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Curb Cuts Universal Design
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After 11 years of debate over the safety of curb cuts for the physically impaired vs. the visually impaired, the 2001 Americans with Disabilities Act set out guidelines for the universal design of curb cuts that guarantee the safety of all mentally, physically, and visually impaired pedestrians.
The act outlines ramp slope, setbacks, and acceptable detectable warning surface requirements for curb cuts that allow safe and equal public rights of way for the physically impaired.
To aid the visually impaired, the universal design for curb cuts requires tactile detectable warnings systems installed. For detectable warning compliance they must have three key features: a 70% color contrast between the detectable warning system and adjacent surface, a touch detectability and a sound detectability.
The detectable warning systems required on curb cuts also have a universal design. Years of research have concluded that truncated domes offer the most effective underfoot and audible warning and are also the safest surface on curb cuts for wheelchairs, strollers, women in high heels, and other pedestrians.
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Curb Cuts Universal Design

Safe travel means a safe product, which is why it is so important to consider the wear and tear of detectable warnings on curb cuts. Weather and other environmental conditions in many cases, could cause peeling, brittleness and breaking in inferior products and severely compromise the integrity of curb cuts.
The Americans with Disabilities Act outlined the required universal design for curb cuts, but some foresight and planning is still in order to keep curb cuts effective long-term.