For Canadians with disabilities, Canada’s National Parks are a drive through experience.
A committee in Ontario designed the supposed disabled ramp at the National Park at Brackley Beach, Prince Edward Island.
The ramp is too steep for any person with a disability, excepting perhaps Olympic athletes who use wheelchairs.
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Parks Canada wheelchair ramp at Brackley Beach is one of the many obstacles to tourists with disabilities
The Federal and Provincial governments have a new website (under construction) that will rate PEI tourist facilities as accessible or not.
The website will disclose that PEI is a disaster for the disabled. Both Federal and Provincial governments have ignored their role in leading the public to accept people with disabilities.
A year in development, the website is still not operational.
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Parks Canada wheelchair ramp at Brackley Beach not accessible - For the most part the National Park on PEI is not accessible to the disabled.
For the most part the National Park on PEI is not accessible to the disabled.
On Sunday morning I checked out the disabled parking at the Prince Edward Island National Park. I am pleased to report that 4 new accessible parking spots were painted in at Brackley Beach. Thanks to Parks Canada for responding to Why is Parks Canada not accessible to disabled ?
That only leaves Stanhope Beach, Ross Lane, Dalvay and all the other beaches in that section of the park to be upgraded. The situation is more or less the same at Cavendish so it would be a kindness for Parks Canada to just upgrade the lot of them.
Unfortunately, our luck ran out with Minister Jim Prentice and Fisheries Minister Gail Shea. Ernie Hudson replied from Shea’s office that the Brackley Beach wheelchair ramp is accessible. That’s a joke. Continue reading
Dalvay Beach, located east of Stanhope in the PEI National Park, is one of the better beaches on PEI for people with walking disabilities. It could be improved with a little blue paint and painting effort and the construction of a ramp.
The beach is close to the highway with some roadside parking but not designated disabled parking. Get a can of blue paint boys. The walk to the beach is a slight incline and only needs a ramp to bypass the 7 steps at the beach for someone in a wheelchair. That means a 100 foot ramp at a gentle grade. This shouldn’t cost more than $10,000, which is considerably less than the $500,000 spent to build the wrong wheelchair ramp at Brackley Beach.
Press release journalism results in false story
CBC’s code of journalistic ethics says that “The information conforms with reality and is not in any way misleading or false.” Yet in the case of their June 18th story they claimed Parks Canada had spent $500,000 making Brackley Beach more accessible. Parks Canada spent the money but the beach is not accessible by any reasonable standards.
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Brackley Beach ramp $500,000, 500 feet and not accessible by wheelchair
The new wheelchair accessible ramp at Brackley Beach in the PEI National Park is not accessible. Half a million dollars was wasted on the monstrosity that towers 18 feet in the air and 500 feet long. Parks Canada forgot to include people with disabilities in the design process.
“The fight is between stupidity and the people who make these decisions…they do things without us. They don’t ask our opinion ahead of time.” Continue reading
Beach wheelchair at PEI's Brackley Beach image: CBC
CBC – Prince Edward Island National Park officially opened for the season Friday, with some upgrades and additions for people with disabilities.
See – Parks Canada $500K wheelchair ramp not accessible
Visitors to the park’s popular Brackley Beach will notice a new pedestrian ramp this season. The $500,000 structure is designed to make the beach more accessible to wheelchairs. Continue reading
