When i was in Rochester, I live in a HUD-assisted building and wrote,
called and complained that the front doors were not button doors,
were heavy, required a key and a push.
Think HUD would adhere to the ADA? The courtyard facing doors had a
push bar, which would have made life easier but also had a 2" drop
so i always had to use the front. They told me they would
send an engineer. Now this 23 story building was restricted to
elderly or disabled, so it was not my issue alone, but only one other
person open shared my ire, and he moved away to Albany, and now
I am back home.
I got some great advice from Gunny ( thank you!) about my non ADA
standard meeting too steep
ramp situation wherein the ramp maker refused to sell another bit of
ramp to a contractor hired
by the state. I wrote the Better Business Bureau and here's the
punchline. The owner (hand)
wrote "second, she doesn't understand ADA standards are for
commercial use not residential, you and her may want to educate
yourselves for future complaints."
ARGHHHHHHH!
Akua
It seems like these people are allowed to decide what accessible
means without any
kind of guidance. Or else someone is being paid to look the other
way. When I
was still working, the handicapped parking spots were sometimes the
farthest parking
spots from the building, and the last to receive snow removal. I
took a bad fall getting
out of my car once as a result. The building I live in has one
wheelchair ramp. It is
located at a non-automatic door, there is no button that opens the
door. It has a bar
in the door that you push to open the heavy door. If there was a
fire, and the door
was closed, I'd be out of luck. There is no ramp at the main
entrance to the building,
and I guess the ADA doesn't require a ramp. Makes no sense to me.
Kevin
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