By Gerald E. SheldonRockville
As a dog lover and a former dog exhibitor and breeder, I was drawn to the Sept. 2 Metro article ” In study, cabs bypass fares with guide dogs ,” about the difficulty that blind people with guide dogs sometimes have getting a taxi to stop for them.
The article reported that the Equal Rights Center conducted 30 tests and that in half of them taxi drivers passed someone with a guide dog to pick up someone without a guide dog. The article also pointed out that under local and federal law, businesses must make reasonable accommodations for blind people and their service dogs.
I believe the tests were flawed because they left out a group that should have been included. The missing
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