presentation by aaron wine stein, bart chief marketing officer and lead design are on bart' new train cars. >> break. the council will take a 10 -minute break. >> item 7. information item. feedback from the disability and senior organizations on the bart new car design. brian bashin, executive director, lighthouse for the #3w4r50i7bd and visually impaired sfravenlt jessie lorenz, executive director, independent living resource center, san francisco. jessica lehman, executive director, senior and disability action. >> public comment is pensacola. item 8. information item. report from the disability disaster preparedness committee. >> item 9. pensacola comment. items not on today's agenda but within the jurisdiction of the mdc. each speaker is limited to 3 minutes. >> item 10, information item. correspondence. item 11, discussion item. councilmember comments and announcements. >> item 12, adjourn. >> >> thank you. next we proceed to agenda item no. 3. public comment. items not on today's agenda, but within the jurisdiction of the mayor's disability council. i have three cards here. we'l

we have our guest speaker today, aaron wine stein thank you. i have a short presentation only 10 slides. but there is a lot of information. so, i will go through it and look forward to your questions and comments afterwards. how many of you have had an opportunity to see perrot -- prototypes and models to see our new cars? if you want more information then i have time for a website that i can recommend at bart .gov/cars. so that is bart .gov/cars. so today i'm going to cover three topics. first some general background information about the project. the second is some specific information about accessible features on the new train cars. and thirdly talk about one of the open issues that's had a lot of discussion in the disability community around the proposed tripod pole. i'm now on slide two which is entitled fleet of the future, why new cars. bart has very old train cars, as you may have noticed if you have ridden the system. most are 40 years old. the same cars have been running. it's the oldest fleet of train cars among big cities in america