[PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh Railways Motorwoman story

[hrbran99 at adelphia.net]

Greater Cleveland Regional Transit (RTA) will not allow fixed-route bus operators to push/pull wheelchairs. Community Responsive Transit (RTA paratransit operation) operators are allowed to push/pull them.
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HrB

---- Bill Robb <bill937ca at yahoo.ca> wrote: 
> Here's my two cents.  It may be necessary at times to push or pull a wheelchair into place on the lift, or on or off the wheelchair lift.  Some people in wheelchairs have lost some of their co-ordinaton and a helping hand may speed up the process.
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>   Bill Robb
> Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net> wrote:
>   Herb:
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> I was just looking at Denver, Colorado's requirements for a bus 
> driver. Everything looks normal except they require applicants to 
> be able to push or pull repeatedly a 70 pound weight. Got any idea 
> why that might be relevant to the description of a bus driver?
> 
> Fred Schneider
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