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That question about seniors and i understand in your presentation you said this is actually not the appropriate tool to address the question of seniors and people with disabilities and im sorry did you say which one is the correct tool and i missed it . Or is that something we approach on a granduear level. Exactly. Through our Service Standards so for stops for example and one of the things the standards speaks to is go to a shorter stop spacing with grades or considering the adjacent land uses. Its part of the information that staff will prepare for you as you make decisions about Service Ch...

Of the board. Good presentation. Yeah good presentation. Thank you very much. I did have one question. I know we do the a letter from the bcdc asking that question about seniors and i understand in your presentation you said this is actually not the appropriate tool to address the question of seniors and people with disabilities and im sorry did you say which one is the correct tool and i missed it . Or is that something we approach on a granduear level. Exactly. Through our Service Standards so for stops for example and one of the things the standards speaks to is go to a shorter stop spacing...

If we make changes to the cash fare and used by this amount of people and 160,000 are minority and because of the percent and the 8 threshold this isnt considered a disparate impact. Alternatively if we were making changes to the youth pass and in this example its used by 75 minority that is considered a disparate impact but if were making changes to the two at the same time we would look at them collectively and collectively they would be found to have a disparate impact because the percent minority using the two pass types are more than our city wide average plus the threshold. The threshold...

To make incremental changes but at the same time you want to make sure youre capturing important equity issues. We did make several changes to this definition based on the public process. One of the key things was that we added this rolling 24 month period to the system changes. What the concern was in the public process was that we would make a 2 change one year and then a 1 change six months later and a 3 change six months after that, and that we would be stringing together these smaller changes and not ever reach this larger threshold. That certainly would never be the intent of me or my st...

Terminal. Were glad were been able to participate. It was populated if ever by the public in this way. Really excited about that. The bike lane has proved successful in some ways. Its hard to measure just kret. He pushed hard to have the bike lane to be for two way traffic. The bike lane is open to two way traffic. Theres signal to if you were riding your bikes you would come off which would warn you when to go into an intersections depending on how the lights have changed. Weve found through the reports of the americans Cup Event Authority that the bike line lane lanes have produced so many p...