[nfbmi-talk] Airrport authority being sued again

[Terry D. Eagle]

Left out in the cold, yet!

Go-along-to-Get-along simply does not work with insincere people involved.

Handicapped East Lansing resident resumes litigation against Wayne County
Airport Authority

By
Sergio Martínez-Beltrán |

The two plaintiffs in legal action that arised after Wayne County Airport
Authority's decision to move the pick-up and drop-off location of the
Michigan

Flyer, AirRide and the SMART bus to the south end of the Ground
Transportation Center of the Detroit Metropolitan Airport, are back in
court.

 

Blind East Lansing resident Karla Hudson and Michigan Paralyzed Veterans of
America CEO Michael Harris filed motion on Feb. 3 to enforce the terms of
the

settlement.

 

According to the motion, Wayne County Airport Authority has failed to heat
the bus shelters, control the climate in the waiting areas of the Ground
Transportation

Center and modify a slope in a pedestrian walkway within the Ground
Transportation Center that would make mobility for people with disabilities
easier.

 

"In my perspective they left persons with disabilities without a choice,"
Hudson said. "It's very limiting for people to be self-sufficient."

 

Hudson said Wayne County Airport Authority said no public transportation
could use Door 402 of the Ground Transportation Center waiting area — the
area

directly outside Door 402 is striped as a no-parking and no-loading zone.

 

The motion, however, claims the airport allegedly have let other public
transportation companies use that area to load and unload passengers.

 

Melissa Nyman, one of the attorneys of Hudson and Harris, said Wayne County
Airport Authority were emphatic the area in outside Door 402 was not going
to

be used to load and unload busses — the area in dispute is closer to the
waiting area.

 

"Almost days after the settlement, they started to allowed people through
that door," Nyman said. "No one should be able to go there, they are
no-loading

zones for a reason."

 

When reached for comment, Detroit Metropolitan Airpot public affairs
director Michael Conway said in an email the "Airport Authority is in full
compliance

with the settlement agreement and will be submitting to the court our
response to the plaintiffs motion."

 

Wayne County Airport Authority's announcement on decision of moving the
locations created initially controversy — the charter buses were moved from
the

international arrivals site to the ground transportation center on Sept. 22.

 

On Sept. 19, Hudson and Harris filed a lawsuit in conjunction.

 

According to an expert report by disability access advocate Gary Talbot,
which was submitted to to court on September 2014, Detroit Metro violated
several

sections of the American with Disabilities Act, such as portions that
specifically suggest waiting areas, security checkpoints and ramps should be
a short

distance from the initial point of the passengers.

 

On Oct. 16, a settlement was reached between the Wayne County Airport
Authority and the plaintiffs.

Source:

 

http://statenews.com/article/2015/02/mi-flyer-legal-action