Kelly Buckland is the disability policy adviser at the U.S. Department of Transportation, where he is tapping decades of personal experience to try to improve travel for people with disabilities.
After I broke my neck, they flew me to the rehab hospital in Boise. I was so impressed by the people that provided assistance there, like physical therapists and the nurses and all of the people that work there. I had grown up on a farm. I was used to physical labor. I didn’t know you could make a living just helping others. That really impressed me. So that’s what I wanted to do.I’m a quadriplegic and have used a wheelchair for 53 years now since my spinal cord injury.
A bunch of grants are going to airports, with priority given to those including accessibility issues. We’re replacing Amtrak trains in the coming years so people with disabilities can reach the lounge car and the observation car and all of those things they currently don’t have access to. But if you don’t look at the entire infrastructure law, you’re missing the larger picture, because all of the infrastructure we are building includes conformance with the Americans With Disabilities Act and other standards. This time, the roads and bridges and sidewalks and airports and train stations are going to be built accessible.The bipartisan infrastructure law is going to make the biggest dent in this in my lifetime.
I would have just been a — I’m not trying to say it’s less important or anything, but I probably would be a potato farmer in Idaho, because that was sort of where my life was headed. I was going to probably pick up the mantle from my father.So I got a better education than I would have. I’ve had much different life experiences. It made me ponder on, and consider, and try to adopt how to be a better person. And it made me interested in leaving the world a better place than I found it.
So you look back on it and you really end up being kind of glad you did get a disability. You see what I’m saying? Because it’s fulfilled your life in ways that you would never have longed for.
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