How can we begin to address the problem of accessible transportation for people with disabilities?

Recently, some of us were talking about the shortcomings of transit programs for people with disabilities, and one person asked why para-transit programs everywhere were such a mess. I thought that was a great question, so I went looking for a book that addressed it.

This looks like the best book on the general subject of the difficulties involved in planning for public transit and methods for solving some of those problems, so I'm posting the title and links to online excerpts here. Note: this book doesn't address para-transit psecifically, and I haven't read it yet, so can't speak for how useful it actually turns out to be, but I will review it once I read it.
This book is available on Bookshare.org.

Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities (2012)
by Jarett Walker
The table of contents is online here
https://humantransit.org/book/table-of-contents
and the complete introduction to the book is here
https://humantransit.org/book

Book review: Broken Places and Outer Spaces by Nnedi Okorafor

_Broken Places and Outer Spaces_
by Nnedi Okorafor

Full disclosure: this is the book I have been waiting for for months, and I will be talking about it a lot at Readercon. I am still flabbergasted that something I had to keep explaining to people back in 2006, namely,
using science fiction for writing memoir
https://kestrell.livejournal.com/162420.html
has become a recognized genre called speculative memoir
https://electricliterature.com/why-adding-monsters-and-fairies-to-a-memoir-can-make-it-even-more-real/
and that a writer as talented as Nnedi Okorafor has written the quintessential example of the form, all in under one hundred pages.

Okorafor is, at this cultural moment, a critical darling, and lots of people have written lots of prose about the genius of her stories, which might lead a reader to assume that her writing is full of literary flourishes and postmodern pyrotechnics, but this is far from the case. Quite the opposite: Nnedi Okorafor's literary voice is as sleek and precise as the prosthetics she loves describing. If her literal legs fail to take her places as swiftly as they used to, her liteary wings take her--and us along with her--as high and fast as she wishes to fly. And with these transformed and transformative wings, she goes places she probably would never have thought to go when she was able-bodied, a fact she illustrates in describing her admiration for another science fiction trickster, Hugh Herr, which delighted me to no end, because I fangirl for Hugh Herr also. If you don't know who Hugh Herr is, he is a MIT scientist and self-identified cyborg who designs and wears prosthetic legs, and you can find him on Ted Talks, also.

_Broken Places and Outer Spaces_ grew out of a Ted talk, and you can find more about Okorafor and her new book at the Ted Talks Web site:

Learning to Fly: How a hospital stay helped Nnedi Okorafor find herself as a writer
https://ideas.ted.com/learning-to-fly-how-a-hospital-stay-helped-nnedi-okorafor-find-herself-as-a-writer/
"Write your story, and don't be afraid to write
it" -- A sci-fi writer talks about finding her voice and being a superhero
https://ideas.ted.com/write-your-story-and-dont-be-afraid-to-write-it-a-sci-fi-writer-talks-about-finding-her-voice-and-being-a-superhero/