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

, sf mta livable streets and sandra padilla. transportation planner, sf mta accessible services. public is welcome. item no. 8. information item. a history of the disability rights movement. this is the presentation of a summer internship project researching the history of the disability rights movement from the perspective of a youth with a disability. presentation by anna bernick. youth works intern or mayor's office on disability. item 9. information and possible action item. youth commission's priority around disability awareness. presentation of the youth commission's efforts to promote disability awareness curriculum throughout the san francisco unified schooling district. additionally they will engage in a discussion with the council regarding collaborative efforts with other city bodies. presentation by ariel yu. chair of the health education and wellness committee. san francisco youth commission, luisa sicairos. anna bernick and joyce wu. item nor 10. information item. report from the disability disaster preparedness co

i'm also a councilmember of the para transit coordinating council, part of the sf mta accessible services. we have a very stringent training program from even sensitivity training. it's just a whole array of training sessions in order for a driver to be certified. that's really a big concern that people with disabilities need to be safe while they ride on their vehicles. so, anyway, i probably have a lot more to say, but that's one of the biggest things that i hear is not very pleasing to my ears right now. maybe can you provide us your business card so we can follow up? >> absolutely. i would be very interested in hearing if you have particular organizations or recommend people that do that type of training. >> yes. >> thank you. >> councilmember kostanian? >> thank you for coming today. will you give an option for people who speak several languages to be at the switchboard but also drivers? >> yeah. we actually don't require any sort of language test or anything like that to come on board. a driver who is bilingual is very valuable to us. >> thank you. >> okay. now i'm going to open it

in these cases we were able to interact quickly through sf mta which included the street inspectors. this is also a reminder to the public, if you notice construction activity blocking an accessible path of travel without an alternative safe path, please call our office at 415-554-67 89. that's our voice. you can also contact us through t ty. 415. 554. 6799 and call 311. our additional complaint in the funding housing city program and lack of communication access at a homeless shelter. in this case, at the television set in the common room of the homeless shelter was not set to have captions displayed for people who had hearing loss. as a reminder and it's a city ordinance that it's a requirement to have captions displayed on tv monitors. once again, if you experience any of these issues in a city facility or city program, please give us a call so we can remedy the situation immediately and you can reach us again by calling us at 415. 554-6789 and you can reach us by tty 415, 5546799 or call us at 311 and we'll also receive it. thank you. >> thank you. moving ahead, we have item no.

need the city to demonstrate it's priority by affording the monies to mta and dpw we couldn't do that without our partners of walk sf or the bike coalition to make san francisco a quickly changing city all the time that much of a safer place we're excited to be a part of it and can't wait for the lights to go and a on and please if this seems like a good idea we can go forward okay. whatever you can do in the meantime the enforcement w will be there but pits pennies on the dollars for 15 hundred folks. thank you (clapping.) thank you, chief another part of the city family is our partner the transportation improvements throughout the city is the county transportation authority i want to welcome up the executive director tilly chang >> good afternoon. i'm tilly chang with the transportation authority we work for the 11 members of the board of supervisors to administer the half hour penny call prop k we want to extend our congratulations to director reiskin and his team and acknowledge mayor lee's leadership and supervisor tang's in improving the pedestrian safety and transportation authority san francisco has spoken l

district 4 supervisor tang >> thank you a special recognition to the mta and to tilly changing and accident police department and walk sf and, of course, all the community members and resident who have been so patient serving as an advocate and working to make sure our city vice president hears us loud and clear we need those along sunset boulevard so all our intersection have signals and so in the past evidently years we've worked to slowly being able to install the traffic signals by the end of the 2015 we'll have the safer in place and several years ago when i was work as a protective stiff aid i worked the volunteers as we plant and installed those mediums you see along yorba we've tried other things approaches and couldn't have done that with the police department command over there thank you for stepping up the enforcement and i also want to give a special recognition to people who worked on installing those i see them in the back thank you for all your response time for the injuries and the fatalities that was mentioned and i want to reiterate it is important in november successfully pass our general obligation b

exemplar projects certainly our city has seen here today with the san francisco mta xhishsz, the planning commission folks and our sf leader katie is here as well its a milestone after milestone when in the backdrop the central subway project is so important i remember leader pelosi when we began this conversation in the early years really to trying to figure out how we could access those american recovery act to be a dumb u jump start for us in san francisco we needed it at the height felt great recession and it came at the right time with the initial investments now over a billion dollars in the project you see what has come about this project has been one of the critical foundation but why today a few years later we'll boast about a 4.5 employment rate i putting americans to work is so important in project is a couple of months ago director reiskin and i looked at the tunnel borrowing machines helping them get out of the ground a huge milestone it's burn a safe project for the men and women they know about safety what their tunneling very deep underground and marcus making sure this station with union square and

exemplar projects certainly our city has seen here today with the san francisco mta xhishsz, the planning commission folks and our sfeader katie is here as well its a milestone after milestone when in the backdrop the central subway project is so important i remember leader pelosi when we began this conversation in the early years really to trying to figure out how we could access those american recovery act to be a dumb u jump start for us in san francisco we needed it at the height felt great recession and it came at the right time with the initial investments now over

exemplar projects certainly our city has seen here today with the san francisco mta xhishsz, the planning commission folks and our sfl its a milestone after milestone when in the backdrop the central subway project is so important i remember leader pelosi when we began this conversation in the early years really to trying to figurou

district 4 supervisor tang >> thank you a special recognition to the mta and to tilly changing and accident police department and walk sf and, of course, all the community members and resident who have been so patient serving as an advocate and working to make sure our city vice president hears us loud and clear we need those along sunset boulevard so all our intersection have signals and so in the past evidently years we've worked to slowly being able to install the traffic signals by the end of the 2015