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 ustomer. So case in point, received a call from our county Clerks Office who wanted to find out the requirement of whether it was necessary to provide a sign Language Interpreter for a guest to a civil ceremony. So, a hearing couple decided, they made an appointment to come to city hall and get married in the mayors balcony. They invited family members and friends and one of them happened to be d
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 their hard work and good advice in helping us better meet the needs of people with disabilities. In 2013, we had a variety of preliminary mock ups and prototypes. In july of 2013, we had what is called a soft mock up, a first level mock up of the new train car at the mcarthur station and we had 25,000 people come through and participate and walk through including a special session we did at that
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 important issue today and we appreciate your patience. Just right off the bat, thank you for coming today and talking to us about these issues. They are great bart cars. One of the questions i had was, could you give me your impression or your opinion on how, on the process for how the bart accessible task force has been working with bart representative and if you can shed some light for how that pr
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, present, harriet c wong, absent, councilmember roland wong. Present. Item 1. Welcome introduction, and roll call. Item 2, action item and reading and approval of the genetic. Item 3, Public Comment. Items not on todays agenda but within the jurisdiction of the mdc. Each speaker is limited to 3 minutes. Item 4, information item. Report from cochair sup initiate. Item 5 information item. Report from the
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 as bicyclist and others who might need a little more time to be able to use the doors successfully. Secondly, the new cars will have much better cooling systems. The old cars that were designed in the 1960s really were designed for all seated people because at that time bart could accommodate all the demands and seat everyone. And for that reason, the cooling systems were designed to deliver air to