[Oagdu] Chinese Bus Service: Shouldn't they be confronted as Uber is?

Wed Feb 4 14:32:08 UTC 2015

I work with the transportation group here in Oberlin.
Uber is nation wide.

> Hi Chaim,
> I have never heard of this bus service. Do you by any chance remember the
> name of it? Do they advertise to the public, or mostly to the Asian
> population? Please don't misinterpret what I am asking, I am just trying
> to understand this company better, I am not trying to be prejudice.
> The whole thing sounds shifty, and I don't think I would enjoy riding on
> this service with or without a dog.
> Deanna and Pascal
>
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> Subject: [Oagdu] Chinese Bus Service: Shouldn't they be confronted as Uber
> is?
>
> Hi All:
>
> As I have been reading the posts on these lists concerning Uber's hearing,
> a thought is dawning on me which I thought I would put out there.
>
> Over the past few years, it seems as though we have had a major increase
> of Chinese immigrants to Ohio. I'm not sure how many of these people will
> actually stay around, or how many of them are temporary residents. My
> apartment complex is swarming with students from the University of Dayton,
> whose millionaire parents are paying for them to attend school here. I
> don't think that this group has anything to do with the folks I am
> mentioning below.
>
> Before moving to Brooklyn last year, my oldest brother brought it to our
> attention that there is now a Chinese bus service which travels between
> Dayton, Cincinnati, and New York City.  Why only these three cities I
> don't know. Perhaps they stop in other places. Anyway, I was going to use
> this service to take a trip, and researched the operation online. I called
> their phone number, and asked the Chinese bloke who answered the phone a
> few things about their service. As I expected, they had a no pets policy.
> I then asked them if they were aware of the rights of guide dog users to
> be accompanied by their guide dogs in travel. The fellow had never heard
> of guide dog use before. He was adamant that I cannot travel on his
> service with a dog. Before this, I asked him if I could be given
> assistance off the bus at rest stops, and he said "no."
>
> I reported my finding to Seeing Eye, and I believe it was Walt Sutton who
> tried to give them a call. The number I passed on to him (which I forget)
> turned out to be that of a Chinese Restaurant. He recommended that I just
> not bother with this service, as for all anybody knows, they may be
> operating somewhat illegally anyway.
>
> My oldest brother paid us a visit over the summer and used this Chinese
> bus service to get himself back to New York. Before using it, he thought
> it might be a viable means for my (blind) brother and I to travel to and
> from New York. After using it himself, he has changed his mind. The bus
> does not stop at any designated station terminal. They pick people up in
> neighborhoods which are out in the middle of nowhere. In New York, they
> drop people off in Chinatown, and leave it to them to travel with their
> luggage to where they need to go. It's more-or-less a bare-bones service.
> I'm not sure how crowded the buses are, but the bus, according to my
> brother, is not nearly as comfortable as a Greyhound. Baring this in mind,
> it's probably not a good idea for any of us to travel on this service
> using a guide. Moreover, I would probably not go to bat, unless I really
> thought I would use this service.
>
> What does concern me, aside from the fact that to them a guide dog is as
> good as a pet, is the fact that they seem the least concern with regard to
> assisting any blind person, even if they are not using a dog.
> Parenthetically, I believe I asked the guy if their buses had wheelchair
> lifts, and apparently they don't. It seems to me that this service may be
> in violation of the ADA under many accounts. I'm wondering if these people
> should be informed that if they are operating a service in the United
> States, they must play by the rules. While I strongly feel the answer is
> obviously "Yes", I'm wondering if taking them to task will really
> accomplish anything. Somebody told me that the way they can even have a
> service like this is to do things under the table. Even if they are
> confronted, will they really listen?
>
> What do you all think?
>
> Chaim
>
> Chaim B. Segal
> Customer Service Representative: Sinclair Community College, Dayton, Ohio
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