[tabi] Re: from today's Democrat: article on Dial-a-Ride
- From: "Charles Atkins" <catkins@xxxxxxx>
- To: <tabi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:14:07 -0400
The way I see it:
Since dial a ride is for all people with disabilities purposes every second
of the day,
always on an equal basis,
and,
since the funds are from people of all walks and concerns of life,
and,
since all disabled people don't necessarily have a need to go to the doctor
at the same times all the time,
I would think that a service like dial aride for people with disabilities,
would want to strive to be,
for the people with disabilities,
an,
all purpose operation as the public transportation system is for
the:
so called,
able public.
It can be just as urgently
important for a disabled person to
make it over to fire and take a computer class being provided everyday
that could cost someone an arm and a leg to participate through any other
means of transportation.
The person needs to learn this because,
maybe,
the person needs to get a job to survive?
I'm sure all our needs to all of us,
are real and pressing!
The way they have it structured,
most of the time,
they are probably lending
an entire,
citywide function to the
least amount of the disabled population.
I think they need to rethink it!
I'm sure some of our people are really hurting by that decision to,
only,
carry people to the Doctor!
Suppose your business got filed up in a computer with some major source of
survival one day,
And,]
all of a sudden,
you're faced with a life threatening emergency,
requiring you to go here and to go there all day,
in order to rectify it,
like my problem has been this week,
spontaneous services is what's required to get me over this,
and,
those things cost a fortune.
I have one provider saying to the other provider something is incorrect and,
the other provider is very slow in comprehending and,
I must be the one to do all the running around with this or that thing to do
in order to fix it!
That can be very costly,
as it is for me
But,
Its an emergency!
Its life threatening!
Its personal!
It doesn't happen to us everyday,
but these things can be threatening.
They require your getting there quick,
fast, and,
in a hurry!
Life is not always that cut and dry out here friends!
We,
the disabled,
have catching up to do on multi levels throughout our American system.
I can appreciate their wanting to help us,
keep up,
or,
get back up by,
economically,
getting us to,
and from,
the doctor,
but,
you would think they also wouldn't mind helping us catch up.
If nobody minds my saying:
Let's pray their,
better,
understanding of our many dire needs!
We're a:
whole public.
We need a:
whole service!
Let's pray that,
Dial a ride,
becomes it!
The more we ride,
The more we pay for the service.
Where there is thought,
there is solution!
Charles
----- Original Message -----
From: "Easy Talk" <easytalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <tabi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 5:35 AM
Subject: [tabi] Re: from today's Democrat: article on Dial-a-Ride
HI Chip,
It has always been that way and should be. If you can't get to the
grocery store then all the trips will be medical.
Robert
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chip Orange" <Corange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <tabi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 1:40 PM
Subject: [tabi] Re: from today's Democrat: article on Dial-a-Ride
Allison of course is the one who found this article in the Democrat, but
she said it's almost an entire page, and the many pictures are great;
she said if anything at all can change the way things are, this article
should do it!
Also, I never remember hearing that going to the grocery store was a
priority class before today; has that always been the case, that they
would give priority to the grocery store over recreational trips??? Or
is this a very recent change, made for it's PR value???
thanks.
Chip
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Florida Public Service Commission
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(Any opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not
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[mailto:tabi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Armington, Mycell
Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 1:17 PM
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Subject: [tabi] Re: from today's Democrat: article on Dial-a-Ride
Thank you MR. A. I just want things to get better for us all!
Warm regards,
Mycell Armington (Cellie)
Mycell Armington
Contact Representative
DO 659
Social Security Administration
2002 Old St. Augustine Rd Suite B-12
Tallahassee, FL 32301
(850) 942-9514 x 3012
Mycell.Armington@xxxxxxx
Social Security Benefits America
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From: tabi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tabi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Charles Atkins
Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 12:40 PM
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Subject: [tabi] Re: from today's Democrat: article on Dial-a-Ride
Ms. Mycell!
Ms. I applaud you,
your courage and,
your leadership!
Charles Atkins
----- Original Message -----
From: "Allison and Chip Orange" <acorange@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <tabi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 8:19 AM
Subject: [tabi] from today's Democrat: article on Dial-a-Ride
> June 8, 2009
> Some Dial-A-Ride users left waiting
> With a funding decrease, service has had to prioritize rides
> By Doug Blackburn
> DEMOCRAT SENIOR WRITER
> Mycell Armington leads a busy life.
> She works at the Social Security Administration as a contact
> representative,
> a job
> she's held for the past 31 years. She's a worship leader in her
church,
> and
> in her
> spare time she visits correctional facilities to preach to inmates.
> But Armington is finding Leon County considerably more difficult to
> navigate
> in the
> past two months.
> Armington, who is legally blind, lives just north of the
city limits.
She
> relies
> on Dial-A-Ride's community transportation program for almost all of
her
> trips.
> But due to a decrease in state funding - compounded by an
increase in
> ridership -
> Dial-A-Ride has been forced for the first time to institute
a priority
> system for
> providing rides. Medical trips are the No. 1 priority, followed by
> employment-education
> and grocery shopping.
> "It's gotten much worse," Armington said. "It's totally
bumped people
off
> of
> any
> going to church. It's considered a social activity, instead of
spiritual
> or
> mental-health
> enrichment.
> "It's taken away my freedoms," she added. "It's a major issue."
> Armington isn't the only one who's struggling to cope with the new
> priority
> system
> at Dial-A-Ride, which she has taken to calling "Dial-A-Wait." The
priority
> system
> went into effect at the end of March.
> Dorothy Martin, who lives just east of the city limits, is
frustrated
that
> she can
> no longer get rides for classes at the Senior Center.
> "I can't even go to the grocery store when I want to now," Martin
said. "I
> don't
> have a life now that they've cut the service back so much.
I can't go
> anywhere anymore."
> Ronald Garrison, executive director at StarMetro, said he empathizes
with
> riders
> who consider the new priority system an inconvenience. Almost all
> recreational trips
> have been eliminated, he said, because of the decrease in
funding from
the
> Commission
> for the Transportation Disadvantaged (CTD), the state agency housed
within
> the Department
> of Transportation.
> "People need to be talking to their legislators to look at different
ways
> to
> provide
> the funding," Garrison said.
> Leon County's CTD funding for the current fiscal year was
decreased by
> about
> $19,000,
> from $446,373 to $427,768, according to Donna Peacock, StarMetro's
> superintendent
> of paratransit operations.
> Meanwhile, ridership is up significantly. For the first six
months of
the
> fiscal
> year, which started Oct. 1, there were 109,836 riders, compared to
96,329
> the previous
> year, Peacock said. This includes the bus-pass program.
> "We've run this (paratransit) program five years, and never
had to put
a
> priority
> policy in place," Peacock said. "It's sort of come to a head now.
> "Some of that may be due to the economy and more folks needing
> transportation. I
> don't know what else to do. If there's no money, there's no money."
> Bobby Jerningan, executive director of CDT, the state agency,
acknowledges
> that the
> "system is spread a little thin right now."
> "We've had to dial back on our expenditures for next year," Jernigan
said.
> "It is
> a hardship on those individuals who have grown to depend on this
> transportation service.
> It's a major deal."
> It's certainly a major deal for Armington, Martin and others.
Armington
> said
> she
> can't afford to pay $35 to $40 for a cab, when Dial-A-Ride
costs her
> $2.50.
> "I lead a very active and normal life and I intend to do so for the
rest
> of
> my life,"
> Armington said. "But this has made it really difficult.
> "I'm also afraid of speaking out, because I may be a candidate for
> retaliation."
>
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