[VeritatisSplendor]

That reminds me: “handicapped” ramps at intersections cost roughtly $12,000-$15,000 each.
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What, you mean those curb cuts, or something fancier? Because there’s no way a twenty sq. ft. slab of concrete with a little ramp cut out of it costs 12K. Even with the government. If it does people ought to be jailed.

I’ve never seen a wheelchair use them in the suburbs, but I have in the city. And they are handy for people with shopping carts and baby strollers.

Mrs VS

[Publius6961]

What, you mean those curb cuts, or something fancier? Because there’s no way a twenty sq. ft. slab of concrete with a little ramp cut out of it costs 12K. Even with the government. If it does people ought to be jailed.
I’ve never seen a wheelchair use them in the suburbs, but I have in the city. And they are handy for people with shopping carts and baby strollers.

Good observation. I should have noted the use of the ramps downtown and in business areas, never in the suburbs I've lived in.
And I assure you that was the cost (in Califonia) fifteen years ago!

Two or three laborers and a supervisor. Two pickup trucks. Compressor and jackhammer; small loader; dump truck; traffic control; cement truck; concrete finishers, another supervisor... over a span of two or three days.

Is it beginning to make sense now?