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Elevators and well-constructed and maintained ramps allow for independent use by persons who use wheelchairs or scooters, and by others who cannot use stairs. They are also used by the general public, easing the way for those with children in strollers or with shopping carts.
Platform lifts are permanently installed elevating devices designed to transport wheelchair users on a platform that moves vertically between levels. Platform lifts usually require a key for operation. Entry and operation is often restricted to minimize misuse of the device.
New construction is required to be accessible to persons with disabilities or use ramps or elevators to overcome changes in levels in a manner that provides equal access. Platform lifts often leave barriers to aide persons with disabilities, and accessible portable or permanent ramps may be required.
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Two great rivers, the Mississippi and the Missouri, have had a great influence on the development of Missouri. The Mississippi tied the region to the South, particularly to New Orleans. The Missouri crosses the state from west to east and enters the Mississippi near St. Louis; the portion of its valley between St. Louis and what became Kansas City was the greatest avenue of early-19th-cent. advance westward across the continent.
The region N of the Missouri River is largely prairie land, where, as on the Iowa plains to the north, corn and livestock are raised. Most of the region S of the Missouri is covered by foothills and by the plateau of the Ozark Mts., a region of hill country populated by a relatively isolated, self-reliant people. The rough, heavily forested eastern section of the Ozarks extends into the less hilly farming plateau in the west and encompasses the irregular, twisting Lake of the Ozarks to the northwest.
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