#disability cab service

[wheelchairtaximelbourne]

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[ezrydesg]

How to Choose the Right Disabled Medical Transport Service for You

If you have a disability, getting to your medical appointments can be a challenge. Public transportation may not be accessible, and taxis can be expensive and difficult to find. Disabled medical transport services can provide a safe and reliable way to get to your appointments. Read more...

[oliviawebsite]

disabled trans woman in need of help paying impound fees + rent

hi its me again coming in to ask for some help. in spite of a lot of positive momentum in my life as of late, i faced a pretty rough setback after my car was stolen from right in front of my house. the "good" news is that it was found and brought to a tow yard but the bad news is that its gutted and practically undriveable and insurance will not pay out for this due to the age of the car and its status as "high risk" for theft. im looking to sell off what i can and scrap the rest instead of selfishly begging for the thousands of dollars its going to cost to replace everything that is now missing. the dilemma is, i still need to pay the fee to get the thing released and towed somewhere safe, which amounts to the exorbitant fee of about $900 all because i made the "mistake" of getting my car stolen and then being out of town when it actually got located.

this is compounded with my need to pay rent for the month of july. i have been unemployed and taking small freelance gigs as a result of my chronic health issues making it nearly impossible to work a regular 40 hour week. i've been focusing on treating those issues and trying not to exacerbate them further than i already have. i have severe difficulty walking for extended periods of time and have to push thru pain just to move my body and it makes getting about town without a car while living alone a real struggle, which results in me requiring delivery and rideshare services to fill in the gaps where i physically cannot.

i know there's a lot going on right now but if you can spare a few to help me out it would be immensely appreciated. i've set a goal that should reasonably cover all of the aforementioned costs. pls help or share, i'm sorry for begging like this but i don't know what else to do right now! life keeps happening and its hard and i just need some help. thank you <3

and as always i have music for sale if you fancy to buy something:

0/1400

[sunstonez]

Remaking this post because this site hates the poor.

My name is Valentine and I'm trying to raise money for my spouse to come with me for my upcoming court date on February 7th, 2024.

Long story short, I am trying to get my childhood abuser prosecuted for CSA. This requires me to travel to my home province and testify everything in court. While the provincial victim services program will cover my expenses, they will not cover my partner's as she is not the one testifying.

I desperately need her to come with me, otherwise I don't think I will be able to face what is possibly the hardest thing I'll ever have to do in my life.

Me and my wife are currently living off of one disability cheque, and do not have any savings. I'm asking family for help, but I'm limited in who I can ask since not all of my family knows about what happened to me.

My goal is to raise $350 before the beginning of February, half for her bus ticket, $40 for cabs, and the remaining amount for food for the week long trip.

If you have questions please feel free to DM me or comment here.

Please don't tag this post with stuff like "d*nations" or "mutual a*d". It hides the post and this is really important.

P*yp*l: p*ypal.me/hepelva

E-tr*nsfer (if you're Canadian): salsamanders@gmail.com

Thanks so much for reading 🙏💕

[felipes-maw]

I used to volunteer with CAB if the jobcentre denied your claim for being alt with a limp you can sue, They're not legally allowed discriminate on physical disability, that's literally what their service is for.

You can contact the citizens advice bureau for a disability advocate to join you on meetings with the jobcentre team.

I hope that helps in some way, I'm rooting for you.

thank you 🐾 ill certainly try next time im able to move properly ❤️

[merpmonde]

200 km/h push-pull trains

While Germany has recent double-deck train carriages, the Dostos shown previously being built in the 2000s, and updated versions still being produced, France made its last carriages in the 1980s, including Corail cars for inter-city services. But their use was curtailed by the development of the high-speed network.

