3 ms·
Honest question: Should all new private residences be required to have ramps or elevators to be wheelchair accessible? If not, where do you draw the line?
by mortenjorck 13y ago
Honest question: Should all new private residences be required to have ramps or elevators to be wheelchair accessible? If not, where do you draw the line?
- jtbigwoo 13y agoI think you could do a cost/benefit analysis on this sort of thing. How much cost does it add to a project and how much space does it take up vs. how many people benefit and what's the scale of the benefit? In the case of lever door handles or something like returns on stair railings, it's not very expensive and provides a benefit in accessibility or safety. On the other hand ramps are fairly expensive (thousands of dollars to hire a contractor to build one) and take up a lot of room (usually height:length of 1:12 or 1:16, not counting landings). Elevators are even more expensive (tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars plus maintenance) and take up a fair amount of room.
- DanBC 13y agoI'd happily force anyone building > X new dwellings to make sure that Y% of those are wheelchair accessible, or to have other accessible features.