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Guide to Accessible Transportation Released

Wed, 03/22/2000 - 1:00am — Karen Stevenson
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People with disabilities and frail elders need transportation to get to work, school, recreation, medical services, and all the other activities of daily living. Public transportation needs to become accessible for blind persons, those who are partially sighted, people with mobility and cognitive impairments, and persons who are deaf, deafened, or hard-of-hearing. Disabled persons and seniors need the mobility provided by buses trains vans, taxis, and other means of transportation.

The Guide to Accessible Transportation was designed to outline ways in which transportation can be made more accessible, and is being sent to people in countries around the world to help introduce persons with disabilities to different types of accessible transportation; help transportation professionals, social service workers and government officials to review different approaches to transit system accessibility; and assist clergy, religious workers, members of communities of faith, and others to be advocates for accessible transportation in their communities.

The guide is published by the Health and Welfare Ministries of the General Board of Global Ministries of The United Methodist Church, and has been posted by the Institute on Independent Living.

People with disabilities and frail elders need transportation to get to work, school, recreation, medical services, and all the other activities of daily living. Public transportation needs to become accessible for blind persons, those who are partially sighted, people with mobility and cognitive impairments, and persons who are deaf, deafened, or hard-of-hearing. Disabled persons and seniors need the mobility provided by buses trains vans, taxis, and other means of transportation.

The Guide to Accessible Transportation was designed to outline ways in which transportation can be made more accessible, and is being sent to people in countries around the world to help introduce persons with disabilities to different types of accessible transportation; help transportation professionals, social service workers and government officials to review different approaches to transit system accessibility; and assist clergy, religious workers, members of communities of faith, and others to be advocates for accessible transportation in their communities.

The guide is published by the Health and Welfare Ministries of the General Board of Global Ministries of The United Methodist Church, and has been posted by the Institute on Independent Living.