I have no beef with the business at the corner of 15th and Spring, and I suspect it hasn’t dawned on anyone working there to consider a potential access issue on the sidewalk out front owing to employee parking habits.
Primarily, this is because the city of New Albany has neglected maintaining the sidewalk. We can afford a $9 million water park, but not a gallon of paint.
As with the (until recently) ignored crosswalks on nearby Elm Street, it’s another instance of simple striping. At least once since we moved into our current residence in 2003, the city painted yellow stripes on the tarmac to show the sidewalk’s configuration in the absence of a road verge.
Emulating local Democratic Party grandees, it has been allowed to fade into nothingness.
Here are three recent views looking west, with the photos taken on different days.
I fully understand that New Albany’s Board of Public Works has a full slate of ongoing befuddlement as to who’s going to tune the street piano, which just isn’t an option, because art shouldn’t stray past the boundaries of velvet Elvis and dogs playing poker.
But I believe the intent of the Americans with Disabilities Act is to make the boundaries of the sidewalk clear and accessible. Perhaps the chairman can add this one to his burgeoning agenda.
