Loop, it was wonderful. You can hear everything through the head set its just a good technology. Those are my comments oovment briefly we are going to be indicating displaying on the platforms whether its a new or old train and creating a symbol by it to be tied to the marking on the flat form. So there will be an audio, visual, a color coding tie in between the designated cars and the cars will have a symbol. It will be a green bike symbol or ada blue wheelchair area on the side of the car. You will get a clue on the side of the car. There will be passengers that are confused. I have one more comment about the bicycles. Its going to be door 1 and 3. What was the compromise for the bikes . One of the doors will have bikes. Andre ethier 1 or 3 depending on which direction the train is traveling. Thats another confusing part. Okay, thank you. I have a couple of questions. Obviously quite a bit of effort and time went into issues that surfaced last year and i appreciate what bart has done
Wider pursuant to the California Building code. Weve teddy tested it out a lot. We are in the station right now. It will be useful in my opinion to passengers travel by wheelchair. There is also always a conflict to providing between a pathway for blind users and wheelchair users that have to divert across this. There is a wider space between the dots and we are also making it all yellow. Right now there is black. So the purpose behind that is to comply with ada federal and state standards, but we will be marking the door ways in other ways. So people will know where to lineup with the sticker. We are still trying that out. We want to present first and foremost a color contrast. Thats the intent, a visual and tactile contrast for safety purposes for people with sight impairment for that strip. Even though black, people like it to know where to lineup, its not for their convenience and we will communicate that in another way. We are also expanding the directional bars. Right now its 1 f
This took place at the museum of the city of new york and is a little over an hour. To introduce John Tauranac could take the entire evening. John writes on new york architectural history. His books include many subjects including the Empire State Building. His other books include new york from the air, with great aerial photography. Other books include in central new york. There are others. John teaches at nyus school of professional studies. This spring his course is designed an architecture of public transportation. He does tors for the city museum. We welcome and enjoy his tors. His First Published map was undercover map of new york published by new york magazine. He was reader of the 19 he was creator of the 1979 new york subway map. It also included manhattan block by block. John tauranac. [applause] mr. Tauranac greetings. Im going to start with a bit of a digression. I want you to know that im an old fan of this institution. What he think was my favorite thing in the museum of
And this building went up on its site. Whether the Empire State Bank had an office in it, i dont know. Whether they sponsored it, i dont know. But it was called the Empire State Building. Now, today, it was originally an office, a loft building. Today, it is an apartment house. It does have sort of update relationship to the Empire State Building. If you think about superlatives, the architects of these buildings of this building was and they were influenced by the columbian exposition in chicago. Their two most famous buildings were on 6th avenue. They designed the Cooper Department store which was the Worlds Largest Department Store. It was in 1896. They also designed the Department Store on 34th street of Herald Square, macys. They sort of belong in the same league with sugarland and harlem. It was them who designed this building and obviously, this is the real Empire State Building. Its massing is so satisfying. Despite the fact that it is an enormous building. It is 1250 feet high
Was one of the most violent in recent years. Time for weather and traffic on the 1s. 58 degrees outside of the studios this morning. Storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein with your weather headlines. Enough of a spring chill you will need a light jacket and have your sunglasses ready as well. The sunshine is breaking out as the morning clouds that are over us now break up. Right now, though it is rather chilly. Shenandoah valley in the mountains generally around 50 degrees. In the low to mid 50s in the nearby suburbs and across the rural areas of maryland and virginia. Generally in the mid 50s, upper 50s right around the Chesapeake Bay and on the shore low to mid 50s. Waiting for metro youll be in the 50s. A lot of clouds around and then sunshine breaking out between 8 00 and 9 00. It will be up around 60 degrees. Next weather and traffic on the 1s a look at your drive time commuter forecast for this friday. Now were looking at traffic so far, pretty good. Overall, not as much constru