Heartedly believe in this bill. Its a wonderful intersection of gender and class, which always go together. You know, it has been you know, the fight has been a long one and even now as the fight still goes on. I dont think we should think that, you know, that Lgbt Community members have, you know, have perfect safety everywhere they go. Just, you know, like just what happened in los angeles, you know, someone killed a transgender woman. So, i think its really great that were doing this bill and i think its great that people are being paid attention to. I think this is also a great start politically because it tells s. R. O. Owners that legislators are paying attention to whats going on in those buildings and theyre being regulated. So, i think its a great start around, so i thank you for supporting this. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is kylie hoffmann. Im the coordinator of Youth Development and administration for the San Francisco Youth Commission. Im here on behalf
Both the m. T. A. Board and board of supervise sources has set very ambitious mode share targets for bicycling in the city. And we as an agency with the board of supervisors have been work on a number of different fronts to make bicycling a better option. From everything from infrastructure that were putting in the ground to Safety Education that we support. There is a number of things were doing to try to meet those mode shift goals that both you and the m. T. A. Bore have established and that are part of our overall Climate Change strategy as well. We see bike share as an important part of the overall move to increase bicycling in San Francisco. Something weve been engaged with for up to five years now. Like every other aspect of transportation in San Francisco and generally, bike share is a very dynamic industry at the moment. And like pretty much everything that has to do with nrption San Francisco, there is a lot of different opinions about how to do this the right way. And there
And part of the legislation and saying its an exciting time for bike sharing and the mta is excite with the interest in bike sharing. Um ultimately we see it as a good thing and helps make our Transportation System safer and more equitable and accessible which are the goals underlying all of our decisions and we support it and theres questions regarding the bike share in San Francisco and so we want to proceed with caution as well as optimism. That issued a per mitd permit bringing the ebikes to san franciscans and providing the time and data ill proi p p context. It began in 2013 with the bay area Bike Share Program. It was a small system with approximately 350 bikes around it began as a pilot program. The good news with the pilot system is it worked. People liked it and used it. The bad news was cost. Expanding the system to meet demand would cost tens of millions of dollars. Money that was not available through public sources at the time. As a result we the mt cr and other several b
And the Settlement Agreement advances our policy goals around stationless bike share as well and were particularly excite ford the potential of ebikes. And theres different operators. Jump was the first operator that was eligible for a permit under our program. Jump submitted its initial application in july of 201 prior to any other company. It developed as the first and only company to fulfill all the permit requirements with the november 2017 submittals. One requirement was the data sharing requirement. Thats something we heard a lot of reluctance from from other companies and jump was the first to operate ebike. Was there a set of criteria about what the sfmta was looking for . Did it say in october when these got ahead of Transportation Technologies did you say to the potential world of stationless bike sharing companies, we are looking for e bikes. That is a criteria. Were looking for data sharing as a criteria. If you do not have these youll be considered incomplete. Yes. We deve
And the Settlement Agreement advances our policy goals around stationless bike share as well and were particularly excite ford the potential of ebikes. And theres different operators. Jump was the first operator that was eligible for a permit under our program. Jump submitted its initial application in july of 201 prior to any other company. It developed as the first and only company to fulfill all the permit requirements with the november 2017 submittals. One requirement was the data sharing requirement. Thats something we heard a lot of reluctance from from other companies and jump was the first to operate ebike. Was there a set of criteria about what the sfmta was looking for . Did it say in october when these got ahead of Transportation Technologies did you say to the potential world of stationless bike sharing companies, we are looking for e bikes. That is a criteria. Were looking for data sharing as a criteria. If you do not have these youll be considered incomplete. Yes. We deve