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ADAPT (439)
The Daily Sparks Tribune April 14, 1989 page 4A [Headline] Push a wheelchair through Sparks by Andrew Barbano In all the heat generated by die wheelchair protests this week at the Sparks Nugget, the central issue has been lost: does every bus in the country need wheelchair lifts? I thought Donna Cline might shed some light on the real reason behind the ruckus. Cline, 30, was injured in a rural Nevada accident. She and Debra Donlevy were driving to Carson City late one night 11 years ago. Their car overturned near Hawthorne. Donna survived the long ride to Reno, Debbie was not so lucky. We buried her in Carson City while Cline lay in Washoe Medical Center. Debbie was my wife's daughter. Donna, who has not walked since, worked her way through broadcast school and became a television reporter. In 1985, while working at KVBC in Las Vegas, she was asked to compete for the Miss Wheelchair Nevada title. She won. And added the Miss Wheelchair America title in 1986. She took the cause of better access for the handicapped all the way to Ronald Reagan in the White House. “I leaned a lesson in it all," she told me this week from Springfield, Missouri, where she is a news co-anchor. "I found out that you'll get some awareness but you may not get what you set out to get.“ Peter Mendoza would probably agree. The unemployed Bay Area police dispatcher was here to attend the protests during the American Public Transit Association convention. He lost his job because of transportation problems, and has been protesting at APTA conventions for the past three years. “I‘m not used to being treated like a criminal,“ Mendoza says. “We're not a bunch of violent radicals. There are children here and people who’ve worked all their lives. We’re not radicals. We just want to make a point." He says that a lot of this week's problems could have been avoided. “In San Francisco, we sat down with APTA and the police and worked out the parameters of a demonstration. We even arranged for the peaceful arrest of those who thought they wanted to do so. We worked out training and helped arrange transportation. The judge sentenced those arrested to the overnight time served. There were no hard feelings. Sparks is 20 years behind the times when it comes to protests." Cline says “protest to increase awareness is wonderful but has anything more actually been accomplished? In the four cities I've live in, the demand (for wheelchair ramps) does not meet the number of buses. If you're going to take that amount of money, you should look at usage." She favors a specialized transportation system such as this area's Citilift. One caller to my radio show did not agree. "Separate is always unequal," he snapped. Mendoza, a member of the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District‘s advisory committee on services for persons with disabilities, backs up this argument with numbers. “The Alameda-Contra Costa transit system did a study which showed a $10.84 cost per trip on a ramp-equipped bus. A paratransit system (like Citilift) costs $12.46 a trip." He says that nationally, the paratransit system is more expensive. Citilift figures bear him out. Such service is very specialized and will always cost more. “A bus ramp costs about the same as an air conditioning system, and I consider that a luxury. If you want to get rid of something that costs a lot, get rid of air conditioning." Mendoza feels specialized paratransit systems are good for rural areas, but Metropolitan areas need bus lifts. “Only three percent of the 37,000,000 disabled in this country are working and transportation is the number one reason," he passionately adds. Since I started doing talk shows, I've never had a week where one issue totally dominated as this one has. Many of my phone calls were from wheelchair users. Some Sparks residents feel that Mendoza and his group are just a bunch of out-of-town agitators who should leave. Others have accused the Sparks Police, John Ascuaga and his people of failing to defuse the situation upfront, as was done in San Francisco. Another said Nugget security guards were poorly trained and they have been the main problem. Mendoza's organization, ADAPT, almost seems to be contradicting itself by its actions. ADAPT has made its biggest gains in court and in Congress, not on the protest lines. After Congress passed a law mandating lifts on all buses, APTA got the law watered down to provide for local option. ADAPT sued and won on appeal. The protests this week centered on convincing APTA not to take its appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Ironically, a small news item appeared Tuesday noting the “Disability Awareness Festival" starts April 14. Wrong. It started Sunday at the Nugget. Maybe Sparks just needs to promote better understanding. The best suggestion I've heard came from a retired Sparks Teamsters Union worker named Mitch. He suggested a handicapped awareness day where civic leaders work a day in a wheelchair to see what it's like. I like that idea. So does Donna Cline. Any takers? (Andrew Barbano is a Reno-based syndicated columnist. He host a weekday morning news and talk show an Reno AM radio station KOLO 92.) Photo: President Ronald Reagan standing, head slightly tipped to his left. Seated beside him, and coming up to about is waist, is a woman in a wheelchair with conservatively coiffed hair and attire. Both are looking at the camera and smiling. Caption reads: Donna Cline, a former Miss Wheelchair Nevada and Miss Wheelchair America, with former President Ronald Reagan.
