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Originally Posted by s211
Are you maybe missing the point that the interface between wheelchairs and the carts you describe are middling at best, and insurmountable at most?
I somehow think that most people just expect handicapped people to just get up from their wheelchair and hike up into a cart. 
Moving on, so to speak. |
That's just it. It takes two of us, with all our might to move my father in law from the car to a wheelchair. He's a big man- retired EPS Sergeant- and not easy to move and even wheeling him a block over uneven surfaces is a potential disaster.
We once brought him to the U of A to visit his wife, and had a minor catastrophe trying to get him back into the car we had at the time in the loading area. Thank god there were two nurses close by to help get his feet in, it was a serious situation, so much so that we bought a new car just so that we could move him easier.
So maybe we just shouldn't bother bringing the inlaws to the museum. But that's sad because both of them are lifelong Albertans whos families built towns like Cadomin and Nordegg, and both have a strong sense of history here. It's great that able bodied people can visit the museum but if any facility should be designed to accommodate Albertans who may be old and not mobile, it should be a facility like that.