Research suggests that when looking for a place to settle, the most important criteria for those aged 24 to 44 is easy access to transit.
Grants focus on transportation and tech solutions to reach medical appointments, access healthy food, and improve paratransit.
Properties in Maryland, Virginia, and the District have potential for commercial, residential, and/or mixed-use development.
As ADA approaches the 30-year mark, transit agencies are evaluating the improvements made and what still needs doing.
One of the most innovative CEOs in America and CEO of Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA), Robbie Makinen, joined Paul Comfort to discuss the need to interweave new technology into public transportation. He also shared an idea of how KCATA might adopt autonomous vehicles into their service.
Nationally, the CSAs of Denver, New York/New Jersey, Washington, D.C., and the San Francisco Bay Area are rated the highest on the transit-accessibility scale.
When the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Paralyzed Veterans of America hold the 34th National Veterans Wheelchair Games in Philadelphia from August 12-17, SEPTA will have the opportunity to demonstrate its commitment to those who have served the Armed Forces. The Authority will provide transportation for the more than 500 veterans with spinal cord injury, amputations and neurological disorders that will travel to Philadelphia from across the country and the United Kingdom to compete.
Commemorating the 24th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which was signed into law by President George H.W. Bush on July 26, 1990.
Currently, Philadelphia has only eight disabled-accessible cabs out of a total of 1,800 registered taxis.
Possible new projects include enabling all residents to get to two transit routes within a quarter-mile of where they live or work, and having transit operation hours mirror the times people travel to and from work. UTA is also working on a distance-based fare system.
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