Page 4 - Accessibility Task News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

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 looks like a lazy street in the morning, in the afternoon becomes a circus. One afternoon i was driving ...

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 room 400 of San Francisco city hall. City hall is accessible to persons using wheelchairs and other ...

Now battery trains bart trains do open from both sides. Its almost like i need to do 2 cases. If it opens from the bottom of that drawing, the left side of the car, as you board, you would have a double side ways facing green on the left and that would be for seniors and people with disabilities. A little bit to the right is a tripod pole right in the middle of that area but offset a little bit off center to open up a wider aisle. Sort of diagonally to your left about 45 degrees will be the wheelchair designated area. To your right as you end would be two blue side facing seats that would be g...

Thats all i have to say. Thank you. Thank you. Next, we have Jessie Lorenz executive director, senior disability action San Francisco. All right. Thank you council and thank you mr. Wine stein for the wonderful presentation. My name is Jessie Lorenz and im the executive director of the independent resource living San Francisco. Im here to talk about an issue about but of the critical avenues of the issues of our center and also for the California Foundation for independent Living Centers. A statewide organization that is comprised of independent Living Centers from all around the state of cali...

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 those seats. In addition to those seats we will have two wheelchair zones as the old cars do that compl...