ABSTRACT
Mobility is vital in achieving integration and inclusion into the community. Transportation is essential in providing the needed mobility, especially in a community such as ours where many of the facilities and services are dispersed geographically. Greater Victoria consists of about 200,000 people and is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island. The purpose was to provide the greatest integrated mobility to a majority of people who were transport and mobility handicapped. Volunteers are recruited by various ongoing and special advertising campaigns in newspapers, television and radio. In 1988, the program registered 7,081 rides, 2,114 of them involved trips to schools and within the school system, 328 involved trips to sheltered workshops, and 4,631 were trips of a socio-recreational nature. The majority of the people who use the program are people with mental handicaps.
