You and welcome to the Mayors Disability Council. Welcome to the july meeting, you guys. Wow, its already july. Were in the middle of the year. Were going to have welcome introduction and role call by denise. Thank you. Good afternoon and welcome to the Mayors Disability Council this friday july 19th, 2013 in room 400 of San Francisco city hall. City hall is accessible to persons using wheelchair and other devices. Wheelchair access is provided at the maccal ster ramp via ramp. Wheelchair access at the poke street carton b is temporary interrupted due to repairs. We appreciate your patience during this time and ask that you use any of the remaining entrances when visiting city hall. Listening devices are available and our meeting is opened, captioned and sign language ininterpreter receipted. Our agenda is available in large print and braille. Ask staff for assistant. To be respectful, everyones ability to focus on the presentations, please either turn off all mobile phones and pdas or
Todays agenda but within the jurisdiction. And each speaker is limited to three minutes. Item 11, information item correspondence and item 12. Item 13 adjourned. Well take Public Comment and the first individual is john allic pole. Thank you. Yes, my name is john and im the vice chair of the Pedestrian Safety advisory committee. On it i hold the seat for senior and disability organizations. I report to you that i was involved in a city event regarding the better Market Streets that occurred on wednesday the 17th. And at this event i posed a question which i seek your advice when there was a form to ask me and all participants of what ideas we had on the redevelopment of Market Street, is this within the parameters of the law or common sense for there to be accessible pedestrian signals stationed on the island for public transport to cross over from the island or the median to the curve of the sidewalk . Would that affect anyone else or impair anyone elses mobility . Sense that was a qu
Concerns about the transit effecting this project is that its really endangers those and the handicap and those who are ill because theyll have to walk longer distances to get public transportation. This is in effect with the bus line which runs which no longer runs near park boulevard. People either have to walk a block to catch the one california or the [inaudible] line. And this is not the only bus line thats effected. It affects other bus lines. It was knocked down which ran directly to saint lukes homes. And this is brought to mta constantly and brought to the attention of those who formulate the effectiveness project, but theyve had a blind eye to this. Now, they state that, okay, they can take power transit. Wouldnt this would be absorb to take it one block to catch a bus . This is a twisted thinking that went into this project. And the idea of it was they were going to gage it by supply and demand. Those were less rider ship those with less ridership, they would be either alter
You and welcome to the Mayors Disability Council. Welcome to the july meeting, you guys. Wow, its already july. Were in the middle of the year. Were going to have welcome introduction and role call by denise. Thank you. Good afternoon and welcome to the Mayors Disability Council this friday july 19th, 2013 in room 400 of San Francisco city hall. City hall is accessible to persons using wheelchair and other devices. Wheelchair access is provided at the maccal ster ramp via ramp. Wheelchair access at the poke street carton b is temporary interrupted due to repairs. We appreciate your patience during this time and ask that you use any of the remaining entrances when visiting city hall. Listening devices are available and our meeting is opened, captioned and sign language ininterpreter receipted. Our agenda is available in large print and braille. Ask staff for assistant. To be respectful, everyones ability to focus on the presentations, please either turn off all mobile phones and pdas or