ADA Paratransit Eligibility Standards
Disabled individuals are eligible for paratransit services under any of the following circumstances:

1) INDIVIDUAL'S DISABILITY
      Any individual who is unable, because of a disability, to independently board, ride, or disembark from an accessible vehicle.

2) LIMITED SYSTEM ACCESSIBILITY
      Any individual with a disability who is able top independently board, ride, or disembark from an acessible vehicle, when the system is not fully accessible.

  • the boarding or disembarking location the disabled person wishes to use is not accessible
  • a "common" wheelchair cannot be accommodated
3) ABILITY TO TRAVEL TO OR FROM BOARDING LOCATION
      Individuals whose disability prevents them from traveling to or from a boarding location.
  • the key word is "prevents"
  • architectural barriers do not alone constitute eligibility, but the interaction of a barrier with an individual's disability may.  For example, an obstruction may make accessibility impossible for one person and not another, and then perhaps only in some situations.  These conditions will be taken into account.