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

[Jerry]

Personally I never depend on any signs from the builders of anything I use 
the actual traffic noise to stay clear of said traffic.  The world will 
never be accessible, we have to learn to adapt to it.

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From: "Ronnie White" <ronniewhite2 at insightbb.com>
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 2:12 PM
To: <nfbk at nfbnet.org>
Subject: [Nfbk] Fw: [kentucky-acb] two accessibility concerns

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> ----- 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.
>>
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