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BART was sued by Disability Rights Advocates due to chronic elevator failures. There is ongoing court monitoring (I believe) of elevator maintenance and repair. Also, BART is now required to provide periodic "elevator updates" over its P.A. system and via signage. Actually, the city of San francisco was itself sued (also by DRA) for its failure to develop and implement a transition plan. I would try the Berkeley/Oakland CIL again at (510) 763-9999. I would also try DRA at (510) 451-8644. There are email addresses, but I don't have them handy. Claudia In a message dated Fri, 14 Jan 2000 9:53:06 AM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] (Jim Davis) writes: > I know that physical, concrete "barriers" are not the kind usually > considered on this list..... but does anyone have any suggestions, about > what's worth seeing & photographing, in terms of "Built Environment" > Barriers to equal accessibility for PWD's, in the San Francisco Bay > Area? > > I will be visiting Sacramento in the next couple of weeks; and will be > making one or two day-trips to San Francisco. For me this is a rare > 3,000 mile trip, and a rare opportunity to study & take photographic > slides (for possible design-teaching use), of accessibility-related > "good examples" or "bad examples" of architectural design, in another > locale. > > Of course I'll look at the BART, the Bay Area Rapid Transit System. Is > is really fully accessible, as I hear? And I'll check out SF's new > museum of modern art building. > > What else in the SF Bay Area is worth seeing, in terms of environmental > accessibility or inaccessibility? > > Is the Embarcadero Center fully accessible? > > Are there any buildings, street-scape "improvements", etc., in the city > of BERKELEY... that are worth seeing, in terms of "good examples" of > "universal design" or at least "accessible" design ? > (My e-mail inquiry on that, to the Berkeley C.I.L. has bounced back due > to an obsolete address being listed on their web-site. Anybody have the > current correct E-Mail address for them?) > > Thanks for any suggestions. > > Jim %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%