September 5, 2008
Update: Curb outside Lyric Opera House
Patrons of the Lyric Opera House will soon have an easier time getting to performances.
Cones have gone up around repairs of a crumbling curb cut that nearly caused a woman attending a Johnny Mathis concert to fall out of her wheelchair last month.
And the city Department of Transportation has found funding to put in 10 wheelchair-accessible curb cuts at crosswalks, agency spokeswoman Adrienne Barnes said last week. Engineers are surveying the area and designing the ramps. Construction could begin in July.
Also, the city Department of Public Works has reinforced a chain-link fence between a sidewalk and a Public Works stream restoration project on North Charles Street, north of Cold Spring Lane.
Larry Kilduff, executive director of facilities management for the Johns Hopkins University, had reported the problem, which posed danger to students walking to and from Hopkins, Loyola College and the College of Notre Dame.
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