properties around the state are also interested in this and we brought that idea to the california transit associationhey'll seek an offer for that and similarly near and dear to director ramos' heart is the transit-only lane enforcement beyond the limits which are only in the red lanes and explore the possibility of that technology to enforce parking in bus stops beyond those areas. that is a problem. and there are other agencies, ac transit, l.a. metro, we are now in conversation whether or not we can pursue legislation in this session or how we can proceed to look at that as an opportunity for improving the effectiveness of our transit system. parking policy another big very active arena for the legislature the past year. it's important to note the enactment of 80503 which provides a program for low income and indigent individuals to pay parking tickets. there's been lots of focus in the legislature and beyond about the impact of fines and fees on low-income individuals. the city has a task force so 8503 was a very broad-based stakeholder effort. and the aclu along with cities engaging in we suppor

they'll respond to bicycle adsoicates and to the california transit association, but not california through disability rights and not c.c.b. and not independent -- (bell ringing) nothing from them in case you would try to remedy that. >> thank you. okay. thank you. anyone on the bridge line? >> no, we have one more -- >> one more. okay. sorry. sorry about that. please go ahead. >> good afternoon, howard shapner, i agree very much with what joanna said, and i would like to relate one thing about pedestrian safety. i had -- several years ago i had emailed ed reskin of m.t.a. with some simple suggestions to address things like bicycle riding on the sidewalk, blowing through stop signs and all of that, and i got -- ed assigned a fairly senior traffic engineer to respond to me and pretty much every suggestion was that we can't do that, we can't put signs telling bicyclists not to be on the sidewalk. we can't even consider registration, which is something that joanna had mentioned and we can't do a number of other things that i had suggested, because that would discourage bicycling. so i think th