COLUMBIA, 2/20/11 (Beat Byte)
-- Representatives of a disability advocacy group called the Mid-Missouri Advocacy Coalition (MMAC) are scheduled to "express an opinion on
the [Centralia-Columbia] Dinner Train" at Monday night's Columbia City Council
meeting.
MMAC members Gretchen Maune and Dawn Zeterberg will also
introduce the group and its services during the public comment portion of the
Council meeting.
The Dinner Train sparked controversy last year
after city leaders agreed to publicly subsidize the project while waiving
disability access requirements to preserve the train's historic character.
Disability advocates and restaurant owners -- normally
subject to standard ADA accessibility requirements -- spoke against the
subsidy, which includes allowing the train to use the city-owned COLT railway
line.
If the City TRULY cared about ALL of it's Disabled Citizens and was
ReplyDeleteTRULY inclusive and Diverse as it claims the Dinner Train would not be
such a controversy as it is. Other dinner train lines around the
United States have wheel chair and fully accessible vintage dining
cars.