A Smart City Is an Accessible City
A new breed of accessibility apps can make life easier for people with disabilities. They can also make it harder.
Wheelchair-Bound Woman Begs for People to Stop Blocking Handicap Parking Areas
West Michigan woman says she is frustrated after she has been blocked from using her wheelchair accessible van several times around town.
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Automakers Must Deliver on the Promise of Self-Driving Car Technology
When I bought my most recent car — a 2014 Chrysler Town and Country —the salesman walked me through the list of available upgrades. I could get a leather interior and heated seats without a problem, but there was one glaring oversight: accessibility. As a wheelchair user, I’ve found that no major automaker offers an accessible vehicle as standard…
“Not Your Spot” Disabled Parking Campaign Begins
Rotary Central Cayman Islands has launched its “Not Your Spot” awareness campaign highlighting the correct use and importance of disabled parking spots. The campaign, which was started 14 June, aims not only to educate the public on the proper and improper use of disabled “blue spots” around the island, but also show why these parking spaces are so important to the people who have the rights to use them…
Campaign Encourages Respecting Wheelchair Accessible Parking Spaces
Superior partnered with BraunAbility for the Save My Spot campaign, which highlights respecting parking spaces for wheelchair accessible vehicles. The striped space lets vehicles extend a ramp so wheelchair users can access their vehicle. Illegally parking in these spots can leave users stranded…
City Workers Cheat and Lie for Disabled Spaces
Hot on the tail of San Diego’s meter-reading scandal comes word that at least two city Public Utilities Department workers have illegally used Disabled Person Placards to park in handicapped spaces, and similar abuse may be common among other employees…
Local Police Carefully Monitoring Illegal Use of Handicap Parking Spots
Police are paying special attention to cars illegally using disability parking spots. This week marks the RMV’s placard abuse prevention week, and local law enforcement agencies are making sure the spaces are saved for those who need them…
Disabled Parking Placard Abuse Crackdown Nets 381 Citations
Investigators with the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) caught 381 out of 4,951, including 11 people in Valencia, fraudulently using disabled person parking placards during 22 enforcement operations in April. Investigators confiscated the placards and issued each offender a misdemeanor citation that carries a $250 to $1,000 fine. The violation will also appear on their driver record…
I-Team: State Lawmaker Calls for Change to Free Parking Benefit to Curb Handicap Placard Abuse
After a WBZ I-Team investigation exposed rampant abuse of handicap placards, a state lawmaker said it is time to change the benefit that allows people to park for free at metered spots all day…
DMV Cracks Down on Disabled Placard Misuse in Undercover Sweep
Drivers in the East County were surprised Wednesday when officers approached them to check whether or not their disabled placards were valid. With 2.7 million placards issued in California, it can be difficult to find a handicapped parking space. Adding to that difficulty are the countless drivers who misuse them…
How California Plans to Stop ‘Dead’ Drivers from Using Disabled Parking Placards
Last year, a California audit revealed an impossible statistic: More than 26,000 people over age 100 in the Golden State had blue disabled placards, allowing them to park at any street meter for free, all day, or at prime blue-stenciled stalls at the front of store parking lots…