You aren't wrong about that. Curb ramps are probably the thing in Tulsa that engineers/inspectors/contractors struggle the most with. Public input is going to be tough one to crack. All public projects create angry people, and I really hate going to meetings with angry people.
I'm definitely not wrong, and I'm not saying that curb ramps are easy to design, especially with some of the huge curb radii we have in Tulsa.
In my neighborhood, the meetings were announced and open to the public. The City
asked for the neighborhood's input. Yes, there were some angry people there. I wasn't angry myself, until I saw that the curb ramp/sidewalk/crosswalk designs had been changed from what we were shown in a previous public meeting, and that the revised design was inferior to the previous design. That irked me. I told the design engineers and the City public works employees at the meeting that the revised design would not be ADA compliant, and they seemed to know exactly what I meant. They understood me. Something else was going on behind the scenes, I think.
No sense in having public meetings and
asking for public input if the City is going to ignore it... That's a waste of time. What's the point?
