| Clearwater's lifeguard station needs to be handicapped-accessible The tab: $455,700 |
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
6 comments:
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pdwalker said...
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because after all, those blind, black, deaf, female, parapalegic, hispanic, learning disabled, ADD lifeguards need to be able to use those stations as well.
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7/28/10, 10:59 AM
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Anonymous said...
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Just before I retired OSHA came into hangar 1000 at NAS Jax and made them install a second set of handrails in all stairwells. Thousands of dollars waisted. We just renovated an old building into office spaces. The horse squeeze you must waist money on for the 'handicapped' boggles the mind. The entire city here is being made handicap accessible. MILLIONS waisted. It's early and I need a drink now.
Tim -
7/28/10, 11:03 AM
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Esteve said...
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Just an aside to Tim's comment. My first real job in the Navy was the AIMD Cal Lab in Hangar 1000 circa 1976. Small world. But ADA is typical of the federal bureaucracy and a harbinger of everything passed by this disaster of a congress over the past year.
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7/28/10, 11:54 AM
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TimO said...
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Several months ago my wife attended a city pre-bid conference for a Florida town on the East Coast that was putting up new life guard stations and was openly laughed at when she asked if any accessibility requirements were mandated for the job.
....now who's laughing.... -
7/28/10, 3:08 PM
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Anonymous said...
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I always wondered why the NBA hasn't installed wheelchair ramps on the way to the basket. Look what they did with "traveling"....
TDB -
7/28/10, 10:37 PM
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Anonymous said...
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When we built (like with hammer, nails, ourselfs) my wife's tattoo studio, Federal regs required us to build a wheelchair accessible bathroom. We were hoping to put another room in to give another artist a job, but whatever.
Anyway, doing it ourselves *only* cost another $7k in materials. God knows what it would have been if we'd had to pay someone else to do the work. The #$%^& door drove me nuts.
To this day, after almost ten years, not one wheelchair has seen the inside.
On the other hand, it is a mighty roomy bathroom. We store a lot of supplies in there. -
7/29/10, 10:29 AM
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