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Shortterm so more discussion happens. I proposed this question and director chang as well. If you want to address that. Good morning, director chang, this process is very important, a high priority process for the city and its working its way around Public Comment and we are going to support the mta in having those meetings and conversations to address Community Concerns that are still outstanding. I would say to move this project forward through the design phase, i would be comfortable we do that with asking the mta come to these meetings to see how they are making progress on their Equity An...

From the past but significantly resulting in for these projects and better outreach, better two way communication with stakeholders and changing some of the mechanisms and the channels that we are using so doing different kind of formats, having meetings at different, diverse number of locations and times of day and days of week to make sure that we can capture information and then using technology whether its social media and even used crowd sourcing for some things, data crowd sourcing. So weve heard from Board Members a lot on this topic and really looking to advance and step up our game in...

Some of the Tech Companies using the technology for approving the transportation system. The other technology is called next door and allows neighbors to feed off each others comments and im hoping that we are looking at the next door type of technology to get more of the dialogue. I worry more about the Digital Divide with low income people and some seniors that havent kept up with the changes in technologies and wondering how you are handling that and there was a focus on how vision zero would be equitable so you are looking at the high vision corridors and whether its chair kims district or...

45 locations. I talked to our enforcement manager to looking at double parking through the lens of vision zero and where its not a nuisance or traffic problem, but where it could treat a safety problem whether they are cyclist or pedestrians. I would be happy to report back to you what resources we are growing for that and what kind of outcomes we are fore seeing. And looking at working with the Police Department on the box to bottom. I would be interested in the outcome in the pilot of the 45 locations. We should tag areas that are blocking areas and of course when cyclist have to go out of t...

Specifically with the type of Technology Supporting outreach and community engagement. There were a number of proposals that came in through the mayors entrepreneur and Residents Program and many of the ones that were transportation related were for just that, the Public Engagement part of transportation planning. So i believe that we are engaging one or two of those entrepreneurs to come in and work with us on developing something exactly like what you are talking about. So, yes to the first one. In terms of the Digital Divide issue, i think that is absolutely real and think we are a very lon...