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    Updates: Guidelines for Public Rights-of-Way and Shared-Use Paths

    K9 Mama
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    Updates: Guidelines for Public Rights-of-Way and Shared-Use Paths Empty Updates: Guidelines for Public Rights-of-Way and Shared-Use Paths

    Post by K9 Mama Fri Jul 15, 2016 1:43 pm

    July 2016 Newsletter Updates: Guidelines for Public Rights-of-Way and Shared-Use Paths

    The Board also is completing work on new guidelines that will address access to public streets and sidewalks and shared-use paths. The text of the guidelines has been finalized, and the Board is preparing the preamble and regulatory assessment.

    Old Guidelines
    access-board.gov
    Proposed Rights-of-Way Guidelines - United States Access Board

    Published in the Federal Register on July 26, 2011.

    36 CFR Part 1190
    Docket No. ATBCB 2011-04

    Note: On February 13, 2013, the Access Board issued a notice to supplement the proposed guidelines for public rights-of-way to address shared use paths.
    PREAMBLE

    AGENCY: Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board.

    ACTION: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.

    SUMMARY:The Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board is proposing accessibility guidelines for the design, construction, and alteration of pedestrian facilities in the public right-of-way. The guidelines ensure that sidewalks, pedestrian street crossings, pedestrian signals, and other facilities for pedestrian circulation and use constructed or altered in the public right-of-way by state and local governments are readily accessible to and usable by pedestrians with disabilities. When the guidelines are adopted, with or without additions and modifications, as accessibility standards in regulations issued by other federal agencies implementing the Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and the Architectural Barriers Act, compliance with the accessibility standards is mandatory.

    DATES: Submit comments by November 23, 2011. Hearings will be held on the proposed guidelines on the following dates:

    September 12, 2011, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., Dallas, TX.
    November 9, 2011, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., Washington, DC.

    ADDRESSES: Submit comments by any of the following methods:

    Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the instructions for submitting comments. Regulations.gov ID for this docket is ATBCB-2011-0004.
    E-mail: row@access-board.gov. Include docket number ATBCB 2011-04 in the subject line of the message.
    Fax: 202-272-0081.
    Mail or Hand Delivery/Courier: Office of Technical and Informational Services, Access Board, 1331 F Street, NW, Suite 1000, Washington, DC 20004-1111.

    All comments will be posted without change to http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal information provided.

    The hearing locations are:

    Dallas -- Sheraton Dallas (San Antonio A Ballroom), 400 North Olive Street, Dallas, TX 75201.
    Washington, DC -- Access Board Conference Room, 1331 F Street, NW, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20004.

    FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Scott Windley, Office of Technical and Information Services, Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board, 1331 F Street NW, Suite 1000, Washington, DC 20004-1111. Telephone (202) 272-0025 (voice) or (202) 272-0028 (TTY). E-mail address row@access-board.gov.

    SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

    Availability of Proposed Guidelines with Figures

    The proposed guidelines will be codified as an appendix to 36 CFR part 1190. In the past, the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (Access Board) submitted "camera ready" copy (i.e., images) of its guidelines to the Federal Register for the appendices since the guidelines included figures that illustrate the requirements in the guidelines. The appendices were not word searchable when viewed online because they are images. After discussions with the Office of the Federal Register, the Access Board has decided to submit the proposed guidelines as a Word document with only one image, the International Symbol of Accessibility (Figure R411), so the appendix will be word searchable when viewed on-line. A copy of the proposed guidelines with figures is available on the Access Board website. Except for the International Symbol of Accessibility (Figure R411), the figures are for illustration purposes only and do not establish requirements. The copy of the proposed guidelines on the Access Board website also sets out advisory sections in shaded boxes, and indents subsections under the main sections.

    RESOURCE: https://www.access-board.gov/guidelines-and-standards/streets-sidewalks/public-rights-of-way
    Proposed Guidelines (2011)

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