Battery powered scooters

Johno02 wrote:
! If you can help to do anything about it, PM me.

Section 609 of the Architectural Barriers Act.

I have used a scooter for 8 years I have a Ranger Safari that I got off E-Bay and is now at least 15 years old. It runs great, is comfortable to ride and good in most surface conditions. I bought a Roadtrek and found no place to carry the Ranger so I bought a Travel-Scoot, after a year of deliberating over the cost. The Travel-Scoot weighs 30# vs about 200# for the Ranger. The Travel-Scoot is not good at flea markets or on gravel, sand, grass surfaces. The Ranger would go on anything. The Travel-Scoot folds small enough to slide under the bed of the RT from the rear door. It only takes about 2 minutes to set up. The Ranger would take up the entire cargo area of my Saturn Vue with the 5 part breakdown of 2 batteries, drive unit, seat, and main chassis. No part is more than 40#. The TS weighs 30# to lift into my Saturn. TS cost was $2630. which is why I debated a year.

We go to a local campground where they started letting a guy sell something similar to this.

He has a base model like the one I linked to and then he has a more expensive model that is about $1200.00. It has a range of 20 miles. They're pretty fast. They are also considered an exercise trike where you wiggle your hips to propel it. His base ones were about $500.00. People were buying them like crazy. They fold up pretty small and will fit in a storage bay.

Since I'm a big guy, I thought about buying his more expensive model, but I would need two, one for the wife. They're kind of the rage out west, so I'll wait until the price comes down.

The thread is supposed to be about battery powered scooters; NOT restrooms.

Try to get to a restroom at Ft. Sumter.

FWIW (without citation) an ADA.gov site or something similar says in part:

Is the Federal government covered by the ADA?

A. The ADA does not cover the executive branch of the Federal government. The executive branch continues to be covered by title V of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which prohibits discrimination in services and employment on the basis of handicap and which is a model for the requirements of the ADA. The ADA, however, does cover Congress and other entities in the legislative branch of the Federal government.

Cruisin Cooler has three wheels a seat and room for your beer. WIN WIN WIN

They would NOT provide ADA compliance with access or interior disability rails in bathrooms and showers at a new CG they were funding. The agency local administrator made a statement that I thought strange, but then looked it up and according to his agency, he was correct. "If the city, county or state was the lead on the CG, then they would require them to be in compliance, but because the Federal government was the lead, they were NOT required to be in compliance". The thorn that started the conversation was the fact that NO assist rails were included in the bid sheet and then it came to light that there was a 4" step up into the building. Your government at work.

Well it seems I have hijacked a thread but now you got my interest piqued. Perhaps we could both get rich suing the government.

What accommodations would they NOT provide? Perhaps if you were specific it would shed a little light on the issue. Cause like I said, they don't have to provide an elevator down to the bottom of the gorge to see the waterfalls.

wing_zealot wrote:
The federal government is required to abide by the ADA law just like anyone else.

We had a Federal Agency tell us to our face just this summer, that ALL federal agencies are exempt from the ADA and there would be NO accommodations made on the new project they were funding.