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Resolution 070105

Authorizing City Council's Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities to hold public hearings to investigate and determine why SEPTA has not and is not working to make the subway exits most adjacent to City Hall and the Municipal Services Building handicapped accessible; and to determine what criteria has been utilized by SEPTA which has excluded subway accessibility to the disabled and/or handicapped, at these locations; and further determine why monies allocated by SEPTA in their capital budgets have not been utilized at these locations; further such hearings are to be held in conjunction with the hearings authorized in Resolution No. 070084.

Introduced Feb 15, 2007Committee on Transportation and Public UtilitiesOfficial record: City of Philadelphia via Legistar

Introduced by

Councilmember CampbellCouncilmember GreenleeCouncilmember DiCiccoCouncilmember TascoCouncilmember GoodeCouncil President VernaCouncilmember BlackwellCouncilmember KrajewskiCouncilmember RizzoCouncilmember KenneyCouncilmember MillerCouncilmember RamosCouncilmember ClarkeCouncilmember Reynolds Brown

Status timeline

  1. Feb 15, 2007ADOPTED & REFERRED · CITY COUNCIL
  2. Feb 15, 2007READ · CITY COUNCIL
  3. Feb 15, 2007Introduced · CITY COUNCIL
  4. May 9, 2007HEARING NOTICES SENT · Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities
  5. May 9, 2007HEARING HELD · Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities
  6. May 9, 2007RECESSED · Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities
  7. Oct 22, 2007HEARING NOTICES SENT · Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities
  8. Oct 22, 2007RECESSED · Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities
  9. Oct 22, 2007HEARING HELD · Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities

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..Title Authorizing City Council's Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities to hold public hearings to investigate and determine why SEPTA has not and is not working to make the subway exits most adjacent to City Hall and the Municipal Services Building handicapped accessible; and to determine what criteria has been utilized by SEPTA which has excluded subway accessibility to the disabled and/or handicapped, at these locations; and further determine why monies allocated by SEPTA in their capital budgets have not been utilized at these locations; further such hearings are to be held in conjunction with the hearings authorized in Resolution No. 070084. ..Body WHEREAS, City Hall and the Municipal Services Building is the "hub" of Philadelphia Government; and WHEREAS, SEPTA subway exits immediately adjacent to City Hall and the Municipal Services Building are not accessible to the disabled and/or handicapped traveler; and WHEREAS, Able-bodied Philadelphians are able to travel to City Hall and the Municipal Services building on the SEPTA subway system and exit immediately adjacent to City Hall and the Municipal Services Building, but the disabled and/or handicapped are not; and WHEREAS, SEPTA has not provided for the subway exits immediately adjacent to City Hall and the Municipal Services Building to be accessible to the disabled and/or handicapped; and WHEREAS, It is the intent of the City of Philadelphia to make the governmental "hub" accessible to all of its residents; now therefore RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, That Council hereby authorizes City Council's Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities to hold public hearings to investigate and determine why SEPTA has not and is not working to make the subway exits most adjacent to City Hall and the Municipal Services Building handicapped accessible; and to determine what criteria has been utilized by SEPTA which has excluded subway accessibility to the disabled and/or handicapped, at these locations; and further determine why monies allocated by SEPTA in their capital budgets have not been utilized at these locations; further such hearings are to be held in conjunction with hearings authorized in Resolution No. 070084. ..End