work On The Metro buttons— If you plan to ride number of zones and the column for the Metrolink often, buying a monthly Telecommuting type of ticket you wish to buy. pass saves you time and money. 4 . Transfer to a Bus • RTD buses will pick up and deliver Metrolink Train Schedules or Shuttle at Union Station passengers either at a street-level bus plaza on the northern end of Union .11.11111M111.1.11. The main Metrolink passenger terminal is Station, or at surrounding street Pomona to Los Angeles located in Los Angeles. From there, corners near Union Station or across Inbound to Union Station (AM) passengers can make connections to a from Union Station on Alameda combination of user-friendly services. Street. MNTC CLMT POM COV BLPK EL M CSLA LA

During the first weeks of service, Metro • Amtrak Intercity Service buses, — — 5:26 5:37 — 5:54 — 6:20 Ambassadors will guide you to the follow- corporate-operated shuttles, and taxis ing connections : will serve the street-level loacling area — — 6:11 6:22 — 6:39 — 7:05 • You can transfer free to Metrolink located at the southern end of the — — 6:51 7:02 — 7:19 — 7:45 Shuttle buses, operated by the city of station. — — 7:26 7:37 — 7:54 — 8:20 L.A. Department of Transportation. • DASH routes B and D will also be Buses will make frequent runs along available to serve Metrolink riders. — — 8:01 8:12 — 8:29 — 8:55 two downtown routes, one serving the Board at the DASH bus stop located Civic Center and Bunker Hill, and one on Alameda at Los Angeles street, Los Angeles to Pomona Outbound from Union Station (PM) serving the Financial District and South directly across from the entrance to Park. The Metrolink Shuttle buses Union Station. LA CSLA EL M BLPK COV POM CLMT MNTC service the bus plaza adjacent to the tracks. See routes below. 3:45 — 4:09 — 4:26 4:40 — —

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Routes Routes TERDLII 6:25 — 6:49 — 7:06 7:20 — — (AM) (PM)

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4:45 5:05 5:13 5:24 5:36 5:49 6:11 For more information about Metrolink, please call 1-800-371-LINK 5:30 5:50 5:58 6:09 6:21 6:34 6:56 6:20 6:40 6:48 6:59 7:11 7:24 7:46

San Clarita to Los Angeles Inbound to Union Station (AM)

ST CLARITA SYL/SF BURBANK GLENDALE LOS ANG , METROLINK Daily Drive Alone/ 5:31 — 6:07 6:15 6:40 Carpool costs . 1 hased on 57-mile, 6:26 — 7:02 7:10 7:35 one-way trip, 7:21 — 7:57 8:05 8:30 $0.39 per mile and $8.00 daily Carpool parking charge in (2 People) Los Angeles to Santa Clarita Outbound from Union Station (PM) downtown L.A. Carpool (3 People) LOS ANG GLENDALE SYL/SF BURBANK ST CLARITA Public I Metrolink 4:15 4:35 4:43 — 5:22 nNin Bus $6.50 Ammin 5:20 5:40 5:48 — 6:27 $4.456, 6:10 6:30 6:38 7:17 Bargain Ride — Taking Metrolink saves you the costs of gas, parking and maintenance for driving the same distance. It also can reduce your stress and Please note — Stations listed the unreliability of freeway driving time. without times are those that will be opening soon. products. By encouraging rail manu- facturers to work with local high-tech LACTC Creates Strategy firms, especially in aerospace and defense, the LACTC will help develop for Developing Local innovative products with proven transportation applications. The commission's new Advanced Transit Transportation Industry Products Development Program (ATPDP), now included in all Request he LACTC believes that Southern services. To accomplish this, the for Proposal (RFP) requirements, calls California's high-technology firms LACTC created a business directory of for rail car builders who receive can capitalize an the emerging area firms that rail contractors can use LACTC contracts to invest in develop- nationwide renaissance of rail to find local suppliers. The new ing high-technology solutions to transit. To help, the commission tory, completed in August, lists more modern transportation challenges. Thas formulated a strategy for stimulating than 500 Southern California compa- • Research and Development. The a local surface transportation industry. nies capable of providing services to LACTC has set aside $12 million to The LACTC's efforts come at a time the rail-car building industry. fund product research and develop- when regional firms, most notably in • Include 60% domestic content ment for prototype products developed aerospace and defense, are scaling back requirement in all Requests For by the partnership of hi-tech, aero- due to a decline in federal funding. These Proposals. While rules requiring that space and defense firms with the car cutbacks are causing the loss of thou- contract bids include local and state building community. sands of jobs. Converting local industries jobs would jeopardize $31.5 billion in The LACTC can't single-handedly create to the development and manufacture of federal matching funds for local an economic revival in Los Angeles. But transportation products can bring many transportation programs, the LACTC it can leverage public dollars to encour- of These jobs back. can and will require a high domestic age the development of a lucrative local The commission's strategy for building a content in all of its contracts. The surface transportation industry. The surface transportation industry includes commission's new 60% Domestic commission's new policies are now in four elements that address both short- Content Requirement is the maximum place. If Southland defense and aero- and long-term goals. level feasible. space industries respond, a town best • Identify local companies now • Facilitate local development known for traffic jams could turn into a able to supply rail products and of high-tech transportation transportation industry mecca.

