Follow federal law and CHECK YOUR ABILITY BEFORE USING ACCESS FOR DISABILITIES.
Why is this important?
I have a chronic disability. I still work and I need access to doors and ramps and seating for the disabled and elderly because I am in pain and cannot sit or stand for long. The non-disabled and non-elderly are seeing the convenience of accessibility for the disabled and elderly and are sitting in priority seating, using disabled doors, ramps and disabled parking spaces, when they do not need them. In a shopping center in Chicago there are five doors and only one door is accessible for the disabled. Based on general traffic lane usage, if I am walking and the disabled door is on my left I have to cross over into on-coming pedestrian traffic and traffic does not stop. I either have to wait for approximately 20 non-disabled, non-elderly people to pass before someone stops and lets me pass or I can walk into them…I have done both…Companies and transit will only do what is minimally required by the ADA; are they following or “quoting” federal law?...accessibility is intended for those who need assistance. support: "CHECK YOUR ABILITY BEFORE YOU GET TO THE DOOR !!!"
