United States Department of Transportation
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User-Side Subsidies for the Elderly and Handicapped in Lawrence, Massachusetts
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1984-06-01
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Abstract:Funding provided by the Service and Methods Demonstration (SMD) Program of the U.S. Department of Transportation, Urban Mass Transportation Administration, was used to subsidize the bus, taxicab, and wheelchair lift-equipped van travel of elderly and handicapped residents of Lawrence, Massachusetts, in a program that began in July 1978. Eligible persons registering for the program could buy tickets that allowed them to make a cab journey at half the normal fare, or to ride the bus for one cent instead of the fifteen-cent fare paid by elderly non-participants in the program. Most of the subsidized lift-equipped van rides cost participants $2.50, one-third of the price billed by the service provider. The program produced positive outcomes for the people registering for it as well as for the taxi industry. Project use grew steadily from the outset and resulted in modest increases in mobility for the registrants, who tended to come from the most mobility-disadvantaged segments of the eligible population. The taxicab element of the program was continued under local sponsorship after the termination of demonstration funding. The lift-equipped van element was terminated during the demonstration by the withdrawal of the single service provider, but was reinstated in the post-demonstration phase under local sponsorship. The bus element of the program was not continued beyond the cessation of federal funding, largely because of administrative and institutional considerations.
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