[MA-RPC] RE: Proposed accessibility directives

[Walt Daniels]

Have you actually read the USFS documents? There is no proposal to pave
anything, except possibly where the AT goes through established, road
accessible, camping and picnic areas. The rules for the vast majority of the
trail remain unchanged unless there is a major reroute. Normal maintenance
is categorically excluded from the rules. What is different is accessibility
issues at backcountry campsites. Again, no changes unless you are replacing
lean-tos or privies. If you are replacing them, it is very little extra cost
to make them accessible by not doing dumb things, e.g. the deacon's benches
in Maine lean-tos. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Hooper [mailto:james.hooper at worldnet.att.net] 
> Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 1:37 PM
> To: Walt Daniels
> Cc: MA-RPC at commerce-02.cilia.org; 'Susan Daniels'
> Subject: Re: [MA-RPC] RE: Proposed accessibility directives
> 
> It is not the public at large but the ADA activist that would 
> want to pave the AT (that is where it is headed)
> 
> Unless the religious activist take them on, the ADA activist 
> get their way.
> 
> Walt Daniels wrote:
> 
> >Sorry, but the public at large does not agree with your view 
> of the world.
> >Without changing the public's view there is NO chance of 
> your proposal 
> >being taken seriously.
> >
> >  
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: James Hooper [mailto:james.hooper at worldnet.att.net]
> >>Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 11:47 AM
> >>To: Walt Daniels
> >>Cc: 'Kerry Snow'; MA-RPC at commerce-02.cilia.org; 'Susan Daniels'
> >>Subject: Re: [MA-RPC] RE: Proposed accessibility directives
> >>
> >>I should be a right for access to public building such as court 
> >>houses.... but not wilderness areas.
> >>
> >>Walt Daniels wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>>I think the AT should be exempt from all of these
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>requirements.  That
> >>    
> >>
> >>>>would take congressional action!
> >>>>
> >>>>   
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>At the very least it would take Congressional action. But it is 
> >>>actually much deeper than that. It would take a fundamental
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>change in
> >>    
> >>
> >>>the mindset of most people who think that ADA access is a right.  
> >>>Without a change in the mindset, congress would not act.
> >>>
> >>> 
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> >>>      
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