Tens of thousands of access barriers throughout the Caltrans sidewalk system and Park and Rides will be removed as a result of the agreement.Ĭaltrans owns and maintains California state highways. Kimber said the improvements will affect sidewalks and Park and Ride facilities located next to public transportation hubs, even though the case was primarily against faulty sidewalks, specifically Ashby Avenue ( Highway 13) and San Pablo Avenue (Hghway 123) in Berkeley and the Pacific Coast Highway in Long Beach, all of which Caltrans is responsible for. “Caltrans is committed to addressing the mobility needs of all Californians and takes seriously its responsibilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act,” said Caltrans Director Randy Iwasaki in a statement.
Finally, Caltrans will allocate $45 million per year for the next five years. Thereafter, Caltrans will allocate $40 million per year for a period of ten years. The final court approval is not expected to take place before April 2010.Ĭaltrans plans to spend $25 million every year for the first five years, followed by $35 million annually for the next decade. Under the proposed agreement, Caltrans has agreed to spend $1.1 billion over the next 30 years, starting as soon as the courts sign off on it. Kimber said the settlement amount was the largest Americans with Disabilities Act settlement involving architectural barriers to date. “It’s a lynch-pin for sidewalk access,” she said. Mary-Lee Kimber, an attorney for Disability Rights Advocates, the Berkeley nonprofit legal center which filed the class action suit on behalf of the plaintiffs, called the settlement a huge step forward in improving barriers to disability access. Rockwell is a wheelchair user while Belser, who sits on Berkeley’s Commission on Disability and is the president of the Ed Roberts Campus-a soon-to-open one-stop facility for disability services in South Berkeley-is visually impaired. The lawsuit, filed by Californians for Disability Rights, the California Council of the Blind, Long Beach resident Ben Rockwell and Berkeley resident Dmitri Belser, alleged a denial of access for mobility and visually impaired individuals to Caltrans sidewalks and Park and Ride facilities because of a lack of curb ramps and detectable warnings, as well as narrow sidewalks and uneven and broken pavements.
#POTATO MUSH CLIENT KEEPALIVE FOR MAC#
:) Someone who is developing a new client for Mac told me she had just implemented a client-side keepalive function, instead of depending on the MUSH to have an idle/keepalive command, since it is not implemented by everyone yet.In a landmark achievement, Caltrans announced Tuesday a billion dollar settlement agreement with disability rights advocates to improve sidewalk access. I am not entirely sure how this could be done client-side. It is useful for people who are connecting from behind a NAT gateway with a short fixed timeout if you're in this situation, have your client send the IDLE command every minute or so, and the NAT connection won't time out (but you won't appear, to other players, to be active).
It does not reset a connection's idle time. To borrow the description from PennMUSH's helpfiles: When you use the idle/keepalive command built into the MUSH, then yes, you use a trigger to send the command at whatever interval you need.The key is that sending this command to the MUSH doesn't produce any activity as far as the MUSH is concerned.
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