[Nfbwv-talk] transportation a major issue in West Virginia

[keri]

charleen. some can't aford to move...
keri

"Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away; and all the things I want to 
say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak 
my heart."
--Robert Sexton

"For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there 
is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to 
receive it."
--Ivan Panin

Find that guy that will pick up every piece of your shattered heart & put it 
back together; Replacing it with a piece of his.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charlene smyth" <cs.nfbwv at frontier.com>
To: "NFB of West Virginia Discussion List" <nfbwv-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2012 8:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfbwv-talk] transportation a major issue in West Virginia


> Keri,
>
> I feel that West Virginia definitely needs transportation to get in and 
> out of the state, to other parts of the state, and in some areas. 
> Unfortunately when you are blind and live in West Virginia, you pretty 
> much have to move to an area that has good transportation such as 
> Morgantown, Fairmont, Clarksburg, Bridgeport, Charleston, Huntington, and 
> possibly a few other places.  I live in Clarksburg and work in Bridgeport 
> and we have a county bus, two taxies, and a Grayline out of Morgantown 
> that comes through here with stops in Fairmont, Morgantown, and two stops 
> in Pittsburgh at the bus station and the airport.  I know it shouldn't 
> have to be this way, but the reality is that blind people need to make up 
> their minds to move to an area with transportation instead of staying 
> stuck in an area where they are so dependent on others and more often than 
> not do without what they need or want.
>
> Charlene
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "keri" <wvucountrygirl729 at gmail.com>
> To: "NFB of West Virginia Discussion List" <nfbwv-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 10:52 PM
> Subject: [Nfbwv-talk] transportation a major issue in West Virginia
>
>
>> greetings fellow listers,
>>
>> I wanted to address what I believe is the major issue in WV is 
>> transportation. In many areas there is no public transportation what so 
>> ever, or if there is it is unuseable to many for various reasons. For 
>> example. there is a local bus which might as well not exist in Mercer 
>> county. It only covers a few places in Bluefield, Princeton, and a stop 
>> in Athens. It offers medical services to anyone in the area but 
>> apparently I live only ten minutes away from Athens and they don't drive 
>> that far... So there services are completely useless to me. I as a blind 
>> person have to plan ahead and try to find someone to drive me where ever 
>> I go. Sure there is a cab company in Princeton, but I live about 20 
>> minutes to a half hour from princeton about 10 to 15 miles. Who can aford 
>> a few dollars per mile when they need to go somewhere. What I've seen is 
>> that Huntington is the most accessable town in the state. This is very 
>> sad because many of us are not only moving away from WV because our 
>> partic
>> ular field is hard to come by for jobs here, but that the transportation 
>> is so lacking and almost impossible to work with.
>> I'm still going to be stuck in WV for a while to come, and although I 
>> love WV I also hate it. I hate it because I can't go catch a bus or a 
>> cheap cab to just go somewhere on the spur of the moment if I choose. I 
>> have to constantly plan and always drag someone along with me. This makes 
>> adventuring and exploring diffucult.
>>
>> When traveling to other states and seeing what they have to offer not 
>> just to disabled but to everyone, and how it makes a difference in every 
>> day life it makes me realize just how downhill and behind our home state 
>> has become. I hate huge cities very much because of crowds and such, but 
>> I love them for their accessableity. Not everyone has friends or family 
>> to drive them. I can't even go out and get a job for myself because I 
>> have no transportation to get there. Here is the question I pose. How is 
>> someone supposed to get out there and try to work/go to school/be a part 
>> of the community with no way?
>>
>> Also, what can we do to solve this issue?
>>
>> I'm interested to read responses to this email. :)
>>
>> keri
>>
>> "Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away; and all the things I want 
>> to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will 
>> speak my heart."
>> --Robert Sexton
>>
>> "For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth 
>> there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart 
>> somewhere to receive it."
>> --Ivan Panin
>>
>> Find that guy that will pick up every piece of your shattered heart & put 
>> it back together; Replacing it with a piece of his.
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