Public Health PLUS

Pleas refer this to the Director of Disability Services.

Someone has apparently replaced a "small section" of a ground surface that is not "firm, stable and slip-resistant" (on a "path for travel" from what Elm City Communities has deemed to be an accessible Public Housing facility to a Public Seating Area in front of a Public School) with a ground surface that is not "firm, stable and slip-resistant."

It appears that the ADA violations on the access ramp to the polling place for Ward 7 in the Town Hall of Records building have been removed from see,click,fix.

Please explain.

Sidewalk needed

This is the northeast corner of the New Haven Green, 1/2 block north of New Haven City Hall. What the ADA defines as a trip hazard is, in fact a trip hazard. The vertical level change at this curb ramp is about twice what it allowed. It is noteworthy that this is on the path of travel from public transportation stops to the Courthouse across the street.

This was reported in August of 2019 and has been ignored since. Federal law requires that New Haven Academy be accessible by at least one accessible parking space.. All three reserved parking spaces across the street from this Public School have had ADA violations at them for many years.

The ADA does not specifically require that parking spaces that are reserved for people with disabilities be accessible to the people for whom they are reserved. It assumes that a basic understanding of the purpose of these parking spaces exists - and it requires that ground surfaces be "stable, firm, and slip resistant" and it defines the numerous trip hazards that exist at the junctions of the slate slabs.

When DPW provided these elected officials with this personal benefit, it apparently ignored the alteration requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There is a Courthouse and there are numerous violations of the ADA (and perhaps also Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973) on the north side).

When DPW milled Wall St., it was required to remediate those violations.

DPW was also required to install a tactile feedback pad on the north side. Someone who needs a tactile feedback pad needs one in both directions or how do they make the return trip??? People can travel from the House of Worship on Wall St. at Orange St. but cannot travel to that House of Worship. There is no point in installing one. A single tactile feedback pad is more dangerous to visually-impaired pedestrians. They will detect one and naturally expect that there is one on the other side of the street because they will assume that the DPW has a basic understanding of their purpose.

Pleas finish this project in a way that complies with Federal Law.

police after looking directly at me decided to park in bus lane blocking access for bus to pick up wheelchair citizen.

he needs to be reminded he can walk

resident is reporting raised bricks and sidewalks on the right side of the townhouses in between 920 state st and the tattoo parlor next door their is a small entryway please inspect the sidewalk

Hillhouse High School. As you can see from colors of the sidewalk, the City of New Haven violated 28 CFR 35.151 "The obligation to provide an accessible path of travel may not be evaded by performing a series of small alterations to the area served by a single path of travel if those alterations could have been performed as a single undertaking." by repairing small sections of this path of travel near a Public School.

The city is ostensibly engaged in the The Safe Routes to School program. which "seeks to create a 'safety trail' within a 1/4-mile corridor of each public school in the City." Photos of the 'Safety Trail left behind by the failure to comply with Federal law follow.