Wheel-Trans deny the blind

Hi5 for the dumb dumbs running the show.
Let's hassle her and make her life a little more harder.
 
She's almost completely blind but has seen people without canes get on Wheel-Trans.
 
BNKN said:
She's almost completely blind but has seen people without canes get on Wheel-Trans.
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It's common. Read up on it.
You would not want to be her regardless.
 
Blind people have been able to get around on their own for a long time. It's almost magical that they do, but they do. Busses, stations, subways, intersections, sidewalks, entrances, have largely been designed to help them do so. Why is it all not good enough for Ms. Sarah Cain?
 
I see seeing-eye dogs, assistants and those solo cane-users all the time in the TTC hallways. They get around just fine.

those missing or have lack-of-functioning legs don't.
 
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BNKN said:
It's common that people exaggerate to promote their agenda? Yes, I'm up to speed on that.
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Let me explain a bit. You can be legally blind and you can also be essentially blind but barely able to see out of 1 eye perhaps a bit fuzzy so she can make out shapes. There are varying degrees of blindness. Not everyone with the white cane is fully blind.
I have no issues with my tax dollars paying to assist them. It's better than paying some TTC booth collector $125k per year to sleep in a ticket collecting booth.

The problem can be solved in 1 week. If they have Dr.'s letter stating they are essentially blind then good enough for me.
Assuming they were born this way or became this way and for new blind people they were tested.

How many of you would like to trade 1 week with her?
 
BuckWild said:
Let me explain a bit. You can be legally blind and you can also be essentially blind but barely able to see out of 1 eye perhaps a bit fuzzy so she can make out shapes. There are varying degrees of blindness. Not everyone with the white cane is fully blind.
I have no issues with my tax dollars paying to assist them. It's better than paying some TTC booth collector $125k per year to sleep in a ticket collecting booth.

The problem can be solved in 1 week. If they have Dr.'s letter stating they are essentially blind then good enough for me.
Assuming they were born this way or became this way and for new blind people they were tested.

How many of you would like to trade 1 week with her?
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OK, I'll explain back at you then. I'm taking the Sun piece at face value. It indicates Wheel-Trans policy vis-a-vis visual impairment. I think it's pretty clear. Is this person looking for a personal exemption or trying to have the policy changed to cover all impairments?

I like our social safety nets too. There's only so much money to go around. You're not going to be able to please everybody.

Does some TTC booth collector make $125K a year to sleep in a ticket collecting booth? Seems pretty generous. You wouldn't exaggerate to further your agenda, would you?
 
BuckWild said:
The problem can be solved in 1 week. If they have Dr.'s letter stating they are essentially blind then good enough for me.
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You realise you're directly equating one's impairment with a predetermined degree of disability? According to you, how blind she is dictates what she can and can't do. I think a ton of impaired people would feel seriously insulted by your interpretation. Why not let their degree of disability determine their degree of disability?

Wheel Trans gives each applicant a chance to demonstrate their individual need for the service, if they aren't automatically approved. It's a very rigorous and considerate process. Based on what I know of Wheel Trans and what's written in that article, there's no reason why she should be allowed to use the service. Plenty of fully blind people could get themselves from North York to Brampton just fine without any help from anyone.
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