Commission MS' Buys S. P. Saugus Line r Pact includes properties in Canoga Park, r Chatsworth, Burbank

he LACTC has reached a $67.8 million agreement with the Business connections — About 200 high-tech business owners from Los Angeles Southern Pacific Railroad County participated in the first Standard Light Rail Vehicle workshop sponsored by the LACTC. The workshop was an opportunity for companies capable of pro- Company to purchase the 67-mile ducing products and services for the rail industry to meet international car- Saugus line from downtown Los builders and subcontractors. TAngeles to Palmdale and other proper- ties in Canoga Park, Chatsworth and Burbank. The Saugus line will be used for future Rights-of-way for • Two non-operating parcels in extensions of Metrolink to Saugus and Chatsworth for future Metrolink park- Lancaster. Metrolink is the commuter Glendale/Burbank rail line and-ride lots and other uses; rail service scheduled to begin operation In addition to the Saugus line, the • Additional properties and rights, Oct. 26 (see cover story). LACTC's latest Southern Pacific acquisi- including radio frequencies for train "The purchase also gives us additional tion includes: operations. access into downtown's Union Station via • The Canoga Park and Burbank seg- The agreement also opens the door for Southern Pacific's bridge over the Los ments of the Burbank Branch: These Ventura County to purchase the Santa Angeles River, and paves the way for will provide the fall right-of-way for Paula Branch, a 28-mile line located future service to Ventura County," the proposed Burbank/Glendale light entirely within Ventura County, for a LACTC Chairman and L.A. County rail line while assuring minimal future rail connection between Ventura Supervisor Mike Antonovich said when interference with railroad service and Santa Clarita. the agreement was announced. during construction;

