My Actifit Report Card: June 7 2019
Today in ridiculous sidewalks that ignore pedestrians and especially people in wheelchairs and other mobility assistive devices, I give you this photo. Off a major street. Near the mental health facility where I was getting Mental Health First Aid training today and lots of stores and restaurants and apartments. Sigh!
Grrr! Also, moms with buggies. 🤷♀️
I'd like to know more about mental health first aid...
But moms with buggies can move, lol! XD
Mental Health First Aid is a program that started in Australia, and in the US it's a one day program instead of three days like it is there. It's taught like a regular first aid class - it's meant to help people who are in crisis, or are developing problems so they can be directed to the correct help hopefully before it gets too bad.
It was pretty well done, though a couple of times it was obvious that it is taught presuming that everyone in the room has never experienced mental illness of any kind, lol.
I would think it would be available in Canada, but I don't know if they'd have their own edit like the US does or not? I googled for it and found it being taught through the city mental health center.
I wonder what was there first... The pole or the concrete sidewalk? That's just awful.
Good question! Unfortunately, either way someone didn't think about wheelchairs when they did it!
Utility poles pollute most sidewalks
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Right. It's one thing when the sidewalk is wide enough to get around it, but a person in a wheelchair or with a walker could not in this case - and there was parking on the curb so they would have to back up to cross at the corner, go down the other side, and cross back (as opposed to rolling in the street until they passed this point, which is can be dangerous, but I see people do all the time with other obstacles). Pedestrians/accessibility are always an afterthought in this city, and it makes me mad.
It seems that the 'older' a city is, the worse sidewalk traversing remains a problem for the walkers and disabled especially.
I dunno, I find that the older east coast cities that were built before cars took over have much better public transport and pedestrian infrastructure, whereas Denver was so young before cars took over, it was really built for the car - which is why it is a sprawling mess, and most western cities are sprawling messes, instead of dense like, say, NYC.
Some of the big old cities have better Mass Transportation (subways and buses) but their oldest parts (Even NYC) downtown sectors have narrow walkways that twist and turn and narrow roads which leave pedestrians closer to speeding cars, trucks and splashes from puddles. They are also the areas where one can find utility poles, streetlights etc. blocking the path like the one you took a pic of.
Most of the newer cities I've lived in had pretty good bus service in center city areas, but few that went into the outer areas, and the few that did had time schedules that could take you two or three hours of waiting time just to do a twenty minute chore.
The medium sized old city that I'm in presently even has exterior steps to some buildings that come all the way out onto narrow sidewalks leaving little room to maneuver. They've also just begun to install Handycap ramps on the corners that were mostly non-existent.
Add that to the broken, raised and sunken brick or slate sidewalks that mothers with strollers, old folk with canes or walkers and folk in wheelchairs had problems with, and I'd say the conditions were not very pedestrian friendly :~(
That's how Denver buses are - decent downtown, shittier the further out you get. I used to take me 2 1/2 hours one way to bus to my job that in a car was 20 minutes away, in the largest suburb of Denver. Sigh.
Denver has a big sidewalk problem too - it's up to the property owner, not the city! - some places have no sidewalks at all. It's so frustrating. Hopefully we get better...
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