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Have concerns. For instance, some of more significant measures will go to Detailed Design with direct input from the Fire Department and other stakeholders on the transportation advisory safety committee. I would like to talk a little bit about how this project was conceived. This was a communityrequested project. We looked at a compilation of trafficcalming requests from residents in the neighborhood. In advance of the total and during the planning process for this, we received 15 resident requ...

This and thank you very much. Thank you, appreciate your participation in the committee. Next speaker, please. [ reading speakers names ] [ inaudible ] come forward, please. Good afternoon, sir. Thank you. My name is dan mckew and im a resident of the area that this particular matter concerns. I have live d there for 20 years with my family. You kind of thing you go into a neighborhood there. Pachenko street, the way people get from southeast San Francisco to the golden gate bridge. So what look...

May 16, 2014 Mayors Disability Council meeting please stand by. All right, everybody. It seems we got our issue resolved. Our interpreter is being featured. If everyone can take their seats we should begin momentarily. First of all thank you for coming here today. Welcome to Mayors Disability Council here on may 16, 2014. My name is derek zarda. The new elected cochair. I will be handing it out to mr. Wong. Good afternoon and welcome to the Mayors Disability Council this friday may 16, 2014, in ...

To another. Slide 7 talks about features for individuals who are blind or have a vision impairment. One feature that will continue from the old cars are the external inter car barriers that are meant to help protect people with vision impairments from inadvertently stepping off the flat form and being in danger. Those were retro fitted into old bart cars after ada was passed. But these will be built in from the ground floor to the new cars. I mentioned earlier that we often have people on bart t...

Handing it out to mr. Wong. Good afternoon and welcome to the Mayors Disability Council this friday may 16, 2014, in room 400 of San Francisco city hall. City hall is accessible to persons using wheelchairs and other assistive mobility devices. Wheelchair access is provided at the van ness and mccall street. And entrance is provided via a wheelchair lift. Assistant listening devices are available and our meeting is open captioned and sign language interpreted. Our agendas are also available in l...

Training our office conducted. Joanna will now go into further detail about some of the Technical Assistance that our office provided. Good afternoon, councilmembers, cochairs. So at the end of each directors report they try to highlight a teaching moment for you about a little known fact about ada. So this month, one of the little known facts that was something that i emphasized in my training and also to the city departments is that benefits in Effective Communication dont just apply to a spec...

Back in 2012, we began the process by asking can an can you customers about what they liked and didnt like about the cars and asked them to include what they have seen in their travels elsewhere that we can consider emulating. We used that information in our process in 2012. We began working with the bart advisory committee. The bart Accessibility Task force. We worked with them to think in particular about the accessible features of the new train cars and you will see in the slides that follow ...

Comprised with the federal registry dimensions. I believe they are 32 x 48. It has some extra room beyond that. Does that answer your question . Im thinking about other times of the day also especially in the rush hours . We will have about 10 percent more standing room per car. So i think in general, well be better off having more cars and that will make a big difference. Thank you. Now, i just have a few quick questions. Then well go to a break and then well come back. We will hear from the st...

20, 2014, from 1 00 p. M. To 4 00 p. M. Here at San Francisco city hall in room 400. Please call the mayors Disability Office on disability for further information or request accommodations at 4155546789 voice or 4155546799 tty. A reminder to all of our guest today to speak slowly into the microphone to assist our captioner and interpreters. We thank you for joining us. Thank you councilmember wong. Now we proceed with roll call. Cochair chip supanich, present, cochair derek zarda, present. Coun...

Contrast the color strip to the pole to provide greater visibility for lower vision individuals. Slide 8 talks about a few other major improvements on the new train cars. First of all, i talked already about having more doors. Thats going to make getting on and off the train faster and easier and take away for some people that feeling of panic that the doors may close before you have an opportunity to exit. Its going to have a secondary effect of reducing the volume of people going through each ...