3 was high . ." The 120-page report, New Federal released earlier this month, went on to say that "the lower-than-expected viola- tion yield was an indication that employ- Report ee safety on the Metro Rail project was generally being adequately addressed." Declares Inspectors spent a total of 824 hours inspecting Red Line tunnels and sta- Red Line Safe tions. According to the report, the amount of time inpectors spent on the n a long-awaited report, the Metro Red Line for this report was equivalent Red Line construction project has to 51 separate standard tunnel safety received a clean bill of health for its inspections. LEGISLATIVE safety standards from the U.S. Department of Labor, Division of Restores Red Line's UPDATE OccupationalI Safety and Health good name Congress Finalizes Administration (FedOSHA). "The FedOSHA report vindicates the $110 Million for Red Line Low potential for LACTC, its subsidiary, the Rail In a tremendous victory for Los "catastrophic event" Construction Corporation, and the Angeles County, Congress recently construction crews who are doing such a approved $110 million for the Metro FedOSHA's report said that the agency great job in the tunnel," RCC President Red Line — the spine of a planned "did not find any evidente that the and CEO Ed McSpedon said. "It restores 400-mile rail transit network. potential for the occurence of a cata- the good name of the Metro Red Line The funds are provided by the 1993 strophic event in the tunnel or stations project." (Z) Transportation Appropriations Bill (H.R. 5518) which slashed the "new start" projects of most other cities by 15%. The action represents the first federal funding to extend Metro Rail to East Los Angeles. Sixty million dollars will be divided equally among each of the three extensions that comprise the Red Line's Segment 3 — the Ea st L.A., North , and mid-city lines. The Red Line's Segment 2, now under construction along , will receive the remaining 50 million. State Law Spurs Transportation Research Governor Wilson recently signed into law a bill dealing with the California e-,419 .1Y Transportation Research and Innovation Program. AB 3096 (Katz) provides direction for Caltrans in the development of a transportation Fish Fossils — Paleontologist Trudy Stubbs examines marine sediments found research and development 65 feet below Wilshire Boulevard, where Segment 2 of the Metro Red Line subway program. (Z) is under construction.

Several hundred small fossils have been Receive Metro Something found on the site, including a rare, fully Moves Every Month intact sand dollar and the rib bone of a Fishy whale. If you'd like to be on our mailing list, "The types of things we are looking for fill out your name and address, Clip are seashells, plant material and skeletal and mail to: Discovered pieces," said paleontologist Trudy Stubbs, Communications Department Los Angeles County who is working on the project. Transportation Commission Down Under Teams of archaeologists and paleontolo- 818 West Seventh Street, Ste 1100 Los Angeles, CA 90017 igns of early marine life believed to gists monitor Metro Red Line work sites on a regular basis. The fossils are pro- be from the Miocene period (five to Name 10 million years ago) are being tected by the California Environmental discovered in the underground Quality Act and will eventually be Street Apt. donated to the Los Angeles Museum of construction sites of the Metro Red City, State, Zip SLine Segment 2. Natural History. CD

4 Gets Wings Again

efunct since 1969, the Angels Flight will soon be carrying passengers up and down Bunker Hill again. The LACTC recently allocated 0$785,000 in Proposition C and federal transportation funds to help the Community Redevelopment Agency rebuild the historic hill-climbing line. The restored Angel's Flight Funicular (shown here as it appeared in the 1960s) The funicular, shown here as it will enable Red Line passengers debarking at the to appeared in the 1960s, will run from reach Bunker Hill destinations such as the Museum of Contemporary Art. Third and Hill streets to Olive Street at the summit of Bunker Hill, sporting its Metro Red Line station, Bunker Hill The city's funicular is one of more than original design as well as new safety and the and central shop- 100 transportation improvement equipment and provisions for the ping districts. projects throughout the county that disabled. "It's a very important transportation the commission approved in Transportation officials see Angels link. It will complete one piece of the September. Both the Angels Flight Flight as an important connection puzzle," said LACTC Commissioner Funicular and Segment 1 of the Red between the nearby Pershing Square Nick Patsaouras. Line are slated to open in March.

