While many cities have shown efforts to implement accessible design since the 1990 adoption of the American Disabilities Act, more must be done
My wife and I are only in our mid 50s, but we remember many buildings at the state university we attended being totally inaccessible to wheelchair users.
This was in the mid-1980s. And some
of the worst offenders were not old red brick halls from the early 20th
century – they were modernist monstrosities of inaccessibility built not long
before we went to college.
The ADA made things better, but it did not wave the magic wand.
Despite billions in explosive real estate development that could have supported desperately-needed redesign and retrofitting, only a fraction of New York’s subway is accessible.
Even those frequently have broken down elevators – and what use is a system
that has an accessible station near your apartment, but none close to where you
work?
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