Public Health PLUS

These may have been repaired since I toured our Public Schools, There are (or were) hazardous violations of Federal law on both sides of the entrance to the Montessori School On Edgewood.

This woman is riding her wheelchair in the roadway to get from the entrance to St. Raphael's Hospital to the municipal parking lot across the street because the sidewalk - from a hospital to a municipal parking lot directly across the street - is not traversable to someone in a wheelchair.

Why was this allowed to happen? Disparate Impact is the inevitable result of discrimination against people with disabilities. When an urban municipality does not meet its obligations to provide access to people with disabilities, that discrimination will fall disproportionately on low-income communities and in America that means non-white communities.

This neighborhood, according to Datahaven is 22% White..

This wide, curving, pot hole-filled, one-way road that has broken or entirely lacks sidewalks on parts of both sides is designed to encourage speeding drivers and make it dangerous for people walking or using micromobility vehicles. Redesign is desperately needed. Think smooth sidewalks that don’t flood, (contraflow) micromobility lanes, etc. Might be worth limiting car access to residents.

There is no sidewalks from SCSU- Common Ground- to the Westfield apartments and as one of those children, with autism on SSI walks this path every weekday for school. A sidewalk needs to be implemented as the roads are dangerous and cars consistently speed around the corners and cross the lines that the kids walk down. A sidewalk needs to be added before anyone gets hurt.

The City of New Haven has still not made any of the accessibility improvements that were required when it repaved Trumbull and Wall Sts.

Here's a video of what happens when someone hits one of the three denials of access on Trumbull at full speed and then when attempting to climb it (when one wheel gets stuck, the assistive device turns and, in this case, sends someone spinning out of control and into the street)..

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uu6cA_tkBSjS_kfPqdJFL7wXwdQww238/view?usp=drive_link

The City if New Haven very obviously Violated 28 CFR § 35.151 when it repaved Trumbull St. but failed to remediate at least two impassable sections of sidewalk on the North side (and some that are traversable .but exceed the 1/2" "absolute maximum" vertical level change.

Bike light is not working — one way it doesn’t detect bikes. The other way, the green light is too short for cyclists to get through. These lights are not usable and therefore make things more dangerous rather than safer.

This detectable warning on the NW corner of Chapel and York has worn into a trip hazard. It is sheer and offers less slip resistance than the concrete it is set into.

Specifically, this violates 28 CFR 35.133 "(a) A public entity shall maintain in operable working condition those features of facilities and equipment that are required to be readily accessible to and usable by persons with disabilities by the Act or this part."

"Detectable warning" does not mean that a person should be able to detect the entrance to a roadway by sliding on the warning and falling.

Corner curb cuts at College and Chapel need repair I received a complaint about the lack of accessibility at the intersection

52 USC §20102 "each political subdivision responsible for conducting elections shall assure that all polling places for Federal elections are accessible to handicapped and elderly voters."

2010 ADA Standards for Accessible Design Advisory 206.2.1 "Site Arrival Points. Each site arrival point must be connected by an accessible route to the accessible building entrance or entrances served. Where two or more similar site arrival points, such as bus stops, serve the same accessible entrance or entrances, both bus stops must be on accessible routes. In addition, the accessible routes must serve all of the accessible entrances on the site."

New curb installed at the corner of Fountain and Barnett doesn't have a ramp for the Barnett crossing. It seems like this doesn't meet ADA standards for new construction - and is a problem for people pushing strollers at an intersection where cars make quick, sharp turns.