Break a leg or get confined to a wheelchair and find out just how frustrating finding ADA transit facilities THAT WORK in Chicago can be, among the few newer L stations on the older lines that could not be grandfathered-in. If you build 'em, will they come? Yes, but they get very low priority. I've seen people trapped in elevators.
Sorry for the syntax but gets me riled! - a.s.
ADA access was supposed to be completed no later than 1996 but extensions were granted and the government is not going to listen. So a few excellent ADA lawyers and their clients are becoming quite wealthy bringing suits against major businesses, cities, and transit agencies. As more and more lawyers find out how lucrative a field ADA law is you will see the number of suits increase accordingly. There are probably less than two dozen really good ADA lawyers in the entire country and most are based in California, and probably most if not all are extremely wealthy and getting wealthier which each new case.
Even knowing they will lose the case transit agencies still have to comply and that is the bottom line.
Seems that some of the Metro-North Stations are not accessible either...Is there some sort of grandfather clause here? If there is no ADA Acessible station or the elevator is out of service I beleive that you are enetitled to a shuttle bus to the nearest loaction that is ADA Acessible
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