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(MEMPHIS, Aug. 8) Local members of American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT), a national grassroots civil rights organization, will join a nationwide protest of the Greyhound Line's pending decision to purchase 100 new buses without access lifts. Although the ADA requires all new buses purchased after 1996 be equipped with wheelchair lifts and other forms of accessible technology for visually and hearing impaired riders, Greyhound has successfully delayed the enforcement of the regulations.
Greyhound is planning to make a significant outlay of money, $26 million, for the non- complying vehicles. The buses they buy today will be on the road for the next 20 years. ADAPT is demanding that Greyhound stop buying inaccessible buses. In many cities around the United States ADAPT members are planning to stop buses and face arrest to end this injustice.
ADAPT is also asking that the station manager here in Memphis write to DOT Secretary Slater to say the "regs" should be published right away and should require that new buses will include all Americans. Nationally, ADAPT demands that Greyhound CEO Craig Lentzsch publicly apologize to the disability community for failure to respect the civil rights of Americans, and that Lentzsch should meet with ADAPT.
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