October 6, 2020 / by BBG Security / Transportation
March 4, 2019 Electric scooters have taken cities across the country by surprise, sometimes causing conflicts with city authorities and pedestrians. In San Diego, the scooters have led to a federal lawsuit claiming the new devices cause discrimination against people with disabilities. The lawsuit, which was filed in a federal district court in January and […]
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Disability Rights Group Sues San Diego Over Scooters On Sidewalks – Accessibility News International
October 6, 2020 / by BBG Security / Transportation
March 4, 2019 Electric scooters have taken cities across the country by surprise, sometimes causing conflicts with city authorities and pedestrians. In San Diego, the scooters have led to a federal lawsuit claiming the new devices cause discrimination against people with disabilities. The lawsuit, which was filed in a federal district court in January and […]
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Disability Rights Group Sues San Diego Over Scooters On Sidewalks – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.
October 6, 2020 / by BBG Security / International, Mobility
Electric scooters have taken cities across the country by surprise, sometimes causing conflicts with city authorities and pedestrians. In San Diego, the scooters have led to a federal lawsuit claiming the new devices cause discrimination against people with disabilities. Read more athttp://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/disability-rights-group-sues-san-diego-over-scooters-on-sidewalks/ Related
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Sign Up To Attend October 1, 2020 virtual town Hall on How to Advocate Against Allowing Electric Scooters in Toronto which Endanger People with Disabilities, Seniors and Others – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.
September 28, 2020 / by BBG Security / All
Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act Alliance Update United for a Barrier-Free Society for All People with DisabilitiesWeb: http://www.aodaalliance.org Email: aodafeedback@gmail.com Twitter: @aodaalliance Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/aodaalliance/ September 28, 2020 SUMMARY Here is a great way for you to help the important campaign to get Toronto Mayor John Tory and the Toronto City Council not to allow […]
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Protect Torontonians with Disabilities from the Dangers of Electric Scooters – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.
September 10, 2020 / by BBG Security / All, aoda.
How to Help In a Nutshell Please take five minutes to help us stop Toronto from allowing electric scooters (e-scooters), a serious new danger to the safety and accessibility of people with disabilities, seniors and the public. If you live in or visit Toronto, please email Toronto Mayor John Tory at mayor_tory@toronto.ca You can also […]
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An Interim Victory for Disability Advocates – Toronto City Council Directs City Staff to Investigate Dangers to People with Disabilities If Electric Scooters are Allowed – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.
July 29, 2020 / by BBG Security / All, aoda.
Yesterday disability advocates won an important interim victory in Toronto, Canada’s largest city, in the campaign to protect the public, including people with disabilities, from the proven dangers to public safety and disability accessibility that are posed by electric scooters (e-scooters). Read more athttps://aoda.ca/an-interim-victory-for-disability-advocates-toronto-city-council-directs-city-staff-to-investigate-dangers-to-people-with-disabilities-if-electric-scooters-are-allowed/ Related
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More Overwhelming Proof that Electric Scooters Endanger Public Safety – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.
July 27, 2020 / by BBG Security / All, aoda.
On the eve of Toronto City Council considering the question of whether to allow electric scooters in Canada’s largest city, here is yet more overwhelming proof that electric scooters pose a danger to the safety of the public. We set out a sampling of four news articles below. A CBC News July 21, 2020 report […]
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Tell Toronto City Council Not to Subject Canada’s Largest City to the Dangers, Personal Injuries and New Disability Barriers that Electric Scooters Cause – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.
July 24, 2020 / by BBG Security / All, aoda.
At its meeting on Tuesday, July 28, 2020, Toronto City Council has on its agenda the question whether to unleash electric scooters (e-scooters) on the people of Canada’s largest city. The AODA Alliance calls on Toronto’s Mayor John Tory and City Council to resoundingly reject e-scooters. They are a proven danger to the safety of […]
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AODA Alliance to Present Tomorrow at Virtual Meeting of Toronto’s Infrastructure Committee to Oppose Allowing Electric Scooters – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.
July 8, 2020 / by BBG Security / All, aoda.
Submits Detailed Brief that Shows A City Staff Report Proves E-Scooters Endanger Public Safety and Accessibility for People with Disabilities Read more athttps://aoda.ca/aoda-alliance-to-present-tomorrow-at-virtual-meeting-of-torontos-infrastructure-committee-to-oppose-allowing-electric-scooters/ Related
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With the COVID-19 Crisis Creating a Nightmare for Us All, Why Does the City of Toronto’s Infrastructure Committee Think It?s More Important to Meet to Discuss Allowing Electric Scooters in Toronto? – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.
July 3, 2020 / by BBG Security / All, aoda.
The COVID-19 crisis now is into its fourth month with no end in sight. We need our politicians and public servants working 100% on alleviating the horrible burdens that COVID-19 has inflicted on us all. Yet the politicians on the City of Toronto’s Infrastructure Committee think it is more important to now debate allowing electric […]
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Will Ottawa City Council Today Vote to Conduct a Deeply Troubling Experiment on Ottawa Residents and Visitors By Allowing Electric Scooters that Endanger People with Disabilities and Others? – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.
June 10, 2020 / by BBG Security / aodaalliance
On the eve of today’s Ottawa City Council vote on whether to allow electric scooters (e-scooters), in the nation’s capital, the AODA Alliance obtained information from the office of Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson that exposes new serious problems with Ottawa’s proposal. Today, Ottawa City Council will decide whether to allow uninsured, untrained, unlicensed, unhelmetted e-scooter […]
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