Ohio is among the many states that are re-doing their sidewalks to include curb ramps with a special truncated dome pattern that improves accessibility for people with disabilities. A major contractor ...

The city of Columbus is rushing to beat unpredictable fall weather and the seasonal closure of asphalt plants to begin a second major street, sidewalk and curb repair project phase this year. The city ...

KENT, Wash., April 1, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A good portion of the North American housing developments built after 1980 utilized less expensive rolled curb driveway entrances. The result of this ...

EVERETT — Making it safe for a person with disabilities to cross a street is no straight line. There are 30 standards to meet just for a basic curb ramp, such as the degree of its slope and the type ...

Ever since the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was enacted in 1990 public agencies and contractors working on roads, city streets and highways were forced to play a guessing game to determine ...

Chat with Andrew Gates of the Missouri Department of Transportation, Steve Runde of the St. Louis Streets Division and David Wrone of the St. Louis County Department ...

From 2007 to 2015, the nine years covered by Seattle’s Bridging the Gap transportation levy, the Seattle Department of Transportation built about 3,000 curb ramps, which allow people in wheelchairs to ...

More than a decade ago, it became a multimillion-dollar case of mandates and measurements, inspections and intersections. The city of Erie, in 2002 and 2003, conceded that thousands of curb ramps ...

The city of Seattle agreed to build thousands of sidewalk curb ramps over the next 18 years, costing hundreds of millions of dollars, as part of a preliminary agreement to settle a federal class ...

BRISTOL, Tenn. — Work is continuing on downtown infrastructure improvements along State Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, according to city officials. Bristol Tennessee Public Works ...