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On Wednesday, July 15, 2015 NYC DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg and NYC MOPD Commissioner Victor Calise hosted the 3rd Annual Access to Independence Transportation Expo in NYC! Joined by Commissioner Meera Joshi of the NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission, Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez, the event celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Learn more here on.nyc.gov/1Jis3hx
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio joins Newark Mayor Ras Baraka at City Hall in Newark, NJ to announce that residents of New Jersey's largest city will now have access to counsel for tenants in housing court on Tuesday, May 1, 2018. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office.
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Beach access to most points along Byron Bay's Belongil Beach are now officially closed due to the impact of human traffic across the fragile dune system. The threat is that potentially the sea could break through to Belongil Lagoon located just behind Belongil Beach at these beach access points.
Despite warning signs people show absolutely no interest in observing these signs and walk/climb onto the beach around obvious barriers strategically located across former access points.
This access is alongside the Beaumont's Hotel site at Belongil.
More Beach Erosion images
Beyond Access Member teams representing twelve countries in Asia and Europe gathered in Indonesia to share their successes, challenges, and visions about the role of modern libraries in their communities. Participants came from vastly different countries in terms of culture, level of development, and political environment. Yet they shared many of the same challenges, and more importantly, they shared a commitment to the role libraries play in their communities.
here at the wonderful space needle in seattle... there is no wheelchair access to the outer observation deck. when are they going to do something about that?!
Alec Finlay
Monday 4 - Thursday 7 November, 10:00am - 4:00pm
Various Locations
Across Dundee
NEoN is bringing the Travelling Gallery to town, Day of Access exhibition will pop up in various locations across the city.
Travelling Gallery is delighted to be working with Alec Finlay to support Day of Access, a powerful campaign which encourages estates to open their land to allow access for people affected by disability. By using hill tracks and four-wheel drives, people who have never been able to immerse themselves in wild nature are driven into the heart Scotland’s beautiful wild landscape.
The Day of Access campaign passionately believes that everyone should have the opportunity to experience wild nature. Travelling Gallery will act as the campaign bus touring Day of Access across Scotland; presenting information and artworks and allowing a space for discussions. Documentation from the pilot Day of Access, including work by young photographer Sam McDiarmid, will be exhibited in an art installation created by Finlay.
The themes of disability, access and ecological remediation are explored in Finlay’s poems and artwork. Pages from books exploring illness, pain, walking and healing, including A View from the Front Line by Maggie Keswick Jencks, are used as paper for thoughtful drawings and commanding words “THERE CAN NEVER BE AN EXCESS OF ACCESS”.
Alongside his own work Alec has invited other artists and poets to exhibit including Hannah Devereaux, Alison Lloyd, Ken Cockburn and Mhairi Law; each bringing their own creativity and experience to the project. The work is collaboratively displayed like a scrap book or diary pinned on a garden trellis, alongside other domestic apparatus and soft furnishings, such as blankets, a clothes horse, and hankies.
About the Artist:
Alec Finlay (Scotland, 1966) is an internationally-recognised artist and poet whose work crosses over a range of media and forms. Much of Finlay’s work considers how we as a culture, or cultures, relate to landscape and ecology. Through permanent and temporary interventions, integrative web-based projects, and publications, Finlay weaves together generous experiential works, often collaborative, sometimes mapped directly onto the landscape, embedded socially or accessed online. Recently Finlay’s work has focussed on place-awareness and ecopoetics.
Tour dates in Dundee:
Monday 4 November, 10:00am-4:00pm
Boomerang Community Centre, 10 Kemback St, Dundee DD4 6ET
Tuesday 5 November, 10:00am-4:00pm
Morrisons, 1 Afton Way, Dundee,DD4 8BR
Wednesday 6 November, 10:00am-4:00pm, please note the gallery will be closed to the public on this day.
Baldragon Academy, 69 Harestane Rd, Dundee DD3 0LF
Thursday 7 November, 11:00am-9:00pm
Wellgate Centre Main Entrance on Panmure Street
Access for visitors:
A maximum of 20 people can visit at one time
The doors are at the front left-hand side of the vehicle
An inbuilt manual ramp is available to aid access for wheelchair users* and pushchairs
Handrails are available at the doorway and by the short internal gradient at the entrance to the gallery (1:9)
The interior of the gallery is level
* Wheelchairs up to 120cm long and 70cm wide
Photography Kathryn Rattray
Rope Access - Fan Installation for Transfield Service in Lane Cove Tunnel. For more information go to www.rigcomaccess.com/ropeaccess.html
Throughout Africa, public libraries are promoting social and economic development in their communities through financial literacy workshops, ICT training for women, health classes, programs for children, and more.
