Those factors are quality of life measures, changes in land use, social welfare benefits and reductions in the costs of other public sector functions. She referenced the Transportation Cooperative Research Project, Report 49, Using Public Transportation to Reduce the Economic, Social, and Human Costs of Personal Immobility . ESPA's joint effort with FTA on the economic roundtable is intended to look at the accessibility factors and how they positively impact public transportation and the economy and to identify methodologies to determine accurate measurement. A number of guest speakers joined the roundtable discussion including Justin Dart, longtime advocate and founder of Justice for all. Much progress has been made in many areas including transportation.
Empowerment comes with access to public transportation.
The goal must be increased investment, totally integrated, services in suburban and rural areas taking people where they want to go when they want to go. He also emphasized the importance of livable communities designed for all people that include public services that are convenient and affordable. There are no magical shortcuts. We must increase the pursuit one hundredfold and continue to strive for empowerment leaving no one behind. John Lancaster Executive Director President's Committee on the Employment of People with Disabilities John Lancaster, Executive Director of the President's Committee on the Employment of People with Disabilities joined the lunch discussion and charged the group to remember the basic constitutional concept that each individual has the right to move about the country from one place to another.