The Region - News from Oct. 8, 1985

Police cited six people for trespassing after about 20 wheelchair-bound demonstrators blockaded the Long Beach office of Rep. Glenn M. Anderson (D-Harbor City) to call for improved public transportation for the disabled. Police began removing the protesters from the building about three hours after the sit-in began. Anderson, chairman of the the House Transportation Committee, was in Washington. Meanwhile, more than two dozen disabled protesters demonstrated in downtown Los Angeles outside the Bonaventure Hotel at a convention of the American Public Transit Assn. Eight protesters were arrested at the hotel over the weekend and charged with failing to disperse and interfering with a police officer. The activists were protesting the transit association’s opposition to a national policy mandating wheelchair lifts on buses.