Some sets were given push-pull ability, with a driving cab at one end that can control the locomotive at the other - the lead car above being a renovated B5uxh: second-class seating, 5 compartments, air-conditioned, driving cab, disabled access. These have found a new lease of life in regional transport, especially in the East, as the straight and flat Alsace line from Strasbourg to Basel allows these 200 km/h-capable carriages to stretch their legs. The "TER 200" puts Strasbourg only 80 minutes from Switzerland (wink-wink-nudge-nudge for a future trip).

The usual motors for these sets are BB 26000 "Sybic" locomotives built in the 1990s, powerful enough to get them to their top speed. While not at top speed in this setting, probably running at 100 km/h on the slower line to the Lorraine region, they still feel like very big trains when they go by.

Other push-pull trains exist in Alsace, with smaller locos and carriages rejoining the fleet for the planned Réseau Express Métropolitain Européen. However, most passengers trains everywhere in France now are covered by multiple units, especially since bi-mode units like the Régiolis shown below, have appeared. These are capable of running on electric power or with a Diesel engine, making them as flexible as can be.

[valtionrautatiet-official]

An introduction to VR passenger carriages, part 4: double-decker Intercity carriages

So we come to our newest broad class of passenger coaches. The chunky, beautiful and utterly comfortable double-decker Intercity coaches. Whereas the Eil and single-decker IC coaches covered in previous entries were relatively small series build during a short timeframe, the double-deckers have been in production since 1998 and to date over 300 coaches have been built in different variations, making the coaches a true successor to the blue carriages.

A full rake of double-decker IC coaches hauled by an Sr3 locomotive. My photo.

Planning for the double-decker coaches begun already in the beginning of the 1990s, while the single-decker IC coaches were still being built. A Swiss double-decker coach was loaned to Finland and displayed at Helsinki central station to get customer feedback (I actually remember my grandmother taking me to see it). Rather than directly copy the Swiss example, new coaches for our needs were designed based on the experiences gained from these. A notable difference to most central European double-decker coaches is that entrance is from the bottom floor, meaning step-free access on most stations.

The SBB-CFF-FFS double-decker coach on display at Helsinki central station in June 1992. Photo Tapio Keränen, vaunut.org

The first batch of 42 carriages (30 regular 2nd class coaches in class Ed and 12 Eds coaches with a children's playspace and facilities for disabled passengers) were ordered in 1995 and delivered in 1998-2000 by what was then Talgo-Transtech near Kajaani in Finland. All double-decker carriages have been ordered from the same builder, which was eventually sold by Talgo, operated for some years as simply Transtech before being sold to Škoda and becoming Škoda Transtech.

The very first Ed carriage in use in the original livery. Photo Leif Rosnell, Suomen rautatiemuseo

The first double-decker sleepers (Edm) were delivered in 2005, with the first restaurant cars (ERd) and control cab cars (Edo) following in 2014. Meanwhile, a number of Ed carriages have been rebuilt into Edb and later CEd coaches, with business class seats in additional to regular second-class seating. In 2006, the classes were rebranded, with 2nd class become Eko class and business becoming Ekstra class. Of course, all double-decker coaches were repainted in the current white and green livery starting 2010.

An Edo control cab car at Turku station. My photo.

The initial batch of coaches were delivered with a 160 km/h service speed, but this was upgraded to 200 km/h in later series, with the first batch rebuilt to match. In 2000, we introduced new Intercity2-branded connections from Helsinki to Turku, Tampere and Jyväskylä, which were operated exclusively with double-decker coaches. The IC2 branding was discontinued in 2014, as by this point single-decker coached had been largely phased out from daytime IC trains.

Interior of an Ed-class carriage. The colours of the upholstery differ on which construction batch each carriage belongs to. My photo.

The (to-date) last double-decker carriages were delivered in 2021. As we are currently concentrating on new locomotives (Sr3- and Dr19-classes) and the new electric multiple units for commuter services (Sm7), it's likely there will be a gap of some years before we contract new passenger coaches.

[vicetrevni]

.: My Health Journey :.

