Capital Area Transit (CAT), the Center for Independent Living of Central PA Inc., (CILCP) and the advocacy group, Wheels in Motion, have formed a paratransit advisory committee to help educate disabled transit riders and coordinate transit services to the disabled community to insure community needs are met.
Committee volunteer members have been appointed and additional members will be added as needed.
Committee members include the following:
1. Robert Philbin, CAT, Committee Chair
2. Seth Ambrose, representing CILCP
3. Guy Beneventano, Esq., Committee Legal Counsel
4. Chris Martinelli (rider with disability, Dauphin County Share Ride)
5. William Jones, General Manager, CAT
6. Tom Young, Assistant General Manager, CAT,
7. Mike Begler, Volunteer, social services
8. Iris Hetrick (rider with disability)
9. Howard DeHart (rider with disability, Dauphin County Shared Ride)
10. Carolyn O’Brien (rider with disability, Cumberland County Shared Ride)
11. Charles Carr (rider with disability, Harrisburg city Shared Ride)
12. Cathy Long (rider with disability, Cumberland County Shared Ride)
13. Elizabeth Pabon (rider with disabilities, upper Dauphin County Paratransit)
14. Diana Steel, United Cerebral Palsy
15. Natashia Woods (Tri-County CAC for Harrisburg city)
