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Person with an obvious disability and people talk about that people with disabilities dont bike, she said, yes, she did and shes had a kid and since then she and her kid bicycle, so even then we got an education of our own, against our own bias. And further the east band of the bay bridge is named after a senior who is a longtime bicycle advocate and that happened after he was 75 and hes still doing it after 80. So im trying to say that there are real people from our joint constituencies who do bicycle. But to get back to the 17th Street Project its a protected bicycle lane and that is one of the problems. San francisco is atypical for its Bike Coalition advocacy and the problems start at the top. Theres a booklet on this and they show pictures that clearly theres a lack of accessibility in what they tout as model bike protected bike lanes. Cal train stuck its head in the sand on this though theres been professional comments saying, dont do this, dont follow it and cal train will say t
Efforts that ill highlight that you may be familiar with, and so the image on the left is something that the city of San Francisco put out and i want to say like in 2014, and as the guidelines for accessible Building Blocks for bicycle facilities and it was to be this document that was dynamic i think, that when it came to bike infrastructure and our street design would set th guidelines whether policies or dimensions or policies to make sure that the new bike infrastructure that came in would actually be accessible for all users regardless of people including for people with disabilities. Sorry. And then on the right is something that actually just came out quite recently, just earlier this year at the city of vancouver called their triple a guidelines. All ages and abilities of cycling groups is similar to the Building Blocks but the problem i see with a lot of these is that when were talking about biking the way that we talk about accessibility doesnt often either include people wit
More welcoming for everyone who is biking there, everyone using those streets. Were often partnering with local neighborhood associations, were working with city agencies, with elected officials, with merchant groups, whoever it is and even if they love the project or hate the project. But that is really the bread and the butter of our advocacy work. Next slide is to push for policy on Street Safety and i know that after may youll get a presentation from megan weir around vision zero so vision zero is one of our key policies that were pushing for, zero fatalities or serious injuries by 2024 and you also heard from kate breen today and we work with the legislative affairs on pushing for policies at the state level even, like automated speed enforcement. So were really trying to find larger and more macro policies that make San Francisco streets more welcoming for everyone. For the next slide i want to highlight our youth and family biking work and we are partners in the safe routes to S