herbert winer. >> in the short range transit plan on page 17 of the master document, mta has confirmed that individuals may have to walk a quarter of a mile to coach as the real transit, as i have stressed a number of times to the board this will occur hardship on senior and is the disabled, individuals will also be inconvenienced walking to and from bus stops to get to and from work, and respect the seniors and the disabled, paratransit and [inaudible] scripts are offered, this seems quite wasteful if one is going to travel a quarter of a mile to a destination. at present, bus and is light rails provide sufficient transportation, to add other services appears wasteful. it should also be noted that paratransit not always reliable and not everyone qualifies for this service. further, the elimination alteration of bus stops that has occurred for at least two decades has not stood up transportation at all. it is impractical even cruel to make the physically vulnerable to walk longer distances, they say walking is good for you, mta has not provided medical evidence as to the impact to stop

. >> herbert winer, i can approve the regulation of automobile collisions, automobiles colliding against other automobiles automobiles running over pedestrians but if you'll notice on this chart, 3% includes bicycles running over pedestrians. now this has to be carefully regulated too. bicycles are moving vehicles. they have the same rights and responsibilities as automobiles. so, this plan definitely has to address this and i want to see bicycles really regulated the same way that automobiles are and especially riding on the sidewalk on market street because it's very dangerous. i have seen it happen all the time, so you have to regulate the bicycles as well as the automobiles, they can be equally dangerous. suppose for instance in the future you eliminate all automobiles running over pedestrians but then bicycles could run over pedestrians are you then going to call a vision vao*er row when deaths occur because bicycles run over pedestrians you have to give this equal attention. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> ( calling speaker names ). >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon, my n