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another general bond debt until we address the old bond or until san francisco grows enough so that property tax rates can remain constant. you mean level? right. okay. the other question is about elevators in downtown. why can t we add more elevators. it doesn t make sense to walk five 5 blocks to find a muni rate elevator that works. that is what we are trying to do. thank you. we ll move to public comment? is there any comment from staff. i still want to say something. i think a suggestion is do you need to be some kind of social awareness out there or some sort of advertising where people that drive their cars need to know that in 15 years we are going to have a million more people and more cars on the road so if they are going to drive their cars to have more paengz passengers in their cars rather than just one. i think there needs to be some sort of social awareness just to let people know that. yeah. thank you. director johnson? just a quick ....
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 right-of-way 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 city s 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 accessibili ....
and more accessible and safer for people to access. because much of the investment makes changes to the right-of-way 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 city s 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. there is a heavy focus of the bond for elevator improvements at the shared muni downtown where the sclat escalators and elevators are. if that elevator is out of service and someone in a wheelchair has no ....
grows enough so that property tax rates can remain constant. you mean level? right. okay. the other question is about elevators in downtown. why can t we add more elevators. it doesn t make sense to walk five 5 blocks to find a muni rate elevator that works. that is what we are trying to do. thank you. we ll move to public comment? is there any comment from staff. i still want to say something. i think a suggestion is do you need to be some kind of social awareness out there or some sort of advertising where people that drive their cars need to know that in 15 years we are going to have a million more people and more cars on the road so if they are going to drive their cars to have more paengz passengers in their cars rather than just one. i think there needs to be some sort of social awareness just to let people know that. yeah. thank you. director johnson? just a quick comment. thank you so much for your presentation. it was a very comprehensive ....
disproportionate number of muni s riders are very low income. in fact 25 percent of muni s riders earn less than $15,000 per year. so very very low income. so, taking that into consideration the mta board has started to look at ways to make muni more accessible from an income standpoint. we had a pilot program in place offering free muni for youth and low and motion tion moderate income use to expand the program to people up to age 18 just this past july and were now in the process of also in krorp incorporating students in the unified school district who stay in the program until age 22 so they can stay in that program and that s going to be going to the board of supervisors very soon. they asked to come back in january to consider expanding this free muni for low and moderate income folks for seniors and people with disabilities that is something they expressed a great interest in doing. we ll be brieng bringing that back to them in the next couple of months. that c ....