Baltimore City has a potential ADA lawsuit on their hands regarding Falls Road.

[KSweeley]

Check this out, the sidewalk along Falls Road is not ADA compliant and accessible, the city claims they lack the money to make it ADA compliant and accessible, the city also claims they do not "have the right-of-way to widen the sidewalk" and that "there's almost nothing we can really do" in today's investigatory article written by the Baltimore Sun as part of their "Sun Investigates" series.

Link: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/mar...03,print.story

Falls Road upgrades leave disabled residents with no place to go
City lacks money to build accessible sidewalks to match new curb cuts

Kirkland Gabriel, the city's engineer on the project, said the work wasn't intended to be a total reconstruction.


"Sidewalks were not in the scope of the project and we didn't have the funding," Gabriel said. "If we are putting in sidewalks, we do make them ADA compliant."

"Falls Road is very unique, a mixture of business and residential, with so many slopes and grades. We don't have the right-of-way to widen the sidewalks," Gabriel said. "There's almost nothing we can really do."

[EL-FLIPPO]

*What about the Inner City neighborhoods? The disabled & elderly there ALSO need this service, so why focus only on Roland Park? [#47%]

*No problems with sidewalks down in good ole Harborplace, eh?! [#53%]

*But...but the City's got money to throw away on races, trolleys, pagodas, painted fire hydrants, hotels, stadiums, statues, slogans, useless computers & phones, xmas & Harborplace lights, ad nauseum??

DO THE MATH.

ADD IT UP!!!

[MarkP]

"During the repaving of Falls Road after major water main construction, the city Department of Transportation threw in the curb cuts, about eight of them, at $2,000 a pop."

$2,000 for a curb cut? Is there gold mixed into the concrete?

[dogstarman]

"During the repaving of Falls Road after major water main construction, the city Department of Transportation threw in the curb cuts, about eight of them, at $2,000 a pop."

$2,000 for a curb cut? Is there gold mixed into the concrete?

How much should it cost?