A small ramp built into the kerb of a pavement to make it easier for people using pushchairs or wheelchairs to pass from the pavement to the road; a dropped kerb.
〈北美〉（供骑自行车者或坐轮椅者上下人行道的）下斜路缘
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Meanwhile, the front sidewalks are uninterrupted by driveway curb cuts, enhancing the pedestrian environment and making the houses look placed in a garden.
It's much like when wheelchair considerations paid for curb cuts but soon 99 percent of their use was for things that would never have paid their way - baby carriages, skateboards, wheeled suitcases, bicycles, and so on.
Take the curb cut, those dips in sidewalks created for people using wheelchairs.
But being born in 1942 long before disability acts, equal access laws, and curb cuts, he never attended school.
A federal judge ruled that private parties could sue an Ohio city for the discriminatory impact of its failure to create curb cuts in its sidewalks.
Definition of curb cut in US English:
curb cut
noun
North American
A small ramp built into the curb of a sidewalk to make it easier for people using strollers or wheelchairs to pass from the sidewalk to the road.
〈北美〉（供骑自行车者或坐轮椅者上下人行道的）下斜路缘
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Meanwhile, the front sidewalks are uninterrupted by driveway curb cuts, enhancing the pedestrian environment and making the houses look placed in a garden.
But being born in 1942 long before disability acts, equal access laws, and curb cuts, he never attended school.
A federal judge ruled that private parties could sue an Ohio city for the discriminatory impact of its failure to create curb cuts in its sidewalks.
Take the curb cut, those dips in sidewalks created for people using wheelchairs.
It's much like when wheelchair considerations paid for curb cuts but soon 99 percent of their use was for things that would never have paid their way - baby carriages, skateboards, wheeled suitcases, bicycles, and so on.