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MDOT Disabled Seminar
Date: 10/17/2012 Album ID: 1551153
Photos by Gordon Chibroski
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MDOT employees learn problems of disabled on streets and sidewalks of Portland.
Gordon Chibroski / Staff Photographer: Dan Stewart, with the Bicycle and Pedestrian Program, explains the problems bikers and pedestrians face on the streets as MDOT employees get seminar on what disabled people go through at Portland's intersections on Tuesday, October 16, 2012.
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Gordon Chibroski / Staff Photographer: Andrew Allen, asst. traffic engineer for MDOT, is confronted by a high curb at a marked crossing off Franklin Arterial while experiencing the limitations of a wheel chair as MDOT employees get a seminar on what disabled people go through at Portland's intersections on Tuesday, October 16, 2012.
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Gordon Chibroski / Staff Photographer: MDOT asst. engineer Sammy Samaroo wears vision impairment glasses with others as MDOT employees get a seminar on what disabled people go through at Portland's intersections on Tuesday, October 16, 2012.
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Gordon Chibroski / Staff Photographer: Instructed by Kathy Clarrage, left, of the Department of Labor, Bureau of Rehabilitation Services, Division for Blind and Visually Impaired, one of eight groups of MDOT employees get a seminar on what disabled people go through at Portland's intersections and sidewalks on Tuesday, October 16, 2012. Here, Sarah Leblanc, left, red jacket, Eyitayo Adandekinti, and Sammy Samaroo, right, all assistant engineers for MDOT, experience severly impaired vision problems with street and sidewalk cracks, guy wires, left, curbs and suprizes as they lead a group through the exercises on Cumberland Ave, across the street from Portland High School.
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Gordon Chibroski / Staff Photographer: Penny Plourde, former MDOT employee and now an advocate for the disabled discusses the problems with a grate on the wheels of a wheel chair and the blocked sidewalk on Fore Street by a restoration crew as MDOT employees get a seminar on what disabled people go through on Portland's sidewalks and intersections on Tuesday, October 16, 2012.
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