[Travelandtourism] title VI

Sat Dec 21 18:31:26 UTC 2013

Tracie thank you for posting. In the coming months margo and I will be speaking about these and other issues on the Echevarria travel show.  As a division we need to pit our heads together and see if we can work with national office for guidance on these issues. We also need people showing up for our meetings for this as well.

Happy holidays all.

Cheryl Echevarria
President
NFB Travel and Tourism Division

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-------- Original message --------
From: Tracie Inman <tracieinman at yahoo.com>
Date:12/21/2013  1:14 PM  (GMT-05:00)
To: NFB Travel and Tourism Division List <travelandtourism at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [Travelandtourism] title VI

Here in Atlantic Beach we have JacksonvilleTransportationt Authority (JTA) and Dial-A-Ride.  Dial-A-Ride doesn't allow any one who isn't a senior citizen to use their system and they don't leave the beaches.  JTA is not very dependable.  We have had numerous issues with drivers being late or not showing up at all, drivers dropping off totally blind/deaf-blind riders in the wrong location, and drivers refusing to leave their vehicle.  We do have members of the NFB attend JTA meetings, but in the 25 years I've used the service I have seen little or no improvement.  The system is so unreliable that it is easier to struggle with getting some one sighted to take us from point A to point B than to depend on JTA.

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On Saturday, December 21, 2013 11:07 AM, David Andrews <dandrews at visi.com> wrote:

Cheryl, it is all relative.  Where I live I don't have service after
5:45 in the evening, and nothing on weekends.  Granted I live in a
suburb, somewhat outside twin cities, service in inner ring of
suburbs, and cities is better.

Dave

At 02:53 PM 12/12/2013, you wrote:
>Well here in NY, it is not all run by the MTA, out here on Long
>Island, it is run by private companies. Suffolk County Bus here
>where I live, and in Nassau County, for the past 2 years is NICE.
>Nassau Inter County Express. I wish it was on MTA, we would have
>better service here in Suffolk County. We don't have Sunday service,
>which Nassau County has, and we don't have or late night service,
>our bus stops running at about 7pm or maybe a little later, so we
>are trapped in the county if we wanted later bus service or Sunday.
>
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> > From: atlanticstar1 at gmail.com
> > To: travelandtourism at nfbnet.org
> > Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 15:48:38 -0500
> > Subject: Re: [Travelandtourism] title VI
> >
> > Cheryl:
> >
> > Yes we do have a transportation board here and there are a couple of
> > qualified disabled individuals who serve on it so we are represented and
> > they are doing the best they can do under the political climate.
> >
> > Unlike New York, Pennsylvania and even Washington D.C. the State
> of Georgia
> > doesn't fund Marta however, they do have some say so on how Marta
> spends its
> > money.  The politicians feel that public transportation is to
> expensive for
> > a State Government to afford and it would be better off in the hands of
> > private Companies.  Most of the States elective voters don't live where
> > public transportation is needed, so there's no reason for them to
> side with
> > us.
> >
> > Also there's this belief down here that having public
> transportation brings
> > more crime so usually once an area loses its transportation, it never gets
> > it back.  So as you all can clearly see, we face an up hill battle between
> > the polotitions and the State elective who's against us anyway.
> >
> > DJ Reese
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- Thank you Maurice Shackelford.
> > As you Maurice is the Vice President of the Division, but we need
> all of you
> > posted on these issues in your area as well!
> > Maurce, we have Margo Downey that was appointed by the Governor
> here at the
> > Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority's board of Commissioners.
> > What about you trying to get on the transportation board where you live,
> > each county should have one, I have been trying to get on mine hear for
> > awhile, and now I have to talk with the new Legislator of my district,
> > because he wasn't re-elected.
> >

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