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Search Results "Commuter Rail Transportation"
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ADA and the FTA: Improving Transit Access for People with Disabilities
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Does a wheelchair user have to use the seat belt and shoulder harness?
This guidance has been approved through the Department of Transportation’s Disability Law Coordinating Council as representing the official views of the Department on this matter....
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49 CFR Part 38 - ADA Accessibility Specifications for Transportation Vehicles (with amendments issued through 2014)
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 12101-12213; 49 U.S.C. 322. Source: 56 FR 45756, Sept. 6, 1991, unless otherwise noted.
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§ 37.89 Remanufacture of intercity and commuter rail cars and purchase or lease of remanufactured intercity and commuter rail cars
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Transportation Facilities: ADA Standard Section 810
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§ 37.3 Commuter authority
Commuter authority means any state, local, regional authority, corporation, or other entity established for purposes of providing commuter rail transportation (including, but not necessarily...
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§ 37.3 High speed rail
High speed rail means a rail service having the characteristics of intercity rail service which operates primarily on a dedicated guideway or track not used, for the most part, by freight...
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What kinds of securement equipment must be provided in buses and vans?
Section 38.23(d) of the DOT ADA regulations requires all ADA-compliant buses and vans to have a two-part securement system, one to secure the wheelchair, and a seat belt and...
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Does a wheelchair user have to use the seat belt and shoulder harness?
Under the broad nondiscrimination provisions in Section 37.5 of the DOT ADA regulations, a transit operator is not permitted to mandate the use by wheelchair users of seat...
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What kinds of securement equipment must be provided in buses and vans?
Section 38.23(d) of the DOT ADA regulations requires all ADA-compliant buses and vans to have a two-part securement system, one to secure the wheelchair, and a seat belt and shoulder...
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§ 37.21(a)
(a) This part applies to the following entities, whether or not they receive Federal financial assistance from the Department of Transportation:...
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11B-206.4.4.1 Location
In transportation facilities, where different entrances serve different transportation fixed routes or groups of fixed routes, entrances serving each fixed route or group of fixed routes...
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11B-206.4.4.1 Location
In transportation facilities, where different entrances serve different transportation fixed routes or groups of fixed routes, entrances serving each fixed route or group of fixed routes...
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§ 37.42(d)
(d) Before constructing or altering a platform at a station covered by paragraph (c) of this section, at which a railroad proposes to use a means other than level-entry boarding, the...
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§ 37.42(d)
(d) Before constructing or altering a platform at a station covered by paragraph (c) of this section, at which a railroad proposes to use a means other than level-entry boarding, the...
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§ 38.93 Doorways
[56 FR 45756, Sept. 6, 1991, as amended at 76 FR 57939, Sept. 19, 2011]
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Section 37.93 One Car Per Train Rule
Section 37.93 One Car Per Train Rule This section implements the statutory directive that all rail operators (light, rapid, commuter and intercity) have at least one car per train accessible...
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11B-206.4.4.2 Direct connections
Direct connections to other facilities shall provide an accessible route complying with Section 11B-404 from the point of connection to boarding platforms and all transportation system elements...
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11B-206.4.4.2 Direct connections
Direct connections to other facilities shall provide an accessible route complying with Section 11B-404 from the point of connection to boarding platforms and all transportation system elements...
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§ 37.87 Purchase or lease of used intercity and commuter rail cars
[56 FR 45621, Sept. 6, 1991, as amended at 58 FR 63102, Nov. 30, 1993]
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Commuter Authority
The definition of "commuter authority" includes a list of commuter rail operators drawn from a statutory reference in the ADA. It should be noted that this list is not exhaustive....
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§ 37.3 Intercity rail transportation
Intercity rail transportation means transportation provided by Amtrak....
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FTA Circular 4710.1: Americans with Disabilities Act Guidance
Department of Transportation’s implementing regulations at 49 CFR Parts 27, 37, 38, and 39. 2. CANCELLATION. This is a new circular. It does not cancel any existing directive. 3....
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DESIGNATED PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
[DSA-AC] Transportation provided by a public entity (other than public school transportation) by bus, rail, or other conveyance (other than transportation by aircraft or intercity or commuter...
