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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-07-11 | 11 | COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday July 11, 2018 6:30 p.m. there are more people just generally biking around the City and generally as long as they're on the street, in the bike lanes, and unless they're allowed to be on the sidewalk, I think that's a good thing overall for the City. For the bike share program in this agreement, we have a maximum of 300 bikes which is what we have now that will be allowed. So basically the number of bikes that you've been seeing will continue to be the same unless the City authorizes them to increase that, because we want to get a handle on this bike parking issue. And the helmet issue and once we feel like that is going well then we can consider maybe increasing the number of bikes, but we first want to know that we're getting good compliance with bike parking now. Anto Aghapekian: Thank you. Chair Beth Kenny: Thank you. Commissioner Linton. Jenny Linton: Thank you for coming to present. It's very interesting, it's been very interesting to watch all these bikes arrive in the City. I have a question about the ferry terminal, it's not quite about the bike program, but you said that the top use is the ferry terminal, the last mile getting from the City on other public transportation to the ferry. I'm concerned that if this is such a popular solution, what do we do about those who can't use bikes, people with blindness or other physical limitations? Is the City going to continue to look for solutions for that last mile for our whole population? Or do you think that this might limit the interest in the need because the able population has been served? Rochelle Wheeler: I think we're always looking for transportation solutions to serve all the users to get to these hubs or the terminals. We have a very robust paratransit program in the City that can serve those populations as well, but it's interesting to think about that. And that's something we can bring back, but I don't feel like having this in place is going to decrease our efforts to provide mobility choices for all users. We always want to expand choices. Jenny Linton: Good. And I have a question specifically about the about the LimeBike program. You talked about signage and I was wondering, are we going to put signage on our public street? It's almost a branding of a specific company in a public environment. We wouldn't allow a company take over a public park. Rochelle Wheeler: Yes, generally, I think what cities are doing is they're just kind of having some sort of symbol with a bike and a P or something like that so that you know that that's a bike parking area or it might say dockless bike share or something like that. So yes, I'm not sure we would allow the Lime logo on the decals or the signs. Good point. Jenny Linton: Thank you. Chair Beth Kenny: Thank you. And I have a few questions for you guys. First, the 90% parking success, people parking as a goal, I would like to see that higher especially over two-year period, if you can step that up to a higher number as the contract goes on, that would be great. I would like to see some sort of commitment to getting the hub lock because it's my understanding that the only way that we can actually have people check in the app is to have the hub lock on the type of bikes 09/12/18 Page 11 of 29 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-07-11.pdf |