Posts filed under: transportation

Nov. 24, 2010
NPR
For Disabled, Airport Security Hassles Are Old Hat
For air passengers already fed up with being hauled off to the side of the security line for a pat-down or facing aggressive questions about bulky clothing or odd items in their luggage, advocates for the disabled have this to say: Welcome to our lives.
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Filed Under: physical disability, transportation

June 28, 2010
The Boston Globe
The bus can’t stop here
A beer delivery truck. A Comcast van. A Tufts University police SUV. A Verizon van. Even the Toyota Avalon of a Cambridge District Court judge who stopped to get a sandwich.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), handicapped parking, public policy, transportation

May 25, 2010
The Washington Post
MetroAccess paratransit service to be scaled back because of rising demand, cost
Metro is planning to scale back its MetroAccess service for elderly and disabled people as burgeoning ridership creates an unsustainable financial burden, Metro officials and board members said.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), public policy, transportation

May 10, 2010
Associated Press
Bus seat belt laws mostly exclude wheelchairs
Lonnie Acton's lifeless body sat in a wheelchair fastened to the floor of a mangled minibus. No shoulder or lap belt protected him.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), transportation

May 4, 2010
The New York Times
Q&A With Matt Getze, Wheelchair Adventurer
On paper, Matt Getze looks like any other budget traveler. In the past six years or so, he’s gone to Madrid and Prague, to Bangkok and Shanghai. He’s stayed in $10 hostels, eaten street food and haggled over trinkets in Thailand, ridden buses in Malaysia, gone scuba diving in the Philippines and marveled at Angkor Wat in Cambodia.
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March 15, 2010
The Washington Post
Metro aims to use travel training to help disabled passengers and save money
"C'mon, Randy!" Ed Biebel said as he stood and made his way to the train's doors. He then looked back at Randy and called again for him to follow.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), education, public policy, transportation

Feb. 17, 2010
The San Diego Union-Tribune
MTS worried disabled pass being abused
San Diego transit authorities want to tighten their monthly pass policies for the disabled, concerned that able-bodied bus and trolley riders are abusing the program.
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Feb. 7, 2010
The New York Times
A Godsend, Except When It’s Not
Jean Ryan is the kind of New Yorker who makes everyone else feel lazy. She has two master’s degrees and a black belt in tae kwon do. She serves on her local community board. You know the type? Try this one: When she had eye surgery two weeks ago, she refused sedation.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), public policy, transportation

Dec. 29, 2009
The Washington (D.C.) Examiner
Blind man falls onto Metro tracks, isn't the first to slip
A man hit by a Metro train at Gallery Place on Sunday may have tumbled from the platform because he was blind, the transit agency said.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), physical disability, public safety, transportation, visually impaired

Dec. 28, 2009
CNN
Learning to Travel Is Healing
Recently disabled people are relearning how to fly thanks to a special class.
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Filed Under: physical disability, transportation

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