A28 - Wednesday, April 18, 1984 - North Shore News

HANDICAPPED
Lions set to

dump transit

THE HIGH cost of providing transportation
tor physically disabled children and adults could
touch off a crisis at the end of June as the B.C.
Lions Society for Crippled Children moves away
from providing bus transportation.
“The cost (of providing

direct transportation 60 buses it has been
services} aS horrendous,”’ operating, will make at dit-

says Ed Gordon of the | rons fheult for community-based
Socety in explaining = the groups lo get involved.

reasons for the change. ‘‘As “dts been an historical
it presently stands, we just problem, 7) says. Ehlert,
camt afford it.” “what with the cost. ot

By the end of June, the maintenance, repairs,
Lions Society hopes to have insurance, gasoline and all
completed a process of the other costs."
leasing between 55 and 60 Because of that Elhart
Easter Seal buses to agencies “strongly suspects’? there
that work with the will be serious problems
handicapped. The society associated with the Lions

will lease the buses to the Society's attempts to. turn DOUBLING up on a bike produces a little more danger but it doubles the enjoyment, too. A News photographer shot

agencies for $1 a year, with the buses over to. the these two riding in an open field by the Burrard Yacht Club, which is increasingly popular for bikers. The News will
responsibility for operating = communities publish a report on the motorcyle situation on the North Shore in a future issue.
and maintenance of the

buses falling to the individ.
ual agencies.

That arrangement has
been in place for a number
of years for about half of
the wheelchair-accessible
buses the society provides.

NEWS photo Stuart Davis

Presently — and until the

end of June — the Society a . ss . meat —

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Gordon says the change is
necessary because the cost of
running the buses, which
provide a means for the
physically handicapped to be
transported for medical
treatment and other
activilies, is increasing faster
than the abihty of the Lions
society to raise funds

“And we can't pass the
increased costs on to. the
pepople using the system,”
Gordon adds ‘'They're
already paying $3 or $3 S50 a
day forthe service ”’

Grdon’s stand that
transferring the buses from : q
the souety to community gig
based agencies will be $929
relatively smooth, is con
tradiuted by Jeff Ehlert,
cxccutive darector oof the
North Shore Association for
the Physically Handa apped

That proup) currently
operates two buses. one
donated by the Vanety Club
and another that has been
leased fteom the Lions

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