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Re: By March 15 ADA Law Now Requires All Hotel Pools and Hot Tubs to have wheelchair lifts |
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Posted by Train Dude on Mon Mar 12 23:04:34 2012, in response to Re: By March 15 ADA Law Now Requires All Hotel Pools and Hot Tubs to have wheelchair lifts, posted by SMAZ on Mon Mar 12 22:45:15 2012. As a matter of fact - my brother was born with Cerebral Palsey in 1958. I have been dealing with his condition for over a 1/2 century. While at one time he was able to walk with crutches and braces, his hips have degenerated to a point where he is wheel chair bound. That likely tops any such experience that you have with the subject. I also founded and was the Scoutmaster of Troop 794 in Queens in the 1970s. The first scout troop (not affiliated with a hospital)for physically challenged children. Again, likely more experience with the physically challenged than most here.Knowing the issues as intimately as I do, I can say that while the ADA does provide some very important protections for the disabled, it puts out some idiotic regulations where the cure is worse than the problem it attempts to solve. This will be one such example. Before hotels will provide lifts and life guards, they will close their pools because it will make more business sense to do so. When I took an ADA compliance course, the ADA required adaptations be made to give the handicapped access if, in general, the cost was under $5,000. Now, that threshold may have been raised but the costs associated with such a modification will easily exceed that amount. Now, since do not usually choose hotels based on the availability of a pool, the hotel owners will opt to close their pools and make more profitable use of the space. |
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