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A 3 page research paper/essay that discusses handicapped parking. The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) is meant to ensure that fellow citizens with disabilities have the same access to public buildings as everyone else. Due to the ADA, disabled Americans receive a modicum of help from the rest of society in negotiating the difficulties that are inherent in their daily lives. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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ability and the freedom it afford for granted. In 1990, the federal government passed legislation designed to make life a little easier for handicapped Americans. the Americans With Disabilities Act
(ADA) is meant to ensure that these fellow citizens have the same access to public buildings as everyone else. Due to the ADA, disabled Americans receive a modicum of help
from the rest of society in negotiating the difficulties that are inherent in their daily lives. But while handicapped parking seems only fair and courteous, it is amazing how many
people seem to resent this concession and it is also regrettable how often handicapped spaces are blocked or inaccessible. Patty Cyr, a disabled American, points out the problems that
she encounters in trying to use handicapped parking. She has found that handicapped spaces are frequently not cleared adequately after a snow storm. Delivery trucks tend to park in handicapped
spaces while delivering goods. Shopping carts are often left in these spaces. If a car parks on part of a cross-hatched access aisle, even if the handicapped space is free,
the car provides a serious impediment to the use of the handicapped space by someone who is wheelchair bound. The ADA stipulates that public buildings should have parking spaces
that are close to access to the building designated as Handicapped Parking. These spaces should be eight-feet wide and have a wide access aisle adjacent to the space. This access
aisle facilitates loading and unloading a wheelchair (Americans with Disabilities Act). At least the disabled American using a wheelchair is obvious handicapped and entitled to use the parking space, as
not being visible impaired can result in the disabled American becoming the target of an able-bodied persons misplaced outrage. On her web site, Cyr describes her personal experience with
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