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California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Lamar, your problem may be due to new money Treasury has printed to fund infrastructure projects and Bush The First's American With Disabilities Act.
Probably been three years, now, but the other side of the street our cul-de-sac opens up to was torn up so a new water pipeline could be laid. One day I was working in the yard and saw the engineering inspector walking up and down and around and looking befuddled. We struck up a conversation and he said the surveyor(s) mis-read the down-slopping grade of the cut-d-sac/street/rain water trough intersection.
So?, I asked.
Well, the sidewalks will flood.
They never have.
Well, the sidewalks will be torn up and replaced with new ones.
Why?
Because they have to be ADA compliant, with wheelchair access and blind peoples' yellow bumpy matting.
I've lived here for almost 45 years (at the time) and you can see the wheelchair access that was put in many years ago, and I've never seen a wheelchair or a blind person walking along the street.
Makes no difference, the sidewalks and rain trough have to be torn up and replaced and made ADA compliant and the rain trough needs to be moved five feet out into the street so the wheelchair access/blind persons' yellow bumpy matting won't flood.
I've still not seen a wheelchair nor a blind person on the sidewalk, never mind anyone using the wheelchair access or the yellow bumpy matting.
It's all about needless and ill-conceived make work projects.
Probably been three years, now, but the other side of the street our cul-de-sac opens up to was torn up so a new water pipeline could be laid. One day I was working in the yard and saw the engineering inspector walking up and down and around and looking befuddled. We struck up a conversation and he said the surveyor(s) mis-read the down-slopping grade of the cut-d-sac/street/rain water trough intersection.
So?, I asked.
Well, the sidewalks will flood.
They never have.
Well, the sidewalks will be torn up and replaced with new ones.
Why?
Because they have to be ADA compliant, with wheelchair access and blind peoples' yellow bumpy matting.
I've lived here for almost 45 years (at the time) and you can see the wheelchair access that was put in many years ago, and I've never seen a wheelchair or a blind person walking along the street.
Makes no difference, the sidewalks and rain trough have to be torn up and replaced and made ADA compliant and the rain trough needs to be moved five feet out into the street so the wheelchair access/blind persons' yellow bumpy matting won't flood.
I've still not seen a wheelchair nor a blind person on the sidewalk, never mind anyone using the wheelchair access or the yellow bumpy matting.
It's all about needless and ill-conceived make work projects.