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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 comply with the dimensions required by code of federal registry 1192 which is the ada code for rapid transit. One of the comments that we had from the public early on was that people often stand in the wheelchair zone and our signage is on the wall and the people standing there block the signage. So as other people board, they dont realize its a priority zone and dont yield it without being asked to. F
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
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
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