{"id":3292,"date":"2019-06-01T20:54:03","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T18:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.peoplefirst.hu\/blog-post\/why-campaign-4-why-do-people-in-wheelchairs-go-on-the-roads-instead-of-the-pavement\/"},"modified":"2023-10-21T00:21:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T22:21:24","slug":"why-campaign-4-why-do-people-in-wheelchairs-go-on-the-roads-instead-of-the-pavement","status":"publish","type":"blog_post","link":"https:\/\/peoplefirst.hu\/en\/blog-post\/why-campaign-4-why-do-people-in-wheelchairs-go-on-the-roads-instead-of-the-pavement\/","title":{"rendered":"WHY campaign 4: Why do people in wheelchairs go on the roads instead of the pavement?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Able bodied people walk on them easily. They only get bothered by a wall-mounted car or by the pavement being torn up. The sidewalk for people in wheelchairs though is a real obstacle course.<\/p>\n<p>Getting on the footway in the city centres is easier because of the recessed design of the curbs but it\u2019s much more difficult if there is a berm. The most problematic thing is probably the ascension and the descension of electric wheelchairs because they weigh 100kgs.<\/p>\n<p>And we can\u2019t get relief even if we\u2019re on the pavement. We have to face multitude of barriers: the sidewalk being torn up, asphalt fragments, cobbles, stairs formed in steep streets, car exits, ruptured parts from the roots of trees, uncovered drains, protruding steps, outsourced advertising signs, old quarter\u2019s narrow though \u2018romantic\u2019 lanes, cars parked on the footway, bus stop on the sidewalk.<\/p>\n<p>So we are sometimes forced to go (slowly) on the roads willy-nilly with our electric mopeds taking in account the risk of accidents, keeping the traffic, the \u00a0driver\u2019s repatriation.<\/p>\n<p>If it\u2019s already like that what can we \u2013 people in wheelchairs do? We plan our routes early, we go on roads with little traffic, and we explore the unknown crossroads with the help of Google Map\u2019s street view function.<\/p>\n<p><em>Written by Zolt\u00e1n Kopp\u00e1ny<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-355\" src=\"http:\/\/peoplefirst.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mi\u00e9rt-j\u00e1rda-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peoplefirst.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mi\u00e9rt-j\u00e1rda-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/peoplefirst.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mi\u00e9rt-j\u00e1rda.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You wouldn&#8217;t think so, even notice, but the sidewalk is a very tough obstacle course for wheelchair users!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"blog-category":[8],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplefirst.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog_post\/3292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplefirst.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog_post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplefirst.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/blog_post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplefirst.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplefirst.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplefirst.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplefirst.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3292"},{"taxonomy":"blog-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplefirst.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog-category?post=3292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}