>be me

>have felt 'different' and 'strange' ever since I was a kid

>get nausea, pain, and brain fog every time I wake up, try telling any adult I could about it bc I'm worried and scared (I knew my mom was sick and I feared I may be the same as her health-wise)

>no one believes me, says I'm just doing it to be 'lazy' and being a dumb little kid no one ever believes me on anything anyways

>'hm maybe I am just lying' - proceeds to never see a doctor or therapist for any of it bc my mom thinks all professionals are evil plus we have no insurance or money to cover even a basic check-up

>years pass and my health starts to *very* slowly decline, deny it's happening even as my toes/feet go numb and my legs start to swell up with water due to my Undiagnosed Type 2 Diabetes

>mom starts seeing a doctor bc she's gaining water weight and sleeps 20 hours every day (falling in and out of sleep the entire time)

>she actually starts getting meds and help but only bc I push her to it while I deny my own declining health at the same time

>She passes away four years later and I'm the one to find her

>I don't start my own health journey until I start trying for disability/benefits (a year or so after my mom passed)

>Actively avoid going to appointments and all that bc it causes me stress to get ready the entire week just for that ONE day, never knowing if my therapist will actually be there for me that day (I only saw them once a month and 90% of the time they rescheduled bc they went on vacation)

>COVID hits and everything shuts down, no more appointments bc of lockdown and I'm stuck at home 24/7 now

>Ended up getting COVID anyways thanks to my brother's partner visiting, I didn't know at the time because I had no outward symptoms

>Found out I was gaining water weight thanks to a scar on my heart that kept opening up, was told I almost died but thankfully I was taking meds to help get rid of that water weight

>Also found out I had COVID, most likely it triggered the heart condition and my Diabetes to get much worse, ends up in the hospital for only a week to get myself more stable

>Had issues with getting back home bc my hometown is in the middle of bum-fuck nowhere and no cab service wants to take the 5+ hours ride from the hospital to the front of my house

>Thankfully got a cool pot-head cab driver who was happy to take me home, we talked about 'fated meetings' and all that the entire ride (seriously such a cool guy)

>Months later I get sick again and have to go through the same process as before (meds and all that)

>This time the nurses actually get me to start with my medical stuff, helping me with paperwork and all that

>End up having issues with the Band-Aid Clinic (local hospital) when I get sick a third time and I get overdosed so bad I'm near-catatonic, went back to complain but was called a liar and the SAME DOCTOR put me in an empty room for three hours before telling me to leave the hospital

>Stop taking my meds or seeing a doctor bc my trauma kicks in, resulting in me not seeing any professional for almost FOUR YEARS

>Currently trying to get back on track with all my medical stuff, have a nurse I'm directly working with and for once it feels like I'm being listened to that I genuinely need help

>Constantly worried if I can still get Disability/Benefits due to the current government fucking things up, but I'm still taking the steps to get *something* done for myself (thank to my nurse for helping me get a phone so I can text her AND my therapist directly instead of figuring out how to e-mail them and failing in trying to contact them when I try)

[snakes-ona-plane]

heyyyyy tumblr! with the tiktok ban imminent, like a lot of people, i’m trying to find a new refuge and im firing up my tumblr again. when i made this account 10 years ago, it was all twenty one pilots themed and i followed only twenty one pilots things. i want to redo my algorithm and find some more mutuals who share my same interests🤩📚💀🧦🕸️🦔🍄🪐🍋🥐🧋🎧🛖📀🕰️🕯️🩶

general hobbies and interests🧠

- consuming books, music, sitcoms, and podcasts

- cultivating multiple vibes and aesthetics

- ranting about normalized unhealthy relationship dynamics

- grunge-adjacent, comfy, and eclectic fashion and jewelry

- watching pop culture analyses on youtube

- making specific spotify playlists

- animal crossing

- cult and true crime documentaries

social issues📌

- anything radical feminism and intersectional feminism (BUT NO TERFISM)

