Accessibility

The data on traffic fatalities and injuries doesn’t account for their needs or even count them. Better data would enable better solutions.

America has waited more than 12 years for the Public Right-of-Way Accessibility Guidelines to be implemented. Here's why they matter.

The ADA has been the law for 33 years. Why has it taken this long to write strong guidelines to implement it on U.S. streets?

The post American Streets May Soon Get Their First Accessible Design Standards from the Feds appeared first on Streetsblog USA.

The Americans with Disabilities Act has made a positive impact on the built environment — but there's so much more left to be done.

The post Why American Cities Still Aren’t Accessible After 33 Years of the ADA appeared first on Streetsblog USA.

Steven Hardy-Braz acknowledges that he wasn't "just" waiting for the bus in a hazardous environment on the day he was arrested for impeding traffic; he was also staging a protest. Here's what happened next.

Practically every day, there's a new headline about a new effort in a U.S. city to reform its autocentric parking policies — and practically every time Streetsblog covers it, we get an email that asks what people with disabilities will do in a world with no accessible parking at all.