Originally Posted by
I-Like-To-Bike
While you are all sanctimonious and thinking about designing a bus service based on Political Correctness for all people at all times, no matter what the cost:
What cost are you talking about? It doesn't cost the mall anything--and it sosts the bus company the same amount--to put the bus stop at the mall entrance instead of out on the highway.
Originally Posted by
I-Like-To-Bike
Who provides and pays for the assist for the elderly and handicapped people once they enter the mall's portals? Or is lack of free escort/wheelchair service another PC transgression of the mall management? The bus line? The evil car owning suburbanites?
Again, there's no additional cost, and you're just being plain silly. The malls themselves are already accessible. That's the law. But if buses aren't permitted in the parking lot, then the approach to the mall isn't accessible unless you have a vehicle that you can park in a handicapped space. I don't know if this is illegal. but it's sure as hell unfair. It's also stupid when you think of all the business they're turning away.
Originally Posted by
I-Like-To-Bike
How about at the other end of these shopping trips that you believe are so common, do all the scheduled buses now provide home pickup/dropoff service for the elderly and handicapped?
The issue isn't ******* or pickup service. That's stuff you dreamed up in your silly head. The issue is access. At the originating end of the trip, they already do have (or certainly should have) bus stops that are free of obstacles and approaches to bus stops that don't require frail users to take a lot of risks. If not, that's a wnole nother issue, and equally an important one.