AARP Releases Survey on Transportation Needs of Older New Yorkers
Posted on: Monday, 25 September 2006, 09:01 CDT
NEW YORK, Sept. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- AARP will release a survey assessing the transportation needs of older New Yorkers living in the metropolitan area. The survey of AARP members age 75+ examines how they prefer to get around when they can no longer drive, the barriers that exist and how they differ in urban and suburban areas, and what can be done to help older adults get around and maintain an independent lifestyle.
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The survey is being released at a conference of regional transportation planners, community activists and public officials sponsored by AARP, the NY Metropolitan Transportation Council, MTA and the NYU Wagner Rudin Center for Transportation and Policy Management. Best practices as well as policy and economic and institutional challenges related to transportation for older adults will also be examined by leading transportation officials.
Among the survey findings: * 55% metropolitan area New Yorkers age 75+ would have to move from their current neighborhoods if they couldn't drive. * Income factors heavily into older adults' mobility with lower-income adults much less likely to drive and leave their homes or apartments. * City dwellers prefer buses while those living in suburbs & small towns prefer community or senior vans. When: Tuesday, September 26 -- 8 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Where: New York University -- Rosenthal Pavilion, Kimmel Center 60 Washington Square South, 10th Floor Who: James Simpson, Administrator, Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Tom Nelson, Chief Operating Officer, AARP Joel P. Ettinger, Executive Director, NY Metropolitan Transportation Council Allison L. C. de Cerreno, Co-Director, NYU Wagner Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management Neil Yellin, President, MTA Long Island Bus Robert D. Yaro, President, Regional Plan Association Katherine Lapp, Metropolitan Transit Authority Lawrence C. Salley, Commissioner, Westchester County Dept. of Transportation Contact: Luci de Haan, AARP (212) 407-3718 Barbara Lynch, NYMTC (212) 383-7241 Robert Polner, Rudin Center (212) 998-2337
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CONTACT: Luci de Haan of AARP, +1-212-407-3718, or Barbara Lynch ofNYMTC, +1-212-383-7241, or Robert Polner of Rudin Center, +1-212-998-2337
Web site: http://www.aarp.org/
Source: PRNewswire
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