Inner City Students Beat Job Market Blues

welve engineering and architec- formed by workers with several years of training they couldn't get anywhere ture students from such local experience. else," Daniel said. schools as Manual Arts High "I never learned any of this at Long School, L.A. Trade Tech and Inner city kids are a Beach. I learned Auto CAD from TOP Compton City College aren't resource classes," said Victor Altamirano, a Long Tworried about getting jobs after they Beach City College civil engineering graduate. They're already gaining price- "There's an idea out there that high major. less — and paid — experience in school and college students can't operate "We have the opportunity to learn the advanced computer aided design (CAD) this technology. I say they can. Engineers Microstation software — something a lot that makes them confident employers are just now realizing that inner city kids of engineers don't even know. It'll be will want to hire them. are a resource. These kids are now easier to get jobs," added L.A. Trade Tech The students, part of the Rail basically driving the success of DMJM's CAD implementation systems," said student Sylvester Maya, also a civil Construction Corporation's (RCC) engineering major. Transportation Occupations Program Daniel. "If you prepare them and give them opportunities, they can do the job." (TOP), work for Daniel Mann Johnson Cutting edge Mendenhall, an engineering design consulting firm employed by the RCC on TOP courses prepare computer aided design the Metro Red Line and the Pasadena students for real jobs "They're on the cutting edge of the Blue Line extension. All 12 youths in the DMJM CM) depart- emerging CAD technology," Daniel The firm has been hiring TOP students ment went through a year of special TOP declared. "We're implementing approach- for several years, thanks to the efforts of after-school and Saturday classes to es and applications with CAD that Charles Daniel Sr., supervisor of engi- prepare them for work experience. haven't been used before in the trans- neering applications. After working with portation industry. Workers with this Now they support the engineering staff the RCC's TOP program to design a kind of experience don't exist here; most with such vital CAD systems manage- training curriculum for drafting and of our employees are imports. These kids ment tasks as scanning drawings into CM), Daniel convinced his firm to hire a are the foundation of a new high-tech the computer and updating CM) manu- few students part time. Now he has a transportation industry work force in als. Each has a special assignment and dozen working for him, doing sophisticat- Los Angeles." responsibilities, including writing weekly ed CAD systems tasks previously per- reports to their supervisor, Daniel. "It's

5 Telecommuting Artwork Lets You Makes Work Close Blue Line to Home Station Businesses and public agencies with employees in the Antelope Valley will a Better soon be able to save money and boost productivity by taking advantage of a "Gathering new Telebusiness Center sponsored by the County of Los Angeles. Place"

