CITIES THAT DON’T TOW CARS PARKED OVER SIDEWALKS

ARE DISRCIMINATING AGAINST PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

Illegal car parking destroys pedestrian safety and forces people with disabilities into Miami’s dangerous street traffic. 

Perpetually 2 or 3 cars park on NE 9 St @ Marina Blue mixed use tower.

Miami has a Downton Development Authority that has a quality of life team in the streets each day.

I wonder if they have any training on ADA accessibility.

I fear they do not spend one day out of 365 trying to make mobility better for people with disabilities in the city center.

THE CITY OF MIAMI ROUTINELY ALLOWS MILLIONS IN RENOVATIONS

WHILE APPROVING FAULTY WHEELCHAIR ACCESS 

THAT FAILS ALL THE TIME

This is what happens when you segregate the wheelchair accessible entrance from the main entrance in an urban area.

An impenetrable gauntlet of human waste, broken glass and homeless person’s bedding.

When a city allows adaptive reuse of a building, but permits lousy wheelchair access – it is ableism at its worst.

Millions of dollars were spent converting an old post office into a craft brewery in downtown Miami.

The excuse is historic preservation prevents an appropriate ramp at the main entrance.

It’s total BS.

Stairs are NOT historic.

Facades are.

WHEN ARCHITECTS AND PLANNERS CREATE MINIMUM WHEELCHAIR ACCESS

THEY CREATE MAXIMIM DENIAL OF BASIC RIGHTS

FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

 

This is what happens when clueless architects & feckless city regulators allow one wheelchair accessible access point at each end of a super block.

Restaurants block the access to create more dining space.

This is 1900 block of Miami’s Calle8.

All those who cannot go up steps, have to journey four times the distance shown in this image to the eastern ramp hidden on a side avenue.

El Toro Loco is violating the ADA and destroying mobility for people with disabilities with its selfish blocking of the accessible route.

In Town Miami, the company that leases the space to the offending restaurant MUST open the accessible route immediately.

The City of Miami has 100% neglected to fix this – refusing to protect our seniors and people with disabilities.

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