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Transportation for Individuals with Disabilities at Various Passenger Railroad Station Platforms (US Department of Transportation Regulation) (DOT) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Transportation for Individuals with Disabilities at Various Passenger Railroad Station Platforms (US Department of Transportation Regulation) (DOT) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 29, 2018 The Department is amending its Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) regulations to require intercity, commuter, and high-speed passenger railroads to ensure, at new and altered station platforms, that passengers with disabilities can get on and off any accessible car of the train. Passenger railroads must provide level-entry boarding at new or altered stations in which no track passing through the station and adjacent to platforms is shared with existing freight rail operations. For new or altered stations in which track passing through the station and adjacent to platforms is shared with existing freight rail operations, passenger railroads will be able to choose among a variety of means to meet a performance standard to ensure that passengers with disabilities can access each accessible train car that other passengers can board at the station. These means include providing car-borne lifts, station-based lifts, or mini-high platforms. The Department will review a railroad's proposed method to ensure that it provides reliable and safe services to individuals with disabilities in an integrated manner. The rule also codifies the existing DOT mechanism for issuing ADA guidance, modifies provisions concerning the carriage of wheelchairs, and makes minor technical changes to the Department's ADA rules. This book contains: - The complete text of the Transportation for Individuals with Disabilities at Various Passenger Railroad Station Platforms (US Department of Transportation Regulation) (DOT) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section