First year's rent offered free To artist Jackie Dreager, a rail station is not just a stop on the way to somewhere Scheduled for a December opening, the else. Each is "A Great Gathering Place." 2,500 square foot facility in Lancaster The title of her sculpture, recently will offer 20 offices and cubicles rent free unveiled at the Wardlow Station in Timely contribution — Artist Jackie for the first year. North Long Beach, refers to the way the Dreager poses beside her sundial installation, entitled "A Great Telecommuting tenants will sacrifice piece entices passengers to get close, to nothing in amenities. The state-of-the- Gathering Place", at the Blue Line's read its inscriptions, to touch, and to sit. Wardlow Station in North Long Beach. art center will include computers and At the station's drop-off area, Dreager communications equipment, copy and has installed a fiberglass and bronze the station's embankment. A fourth fax machines, conference and meeting circular table-top that serves as the stands by the table in the parking lot rooms, access to a teleconference facility, resting place for a large globe made into drop-off area. The pieces reflect space- security and free parking. a sundial. Observers can actually teil the age design. "The repetition of the geo- The new Antelope Valley center, which time anywhere on Earth simply by metric and circular shapes of the pods will receive $154,000 from the LACTC to counting the meridians, spaced one hour and comets are symbolic of universal help offset first year operating costs, is apart. On the table next to the globe lies unity," Dreager explained. only one of 22 Transportation Demand a book entitled "Adobe Days," an histori- Artworks are planned for each Metro Management projects being funded by cal novel set in nearby Rancho Los Rail station through a process that the LACTC with Proposition C and Cerritos. involves input from a community adviso- federal Intermodal Surface The poem inscribed on the tabletop, ry group of residents and business Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) "Planet on a Table" by Wallace Stevens, leaders. The group produces a communi- monies. focuses on humankind's place in the ty profile that assists artists in develop- world. To tie the work's elements togeth- ing their ideas. Artists are Chosen by a Telecommuting er, said Dreager, "All the materials have panel consisting of two community boosts worker productivity a translucent quality so that they play members and three arts professionals. with the sunlight." The telecommuting rationale is increas- Other artworks for the Metro Blue Line ingly powerful. A 1991 study of hundreds Passengers standing on the station are currently on display through Nov. 21 of telecommuting L.A. County employees platform or riding on the train can view at the FHP Hippodrome Gallery in Long reported that measurable productivity three large abstract forms installed on Beach. CD increased by 20 to 40%. In addition to raising employee productivity and morale, telecommuting enables business- es to avoid the costs of sponsoring van- pools and other trip reduction measures New Pylons Point Out required by the Air Quality Management Metro Red Line Stations District's (SCAQMD) Regulation XV. This sleek 12-foot stainless steel column The regulation requires companies with in front of the new Metro Red Line Civic more than 100 employees to file traffic Center station is the first of nine current- reduction plans outlining how they ly being installed at Red Line Segment intend to reduce employee car trips. The One stations throughout downtown Los SCAQMD reports that 12.6% of employ- Angeles in preparation for the subway's ers filing plans currently offer telecom- March opening. muting and work-at-home programs "The pylon is an immediately identifiable Telecommuting on the rise marker that will provide clear, direct access to the new Metro Rail stations," Numerous employers, including Pacific said LACTC Executive Director Neil Bell and the County of Los Angeles, are Peterson. "It is part of the LACTC's commitment to provide a system that is both user-friendly and meets high continued on page 7 design standards. " (Z) "Telecommuting" continued from page 6 cars and low emission locomotives were already reaping the benefits at Southland NEINS purchased with Measure M funds telecommuting centers in Riverside, approved by Orange County voters in Ontario and North Hollywood, in addi- BRIEFS November 1990. tion to telecommuting from homes. The new Metrolink trains now plying the With telecommuting expected to continue II Criteria Set for San Juan Capistrano route replaced increasing by about 30 % a year, accord- Evaluating Candidate equipment on loan from Caltrans. ing to the New York-based research Corridor Projects The OCTA will also use Measure M company Link Resources, working away funds to expand the service in December from the office is on its way to becoming a The process of deciding which candidate 1993 to include three more round-trip permanent and commonplace part of the corridor projects will be the first to runs daily, service to Oceanside, and urban business scene. receive transportation improvements double the number of stations. To fulfill moved another step forward last month For information about obtaining space at Measure M's mandated transportation when the commission approved a list of the Antelope Valley center, call the plan, OCTA will add six more round trips evaluation criteria. Antelope Valley Telebusiness Center by late 1995. Hotline, (213)974-2634, or Nancy Apeles, After the draft Los Angeles County Using Metrolink trains in Orange County (213) 974-2637. 0 Integrated Transportation Plan was is part of the Southern California Regional released in May 1991, interest in Rail Authority's plans to create a 450-mile increasing the number of rail lines to be regional commuter rail network that will built prompted the commission to make be the nation's sixth largest. Final Draft room in the plan for eight more projects. These eight candidate corridors, plus two II Metro Award for of Congestion additional corridors, are now being evaluated according to criteria developed Monterey Park Management with extensive input from cities, agencies This quarter's Metro Award goes to the and individuals City of Monterey Park for its expanded Plan The criteria include such factors as and improved Spirit Transit System existing corridor congestion levels, service. The LACTC honors Southland corridor employment and population cities four times annually for demon- Released density (current and projected 2010), strating outstanding initiative and local land use policies, projected rider- achievement in the area of mobility After nearly two years of work, the ship, project cost and cost effectiveness, improvement. LACTC is dose to completing its first and system connectivity. ever countywide Congestion The four-route, 25-cent Spirit Transit Management Program (CMP). The commission expects to review evalu- System run by the Monterey ations of the 10 corridors and select the Department of Parks and Recreation was The Final Draft 1992 CMP, released in first projects for funding in about six originally designed to transport people mid-Septcmber for review by the CMP months. from residential areas to Monterey Park Policy Advisory Committee and City Hall during daylight hours. After Technical Forum, local jurisdictions and Corridors Under Evaluation studying local transit demand, the city the public, will be presented to the Los Angeles to Glendale/Burbank decided to reconfigure Spirit's routes to commission for adoption in November. Exposition Park Branch Line As the county's legally designated to Vermont Avenue Congestion Management Agency, the Green Line Easterly Extension LACTC is responsible for creating and to Norwalk Transit Center implementing a CMP by Dec. 1. The plan Green Line Multimodal Transit Center requires that urbanized areas control to Westchester Parkway increased traffic and air pollution due to new development before receiving their Pasadena to Irwindale or Azusa share of 1990's Proposition 111 gas tax Exposition Right-of-Way from USC funds. to Santa Monica The Final Draft CMP includes changes Green Line South Coast Extension made after numerous comments by L.A. from El Segundo to Torrance Harry Panagiotes, Monterey Park superintendent of recreation, and County's cities, businesses and citizens. 1-10/Route 60 Corridor One important change eliminates a Yukio Kawarantani, chairman of Crenshaw Corridor the recreation and parks commission, proposed mitigation fee that developers Santa Monica Boulevard accept an LACTC Metro Award for creating more congestion would have Monterey Park's Spirit Transit from 1-405 to Beverly Hills paid in heu of meeting CMP trip reduc- System. tion requirements. stop at shopping centers, business The mitigation fee was being considered 11 Metrolink Trains centers, recreation facilities, movie as part of the CMP's "deficiency plan" Roll in Orange County theaters and schools, including Cal State guidelines. The CMP requires local Starting Sept. 1, the Orange County L.A.'s bus center, where passengers can jurisdictions to either maintain current Transportation Authority (OCTA) began transfer to RTD buses. levels of traffic flow on streets and high- using new bi-level Metrolink trains for ways, or to prepare deficiency plans to In addition to redesigning routes, Spirit its popular daily commuter rail service reduce the Impact of increased conges- Transit switched from trolley-style buses between San Juan Capistrano and tion. to higher capacity, air-conditioned, low- Union Station in Los Angeles. emission diesel buses equipped with lifts For more information about the CMP, call The double-decker Metrolink passenger for the disabled. the CMP Hotline at (213) 244 6599. 0

