WE PRESENT: FIVE EPIC ACCESSIBILITY FAILS IN MIAMI
Limited Use Limited Access (LULA) lifts are allowed in the building code, but we find that they can break down in less than a year of use.
There are several in Miami Beach. The late star architect Michael Graves — who used a power wheelchair for mobility in the last decade of his life — designed three outdoor LULA lifts into a development at Ocean Drive and 15th Street.
But they got rusty in the salty air, keys required to operate them got lost, people used them as bathrooms, and eventually, they broke down.
Now they've been ripped out and
there is zero wheelchair access.
In Brickell, LULA lifts are often used as an alternative to ramps.
So if a LULA lift is available, it's often blocked with giant planters or outdoor dining tables.
Once the lifts are broken or blocked, wheelchair users are shut out
forever.
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