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Transit Access for Americans: A Proposal for the Next Stage of Implementing the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990
Author(s) -
Winter Michael A.,
Williams Fred Laurence
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
policy studies journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.773
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1541-0072
pISSN - 0190-292X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1541-0072.2001.tb02120.x
Subject(s) - transit (satellite) , transit system , universal design , business , public transport , transport engineering , public economics , computer science , economics , engineering , world wide web
Formany Americans with disabilities, transit is the only path to real opportunities. An open society for them depends upon increased transit services for all Americans. Many transit professionals, however, daunted by transit needs and worn down by their critics, wallow in cost issues, ignoring transit's real value to their communities. The key to improvement is to measure transit benefits that are intuitively obvious to most taxpayers. Empirically, accessible transit proves to be the most valuable transit to passengers and to other taxpayers as well.