[Headline] Buses for handicapped

S. A. Lighht 4/25/85

There shouldn't be anyone who does not support the cause of the members of American Disabled for Accessible Public Transportation (APTA), that of providing the fullest available mass transit facilities for handicapped people.

Ironically, San Antonio has done far more than most other major American cities in trying to meet that need. The para-transit, door-to-door handilift system which VIA Metropolitan Transit has devised is used to a greater extent by handicapped persons in San Antonio than is used by handicapped citizens in Seattle, where the city spend a phenomenal sum of money putting lifts on each city cus.

Yet, in San Antonio, APTA chose to bring is national traveling corps of protesters (none from San Antonio) and demonstrate at the meeting of the American Public Transit Association and to disurpt business at the VIA offices here for four hours. Those are valuable hours wasted in serving not only handicapped, as well.

Wayne Cook, VIA's general manager, has handled the protests well. He has agreed to establish any type of forum for both handicapped and non-handicapped bus riders to discuss what more might be done to serve bus customers here. The door-to-door system VIA uses for handicapped citizens is not perfect, and Cook recognizes that. He wants to make it better. San Antonians can do that without the intervention of APTA members who have no concern for San Antonio.

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Thursday 11 July 2013

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Thursday 10 December 2015

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