Parking, crossing the street, entering a building, using the restroom – for most of us, these are daily activities we don’t give a second thought. For those with physical disabilities, however, these ...

KENT, Wash., April 1, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A good portion of the North American housing developments built after 1980 utilized less expensive rolled curb driveway entrances. The result of this ...

Buying a house is a major life event. There are so many considerations, and how a particular home accommodates your vehicles should always be the top priority. OK, that’s not necessarily true, but ...

A: The overall situation regarding the replacement of handicap-access ramps throughout Pennsylvania steered its way onto The Morning Call’s news pages recently, but apparently the word hasn’t gotten ...

Q: I used to feel the same as some of your readers about the public funds expended on things like curb ramps, but I changed my mind when my stroke-disabled husband and I started to actually need the ...

Ohio is among the many states that are re-doing their sidewalks to include curb ramps with a special truncated dome pattern that improves accessibility for people with disabilities. A major contractor ...

Ever since the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was enacted in 1990 public agencies and contractors working on roads, city streets and highways were forced to play a guessing game to determine ...

For the last several years, Glen Ridge has been working on installing Americans With Disabilities Act-compliant curb ramps at street corners around the borough. But one Glen Ridge resident says that ...

WASHINGTON—The barricades that quadriplegic Ed Roberts and his comrades stormed 40 years ago were a few inches high. Yet today millions of Americans pass daily through the breaches they created. Curb ...

From 2007 to 2015, the nine years covered by Seattle’s Bridging the Gap transportation levy, the Seattle Department of Transportation built about 3,000 curb ramps, which allow people in wheelchairs to ...

The mandate came down more than a decade ago. But the work — which has cost the city of Erie roughly $16 million thus far — continues indefinitely. Two federal consent decrees, and an agreement that ...