David Hutchins gingerly makes his way across Mill Street in Kansas City, Missouri’s, Westport area, tapping his blue cane in front of him as he goes. Hutchins goes to The Big Biscuit at 4039 Mill Street on a regular basis, but the seemingly endless construction, the carved-out curbs, sidewalks and parking lots impede his ability to safely navigate the route as a person with a visual impairment. He’s learned the number of steps it takes to get from his apartment across the street to his breakfast place, but now his route has changed.
“It’s kind of annoying to go through this stuff,” said Hutchins. “I’d walk through here, and the sidewalk here didn’t match with the sidewalk (there) and now I’m kind of out in the street.”
Hutchins isn’t the only one upset with the construction. Not far from The Big Biscuit, Tony Teng, the general manager of the New Peking Restaurant, said a month of construction has seemed like an eternity. It’s negatively affected his business…