Curb Cuts

I was driving down Main street this afternoon and saw a man in a wheelchair going down the street, not the sidewalk. On my way home I saw a woman in a wheelchair in a residential area, with curb cuts, going down the street. Why did the city spend the money on curbcuts when they are not being used? Maybe someone who is in a wheelchair could chime in here. There may be a legitimate reason that I don't know about.

I don't know about Main street. Those sidewalks should be passable. But many residential sidewalks are in poor shape and may be unpassable with a wheelchair.
I am not in a wheelchair, but I know people who are. I am somewhat familiar with their challenges.

I would say that the sidewalks are not always in the best of shape as well! Sometimes I have to do all sorts of maneuvers to get my daughter around.

The side walks are horrid!! Riding my bike back and forth to work. You do learn the maneuvers. There are some places with 4 inch drops. A person in a wheel chair has a hell of a ride. Yet the streets are pretty bad to! Just my opinion~~~~LOL~~~

Thanks for all the input. I do alot of walking but the sidewalks I walk on are in fairly decent shape. I do agree the city streets are in dire need of repair and apparently so are the sidewalks.

what a walker thinks is fairly decent, may be horrible to a person in a wheelchair?

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh or else the city will make use flip the bill to have all the sidewalks in town replaced.

hey I'm not saying anything about fixing the sidewalks, But dont be surprised to see a person in a wheelchair on the street, lord forbid!!

I say let's tax the handicapped, for being handicapped........now they got poly-carts to dodge...that'll work......

not.

what's a curb cut exactly???not familliar with with the term

A curb cut is the area where the city cut out a piece of the curb so that they could then pour a concrete ramp to make the sidewalks wheelchair accessible.

k!thought it was called an uppity thingy

wilkykav2 wrote:

k!thought it was called an uppity thingy

That's the technical name for it, when discussing it with City officials, you have to use Cut Out.

you know really,I just assumed-lol....it was part of the sidewalk,not some seperate venture

Most sidewalks in the older part of town did not have wheelchair accessable sidewalks until LINK threatened to file an ADA lawsuit to force the city to provide curb cuts.