Parking, crossing the street, entering a building, using the restroom – for most of us, these are daily activities we don’t give a second thought. For those with physical disabilities, however, these ...

A: The overall situation regarding the replacement of handicap-access ramps throughout Pennsylvania steered its way onto The Morning Call’s news pages recently, but apparently the word hasn’t gotten ...

Buying a house is a major life event. There are so many considerations, and how a particular home accommodates your vehicles should always be the top priority. OK, that’s not necessarily true, but ...

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 ...

Q: I used to feel the same as some of your readers about the public funds expended on things like curb ramps, but I changed my mind when my stroke-disabled husband and I started to actually need the ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON—The barricades that quadriplegic Ed Roberts and his comrades stormed 40 years ago were a few inches high. Yet today millions of Americans pass daily through the breaches they created. Curb ...

For the last several years, Glen Ridge has been working on installing Americans With Disabilities Act-compliant curb ramps at street corners around the borough. But one Glen Ridge resident says that ...

What's not working: Scores of people who need walking assistance use San Francisco General Hospital, which is why Chronicle Watch reader Fran Taylor wonders why a key hospital crosswalk has no curb ...

The mandate came down more than a decade ago. But the work — which has cost the city of Erie roughly $16 million thus far — continues indefinitely. Two federal consent decrees, and an agreement that ...