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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...

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...

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...

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 destination of the train, ma...