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Improving Transportation Options for Disability Communities
If nothing else,
remember these as you leave.
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The most serious obstacle: barriers in the pedestrian environment, which "far outnumber reported problems with transit or para-transit modes".
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Thus, the significant transportation difficulties are not "necessarily those on which the policy debates have most centered".
Transportation improvement is a necessary but not sufficient condition for the full access and mobility of travelers with disabilities.
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Doctors and medical facilities
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Education and training facilities
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Employment options and job search problems
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A wide range of service providers should work together to tackle to root of the transportation problem for people with disabilities
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