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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 that dont know what the next stop is or other Important Information like transfer information, the de...

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 large print and braille. Please ask staff for any additional assistance. To prevent electronic intere...

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 specific person with a disability or a can ustomer, but also to the individuals associated with that can...

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 that there are quite a few features that have been added to the new train cars that are testament to...

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 staff and go directly to Public Comment. Thank you for being patient with the crowd. This is a very im...