Accessibility
Basics
OPINION: New York Needs a ‘Disability’ Agenda
March 10, 2021
Talking Headways Podcast: Uber’s Transit Moves
This is a must listen: A chat with an Uber honcho about avoiding the development of more car-oriented development, post-COVID, which would be a disaster.
October 1, 2020
Report: We Really Need to Divert Money from Drivers to Transit Users
September 10, 2020
New App Makes Mass Transit Accessible to People with Cognitive Disabilities
A Columbus, Ohio research team is getting closer to releasing an app that could soon give people with cognitive disabilities more independence on mass transit systems across America.
June 25, 2020
Op-Ed: Whose Streets? Our Streets!
June 9, 2020
Protests Lay Bare Structural Racism in Transit Policing
June 4, 2020
Car Dependency Helped Build the Modern Nursing Home Landscape. During COVID-19, It’s Killing our Seniors.
The elderly have the highest risk for dying of the novel coronavirus in the U.S. The car-focused world many of them live in just makes it worse.
April 30, 2020
Pandemic Underscores Difficulties Accessing Transportation for People with Disabilities
April 21, 2020
Mixed Signals: ‘Beg Buttons’ and the Pandemic
April 21, 2020
Rear-Door Boarding Policies Leave Disabled Riders Stranded
CTA bus drivers have every right to be concerned about their health during COVID-19. Even with plummeting transit ridership, dozens of people are riding their vehicles every day, creating the potential for viral exposure. Several CTA employees have tested positive for the coronavirus, and tragically last weekend bus driver Kim Henderson passed away from the disease, just short of her 42nd birthday.
April 20, 2020
