09/02/2009

Mobility for those with disability

It’s been raining a lot today, which is driving me mad as I can’t go out for a walk. I don’t know what I’d do if I lost the use of my legs. Become an inventor, probably, because I’ve never really felt that enough is being done to improve disabled mobility. They are coming at the problem from the wrong angle. Campaigning for wheelchair ramps is pointless as you can’t put a ramp on everything. What they need to do is work to improve the actual transport. The real problem, practically and socially, is that they are sitting down and not upright. Someone should modify a Segway so that a disabled person can be propped up and strapped in. That way they can be at eye level. Imagine how attitudes would change if the disabled towered above the abled, looking down. You could also fit the wheels with some knobbly off-road tires and they’ll be off and away into the countryside that has for so long been denied to them.

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