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What's frustrating, however, is when you have these nice new ramps virtually all over your city, but your city leadership refuses to make any ordinance requirements that enforce building of sidewalks!

Future sidewalk?

A little random but. . .

Any ideas of how to remove these 4 X 4 posts surrounded by concrete - seems to be a lot of concrete maybe 50 lbs on each of 125 posts. Three feet down and now I have to lay down! any help would be greatly appreciated!!

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I agree that the idea of curb cuts is a good one. The law says that any road with a significant alteration after 1992 has to have curb cuts. It's just that many of these intersections will *never* be pedestrian-friendly. On my blog, Curb Cuts to Nowhere, I have one that sits beside a Superfund site.

Your federal court district has ruled that road improvements, including pavement replacement, is an activity that triggers the ADA. I'm guessing here, but I get the sense that someone made a decision to add ramps in the first phase of the improvement project and let the sidewalks wait until the vacant land develops. It's not an undefensible decision: it is certainly preferable to put the ramps in now and avoid federal litigation. Obviously, it would be better to build the walks as well, but hard decisions have to be made sometimes.

Originally posted by RichmondJake

When you drive the 280 you pass a very large (national?) cemetery. Always lots of flags there on Memorial and Veterans days. It always kinda freaked me out.

I lived near SF in the '80s, and I hear you loud and clear. What's worse... now my friends in the Bay Area see *quite a few* more flags there during those holidays...

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Some great quotes there.

“We have 1,500 aboveground residents,” Mayor Helen Fisicaro said, “and 1.5 million underground.”

"It's great to be alive in Colma."

When you drive the 280 you pass a very large (national?) cemetery. Always lots of flags there on Memorial and Veterans days. It always kinda freaked me out.

I greatly enjoyed reading your blog. This NY Times article is almost two years old, but I thought you would want to read about Colma, CA and perhaps post more recent articles on that 'necropolis' in your blog.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/09/us/09cemetery.html

And to think I didn't have it in the Buzz feed aggregator. I fixed that mistake.

http://www.cyburbia.org/buzz/planning_and_urbanism
http://www.cyburbia.org/aggregator/sources/559