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[–] • 18 pts (edited )

It looks really nice and elegant and fits the space but I'm sure some health and safety official and their team of (((lawyers))) would make it impossible/impossibly expensive/a law suit waiting to happen.

The state regulates all the slopes and rails and shit.

Also the caption is cringe as fuck.

[–] • 5 pts

No railing along ramp. Which would block the stairs.

[–] [deleted] • 3 pts

For the sides, banked edges, then like magic NASCAR Wheelchairs are everywhere.

[–] • 3 pts

It'll probably need rails which block the actual stairs.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Yea, that look unsafe as hell to me. Wheelchair users can't hold on to anything if their wheelchairs start to roll back (or forward).

[–] • -1 pt

The slope is fine you college liberal weenie

[–] • 2 pts

I don't give a fuck, push a crippled fuck down the escalator for all I care. I'm telling you what the government would say not agreeing with it.

[–] [deleted] • 11 pts (edited )

Notice the curvature of the slope near the steps required to keep the steps from sticking out. I wonder how many unsuspecting wheelchair-bound individuals have gone plummeting down those stairs after going down a bit off center. No railing to save you either. It's a stupid design. They could have just added a straight ramp on the side with a shallower incline.

When it comes to stairs you really don't want to be creative with your designs. People have spent their whole lives training on stairs that fit very specific standards. If you throw something unusual at them you're just increasing the likelihood that they will trip, fall and sue.

According to the most recent data on stairway accidents in the United States, an estimated 12,000 people die from falling down steps each year.

https://ellisinjurylaw.com/premises/how-many-people-have-died-from-falling-down-stairs/

[–] [deleted] • 9 pts

wheelchair-bound individuals have gone plummeting down those stairs after going down a bit off center

who cares, they can't get paralyzed twice

[–] • 4 pts

Technically you can become a quadriplegic after being a paraplegic. So not being able to use your arms after losing your legs.

[–] • 1 pt

Yeah but i guarantee it'll only happen once !! ...

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

No shit, help I can't move anything I couldn't move a minute ago.

[–] • 3 pts

>When it comes to stairs you really don't want to be creative with your designs.

True, function over form.

[–] • 2 pts

Medieval castles would make their steps with irregular heights because humans naturally step in a regular pattern and giving them an irregular surface makes them trip. The defending troops would practice running on these steps every day so they would have the pattern in their muscle memory.

[–] • 1 pt

You couldn't roll off

The last step is higher off the ground

Pedestrians step down into the wheelchair path and then back up again

[–] • 1 pt

Wheelchairs can tip, dumbass.

[–] • -1 pt

are you the type of idiot that falls up the stairs?

[–] • 1 pt

Just to be safe, we should shut down all commerce, and mandate everyone live in bungalows until we're able to come up with a final stair solution.

I mean, they're at least twice as deadly as the coronavirus from china.

/s for any 'tards

[–] • 0 pt

I for one, vote for a final solution.

[–] • 1 pt

When it comes to stairs you really don't want to be creative with your designs. People have spent their whole lives training on stairs that fit very specific standards. If you throw something unusual at them you're just increasing the likelihood that they will trip, fall and sue.

I fucking hate the stairs at my new house's back porch. Instead of a normal ~45 degree "angle" (where each step is roughly as tall as they are long), mine are at a ~20-22.5 degree angle. It throws me off constantly and I have to climb them slowly. The front porch stairs are at a way more normal and convenient size per step.

[–] • 3 pts

typical stair configuration is around 7-11...7" rise for 11" run...equal rise and run is seen at the inside radius of a spiral stair (not where a person is typically walking as there is a handrail and balustrade in the way) and of course that configuration changes to something flatter on the opposite side (rise stays the same, run gets bigger)...you just aren't going to in any normal way see a stairway at 45* as that's too fucking steep

[–] • 0 pt

I've been making steps at either six or five and a half inch rise. Last place I did was only five and a half because of grandparents and children. The run was about three feet but I still installed a handrail for the owner's mother. My theory is to design for the weakest person on the property. So, the owners brother came by to talk shit about the "unneeded" hand rail while he's leaning on it. Handrail was placed opposite the house to direct people away from stucco wall. I used one inch black pipe bolted to the out side of the seven foot wide steps and cantilevered back over the steps seven inches to keep peoples feet away from the edge and out of the plants. I welded all the joints before grinding, buffing smooth, applying cold galvanize paint and finishing with metallic bronze color. It went nicely with the paving stones I filled into the steps.

[–] • 0 pt

well, now I know more about stairs. my hatred for that back porch stairway is still existent.

[–] • 4 pts

This is pretty stupid actually. On the plus side you will make more wheelchair users through accidental falls on the stairs, who can then gracefully kill themselves careening off the side of an unguarded drop.

[–] • 0 pt

"bUhT mUhz peeeepo hAz DAt huMANiTieZ n ShEEEt" (the word they were looking for was EMPATHY. When they write / speak like a 3rd grader, we should expect to read / hear from a 3rd grade vocabulary)

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[–] • 1 pt

Skateboarders approve.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

When an architect and engineer have skateboards.

[–] • 1 pt

That is cool but unfortunately wouldn't meet ADA standards in the US. You need to have a railing on ramps and the distance between landings also looks long but I'm too lazy to look up the requirement.

Regulation gets in the way of cool stuff yet again.

[–] • 1 pt

If you've ever been to Subway then you know they can't even build a sandwich.

Anyway, that should have 2 more handrails on those exposed steps.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

Looks like a sprained ankle to me.

[–] • 0 pt

Skateboarders and extreme wheelchairers gonna fuck this up

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