Representatives from some of those libraries — from nine countries throughout Africa and Europe — came to the Beyond Access event in Cape Town, South Africa to build partnerships and exchange ideas on how libraries can drive development.
The depot is now a housing estate.
WORCESTER
Situated on the eastern bank of the River Severn, about one mile south of Worcester, opposite the junction of the River Teme with the Severn with access from the Bath Road.
The site is built on high ground surrounded on three sides by a wooded slope running down to the river and used for the storage of white oil products.
The installation is connected to the 10” N/S, U.K.P. which is the main source of supply.
Alternatively it can be supplied from barges by 2 – 8” lines from the commercial installation at Diglis Basin about ¾ miles south on the Severn.
Distribution is by the commercial installation at Diglis Basin.
Tanks There are 6 – C2 type tanks, each of 4,000 tons capacity partially buried and mounded and covered with 18” of earth, the whole being planted in grass.
Pumps Situated in a buried concrete pumphouse comprising: -
3 – 100 ton/hr. transfer and discharge pumps
1 – 30 ton/hr. drain pump
1 – 6 ton/hr. ethyl pump
1 – 3 compartment interceptor
Pipelines Connected to the 10” N/S U.K.P. and by 2 – 8” suction and delivery lines to the barge loading site at Diglis Basin.
Suction and delivery lines within the installation are 8” mains with 4” drainage lines.
Fire
Fighting Water is supplied by a 6” main from the Public Authority.
A 6” diameter firemain encircles the installation with hydrants brought out at various points.
Foam is injected into a 4” main for bottom injection, and there is a trailer pump on site.
A 20,000 gallon static water tank is also available in an emergency. Fed from town mains.
1 – Dennis trailer fire pump
1 – electrically driven water pump at River side
Mains Electricity is supplied by the C.E.G.B. There is no standby generator.
Offices There are the usual offices including stores, watchman’s hut and T.E.L. building
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Nominal Capacity - 24,000 tons
Constructed - 1941/42
Agents - Shell-Mex & B.P. Ltd
Today I decided to make one more attempt to access Goldenbridge Cemetery and for me the best way to get there is to get the Luas Tram as far as the Drimnagh Stop [don't make the mistake of getting off at the Goldenbridge tram stop]. Unfortunately the cemetery gates were locked.
Under the Penal Laws, Irish Catholics could only be buried in Church of Ireland (Anglican) cemeteries, and the full graveside rites could not be performed — only prayers from the (Anglican) Book of Common Prayer were permitted. Catholic emancipation came in the 1820s, and the three acres at Goldenbridge, purchased by the Catholic Association for £600, formed the first Catholic cemetery in Ireland since the Reformation. The first burial took place on 15 October 1828. A mortuary chapel in the form of a Roman temple was erected in 1829.
The cemetery was placed provocatively next to Richmond Barracks, a British Army installation. Complaints by the 92nd Regiment of Foot about noise and commotion caused by funeral processions passing their barracks led to a hearing by the Privy Council of Ireland. Abraham Brewster, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, limited future interments to those with burial rights only. Glasnevin Cemetery opened in 1832.
Mass burials took place during the Great Famine (1845–49) and during a cholera epidemic of 1867.
Until 2017, the last burial was of W. T. Cosgrave in 1965, first President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State. His grave, along with 26 others, was vandalised in 2014 but restored in 2016. On the 4th October 2017, the son of W. T. Cosgrave, Liam Cosgrave, who had been Taoiseach of Ireland from 1973 to 1977 died. He was subsequently buried at Goldenbridge in the family plot on the 7th of October 2017.
Today I discovered that the cemetery now forms part of a tourist attraction with nearby Richmond Barracks and this is a bit disappointing as I am not willing to pay to access the location.
Drimnagh was farmland until the mid-1930s, when some of the first tenement clearances brought city centre residents from one-room hovels to semi-detached houses in a series of roads named after the mountain ranges of Ireland. The suburb consists of one area close to Drimnagh Castle/Lansdowne Valley, with three-bedroom private housing built by Associated Properties, and another area built by Dublin Corporation (the larger part) consisting of two bedroom 'Parlour Houses' bordering on the Grand Canal and Crumlin. The two areas meet at the parish church, the Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel in the centre of Drimnagh, built in 1943.
Bert Barriga, a member of the Philippines team, shares his experience from the Beyond Access 2012 with officials from the Davao City government.
In 1863, Ramsgate Harbour station opened, and over time was a heavily used station. Only problem was that the town was served by two rival companies, and the London, Chatham and Dover Railway had their main station here. Access to the station was via a tunnel nearly a mile long and a downward gradient of 1:75, in addition to the steepness of the line and danger of runaway trains, space at the bottom was very limited, with only space for a small turntable, so only small tank locomotives could be used.
