wait now in san francisco is 3 minutes. i wonder what that would be if you have a few wheelchair accessible vehicles. this is unregulated business and yes, there is always some benefits to that otherwise it wouldn't make any end roads. but the regulations exist for a reason and this is just being undermined. i blame not only uber and the other transportation expert companies, but san francisco for enabling this to happen. >> thank you. next we have wendy. again in the interest of time, please limit your comments to two minutes.2 minutes. >> 1 minute. not even three.

thank you. concerning uber. big gad in yahoo showing three different levels of taxis. uber vehicles. outrageously expensive as far as not accepting credit cards. what about the para transit cards that we get, would that be something that would be accepted. it also gives us a discount and i know several cab drivers whose lives and livelihood are being imperiled beyond is survival. so please bear that in mind like charles pointed out. i think charles, i know the vehicles, less and less. that's all. the cards. >> thank you. really quickly

to check in with anyone on the line have any questions or comments? okay. then we will go for a 10 -minute break. again i would like to thank our speaker today. i did not see a number next to these cards. okay. we'll take one more comment and then we'll go to break. >> my name is rue grapis i have been a cab driver for 40 years and i'm a member of the transit coordinating council. i have several questions for you, ms. caitlin o'neil. you said the drivers have some

training. how many minutes or hours is that is in person? you said online training. i'm interested in in person training. and what are the qualifications for your trainers? taxi drivers get a department of justice level, background check. is that comparable. do you get the same level of background check for uber drivers? and just to reiterate para transit is really important because people who are disabled are often on fixed incomes. i know in order for you to take para transit, you are going to have to have a million dollars worth of insurance. i know in sacramento, that was, that's

not even close to what they are discussing at the moment. whether or not you've got someone in the car or not. as far as the gps goes, the traffic is out the windshield. gps just makes sure that the driver is going to be distracted while they are driving. while you are doing your trainingcious , i think it's really important that you do more geography training. the last thing i would suggest for you is a physician's note would need to be on file before the driver refuses someone with a service animal or they are toast. okay. we do have a taxi tech and ride share economy forum coming up on wednesday the 23rd. if you can make a minute afterwards, i would love to invite you to

be a presenter at that forum. is there someway i can get this on the -- i will give it to whoever it is that comes up here to get it? thank you. and thank you very much for coming. i really appreciate your interest in this. and i know that technology is totally changing the world, and impact just expect to go backwards when the wheel has been invented. but we have to make sure that things are equal when they move forward. >> thank you, with that we'll

be going into a 10 -minute break. thank you. >> >> >>

we'll be starting here shortly. please take your seats. thank you. >> all right. next on our

agenda we have item no. 7. information item. draft building blocks for accessible bicycle facilities. san francisco municipal transportationation, sf mta will present and draft set of guidelines for preserving and improving accessibility in protected bike way projects presentation by annette williams, accessible services manager, sf mta miriam sorelli, transportation planner, sf mta livable streets and sandra padilla. >> thank you for making time on this agenda. my name is sandra padilla. specifically my rule is to ensure that all

sustain able street projects coming out of sf mta improve for people and seniors with disabilities. today i have an overview for you that will help ensure that any protected bike way are designed for people with disabilities in mind and this is for staff to help them understand how they can incorporate accessible elements into bike way designs. these bike guidelines are with sf mta and public works. first i'm going to back up and introduce you the cone -- concept that protects the bike lean. we have the sf

mta bicycle strategy. it positions the city of san francisco a bicycle way for all people with disabilities including senior citizens. protected bike ways will be key for the bike way strategy. they yield many benefits to all users including predict ability where various users and modes can be. clarityey and what's expected from users of each mode and what they can expect and also comfort for peak -- people on bicycles. but for designing and protected bicycle lanes and maintaining the high level of accessibility standards presents a design challenge. we have to figure out how to

incorporate everything we prioritize in our streets. we have from the leaders disability community. let me back up. and came together to identify what are some priority issues and that must be tackled as we figure out how to design protected bike ways. this next slide we have five issues that we identified. so the first is distinction and clarity to separate the spaces between people and bicycles and pedestrian. a second is slower pedestrian crossing and third access to bus stops along bike ways, fourth, para transit drop off on curb and accessible parking on blue zones. after we convened and

identified these five sets of priorities. we came to the agreement that the best way to do this was to address these issues in one place rather than starting from scratch at the beginning with each project. and to do that we created an inter agency working group with the partner that i mentioned earlier, the mayor's office on disabilities, public works and the planning department to present to you the document today. to your knowledge this is the first in this country. because of this well make the same living document as we learn from implementation, one of the first lessons we learned from the jfk by ways. we learned those lessons and incorporated them in here and as we implement more designs we will work those lessons in

here and make it an even stronger document. this document also acknowledges the diversity and character of san francisco's neighborhoods and we've left room for context instead of design here. in this slide shows the cover of the document you had. we have available here today at the front. that said, given the flexibility that i mentioned, we did identify a set of five guiding principles that we want to make sure that every bike way design incorporated. the first safety first. pedestrians and bicyclist can share our streets.

>> so the first safety first. pedestrian and bicyclist can share our streets when markings, designated bike lanes are included in the design. the second. vehicles have a place in the plan too. some people with disabilities will still use private vehicles. para transit vans and taxis to their destinations. the third principal, bike facility should be designed to allow para transit vans and taxis to discharge and pick up passengers with mobility and disability onto the sidewalk. the fourth, when parking inventory changes, blue zones must be added and replaced or removed. in the fifth guiding principal, when a significant

number of parking spaces is removed to create a bicycle facility, project staff must conduct an analysis of accessible parking to ensure distribution, and saturation of accessible parking according to the draft guided way of guidelines. i'm going to explain this principal. the u.s. board has the bike way ak accessibility guidelines. these guidelines have a ratio of sibl accessible parking and this is taken from pro act and what we will follow. if the

parking inventory changes per project. we will live -- leave it accountable for all pro act. i will now move on to some conceptual design to illustrate how we plan to accommodate accessibility in protected bike ways. this first slide shows a crosswalk in a green bike way that's at street level next to the sidewalk, and on the other side of the bike way is a raised buffer also at the sidewalk level. the raised buffer has a ramp that leaves to the crosswalk with yellow truncated domes and the other side of the raised buffer is a parking lane. the first parking space in the parking lane is an accessible on st