Todd Shields

October 28, 2002

I've reviewed AASHTO's response to these guidelines. They say to forward comments to you and the US Access Board.

Overall, I believe AASHTO has done a very thorough job of addressing the issues raised in the draft guidelines. The following are a few additional comments that we have:

On page 10, under the recommendation for Sections 1102.3 and 1111.3, AASHTO proposes the change "...or other temporary conditions over which the local government has control." This is in the context of snow accumulation on sidewalks, so I believe the statement should be worded "...the local government has NO control."

On page 16, under Section 1106.1, AASHTO recommends reserving this section (dealing with accessible pedestrian signals). I believe we should be more direct in our opposition to installing accessible ped signals at all existing locations. At a maximum, we should limit our installation of these devices to locations where a specific request is made from either a local agency or a blind citizen who frequents the area.

Please let me know if you have any comments or questions.

Thanks.

Todd Shields
Field Engineer
Operations Support Division, N925
Indiana Department of Transportation