The donated handmade wooden benches are not ADA compliant so the city is forcing the builder to remove them. So having literally nothing is the alternative. Also the city says the builder can put the benches in their parks, but wouldn’t that also need to be ADA compliant?
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Portland, Maine…just in case it’s not clear. (Wasn’t to me until I poked around the website a bit.)
Accessibility is important. Couldn’t they modify them to meet accessibility standards?
I mean, they couldn’t build an ADA bench next to it? Seems like one of those cases a grandfather clause is useful. New York doesn’t rip out it’s history overnight, it adds to things to make them compliant while preserving the unique culture
For one thing, all benches must have a 5-by-8-foot concrete pad to be ADA compliant.
Is this a Portland thing? In LA I see a lot of concrete benches, but I also see a lot of metal ones and in NYC I would see (possibly grandfathered in) wooden ones.
Pad, as in underneath the bench.
Ohh I see, for stability purposes that makes a bit more sense. But it can’t possibly be that expensive to have the city just pour concrete in those spots, or to let volunteers do it.
That’s way bigger than the footprint. Usually you have big level concrete areas around doors for wheelchairs, for example.
Even if it’s 3x the size of the bench, it’s concrete, not a multimillion dollar building, and the community clearly wants benches. If the wooden ones are legitimately unfit for the public then they should install proper benches. But just pouring concrete would probably be cheaper.
Muh taxes! There’s probably a lot of larger priorities eating up all of Portland’s budget.
Why do dentists care about bus benches?
Americans with Disabilities Act.
I think it is more about hating the poors.
What I get from the article is that the city could poor some concrete and make them compliant but is choosing to go with nothing instead.
What does this have to do with cars?
Promoting the use of public transport
