STANDING IN THE COLD: MOBILITY AND THE MENTALLY CHALLENGED
"Among our valued citizens are individuals who are mentally challenged. There is a need for systemic change to help ensure their access to mobility. Change is recommended in mobility needs analysis, public participation, and technology deployment." The author examines each of these three areas where change is recommended, then concludes with the following: "There is a cost of understanding needs and then responding. There is also a cost of maintaining ignorance and being unresponsive. The attempt to define access to mobility on the basis of power and privilege has a cost that may well be more severe than enabling the powerless. There is a cost of actions which leave some standing in the cold, actions which engender anger and cynicism. There is, I believe, a great benefit from actions which affirm the Republic is true to its history, true to its word that pursuit of happiness is a right accorded each person."
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Corporate Authors:
Alliance for Transportation Research
1001 University Boulevard SE, Suite 103
Albuquerque, NM United States 87106-4342 -
Authors:
- Albright, D P
- Publication Date: 1995-8
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: References;
- Pagination: 14 p.
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Access; Benefits; Costs; Deployment; Development; Intellectual disabilities; Mental disorders; Mobility; Needs assessment; Persons with disabilities; Public participation; Recommendations; Research; Technology; Transportation policy
- Uncontrolled Terms: Research and development
- Subject Areas: Finance; Policy; Public Transportation; Research; Safety and Human Factors; Society;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00728476
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: STPP Monograph No. 3
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Nov 22 1996 12:00AM