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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 ...

City of San Francisco okay. Ooul welcome, everybody. This is the march meeting of the San Francisco Mayors Disability Council. I 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 ...

Cupertino and in santa clara. East and north bay, 34 degrees apiece antioch and concord but santa rosa now at 30 degrees. And in the central portion of the bay, in the 40s. Later today, we are talking about numbers near or record warmth for the fifth consecutive day. But it comes with a price. It is illegal to burn today. Its the 19th spare the air day of the season. Numberwise in the 60s at the beaches, upper 60s bayside to nearly 70 inland. The extended forecast calls for the unseasonably mild...

Looking at the south bay heavier rain and lp this. Places like salmon tale with moderate rain near pacific cut and San Francisco picking up heavier rain. East bay berkeley oakland. Right over the bay bridge. Charles clifford is live at ocean beach where did this really been coming down at times. Charles clifford is live at ocean beach charles how are things reporter raining all day here at ocean beach creek so much rain as it was collecting on the road away taking a look at video they had to clo...

Here with the details, and at this point, do we have any idea what went wrong . Jessica, fire officials are trying to figure out what went wrong. She likely died instantly. The victim was an expert at this thrillseeking activity. Popular with many from the bay area who visit hawaii. On her facebook page, she talks about missing her friends in california but loving her life in hawaii and getting to work in the rain forest. She was working this morning when tragedy struck and fell 150 feet into a ...

Seats will be a different color. One of the things that we heard early in the project when we put out that solicitation, i referenced earlier what you like or dislike about the old train cars . We often heard people say that can ustomers dont frequently enough yield to senior and disabled seats to those who need them the most. One of the improvements we are making is to make those seats a different color and to improve the signage of those seats to help encourage people to stand up and yield tho...

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...

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...

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 that dont know what the nex...