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[STEMO]

https://youtu.be/9lDR21rINYs

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Cool but very time consuming.

Can you imagine what would happen if you had a dozen cripples waiting to use it.

[STEMO]

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   

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

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   

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.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I shall get told off next for saying there are only two genders .

[ronnyd]

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.

[redelitev6]

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   

What ever happened to Spastics ?

[dave the builder]

getting down the steps should have been much quicker  no sense of adventure 

[Sir Tigger KC]

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. 

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! 

[ronnyd]

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. 

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! 

See reply 5 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

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   

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. 

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Now we get TV adverts saying " Please donate just £25 per month". 

[Sir Tigger KC]

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. 

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! 

See reply 5 

Just a little doubling down Ronny!   

[Varche]

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.

[Doctor Gollum]

Obviously no disabled person has the capacity to invent anything... 

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

Under the circumstances, those step/ramps are a pretty clever compromise.