Great experience and a suggestion

This might be one of the best letters I've read on here. No demands..
and a very nice suggestion but it a great way. Oh my gosh.... Kudos to
you Brenda B.!!!!!

Most amusement parks go on the assumptions that either the disabled
person brings their own motorized/manually pushed wheelchair/vehicle
or that they rent one from them.

I agree that an amusement park as large as Disney should have a
wheelchair accessible vehicle available.
They could attach another "trailer" type vehicle on the back of the
regular ground transport buses and have this as wheelchair accessible
only. It can be canipied or enclosed as the main one is.
Would cost not much more to run than the bus itself.

Good letter!

I think I read that Walt Disney is being sued by some disabled special
interest group about them not allow segways on their own private
property. I wouldnt think they would be too accomdating to new
requests.

You know, I'm disabled. And I've fought hard to get the same benefits
of society that nondisabled people who are otherwise similar to me
take for granted.

Paratransit (separate transportation systems for disabled people)
sucks. Why? Well, my theory is that because they support the idea
that we don't have the right to use the same transportation options as
everybody else, they also figure we should be grateful for anything we
do get, so we shouldn't be complaining about whatever we do get.

Separate but equal doesn't work.

Separate but only a bit inferior doesn't work.

Separate but pretty damn inferior but reasonably safe doesn't work.

Separate and unreliable and unsafe and completely inadequate for the
number of people pushed off mainline is what you end up getting, and
while that may work for those of you who aren't ever the ones getting
pushed off mainline, it doesn't work for me.

Segregation of a class of people who are generally regarded by most
people as being inherently undeserving of the rights everyone else
should be able to take for granted doesn't work.

It is also illegal. It's a violation of our civil rights.

And when nondisabled people get on transportation first (which is the
norm around here, at least), they very often decide to block disabled
people and tell us that if we want to ride, we're just going to have
to wait. That's why some companies want us to go on first: so that
*they* don't have to deal with nondisabled people who are insisting
that we shouldn't be allowed on transportation "for normal people."

You may think it would be uncomfortable to have nondisabled people
gawking at you while you tried to navigate systems built by and for
nondisabled people for their own convenience that do not take account
of your body and your mind. The solution to that is not to help
nondisabled people avoid even thinking about the way they discriminate
against us while ensuring that the generations coming up now are
subject to the same mind-, body-, and soul-destroying conditions
people like me were supposed to be grateful for.

The solution is for nondisabled people to quit gawking. Or, better
yet, to start calling for places like Disney to come up with fully
accessible services so that we finally have a meaningful to wait in
line with you. It's not like the people who design transit systems
haven't been on notice since the 1970s that they can be required to
ensure access.