TRANSLOGIC 104: Kenguru Wheelchair-Accessible EV

Not everyone knows about various forms of transportation. Though I'm able to walk, I have other multiple disabilities involving my joints, vision, and hearing...all which limit my balance. I almost lost my "special" bus, because I lived just over a mile from the nearest bus stop, and they expect you to live within a mile. Though I could sometimes take the regular bus if I got out of work early, the two main streets near my parents' house have no sidewalks for about halfway down. With my balance issues, I tend to fall a lot. A few years ago, while walking home on what was already a bad day, I was going from the street back onto where the sidewalk started. I fell and hit my head. It just happened to be on Friday the 13th, with a full moon either that day, or the day before or after. Needless to say, that walk was not always safe. Without special transportation, there's no way I could work at any of the places I been at in the last 10 years or so. One was out in no-mans-land. Where I'm at now is not a great neighborhood, with warehouse style buildings all around me and a vacant field across the street, where anything can happen. My family didn't know there was transportation, until my case worker through the County Board of Developmental Disabilities said something. Now, more than 10 years later, I don't know what I'd do without it. Now I have a van instead of a bus, but it's still for the same purpose...to get back and forth to work at a job I like instead of the local grocery store, which I hated. A couple years ago I moved out of my parents' home, so I'm closer to bus stops, but for those who do not have easy access to other types of bus systems, may not always know there are options. I'm in Cuyahoga County in Ohio. Regular transportation for bussing is called Regional Transit Authority (RTA) and the "handicapped" bus is Paratransit. If you are in need of these services, you may want to contact your county's Board of DD for more info. Hope this helps.

Sometimes you don't want to wait to be picked up for every little thing. Sometimes you just want to go visit or other trips. This way you can just get up and go.