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for disabled ridership
By Katie Fairbank
The Associated Press
DALLAS—Greyhound Lines is
embarking on a plan that they say
should make bus service accessi
ble to disabled passengers nation
wide next year as long as they call
two days in advance.
With the 48 hours’ notice, Grey
hound and its connecting partners
will assure that a bus with a lift will
be available to take a wheelchair
passenger to any scheduled desti
nation, the Dallas-based carrier
said today. Together, the company
and its partners have 4,000 stops.
“This service will be fully oper
ational in the fourth quarter of
1999, three years earlier than re
quired by proposed federal regu
lations,” said Craig Lentzsch, pres
ident and chief executive.
So far, only 20 of Greyhound’s
2,100 buses are equipped to han
dle wheelchair passengers. With
the new plan, 80 buses will have
lifts at a cost of $30,000 each, ac
cording to the company.
Up to 1,200 disabled riders a
month would benefit, Greyhound
officials estimated.
Under Department of Trans
portation rules proposed in
March, any new bus bought by a
non-municipal carrier would have
to be fully accessible by 2000. Half
of all fleets would have to be
equipped with wheelchair lifts by
2006 and all their buses by 2012.
With all buses equipped, a wheel
chair passenger wouldn’t have to
book specially in advance.
Companies would have until
2002 to do what Greyhound is
promising in 1999, with the
promise of rides for wheelchair
passengers giving two days’ no
tice.
Advocates for the disabled said
Greyhound would need to equip
more than 300 buses with lifts for
its plan to work.
“Our average ticket price is $30
and we simply can’t afford a
$30,000 lift on every bus,” said
Greyhound spokesman George
Gravley.
For years, disabled activists
have blocked Greyhound termi
nals to show that the bus network
is largely inaccessible to them.
“We are the transportation that
takes people where ever they want
to go and we are the lowest cost
transportation,” said Gravley. “A
lot of the handicapped are in the
lower income groups, unfortunate
ly, and this is the way they go. ”
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