[Nfbsf] BART's prototype gates may be dangerous for wheelchair riders, ittle people, toddlers, and service animals

[Lisa Irving-Pardini]

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Subject: [Nfbsf] BART's prototype gates may be dangerous for wheelchair riders, ittle people, toddlers, and service animals

Reposting this with permission from Corbet O'Toole's facebook page.  I think this could be of interest to blind San Francisco Bay area residents.

Filling out this complaint form is something folks can do right now to help ensure these gates don’t become our new norm.

https://www.bart.gov/contact/comments

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Corbett’s post:
BART, my public train system, has installed new fare gates. The top gate will crush my head whenever it malfunctions. Would they do this to their non-wheelchair riders? Absolutely not.

PLEASE contact them about this dangerous situation ASAP.

Details: The new double height fare gates are to "prevent fare evasion". They are installed in Richmond BART and are the prototypes for the new fare gates in all Bart stations.

It's really clear that these are dangerous to people who's heads between 30-48" off the ground. That's a lot of folks.

These gates snap shut quickly and with a great deal of force. Bad on legs and arms, absolutely dangerous on heads and necks.

Image: Photograph of Corbett, a white woman in her 60s sitting in the fare gate aisle. The new double-height fare gates show her head is right in the middle of the top fare gates.