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Tag Archives: paratransit
New Computers, Cochlear Implants, and messed up paratransit services
As I said in my previous post, I am getting a computer later this year. My current desktop is about 5 years old, and I want a laptop. It will probably be sometime this summer. Take that obnoxious McAfee subscription renewal ads! Since I got my iPad, I’ve really enjoyed being able to hold it [...]
Accessibility
Also tagged Apple, blind, cochlear implant, deaf, hearing loss, iPad, iPhone, iZoom, macbook air, public transit, vision, vision loss
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A Collection of Thoughts on Transportation
Does anyone have experience with hiring someone to drive you around? I know this is definitely not something I can do now, but maybe at some point way down the road. Ah, it would be amazing to actually have control over where I can go and when I get there! I am a big fan [...]
Accessibility, Disability Awareness, Uncategorized
Also tagged iPhone, public transit, transloc
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Paratransit Fail
I could probably start a whole new blog just on the unreliable nature of the paratransit services here. After an exhausting week of missed work and appointments, messed up reservations, as well as commutes that last about an hour, I am left thinking, there’s gotta be another way… The sad part about this whole thing [...]
Crazy Week
It has been one strange week. An earthquake and a hurricane in one week. Work has started back, so I won’t have as much time to post as I did during the summer. I’m still trying to make some kind of routine out of my unusual set of hours. I have been dealing with some [...]
Public Transit ADA Features
Have you ever given much thought to what goes on at your typical public transit stop when those doors hiss open? Particularly for buses, but to a lesser extent subway, light rail, and other types of mass transit. Of course you have some passengers disembarking rapidly as others push and shove their way aboard. Often, [...]
Accessibility, Disability, Uncategorized
Also tagged ADA, bus route, fixed bus route, public transit
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Crusade for Better Public Transportation for People with Disabilities.
If you live in the Raleigh-Durham area, please consider going to one of the community meetings for Designing Better Bus Service for Durham. Believe me, as a user of the paratransit service, much needed changes need to be made. I’m in the process of bringing these changes to their attention. One of my biggest challenges [...]
