For the Disabled, Transportation Is Often an Uphill Climb

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Every morning to get to work, to do volunteering or attend meetings, David Glasgow guns his power wheelchair up a hill to his bus stop and hopes the engine won't overheat.

"It's getting harder and harder to get to the bus," said Glasgow, 63, of Braddock Hills, who has spina bifida. "There's 220 pounds of the wheelchair plus my weight. That's hard on the motors."

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For the Disabled, Transportation Is Often an Uphill Climb

For Glasgow and many others like him in the hilly Pittsburgh region, public transportation provides the best transit option -- or in some cases, the only option.

"I use the bus to go just about everywhere," said John Robison, president of the Allegheny County Transit Council, who use...

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