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Major changes to Public Transportation in the bay area and what it means for the future of mass transit. I am christine zee. We got a great conversation for you today. Three of them, in fact. Youre watching getting answers on abc7 every day we talk with experts about issues important to the bay area and you just in the last two hours caltrain announced fare increases starting in 2025. The announcement comes just as bart implements big changes to try to improve its service with ridership still fa...

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 ...

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 a...

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 z...

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 pu...

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 ...

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 stree...

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 stree...

Be conscious of time. And if you would like to talk about public benefits, i have a slide on that. Or if you want to see the context for phase two and three, i can flip to that. In general, thats the program of phase one. We are looking at demolition starting first quarter, maybe Second Quarter. Well be doing grading and Building Infrastructure probably Second Quarter and hopefully well be opening the new and rehabilitated buildings in late 2020, early 2021. And are those intended to be historic...

Thank you for sfgov tv. Can we have a roll call please. Commissioner bleiman commissioner perez Vice President thomas. And well note president tan is excused. Great. The first item of business is general Public Comment for items not on the agenda. I have one card for general Public Comment from michael noltey. Theres my mic. You have two minutes. Can i have overhead . It actually says five. Anyway, i wanted to point out that the guidelines for mentioning neighborhood outreach, i was at one of th...