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

[Jim Barbour]

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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.

Jim

On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 10:41:49PM -0700, Lisa Irving-Pardini via NFBSF wrote:
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> From: NFBSF <nfbsf-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Jim Barbour via NFBSF
> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2019 8:44 PM
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> Cc: Jim Barbour <jbar at barcore.com>
> Subject: [Nfbsf] BART's prototype gates may be dangerous for wheelchair riders, ittle people, toddlers, and service animals
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> 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.
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> Filling out this complaint form is something folks can do right now to help ensure these gates don’t become our new norm.
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> https://www.bart.gov/contact/comments
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> PLEASE SHARE...
> 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.
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> PLEASE contact them about this dangerous situation ASAP.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> These gates snap shut quickly and with a great deal of force. Bad on legs and arms, absolutely dangerous on heads and necks.
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> 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.
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