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I live in a small town or smal city in Southern New Mexico and i am wondering what transportation is likein other cities. I know in big cities such as Chicago and New your and Lundon there is no problem, but I'm currious as to how many of oyu have trouble finding rides when busses don't run or if oyu live in a town where busses or taxies don't exist. Where I live busses come once an hourfrom 6 A.m. to 6 p.m except hollidays and weekends, and cabs are really expencive so when busses are not running i have to try to find a ride.
Please let me know your views
?Although I live in a large city, transportation isn't much better. We have buses, cabs, and mobility. But each of these has its own problems. The buses don't go everywhere and are on a fixed schedule. Cabs can be expensive. Mobility has a whole host of problems, although better than it had been in the past. As a blind person we just have to go with the flow and pray that we make it to our appointments on time. No use complaining. It won't solve the problems. Just take it in stride. It's part of being blind. djmom
I know that it is part of being blind it's just some thing that anoys me some times because our governer can buy himself a new Airplane but not give us any more busses. It would be easier and i would not commplain as much if they ran you know until like 8 oclock at night, but in the evenings to go anywhere like comming home from school is hard
I live in a small town in Texas and the transportation stinks. They have a city service but one has to call 24 hours in advance, there are no discounts. I usually have to depend on my husband or daughter to drive my son and/or I places. Walking is dangerous as we have bridges that are real narrow with no rails on the sides. I've called the state transportation department only to get no results. I'm hoping that some day I can move far from this place. I hate having to depend on anyone.
I live in a small town in North Texas where transportation is a huge problem for me. I normally rely on my family to take me places but the bad deal is that they work during the week til about 5, and so I'm screwed if I'm needing to go somehwere early on in the day. Then when they get home they are tired and don't want to go anywhere which I can't blame them. I'd probably feel the same damn way. I tried calling the city to see if they can get something fixed up and as far as I can tell they ain't going to do shit so I'm screwed til I move. Oh well hopefully I won't have to wait to much longer.
I'll soon be moving to Austin Texas to fix that little problem of mine. The buses there are free for people with disabilities and they got Taxi Services. I'm just tired of relying on people and would like to go places independently, I love my family and all but damn it don't look right half of the time when I know I have to skills to travel on my own.
Where I live, and I've only been here a week, thins seem relatively accessible from a transportation perspective. I mean, the buses on campus here run from 7 AM to 10 PM, and if there is a place I need to go that isn't near the fixedroutes, I can use what they call the carrivan, sort of similar to what is comonly called paratransit or ableRide. New York is fairly good, but u pay for it in terms of the cost of living being so high
Over here in Australia the transportation is pretty good, I've found. The only complaint I'd have is that some buses are consistantly late (I found that with the bus taking me to and from uni to the train station, for instance), but generally transportation is very accessable here in Queensland.
Well, the transportation ehre in Edmonton beats the stuff I had back where I grew up (a suburb of a suburb of Vancouver). My old place had a bus that came once every half hour, but more often during peak times. Now that I've moved, I can catch one of four buses downtown, and am within two buses almost anywhere in the city. It's NIIIIIIIICE!
well, we have cars, bussis, boats, planes and the good old fashioned underground
In Scotland I would say things need to get better. That includes all kinds of services. As for transport, I get special transport to college 3 times a week. It is a private bus company. I haven't used a publick bus on my own for ten years. The nearest bus stop is about half a mile away if you go b by foot. Then they are just local buses. To go to the sity Glasgow which is my nearest sity well I don't know how far it is quite a long way away. I live at the top of an avenue so you have to walk everywhere if you don't have a car. The taxies are quite expensive to.
usually, the transporter is the way I travel. It's also the safest. lol
On a more serious note, KC's public transportation isn't all that great. We have the metro, which is basically a few busses that go here and there, and we have a train system, but nothing as good as St. louis. We also have the call a ride thing. It's like many other services that you can call to get a ride to and/or from places.
Yeah. We have DATS (Disability Accessible Transportation System), but I've never used it. I ahven't heard great things about them, and why pay two bucks to get somewhere you can go for free on public transport?
BTW, if you are a member of the CMIB, you can ride the city buses for free.
Here on Long Island we do have trains, busses, and paratransit, but pretty much everyone drives. There's no point in walking anywhere if you can get there faster by car. (and you wonder why everyone's so fat in this country?) I usually take paratransit to school, but they drive me crazy, especially when they drop me off nowhere near the building I'm supposed to be at or show up an hour over their service window at a different stop even though I called them twice already to complain. But oh well, it's better than the bus, sometimes.
And KC, where are you in NY?