[nfb-talk] FW: [acb-l] Fw: [Missouri-l] Fwd: Information Alert onADA Transportation Bill

Fri Nov 9 11:32:28 CST 2007

Hello all,

What specific types of transportation are affected by this legislation?  I 
fail to understand whether we are discussing city buses, Greyhound, door to 
door transportation or which type of transportation is causing such concern! 
I have seen this elsewhere and felt I needed a clearer explanation.

Jim Aldrich

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>Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 19:02:24 -0500 (EST)
>From: Anne Sommers - JFA Moderator <jfamoderator at aol.com>
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>To: chailey4 at ipa.net
>Subject: Information Alert on ADA Transportation Bill
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>Information Alert on ADA Transportation Legislation
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>11/06/07
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>Information Alert on ADA Transportation Bill
>Article Highlights Story behind ADA Film "Music Within"
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>***INFORMATION ALERT***
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>(From<http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001EKdGaswVmwDaRY7S1-rHn2Ibr1q7HqGKIWM6tpQp1isjfe142K9f4IYqhFi4V8DUMOLKh6PfhtqHLnXIrr8EUMNyZXDjxFc31N_cZbOjjDk=>DREDF):
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>SUPPORT H.R. 3985
>The Over-the-Road Bus Transportation Accessibility Act of 2007
>
>Disability organizations and advocates are
>encouraged to support support H.R. 3985, The
>Over-the-Road Bus Transportation Accessibility
>Act of 2007. This bill would address the problem
>of private intercity bus companies without
>stations, known as curbside carriers, that
>ignore the ADA. These companies, which use
>high-floor "over-the-road" buses and offer
>budget fares along the Eastern seaboard and
>across the country, do not provide accessible
>buses and have frequently discriminated against
>people with disabilities in other violations of
>the ADA by, for example, denying transportation
>to blind people with guide dogs or requiring
>them to sit in the last row of the bus.
>
>HR 3985 would require the Federal Motor Carrier
>Safety Administration (FMCSA), the office at DOT
>that licenses and regulates privately-operated
>bus carriers, to fully consider ADA compliance
>when it grants and revokes operating authority
>to passenger motor carriers. FMCSA has
>repeatedly stated that it won't, or can't,
>consider ADA compliance in its licensing
>decisions, despite a US Court of Appeals
>decision from the DC Circuit last year asking
>DOT to do so. (Peter Pan Bus Lines, Inc., et al
>v. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration,
>No. 05-1436, U.S. Court of Appeals, DC Circuit, December 19, 2006)
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>HR 3985 does not amend the ADA, but rather,
>amends the law that gives FMCSA its authority,
>adding the DOT ADA regulation (Part 37) to the
>list of items FMCSA must consider in granting
>and revoking operating authority. It also
>requires FMCSA implementation in 30 days and a
>coordinated enforcement agreement between FMCSA
>and the Department of Justice in six months.
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>This bill is available
><http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001EKdGaswVmwBBfMZG9RiY7YxmTys9PBRj0gh8DuySbcWCHAwyCz4EMgCuQFnUky4rZJrfMoejNhLgiBZ8YVNKoRAOz0burYNCxfA-vgfX4Ac2kXwrya_catX0Il_dQQEEWCLd7O9FM3nUa47mvXE5Z0ii6Mj3vqN91CRHB4cSgR0=>online
>and was passed unanimously on October 31 by the
>House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
>
>Below is a strong statement by Congressman
>Oberstar introducing the bill. He describes the
>ADA problem with curbside carriers, how the
>Department of Transportation (via its
>subdivision, the FMCSA) has resisted
>consideration of ADA compliance in its licensing
>decisions, and how HR 3985 would address this problem.
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>Any disability organization that wants to
>express support of
><http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001EKdGaswVmwAL5LhG9zjte953ZXj2B0PzSFtdlyPBcyJKZ62f__rLDcEasRX_tPdjwL8F2vsacO7YkjYTNVpnLwRsRfBmZs0kNAhWLBESifTbVYYxSY_nzKCUJ703m6ofYW9tJ2K6d6aJAp3uO9YWsd4mqOP1yRTq>HR
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>Ranking Minority Member Mica, and Subcommittee
>Ranking Minority Duncan, all original
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>Read Congressman Oberstar's strong
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>of support when introducing the bill.
>
>Article Highlights Story behind ADA Film "Music Within"
>
> From USA Today:
>Disabled war veteran's activism forges onto film
>
>"His story was about to be told up on the big
>screen, but as Richard Pimentel stood to thank
>his friends and fellow activists for coming to
>this preview screening in his hometown, he
>realized his legacy was all around him.
>
>There were people in wheelchairs who, a scant 15
>years ago, wouldn't have had ramps to enter the
>theater. There were also people with hearing
>disabilities who wouldn't have had devices
>providing special amplification, and blind
>people wouldn't have been able to listen to an
>audio description of the Pimentel biopic Music Within.
>
>"None of that would have existed were it not for
>the Americans With Disability Act (ADA)," says
>Pimentel, 59, who lost most of his hearing in an
>explosion during his service in the Army during
>the Vietnam War. "What we've accomplished is amazing."
>
>So amazing, in fact, that Hollywood came calling..."
>
>... Read the rest of the
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