I’ve had my bicycle since I was 15, when my small town was really small, and it was even a kind of bicycle city, because it was something connected to the distances and the purchasing power of the population, despite having no bike path.
Well, years later with the population boom you had in that city, income has increased, there is an exaggeration of cars, but the bike paths have appeared. pieces at least at separate points.
The city is very hot, so it’s a willpower transport, which in the case I have re-joined for almost 2 years, no excuses to give up, be it by sun, rain and delay. I’m just going.
My day-to-day route is relatively easy, if I ignore the climbs, but there are cycle paths most of the way, which are not respected by pedestrians, but it is possible to deviate.
It gets worse when I get out of the way. The climbs get more inbred, there are no specific places to hold the bike and I have to choose between competing with cars or turning a pedestrian pushing a bike and I get off the bike more times than I would like.
What made me realize something that I am ashamed of not having given so much importance to before, the difficulty of pushing wheels on the sidewalks that in this case requires a juggling to cross the gaps without ramp, to divert the holes, roots and narrow passages.
I find myself wondering how it is possible for a wheelchair to pass through the same space.
I am not a wheelchair user, but I have 2 wheelchair users in the family and elderly people with walking difficulties. And one day I may be in the same situation, where there is no more possibility of juggling and the obstacle becomes an impediment.
Because of this came the idea of making a channel or social network profile to post a series of short videos, reproducing a previous idea. The Israeli trio Liron Atia, Roi Meyshar, Gadi Wilcherski, produced a video titled Not So Super Mario, where a video game mario bros is in a wheelchair and has to go through the obstacles, which are adapted to him.
Although this reality of adaptation has reached the public transport of my city soon, once the wheelchair driver gets out of the bus, he enters this game in real life. The videos would always be starting from one common point to another, initially assorted by the city, and could then be suggested by subscribers if they reach an interested audience. In the route created in the maps, whether it is a wheelchair (it would be the pedestrian way in google maps) or a bicycle, the obstacles faced can take points and can simply block users from arriving at their destination on time or leave of the place, as if he lost the game.
And the objective of the videos would be to raise the question of who to charge, the public power, the company, the establishment, the owner of the house … who is creating these obstacles and how to reverse this, objectively showing all the problems of each path and showing examples of possibilities where the situation where it was done otherwise.
In the case of Google maps, it would be interesting if the route showed these user difficulties, as it already shows difficult and maintenance roads for other transports.
It is a provocation, it is a reality and I would like this to result in a change, because “coming and going” is a fundamental human right and the expression of our freedom and what the maps facilitates in our day to day.
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