Public Health PLUS

At approximately 1:20 PM on September 8, 2022, I witnessed a woman I believe, from the badge she was wearing, to be an employee of the City of New Haven, trip on one of the numerous trip hazards on the access ramp to the back door to New Haven City Hall.

Changes in vertical level other than the slope of the ramp itself are not allowed on access ramps. An engineering degree is not needed to know that individual paving blocks will respond independently to seasonal weather changes and shift in different directions at different rates and create trip hazards.

It should be noted that there is a ballot drop box at the top of this ramp that is not accessible to voters who have a disability.

Hertz of 115 George Street in New Haven keeps blocking the sidewalks and unable to get my wheelchair through the blockage of cars down the sidewalk to go shopping and to school!!!
They told me to go around the cars in the busy street!!!
Management of Hertz told me those cars are parked on Hertz owned property!!! And that I should stop bothering them about my problem!!!
I tried to explain to them that it's illegal to block City sidewalks. Somebody is going to get killed going into the street to go around their cars that are parked there illegally practically every day.
This has been going on for months now on both sides of Hertz and parking enforcement does nothing!!!
I'm going to file a lawsuit against Hertz and the City of New Haven neglect and discrimination against Veterans With Disabilities!!!

The tenants at 22 Lynwood consistently block access to the sidewalk with their vehicles. They do it every day, even from google street view you can see a car parked there in November 2020.

Please resolve this issue - last time I was told that New Haven parking authority would not resolve this, and to contact the police or transportation traffic and parking, but both of their websites lead back here.

I'm not sure where all of the barriers are but please remove all of the barriers that illegally deny people who have disabilities the right to use the "shared use paths" to access the summit of East Rock Park.

George Crawford Manor is an Elm City Communities facility for people who are elderly and/or have disabilities. It is fenced. The only entrance is a sidewalk along the driveway.

The City of New Haven recently installed a new curb ramp and violated 28 CFR35.151 by only remediating that "small section of the path of travel" to that entrance. You can see the section that was ignored. The next two photos show detail from both direction. The last photo is the other side of the entrance, near the corner of George St..

Those substantial limitations leave this Public Housing Facility for people who are elderly and/or have disabilities 100% ghettoized. There is no accessible path of travel to the bus stop on George St. or to Yale New Haven Hospital, one block south on Park St.

" A “path of travel” includes a continuous, unobstructed way of pedestrian passage by means of which the altered area may be approached, entered, and exited, and which connects the altered area with an exterior approach (including sidewalks, streets, and parking areas), an entrance to the facility, and other parts of the facility."

Pitkin Plaza in it's entirety violates ADA 302.1 General. Floor and ground surfaces shall be stable, firm, and slip resistant and shall comply with 302 and these loose blocks are undeniably generally hazardous.

Unlike other parks, the city invites thousands of people to attend events - at night, when it's dark. What is inevitable is inevitable.

I'm not sure why this needs to be explained. It is incredibly irresponsible and dangerous to install a tactile feedback pad on a curb ramps and leave the other side of the crosswalk with no curb ramp. How would someone in a wheelchair get over this curb? What does a visually impaired pedestrian do after they cross the street and find that there's a curb there? When they travel back in the opposite direction, how do they know that they're entering a roadway?

🚫Elevator has been broken over a week. The disabled and elderly cannot use stairs to go up or down this long it is abuse.

There is no way in the year 2023 this could take this long.

Please help the elderly !

Today's lesson in ADA Compliance: 36.403 ALTERATIONS: PATH OF TRAVEL.

"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."

The path of travel in this case is from the "Accessible" Public Housing Facility at Audubon and Orange that is currently 3/4 Ghettoized, to at least the corner of Orange and Trumbull (an argument can be made that it extends to the Chiropractor's Office on Orange, north of Bradley if a resident is also a patient of that health-care facility).

Leaving the tree stump, slate slabs and ADA violations just beyond this repair would leave that facility 3/4 Ghettoized. The necessary alterations that would remediate this violation of Federal law can be performed in a single undertaking and therefore must be performed in a single undertaking.