David Agosta

The Safe Routs for All plan used crash data, % of intersections w/o crosswalks, etc. to prioritize the most dangerous neighborhoods.

This was not one of them....but it shows the city's real priorities.

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

If there's a way to get a wheelchair up over the thing that sort of remotely resembles a curb ramp on the NE corner of State and Humphrey, other than getting out of the chair and lifting it over, could you post the instructions on a sign nearby?.

The objects in the background of this photo - near where I twisted an ankle this morning - are students. The thing behind them is a school. Nice people asked nicely for two years. That didn't work.

This is also a Public Plaza. New Haven Code of Ordinances "43.1-11 - Standards of accessibility for persons with disabilities.
All public plazas shall conform to applicable laws pertaining to access for persons with disabilities regardless of whether the Building associated with the public plaza is existing or new."

One or more employees of the City of New Haven violated that ordinance by violating Federal law and risking the safety of school children.

Please install "Able People Only Beyond This Point at the entrances to St. Raphael's Hospital.

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.

Hillhouse High School. As you can see from colors of the sidewalk, the City of New Haven violated 28 CFR 35.151 "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." by repairing small sections of this path of travel near a Public School.

The city is ostensibly engaged in the The Safe Routes to School program. which "seeks to create a 'safety trail' within a 1/4-mile corridor of each public school in the City." Photos of the 'Safety Trail left behind by the failure to comply with Federal law follow.

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."

Eastview Terrace II (Elm City Communities)

The vertical level change at the bottom of this access ramp exceeds the "absolute maximum" allowed by about two inches.

I did not trespass and it appears that most of the ramps are at the back of the buildings. This appears to be an installation error, so it is likely to be repeated.

Pleas refer this to the Director of Disability Services.

Someone has apparently replaced a "small section" of a ground surface that is not "firm, stable and slip-resistant" (on a "path for travel" from what Elm City Communities has deemed to be an accessible Public Housing facility to a Public Seating Area in front of a Public School) with a ground surface that is not "firm, stable and slip-resistant."

This gentleman is riding on York St' to get around this trip hazard at the tree near the entrance to Walgreens. This is an access route to the hospital a couple of blocks south.

The odd thing about this is that the tree doesn't deem to be old enough to have lifted it this far above level,

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?