More than a week after the blizzard of 2016, snow remains piled up in this handicap parking space across from the Queen Street library in Old Town. Photo by Jeanne Theismann.
To the Editor:
As a long time disabled resident of Alexandria, I have seen that when we have a significant snowfall, the snow in parking lots is often pushed into the handicap parking spaces. Handicap parking spaces are already limited and sometimes misused. I know it is frustrating for anyone who is unable to find a parking spot because of snow.
Now imagine having a disability and having to maneuver from the far end of the parking lot, and having to do so for weeks or months until the snow mountains totally melt from the handicap parking spaces. I hope that by bring this dangerous problem to the attention of shopping center owners, they will alert the contractors hired for snow removal to be mindful of the needs of disabled citizens and will push snow to areas other than the handicap spaces.
Toni Popkin
Alexandria