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Ruth Harrigan
@RuthHarrigan · 4:22

What I took for granted - transportation and disability

You. Hi, this is Ruth Harrigan. Today I'd like to talk about transportation and disability. In this series, I have of what I took for granted before I acquired my disability, which is quadriplegia, which is a spinal cord injury affecting all four of my limbs. I took a lot for granted, but we'll start with transportation. During the time I've been disabled, I've met many people with different disabilities. Some of them are blind, and I never thought about it

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Chelsea Hanawalt
@allowthesun · 0:55
And I'm really curious about that article that you talked about from Australia. But yeah, I really appreciate you bringing up this topic and hope to hear more
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Ruth Harrigan
@RuthHarrigan · 0:50

@allowthesun https://s.swell.life/STYmk6Ckz1yZRvL

Thank you for your response to my actual first swell podcast. I appreciate your thoughts. I posted the link for the article up in the top, hopefully in the right spot since I'm new at this. And thank you also for bringing up the subway system because I have friends in wheelchairs who use the New York subway system and very accurate what you're saying, where there's elevator breakdowns and other issues
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@Swell · 0:15

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Jacqueline Kharouf
@JacquelineEK · 1:58
You. Hi, Ruth. Thank you very much for this post and for sharing your experience in regards to transportation and the system in general. It's something I think about as well, especially for people with a disability. Not only blind people, but other people who are in wheel chairs or are not completely independent. And how our system? Like you said, it's based on independent travel, so it's really not the most efficient and not the most friendly
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Ruth Harrigan
@RuthHarrigan · 1:40

@JacquelineEK https://youtu.be/gT3zV-IFQI0

So this is another aspect of transportation for the disabled community, which is that there are these other services in place, but they are not, of course, independent. And you really are at the mercy of if the driver shows up late and you cannot meet the time for your appointment, you are responsible for that outcome. So it's another impact on the lives of people with disabilities, and I thought I would share that
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J.L. Beasley
@Her_Sisu · 4:59
And this might be something that you could consider for your transportation business in terms of expanding it to aid in accommodating people with disabilities. Also was listening because there are times that I do drive for Uber, and I just recently put my vehicle on Turo, and I had to think about that because I do have it marked where I don't want pets and service dogs in my vehicle. And just listening to you gave a different perspective of and mostly my stance of not having these animals in my cars
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Ruth Harrigan
@RuthHarrigan · 1:35

@Her_Sisu

And thank you so much for your thoughtful comments and talking about your concerns and experiences with providing travel service, much needed travel service for people with disabilities, including those with service animals. You make a lot of really good points. Service animals are better trained, and people who use service animals are prepared to clean up after them. And there's a whole training that goes on with getting a service dog that goes on in many cases for weeks and continues for months
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