#Ramps not stairs!

[mermazeablaze]

I'm begging home renovators. If you're in a position where you have to remove outdoor steps anyway - why not just update them with a ramp?

Disabled people. Young children. The elderly. Those are a few good examples of why you should choose to update with a ramp. Not to mention it's easier to move stuff in & out.

& as someone who used to volunteer with the historical society & help renovate/repair old homes & buildings. You can update with ramps that fit the aesthetic/time period of the property.

If you're doing a new build. Please consider ramps inside instead of stairs too. For the same reasons!

Plus, they're super cool looking!

#Ramps not stairs! #disabled #injured #children #elderly #work smarter not harder #house #home #historical #architecture #histblr #antique #vintage #classical #aesthetic #remodel #renovate #redecorate #redecorating #style #building #hgtv

[absentlyabbie]

reading this book and it describes this fantasy tiered city built on the side of a mountain and it has one "impossibly long" stairway for traversing from one tier to another

and all i can think is "wow that is awful urban design."

without even getting into the inherent ableism (but hey! fantasy city with fantasy races which are naturally superior and therefore pretty much never experience disability, of course, because that's what superiority means) of the apparently sole system of traveling between levels of this city being stairs and only stairs, it's a freaking deathtrap.

one impossibly long unbroken stairway across the breadth of a tiered city built into the side of a mountain? no landings are described, even. without some kinda natural break, one moment of clumsiness or an unfriendly shove and someone is having a long, long tumble to a broken neck (and broken everything else.)

#at MINIMUM it should be gently sloped wide stairs between each level with the next staircase set off to the left #and the next off to the right and then back and then forth again #so that if someone SHOULD have a terrible accident they at least stand a chance of a shorter fall and maybe not dying #but how tf also is freight carted around this city #please tell me there are ramps or even freight elevators somewhere #also also #THINK OF THE TRAFFIC JAMS even on foot yikes #worldbuilding nitpicking

[skelswritingcorner]

I feel like Transformers would probably be more accommodating of disabled people that they encounter (especially if their disabilities are visible) which probably says a lot about my experiences as a disabled person.

Imagine telling someone like Ultra Magnus about how some places are very inaccessible to those that use mobility aids because there's no ramps that can be easily seen despite the ADA (and similar laws in other countries) existing and he just... has to take a minute to process that.

#the author's ramblings #transformers #maccadam #transformers ultra magnus #ultra magnus #I'm not even mobility impaired (excluding my dyspraxia) but even THAT annoys me #JUST LET THERE BE NOTICEABLE RAMP #mention this to the constructicons and they guerrilla make a ramp where the stairs were if they decide to do that

[leclercskiesahead]

"In this kingdom that I own / Falling bottles / Don't forget me."

Carlos in Australia from land0.mov

#carlos sainz jr #man could not walk properly but went JOGGING while recovering from surgery #using the ramp cos he was probably struggling with the stairs #australia 2024 #thank you lando for the content

[this-aint-massachusetts]

ABOLISH STAIRS!! THEYRE UNESARY AND NOT EVERYONE CAN USE THEM!! REPLACE ALL STARINS WITH RAMPS!! THEIR EASYID

#ABOLISH STAIRS #USE RAMPS #RAMP SUPREMACY #SOUP

[divinekangaroo]

Every workday I now face the same fork in the road:

walk up the annoyingly steep hill but be right at the coffee shop at the top and buy a coffee, which is a barbed outcome because 1) I have coffee but 2) I have spent money maybe I did not want to spend

or

walk the much longer more gentle gradient route with less effort per step but so many more steps, and go past no tempting shops

#I have osteoarthritis atop the hypermobility so this is not as silly as it seems #balancing effort per step against number of steps is a juggling decision made daily; ramp v stairs is another hard one #except the coffee adds a significant complicating factor to the decision matrix

[toomanyacronyms]

Things I wish I could put on Facebook but can't:

If ramps were universal design, everyone could use them, but some disabilities would make it harder. With stairs as universal design, whole groups of people are actively being barred out of spaces. But in truth, every building should have both or require neither of them.

