Disabled in action

Article Abstract:

A variety of local efforts to ensure the disabled access to public transportation under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 are described. The Act's requirements for complimentary paratransit services along regular bus routes has been slowed by funding shortages.

Laws, regulations and rules, Disabled services, Local transit

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Just transportation: new solutions for old problems

Article Abstract:

The air quality impacts of automobile dependence fall most heavily upon minority neighborhoods, making transit planning a major civil rights issue. Neighborhood and minority advocates are ensured a hearing on such issues under well-established federal law.

Environmental aspects, Race relations, Environmental policy

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Transportation and community

Article Abstract:

Society needs better transportation planning to create neighborhoods and community safety. True exchange and access are broader and better concepts than the outmoded planning goal of mobility.

Editorial, Planning, Neighborhood, Community development, Neighborhoods

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