<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;">Dear Colleague,<br> For years, I and others have been concerned about some malls denying transit users appropriate access. <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"> The proble<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CJONATH%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C02%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<![endif]-->m with malls is not just in Pittsburgh, Attached is a legal
analysis was sent to me by Wallace Watson, of the Public Interest Impact
Network, wallwat1@verizon.net</div><b><font style="font-family: Palatino-Black;" face="Palatino-Black" size="4">Public
Transit and Shopping Centers: Access or Denial?</font></b>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><i><font style="font-family: Palatino-Italic;" face="Palatino-Italic" size="2">Thomas
R. Devaney of Washington</font></i><i><font style="font-family: Palatino-Italic;" face="Palatino-Italic" size="2">,
D.C.</font></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Palatino-Roman;" face="Palatino-Roman"> He concludes: "Can
a privately owned shopping center deny access to a public transit agency?</font></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Palatino-Roman;" face="Palatino-Roman">The
answer is "no.""<br> </font>The question is 'What is to be done?'<br> First, systematic RESEARCH is needed. PIIN, the4 Public Interest Impact Network, has, I believed, started this. We need to document how widespread the problem is, wether access is inconvenient, dangerour, or non-existent.<br> Then, we look at who and what groups might help, and plan strategy.<br> As the attached memo makes cleaqr, one option is legal action, possibly including a suit for damages if someone was injured.<br> Additionally, policy action nationally, peroaps starting with the Federal Transportation Agency, my be under way.<br> Also possible is political action at the county or state level.<br> Publicity is possible.<br> Direct action also is possible - a visible informational picket, with signs.<br> Please share this with any person or group whp might be interested. Please share any suggestions.<br>Love and Peace,<br>Jonathan Robison<br><br> <br></div>
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