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We okay . Can you tilt it down a little bit, control room, please . So that we can see the interpreters hands . Okay. Okay, i think we are ready to start. Thank you for your patience everyone. Go ahead cochair madrid. Good afternoon and welcome to the Mayors Disability Council friday march 15, 2024. This is an inperson and virtual hybrid meeting. [indiscernible] okay, go ahead. Thank you. Thank you control room. This meeting is broadcast to the public on sfgotv and open captioned and sign language interpreted. If you need any accommodations or have difficulty attending these meetings, please s...

Chair mandelman. Present. Melgar. Present. Commissioner peskin. Present commissioner peskin. Commissioner walton. We have quoteum. You happening you have an announcement. We welcome your attendance in person and the chamber room 250 in city hall or channel 26 or 99 or stream it live at sfgov. Org. For those wish to make comment remote the best way to do so is dialing 4156550001 then access code 2594 799 0703. You will listen to the meeting in real time. When comment is called, press star 3 to be added to the queue. Dont press it again or you will be removed from the queue. When the system says...

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 bicycle. But to get back to the 17th Street Project its a protected bicycle lane and that is one of ...

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 actually be accessible for all users regardless of people including for people with disabilities. Sor...

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 zero is one of our key policies that were pushing for, zero fatalities or serious injuries by 2024 an...