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

[kestrell]

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

Comments

Re: Resources for Paratransit Policy

[kestrell]

Thanks, J.! I've started writing a doc that attempts to highlight some of the precise problems PWD experience with programs that fall short of providing reliable transportation to medical care and support services.

Would you be willing to review it and give feedback once I'm done? I would really value your thoughts and suggestions, and I'm trying to keep the doc short.

Re: Resources for Paratransit Policy

[jesse_the_k]

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