Transit Access for Americans: A Proposal for the Next Stage of Implementing the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 |
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| Authors: | Michael A Winter Fred Laurence Williams |
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| Institution: | the Director, Office of Civil Rights of the Federal Transit Administration, U. S. Department of Transportation in Washington, DC. Formerly, he served as associate administrator for Budget and Policy of the Federal Transit Administration. Mr. Winter has served in senior policy roles in the independent living movement and in public transit at the local and national levels.;a staff member in the Federal Transit Administration Office of Policy Development in Washington, DC. He co-authored (with David Lewis) Policy and Planning as Public Choice: Mass Transit in the United States;(1999). |
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| Abstract: | Formany Americans with disabilities, transit is the only path to real opportunities. An open society for them depends upon increased transit services for all Americans. Many transit professionals, however, daunted by transit needs and worn down by their critics, wallow in cost issues, ignoring transit's real value to their communities. The key to improvement is to measure transit benefits that are intuitively obvious to most taxpayers. Empirically, accessible transit proves to be the most valuable transit to passengers and to other taxpayers as well. |
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