Bus Riders Union of Austin, Texas | El Sindicato de Pasajeros

While the new bus stop signs are nice, there is NOTHING there for the blind. The QR codes do NOT scan when it is dark out. I am working on a solution for the stops I use at various times. See http://www.ke5asu.com/bus.html

Since I am fortunate to still have internet access at my home. I got an email from I can make it better in which has new bus stop signs.

Capital Metro who is trying their best to violate ADA laws by not having accessible bus displays, comes up with new bus stop signage.

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Below is a summary of the FTA complaint against Capital Metro. Please note the new content, not posted before: "EMERGING SERIOUS CIVIL RIGHTS CONCERNS/VIOLATIONS". Clearly, Cap Metro's master is the DownTown Business Alliance; CMTA management has a new montra, (expressed by Elaine Timbes), - "We will run Metro like a business". Corporate greed and benefits to developpers motivate our transportation, which contradicts why Capital Metro exists in the first place.

However, Capital Metro's Dispatch department thinks so.

The following article clearly demonstrates that one of the two bidders for the new gestapo eligibility process soon to be forced on Travis county disabled paratransit passengers, is not the kind of company Austin wants. However, recently resigned MetroAccess director, Inez Evans, would most certainly approve of this company since the sole purpose of the new functional assessment process is to kick passengers off the paratransit system.

FTA administrator march 2011.pdf
Pat Bartel Diane Bomar
9617 Covey Ridge Lane 7713 Kiva Dr.
Austin, TX 78758 Austin, TX 78749
Pat.civilrights@gmail.com Diane.aleman@att.net
Attn: Peter M. Rogoff: Administrator
Federal Transit Administration
East Building, 4th Floor
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE, Room E54
Washington, DC 20590
April 6, 2011 1 of 2
Subject: Requested DOT/FTA Intervention
The enclosed hard copy material details specific and numerous DOT ADA as well as civil rights

As you read the folowing news story, please remember the hundreds of illegal paratransit denials and those passengers who MetroAccess has forced to attempt to ride fixed route because its director illegally imposed conditions on their paratransit eligibility that were not correct. And also please remember that the majority of CMTA board members recently approved a new eligibility process that the facts clearly show MetroAccess is not equipped to properly implement.

Introduction:

The following is an excerpt from an affidavit submitted to the FTA. It proves conclusively, and beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the current MetroAccess director, who has recently announced her resignation, is responsible for the hundreds of wrongful conditional determinations listed below. However, the CMTA board was also informed of these violations, yet, typically, they prefered to only believe CMTA, as if their words were the writ of God, instead of investigating and correcting the violations as a competent board would do.

Following is a March 2010 resolution from the Access Advisory Committee, written by my Special Mentor, Diane Bomar, presented to the Capital Metro Board of directors. It describes the civil rights violations in the MetroAccess paratransit eligibility process. Instead of the CMTA board taking action, they merely believed MetroAccess management and the CMTA audit report that claimed no civil rights violations existed.