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Winnipeg residents frustrated with unusable sidewalk after snowplowing
People living along Ross Avenue W. in Winnipeg have complained to the city numerous times after snowplows left large piles of ice all over the sidewalk. Now much of it is inaccessible to pedestrians, and people using walkers or wheelchairs have no safe option.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7114952?cmp=rss

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Likely Jan Lukas Feb 16

@DavidM_yeg @kagan @ned

Also: it seems bold of them to assume a driver can even get to their vehicle with the current state (and soon to be signficantly worse!) residential roads.

Not to mention that it took several days of unseasonably warm weather to melt off the unshovelled or city snow-blading dumping for the sidewalks to be clear enough to walk on "safely" … still crap for #rollators and #wheelchairs at any alleyway crossing. 🙄

Clearly, the attached-garage crowd has been just fine, amirite? 🙄😡

#accessible
#accessibility
#walkways
#sidewalks
#cycling

Gemma Seymour Feb 12

I'm so excited to see the new Airo #trains, which will replace the Amfleet II cars on the Amtrak #Vermonter later this year. #Amtrak is also building #Brattleboro #BRA the first new station house in #Vermont in over a century, with the first level boarding platform in #VT, which will allow #bicycles and #wheelchairs to roll right on board, finally! Now if we could only get more than one train per day. #transportation #railfan #WarOnCars #disability #BikeTooter #FediBike

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JxG6ttSOmA

Amtrak is Betting its Future on this Train

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John Griogair Bell Jan 7

Rachel Burch Jan 4

Obligatory photo of light snow on Tavistock’s old railway line cycle path, snow and ice doesn’t go well with chronic illness, wobbly legs and wheelchairs, but managed to get out briefly, West #Devon. #Wheelchairs #disability #photography

Chris Smart Jan 1

I was shocked by this video!
Apparently, #Wheelchairs have paywalls and digital locks now!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yWcXPDJQ7k
#A11Y #Disability #enshitification

Wheelchairs have paywalls and digital locks now

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Eric Doherty Dec 17

Did you know that Quebec has a guide about using #wheelchairs and (3&4 wheel) #mobilityscooters on bike & roll routes? cdn-contenu.quebec.ca/cdn-contenu/... #pwd

lizzard Oct 27

Use a walker, rollator, scooter, or wheelchair? I'm running a free afternoon workshop this Wednesday at the #SFDCC, to provide free lights, reflectors, glow in the dark stuff, and other safety (and fun) visibility options to add to your mobility devices! Register here:
https://disabilityculturalcenter.org/event/been-seen-on-halloween/ #disability #Wheelchairs #

Be Seen on Halloween – Disability Cultural Center

lizzard Oct 7

These kittens want YOU to donate to support DIY, free, open source assistive technology! Read about what we're doing at Grassroots Open Assistive Tech!! https://www.openassistivetech.org/fundraiser-for-goat/ #GOAT #OpenSource #AssistiveTech #wheelchairs #powerchairs #DIY #RightToRepair

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Oct 1

#Wheelchair Users Are Finally Winning the #RightToRepair
State laws are forcing #privateequity–backed firms—which can make buyers wait months—to allow DIY fixes
In 2022 survey by the consumer advocacy network PIRG, 40% of wheelchair users reported waiting 7 weeks or longer for repairs—more than seven weeks of lost mobility and autonomy.
Power #wheelchairs in #UnitedStates are under control of duopoly: National Seating & Mobility and Numotion, both owned by private equity.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/08/power-wheelchair-duopoly-right-repair-law/

Wheelchair users are finally winning the right to repair

State laws are forcing private equity–backed firms—which can make buyers wait months—to allow DIY fixes.

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