Latonia, i wanted to touch upon a comment that you made earlier regarding Service Animals and some of your clients experienced barriers to housing with animals. I want to say that is against the law under the housing amendments act. There are resources out there from our office. If a client is trying to get housing through a city program or city housing, they can file a complaint with our office and there is another city office to help mediate issues with disabilities at the human rights commission. Im not sure if you have already worked with them or referred clients to them, but there is another great resource and there is another nonprofit called the housing equality law project but they are a Legal Law Office that offers free consultations and another important thing for clients to know is what their legal rights are and the reasonable accommodation process that takes place in housing. So even though housing might have a no pets policy, Service Animals can be exempt from that and ev
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 general seating. Then about 45 degrees to your right as you enter are more of the green priority seats. So that gives you a general sort of 360 sense. We are thinking about ways to Better Community with people with Vision Impairment and blind folks, this diagram. I have recently as today been in touch with the lighthouse for the blind and talked with them about possibly doing an tactile version of
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 california. We have some issues with the current bart car design and thats why we are here today. I want to premise my comments by saying 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 m
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, when i toured that car, i was told by the friendly guy who helped me fill out the is survey was that i can sit in the back of the car. When i was told that segregation was a thing of the past, he said i would get used to it. Thats a problem for me because civil rights and equal opportunity and inclusion are not about segregation, but its an even bigger problem for bart because if bart is not gettin
Capacity and pace with that growth. We think that the train control upgrade project will have a significant effect on being able to put more trains through the entrance by transbay. We dont know at what point where we do reach the capacity where train control improvements arent helpful anymore and even if we had more cars we couldnt use them. Once we get to that point, the region just needs to think about other ways to improve capacity and i know the metropolitan Transportation Commission has left a number of options. It could involve a bart tube or other forms of transportation. That could be a major regional question. Then i also had one more question. For those that couldnt see the powerpoint on the screen, i think it was difficult to fully visualize the placement of the pole in relationship to the door openings and the accessible seating. Could you maybe go back to your powerpoint and walk us through that specific issue so people can visualize it . Sure. So, you are looking for me