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Spanish translation: Sistema de transporte para personas con discapacidades


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English term or phrase:Access-a-Ride pickups
Spanish translation:Sistema de transporte para personas con discapacidades
Entered by: cranesfreak
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21:03 Jul 4, 2009
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Social Sciences - Automotive / Cars & Trucks
English term or phrase: Access-a-Ride pickups
Son medios de transporte en un texto de Nueva York.
Paula González Fernández
Local time: 01:48
Sistema de transporte para personas con discapacidades
Explanation:
Sistema de transporte para personas con discapacidades quienes no pueden usar los buses públicos o el servicio de subterráneos para algunos o la totalidad de sus viajes.
Referencia:
What is Access-A-Ride?

AAR provides transportation for people with disabilities who are unable to use public bus or subway service for some or all of their trips. It offers shared ride, door-to-door paratransit service. AAR operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. When you call 877-337-2017 and reserve your trip to a location in Nassau or Westchester counties, the reservationist will inform you if the location is within the three-quarter mile service area. New York City Transit (NYC Transit) administers AAR; private carriers under contract to NYC Transit provide service.
Source:http://www.mta.info/nyct/paratran/guide.htm

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Saludos a todos
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cranesfreak
Local time: 21:48
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Gracias a todos
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4 +2Sistema de transporte para personas con discapacidades
cranesfreak
3furgonetas para pasajeros
Javier Moreno-Pollarolo
3camionetas de servicio para pasajeros / access-a-ride pickups
Rafael Molina Pulgar


  

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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
access-a-ride pickups
camionetas de servicio para pasajeros / access-a-ride pickups


Explanation:
Servicios de Transporte

Muchas personas relacionadas con los programas diurnos y de trabajo en North Metro dependen de nuestro Departamento de Transporte y su variedad de vehículos. Éstos incluyen camionetas que pueden tener acceso para silla de ruedas, camionetas de pasajeros, varias camionetas más pequeñas, y “pick-ups” de servicio. Diariamente se manejan 29 rutas de puerta a puerta del Programa Diurno y 6 rutas a los enclaves.

Este departamento también distribuye pases mensuales a personas que usan transporte público o RTD y libros de cupones de Access-A-Ride para asistir al Programa Diurno o para ir a su trabajo en la comunidad. Otro servicio disponible es entrenamiento para utilizar el servicio RTD de autobús.

A los miembros de familia y proveedores de Casa Anfitrión se les paga por transportar a los participantes del programa diurno que vivan fuera de nuestras fronteras designadas.

Rafael Molina Pulgar
Mexico
Local time: 18:48
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 85
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49 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
access-a-ride pickups
furgonetas para pasajeros


Explanation:
are these the famous shuttles or paying public transportation?

Javier Moreno-Pollarolo
United States
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Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish, Native in EnglishEnglish
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
access-a-ride pickups
Sistema de transporte para personas con discapacidades


Explanation:
Sistema de transporte para personas con discapacidades quienes no pueden usar los buses públicos o el servicio de subterráneos para algunos o la totalidad de sus viajes.
Referencia:
What is Access-A-Ride?

AAR provides transportation for people with disabilities who are unable to use public bus or subway service for some or all of their trips. It offers shared ride, door-to-door paratransit service. AAR operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. When you call 877-337-2017 and reserve your trip to a location in Nassau or Westchester counties, the reservationist will inform you if the location is within the three-quarter mile service area. New York City Transit (NYC Transit) administers AAR; private carriers under contract to NYC Transit provide service.
Source:http://www.mta.info/nyct/paratran/guide.htm

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Note added at 2 hrs (2009-07-04 23:09:03 GMT)
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Hope it helps.
Saludos a todos

cranesfreak
Local time: 21:48
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Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 508
Grading comment
Gracias a todos

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Christine Walsh
1 hr
  -> Gracias Chriswa, y Saludos :)

agree  eski: Good work, Cranes' :))
20 hrs
  -> Gracias, eski. Saludos ;)
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Changes made by editors
Jul 7, 2009 - Changes made by cranesfreak:
Edited KOG entryPaula González Fernández's old entry - "Access-a-Ride pickups" => "Sistema de transporte para personas con discapacidades"


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