Up lets get you up to speed on the markets. U. S. Equity futures are suggesting a positive open and implied open of 70 points for the dow and s p nearly 9 and for the nasdaq a little more than 24 points. Right where we were yesterday before the retail sales report. Heres the other big stories were watching today. Two economic reports due at 8 30 eastern. Well hear from kohls before the bell and this afternoon watch for nordstrom among others and in Corporate News General Electric is going to sell its commercial finance business. This is part of the plan to spin off most of ge capital. The business is worth around 5 billion dollars. The dow closed yesterday just over 18,000 so up or down or up a little some days and down a little other days. Flat lining still. Thats 2015 and really the story this year. Good today though up 72 points indicated on the dow jones up 9 on the s p. Nasdaq, the strongest in premarket trade up 24 indicated up 25 so far on the session. European markets are mixed
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 blind users. Bart usually tries things and to be honest we usually get it wrong but in practice we learn. For this particular example we start out with a 24inch pathway and now its too big, passengers using wheelchairs will complain. Its a pretty long way to traverse an across. Now its 12 inches and now to 6 inches and just as effective for our intend audience and less intrusive for those traveling with leading luggage and wheelchairs. We have expanded our user trial groups. We are sending out invi
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 of an old fleet and we also have a larger diagram thats useful for any of the Council Members or people in the audience. This diagram is distorted to comply with the captioning services. But basically the previous layout has a wheelchair. There is three doors in the new bart train compared to two at our current fleet. The previous design had wheelchair designated area in doors 1 and 3 and end doors on each train. And there is also a pole in the center of each vehicle vestibule. That was the purp
Wider pursuant to the California Building code. Weve teddy tested it out a lot. We are in the station right now. It will be 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 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 bars. Right now its 1 f
Specific do you think we couldve done it within 24 hours . Then we look at the information that we had at the moment that we heard about the event and the first 24 hours, 48 hours and you watched how the information changed and you saw that most of the time the initial information was not 100 correct. And evolves over time. So you are dealing with this evolving situation, uncertainty ambiguity, yet you still need act. And i think the importance of leadership is in that type of an environment where the information is never going to be complete but its going to be inexact. Is going to be a lot of ambiguity. You will be looking through the fog. You are going to need to be able to give advice or someone is going to need to be able to give advice to leadership in terms of options of actions. That needs to be as informed as it can be. So i think having someone like a bobcat like whos been in biodefense for a long time uzbek bob kadlec, or an individual like they been able to offer that kind