Wheelchair access
Posted by: Hillicent
16th Feb 2011 04:46pm
I wonder which category this belongs in?
Life in a wheelchair certainly makes you notice steps, narrow pathways, and steepnesses around the city ... make that the world! (Not to mention that wheelchair loos are often few and far between.)
Maybe I'm just a spoilt babyboomer, who wants open access everywhere just like before the wheelie thing. But I also think that accessibility creates good design for everyone, including kids, mums with prams, and anyone a bit wobbly on their feet.
And hands up who hasn't been so drunk they battered and bruised themselves falling up/down stairs!
rachaelc
- 13th Nov 2011 01:13pm
I didn't realise how wheelchair-unfriendly Sydney is until I ventured out with my first child in a pram without the car. Railway stations (both getting on and off trains, and also stations with no lift or ramp), narrow aisles, offices/retail with doors that are difficult to open with one hand, dirty public toilet/changerooms. Not a good reflection on us as a society.
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