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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. Councilmember at tatiana kostanian, absent. Councilmember star laura, absent. Councilmember denise, pres...

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 part of the bart tours that took place at mcarthur station and one of the key flaws in the process, w...

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 door by about a third. I think thats going to be very helpful for people with disabilities as well a...

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 cab cars and the other 60 percent have more seating than the cab cars. So, we have put the poles in fo...

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 dom. Com. Www. Paratransit. Com. Through the trip info automated phone system to pair a transit kathy...