Author: MJT
Wheel Chair Transport on College Campuses
College campuses become more and more technologically
advanced every year. Recent changes to
most college campuses have included wireless internet access campus-wide and
the removal of dorm room telephones. The
telephones are being relegated to end-of-the-hallway payphones now that
virtually every person between the ages of 16 and 25 has a cell phone. One of the things that is also improving is
handicap access across campus.
Of course, campuses have been ‘handicap-accessible’ for
quite some time, but only recently are they becoming truly 100%
accessible. While class buildings have
always had elevators so that students could get to their classes on the upper
floors of a building, not all buildings have had ramp access at all
entrances. That is still not entirely
the case, but each time a building is renovated, the handicap access tends to
be one of the things that gets a lot of attention. Wheel chair transport is becoming more and
more of a focus for college campuses across the nation, if not across the
world.
Increase Regardless of Amount of Use
One of the most wonderful things about America
is that the world should be truly accessible to people who transport themselves
in wheel chairs. Many European buildings
are only accessible by stairways, obviously not going to be ascended in a wheel
chair. It’s not that many more students
on American campuses need the handicap access ramp than in other parts of the
world, but American campuses seem to want to accommodate all students more than
is the case in other parts of the world.
Wheel Chair Transport
College campuses also have a sophisticated network of vans
and drivers to transport students in wheel chairs from one building to another
when one class happens on the opposite side of campus than the last class. Students arrange these services in a very
easy and convenient way, and most often, the drivers are just as kind as kind
can be. Wheel chair transport on college
campuses is nowadays not just limited to ramps and elevators, but extends to
vans and drivers who go around campus picking students up and dropping them
off.
If America is the land of opportunity, wheel chair transport
on college campuses is one of the things that makes campuses, if not the whole
of America, that much more accessible to everyone from students to
parents. College campuses are one of the
forerunners in design when it comes to this point; many other building managers
are following the lead of decision makers on campuses across the nation.
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