Current print subscribers can create a free account by clicking here
Otherwise, follow the link below to join.
To Our Valued Readers –
Visitors to our website will be limited to five stories per month unless they opt to subscribe. The five stories do not include our exclusive content written by our journalists.
For $6.99, less than 20 cents a day, digital subscribers will receive unlimited access to YourValley.net, including exclusive content from our newsroom and access to our Daily Independent e-edition.
Our commitment to balanced, fair reporting and local coverage provides insight and perspective not found anywhere else.
Your financial commitment will help to preserve the kind of honest journalism produced by our reporters and editors. We trust you agree that independent journalism is an essential component of our democracy. Please click here to subscribe.
Work for conducted at various locations in the community on its sidewalks. The majority of the work was to install or repair handicapped ramps to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act, according to Bryan Pahia, MCDOT public information officer.
“The work you’re seeing are improvements to current ADA facilities in the Sun City area,” he stated in an email.
The work is expected to be complete by the end of this month, he added.
The sidewalk project winding down now is part of a larger effort led by MCDOT to identify sections of Maricopa County roadways where ADA Facility upgrades may be needed. In addition to sidewalks and ramps, MCDOT officials are focusing on pedestrian push buttons, bus pads and driveways with landings.
The scope of work is outlined in the agency’s ADA Transition Plan. The effort is intended to provide equivalent access to the maximum extent possible for people with disabilities, according to the plan’s introduction.
A 2020 update to the plan showed that 192 curb ramps countywide were completed in 2018 and another 194 in 2019. This year 100 are projected to be completed, and another 900 are in the design stage. In 2018 63,516 square feet of sidewalk was added or repaired while that number was 172,534 in 2019. For this year 391,356 square feet is panned for attention while 2.3 million more are in the design stage.
“Even during the COVID shut down, MCDOT’s work was essential, so projects such as these continued to be on track,” Mr. Pahia stated.
Rusty Bradshaw News Editor | Sun City &
Sun City West @SunCitiesEditor
Rusty Bradshaw is a 40-year veteran of community journalism, having worked at newspapers in Wyoming, Oregon and Arizona. He has been with Independent Newsmedia 15 years.
Rusty earned a junior college certificate from Northwest College in Powell, Wyoming and a bachelor of science degree from Eastern Oregon University in LaGrande Oregon.
An avid football fan, Rusty also enjoys photography, reading, spending time outdoors and enjoying life with his wife. He also authored three books of fiction, “The Rehabilitation of Miss Little,” “Moist on the Mountain” and "Gorge Justice." Visit www.rustythewriter.org.
By 
