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I have reviewed the new draft for the ADA Guidelines which are available on your web site and I would like to comment about article 1109.7 that address on street parking meter.

In many cities around the US the on street parking for disables is a combination of more than one single issue for the disable community that need to use these parking spaces.

one of the issue and the most controversial one is parking payment for the use of the parking space. Although in many cities the disable user can park for free, their is a growing outrage be the community for the abuse of this privilege by authorize and unauthorized users. The disable community is the first to suffer from this issue and public outrage.

In some cities the disable community are willing to pay for on street parking providing that the local authority will regulate the issue and will provide means for a disable person to pay for parking considering his/her limitation.

In the city of Buffalo a comprehensive study was done by the City which contracted the services of URS consulting. Together with the disable community they found that their is a technology available in the market to be utilize by the disable. This solution, which will be implemented by October 2002, will not require the disable to use existing parking meter or central location meter box, but have the meter it their car (IN CAR PARKING METER) for display. Thus resolving the issue of access to the on street meter, with 100% reliability which will make the on street parking issue easy to the user. The municipality will not lose revenue from the new guidelines of on street parking.