BROKEN, OBSTRUCTED AND MISSING SIDEWALKS

FORCE WHEELCHAIR USERS INTO DANGEROUS STREETS – JUST TO MAINTAIN MOBILITY IN THEIR OWN HOME COMMUNITIES

When you see a person with a disability riding their assistive mobility device in the street, it isn’t because they want to be there.

It’s because the sidewalk is broken, obstructed or missing.

So they risk their lives to get to places.

They would rather risk death in dangerous traffic than die a thousand slow deaths stuck at home when they have thousands of talents to share with their community.

Cities that neglect sidewalks abuse and discriminate against wheelchair users.

This is on Esplanade near Broad in New Orleans, but lack of safe sidewalks plagues all cities.

HOW CAN SITES IN ANCIENT EGYPT

PROVIDE BETTER WHEELCHAIR ACCESS THAN
21ST CENTURY DESIGN IN THE U.S.?

The image is of the walkway leading to the ancient step pyramid in Saqqara, south of Cairo.

Barrier-free, wide, smooth causeway over the sand to the ancient Pyramid of Djoser. 

The site has far superior wheelchair access -- in ancient Egypt -- than the broken, narrow, viciously-sloping sidewalks that torture people with disabilities in most U.S. cities. 

Shame on designers in the U.S. for continuing to create barriers and brand-new construction.