And, girl, your city so all alone well, you got the skills to make it you got the chance, go out and take it love is all around no need to waste it and i know that youre gonna wake up you might just make it after all oh, city hall you might just make it after all city hall applause okay. Hello, my name is larry juicy edmonds, and i would like to say to lrc i hope that maybe we can advertise in the central city newspaper because this i know the work theyve done and i love what she talked. I feel there is someone who [speaker not understood]. You felt wonderful with this young lady speaking on our behalf. But i think many of us in sros, we dont know it exists. It would be so great if we could have them put in a community calendar, too, in San Francisco. And my other thing is because a lot of us go through a lot of different [speaker not understood] being disabled. We dont have a right that were victims. I think this would be another great agency to work people were talking about how peop
Had a threeday exercise where we practiced alert and evacuation and notification, then disaster response, and then after that longterm planning for recovery. And Joanna Fraguli played a very Important Role on behalf of the Mayors Office on disability because she was embedded in the joint information senterra long with our interpreter, our American Sign Language interpreter jennifer mantle who worked with the Public Information officers to make sure that Effective Communication that would reach really the entire community was a big part of how the Information Officers would plan their proceedings. They helped the joint Information Center create very simple messages that could be easily understood by all of us. I think my best example that joanna shared with us is that they started to give an evacuation out warning that said if you live at leavenworth or if you live west of this block and you need to travel four blocks southwesterly to get out of the inundation zone, really kind of 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 destination of the train, major delay advisories, etc. We have a 42yearold pa system on most of the cars that doesnt function very well. We also have employees that occasionally do not make announcements for various reasons, some legitimate and some due to employee performance. With the new train cars, we plan to remedy all of those issues. First of all well have a brand new pa system, a modern pa s
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
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