my name is dave dippel. i do note there is a presentation by miss fung on the calendar and i was not aware of that when i put the card in. i'm concerned about senior and disabled access to the brt with the center lines and the fact that they are going to be eliminating a lot of the stops. that means people are going to have to walk that much further. we are no longer going to have the curb drop off and pick up and essentially the center lanes were abandoned in the 1950s because of safety issues. >> mr. dippel, if you wish to speak on an agenda item, that public comment will be when the agenda comment comes out. >> i eluded that to the evening. if you would like i can continue at that time. okay. item 7, then. thank you very much. >> okay. thank you. seeing that there is no more. this is regular public comment. okay. >> good afternoon, councilmembers and staff. my name is walter park. i attended the california council on disability access here and last week in sacramento. it was by telephone. i wanted to repo

. >> my name is dave dippel. i have been trying to get a point across. the basic concept is great. what they need to do is think about only having one lane in the center for commute direction traffic. keep all of the buses, all of the stops, even for the express line where they are. and that will accommodate greater push through of the numbers that they need and the express buses when they have finished their stops and start to go downtown can go into brt lane. the problem with left-hand turn lane they are talking about stopping half of them in the richmond and that means those they have left will increase issues of pedestrian injury. they need to also think about coordinating the call buttons for the walk lights with the pressure plate for the left-hand turn so when somebody pushes a button it stops left-hand turns. if they don't have a push button, the left-hand turn has a priority and it's like every other light at their turns. i believe they have to go back and reengineer this so that we push the most amount of traffic in the commute direction. it not the off hour traffic where