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Title: Senior in wheelchair fined $543 for stunting while on highway coffee run
Category: Law & Order
Posted By: DrCaleb
Date: 2015-09-18 06:50:03
Canadian

[andyt]

Sorry, but being in a wheelchair doesn't make him special. Follow the same rules as everybody else. Doesn't sound like the area is too well laid out tho, if the highway is the only reasonable way to get there - guess pedestrians don't count. When I lived in CO had the same situation, you had to drive three blocks becaue pedestrians can't get there from here.

[DrCaleb]

andyt andyt:

Sorry, but being in a wheelchair doesn't make him special. Follow the same rules as everybody else. Doesn't sound like the area is too well laid out tho, if the highway is the only reasonable way to get there - guess pedestrians don't count. When I lived in CO had the same situation, you had to drive three blocks becaue pedestrians can't get there from here.

I see this guy often. No, the area is not pedestrian friendly. There is no other way to move along the highway between those places, unless you want to go a block further and double back, or go through parking lots. Not recommended for the wheelchair bound.

[BartSimpson]

If it's legal to walk on that road then the wheelchair has to be legal, too. Period.

[andyt]

Well going a block further doesn't sound like that much of a hardship.

[DrCaleb]

andyt andyt:

Well going a block further doesn't sound like that much of a hardship.

Rent a wheelchair and try it some time.

[andyt]

If someone is a wheelchair can't manage an extra block they have a problem anyway. Talk to Rick Hansen.

[DrCaleb]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

If it's legal to walk on that road then the wheelchair has to be legal, too. Period.

The problem he faces is the road on both sides is commercial. Car dealers, malls, Canadian Tire . . .so he's always having to cross in front of vehicles that are merging on to the highway. (60km/h zone). They mostly have stop signs, but few people adhere to them.

He, technically, is a distraction. But he also has few other options. I'm sure he'll get the ticket dismissed.

[DrCaleb]

andyt andyt:

If someone is a wheelchair can't manage an extra block they have a problem anyway. Talk to Rick Hansen.

Yes, ask him about the constant pain in his shoulders.

http://www.researchgate.net/publication ... _imbalance

[andyt]

If it's that bad, going that first block must be a hardship too. There are plenty of people not in wheelchairs who also find walking difficult - you see them parked in handicapped zones all the time. We going to allow all of them to walk along highways too? Big sign on the highway - no able bodied, fit pedestrians allowed, all others, go for it?

[OnTheIce]

$1:

At least seven times officers have warned Loring to stay off the road, said Cpl. Kim Mueller.

Seems pretty straightforward to me.

$1:

"Nobody tells me where to go," he said. "I got to go where I got to go and that's it."

[andyt]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

If it's legal to walk on that road then the wheelchair has to be legal, too. Period.

Totally agree. Maybe Caleb can enlighten us if peds are legal on this highway - I doubt it.

This being Edmonton, I wonder how he manages 6 months of the year. Gotta be a rough town to get around in in the winter for the wheelchair bound.

Unless he has one of these:



As a cyclist I feel a certain affinity with wheelchair users. Struck up a friendship with a woman because I was admiring her Spynergy wheels and Titanium frame. It's all two wheel power. But we still have to follow the rules of the road.

[Tyler_1]

I think the guy is full of win because coffee.

[DrCaleb]

andyt andyt:

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

If it's legal to walk on that road then the wheelchair has to be legal, too. Period.

Totally agree. Maybe Caleb can enlighten us if peds are legal on this highway - I doubt it.

Yes, they are. All the lights have pedestrian crosswalks and lights, but there are no sidewalks pretty much in any direction. Here's a Google Street view of the Tim's in question. Have a look around and see how pedestrian unfriendly it is.

https://www.google.ca/maps/@53.5414309, ... 6656?hl=en

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[andyt]

If peds are legal here, then this guy has a perfect human rights case, and the police have their heads up their orifices.

The only excuse for the cop is if the wheelchair guy was drifting into traffic.