Archive for July 2008
Video – UPEI kills accessible parking
Insprired by an email from Greg Clayton of UPEI -
“The inner campus of the University is not intended for motor vehicles. In setting our policy on vehicle access, the safety of our students, faculty, staff and campus visitors must be our key concern. In the interest of safety, the University has decided to restrict access to the inner campus to University vehicles, emergency vehicles and vehicles requiring access for University related business, such as utility repair vehicles.”
Ann Matheson is the tip of the iceberg on disability abuse at UPEI
Apparently there are two students, two faculty and three employees who have disabilities and need closer parking than the perimeter parking offered by the administration.
There is no 70 meter rule
The Guardian
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR July 11, 2008
Editor:
The letter in The Guardian from the executive director of the P.E.I. Council of People with Disabilities is misinformed to the extent it sanctions the discriminatory behaviour of UPEI towards persons with disabilities. Accessible parking means adjacent to where the person with the disability needs to go, not 70 metres or more away.
Media attention solves abuse of child with autism but does not change UPEI’s decision
Disability Alert – July 9, 2008
A combination on Facebook and Blogger social media networking and mainstream media attention from CTV, the Edmonton Journal and CBC turned around this case of disability abuse in Alberta.
Obviously Smitty’s restaurant doesn’t want the bad publicity from local and national media coverage of this story. They saw the light and the problem is all fixed.
Accessibility committee made call
The Guardian
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, July 9, 2008
Editor:
I would like to clarify some of the points made in the article printed in the July 4 Guardian story (‘UPEI’s plan to remove designated parking spaces outside Main Building raising concerns’).
UPEI’s plan to remove designated parking spaces outside Main Building raising concerns
Ann Matheson works at her desk at UPEI. She has severe arthritis in both knees but will be forced to walk across campus following a decision to remove the designated parking spots outside Main Building, where she works. Guardian photo
Charlottetown, PEI
For Ann Matheson, the severe arthritis in both knees makes walking a very difficult part of her day.
The Guardian
“Every step I take every day hurts,” she said.
As an executive assistant in Main Building at the University of Prince Edward Island, getting to work has never been much trouble because of three designated parking spaces located outside the building.
