I can see your point. My two concerns are the number of survey monuments being wiped out without any thought and the lack of thought process in determining the actual need. It seems great a waste of money and resources to put them miles from any sidewalks (other than around the circle).
Another point, Oregon now allows contractors design ramps on site without engineering of any type. All they need to do is take ODOT's class and they are ramp engineers. I might be going out on a limb but I'm guessing there will be a lot of reworks a couple of years down the road. Most of them collect water and mud. Others have weird little bit of curb between ramps whose sole purpose must be to create more disabled people. Very few compare to properly engineered ramps.
NCDOT engineers have to be the best. While average PEs cheat the taxpayer by using simplistic straight lines and horizontal curves, our PEs can design hundreds of miles of roads using masterfully dimensioned spiral curves. They're also environmentally conscious, making sure there's not a pea sized portion of white space on any given plan sheet.
I can see your point. My two concerns are the number of survey monuments being wiped out without any thought and the lack of thought process in determining the actual need. It seems great a waste of money and resources to put them miles from any sidewalks (other than around the circle).
Another point, Oregon now allows contractors design ramps on site without engineering of any type. All they need to do is take ODOT's class and they are ramp engineers. I might be going out on a limb but I'm guessing there will be a lot of reworks a couple of years down the road. Most of them collect water and mud. Others have weird little bit of curb between ramps whose sole purpose must be to create more disabled people. Very few compare to properly engineered ramps.
I think the most cap dense curb to ADA ramp cut-out ended up with 8 new property monuments in about 40 sq ft. It's a masterpiece. Good thing we have the Dewalt hammer drill.
