Tag: New York
Can't even get arrested in this town
August 24, 2012Elizabeth Deprey
I've been following this story a bit because I follow United Spinal on Twitter and they've been keeping me up-to-date.
Basically, if you're in a wheelchair in New York, you can't get a taxi to save your life. There are 231 accessible cabs—as compared to 13,000 not-accessible ones.
United Spinal joined with some other disability rights groups to sue the New York City Taxi and Limousine corporation to get them to buy accessible cabs when it's time to replace old ones. Not - "Hey, throw out all...