Accessibility · civil rights · infrastructure
A route is only accessible if it works as a route.
Accessibility work is about continuous usable routes, not isolated compliant fragments. East Avenue, the Esplanade, budget decisions, disability advocates and field survey work belong in the same civil-rights record.
Accessibility was treated as infrastructure and civil rights at the same time: north-south and east-west movement, actual crossings, missing segments, survey work and the budget decisions required to turn a plan into pavement.
Field knowledge mattered
Work with disability advocates and Independent Living Services of Northern California included route planning and volunteer survey capacity. The goal was not a ceremonial ADA line item. It was a backbone of routes people could actually use.
The Esplanade
Randall spearheaded safety and accessibility reform needed to address federal, state and ADA compliance problems. The politically controversial roundabout component and the successful core safety/accessibility package are kept distinct in the archive rather than collapsed into one talking point.
Esplanade safety and accessibility project
The official project record documents the final complete-streets package, Oleander bicycle improvements, pedestrian signal timing, refuge islands, ADA ramps and sidewalks, and the federal ATP/CMAQ funding that carried the project forward after the Esplanade roundabouts were rejected.
City project record →