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June 30, 2024
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 ...
June 30, 2024
Distributing any language and sample letters or postcards that people could submit for people to submit their experiences with accessibility issue with the t. N. C. S. Thank you, is there a general time frame for a Comment Period . It varies and theres 34 sets of comments and reply comments as part of this rulemaking so its going on for quite some time and it varies in terms of getting notice when the comments are due. But id anticipate that wed have a good amount of time to, you know, before th...
June 30, 2024
Where you run into complications when you have a onetime trip or theres something over a border that doesnt service a consumer and i wonder how you resolve issues like that if it just crosses the border . Oh, yeah, good question, thank you. The Paratransit Program is required to provide service that complements the muni service and so the and thats under the a. D. A. Requirements and guidelines and so Paratransit Service goes generally threequarters of a mile around where muni goes, and the muni...
June 30, 2024
Crosses the border . Oh, yeah, good question, thank you. The Paratransit Program is required to provide service that complements the muni service and so the and thats under the a. D. A. Requirements and guidelines and so Paratransit Service goes generally threequarters of a mile around where muni goes, and the muni lines and the muni service and if a person that has a trip that is outside of that they can take their paratransit to wherever the end of the end of that border is, that service area,...
June 30, 2024
The Paratransit Program is required to provide service that complements the muni service and so the and thats under the a. D. A. Requirements and guidelines and so Paratransit Service goes generally threequarters of a mile around where muni goes, and the muni lines and the muni service and if a person that has a trip that is outside of that they can take their paratransit to wherever the end of the end of that border is, that service area, and then i would suggest they could continue on, but the...
June 30, 2024
Complements the muni service and so the and thats under the a. D. A. Requirements and guidelines and so Paratransit Service goes generally threequarters of a mile around where muni goes, and the muni lines and the muni service and if a person that has a trip that is outside of that they can take their paratransit to wherever the end of the end of that border is, that service area, and then i would suggest they could continue on, but then theyd be responsible for paying for that portion of the tr...
June 30, 2024
Complements the muni service and so the and thats under the a. D. A. Requirements and guidelines and so Paratransit Service goes generally threequarters of a mile around where muni goes, and the muni lines and the muni service and if a person that has a trip that is outside of that they can take their paratransit to wherever the end of the end of that border is, that service area, and then i would suggest they could continue on, but then theyd be responsible for paying for that portion of the tr...
June 29, 2024
Typically have over the past several months after the north Korea Foreign minister says that President Trumps comments over the weekends have amounted to a declaration of war. The dow and the s p have recovered to some degree, although they are still down one third of 1 . We are seeing a selloff in Technology Stocks today. Microsoft,etflix, all taking a steep hit today. Its an interesting disconnect we are seeing here. Atr a doll by heimer over oppenheimer, tough me about how this has been doing...
June 28, 2024
Woodruff also ahead, our politics monday team is here to talk about the new storm President Trump has kicked up over his proposed travel ban and its fate in the courts. All that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and individuals. ...
June 23, 2024
Signed by roosevelt in 1938 made the minimum wage the law of the land. 70 years later america is locked in a partisan debate about raising the federal minimum by 7. 25. No matter where you stand, theres no arguing. When you adjust it for inflation, the wage is lower than the minimum wage in 1968. In todays dollar the wage back then was 10. 94 an hour. President obama backs a democratic bill that would raise this to 12 an hour. Today, hundreds of thousands of disabled workers throughout this coun...