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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2017-02-08 | 13 | COMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES MEETING MINUTES OF Wednesday, February 8th, 2017 6:30 p.m. Gail Payne: Thank you. Commissioner Aghapekian: I need just clarification. The Paratransit stops at bus stops, it's not door to door? Chair Kenny: Yes. The shuttle is a fixed route service. It's a loop. Fixed route with fixed bus stops and they have their own bus stops and at times they do share a bus stop with AC transit at some locations. Commissioner Aghapekian: And I see in here in your presentation of the program, you have bus benches? Planning to install bus benches? Gail Payne: Yes. Commissioner Aghapekian: I live very close to South Shore, I see a lot of people taking the shuttle and/or the bus, and benches are perfect, a great idea. Highly, highly recommend because I see people, elderly people, and people that have difficulties, either leaning or standing or sitting on the sidewalk. They have no place to sit. And sometimes during the summer especially, never mind the winter time, it gets very hot and the sun is very strong and they're sitting there, standing there for hours. Maybe not hours but for a long stretch of time and if it's do-able I highly recommend that these benches have some kind of sun protection, whether it is possible or not. I can feel their misery. And the other clarification that I need is, it's every other day that the loop happen in specific areas, is that the program? Gail Payne: It will continue its current days of the week. The shuttle operates Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. And what it does is it operates at different parts of the town for each day. And so Tuesdays is West End, Thursdays is East and Bay Farm and then the Central Island is Thursday. Commissioner Aghapekian: So if a person needs a ride on a day off, is it possible for them to have other means of transportation available to them? Gail Payne: So that's where the taxi program comes in, the subsidized taxis and also we're looking at this mobility management, considering a new program and looking at a potential volunteer driver program. And so volunteer drivers can help individuals get from their door to the door of wherever they're going, if it's a medical appointment or wherever they need to go. Commissioner Aghapekian: Thank you. Gail Payne: And a clarification on the benches. We're looking at benches not just for this shuttle yet for all bus stops and this will help pay for that. Chair Kenny: Commissioner Lewis. Commissioner Lewis: This is something that I wouldn't know. Are the areas where the shuttle stopped, is it marked along with the AC Transit sign? Gail Payne: It is. It has a bus flag, a bus stop sign, similar look and feel to an AC Transit bus stop sign except different color schemes. 13 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-02-08.pdf |