Disability Transportation Mini Doc Part 2 A-Roll

Footage about the problems associated with Milwaukee transportation for people with disabilities in the wake of court rulings to offer equal services. This segment begins with Bill Barra in St. Louis, the nation’s first city to offer public bus services equipped with lifts, where he investigates problems of busing “handicap” passengers in anticipation of Milwaukee receiving a fleet of 100 lift-accessible buses for wheelchair-bound passengers. Film includes interview footage with a Missouri bus driver on the mechanical problems with lifts like costly retrofitting and slow mechanization that cause schedule delays. The segment then returns to Milwaukee, where Barra discusses other problems of use like the dangers of passengers falling off lifts and needing education about the new transportation service. Film shows June Price, who is wheelchair-bound, and others demonstrating the use and convenience of the lifts. Some footage is silent.