- mental health, psychology, and public health

- cults and cultism

- decentering romantic relationships and codependency in relationships

- community living/walkable communities

- chronic illness and disability awareness and advocacy (especially endometriosis)

- the education system and children with disabilities and special education services

music 🪗

- fiona apple

- lana del rey

- cobra starships

- fall out boy

- waterparks

- phoebe bridgers

- mitski

- lorde

- the neighbourhood

- maude lautour

- the academy is

- death cab for cutie

- car seat headrest

- pierce the veil

- the front bottoms

- owl city

- MARINA

shows📺

- succession

- parks and rec

- community

- veep

- the bear

- broad city

- the umbrella academy

- teen wolf

- the mindy project

- sex and the city

books/series📖

- the raven cycle

- all for the game

- the secret history

- a darker shade of magic

- literary fiction in general, primarily women’s

[bluegoblinfox]

The DWP: you have a work capability assessment via telephone next week.

Me: ummm I have communication issues and shutdowns and no one to support me in this call. If I suddenly can't communicate verbally I'll have to just end the call. I don't want to be penalized for this.

DWP: We'll cancel this for two weeks then be in touch with another appointment giving you time to source support

Me: Calls autism support service (run by volunteers) and asks for support

Autism Support Service: We don't offer that but can refer you to CAB and write a letter about your needs. Come in next week.

Me in appointment: So yeah that's me and my needs in brief.

Autism Support Service: Great we will write a letter and it will be with you next week and we've referred you to the CAB.

Me: Thank you so much that's really helpful.

CAB calls: yeah we don't offer that service but you can ask for a face to face appointment at your home. You'll need a doctor's letter to support this though. Here's a number for an advocacy service local to you. They could help you in the appointment but there may be a waiting list.

Me Calls advocacy service: Hey I was given your number by the CAB... Explains issue...

Advocacy: We don't do that or anything to do with benefits. They CAB may be able to help.

Me: actually they can't but thank you anyway.

So now I have to get GP appointment and letter to say that I need a Face to face appointment at home due to communication issues and autistic shutdowns.

This is a lot of communication that I've had to do to arrange support and make accessible an assessment that is there to assess my disabilities in relation to work. It's taken weeks to get this far no of least because I can't communicate with everyone back to back even if that were possible. I can't sit on the phone and call and call people explaining everything over and over again in one go.

All this to access an assessment with an organisation who deal with disabled people all the time. Set up by a government who have made getting support to access health care, social care and any support with anything like this impossible due to cutting funds to public services. It's almost like the system is set up to make it really fucking hard for people to access benefits.

[grison-in-space]

Essentially, on the day I met Guiding Eyes Corky #3cc92 the blind part of me was starving. Suddenly there was a dog—a “service dog,” “guide dog,” “seeing-eye dog,” an epic dog, a professional dog, who was entirely my companion. “Yes, it took me a long time to get here,” I thought. But I could see Corky didn’t care about my lengthy delay at all. She was interested in my left eyebrow, my fingers. She scented the history of my clothes. She was interested in me—the present-tense man, the one who was before her wearing sturdy L.L.Bean outdoor gear. In order to meet Corky I’d had to suffer losses, wring my hands, and even sweat. One minute I’d been a professor at a small liberal arts college in upstate New York. The next I was a job seeker whose teaching position had been erased. It’s a routine story and ordinarily it shouldn’t have been devastating but owing to blindness I couldn’t simply switch gears and drive a cab or wait tables. Unemployment had pitched me in a dark wood with no discernible path.

Steven Kuusisto, Have Dog Will Travel (2018). Chapter Two. Bold emphasis mine.

One of the things Kuusisto is really insecure about, in the beginning, is his lack of "blind culture": because he's spent his entire life masking and trying to be perceived as a sighted person, he doesn't have the skills or the life experience he imagines other blind people to have. (He's 39 here, incidentally; not a young man.) He feels behind, adolescent, missing important skills--and he feels terribly stuck.

