[Colorado-talk] ACCESS-A-CAB, CAB DRIVERS DESCRIMINIATING

[Arielle Silverman]

Hi all,
I don't use Access-a-Cab either, but this doesn't sound like a problem
specific to blindness. Do cabs normally take an hour or more to come
on busy nights? The question is whether cabs are consistently slower
to come if you have a voucher than if you don't. If so then that is a
problem, but it might be caused by the way the voucher system works
and not the fault of the individual cab drivers. For example, if cab
drivers have to give up a portion of what they make from voucher
customers but not from non-voucher customers, then they will be less
likely to pick up voucher customers. In other words, before we blame
it on discrimination we need to find out if in fact the cabs are
slower for vouchers than for non-vouchers. If they're slow for
everybody, then it's not discrimination but just a bad system. If
however they're slower for vouchers than for regular customers, we
should talk to the Access-a-Cab guys about how the system is set up
and whether cab drivers have an incentive to pick up voucher
customers. These are just my thoughts.
Best,
Arielle

On 1/15/12, james triplett <jamestriplett at comcast.net> wrote:
> I do not use the access a cab to much because, You can't hardly get one
> where I live.  I live in Lakewood .  I believe if we can find a cab driver
> that will work with us, we should be permitted to set our own access a cab
> with that driver.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Joe
>
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> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 9:54 AM
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> Subject: [Colorado-talk] ACCESS-A-CAB, CAB DRIVERS DESCRIMINIATING
>
>
> ATT; PERSONS WHO USE ACCESS-A-CAB, THROUGH ACCESS-A-RIDE AT RTD.
>
> Here is THE QUESTION:
>
> How many of you, use ACCESS-A-CAB, in this case METRO TAXI?
> Yow many of you experience more than 60 minuets wait when the following
> conditions occur;
>
> MICROSOFT CONFERENCES' DOWN TOWN
> BRONCO GAMES AT HOME
> WESTERN STOCK SHOW
> TASTE OF COLORADO AND OTHER FESTIVALS
> and then particularly on friday, saturday nights and sundays?
>
> What can we do to make cab drivers treat vouchers such as access-a-cab more
> fairly and evenly?
> Should the NFB create and conduct diversity training for cab drivers?
> Should we demand and insist that they attend?
> Should we demand and insist on general diversity training, and just good
> business conduct?
>
> We welcome ideas and ways and means tried in other states and cities where
> the same issues arose.
>
>
> LEE BAZE
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