Tuesday April 22, 2008 
The collected occasional commentary by Peter Korn, Accessibility Architect at Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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Peter Korn's Weblog The collected occasional commentary by Peter Korn, Accessibility Architect at Sun Microsystems, Inc. |
Tuesday April 22, 2008 Another Berkeley first: wheelchair-accessible car sharingThe City of Berkeley is the home of a lot of "firsts" for accessibility. Perhaps the most notable first is the Center for Independent Living which started the Independent Living movement and which also led to the World Institute on Disability (in neighboring Oakland). U.C. Berkeley (not coincidentally) was the first college to have a Disabled Students' Program Today marks another first for accessibility in Berkeley: the first wheelchair-accessible car share van, which debuts today (which, also not coincidentally, is Earth Day). City CarShare's new Access Program provides a wheelchair accessible minivan for City CarShare members to use. Members pay $7/hour + 40¢/mile during the day, or $3/hour + 40¢/mile from midnight to 8am => the same rate as for any of their minivans. You can be a non-driver member, in which case one of up to 5 registered designated drivers can be the one driving the accessible van. (2008-04-22 11:15:40.0) Permalink Comments:
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