Access of evil
July 26th, 2006
“You cannot be serious!” was the shout, and no, it wasn’t about Wimbledon. It was in response to the Walk don’t Walk campaign and the proposals to have a solar-powered chairlift up to the top of Haytor. How dare they? What balderdash! (Are you sure it wasn’t Wimbledon? - the Wombles might have something to say about that.)
As the Walk don’t Walk people point out, stairs have been cut into the rock (but they are Victorian stairs, of course), and there used to be an iron handrail, so what’s so different now?
All these people really want to do is improve access to Britain’s countryside for the elderly, less mobile and disabled, and that can’t be a bad thing and anyway all you out there fuming about political correctness gone mad, this seems more a stunt than anything more substantial (planning permission regulations, anyone).
We at the People’s Republic applaud them - more power to their solar-powered stairlift!
Posted by Cptn
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