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City's Access-A-Ride system shuts out non-English speaking disabled: LAWSUIT |
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Posted by Gold_12th on Sat Dec 20 14:49:50 2014 Handicapped New Yorkers with limited English skills are being shut out of the city’s Access-A-Ride system, a new class action lawsuit charges.People who can’t speak English are unjustly required to bring their own interpreter to crucial interviews for the subsidized transportation system for the disabled, documents filed in Manhattan Federal Court claim. “Individuals who have arrived at their Access-A-Ride eligibility interviews without an interpreter have been turned away and instructed to return only if they bring someone to interpret for them,” court papers read. Some 340,000 New Yorkers are affected by the policy, according to the suit that names the operator of the service, NYC Transit. The suit seeks a more accommodating policy for non-English speakers. An MTA spokesman said that was already in the works, and that interpreters will be available starting Jan. 20. http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/access-a-ride-system-shuts-non-english-speaking-suit-article-1.2049723 |
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