Ron Brooks

VP, Transit Market Development, American Logistics

How high-tech tools can help improve transit access and accessibility

People with disabilities continue to list transportation as either the number one or number two barrier to employment and full social participation.

Virtually every transit agency has a few angry customers, and I used to be one. I depended on transit and when it failed, it was maddening.

It seems that transit has a love-hate relationship with advocates, and many disability community advocates feel the same way about transit.

I was born with very poor eyesight, and by the time I turned 14, I traded in my poor eyesight for a long white cane and lessons in Braille.