07/18/2012
https://www.congress.gov...
"we have not yet achieved equality in access to transportation."
"I think it is a throw-back to pre-ADA America that the city thought it was OK to make accessibility optional when they held a competition to design the taxi of tomorrow."
"the unemployment rate is over 60 percent; over 60 percent."
"If London can have a taxicab fleet that is 100-percent wheelchair accessible... I can't understand why New York City and other American cities can't achieve the same goal."