[Travelandtourism] {Disarmed} What do you think aboutthis articleDinner train story in the Columbia Tribune in Missouri

[cheryl echevarria]

Well let's take it one step further, being that we are blind, and some of us are in wheelchairs, not myself, there are times I need one due to heat and from the diabetes and transplant meds, that I run out of gas.

But if it was an issue with a blind traveler, and we couldn't get on the train without assistance, or didn't have braille menus etc.

What then, again, the article is about wheelchairs, but at the same time, what would we want from the same situation as a blind person.

It is just to get people talking, start discussions.

I hope to get more people posting things, or questions that they have in reference to traveling in any situations so that we can all learn and give advice.

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Cindy Handel<mailto:cindy425 at verizon.net> 
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  Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 9:13 AM
  Subject: Re: [Travelandtourism] {Disarmed} What do you think aboutthis articleDinner train story in the Columbia Tribune in Missouri


  Not being a wheelchair user, I don't really follow what the needs and 
  desires of wheelchair users are.  But, I'm wondering if a separate 
  accessible train car will be acceptable.  If the wheelchair user can get on 
  the train through an accessible car, will he/she then be able to navigate to 
  another car to have dinner, or must he/she remain in the separate accessible 
  car?

  I really don't think it's unreasonable to ask wheelchair users to wait for a 
  short time to see if this venture will be ongoing, before accommodations are 
  made for them.

  Cindy 


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