The Good News From Last Night's RIOC Board Meeting
Last evening’s RIOC board meeting was fraught with malingering disagreements and official bullying, but there was good news. Let’s look at that first.
by David Stone
The Roosevelt Island Daily News
The End of the Palace of Versailles Bike Ramp
Delivering the best good news of the night, right on the heels of unsightly bickering, Acting COO Mary Cunneen recommended terminating the contract for…
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Someone out there has to make a wheelchair mod
But let's be real, this is the only thing we'd see
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We got back to Jubilife! And Pepper evolved!
As soon as we got within city limits Looker was like "You guys don't have a Pal Pad? Go get one. Also I'm leaving, watch out for shady grownups"
Which, fair. There are a lot of shady grownups. In my experience, most adults are pretty shady.
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People often ask me about accessibility stuff when it comes to walkable cities so I’m gonna highlight some stuff I find to be cool
Raised intersections! These are intersections where the road gently rises to the level of the sidewalk, acting as slight speed bumps for cars and eliminating the need for going up and down ramps with mobility aids or carts
Level train platforms and user operated bus ramps! Ramps operated by external buttons and level platforms make it so that wheelchair and walker users don’t need to speak to a driver to access transit
Moped cars/micro cars! Miniature cars often used by people who can’t use bikes. Many of them are so small that they fit in bike lanes
Frequent bench placement! A walkable street is one with places to rest.
Air conditioned bus stops! In places where it often gets super hot frequent bus stop placement combined with air conditioning can make transit safer and more accessible to more people
Cargo bikes! Who needs a car when you can haul your stuff and/or dogs around in a bike?
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Woman using bike ramp Golden Gate Bridge pedestrian and bike walkway 20150515-154155 C4 by Charlie & Melody Wambeke
Via Flickr:
This is an image capture of a woman using the ramp to walk her bike up the west stairs of the pedestrian walkway under the north end of the Golden Gate Bridge. As seen in other photos in this short series, the wooden stairs are well worn by all the foot traffic over the years. The area below the six lane roadway of the Golden Gate Bridge is noisy, with the clanking of the cars driving over metal dividers in the roadway above. It is a great place to see the superstructure of the bridge up close but a place where one does not tend to linger. You can see other views of this stairway in the next two slides. As usual in 2015, this image captured with Canon Powershot SX50 point and shoot camera.
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