Bellevue Park has inexplicable 'ramps to nowhere' that may be confusing children, Sault Ste. Marie's accessibility coordinator Diane Morrell is warning.
“No more ramps to nowhere," Morrell advised a meeting of the accessibility advisory committee last week.
"We currently have some playground equipment at Bellevue Park that has ramps.
"You get up to the ramp, and then there's nothing there but a step. There’s nothing it's leading to once you get there. So that's a ramp to nowhere," Morrell added.
"That’s kind of an overarching theme, that when there is a ramp, that it brings you to somewhere, that there is something there for the child to interact with, whether it's something that is motion, or whether it's a play panel, or whether it's something else."
Morrell also advised that whenever play features are provided, such as a slide, the opening at the top of the slide should be large enough to accommodate a parent carrying a child, not just a small entrance.
"This was a very specific thing that a parent had gone up, managed to get their child out to the top the slide, but then the the entrance was a cute little cubby hole meant for a small child to slide down.
"But this parent couldn't carry their child down the slide. So that was another good guiding principle," Morrell told the meeting.