I've never thought much about what it would take to get from the BART parking lot down to the BART platform in a wheelchair.
There is an elevator at the North Berkeley BART station, but it's located far away from the actual entrance to the station. So if one takes the elevator down, how does one pay for the train fare? And parking?
Two separate answers to those questions. One simple. One not so much.
Sidebar: Are they called turnstiles? In the New York subway, they are certainly turnstiles, but what about BART? I did a little research online and found out that the official name of the BART "turnstiles" is "flipper thingees." (True story)
Don't get too excited about no flippers down here at the platform level. If you don't tap your card here (fare cheater!), they'll get you at the other side when those flippers will stay in their locked and upright position as you try to exit at your destination.
In essence, it looks like someone in a wheelchair, assuming they drove a car to the station, would have to go the main entrance, ask the station agent to let them through the handicap accessible door, go the parking validation reader to pay for parking, and then turn around, leave the station, cross back through the parking lot, and then take the elevator down!
That just doesn't seem right. I'll have to ask about this as I continue to plan out how I'll get to work next week. Stay tuned.