National Online Dialogue on Veterans' Transportation Ideas

Our transit system would love to work directly with the closest VA Hospital so that we can get vets there, but they have so many restrictions that it seems they can't even talk to us. We can't even call them unless we go through a board member who has a military ID. One local group has a van making trips to the hospital, but it's not accessible. We'd like to help with that, but we can't seem to get the communication... more »

In the Chicago area, there are VA medical service locations, which offer vanpool service to and from. There also is a good local public transit - paratransit service - if in some format there was coordination between the government entities, there would be a greater choice, less wait time, and savings for such entities. But the government powers that be are not willing to share or reduce there oversight of transit services.... more »

In our community the local VA is sometimes able to provide bus tickets for our local transit system, but this service has been inconsistent. If the VA would provide monthly bus vouchers which could be distributed by the VA irtself or local homeless service providers, it would be a tremendous improvement to the current situation.