Individuals with Dis Fare
by Mikky D. Hoffman
U.S. Code Online via GPO Access states new laws in effect as of January 3, 2007. Title 42, Chapter 126, Subchapter III documents that discrimination in specified public transportation services provided by private entities, such as the Metropolitan Boston Trans... (MBTA), is prohibitted. Required purchase of photo I.D., or identity, cards for inviduals with disabilities as a means of identifying them and their disabilities is illegal. According to U.S. Code Online, http://www.gpoaccess.gov/, general rule:
"No individual shall be discagainst on the basis of disability in the full and equal enjoyment of specified public transportation services provided by a private entity that is primarily engaged in the business of transporting people and whose operations affect commerce."
In the city of Boston, Massachusetts, persons with disabilities are forced to use turnstyle entry points to the subway labeled "reduced Fare" in large letters. Senior citizens and students with reduced fares also use these gate points. Sometimes, public transportation customers are requested to present this I.D. card to MBTA train and bus operators.
Title 42--The Public Health and Welfare of the U.S. Code Online states that:
"the imposition or application by an entity described in the general rule of this section of eligibility criteria that screen out or tend to screen out an individual with a disability or any class of individuals with disabilities from fully enjoying the specified public transportation services provided by the entity, unless such criteria can be shown to be necessary for the provision of the services being offered."
One subway rider who did not appear to be disabled said, "I was forced to pay reduced fare with an I.D., or identity, card even though I was able to pay full fare without one."
These I.D., or identity, cards can be tracked anywhere in the MBTA transportation system. Application for an I.D. card requires the applicant to disclose medical information and income documentation in order to obtain this service benefit. The individual card may sometimes serve as legal proof of identity for business transactions.
"No individual shall be discagainst on the basis of disability in the full and equal enjoyment of specified public transportation services provided by a private entity that is primarily engaged in the business of transporting people and whose operations affect commerce."
In the city of Boston, Massachusetts, persons with disabilities are forced to use turnstyle entry points to the subway labeled "reduced Fare" in large letters. Senior citizens and students with reduced fares also use these gate points. Sometimes, public transportation customers are requested to present this I.D. card to MBTA train and bus operators.
Title 42--The Public Health and Welfare of the U.S. Code Online states that:
"the imposition or application by an entity described in the general rule of this section of eligibility criteria that screen out or tend to screen out an individual with a disability or any class of individuals with disabilities from fully enjoying the specified public transportation services provided by the entity, unless such criteria can be shown to be necessary for the provision of the services being offered."
One subway rider who did not appear to be disabled said, "I was forced to pay reduced fare with an I.D., or identity, card even though I was able to pay full fare without one."
These I.D., or identity, cards can be tracked anywhere in the MBTA transportation system. Application for an I.D. card requires the applicant to disclose medical information and income documentation in order to obtain this service benefit. The individual card may sometimes serve as legal proof of identity for business transactions.
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