Types of barriers on the road for wheelchair users
markdougall
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Hi everyone!
I was wondering if you guys could input the types of barriers you encounter while traveling. It could be something like kerbs, steep ramps, or a narrow road.
I was wondering if you guys could input the types of barriers you encounter while traveling. It could be something like kerbs, steep ramps, or a narrow road.
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Hi As a wheelchair user my main frustration is other people and their lack of awareness of the problems they are causing both to wheelchair users and prams.
Parking halfway over a pavement is my pet hate as you cant get past the car, parking over drop kerbs with double yellow lines on, repair work to pavements giving no alternative pathway to wheelchairs, uneven surfaces
If you use a manual wheelchair ramps are not really any help as it is too hard to propel yourself up and down them.
I could go on all day but wont bore you
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Despite there being lifts at my college they were pretty small and cramped and there’s been times I’d show up and the lift is out of use so I wouldn’t get to my lesson
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*dustbins left on foot paths.
*the red tile white brick sloping curb offer have a gutter.
*lack of sloping curbs meaning you have go back the way you came and go on the road.
* people parking in front of sloping kerb.
*traffic lights with the button on the road side. (And those with lights facing wrong way)
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I often need to go along the road because pavements are too difficult.
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Grass is my bugbear.
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Thank You all for the information
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Uneven pavements are causing me great discomfort and pain. I feel as though I am being constantly bounced back and forwards like someone is pushing and pulling you throughout my journey. I do wonder what damage this is doing to my body longterm. A bit like someone using a pnematic drill!
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Kerbs, cracked pavements, too many kerbs and slopes that drag me onto the road. People sometimes blocking pavements.
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The biggest barrier for me (on my scooter but I'm getting a manual chair) is BINS! Combined with a car half parked on the pavement it's a nightmare. That, and too few dropped kerbs and then they're sometimes over an inch high!
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