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Rockland pushes for handicap access, awareness at gas stations

Originally published: November 15, 2012 2:00 PM
Updated: November 15, 2012 6:02 PM
By SARAH ARMAGHAN  sarah.armaghan@cablevision.com

Gas pumps stay busy in Wesley Hills on

Photo credit: Susan Stava | Gas pumps stay busy in Wesley Hills on Saturday morning. (Nov. 3, 2012)

Rockland County is set on making its gas stations handicap-accessible -- by both informing workers of their obligation to pump gas for disabled people and educating the public on how to ask for that help.

A survey of 20 gas stations in the county by the Rockland Independent Living Center -- a local, nonprofit advocacy group serving those with disabilities -- found that only one was in compliance...

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