WE PRESENT: FIVE EPIC ACCESSIBILITY FAILS IN MIAMI
Miami is a newer city whose population exploded in the automobile era, so it is understandable that it doesn’t have wide, unobstructed sidewalks like northeastern and midwestern cities that came of age when people walked to work and to meet their daily needs.
But when I show images of cramped sidewalks —
too narrow for a wheelchair barely wider than two feet to use safely, located
in historic and high-density areas such as Miami Beach and Little Havana —
planners at an international conference in Paris gasped.
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