Corky serves two purposes here: one, she's actually an important aid device for Kuusisto's independence, as we will make clear in future excerpts. But she also serves to make it very clear that Kuusisto is blind and that he is part of a broader category of people for whom vision isn't useful. She claims this part of Kuusisto's identity for him and serves as a very visible cue to what he can and can't do--and in doing so also invokes federal law. This is happening circa 1993, as a reminder: the ADA exists, but it is an extremely new thing.... as we will see in the next quote.

By existing, Corky essentially "outs" Kuusisto as belonging to a community he has spent his entire life hiding from. (Kuusisto is straight--he mentions his wife in the first chapter, as an aside talking about her experience training guide dogs vs riding horses--but the parallels to queer experience are strong and easy to see, especially in the context of self acceptance and shame.) She claims his place in that community by existing. She represents this transition from hiding in shame--"the blind part of me was starving"--to owning his position as a blind man and interacting with other blind people as a form of community. Kuusisto will go on to immerse himself in disability advocacy and blindness advocacy more general over the course of his career, so this is an incredibly significant transition for him--and, powerfully, Corky herself is a strong reassuring presence in a way that other visible markers of identity can't be. The ace flag pin that lives on one of my favorite hats can't sooth me when I'm frightened, for example, but Corky can (and does) habitually lean into Kuusisto and nudge him when he's nervous or ashamed.

Note also the vulnerability of disability: when we have managed to kludge a system into something that works for us, sudden change can be completely life-destroying. Kuusisto notes that he has worked as a lecturer teaching poetry on the same campus he attended college, where his father was the president, for his entire adult life with the exception of a few years of graduate school in Iowa City. Where can he work now that this position is no longer available to him? How will he get around?

[ezrydesg]

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[jacktrammell]

Unelegant Universe

06/12/2024

Transportation Accessibility Analysis for Unelegant Universe

A Google search leading to an “I Love New York” type web site revealed that visiting restaurants in Hell’s Kitchen was one of the site’s most recommended attractions in New York City for people who are wheelchair users.  As part of my study of the role of transportation and innovative technology in facilitating access for people with disabilities, I conducted a wheelchair experiment to test that out.  I started at the Hampton Inn on 337 West 39th Street in the Garment District.  Level one transportation is the motorized chair, which had little problem leaving the hotel through the automatic door openers, although the second/outer door was a little quick on the close.

Once on the sidewalk, there were level two transportation options.  In New York City that could be cab, bus, personal auto, subway, private van service, etc.  For people not using wheelchairs there are biking, scooter, and rickshaw options that obviously weren’t a good choice; Uber and other private rides are not often accessible.  A personal auto is also not recommended in Manhattan for nearly anyone due to congestion and parking costs.  The subway does not serve Hell’s Kitchen from that direction (and many subway stations remain inaccessible to wheelchair users, so that would need scouted out in advance even if it were an option).  The cost for a private van was prohibitive compared to bus or cab fare, so ultimately the realistic choices were walking (i.e., moving by chair), cab, or bus.

The New York Times reported that the wait time for an accessible cab had been reduced from 34 minutes to 13 minutes, but my calls to cab services and talks to locals suggested that it still would be at least a 30-minute wait, and probably longer.  That left bus and just walking (chairing).  A quick look at the bus routes showed that there would be two quick changes of routes, and a couple of blocks jaunt to a bus stop.  It seemed since it was a sunny day that maybe a relaxing walk (chair ride) would just be the best option.  (Sidenote: MTA claims that 100% of their buses are accessible; of the 13 I saw on our journey all had accessibility equipment; there was no way to check that all were working…)  Since the restaurant area of Hell’s Kitchen was in theory less than ten blocks away, I decided to just go on my own.

