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Get stuck or slam shut, hitting her legs. It comes down fast. And it comes down hard. And so its like a hard hit. And sometimes it bruises. Reporter when she saw the new prototype fare gate monday at the Richmond Bart station, she was too scared to go through. Bart is testing out the doublewing gates as a Pilot Program to stop fare cheats from jumping over. She worries that wheelchair users, children or short riders, the wings might shut at head level. Im terrified about getting stuck here. Some...

Night at this time. The heat advisories are gone. The red flag warnings are gone. And the fog is back. Look at it working its way back up the coast. Through the Golden Gate Bridge and out into the east bay. Here the deal, air conditioners in the inland valleys are clicking off tonight. Temperatures instead of in the 80s and 90s in fairfield, theyre just in the 70s. Soon to be in the 60s. San francisco is 58 degrees right now. A couple nights ago, San Francisco was in the upper 60s. Sneeze, 16 de...

Noticeably cooler. For some yesterday, it was still hot. There were 90s and 100s. For others, the city checked in at 79. But its way down now on the temps. The wind is up. Delta wind is up as well. Gusts to 33 mys per hour at travis, san jose. 81. Concord 100 yesterday. 87 in the city. From 79 to 64. And nap a85 to 78. A little you can see that right there. Thats a jet stream kind of taking a little noticeable dip there. Onshore breeze. 50s for most, instead of 60s. Even around the bay. City at ...

Van ness street via ramps. Wheelchair access at the pope street carlton entrance is provided. Wheelchair lift. Assistive listening devices are available and our meeting is closecaptioned and sign language interpreted. Our materials are available in large braille. Please ask staff for any additional assistance. To prevent electronic interference with this room sound system and to respect everyones ability to focus on the presentations, please silence all mobile phones and pdas. Your cooperation i...

Useful in my opinion to passengers travel by wheelchair. There is also always a conflict to providing between a pathway for blind users and wheelchair users that have to divert across this. There is a wider space between the dots and we are also making it all yellow. Right now there is black. So the purpose behind that is to comply with ada federal and state standards, but we will be marking the door ways in other ways. So people will know where to lineup with the sticker. We are still trying th...

Am chip supanich, cochair of the council. Now well tv introduction read by Council Member roland wong. Good afternoon. Happy first day of spring. And welcome to the mayors distribute council this friday march 20, 2015. In room 400 of San Francisco city hall. City hall is an accessible to persons using wheelchairs and other assistive mobility devices. Wheelchair access is provided at van ness street via ramps. Wheelchair access at the pope street carlton entrance is provided. Wheelchair lift. Ass...

State standards, but we will be marking the door ways in other ways. So people will know where to lineup with the sticker. We are still trying that out. We want to present first and foremost a color contrast. Thats the intent, a visual and tactile contrast for safety purposes for people with sight impairment for that strip. Even though black, people like it to know where to lineup, its not for their convenience and we will communicate that in another way. We are also expanding the directional ba...

Spring. And welcome to the mayors distribute council this friday march 20, 2015. In room 400 of San Francisco city hall. City hall is an accessible to persons using wheelchairs and other assistive mobility devices. Wheelchair access is provided at van ness street via ramps. Wheelchair access at the pope street carlton entrance is provided. Wheelchair lift. Assistive listening devices are available and our meeting is closecaptioned and sign language interpreted. Our materials are available in lar...

Purposes for people with sight impairment for that strip. Even though black, people like it to know where to lineup, its not for their convenience and we will communicate that in another way. We are also expanding the directional bars. Right now its 1 foot by four 4foot, we are making it 3foot by 4foot. Because usually people are lined up in front. If you are sweeping with a cane, you may miss that. So its a bigger matt. At the four center door locations. We also have detectable pathways for bli...

My name is bob franklin, the Department Manager for customer access for bart. My Contact Number is listed. Any other phone number. 510464. 4343. 6133. If you have any questions, you can contact me for any questions you may have. My Contact Information is also listed on barts website. The main reason we are here today is to provide fleet update. Since weve come before with information publically about the layout of the enter interior car configuration. We recently had a change. Here is a picture ...