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Cafe Car tables are too wide/seating is a tight squeeze for my plus size body so do I have a ADA Complaint here?

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Posted by GERALD L MCFARLANE JR on Monday, January 13, 2020 5:25 PM

The simple answer is: NO, you do not have a valid issue for an ADA complaint, and if the aisle is wide enough for a wheel chair to pass through then it meets the criteria as you can always eat at your seat.

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Posted by Gramp on Monday, January 13, 2020 2:14 PM

Another reason to offer only freight transportation. 

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Posted by AMTRAKKER on Monday, January 13, 2020 1:53 PM

Not a handicap issue, but it sure is a customer service issue.

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Monday, January 13, 2020 1:50 PM

I doubt that a beer gut qualifies as a disabling condition.  As an aside, drug abuse and alcoholism are not qualifying conditions for Social Security disability benefits.

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Posted by divebardave on Monday, January 13, 2020 1:07 PM
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Cafe Car tables are too wide/seating is a tight squeeze for my plus size body so do I have a ADA Complaint here?
Posted by divebardave on Monday, January 13, 2020 11:40 AM

Either that and I am getting older and wider...I did not notice a handicapped space in the Cafe/Club Car/Buisness class either. You would think that middle aged pouched railfans is a huge chunk of Amtraks buiness. No room for beer bellys on Amtrak. This seems to be a recent problem on newer cafe cars.

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