something that we can certainly look at again. >> thank you. >> next council member, co chair jim blackston, a question? >> i am blind and have a guide dog, a service animal. have you reached out to people like me in the disabled community who have service animals and can you tell us about that? >> in terms of access to taxi service or paratransit? >> yes, yes. >> yeah, i would say that we have an ongoing relationship with the blind community and have representatives on our paratransit coordinating council and have specific requirements related to service animals and so, yeah, that's something that has been folded into our program from the beginning. now if you're talking about uber and lyft that's a different conversation but we don't have jurisdiction over uber and lyft. certainly on the paratransit side, yes. >> that's great because there's situations where on the taxi service we have been denied and i won't go into that, it's an ongoing problem. >> well, and what i would say is that i encourage everybody to if -- you have an issue on taxis call 311 and report it and we investigate every

the prototypes that you described, the dude in his spandex zipping throughout the city, and when jim blackston talked about the lighthouse and folks with visual disabilities i thought that he'd mention that is the whole cavalier attitude of blowing through crosswalks and blowing through stops. kind of cutting in front of people with disabilities on the curb cuts and getting on the sidewalk. and some of the behaviors that don't help to build a good cooperative name or reputation. and so i'm wondering about specific efforts that you are doing around educating your members. perhaps working with the policy initiative around registration of people who have bicycles, who ride bicycles, full-time. perhaps other innovative programs that you may come up with so that we can really help to educate and to sort of make it a safer space and a safe sharing of the road. the other issue that there's a lot of commotion in the disability community is around the parking in protected bike lanes and for a lot of folks with disabilities who drive adaptive vehicles with the lift that is on board into the sidewalk its

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