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

[Kyle Chellino]

I finally figured it out after spending the moment I woke up to late
evening working on it for crying out loud lol. So far we got 18 people who
signed this petition.

On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 8:59 PM Jean Johnson via IL-Talk <il-talk at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

> Try copying the link and pasting it directly into Facebook. Thats what I
> did and it worked perfectlySent from Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
> -------- Original message --------From: Kyle Chellino via IL-Talk <
> il-talk at nfbnet.org> Date: 7/27/25  3:12 PM  (GMT-06:00) To: NFB of
> Illinois Mailing List <il-talk at nfbnet.org> Cc: Kyle Chellino <
> chellinoramtruck at gmail.com> Subject: Re: [IL-Talk] Help fight upcoming
> RAP and TAP paratransit changes
>   Sign our petition It's still not letting me share it. It'll say share on
> facebook or whateverbut it still does not have a button to do so. I'm
> starting not to like thissight 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> >>>>> Sent from my iPhone>> > On Jul 27,
> 2025, at 1:58 PM, Debbie Pittman <debbiepittman99 at gmail.com>> wrote:> >>
> > > > Sent from my iPhone> >> > Begin forwarded message:> >> >> 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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