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From: dgl292@pallas.athenanet.com (Doug Lee)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: sidewalk ramps
Summary: Another interesting specification fudge
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Date: 23 Jul 90 20:06:09 GMT
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In article <12807@bunker.UUCP> Stu.Turk@f26.n129.z1.fidonet.org writes:
>   What makes me laugh though is the times they put a ramp on one corner 
>but not the corner at the other end of the block.  I walk one block that 
>they recently put a ramp on each corner but part way down the block is a 
>private driveway without ramps...

What caught my attention at the University of Illinois was a number
of what I refer to as "short-cut ramps."  These are created not by
cutting cement out of a curb but by pouring a little block into an
existing curb.  The result is, at least for those I discovered, a
rather narrow, occasionally uneven, and certainly steep incline.  I
doubt those things fit in the "one inch-foot" category.  Not being
a regular user of a wheelchair myself (the only times I remember
being in one were during two hospital stays for asthma-related
problems, when I was told it was for their liability rather than on
account of my medical complaint or even my blindness), I can't
claim to know how this affects such individuals; however, I have
often wondered if they might be some cause for annoyance.  (GEES!
If I write a sentence any longer than that, someone's bound to call
me Douglas Adams rather than Douglas Lee.)

Doug Lee  (dgl292@athenanet.com or uunet!pallas!dgl292)