How is it possible that it
took the entire day to meet my friend for an early lunch, (and thank God I get
to do that once in a while!) buy groceries and then blog? Not possible!! I
wonder if I go into some sort of fugue state and wander the neighborhood. So it is 11:30 pm as we speak and I am just
starting the enormous batch of charting because (say it with me) if it wasn’t
documented it wasn’t done. And trust me, three days straight of sitting on the
phone, plenty was done.
One quick example, so you
can co-participate with me. (You can’t tell, but I’m clapping my hands like a
little girl at the thought of another participant.) Because of the American Disabilities
Act, every state is required to disability transportation available. Some of
the states, like the fantabulous state of Arizona, make each city responsible
for transport within city limits.
So, to use the service, you
need to get a ride downtown to apply for official disability status and to prove
that getting a ride is too difficult to manage.
(Let the irony sink in for a minute.)
Then, when you are all
official, you need to plan your route. So let’s say you need to go from Phoenix
to Peoria to see a specialist. You have
to give the transport van a two hour time frame of pick up then they will drop
you off at the Glendale border where you will have pre-arranged for the Glendale
van to pick you up, with an additional 2 hour window.
They will take you too . .
. Want to guess? It’s nowhere convenient.
That’s right they will drop you off at the Peoria border where you will
have pre-arranged for a Peoria pick up, calculating in the two hour window. Then
you will be transported to the specialist’s office.
But, of course, that is
only the first part of the story. You get it do it all again in reverse. So not even mentioning issues like some of
these folks have to use the bathroom at the exact time they have to use the
bathroom and waiting for two transfers isn’t going to cut it. But the flaw
prohibiting use is, if you add up the hours, and all the window time, it isn’t feasible
to do this in a working day.
Don’t worry, it gets
better. The city does not have to cover the entire city boundaries, so to use
the service, some city residents still need to be transported to the pick-up
limit. What could possibly be more
functional?
1 comment :
tax dollars well spent. . . Nothing in the law said th transportation needed to be helpful, practical, efficient or economically sound. That would take another two hundred pages of legislation. J
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