I turned to the right and immediately encountered a construction enclosure over the sidewalk, but unlike others I would soon pass through, this one was wide enough that someone using a chair could pass by someone walking by in the opposite direction.  I reached the corner of 39th and Ninth Avenue and turned right.  So far, so good.  People, for some unnatural reason, seemed to want to steer clear of me, although personally I am starting to notice bad, uneven stretches of sidewalk that ultimately are a wear and tear on me, and on the chair, too.  I continued up Ninth past the bus garage and ultimately up to 42nd Street.  I couldn’t help but notice that a lot of the charming stores or small cafes had an eight inch or so threshold to get into the door.

I crossed over Ninth, trying to ignore a couple of delivery bikes clearly violating traffic patterns, and headed toward 10th Avenue on 42nd Street.  For the first time, I encountered sidewalk construction coverings that only had room for my chair and not so much for another person to pass.  This caused some awkwardness for others but not so much for me as I know I am entitled to the right of way.  Turning right onto Tenth Avenue and entering Hell’s Kitchen proper, then heading NE I encounter my first missing curb cut.  Why here? I wondered.  But it wasn’t long before a city repair crew blocked another intersection which did have a curb cut; but one not available to me!

About 46th Street (I don’t want to be too specific and give away anyone’s real business) we reached the restaurant we had scoped out online in advance, and it turned out that they, too, had a significant threshold.  The woman at the entrance offered first to have us sit outside in a sidewalk seating area (which I definitely didn’t want to do), and then seemed to toy with the idea of her brother helping me and the chair in, but I could tell she knew she shouldn’t do that and I ultimately acquiesced to sitting outside.

The space was cramped.  The woman helpfully scooted one table to the side, but from my perspective that was ad hoc and kept someone else from sitting outside who might have wanted to.  None-the-less, the food was as good as advertised and it was a delightful meal.  The people there were genuinely kind, attentive, and fun to talk to.

Leaving the restaurant, we decided to cut back over on 46th Street to head back to the hotel, making essentially a big square pattern.  Within the first two blocks, a sidewalk was fully closed for a stretch and I had to backtrack and recross to the other side; there were also more stretches of buckled and rough sidewalk; there were more narrow construction sidewalk coverings; and there were people who sometimes put on the expression that I was the problem slowing them down.

By the time we returned to the hotel, I was thoroughly exhausted, physically and mentally.  To say that restaurants in Hell’s Kitchen are an ideal attraction for people with disabilities including wheelchair users seems a bit problematic…

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Postscript.  I don’t normally use a wheelchair, but I conducted this experience on foot trying to imagine what it would actually be like.  Since transportation has been a major battleground over disability rights, and an incredible emerging technology over the last two-hundred years, transportation is one of the “innovation lens” through which I am trying gauge the impact of Artificial Intelligence on people with disabilities.  The moral of this short, mostly “true” story is: “Will the reality match the promise?” and “When has a new technology ever seriously changed people’s views about disability?”

My coming book on this is entitled: The Unelegant Universe, and I can be reached at j.k.trammell@msmary.edu if you have thoughts to share or would agree to be interviewed for the project.

[sunstonez]

Hi, my name is Valentine and I'm trying to raise money for my spouse to come with me for my upcoming court date on February 7th, 2024.

Long story short, I am trying to get my childhood abuser prosecuted for CSA. This requires me to travel to my home province and testify everything in court. While the provincial victim services program will cover my travel expenses, they will not cover my partner's as she is not the one testifying.

I desperately need her to come with me, otherwise I don't think I will be able to face what is possibly the hardest thing I'll ever have to do in my life.

Me and my spouse are currently living off of one disability cheque, and do not have any savings. I'm asking family for help, but I'm limited in who I can ask since not all of my family knows about what happened to me.

My goal is to raise $350 before the beginning of February, half for her bus ticket, $40 for cabs, and the remaining amount for food and other necessities for the week long trip.

If you have questions please feel free to DM me or comment here. I can provide proof of my subpoena and other court documents.

P*yp*l: p*ypal.me/hepelva

E-tr*nsfer (if you're Canadian): salsamanders@gmail.com

Thanks so much for reading 🙏💕