Court is Adjourned

"You will be put in contempt if you don't settle down!" Has anyone else been to court before? Well this past week I went to court hearing and it was awesome! Maybe it wasn't as intense as I would have liked it to be but that's just because I watch way to much SVU. Anyway I went to a hearing/ protest for taxi cabs that are accessible for  handicap people. Not just a couple of taxis but all the taxis in the city.

The hearing was in City Hall which is very scary just getting in. The security there is insane, I'm sure they need all that security but it was very intimidating walking in and being checked by yourself. I went to the court room and sat in the back and felt so out of place. Everyone there was dressed up wearing suit and ties and there I was wearing jeans and a tank top. Needless to say I didn't want to stand out even more than I already did. 

The hearing was very intense. The people were arguing how it is not fair how a handicap person ( in a wheelchair) have to either call cabs and wait for hours for them to arrive or take the subway because there literally is no other option them for them to get around. And there are only a few subways that are wheelchair accessible. This one man said for someone to whom can walk can get to Williamsburg Brooklyn to Manhattan in about 20-30 minutes using the subway. For someone whom is handicap it take them about 3 hours to get to Manhattan using the subway. For handicap people to get into the city not they usually just call a car but special wheelchair accessible car takes about an hour just to get to their house to pick them up. 

The peoples' proposal is to make all taxis both wheelchair accessible and also accessible for non handicap people. This city is already in the process of making new cars for taxis, which is why the people are fighting this now so that when they start making the new taxis it will accommodate everyone. They had a diagram of what a taxi could potentially look like and estimated that it would cost roughly around 14 millions dollars to do. 

Before going to the hearing I knew that there was not wheelchair accessible taxis but I didn't know just how bad it really is and how this city still to this day hasn't done anything about it. I feel really bad and hope that their proposal passes.