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San Antonio Express News Tuesday, April 23, 1985 Metro, 9-A PHOTO by Jose Barrera: An angry looking Mike Auberger sits in his power chair holding a picket sign that reads "American Disabled for Accessible Public Transit" and the first letter of each word is dark so when you read down instead of across it reads ADAPT. Mike has on his no steps logo ADAPT shirt, and the large sign is taped to his wrist. Caption reads: MIKE AUBERGER OF THE DENVER CHAPTER OF ADAPT HOLDS SIGN WHILE BLOCKING DOOR . . . about 60 members of the group protested at VIA headquarters and held employees hostage. [Headline] Protesters hold workers hostage by Arthur Moczygemba, Express News Staff Writer Members of a group wanting improved access for the handicapped invaded the VIA office at 800 W Myrtle on Monday and used their wheelchairs to block all access to the building for about 90 minutes. Some 34 VIA employees held hostage inside their offices were released after police negotiated for a meeting with local and national transportation officials. The later session led to an airing of demands by about 60 members of the American Disabled tor Accessible Public Transportation. Police rented vans, in case the protesters were arrested. Bernie Ford of Chicago, president of the American Public Transit Association, and Wayne Cook, general manager of VIA, met with the ADAPT members Monday afternoon, but both sides stuck to their respective positions on public bus access for the handicapped. Ford was in San Antonio to attend the western conference of APTA, meeting at the Hyatt Regency Hotel through Wednesday. About 15 police officers were on duty there, Toscano reported. Ford refused to grant the ADAPT members 20 minutes of speaking time before the general transit membership, saying that a scheduled Wednesday work session on handicapped access was sufficient for consideration of the problem. Laura Hershey of Denver and Jean Stewart of Poughkeepsie, N.Y. listed the ADAPT demands, which included a policy change by the mass transit system that all new buses purchased be equipped with lifts that allow wheelchair-bound persons to use buses. ADAPT claims that it costs $8,000 to $10,000 to equip a new bus with lifts for the handicapped, while air conditioning a bus costs more “and doesn't always work." “It's a question of priorities," said Mike Auberger of Denver, where ADAPT is headquartered. After a 30-minute session, the only agreement between the ADAPT members and Ford was allow the group to publish an article in the September issue of the association's monthly newspaper. Cook was grilled about the San Antonio situation by Bob Kafka of Austin, a Texas ADAPT official. Cook said the VIA Para-Transit system used in San Antonio, which uses specially equipped vans to transport the handicapped was implemented upon recommendation by a 26-member task force, which included handicapped persons. “This is why you don‘t see San Antonians join your cause,” Cook said. Kafka retorted that numerous San Antonio handicapped members have contacted ADAPT, and refuted Cook's contention that the majority of the local handicapped persons support the VIA Para-Transit program because it is segregationist. “This is not to say you're lying,” Kafka told Cook, “but you are distorting the truth." The ADAPT members then read a statement submitted by Willis Williams on behalf of the San Antonio Citizens Concerned about Handicapism. The SACCH statement said the group declined to participate in the ADAPT demonstration but added: “It is our long-standing position to support the concept of a multimodal system with both lift-equipped mainline buses and door-to door service vans as the best and most economically sound approach for San Antonio." The statement was issued on behalf of Larry Johnson, chairman of San Antonio Independent Living Services, and Joyce Jenks, president of SACCH. "Twenty (VlA) vans cannot possibly serve 50,000 mobility impaired citizens," according to Jenks. The 60-member ADAPT group was composed mainly of Texans, with - others from Colorado, Illinois, and New York. Three people attending the protest identified themselves as San Antonians who came as individuals because their organizations are tax-exempt and do not participate in demonstrations. Tommy Leifester, 1100 Callaghan, said the VIA task force did not represent the majority of San Antonio handicapped. Leifester assisted Toscano in the negotiated settlement. Leifester stated that although local handicapped persons were not very visible at the protest, "This will help get our story out in public. VIA has been putting out only one side of the story." During the shuttle diplomacy segment the protesters chanted: “We will ride! Access now!" and demands for Cook to meet with them. Cook was not in his office since he was attending the mass transit convention at the hotel. He arrived at 12:10pm. Although the VIA employees were released about 12:30 p.m. and given the rest of the afternoon off, ADAPT members stayed until Ford showed for the meeting about 2:30 pm.