People mean well but usually those attempts at fixing infrastructure are really, really unsafe.
An example is that incident from, what, 10 years ago? Person put wooden stairs up an embankment, city tore it down after two days/weeks and public outcry was "what the heck he made it accessible! You monsters!", and concrete stairs were later put in.
Professionals pointed out all the OSHA violations the "helpful" stairs had, such as no rails, the wood wasn't weather treated iirc.
One could argue that the act of building the stairs brought enough visibility to the issue that it made the city do what they should have done a long time before.
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u/alexlongfur 11h ago
People mean well but usually those attempts at fixing infrastructure are really, really unsafe.
An example is that incident from, what, 10 years ago? Person put wooden stairs up an embankment, city tore it down after two days/weeks and public outcry was "what the heck he made it accessible! You monsters!", and concrete stairs were later put in.
Professionals pointed out all the OSHA violations the "helpful" stairs had, such as no rails, the wood wasn't weather treated iirc.