This is an on-going review of A.D.A. Violations in McAlester.
Please submit your updates/additions via Email to ada@mccooler.net
Details in red indicate confirmed conditions.
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Funkey Monkey |
No handicapped parking spaces, no ramps, too narrow of a door, narrow isles and no turn around points inside, and counter tops too high |
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Susan Snow Insurance Agency |
No handicapped parking spaces and no ramp |
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McAlester Regional Health Center Parking |
No emergency room handicapped parking, bathroom doors well above legal limits on pull, most of the handicapped stalls are too small, counters are too high at front and most nurses stations. The Handicapped buttons to open the doors most are damaged and don't work. |
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McAlester Hospital |
Handicapped parking in disrepair, not clearly marked, All thats left is a light blue patch on each one. |
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Carla's Cafe Parking and Restrooms |
(sidewalk infront of Carla's) |
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McAlester Police Department |
No ramps, Outside door is too narrows if it did have a ramp. |
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Pittsburg County Sherriff's Office |
No ramps, no parking |
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Cinema 69 Movie Theater |
Handicapped accessible seating is only in the back, No deaf system (cant remember the name of the device), Stairs inside a couple fire doors with a ramp outside |
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Pizza Inn |
(restrooms) |
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Charlie's Chicken |
(parking, ramp, restroom, counters,) |
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Taco Pronto |
No handicapped parking spaces, 3 ramps 1 too narrow, 1 too steep |
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Arby's Restaurant |
(parking) |
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McAlester City Hall |
(parking, sinage, ramp, council chambers, city jail, just a few) Locations of the Ramps in relation to the handicapped parking. Location of the Drop Off payment for water bill. |
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Pittsburg County Court House |
Parking is illegal (Supposed to be the closest spots to the main one and they use the business's next doors spaces in an alley), The door with the ramp for handicapped access is almost always locked and if you cant send someone in you cant get in. |
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All of the Antique Stores |
(with the exception of Dancing Rabbit) (narrow isles at dancing rabbit) (these are from memory since none of them can be access by someone in a wheelchair) No parking spaces, no ramps, narrow doors, narrow isles filled with junk, |
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Braum's #1 |
(restrooms) |
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Marylin's Restaurant |
The Ramp is in the handicapped parking space with no accessible route to it, no van ramp access |
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Atwood's Farm and Ranch |
(getting better)(some isles too narrow or junk in isles) Narrow Isles and they tend to block the handicapped ramps with stuff |
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Burger King |
(soon to be Wendy's, restrooms and no signs) |
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New Heavenly Delights Bakery |
(no parking) |
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New Strip mall below Workforce Oklahoma on Wade Watts. |
(Lalli was warned over and over before this one was completed.) |
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Miller Office Supply |
(no parking spaces) |
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Fastenal |
(no parking spaces) |
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New Mattress warehouse |
Currently under review. |
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New building west of Matterss Warehouse. |
(Lalli let ramps be built out of grade) |
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Drug Warehouse |
(Ramps) |
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Janalynn's Tea Room |
(no parking or curb cuts) |
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Country Mart |
(Not all registers are accessible) (accessible register is never manned) |
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Dollar General (South Main) |
(ramp steep) |
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Quick Mart infront of Walmart |
(disabled parking space ontop of ramp) |
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Giacomo's |
(parking nightmare for anyone) |
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Citco by Mill's Funeral home |
(ramp from hell, and inaccessible isles not brave enought to try restrooms.) |
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New Garage Grill by Taco Mayo |
(no ramp, probably has same non accessible restrooms) |
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White Electric |
(no access) |
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New EOSC McAlester Campus |
(Steep ramps and heavy doors that need to be electronically opened. Computer labs with work stations that are too narrow for wheelchairs) |
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New Medicine Shoppe |
(needs to be properly checked out) |
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McAlester News Capital |
No parking spaces, no curb cuts in the sidewalk that is there, No handicapped parking, doors to narrow and counters are too high if you can get in. |
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Goody's |
Isle's too narrow. |
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J.C. Penny's |
Isles too narrow (most of the store I cannot get through). |
