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The agency will resume senior transit operations after Heartland Senior Services discontinued its contract with the agency, in order to deal with budget deficits caused by substantially rising food and fuel costs.
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Includes information about wheelchair accessible vehicle solutions, including adaptive equipment and lift options, such as wheelchair lifts, scooter lifts, wheelchair restraint systems and tie-downs.
Read More →The work includes making all three stations accessible to persons with disabilities.
Read More →The program utilizes senior citizen volunteers who go through training to learn how to read maps and schedules, where Torrance Transit's lines go, the do's and don'ts of public transportation and the sensitivities of seniors and disabled riders.
Read More →Eugene, Ore.-based agency believes all customers have the right to travel throughout the community on public transit, which is a major reason it began retrofitting buses with lifts in the early 1980s.
Read More →Highlights from the APTA Bus and Paratransit Conference general forum, which included presentations from Rick Ruddell, president/executive director of the Fort Worth Transportation Authority; Joyce Olson, CEO of Snohomish County (Wash.) Public Transportation Benefit Area Corp.; Kim Green, president of GFI Genfare; and Art Leahy, CEO of the Orange County (Calif.) Transportation Authority (OCTA).
Read More →When hired, RTA operators receive 48 hours of classroom and on-the-road training. New paratransit operators get an additional 80 hours of training on the road. All operators at RTA also must take a one-day course in which they go through the paces of people with cognitive and physical disabilities.
Read More →Contracts amount to $17.8 million and $7.3 million, respectively.
Read More →Manages the daily operations of Columbus County Transportation, maintains its fleet of 17 vehicles and employs the staff, which includes 16 drivers.
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