Comment by thaumasiotes
1 day ago
> Regular carts are only used inside or by people who need to bring their stuff to their car and a pain in the ass to operate in the streets as they don't climb curbs easily.
Curbs have onramps. Pretty much every corner and every driveway provides a ramp where wheeled vehicles can easily get on to the sidewalk. You will never have any difficulty pushing a shopping cart onto a sidewalk.
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That is a US thing.
While things are improving in europe, many sidewalks still have a tiny step. Not high enough to be a problem for someone in a wheelchair but definitely for a loaded cart with shitty plastic wheels. Also it is not uncommon to have people parking where they shouldn't so you can't rely on it. In many part of the world people living in a wheelchair tend to spend a significant amount of time in the street instead of the sidewalk because of "stuff" that block their way on a regular basis.
Thank you ADA. One of the great progressive legal breakthroughs in the US. Maybe one day we can have a legal environment where we can make progress like that again.
> One of the great progressive legal breakthroughs in the US. Maybe one day we can have a legal environment where we can make progress like that again.
It was signed into law in on July 26, 1990 by President George H.W. Bush. I hope you get to see a progressive man like George H.W. Bush in the White House again.
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> One of the great progressive legal breakthroughs in the US.
The ADA is not a good thing. It's best known recently for forcing UC Berkeley to take down the lectures they used to provide over the internet for free. But it's been having very negative effects since it was enacted.
America doesn't get things right very often, but when it does, hoo boy! ADA ftw!