#disabled #disability #accessibility #ramps vs stairs

[catgirlwheels]

Paris, why are you so bad at being accessible?

#paws.txt #Why is everything stairs #Why are the sidewalks so shitty #There's so much public transit here but all I can use are buses #And the bus ramps have like a 50% Problems rate so far #bitch we want trains #disability

[flying-potato2]

idk if any of yall remember this project i posted abt it a while ago but im building a monochrome minecraft city and this is the latest addition

#it is EXACTLY one block taller than both wtc (pre 2001) #I had to do it #because the irony of an arab building style being taller than the symbol of america and the west is so funny to me #i say arab style its literally just the ziggurat type structure and to some extent the shape of the arches #this is a heavily modified version of one painting i saw a while ago of the tower of babel #because i had really liked what happened to the stairs so i took that and made it my own #and tbh? this is one kf the best towers in the entire citt #it may not be the tallest but i love it #it takes up two whole blocks the road had to go through the base #i also pushed the limits of worldedit cus i wanted to raise everything above the first platform up because i hadnt built it right #which was allegedly 6000+ blocks #minecraft #city #ziggurat #its 61 by 61 blocks at the base too #wouldve done 64 by 64 but 2 block centers are my enemy #tho i did just realise theres no main leading ramp like in the ziggurat of ur that was supposed to be in the building plans #guess i forgot

[obscurecurse]

them running up the entire fucking ramp together with the lifesize cardboard cutout of Aoyagi dressed as a priest

#BL Drama no Shuen ni Narimashita #in every scene they are going UP the stairs UP the ramp lifting each other UP inok #the symbolism of elevating each other #slapstick is something that can actually be so cinematography

[trollbreak]

Wizard Oldman’s name tells u all u need to know abt him right off the bat. He’s wizard, he’s old, and he’s kinda silly :P

#that guy turns his stairs into a ramp sometimes so he can rollerskate between floors of his tower #he’s enchanted his motorcycle so it puts out sparkles instead of exhaust #he’s in a decades long letter debate with myoren over the existence of magic. they r both magic users and he helped myoren learn. they still #don’t think it’s an actual thing and that’s the funniest shit to him. myoren is also just amused by how petty their ‘debate’ is at this poin #it’s been so long they’re not even trying to pretend to be serious anymore abt it

[bitchfitch]

i really hope everyone demanding walkable cities is remembering to demand infrastructure for people who can't walk.

#evey single image passed around of a walkable city looks like absolute hell #long stretches of often un even walkways with few places to sit and no where for a bus or trolley to pass through #lined with shops that have no ramps or that theres stairs just to get off and on the walkways #youre designing a city free of cars as well as free of the disabled elderly and pregnant #lovely image when its not you having no where you can go.

[i-got-personality]

Look I’m a pacifist but sometimes I am hit with the overwhelming wish to bite whoever decided to invent stairs

#not newsies #i dont believe in hell but if i did it would have a special place for people who make especially narrow ones #sorry to show up after like a month and then immediately be a grouch haha #they are very Ouch and i am sick of them #abled people can use elevators and ramps! those of us who are physically disabled often cant use stairs!

[myrfing]

we had to practice lifts on each other in emt class well some of us who volunteered and i didnt get lifted because i got scared that's scary

#i think the trust you have to have in someone in a stair chair is like. #ok. build more ramps people

[frosty-the-killer-doll]

shots of felicity in her wheelchair absolutely surrounded by stairs is just..... great job guys

#i suppose 2 stairs maybe aren't too hard to get down? but it just seems ooc for oliver Not to implement ramps in the bunker #when he is so insane for felicity ik he was in denial a bit but not so much to put her in danger #like cisco would IMMEDIATELY send them other blueprints for ramps and shit the second he heard abt felicity being paralyzed #felicity smoak #arrow #arrow cw #cw arrow

[myinfluencerboyfriend]

hmm personally i think i should be kissed and pampered by my f/os right about now

#i should NOT have to walk around school with a busted ass ankle LMAO ! #they dont have any ramps.....just stairs.....lots of stairs #kietext #slight neg