The American Public Transit Association put out a letter saying it was going to cost much too much money to make the bus system accessible. So we geared up for a big fight and discovered that it cost the same amount of money to put air conditioning in a bus as it did to put in a wheelchair lift. The bus association’s financial model had been erroneously based on the idea that most disabled people wouldn’t use the bus, which was a huge presumption. Yes, I was fearful when I first started using the bus, because I didn’t know how a city bus would work with my wheelchair, but once I practiced I
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