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One coupon will take you up to four miles. After four, and a limit of nine miles, <br />they would charge you two coupons. The thing with the Shared Ride Taxi <br />program, it is limited to nine miles, but it does offer the door-to-door services. <br />Currently we don’t have any participant who has a wheelchair accessible vehicle <br />although we have been trying to solicit more companies to get an accessible <br />vehicle. Chris feels that this is a County problem and an area that needs to be <br />fixed. <br /> <br />L. Tobosa <br /> inquired if there was a chance that Mass Transit buses would go to <br />the airport to pick up people. Tiffany said that’s something that needs attention <br />and there may be some funding to add services to the airport. The buses are all <br />wheelchair accessible. <br /> <br />C. Cholas <br /> stated that there is no other way to get to the airport besides taxis and <br />J. Floyd <br />wondered if that was an ADA violation. also inquired if wheelchair <br />accessible vehicles are required by law. According to Teri’s research, not all <br />taxis are required to be accessible. It was brought up that if you’re going to offer <br />transportation services to the general public, then some of the vehicles should be <br />wheelchair accessible otherwise this does not allow a certain part of the segment <br />of the population access to that service. <br /> <br />W. Brilhante <br /> stated the other side to that would be to cancel the services. Not <br />being facetious, but right now there is no entity that is willing to participate in the <br />County Shared Ride Taxi program for disability transportation. It’s not financially <br />feasible for these mom and pop taxi companies. The County provides accessible <br />transit through the Hele-On bus service. There is no handivan service. <br /> <br />T. Kai <br /> stated that what Transit does is contract with HCEOC, (Hawai‘i County <br />Economic Opportunity Council) to provide those types of services which is for <br />disabled transport and for the elderly. Transit also works closely with <br />Coordinated Services for the Elderly. <br /> <br />S. Nagasawa <br /> has clients that receive those services and sometimes HCEOC <br />doesn’t show up. There aren’t enough vans and drivers and it creates a problem <br />too. They miss medical appointments because the agency that’s supposed to <br />provide that service is unable to. It’s with HCEOC and Coordinated Services. <br /> <br />W. Brilhante <br /> requested to be notified if problems like that are occurring, because <br />Transit is assuming they’re operating the way it should be operating. The County <br />is paying significant sums of money to HCEOC to provide the services, and if <br />they’re not providing the services, we have to be able to know what services <br />aren’t being provided, what’s happening, what’s taking place, what’s going on. <br />So if you can provide that information to the Transit Agency, that would be very <br />helpful. Now we know that there’s always an issue of availability. <br /> <br />T. Kai <br /> informed Sam to have her clients contact her at the Mass Transit Agency <br />at 961-8343. Tiffany will also get back to the committee regarding the amount of <br /> <br />3 <br /> <br />