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
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
Are currently under consideration. And all three options for Market Street is improvements to the boarding platform morning Market Street both to make sure that the bus platforms are wide enough. Eight feet wide is what we need in order for a list to deploy the bus, but what we also need in the way of transportation platforms on Market Street is to have more of the elevated platforms so that those historic stops can be served. So those features are included in all three options of the better Market Street plan. I wanted to just briefly summarize the options and invite you to a work shop thats taking place tomorrow so you can provide your commentary. Option one is similar to what we see now when we look at Market Street with the addition of those boarding platforms and the the private automobile restrictions on Market Street, although taxis and peri transit vehicles and vehicles that have plaqueers that are discharging pedestrian to the curb set on Market Street, all of those vehicles w
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