My Nonprofit Reviews

I am a board member and co-founder of the Lehigh Valley Coalition for Appropriate Transportation.

The volunteers at CAT have worked to solve important transportation issues that are rarely visible, but are still transportation issues and still important. Last week a passerby stopped in the CAT office for help for his effort to get different wheels for his wife’s wheelchair. The original wheels did not allow for headroom in the fellow’s van. We couldn’t solve his issue with bicycle parts. But recent experience with an online general purpose tool supplier allowed us to zero in on an appropriate and easy and inexpensive solution.

Two days ago, a CAT member witnessed 2 citizens crossing a roadway in electric wheelchairs in order to visit a nearby shopping mall. They used a pedestrian crossing. But they knew they could not get their wheelchairs up the pedestrian ramp to the sidewalk. They instead made a 90-degree turn and proceeded to roll 180-feet along the curb to the mall’s vehicle entrance which was much smoother. CAT investigates such situations and lobbies for improvement.