[Nfbk] Fw: [kentucky-acb] two accessibility concerns

[Ronnie White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rick Roderick" <rickrod at insightbb.com>
To: <kentucky-acb at acb.org>
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 11:57 AM
Subject: [kentucky-acb] two accessibility concerns


> Hello everyone,
>
> I  am going to bring up two accessibility concerns.  When I go west of my
> house on Westport Road toward the McDowell Center, I have to cross an
> intersection that is in front of the TAPP School.  It is extremely 
> rounded,
> and the crosswalk/curbcut goes out into the intersection at a diagonal.
> There are other intersections like this as well.  Actually, Quattro now
> handles it well going west, but coming home, he was getting me too close 
> to
> traffic.
>
> I have worked with several instructors and have found a work-around.  I 
> use
> my cane to find a gratting and step to the right of it.  Then, Quattro and 
> I
> go across.  We go straight across, and trail the curb to come back.  I
> suggest rights, and we get back along Westport Road.  I think someone on 
> the
> state level needs to be informed about the kinds of problems this kind of
> crosswalk can cause.  It would be easily solved if they simply estended 
> the
> truncated domes far enough around so that a guideline would show where to
> cross.  This is a particularly bad intersection because, if I go too far
> away from it, I can end up in the TAPP school parking lot.
>
> My second accessibility concern is totally unrelated.  Does anone know of 
> a
> place where I can get an Insight cable listing?  I just want a list of the
> channels and what plans they are for.  Insight used to have someting that
> was semi-accessible, but now, when I try to read the PDF file they have 
> now,
> I get a mishmash.  Newsline will give me individual channels, but I want a
> list that I can use as a reference.
>
> _______________________________________________
> kentucky-acb mailing list
> kentucky-acb at acb.org
> http://www.acb.org/mailman/listinfo/kentucky-acb
>