This bill seeks to improve communications, resource allocation and overall efficacy of city infrastructure planning by combining the Municipal Transit Authority and the Department of Public Works into a single agency, thereby ameliorating chronic budgetary concerns and procedural friction which prevent the city from achieving its vision zero goals and being appropriately inclusive in its non-automotive transportation planning.

This bill seeks to create the opportunity for implementation of a ubiquitously accessible sidewalk design throughout the city, promoting commerce and car-free travel, and reducing vehicular violence and carbon emissions by bringing design, construction and maintenance of sidewalks entirely within the jurisdiction of the Municipal Transit Authority.

This bill seeks to reduce the turbulence of common textures and transitions of city infrastructure resulting from non-ADA-compliant engineering, insufficient construction oversight or a combination of the two by updating the city’s standard plans, implementing more rigorous oversight procedures and funding a city-wide compliance program which will bring all existing infrastructure up to the new standards.

This bill seeks to promote mobility and access for users on non-motorized user-propelled vehicles by updating aspects of the Vehicle Code which criminalize riding in business districts, around transit stops and at certain times of day, thereby discouraging their adoption and making their users susceptible to unwarranted interactions with police.

This bill seeks to incentivize and decriminalize non-automotive travel by removing legal barriers to the use of skateboards in public schools, public parks, and along the waterfront, thereby creating a clear path from transportation-focused early-childhood education to lifelong use of skateboards as a low-cost, low-maintenance mobility aid which integrates with, and promotes, walking, biking and transit.

This bill seeks to establish parity in education funding for transportation-focused skateboard instruction, in alignment with funds made available for bicycle and scooter education, in order to support the mobility of people for whom bikes and scooters are not an attainable, affordable, effective or attractive mode, and broaden the cities approach to promoting car-free travel to people of all ages and economic backgrounds.

This bill seeks to establish a minimum level of service for recreational skate facilities, inclusive of site distribution, design and hours of operation, which achieves parity with other recognized activities such as tennis, basketball, soccer and baseball in terms of allotment of space, regularity of maintenance and allocation of funding.