THE SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION TALKS MOBILITY JUSTICE, MISSING SIDEWALKS AND ELEVATORS, AND BILLIONS IN FEDERAL GRANTS CURRENTLY UP FOR GRABS
Planners know that mobility impacts our jobs, education, recreation, healthcare, shopping — virtually everything we do.
But for many, transportation creates barriers to those opportunities, not
access.
One in four U.S. adults have a disability that affects major life activities, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.
Yet transportation networks, from missing stretches of
sidewalk to legacy train systems built long before the 1990 Americans with
Disabilities Act, often lack features like elevators that are necessary for
people who use wheelchairs, crutches, and other mobility aids.
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