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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...

Barts got a problem in this community. Im hoping when all is said and done, we can get to a place where we are all talking to each other an listening to each other with more clarity and more insight and more respect. The Disability Community is broad, vast and the movement of folks with disabilities who sought independent disability rights started here in berkeley. I think one of the things that is not being stated clearly is process. Just on a personal note, several of us, myself included was p...

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 ...

The dimensions of the accessible path and i even need to hold it close to my eyes to read them to you, but the engineering measurement for the path from the doorway to the wheelchair zone is 48. 83 inches and the path to the aisle is 42. 78 inches. The car thats pictured there is a cab car which is a car that has a train operator space, the cab where it operates. The noncab cars will look very similar except instead of the cab there, you will have more seating. 40 percent of the bart cars are ca...

Tickets and traffic violations. Can ustomer Service Complaints about muni drivers and taxi drivers not accepting debit cards as form of payment. We were also made aware of by sf mta that the current contract is under noithsz with negotiations with the drivers. Both parties are had at work with the strike. If this occurs there is transportation available for medical appointments. If a strike would happen, information provided on the para transit website at wchlt website at wchlt sf para transit d...