I think everybody is really sort of struck by the terrible irony of losing people who are trying to do so much good in the world to an act of such sort of unnecessary violence. Walkers will be encouraged to stop at golden gate Parks National a. I. D. S. National growth. It makes the walk extra special because there are more, unfortunately, people to remember. She hopes more people will be inspired to find a cure. These people who died arent replaceable. You know there will be other scientists, but not those scientists, and its really a sad thing thats happened. The Opening Ceremony starts at 9 45. There is still time to register and to make a donation. In San Francisco, abc7 news. Abc7 is a proud sponsor of this weeks a. I. D. S. San francisco. Heres three members of our Promotions Team at the walk. This mornings walk starts at 10 30. You can still register by calling. Visiting a. I. D. S. Walk. Net or visiting the app. You can also show up at the park and register there. A call for en
The bay does montage so thank you, again, for this amazing announcement weve got a lot of work to do by the year 2019 but well connect 16 million visitors in the Fishermans Wharf and i look forward to working with you to get that done. Thanks for being here thank you president chiu. Members of our board of supervisors serve in multiple different capacities in addition to being one of the strongest advocates for transportation investment in the city i particularly in the investment in muni and supervisor wiener serves on the Transportation Commission and serves as at the vice chair of the Community Transportation authority so, please welcome scott wiener to the mike to say a few words clapping. morning i had a similar experience that Edward Reiskin had this morning i got on the subway at castro station and remember thinking that will be nice to switch over to the strool subway instead of walking i got on the 45 and basically was hanging off the edge of the bus i jousted getting to know
Those improvements. Just in terms of the bond itself, as i mentioned there is a bond on the ballot in november, proposition a. The majority of the funding goes to vechlts investments and making Muni Services more reliable and more accessible and safer for people to access. Because much of the investment makes changes to the rightofway to protect muni to allow muni to move without having to move in and out of traffic, it also allows for changes on the street that make it safer for people to board muni and also make it safer for pedestrians in that area. Things like the bus boarding, the pieces of the sidewalk that kind of bulb out for Safety Improvement and reliability improvement. The other funding in this bond would go towards achieving the citys goal of vision zero which is a goal to reduce traffic fatalities to 0 by 2024 and really would put the majority of funding into Pedestrian Safety types of improvements. The bond itself does include a number of accessibility improvements. Ther
We not only have the plans and forms but also links to resources for how to get code interpretation and access board and most importantly since we were talking about earlier about john paul scott, we have the full record of our ada transition projects up there including current status and reports on that. Its still needs a little bit of editing, its a work in progress, but a great reference and resource to access. And then, we also have resources. This is part of my outward looking plan here. I want people from the Small Business community to be able to come to the Mayors Office on disability web page so that they can get information about how best to comply. What are the tools that are out there so they can make their facilities accessible. We have handouts and resources to help them in that process. And, one feature that i think the council will find very useful here is that we now have a Google Calendar that will be posted, and the Google Calendar currently has the Mayors Disability
Effective communication. The walk, dont walk signals dont satisfactory that criteria. We have seen son of the signals which are the visual signs of pedestrians and the rapid ticking noises or other tactile indicators that are used at those crosswalks. The sf mta has a problem by which a member of a public can request at a location. That is prioritized what is called a safety and access tool. There are many variables that an evaluator must look at recommended an installation as well as what type of aps should be installed. Those could include push about the button devices and rapidtext and vibrator tones. Once the person has requested aps, mta will provide that person with the following information. A preliminary prioritization score and preliminary test for the intersection and other that were requested and whether or not any work is being planned at that intersection and whether any aps will be installed within the next three years 3 years and the name of a phone number with a contact