tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15270008.post3620822147468477077..comments2024-02-26T15:42:28.778-08:00Comments on Composite: thoughts on poetics & tech: Talking with the city about rampsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15270008.post-85951793830383778322007-11-06T14:18:00.000-08:002007-11-06T14:18:00.000-08:00Look! !!! Thank you City of Redwood City and you...Look! <A HREF="http://flickr.com/photos/lizhenry/1892663126" REL="nofollow"/>!!! Thank you City of Redwood City and your benign, useful, small town bureaucracy and your federal ADA money.Lizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02650178982186311590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15270008.post-2262865683009144462007-09-14T15:35:00.000-07:002007-09-14T15:35:00.000-07:00Major kudos for you! As Cal Montgomery put it so w...Major kudos for you! As Cal Montgomery put it so well: <B>Discrimination is always illegal; only activists make it unwise.</B><BR/><BR/>Major kudos for Charlie! It's so great to have an "inside source." <BR/><BR/>I've encountered quite a few helpful traffic engineer, because engineers <I>love</I> problems, and this is a solvable problem.<BR/><BR/>The FHWA resource you linked to is outstanding in terms of explanations & illustrations. When you want some bedtime reading, try the ADA Accessibility Guidelines (ADAAG for short) on Public Rights-of-Way<BR/><A HREF="http://www.access-board.gov/prowac" REL="nofollow"><BR/>http://www.access-board.gov/prowac<BR/></A> The text of the ADA incorporates ADAAG by reference. <BR/><BR/>The initial PROW guidance was good, as far as it went. After years of experience and refinement, the standards were updated in 2005, but the Chamber of Commerce has successfully lobbied to prevent the actual implementation of these revised standards.<BR/><BR/>It's been thirty years since we had to do it, and it might be time for <A HREF="http://thegimpparade.blogspot.com/2007/04/504-sit-in-anniversary.html" REL="nofollow">another three-month-sit in to put some pressure on the Dept of Justice to act.</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15270008.post-33262218869718380752007-09-07T14:56:00.000-07:002007-09-07T14:56:00.000-07:00Yay!!City officials are helpful for once. It make...Yay!!<BR/><BR/>City officials are helpful for once. It makes me feel better about RWC.jhkimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00625820620585165096noreply@blogger.com