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Title: This is cool/interesting
Post by: STEMO on 27 November 2020, 16:54:10
https://youtu.be/9lDR21rINYs
Title: Re: This is cool/interesting
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 27 November 2020, 16:58:31
Cool but very time consuming.

Can you imagine what would happen if you had a dozen cripples waiting to use it. :)
Title: Re: This is cool/interesting
Post by: STEMO on 27 November 2020, 17:06:47
Cool but very time consuming.

Can you imagine what would happen if you had a dozen cripples waiting to use it. :)
Cripples.....dear me, Opti   ;D
Title: Re: This is cool/interesting
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 27 November 2020, 17:28:22
Cool but very time consuming.

Can you imagine what would happen if you had a dozen cripples waiting to use it. :)
Cripples.....dear me, Opti   ;D

When I was at school we had a kid who was always on crutches year after year.

Children would call him 'the crippled kid' .......meant in an endearing affectionate way. :)
Title: Re: This is cool/interesting
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 27 November 2020, 17:29:49
I shall get told off next for saying there are only two genders . ::)
Title: Re: This is cool/interesting
Post by: ronnyd on 27 November 2020, 17:58:00
Think someone posted that on here a few months ago. :-\ As Opti says, great, but very time consuming. Not so good if it's slashing down with rain and there's no cover/porch over the steps.
Title: Re: This is cool/interesting
Post by: redelitev6 on 27 November 2020, 18:01:36
Cool but very time consuming.

Can you imagine what would happen if you had a dozen cripples waiting to use it. :)
Cripples.....dear me, Opti   ;D
What ever happened to Spastics ?
Title: Re: This is cool/interesting
Post by: dave the builder on 27 November 2020, 18:06:50
getting down the steps should have been much quicker  ::) no sense of adventure  ;D
Title: Re: This is cool/interesting
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 27 November 2020, 18:19:24
Why does she have to sit and wait for someone to come out and operate the lift?   :-\  Poor girl could have been sat there for ages in the pissing rain waiting for someone to turn up.  :-X

It hardly gives the wheelchair user the independent ability to enter the building so maybe they need a RADAR key type thingie so it can be operated from the street, but stops little scrotes from messing about with it.  ::)

I'll write in!  :y
Title: Re: This is cool/interesting
Post by: ronnyd on 27 November 2020, 18:25:50
Why does she have to sit and wait for someone to come out and operate the lift?   :-\  Poor girl could have been sat there for ages in the pissing rain waiting for someone to turn up.  :-X

It hardly gives the wheelchair user the independent ability to enter the building so maybe they need a RADAR key type thingie so it can be operated from the street, but stops little scrotes from messing about with it.  ::)

I'll write in!  :y
See reply 5  ;)
Title: Re: This is cool/interesting
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 27 November 2020, 18:30:20
Cool but very time consuming.

Can you imagine what would happen if you had a dozen cripples waiting to use it. :)
Cripples.....dear me, Opti   ;D
What ever happened to Spastics ?

 Back in the day there was always a life size model of a kid in calipers outside the newsagent, with a 'please donate to the spastic society' message. 
Title: Re: This is cool/interesting
Post by: Migv6 le Frog Fan on 27 November 2020, 18:33:45
Now we get TV adverts saying " Please donate just £25 per month".  ::)
Title: Re: This is cool/interesting
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 27 November 2020, 18:40:01
Why does she have to sit and wait for someone to come out and operate the lift?   :-\  Poor girl could have been sat there for ages in the pissing rain waiting for someone to turn up.  :-X

It hardly gives the wheelchair user the independent ability to enter the building so maybe they need a RADAR key type thingie so it can be operated from the street, but stops little scrotes from messing about with it.  ::)

I'll write in!  :y
See reply 5  ;)

Just a little doubling down Ronny!  :P  ;D
Title: Re: This is cool/interesting
Post by: Varche on 27 November 2020, 19:09:49
Solution designed by an able bodied person.

Fantastically complicated. I bet they gave themselves an award.  Still it is a “step in the right direction”.

We took a wheelchair user on holiday to Valencia city. By day two I was all for inviting the mayor to accompany us for a day. The crowning glory was the wheelchair friendly metro. Pretty impressive but the lifts were out of order at our station. Solution ? Go to next station and walk back to your hotel. It was a long way and most pavements had no dropped access, were 18 inches wide or had lamposts in them.
Title: Re: This is cool/interesting
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 27 November 2020, 19:43:17
Obviously no disabled person has the capacity to invent anything...  :-X

Architects, planners, companies and councils, certainly in the UK, (and presumably in Euroland), are legally obliged to consult various groups about making everywhere as user friendly as practicable.

The biggest problem is that many older buildings were built centuries ago when the disabled were basically left to die and in our infinite wisdom, alot of old buildings are protected against significant visual modification. In Spain, this is compounded by the fact that nothing is ever finished :D

Under the circumstances, those step/ramps are a pretty clever compromise.  :)
Title: Re: This is cool/interesting
Post by: STEMO on 27 November 2020, 19:46:56
Obviously no disabled person has the capacity to invent anything...  :-X

Architects, planners, companies and councils, certainly in the UK, (and presumably in Euroland), are legally obliged to consult various groups about making everywhere as user friendly as practicable.

The biggest problem is that many older buildings were built centuries ago when the disabled were basically left to die and in our infinite wisdom, alot of old buildings are protected against significant visual modification. In Spain, this is compounded by the fact that nothing is ever finished :D

Under the circumstances, those step/ramps are a pretty clever compromise.  :)
No matter how hard people try to accommodate the less fortunate, it will never be good enough. Everyone in this world is entitled to everything.
Title: Re: This is cool/interesting
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 27 November 2020, 19:57:08
Physical disabilities are difficult to accommodate because no two people are the same and what is relatively manageable for someone with a bit of get go about them could completely flaw someone who wallows in self pity.

Used to see just how much difference a positive or negative attitude of the assistance passengers made at work both in getting the job done and in the experience of said passengers.
Title: Re: This is cool/interesting
Post by: Varche on 27 November 2020, 21:34:31
Pass.