Ok folks- talking about stupidity.........  Phoenix City courthouse.  I was called for jury duty (got out of it twice cuz of teaching Special Ed) but the third time I decided I NEEDED a break- so I called to see what there accomodations for disabled people were.
Said they were accessible... so the morning of- I drove there and there was NO disabled parking except in garages-- which were ALL a mile or more away from the building!  I had brought my wheelchair- so I could ride inside- but to get into the building I'd have to walk in, and then I could push myself.  I called on my cell phone........ hmmmmm no one could come out and get me- NO one had any info of where else I could park, so they excused me- mind you after I had taken the day off of work.  I was NOT a happy camper!  How ridiculous!  A city Courthouse- not accessble- parking wise!!!!!!!!!  GEEZE!!!!!!!!!!!!!


On Fri, 09 March 2001, "Barber, Kenneth L." wrote:

>
> 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



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