03-17-2022, 10:30 AM
(03-17-2022, 08:16 AM)ijmorlan Wrote:(03-17-2022, 07:55 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: Who does this?
https://twitter.com/vidman/status/1504149289865519110
https://www.reddit.com/r/waterloo/commen...d_by_ezra/
Honestly, I know there are problems here, but this is an AODA violation, and opens the city to lawsuits. Are they idiots or malicious? Also is 'they' WRPS, city, or region?
And most of all, why do we suck so bad?
Definitely idiots. But as it is said, sufficiently advanced idiocy is indistinguishable from malice.
Clearly, the fences should have been installed far enough apart that there was still enough space between them to allow wheelchairs to pass through easily.
What this tells us is that many people are still not thinking about all users of space when they make plans.
It’s debatable what measures should be taken to control what happens on St. Patrick’s day; but it’s not debatable that people in wheelchairs need to have, in practice, the same rights as everybody else.
This is absolutely on point.
FWIW...on the topic of what measures should be used to control St. Patrick's day...I do want to point out that our city has been plagued with plagots every weekend for years now, and the idea of limiting their freedom (which again, infringes on mine, ice rinks have been closed, businesses shuttered, FAR more impact than St. Patrick's day) is abhorent.
It's sickening to me, physically sickening.