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KC residents with disabilities are fed up, and fighting for compliance with ADA
Patrick Palmer, who is blind, wonders why only 11 of Kansas City’s 580 traffic signals are equipped with audible pedestrian warnings.
Sheila Styron, who is also blind, recalls crawling over mounds of snow last winter to get to Kansas City bus stops.
Susie Haake, who uses a wheelchair, questions why a Brookside curb ramp was removed when a new curb was installed, and why light poles block the middle
of sidewalks at 43rd Street and Wornall Road.
Kansas Citians with disabilities say they are increasingly frustrated with what they see as city government’s noncompliance with the Americans with Disabilities
Act in this, the 20th year since the landmark law’s passage.
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