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This “bike lane” is constantly filled cars making it impossible to safely use, but hey, at least alder sabin and director hausladen got their photo op.
This “bike lane” is constantly filled cars making it impossible to safely use, but hey, at least alder sabin and director hausladen got their photo op.
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City of New Haven (Verified Official)
Ohthatkyle (Registered User)
David Agosta (Registered User)
Ohthatkyle (Registered User)
Gabe (Registered User)
David Agosta (Registered User)
David Agosta (Registered User)
Gabe (Registered User)
David Agosta (Registered User)
David Agosta (Registered User)
All of these streets have violations of Federal laws that protect people who have disabilities from being discriminsted against by people who are...ABLE to ride bicycles.
They were were ignored in favor of new bike lanes...for people who are ABLE to ride bicycles.
That discrimination was apparently not enough?
College St. - Impassable to wheelchairs (violation of Federal law) / Hazardous to pedestrians / New Bike Lane / Bicyclists complaining about parked cars.
Trumbull St. - Impassable to wheelchairs (violation of Federal law) / Hazardous to pedestrians / New Bike Lane / Bicyclists demanding delineators
Chapel St. - Inaccessible Bus Stops (violation of Federal law) / Hazardous to pedestrians / New Bike Lane / Bicyclists complaining about parked cars.
Edgewood Ave. - Impassable to wheelchairs (violation of Federal law) / Hazardous to pedestrians / New Bike Lane / Bicyclists complaining about cars hitting delineators
Crescent St. - Alongside a Public School / Impassable to wheelchairs (violation of multiple Federal laws) / Hazardous to pedestrians / New Bike Lane / Bicyclists complaining about cars hitting delineators
Gabe (Registered User)
revolutionizetransportation (Registered User)
David Agosta (Registered User)
No. I'm trying to get the City of New Haven to respect the rights of people who have disabilities.
I'm only here when proviledged ABLE people who benefit from this discrimination against people who are not like you come here to whine about not being privileged enough, about the discrimination not being enough,
You never will respect the tights of people who are not like you. You will continue to pretend that your wants serves other people's needs and continue to demand more, more, more for me, me,me,.
Gabe (Registered User)
David Agosta (Registered User)
Gabe (Registered User)
David Agosta (Registered User)
David Agosta (Registered User)
§ 35.130 General prohibitions against discrimination.
(a) No qualified individual with a disability shall, on the basis of disability, be excluded from participation in or be denied the benefits of the services, programs, or activities of a public entity, or be subjected to discrimination by any public entity.
Ohthatkyle (Registered User)
Gabe (Registered User)
But I think I can anticipate his response: Everyone??! No, you mean Me Me Me.
Did I get that right?
David Agosta (Registered User)
Yeah. A bicycle-riding reporter took a piece of satire out of context. Of course, I'm not hiding behind a fake screen name.
The photo of the guy riding his wheelchair in the road with the obvious ADA violation that was illegally left in place when the road was paved in the foreground should tell you that the theory that providing bicyclists with more convenient travel serves the need of anyone else is bovine feces.
Ironically, the satire was about one of the streets where a bike lane was later installed for the benefit of the bike riding Alder is this photo. No safety improvements were made and the city violated Federal law by spending 0 on accessibility. It is one block from two Public Schools. Multiple injuries were reported at an obvious ADA violation near the corner that was then ignored for two years - but a bike lane was installed, just a bike lane.
Here I am trying to use a wheelchair on the street (and bicyclists are demanding delineators).
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uu6cA_tkBSjS_kfPqdJFL7wXwdQww238/view?usp=drive_link
The original planners of the Safe Routes for All plan assigned tasks to and requested information from the Commission on Disabilities. Two of the Commissioners gave up trying to participate. One is on record "They weren't interested in accessibility. It was all about bike lanes." That's intentional discrimination. The final plan mentions "bike" or "bicycle" 563 times. "Wheelchair" is mentioned 3 times.
Multiple injuries were reported at another obvious violation of the ADA one a block away from one those public schools that was then ignored for more than three years, That's on a proposed route for a new bike lane.
They are, so far, the only schools in majority-White neighborhoods that have hazardous violations of federal law within a block of them. The same is not true for schools in neighborhoods that have different ethnic demographics. There was a safe Routes to School plan that would have fixed the hazards at all public schools but was, as a result of intense lobbying by bicyclists, put on a shelf in favor of the More Convenient Travel for Bicyclists Plan.
The Safe Routes for All plan used crash data, # of intersections w/o crosswalks, etc. to prioritize neighborhoods that have been underserved. They are, of course, all minority-White neighborhoods. As far as I know, none of those projects has been implemented. What the city did was install bike lanes on College, Wall, Trumbull, Chapel and State, all in majority-White neighborhoods. It is not only more discrimination on the basis of ethnicity. Bicyclists are demanding more discrimination on the basis of ethnicity.
College, Wall and Trumbull are impassable to anyone in a wheelchair. Members of the protected class that is specifically protected against this form of discrimination (by and for people who are able to ride bicycles) were completely denied access to, for example, College St. Music Hall, which is fully accessible because the DOJ sued it and bicyclists are whining because people park in the bike lane.
David Agosta (Registered User)
Finally, here are the "priority neighborhoods" defined in the Safe Route for All plan with the ethnic demographics from DataHaven and the locations of this and the other bike lanes projects with those neighborhoods' ethic demographics,
New Haven's bicyclists are not only demanding more discrimination on the basis of ability. They are demanding more discriminations on the basis of ethnicity, Probably not intentional but this is what happens when White people only care about themselves and pretend that their wants serve other peoples' needs.
David Agosta (Registered User)
I suffered some damage to the part of the brain that governs impulse control. when was almost killed by a woman who was texting while driving. At least I'm not a racist.
Does that make the City of New Haven's violations of Federal law to serve you, you you, you you, s something other than violations of Federal law?
Does that make the city's decision to ignore hazards in minority White neighborhoods in favor of bike lane in majority White neighborhoods something other than racist?
David Agosta (Registered User)
I suffered some damage to the part of the brain that governs impulse control. when was almost killed by a woman who was texting while driving.
Does that make the City of New Haven's violations of Federal law to serve you, you you, you you, s something other than violations of Federal law?
Does that make the city's decision to ignore hazards in minority White neighborhoods in favor of bike lane in majority White neighborhoods something other than what it is?
David Agosta (Registered User)
I suffered some damage to the part of the brain that governs impulse control. when I was hit by a woman who was texting while driving.
Does that make the City of New Haven's violations of Federal law to serve you, you you, you you, s something other than violations of Federal law?
Does that make the city's decision to ignore hazards in minority White neighborhoods in favor of bike lane in majority White neighborhoods something other ethnic discrimination?