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Advocates: Disabled shut out from sidewalks
Some 51,000 sidewalk corners in the city are still lacking curb cuts -- lifelines for people who use wheelchairs -- and many of those ramps are in dangerously poor repair, advocates for the disabled charge.
"There are times when you have to go way out of your just to get to a curb cut," said Edith Prentiss, vice president for legislative affairs at the advocacy group Disabled in Action. "Some...
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