Senator Charles Schumer has an idea.

Some news for travelers

The toll both addition is a nice idea. I'm surprised to see that the Sun Pass has many more customers than similar programs in both Texas and California.

But that probably indicates that Florida has more toll-accessed roads. Comes with the state. Florida's constitution prohibits an income tax, so Florida gains its revenue by putting huge fees on everything.

If you move to Florida, you will pay out the wazoo to get your first car registered, for instance.

By the way, regarding one of the links I posted yesterday, if anyone was concerned for the couple with who got permission from the city to build a handicapped-access ramp for their sixteen-year-old daughter with cerebral palsy, whose neighbors are planning on suing to force them to remove their ramp, I have since spoken to two lawyers for their opinions on the subject. Both lawyers agree that the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 will tell these busybody and heartless neighbors to go to hell and the ramp stays.

While the ramp could have probably been done a little more subtly, I have no problem with the family having the ramp.

Tell the neighbors to fuck off.

Jim, I agree about the ramp. I would have given it wooden rails to match this house. The black metal rails look too "public access." It would look much homier with wood. However, if the wooden rails could not be managed without sacrificing safety, of course, I vote leave them as they are.

It certainly doesn't look terrible as it is.

The neighbors can go pound sand; if I were that family, I'd consider moving just to get away from the horrific bigots surrounding me. Hopefully, the jerks will all move to prevent the "degradation of their property value" from an unsightly access ramp.

And that so-called "journalist" abused the innocent apostrophe four times in a very short article. It kills me that they let these kids out of school these days.

If one is relying on insurance, Medicaid etc for help with paying for a ramp, there is generally a choice of one style. My husband is a disabled Vet - it took us over a year, and a dangerous fall - to get his ramp platform enlarged to be 10 inches wider than the door and a short railing installed. That said, we are extremely grateful to have the ramp, it has enlarged his life greatly.
Link to a story in Oregon. Someone is outing people receiving disability insurance and asking the neighbors to judge them. http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2013/08/flier_targets_portlands_disabl.html

This infuriates me. I know a vet who collects disability who has a very fit physique...and it is no ones business that he will never know a woman or have children due to a service connected wound. No one can judge who earned their disability rating, not to mention the privacy violation.

My guess is that a welfare worker is providing this info. Some say a postman, but checks are no longer mailed. Welfare clerks have access to a lot of info.

It looks rather industrial but not awful. You'd think they could have done a nice wooden one. You know, for their own resale if not their neighbors. There's no getting rid of that hunk of concrete easily. Buyers are going to be aware of that. They might have a nice niche market though.

Please excuse my bad. The original article said names were redacted - todays story says no names were actually given. I apologize for posting without reading the updated version.

bmused, I've seen that story. It should also be pointed out that not every disability is physical in any way.

And neighborhoods do not decide who should or shouldn't get government assistance. That is the prerogative of those with the sheepskins.

Do they sometimes make mistakes in their decisions? Of course. But I still think it's safer in their hands than in the hands of some idiot who thinks, "Why do you get disability? You look fine to me!"

Looney, looney, looney

Amy, thought you would enjoy this (although you may have already discovered it).

http://www.youparklikeanasshole.com/give-a-notice/give-a-notice.php

Mom and Dad put 2 year old daughter to bed.

Mom and Dad smoke pot.

Child Protective Services takes child away and puts her in foster home.

Foster mother beats two year old to death.

It looks rather industrial but not awful. You'd think they could have done a nice wooden one. You know, for their own resale if not their neighbors. There's no getting rid of that hunk of concrete easily. Buyers are going to be aware of that. They might have a nice niche market though. -- momof4 at August 13, 2013 3:24 PM

A few hundred dollars in bricks and mortar to hide the base. Then some exterior grade wood and finish at about $200 could integrate the railings into the house.

Doing a fundraiser by the objecting neighbor to integrate it into the house, maybe unwanted but understandable by the CP neighbors. Suing the CP neighbors to remove it -- you, as a objecting neighbor, are a heartless and undesired bastard that wanted to make the CP neighbor feel unwelcome. And that will be brought up for years.

And they don't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning, and any attorney who takes this case is a damned fool. There's no homeowner's association for this neighborhood. And even there were, the judge would have to comply with ADA.