Willits v. City of Los Angeles Term Sheet as of March 30, 2015
Search Results "Pedestrian Street Crossing"
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WILLITS, et al v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES - Settlement Terms
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WILLITS, et al v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES - Order Granting Plaintiff's Motion for Partial Summary Judgment
United States District Court, C.D. California. • 925 F.Supp.2d 1089 (C.D. Cal. 2013) Mark WILLITS, Judy Griffin, Brent Pilgreen, and Calif, on behalf of themselves and all...
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Designing Sidewalks and Trails for Access, Part I of II: Review of Existing Guidelines and Practices
Sidewalks and trails serve as critical links in the transportation network by providing pedestrian access to commercial districts, schools, businesses, government offices, and recreation...
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Common Problems Arising in the Installation of Accessible Pedestrian Signals
of accessible pedestrian signals (APS)....
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WILLITS, et al v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES - Settlement Agreement and Release of Claims
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA CASE NO. CV 10-5782 CBM (RZx) SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE OF CLAIMS MARK WILLITS, JUDY GRIFFIN,...
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Reynoldson, Pixley, Whedbee v. City of Seattle - Class Action Complaint Regarding the Pedestrian Right of Way
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE No. 15-1608 COMPLAINT CLASS ACTION CONRAD REYNOLDSON, STUART PIXLEY, and DAVID WHEDBEE,...
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Questions & Answers: Supplement to the 2013 DOJ/DOT Joint Technical Assistance on the Title II of the ADA Requirements To Provide Curb Ramps when Streets, Roads, or Highways are Altered through Resurfacing
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS Supplement to the 2013 DOJ/DOT Joint Technical Assistance on the Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act Requirements To Provide Curb Ramps when Streets...
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WILLITS, et al v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES - Notice of Proposed Settlement of Class Action Lawsuit
PERSONS WITH A MOBILITY DISABILITY: If you have used, tried to use, or believe you will in the future use or try to use any of the City of Los Angeles’s sidewalks, intersections, crosswalks, streets...
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Designing Sidewalks and Trails for Access, Part II of II: Best Practices Design Guide
It was created to provide planners, designers, and transportation engineers with a better understanding of how sidewalks and trails should be developed to promote pedestrian access for all...
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A. The Substantive Legal Dispute
Substantive Legal Dispute Plaintiffs allege that Defendants City of Los Angeles (“the City” or “Defendant”) unlawfully failed, and are failing, to properly install and maintain accessible pedestrian...
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B. Whether the City May Assert an Undue Burden Defense With Respect to New Construction or Alterations Under Title II of the ADA and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act
Such a defense is foreclosed under Title II of the ADA with respect to streets, pedestrian rights of way, sidewalks, and curb ramps that have been newly constructed or altered since January...
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R206 Pedestrian Street Crossings (Section-by-Section Analysis)
R206 Pedestrian Street Crossings (Section-by-Section Analysis) Pedestrian street crossings must comply with technical requirements in Chapter R3 that reference MUTCD standards for pedestrian...
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Newly Constructed Tabled Intersections That Contain Pedestrian Street Crossings With Yield or Stop Control (Section-by-Section Analysis)
The cross slope of the pedestrian access route within the pedestrian street crossing is the longitudinal grade of the street being crossed, and the 2 percent maximum cross slope requirement...
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R306 Pedestrian Street Crossings (Section-by-Section Analysis)
R306 Pedestrian Street Crossings (Section-by-Section Analysis) The technical requirements in R306 address pedestrian signal phase timing and pedestrian street crossings at roundabouts...
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Location
Location Pushbutton-integrated APS rely on relative proximity to the crossing location, not on difference in sounds, to clarify which street crossing is being signaled....
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Tactile arrow
Tactile arrow The tactile arrow on the device must be aligned with the direction of travel on the crosswalk and point toward the street crossing that the pushbutton controls and signals...
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Issue 1: APS volume
It is common to find APS volumes set so loud that the pushbutton locator tone and audible walk indication can be heard at midblock or across the street -- or in a quiet office or bedroom...
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Issue 2: Location relative to the crosswalk
Pedestrians who are blind may stand beside the pushbutton while waiting to cross, particularly if they use the vibrotactile indication....
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R302.5.3 Within Pedestrian Street Crossings
R302.5.3 Within Pedestrian Street Crossings....
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Issue 3: Which signal? Speech WALK messages necessary
Pedestrians standing at one crosswalk could mistake the message of the other crosswalk for their indication to begin crossing....
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Issue 4: Wrong pole! …Wrong message!
Since the APS is closer to the departure curb and curb ramp for crossing straight ahead (in line with the photographer’s direction of travel), a pedestrian hearing the sound from that APS...
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R204.3 Pedestrian Street Crossings
R204.3 Pedestrian Street Crossings....
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Issue 5: Tactile arrow (in line)
Label includes street name and print of how Braille should look. Braille beneath arrow is backwards version of the print version shown on label and is indented, rather than raised....
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R206 Pedestrian Street Crossings
R206 Pedestrian Street Crossings. Pedestrian street crossings shall comply with R306. Advisory R206 Pedestrian Street Crossings....