Under rationalisation on Thanet in 1926, this and the Margate Beach branch was closed, and the main line linking the two networks completed, Ramsgate Town station being moved to facilitate this.
An electric narrow gauge railway was constructed before the war, and run until 1965 when another accident resulted in closure.
Since 1965, the tunnel had been sealed, but urban explorers did break in and left graffiti everywhere.
Prior to the Second World War, a series of tunnels were constructed for use as air raid shelters, and it is these which the tours now operating are taken along.
The main railway tunnel still has soot on the roof over where the up line would have been, and in places you can see where the sleepers for the narrow gauge railway was lifted.
The shelter tunnels run for over a mile, and had many different entrances, though all are now blocked up, and some of the tunnels have collapsed.
The tunnels dug were in a U shape and had room for thousands to shelter in bunks each night, and although when opened were seen as a waste of money, were very much needed at the end of 1940 as the Blitz began to bite.
People even lived down in the tunnels if their house was bombed, pre=fabricated wooden frames were used, draped with curtains or other fabric.
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The Herne Bay & Faversham Railway company was founded in 1857. In 1859 it became the Margate & London Railway, and two years later took the name Kent Coast Railway, by which it was known for the rest of its independent existence. It built a line from Faversham to Whitstable Town in 1860, extended it to Herne Bay & Hampton-on-Sea in 1861 and opened the section from there to a station called Ramsgate on 5 October 1863.[2] This was much closer to the seafront at Ramsgate than its predecessor, Ramsgate Town, which was opened by the South Eastern Railway in 1846.[3]
In 1871, the Kent Coast Railway was bought by the London, Chatham and Dover Railway.[2] In June of that year, Ramsgate station took the name Ramsgate & St Lawrence-on-Sea, which it bore until 1 July 1899. For the rest of its existence it was known as Ramsgate Harbour.[4] The station was very popular and well-used, but was on a cramped site which was reached through a tunnel down a long 1-in-75 gradient. A train went out of control down this slope on 31 August 1891. One person was killed.[3][5] Plans were made to simplify the poorly connected railway network in the Thanet area; these were quickly adopted by the Southern Railway company, which took over the London, Chatham and Dover Railway's operations on 1 January 1923 as a result of the Grouping Act.[3] It built a new line, 1.6 miles (2.6 km) long, to connect the former Kent Coast Railway route from Faversham and the former South Eastern Railway route from Ashford,[2] which bypassed both Ramsgate Harbour and Ramsgate Town stations. Two new stations, Dumpton Park and Ramsgate, were built on this line to serve the town.[3] The line and the new stations opened on 2 July 1926, and the section of line between the new junction and Ramsgate Harbour station, and the station itself, closed on the same date.[2] The station site was bought by a company which converted it into a funfair. The station building was damaged by fire in 1998 and subsequently demolished. Part of the former route through the tunnel was opened as a narrow gauge tourist railway in 1936 which became the Tunnel Railway[3]. Services were suspended during World War 2. It reopened but it closed in 1965 following an accident at the beach station and the owners decided to close the railway. The railway was then dismantled. In 1939 part of the abandoned railway tunnel became an air raid shelter.[6] A network of tunnels was constructed leading from the disused railway tunnel leading under the town with various access steps to the surface. After the war finished these tunnels were abandoned. Following the award of a Heritage Lottery Grant sections of the abandoned railway tunnel and wartime air raid tunnels have been restored and were officially reopened on 27 May 2014.
Mind's Eye: Art-Making Workshop with Jessica Jones
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
5th Ave at 89th St
New York City
Visitors with low vision and blindness experimented with paper and collaborated to make group sculptures. This special workshop was led by Jessica Jones, artist and teacher at the Lavelle School for the Blind and leading figure in Joe Lovett’s groundbreaking film, Going Blind.
Photo: Filip Wolak
Learn more about Guggenheim Mind's Eye Programs at www.guggenheim.org/mindseye
Full bathroom of recent (?) vintage (1970s?). Has bathtub and shower. Not sure about ADA compliance.
Beyond Access Member teams representing twelve countries in Asia and Europe gathered in Indonesia to share their successes, challenges, and visions about the role of modern libraries in their communities. Participants came from vastly different countries in terms of culture, level of development, and political environment. Yet they shared many of the same challenges, and more importantly, they shared a commitment to the role libraries play in their communities.