7 ETRO COMMISSIONERS AND ALTERNATES

MOVES MICHAEL D. ANTONOVICH TOM BRADLEY Chair/ Supervisor Mayor A monthly publication produced Los Angeles County City of Los Angeles by the LACTC. NICK PATSAOURAS, Alt. RAY REMY, Alt. RICHARD ALATORRE JUDITH HATHAWAY-FRANCIS Managing Editor Vice-Chair/ Councilman Councilmember Roberta Tinajero City of Los Angeles City of La Habra Heights HON. MICHAEL WOO, Alt. HON. ROBERT J. ARTHUR, Alt. Assistant Editor Carol Wald RAY GRABINSKI JACKI BACHARACH Councilman Councilmember Art Director City of Long Beach City of Rancho Palos Verdes Anne Roubideaux HON. DORIS TOPSY-ELVORD, Alt. HON. HAROLD CROYTS, Alt. Staff Photographer EDIVIUND D. EDELMAN JAMES L. TOLBERT Kelly Harriger Supervisor Citizen Representative Los Angeles County Deputy Director of Communications City of Los Angeles MARVIN HOLEN, Alt. Alice Tolbert-Wiggins JERRY B. BAXTER GLORIA MOLINA Ex-Officio Member Director of Communications Supervisor State of California Stephanie Brady Los Angeles County GERRY HERTZBERG, Alt. KENNETH HAHN Supervisor Los Angeles County MAS FUKAI, Alt. NEIL PETERSON DEANE DANA Executive Director Supervisor Los Angeles County es, Los Angeles County Transportation Commission DON KNABE, Alt. Metro Moves is printed entirely on recycled paper.

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