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Image description: A person with a white cane and long dark hair walks on an outdoor train platform, accompanied by a friend. Photo: John Robert McPhereson, CC

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How a Transit App for the Blind Could Revolutionize How Everyone Rides

Seniors bike, too. Photo: Caitlin Rogger

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Car-Friendly Cities Are Not Age-Friendly Cities

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California Seeks to Improve Wheelchair Service on Uber, Lyft

Pedestrian “beg” buttons, like this one in Idaho Falls, will no longer be built be facing the street when PROWAG becomes the standard. Image courtesy of the author.

Feds Adopt Better Street Accessibility Guidelines — But Will They Make a Difference?

Image description: An African American woman wearing a pink sundress walks along a rural road using a white cane. Via Disability Mobility Initiative

Why We Can’t Afford to Ignore the Needs of Non-Drivers With Disabilities

Senator Tammy Duckworth sits in her wheelchair on a sidewalk in front of a green lawn. She is wearing black glasses, a grey blazer, a white dress shirt, and a black and white polka dotted skirt. Source: Wikimedia Commons

Tammy Duckworth on Why Every U.S. Transit Station Must Be Accessible

A man folds a wheelchair next to a woman sitting in a van

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Regulators Make Headway on Wheelchair Access for Ride-Hail

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Bike East Bay Calls Foul on Ballpark Bike Access

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VIDEO: How the MUTCD Cuts Off Food Access For Pedestrians

<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-siegman-412b33209">Patrick Siegman</a> is a transportation planner and economist. He is the founding principal of Siegman &amp; Associates. His work on parking reform includes leading the Downtown Berkeley Parking and Transportation Demand Management plan and the Downtown Oakland Parking Study, and serving as an advisor to San Francisco’s SFpark program. UCLA Professor Donald Shoup, the eminent parking scholar, calls him “the first Shoupista,” for his early work implementing Shoup’s ideas.

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Octavia Court, courtesy of Satellite Affordable Housing Associates

Should Blind People in Berkeley Be Required to Buy Parking Spaces?