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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With any luck, the lawsuit will be upheld and the city will be forced to remedy the situation by raising the bike lanes to the same level as the sidewalk (as on Virginia Ave SE and The Wharf). This will have the added benefit of preventing cars and other motorized vehicles from parking or driving in them.[/quote]
If you bothered to respect disabled people enough to read the complaint or even an article about the lawsuit, you would learn that they contend that exiting into a bike lane is unsafe and that this the core ADA violation. Secondary to that I’d navigating the curb. Elevating the bike lanes would not cure the ADA violation. What would cure the violation is providing curb access to sidewalks for disabled people to disembark safely. [/quote]

So we can reserve a space on each block for disabled pickup/drop off. Right?[/quote]
Why don’t you ask disabled people. Better yet, DDOT should have asked disabled people before instituting these designs. The article in DCist was quite clear that disability groups have been trying to communicate their needs to the Mayors office and DDOT and were ignored, which is why they had to sue. It’s unfortunate that it has had to come to this for the district to take the rights of the disabled seriously. [/quote]

^^this.[/quote]

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