sometimes people don't have a clue. i went to another cdc building. they had
disabillity parking spaces right next to the end door of the building. the
trouble was that the door was locked and only those with a coded access card
could go in there. not everybody in cdc had access to that part of the
building. on top of that the building held administrative departments that
took public visitors. it gets better. to go to the door that anyone could
enter one would have to climb quite a few steps. to avoid the steps and
steep bank there a person with a walker or a chair would have to go all the
way back out the parking lot entrance and up a hill to the sidwalk on the
street and finally to another side of the building. this is one of the
nations premier disease agencies. just absolutely clueless. they did their
duty to the law and had the parking spaces without anythought as to what a
person in a chair would need. this kind of stuff really gets on my nerves.

-----Original Message-----
From: greer.bobby [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 9:07 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Curb Cuts - Jump up and down on Desks, People!


The City of Memphis must have gotten a load of Federal dollars for curb
cuts.
They are putting them on all the main streets of East Memphis(the upwardly
mobile section, no pun intended). Anyway, they put in these super nice curb
at
the bottom of which is about one and a half to two inches of jagged asphalt!
No
on thought to tell the bozos that the curb cut should be level with the
pavement!

Bobby

Barber, Kenneth L. wrote:

> you are so right carla, nothing moves politicians like publicity.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carla MacInnis [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 9:00 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Curb Cuts - Jump up and down on Desks, People!
>
> Mag,
>
>   You need to use the media to your advantage with regard to getting curb
> cuts.
> Call the lifestyles editor of several papers. Heck call your local tv
> station. Tell
> them it's a human interest story that affects everyone, not just those
with
> mobility disabilities. Or, you could chain yourself to a lamp post until
> things
> start to happen :)
>
>   Years ago, in the city of Fredericton, I called the Mayor's office and
> they gave
> me a police officer and a van for the day. We drove around the city,
scoping
> out
> poor side walks and crappy curbs, and I wrote a report and it was
submitted
> to City
> Council. Within a month, work began, street by street, on fixing cuts;
heck,
> there
> were 4 curbs in front of a nursing home that had no cuts. Scary.
>
>   Approaching the newspaper is one of the best ways to get the message out
> there -
> not only wheelchair users need the assist, but parents with tots in
> strollers, the
> elderly with walkers/canes. Nothing worse than getting a cane lodged in a
> crack on
> the sidwalk - I've seen more than one elder take a flip. Not fun.
>
>   If each of us did this sort of thing in our city/town, things would move
> along
> very nicely, I'm sure.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Carla
> http://www.brunnet.net/terrier