[BlindTlk] [BlTlk] Advocating For Accessibility and Public Transportation

[Judy Jones]

If you have good orientation and mobility skills, you can go anywhere safely.

Regarding transportation, the best thing to do is target the city you are interested in, then do further detail checking on their transit system.

I'm old enough to have traveled all my life independently, and used either cabs or mass transit.  This was in the day before accessibility was even a major topic of discussion.  You can do it.

Judy


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Yes, I want to learn buses, subway, ETC. 
I wonder what cities will be more accessible so that I can travel independently when I come to America as a blind tourist. 
As blind traviler I think acceseble city which city has good publik transportation sistem, like buses, subway, Train ETC.
I ask, is there a resource I can look at, prepared by the blind with the experiences of the blind people?
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What do you mean by "accessible public
transport?" And ... are you talking about public transportation like buses, or paratransit or what?  I would venture that most medium and large cities in this country have public transportation, and cities like New York, Washington, Chicago etc. have generally good systems.

Dave

At 11:53 PM 4/26/2022, you wrote:
>Hello\
>Which cities have accessibil public transport? 
>Do you have a source for this topic?
>
>Thanks for your sharing.
>Gokhan Gungor.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: BlindTlk <blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Judy Jones 
>via BlindTlk
>Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2022 9:43 PM
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>Cc: Judy Jones <sonshines59 at gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [BlindTlk] [BlTlk] Advocating For Accessibility and Public 
>Transportation
>
>Another thing I would do is to find out if your surrounding areas have 
>transit and advisory councils you can glean from, as to how transit is 
>promoted in their areas.
>
>As blind people, my husband and I have made it our business to only 
>locate in areas with mass transit.  Without it, we could not be 
>independent or live any kind of quality life.  We have bought and sold 
>four houses, now retired, but transit has been so important to us, no 
>matter where we have lived and worked.
>
>Judy
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: BlindTlk <blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Ericka via 
>BlindTlk
>Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2022 11:35 AM
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>Cc: Ericka <dotwriter1 at gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [BlindTlk] [BlTlk] Advocating For Accessibility and Public 
>Transportation
>
>I do know that there are a lot of places that are rule and have 
>nothing. Absolutely nothing.
>Here in Wisconsin in the northern counties there is only medical 
>transportation that will take you to a doctors appointment and back 
>nothing else. And they come from maybe two counties away to pick you 
>up. There’s absolutely nothing not even greyhound that links 
>communities together.  It certainly makes for a blind person a 
>challenge to get employed let alone getting to the grocery store. Thank 
>goodness for instant card. Some grocery stores have started doing that 
>type of thing on their own. I grew up in a community like that.
>Thankfully I was a kid and we were riding with family, neighbors or 
>went walking as a group because I was a kid. Would never live there 
>now.
>
>Ericka Nelson
>
> > On Apr 26, 2022, at 1:08 PM, Judy Jones via
> BlindTlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> >
> > Our transportation is a county authority
> and takes accessibility seriously.
> >
> > Are you saying you have no city or county mass transit? No cabs either?
> >
> > Some places actually have all three. Have you
> investigated any private transit companies, they do exist.
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Armando Vias via BlTlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
> > Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2022 10:40 AM
> > To: BlueSkies via BlTlk <BlindTlk at nfbnet.org>
> > CC: Armando Vias <armando at armandovias.com>
> > Subject: [BlTlk] Advocating For Accessibility and Public 
> > Transportation
> >
> > Hello everyone,
> > Is anyone currently advocating for city
> accessibility and access to public
> transportation? In the city where I live in, there is a lack of public 
> transportation, except Uber and Lyft.
> > I actually started a petition to the Mayor of
> the city to make it accessible to the blind.
> > https://change.org/WarnerRobinsAccessibility
> <https://change.org/WarnerRobinsAccessibility>
> > If you have any questions, please let me know.
> > Thank you.
> > Sincerely,
> > Armando Vias


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