The 35th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was celebrated over the weekend.
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency/MUNI hosted a celebration of the anniversary at the Music Concourse in Golden Gate Park on Saturday. SFMTA held a quiz offering transportation/paratransit information, stickers and pins as prizes.
The group BORP — which empowers youth and adults with mobility and vision disabilities through sports, fitness, and recreational programs — was on hand offering bike rides.
MTC has provided $200,000 in grants for adaptive bikeshare programs providing free or low-cost access to adaptive cycling programs for people with disabilities and their friends and families.
The ADA, signed into law by then-President George H.W. Bush in 1990, is the nation’s strongest measure protecting the civil rights of people with disabilities.
The ADA is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in many areas of public life, including jobs, schools, transportation, and many public and private places that are open to the general public. The purpose of the law is to make sure that people with disabilities have the same rights and opportunities as everyone else.
The ADA gives civil rights protections to individuals with disabilities similar to those provided to individuals on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, age and religion.
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