Title: Re: [QUAD-L] Transportation
I just wonder if it's considered the same thing as what we have here.
Here it's called paratransit or demand response. Yours sounds like it
might be funded differently. I appreciate it though.
Stacy
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Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 9:44
PM
Subject: Re: [QUAD-L]
Transportation
I live in
Indianapolis, Indiana I�ll see if I can find the guide and rulebook of open
doors and indygo if not you can try contacting Dave Scott he works at IRCIL
the living center and is on the busing committee. Might be able 2 help you a
lot [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 2/16/05
8:47 PM, "Stacy Harim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
That's the
schedule that your bus system runs on. The fixed route from Salisbury
in the winter months doesn't return until that time. In the summer, it runs
every hour on the hour. I can get them to take me to the bus stop and
then I ride the fixed route bus but then I return on the same route as 2:30
bus but will take me longer b/c will go through all the stops. I am going
higher up. I didn't get picked up on Monday until after 3:30 b/c they
didn't schedule me for a return trip. the fight is not over. The
thing is that those are the guidelines they can legally go by without
risking a law suit and that is what needs to change. What city do you
live in again? I told her that other cities don�t run like this one by
talking to other people and she acted as if she didn't believe
me.
Stacy
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From: Houston809 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Stacy Harim <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
; quadlist <mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 6:54
PM
Subject: Re: [QUAD-L]
Transportation
Reading this doesn�t say that its
the law, it says that they could�ve applied as such. Not that
everyone has 2 or its the only way 4 it 2 be done. Open door here is
run by the bus company it cost $2.50 to ride in one direction I can
get a day pass and ride city buses all day $1.50. Open door goes
door to door why fix route got 2 get to nearest bus stop. Open door
and flex route run until 12:00am where ass the regular buses stop
running around 10:00 so go figure. Stacy I�m not saying that you
should keep fighting but don�t lose hope :)
On 2/14/05 7:49
PM, "Stacy Harim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
So I
got them to reduce the price of transportation for me. I
talked to the coordinator for the paratransit however I totally
screwed myself in the process. It turns out that the
paratransit is supposed to run at the same times as the regular
route. Well the regular route does not return to Ocean City
from Salisbury where I am going to school about 35 miles away
until 2:30. My classes on M,W,F are over at 9:50. I
looked up all the things that they are federal law and it turns
out that it is true. It is federal law. I went to the ADA webpage
and from there was directed to the Federal Transportation
Administration website where they have all the information,
guidelines and regulations for the paratransit. http://www.fta.dot.gov/library/legal/ada/FEDREG1001.HTM#37141
<http://www.fta.dot.gov/library/legal/ada/FEDREG1001.HTM#37141>
It is all there if you click on the link. I know
I can write letters and make phone calls but it isn't going to do
anything for me anytime soon. I'll be driving by then I cant
believe that the federal government would have guidelines that
charge double the price and would allow people to get stuck places
for hours on end.
I can handle it I
suppose, I'm not happy about it, but can handle it. I can
always do work at school. They have computer there, just my
computer isn't there which is what sucks. Since I have to
get up at 4:45 in the morning to catch my ride, I try to get a nap
for a little bit before I study when I get home. By the time I get
home I wont have time to do anything. I will have to share rides
and I live the furthest away from pretty much anyone else. Cant go
any further when I only live a couple of miles from the Ocean.
By the time I will get home it will be probably 4 or 4:30.
I will have to eat, shower, try to straighten the house up
as much as I can and I am sure I will have more studying to do.
Man this is going to be a rough few
months.
Thank God I will be driving but
probably wont be before the end of the semester. I have no
idea when I will be able to take care of the things I need to take
care of in order to get the work done and get to the DMV to get my
license. Spring break I have to go get a mess of testing
done in order to get my stoma surgery in the summer.
I'm tired, so tired of losing this battle.
Every time I get something accomplished with these people,
something else gets me. I can't win the battle alone with
the federal transportation. Would anyone else be interested
in helping me write letters complaining about the services that
are provided according to their guidelines? All of them are
here http://www.fta.dot.gov/library/legal/ada/FEDREG1001.HTM#37141
<http://www.fta.dot.gov/library/legal/ada/FEDREG1001.HTM#37141>
if you want to take a look at them. It's a lot of reading
but most of the information that directly is related to someone in
my situation is Subpart F--Paratransit as a Complement to Fixed
Route Service. Things get accomplished in a group, not
just one person writing letters.
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