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City Buses Are Wheelchair-Accessible, But Disabled Riders Still Face Obstacles

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  • LYR
    Posted July 6, 2018 at 11:17 am

    Yes, and also:

    1) the Select Bus system has had deleterious consequences for accessibility, including:

    a) the elimination of stops on various crosstown routes (such as the M23), and

    b) the requirement that you first obtain paper tickets before boarding the bus (this is not exactly user-friendly – esp. if you see the bus just pulling up, and/or if there are, say, blocks of ice between the ticket dispenser and the bus;

    2) Also, the breaking up of some of the bus lines has been very problematical. So, for example, if I want to get from Greenwich Village to Washington Heights, I have to wait for two buses.

    3) Additionally, the system is not exactly accessible for walker-users, esp. during rush hours. One driver would not let me board during rush hour and told me to wait for the next bus. (I could see his point, because the walker does take up space. But still, this does not make it an accessible system).

    Based on the above, I feel I have no choice but to use Access A Ride.

  • Louis Berrios
    Posted July 6, 2018 at 10:34 pm

    My biggest issue with public transit aka mta. Is when other cars park right on the bus stops. The driver then can’t get close to the curb so they can open the lift or ramp for me to get in. Today is a perfect example. I’m waiting on the 1 or 2 bus on grand concourse when a UPS van stops right on the bus stop. I mentioned how that will cause an issue getting on the next bus. His response was “well I’m doing my job delivering” Looks around and tells me I can always walk around his van onto the streets so I can board the bus, which I ended up doing. Offended by his non-chalant explanation on getting around his van on to the streets to board any bus…. Like Really?

  • Richard Green
    Posted July 14, 2018 at 4:33 am

    People have all kinds of excuses for parking in bus stops. Cameras should take thier pictures and plate numbers and issue $1,000 FINES. That may convince them that bus stops are for THE BUS, NO ONE ELSE.

  • Judith torres
    Posted February 15, 2019 at 9:23 pm

    Sometimes even though there are no cars parked at stop buses still leave the gap of more than one foot away. For me its a challenge. I use a walker its not easy to pick it up boarding on or off.

  • Colleen Brennan
    Posted February 18, 2020 at 2:20 pm

    I’ma rollator user and my biggest fear is being told to wait for the next bus! The next bus comes and I’m told the same thing! Why don’t I just sit there and wait for the rush hour end there maybe I’d be able to get on a bus to go home like everyone else! There’s no respect anymore for the elderly or disabled whether old or young! NO RESPECT, which makes me just want to NOT go any where! I applied for Access a ride and was DENIED! I was told that I can walk up stairs and walk 2 1/2 blocks!! I’d like to know where this incompetent person who to me is (just a person asking me questions written in a paper) evaluating me who DOESN’T have a degree except in IGNORANCE! Just because I can walk with my “ROLLATOR” doesn’t mean I can walk 21/2 blocks! Not only was I winded, I was sweating profusely! Then they send you into someone who does have a degree, psychologist, ask you a bunch of questions, which I must add, were the same questions asked of me 4 yrs ago! I’ve since had full back surgery that affected my left leg, which now make me MORE disabled than 4yrs ago! So now, I don’t QUALIFY?? Gee I feel like I’m ina this world country and if you’re not missing s limb or your disability is not visible to the eye, forget it!! DENIED!

  • Ellen Leitner
    Posted June 2, 2020 at 6:54 pm

    Are using Rollator with a seat I would like very much to take the buses but I don’t see how I could get on I have excessive right but they are the worst I want to travel on the city buses like everyone else if making a loud wheelchair people on the bus that can certainly while people use walkers

  • Christine Jemison
    Posted July 17, 2021 at 5:23 pm

    I have a balance condition and rheumatoid arthritis. I have to use a small walker. There have been time’s when I would ask the bus driver could he lower the bus and was told no. One went so far as to tell me to use Access A Ride. Just as one customer said when a car is not blocking the bus the driver of the bus will not pull up to the curb making it harder for someone disabled to board the bus.

  • Maria Maldonado
    Posted May 5, 2022 at 3:49 pm

    My husband Wilson Maldonado was on the bus today with his walker the bus driver put him out of the bus at 3: 30 and did not allowed him to get back on the bus because of his walker do they have the right to do that

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