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Radio Shack |
Isles too narrow, lets face it its so packed with junk you cant even get half way into the store, no turn around spots. |
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Wal-Mart |
Half their handicapped parking is on the far side of the building where as they block the sidewalk with buggies and force you into traffic to get inside the store, No handicapped parking by the automotive dept (ever try dropping a ramp on a van when they park vehicles right next to you/????). Pharmacy drop off counter well above height requirements |
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Strip mall at 200 block of Chickasaw |
Location of spaces to ramps, ramps too steep, most of the doors are beyond the pull limit to open. |
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Goodwill |
The handicapped parking is ontop of the ramp and at the far end of the store, some isles are too narrow |
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Salvation Army Thrift Store |
no handicapped parking spaces, doors too narrow, too much stuff in the isles |
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Alamo Liquor Store |
No handicapped parking, no ramp, Also the city doesnt have any curb cuts on that street |
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Foster Flowers |
Ramp too narrow, turn around spot at door too small, door to hard to open. |
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Best Western |
1 parking space that is not a van acceissble spot (in other words too narrow), the wheel chair ramp has a Piller in the middle of it and is centered on the handicapped parking space, the only handicapped room has a 4 inch step up into the room and no ramp, the room has too much junk in it, the bathroom is too small and the handicapped rails in the shower and beside the commode are too small and too far forward to actually be useful, the door on the bathroom open the wrong direction so you are either trapped or can not get into the bathroom, the sink/counter is too high |
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McAlester Veterinary Clinic |
No Handicapped parking (had a 4 inch curb you have to climb just to get to his parking my van draggs), Ramp is Way tooooo steep ( about a 1 inch up to 6 inch out ratio) |
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City of McAlester |
No Curb Cuts at D street and Carl Albert (sidewalk is in such a state of disrepair a manual chair wouldnt make it) |
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City of McAlester |
Sidewalk on Main between washington and adams.. no curb cuts |
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City of McAlester |
Main and Carl Albers there are no curb cuts on the south side, on the north side at the bridge there is a Step just past the curb cut thats 5 inches tall no chair can get over it |
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City of McAlester |
A street and Carl Albert, No curb cuts, no centermedian curb cuts |
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City of McAlester |
3rd and washington - no curb cuts, and sidewalks are in disrepair |
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City of McAlester |
2nd and washington - no curb cuts, and sidewalks are in disrepair |
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City of McAlester |
1st and washington - no curb cuts, and sidewalks are in disrepair |
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City of McAlester |
Main and washington - no curb cuts, and sidewalks are in disrepair |
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City of McAlester |
washington and A street - no curb cuts, and sidewalks are in disrepair |
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City of McAlester |
A street and Adams (sidewalk just dies halfway into the block and has a drop off... no curb cuts and no way to the street) |
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City of McAlester |
F street (no curb cuts and stree in disrepair) |
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City of McAlester |
Madison (no curb cuts and street in disrepair) |
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Atwoods |
2 of the 3 ramps they have are too steep a grade. |
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Mcalester Housing Authority at Chickasaw by L'Overture |
Handicapped parking is unlabeled (signs are bleached white), the Access ramps/curb cuts are too narrow and are blocked by dumpsters, sidewalks have stairs/steps, houses have a step up to get into them. |
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Demac |
No Ramps, no handicapped parking (unless you ask them then its on the side of the building inside the fence, and the handicapped entrance is through the lumber storage building at the back of the main building, law plainly states, Handicapped parking must be the closest parking to the main entrance and its the main entrance that has to be accessible) |
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Dollar Stores |
Too narrow of Aisles |
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All Pawn and Surplus |
No handicapped parking, No ramp have to go off into gravel at side of main entrance to get on sidewalk, door has a 2 inch step up and door is too hard to open, some Aisles blocked so you have to back out. Steps to the rifles... so no way someone in a chair can look at them. |
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Strong Blvd. |
almost all of Strong Blvd, has no curb cuts. |
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Jefferson PreSchool |
Wheel chair ramp is way too narrow, the handicapped door is behind a locked fence, the doors the hydrolic system is way too hard to pull open, parking spaces too narrow. |
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William Gay Elementary |
Wheel chair ramp is too narrow, the handicapped door is too hard to open, there are 2 sets of parking spaces, one set is way to narrow. |