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In article . invalid lid writes:

You seem to have missed the point of recent European disability
legislation. It's no longer there to help disabled people in a logical
way, it is there to make everyone and every business demonstrate that
they are doing *something*, even if that 'something' is completely
pointless and may actually make the situation worse.

It's no different over here. Back about 15 years ago, the Smithsonian
Folklife Festival was featuring the state of Georgia (the one in the
US, not the Russian one - that was a different year for the festival).
Architecture is always an important part of this festival and they
always build a house of some sort on the grounds. That year they build
a traditional Georgia "dog trot" house which has an entrance at either
end a few steps up from the ground. They were required to build a
wheelchair ramp for it even though it wasn't meant to be walked
through by the visitors. That rapidly became a Pargo ramp for the
grounds crew who took great sport in driving up the ramp, through the
house, and trying to get up enough speed to clear the steps on the
other end.

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