[Blindtlk] Hiring Drivers Re: Paratransit Vs. fixed Routes

[Roberthansen1970@gmail.com]

That is a problem.  I have run into this situation in smaller clicky towns.  One can feel cut off and not welcome.  I can tell you churches will give you the cold shoulder.  There is no communit   in community anymore.y
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Date: Monday, May 02, 2011 3:18:25 pm
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From: "Michelle Medina" <michellem86 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Hiring Drivers Re: Paratransit Vs. fixed Routes

Same here!

On 5/2/11, Michael <bonsai1b at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> ditto Cindy....I have the same experience.
> Michael
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> From: "Cindy Handel" <cindy425 at verizon.net>
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> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 2:43 PM
> Subject: [Blindtlk] Hiring Drivers Re: Paratransit Vs. fixed Routes
>
>
>> Diane, Your comments made me think about trying to hire drivers.  I
>> thought,
>> in a relatively small city, that it wouldn't be hard to hire drivers.  Not
>> So!  I've posted notices at my local grocery store and attempted to put
>> the
>> request in a newsletter for a rather large retirement community near me.
>> The store notice brought no results.  The person in charge of posting in
>> the
>> newsletter at the retirement community wouldn't even put it in.  She said
>> something about a no soliciting policy in the community and she made the
>> decision that their residents wouldn't be interested.  So, I never got to
>> ask.
>>
>> We've also requested transportation from the local Lions Club, of which my
>> husband is a member.  But, that's also very difficult.  We have gotten
>> rides, on a couple of occasions.  But, for the most part, when my husband
>> asks, there is no response.
>>
>> I don't know what the explanation is, for the Lions Club.  But, finding
>> someone to hire isn't always as easy as it would seem.
>>
>> Cindy
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Graves, Diane" <dgraves at icrc.IN.gov>
>> To: "'Jeanette Fortin'" <jeanette at fortin-home.com>; "'Blind Talk Mailing
>> List'" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 3:31 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Paratransit Vs. fixed Routes
>>
>>
>> Oh yes. This is why fixed route is as limited as it is in Indianapolis and
>> other areas. The well-to-do and upper middle class do not want the busses
>> bringing the inner city folks into their areas. So those who look down on
>> others who choose to use paratransit, should know that there are others
>> towering above the fixed route riders looking down their noses as well.
>>
>> If you live someplace like Chicago or New York and have their quality of
>> fixed rout service in terms of regularity and parameter, you are lucky.
>> The
>> majority of us don't.
>>
>> Diane Graves
>> Civil Rights Specialist
>> Indiana Civil Rights Commission
>> Alternative Dispute Resolutions Unit
>> 317-232-2647
>>
>> "It is service that measures success."
>> George Washington Carver
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