The Fascinet (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} fascinet) wrote,@ 2008-03-19 14:02:00 |
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More proof that a world run by highly motivated, educated and intelligent people would be better designed, just like a college campus:
Today's workshop is in a detached lecture hall at a major research university (letting students into the main building would be unhygienic). It has two entrances, let's call them port and starboard, with aisles on either side, connecting at the bottom and the top. The seating is theater-style, with several terraces, each with a long bench and a individual seats. The aisles are therefore steps.
It has handicapped seating for two at door level (about half way up) and a handicapped bathroom.
The thing is, the handicapped seating is port-side and the handicapped bathroom is starboard side. In the cold, rain, or (here) the extreme, murderous heat. So, if you're in a wheelchair or walk with braces, you have to get up and hobble around the entire building to even enter the bathroom, as the bathrooms on the other side have a smaller than standard sized entrance.
[Edit: I just went to the bathroom and noticed that the non-handicapped accessible latrine is labeled handicapped and the handicapped one is not. And, if there's a sign that says so, it must be correct. Bureaucracy saves the day!]
Today's workshop is in a detached lecture hall at a major research university (letting students into the main building would be unhygienic). It has two entrances, let's call them port and starboard, with aisles on either side, connecting at the bottom and the top. The seating is theater-style, with several terraces, each with a long bench and a individual seats. The aisles are therefore steps.
It has handicapped seating for two at door level (about half way up) and a handicapped bathroom.
The thing is, the handicapped seating is port-side and the handicapped bathroom is starboard side. In the cold, rain, or (here) the extreme, murderous heat. So, if you're in a wheelchair or walk with braces, you have to get up and hobble around the entire building to even enter the bathroom, as the bathrooms on the other side have a smaller than standard sized entrance.
[Edit: I just went to the bathroom and noticed that the non-handicapped accessible latrine is labeled handicapped and the handicapped one is not. And, if there's a sign that says so, it must be correct. Bureaucracy saves the day!]
