Documents Tagged ‘curb ramp’


A Japanese View of Telegraph Ave

Archive Entry Date: 1986

A Japanese CIL intern compared the US and Japanese experience of disability

Curb Ramping in Berkeley—1984

Archive Entry Date: 1986

What worked with the first curb cuts wasn't going to work now...

Phil Draper at Corner of Telegraph Ave and Blake St

Archive Entry Date: c. 1976

A co-founder and director of CIL cruises America's most accessible street

Resolution 45,605

Archive Entry Date: 2/13/1973

In a win for the CIL, Berkeley mandated construction on Telegraph Ave's first wheelchair-accessible route

Wheelchair Ramps 1973 Location Map

Archive Entry Date: Summer 1972

A plan, devised by Ruth Grimes and others, to make South Berkeley and downtown accessible

Hale’s Design for a Curb Ramp

Archive Entry Date: 10/1/71

For Hale Zukas, building ramps out of plywood and duct tape was just the beginning

Selection from Hale Zukas’s Oral History

Archive Entry Date: 1997

Hale Zukas recalls the first official curb cuts in Berkeley — and his role in designing them