To make incremental changes but at the same time you want to make sure youre capturing important equity issues. We did make several changes to this definition based on the public process. One of the key things was that we added this rolling 24 month period to the system changes. What the concern was in the public process was that we would make a 2 change one year and then a 1 change six months later and a 3 change six months after that, and that we would be stringing together these smaller changes and not ever reach this larger threshold. That certainly would never be the intent of me or my staff but we felt it was important in the policy to call out that concern, so what this would mean is if we were considering a 3 change and a 2 change already put in place within the last 24 months we would evaluate the full 5 proposal and not just the 3 proposal. We also had originally had the span of service before hours, and one of the things we heard in the public process was four hours seemed t
I understand in your presentation you said this is actually not the appropriate tool to address the question of seniors and people with disabilities and im sorry did you say which one is the correct tool and i missed it . Or is that something we approach on a granduear level. Exactly. Through our Service Standards so for stops for example and one of the things the standards speaks to is go to a shorter stop spacing with grades or considering the adjacent land uses. Its part of the information that staff will prepare for you as you make decisions about Service Changes and its also built into the outreach process, so for example we are looking to do a pilot of Service Improvements on fulton as part of the transit effectiveness project and one of the things were doing is working closely with the Senior Center thats on fulton and 38th to make sure that our stop proposals work for their needs so we try to address a number of levels, both through your lens as you make policy decisions, but a