The Town of Union gets a big grant to improve mobility for everyone.

That's this week's Steps to A Healthier New York.

Improving sidewalks.

Under the American Disability Act, any new construction of sidewalks must include these truncations, or small, colored bumps on sidewalk ramps.

The visually impaired can feel the bumps and some can see a different shade of gray.

Alerting them that they're coming to the end of the sidewalk and the beginning of a road.

These ramps also help people in wheelchairs, rollerbladers, bikers and even moms.

"Want to go jogging and have one of those strollers that you can take your child with you. It allows them to cross streets and utilize the ramps to go down and get across the street without having to jump over a full curb," says Town of Union Public Works Commissioner Pete Olevano,

Steps to a healthier new york and the United Health Services BC Walk program has given the town of Union a 75-hundred dollar grant.

That amounts to 7 to 10 of these new sidewalk ramps.

"It's more expensive which is why the money is coming in very handy," says Olevano.

Olevano says there are other options, including just stamping these domes onto concrete, but the harsh winter weather, shoveling and salt will just wear those bumps away.

Not these.

"They will last forever. You can not knock the truncations off them and they're installed as you pour the concrete, so there's no lapse in time where people can't use the handicapped ramps," says Olevano.

Making getting around and working out a little easier.

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