MADHOUSE RE-EXIT ;
Access All Areas;
Directed by Nick Llewellyn ;
Set Design by Joanna Scotcher ;
Lighting Design by Katherine Graham ;
Costume Design by Carley Hague ;
Shoreditch Town Hall, London, UK ;
12 March 2018 ;
Credit and Copyright Helen Murray ;
Myanmar experienced devastating floods in the 2012 monsoon season, which affected two million people's access to food, clean water and shelter. ActionAid immediately co-funded a humanitarian relief operation, which is still a relatively new phenomenon in Myanmar, where the first large scale international relief operation allowed was in the aftermath of the devastating Cyclone Nargis in 2008.
Naw Hsar Hsae Wah, 28, has seen her share of devastating floods in Myanmar's Ayeyarwaddy Delta. But when her bamboo house in from Yae Cho village was inundated by this year's monsoon rain, the situation was about as bad as it gets.
"The water level was only a few inches lower than in 2004, which was the most severe flood in my life", she explains.
The young mother of three was already facing difficulties making ends meet when the monsoon season began. In July, when the monsoon rain grew harder and more incessant, the seemingly endless showers flooded the area, wind and waves destroyed houses and fields. By then Naw Hsar Hsae Wah's bamboo house begun to fall apart and the food became scarcer by the day. She sent her kids to her mother's house, but stayed in her inundated house herself.
In August nearly six hundred villages in the Ayeyarwaddy Delta were flooded, affecting two million people's access to food, clean water and shelter.
ActionAid Myanmar's local partner organisation Pathein-Myaung Mya Sgaw Kayin Baptist Association sent out a flash appeal for help, and without hesitation ActionAid Myanmar pledged to contribute to the relief operation. Just two days later the first food supplies reached affected villages. Over the coming weeks 12,705 persons in 35 affected villages received food aid funded by ActionAid.
Naw Hsar Hsae Wah has now received basic foodstuffs and enough bamboo to rebuild her house and welcome her kids back home.
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Photo: Paw Paw Htoo/PMA/ActionAid
This is the moment that Fox will lie about. Rioters breaking windows, doors and gaining access to a closed capitol.
I arrived at the capitol at about 6:50pm. You could hear the protesters 2 blocks away yelling "Shame" and "Let us in!" I make my way up to the King St entrance and I'm there all of about 2 minutes when it falls silent instantly. Everybody is listening intently to something and it's soon made known that some republicans are trying to leave the building, so people start going to many different exits to block them and I head over to the main MLK street entrance that I believe is the governors office, but I could be wrong on that, along with a huge flow of other people. There's a stream of people milling around and chanting so I make my way up the steps to the second floor entrance where there's a large crowd shouting "Shame!" I push closer and closer and there's a wall of police blocking the doors. We keep thinking they're about to escort someone out, but it never happens. Finally some police form a single file line and march out, but the doors are still locked with police on the inside looking out.
Meanwhile, I've pushed up to about 2 people behind the doors when all of a sudden, a window to the left of me beside the doors opens up and there's a woman waving people to come in quickly. The window leads into a bathroom. People look around in amazement and wonder what this is all about. The woman again motions for people to get in here. So the most amazing thing happens. A bunch of people press up against the main doors and use their signs to block the view of the open window that people are now filing into. I start firing off pictures, which is what you see above. About 10 seconds pass and I'm wondering if I have a chance of getting in. All sorts of complications are running through my head. A: it's been made illegal as of last week to enter after 6. B: is it a trick? C: The cops have gotta see this and are probably right inside there where I can't see. D: But what is inside? This is the start! GO!
I decide I might not have another chance. I hop through. No sooner than I make it to the door of the bathroom that I am met with police. Oh crap is all I can think. However, it immediately reminds me of a college beer party bust. They weren't even looking at me. They were trying desperately to push past me to get to the window while I was trying to push past them to get in through the door. In the moment of confusion I realized I wasn't going to be in any danger since it was clear all they wanted was to shut the window and stop the flow of people coming in. So I just flattened against the door frame to let the 3 get past me and then I proceeded to get into the hallway.
I can a lot of cheering inside and it turns out there were a couple hundred inside still from before the capitol closed for the night that hadn't left. And this, of course, is when it got interesting. A couple more times huge roars would erupt as a dozen or so people come running in from different hallways. There must be more sneaking in. After about 10 minutes chants of "Let Them In!" began. After only a minute or so, it fell silent and a handful of people ran to the west exit. Another moment of silence followed by huge eruptions of cheering as what seemed like hundreds after hundreds came flowing in from all directions. They gave up and opened the doors!
This contraflow cycle lane leads up a plank ramp in to a skip.
Update (2009). As discussed under another photo of mine, this probably is not a contraflow cycle lane so much as a false one-way street with a segregated entrance. Hope that clarifies.
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