Unrelated, but its very weird to me that the US is one of the most handicap accessible countries in the world. Having briefly visited the UK once, it's very surprising how few ramps, automatic doors, etc there are. You'd think it be a higher priority given that its really not that hard to do and makes a big difference for a significant portion of the population.
Here in Stockholm at least they are trying to gut every accomodation possible, cutting travel services to blind people and telling them to just memorize train routes, while also removing audio announcements from train platforms for being a nuisance.
And now they're also removing train attendants so if anyone in a wheelchair or other mobility aid needs help getting on the train, the actual driver has to run out and do it before running back to drive the train.
Unrelated, but its very weird to me that the US is one of the most handicap accessible countries in the world. Having briefly visited the UK once, it's very surprising how few ramps, automatic doors, etc there are. You'd think it be a higher priority given that its really not that hard to do and makes a big difference for a significant portion of the population.
There was a really big push for the ADA back when Americans actually had some influence in American politics
ADA and national park system are a couple of the rare American Ws
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Here in Stockholm at least they are trying to gut every accomodation possible, cutting travel services to blind people and telling them to just memorize train routes, while also removing audio announcements from train platforms for being a nuisance.
And now they're also removing train attendants so if anyone in a wheelchair or other mobility aid needs help getting on the train, the actual driver has to run out and do it before running back to drive the train.