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

Mon Jan 16 06:54:24 UTC 2012

Hi all.
You are all welcome to come to greeley.
Where there is usually more than an hour wait for a taxi.
The dispatch center is in denver.  The cabs cover all of northern colorado.
Many times there isn't a driver in northern colorado, or the driver has gone 
to DIA, or sometimes gone to wyoming   and not anwered any calls here.
A good example is one night I called a cab to bring me home from class at 
the community college.  I was told 30 minutes.  Then it took three more 
phone calls before I was told that there was no driver and they didn't know 
when there will be one.  Thank goodness that the CAB Board met and did 
business without me.  The ending of the story is that a county deputy gave 
me a ride in the back seat of a cop car.
When you get to know a cab driver, after a while they quit.
You guys are lucky that there are two cab companies to choose from, and 
sometimes there are new ones opening all the time.

Warmly,
Melissa and PJ Green
Don't ask God to make your life easier, ask him to make you a stronger 
person.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Arielle Silverman" <arielle71 at gmail.com>
To: "NFB of Colorado Discussion List" <colorado-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 12:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Colorado-talk] ACCESS-A-CAB, CAB DRIVERS DESCRIMINIATING

> 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
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: colorado-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org
>> [mailto:colorado-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lee Baze
>> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 9:54 AM
>> To: NFB CHRIS
>> 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.
>>
>>
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