ADA Ramps & Compliance in Gardner, KS

An ADA ramp in Gardner passes when the running slope holds at or under 1:12 max running slope, the cross slope stays under 1:48 max cross slope, the clear width is 36 inches or wider, and both ends have a level landing — the federal 2010 ADA Standards, checked on the finished pour instead of assumed off the plan. Public sidewalk and street ramps follow PROWAG.

Gardner has grown into the residential and service backbone for the intermodal, and its accessible work splits two ways. The older retail corners along US-56 (Main Street) predate the current rules, while the ground near New Century AirCenter and Gardner Commerce Park is pouring new stalls and crossings that have to be right from day one. We handle both — the retrofit and the new build.

South Johnson County sits over limestone bedrock three to eight feet down, and that shelf is quietly on your side. A ramp built on ground with shallow rock rides a smaller seasonal moisture swing than one poured on the deep swelling clay farther north, so a properly compacted landing here tends to hold its level instead of drifting out over a wet spring. It is not a free pass — the clay-loam mantle over the rock still moves, and heavy truck loading near 175th Street works the pavement hard — but it means a landing built to grade has a real chance of staying at grade. We build to design-slope-below-max so a season of settlement never pushes a fresh ramp past the line. More on local ground is in our Kansas City soil guide.