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Accessibility

Getting around in a wheelchair is a lot easier nowadays than it used to be, with many public buildings incorporating ramps as standard, wider doorways and other wheelchair-friendly aids.

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Wheelchair Accessible Places

Welcome to this page where I want to start off by taking a close look at understanding the needs of people with disabilities especially when in comes to gaining access to the kinds of places that everyone ought to have free access to. The idea is to bring a better insight into some of the problems that are faced by wheelchair users for instance when trying to get around in public buildings or trying to use say a train station from buying a ticket to getting to the right platform and boarding the train. These things are all taken purely for granted by able bodied people, but sometimes, just stopping outside an imposing looking public building, say for instance a government departmental office where you may need to go to make a claim of some kind, can dredge up a feeling of fear and helplessness. If you are faced with an imposing flight of wide steps to even get into the main doors, you have a major hurdle to get over before you even begin.

Thankfully, most buildings have installed handicap ramps that allow you to gain access in a wheelchair usually unaided, although not always. Getting around inside the building once you get through the main doors is usually not too bad an experience. Elevators will take you to upper floors, although you may have a stretch of you have to reach up for the elevator call button if they are place too high!

Vacationing

Getting away for a great vacation used to be fairly limiting in where you could go, but now you can get specially customized RVs that are accessible by wheelchair users and people with physical disabilities. These amazing vehicles are just perfect for escaping from the chains of what the wheelchair users used to be constrained in, hitting the open road and letting the carefree vision take you wherever you want to go!

I love this kind of idea because sometimes, even small bits of freedom can add up to a whole big issue. You can read more about the magnificent vehicles here: handicap.intervalinc.com and find out a whole load more about them.

Trains

Train stations are not particularly friendly places for anyone, but when you are in a wheelchair, they are doubly cold, heartless and uninviting places, often cold with windy platforms and waiting rooms. Want to buy a ticket? Sure, but be prepared to reach up to the ticket seller in his or her booth as usually the counter area is fairly high up.

Need to find the right platform? Reading the information boards is okay, but some stations have their platforms badly signed so you could find yourself going completely the wrong way before you realize your mistake. A mistake that could cost you missing your train and having a long uncomfortable wait for the next one. Getting onto a train for a wheelchair user is never an easy task. Often you will need help from a station porter as there is often too wide a gap between platform and door and no one told them that wheelchairs can't jump! If that's bad enough, try getting off when you reach your stop and there's no one to help you! Okay, that's enough of that for now. I think you are starting to get the idea!