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Originally Posted by kcantor
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right... because that's a perfectly accurate description of edmonton's streets and sidewalks in the winter. hell, it's not even an accurate description of our streets and sidewalks in the summer. even if that was an acceptable criteria, you would probably have to plan your ram museum trip a decade or two out, not a day or more ahead.
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You're right, it's not. It's also not what I was saying. It is what our accessibility efforts should be focussed on - making our city more accessible for everyone, not just for the minority of disabled people who drive an have a permit, but for those who don't drive.
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as for that day or more ahead concern, (a) that's how most museum trips are planned anyway, not spur of the moment and (b) there should be a reasonable amount of handicap parking available to meet most peak demand requirements whether planned or impromptu without having to reserve it. and for further clarification on (b), pretty much every grocery store or restaurant or parkade or office building in the city manages to do that, it shouldn't be unexplored rocket science for the museum to make same similar accommodations.
moving on (appropriate pun intended), i hear through reasonably reliable sources that there are some more appropriate handicap parking accommodations being implemented if they haven't been already so kudos to those who raised the issue and kudos to alberta infrastructure for responding if true.
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(a) Perhaps. But DATS riders also have to deal with much more variability/unreliability in travel time than regular transit riders or drivers do, and are in general more severely handicapped than the average Handicap placard driver. Lots of regular transit riders have mobility issues, the spaces on each bus for wheelchair users are used regularly.
(b) sounds good, which is what we already have assuming Library and City hall parkades have reasonable numbers of designated spaces. What is reasonable is up for discussion.
(b2) There are all kinds of establishments and destinations that don't have dedicated front-door parking, including those in malls that can easily be farther from the front door than RAM is from the City Hall Parkade, along with AGA and The Winspear Centre just down the block - both of which direct visitors to public parking near by.