[IL-Talk] Help fight upcoming RAP and TAP paratransit changes Sign our petition

[Kyle Chellino]

It's still not letting me share it. It'll say share on facebook or whatever
but it still does not have a button to do so. I'm starting not to like this
sight lol.

On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM Debbie Pittman via IL-Talk <
il-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> >> CONCERNED CITIZENS OF PARATRANSIT
> >> CCOFP at YAHOO.COM
> >> Petition link: https://tinyurl.com/mrdkh2ky
> >>
>
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> > On Jul 27, 2025, at 1:58 PM, Debbie Pittman <debbiepittman99 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > Begin forwarded message:
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> >> From: DEBBIEPITTMAN99 at gmail.com
> >> Date: July 27, 2025 at 8:17:28 AM CDT
> >> To: NFB of Illinois Mailing List <il-talk at nfbnet.org>
> >> Cc: DEBBIEPITTMAN99 at gmail.com
> >> Subject: Help fight upcoming RAP and TAP paratransit changes Sign our
> petition
> >>
> >> 
> >>
> >> CONCERNED CITIZENS OF PARATRANSIT
> >> CCOFP at YAHOO.COM
> >> Petition link: https://tinyurl.com/mrdkh2ky
> >>
> >> Join us as we fight paratransit changes. Sign our petition to show your
> support in our efforts to protect transportation services for people with
> disabilities.
> >> On June 12, 2025, the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) adopted
> Ordinance 2025-26 approving an ADA Paratransit Action Plan, which includes
> proposed changes to the ADA Paratransit program to address the projected
> 2025 ADA Paratransit budget shortfall. The plan is to raise the cost of TAP
> and RAP trips from $2 to $3.25 and to limit the number of rides paratransit
> riders can take on RAP and TAP to 30 trips a month. This adoption of this
> Ordinance occurred without input from the disability community—the very
> people it effects. Once again we take the position of “Nothing about us
> without us”.
> >> We understand there is a short-fall, however, eliminating TAP and RAP
> rides to paratransit riders from four round trips a day (240 a month) down
> to one trip a day (30 trips a month) is an extreme cut, which will cause
> major capacity constraints to those utilizing TAP and RAP services, in
> light of the driver shortages experienced within the carriers for standard
> paratransit services. Furthermore, this will cause paratransit riders to
> end up being stranded if they are only allowed to take “one” ride a day
> with no subsequent return trip.
> >> The TAP program has been in place for approximately 20 years and the
> RAP program since the pandemic, and paratransit riders depend extremely
> heavily on those services as a reliable source of transportation for people
> with disabilities. We understand there is a chance of raising fares for TAP
> and RAP since those prices were lowered during the pandemic. However, the
> elimination of available services would be detrimental to the disability
> community who use paratransit.
> >> We are strongly recommending that RTA and Pace come up with a more
> viable plan to make up the short-fall deficit that is less harmful to the
> paratransit riders.
> >> Cordially,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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