New Elevators, Fare Gates & Mural Introduced at MacArthur BART Station.News Editors OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 10, 2003 BART unveiled three significant renovation projects at the MacArthur BART Station today (Tuesday, June 10). The projects include two new elevators, which are in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act Americans with Disabilities Act, U.S. civil-rights law, enacted 1990, that forbids discrimination of various sorts against persons with physical or mental handicaps. (ADA Ada, city, United States Ada (ā`ə), city (1990 pop. 15,820), seat of Pontotoc co., S central Okla.; inc. 1904. It is a large cattle market and the center of a rich oil and ranch area. ), new fare gates at the busy Oakland transfer station (part of BART's 10-year, $1.5 billion Systemwide Renovation Program), and two new murals by artist Mark Adams Mark Adams is a college basketball analyst on the ESPN family of networks. Adams was a college basketball coach for 17 years. He was known as a program rebuilder who took over programs that were a combined 28-54 (. . BART Director Lynette Sweet, who represents the MacArthur district on the BART Board of Directors, was joined by Michael Winter Michael Winter may refer to:
To install the new elevators, the original "balloon mural," which was also created by Mark Adams, had to be removed, stairways had to be moved and a hole had to be cut between two main support beams to fit the biggest elevator possible into a very small space. The elevators were specially designed by Thyssen Elevator, a contractor that has been renovating BART elevators throughout the system. The new fare gates, which are being installed systemwide on BART, will accept wrinkled tickets, the next generation of tickets will be plastic-coated to resist moisture and feed through the fare gates and add fare machines. |
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