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— Kris Vera-Phillips (@queenkv) April 16, 2014Not everyone is excited about the brand new fleet of BART cars that's supposed to make your commute quieter, more comfortable, and less smelly.
BART riders with disabilities say the new fleet -- expected to roll out in the next two years -- actually offers less access for them. Specifically, the new design has added handhold poles in the middle of the entry ways, giving standing passengers something to hang onto while the train is moving.
But that pole is blocking the ability for wheelchair users and other riders with disabilities to access handicap seating, says Jessie Lorenz, executive director of Independent Living Resource Center San Francisco, which serves 5,000 people in San Francisco.
The issue has motivated passengers with disabilities and activists to protest the grand opening of the new BART fleet tomorrow afternoon.
"Our message is simple: they need to remove the damn poles," Lorenz tells SF Weekly.
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A fire report made public today claims the spectacular March 11 blaze that engulfed a 176-unit mixed-use building was accidental, and likely triggered by "a hot or smoldering object."
Worldwide acclaim and fanfare greeted the unveiling of the world's first marijuana vending machine in Colorado yesterday. It was big news (somehow, putting weed behind glass in a box was so popular and lucrative it took several years to happen) -- but even bigger news should be that the machine hasn't been robbed yet.
In Denver, the biggest city in the country to experiment with marijuana legalization, crime has dropped in the three months since pot stores for adults opened Jan. 1, according to reports in PolicyMic and elsewhere.
That's good news for Denver, as it's due for a tourist influx in the next few days. The city is this weekend hosting the High Times Cannabis Cup -- and it's full-on full-melt madness, with as many as 100,000 people expected for the Sunday smokeout in front of the state Capitol building.
The woman who was extracted from underneath a BART train last night has reportedly survived.
We read the good news on KTVU this morning which says a source told the news station that the woman had a head injury but was still talking.
BART trains came to a screeching halt just before 5 p.m. yesterday after the woman got stuck underneath a train at Montgomery Street station. BART was forced to close the station to all commuters for over an hour, causing massive delays along the entire system.
If you are anything like us, you were asleep on the couch by 11 p.m. last night. In other words, not even a really badass-looking moon could keep our eyes open.
But thanks to moon buffs, night owls, and Flickr, we were still able to enjoy the Blood Moon that appeared last night.
And now you can, too:
You know the drill. It's the Dodgers and the Giants with first place on the line yet again. And it just never gets old, does it?
San Francisco faces its rival at AT&T Park this time, for the first of three beginning tonight, in what is the second of six series between the clubs. The Giants took two of three in L.A. to open the season and have won four of seven games since.
The Dodgers have won five of six and just beat the crap out of the Dbacks in a weekend sweep at Arizona. And doesn't everybody?
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