http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/old/taxonomy/term/7323/0 en http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/story/trapped-turnstile/19446 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Reflections on the innaccessibility of the Montreal Transit System </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/aimee_louw_metro_photo_0.jpg" alt="" title="My broken leg caught in the turnstile designated for people with reduced mobility and strollers" width="450" height="338" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>My leg got stuck in the red gate at Lionel-Groulx metro this summer. My femur was broken and I was in a wheelchair. The reason the strongest bone in the human body broke was not from a tackle in rugby, or a motorbike accident as you might expect, but an arthritic knee. I&#39;m not going to go into the details, but suffice to say I am a mid-twenties woman with a physical disability.</p> <p><a href="http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/story/trapped-turnstile/19446" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/story/trapped-turnstile/19446#comments Aimee Louw Transportation Disability and Accessibility Montreal Stories Fri, 25 Oct 2013 01:10:54 +0000 Aimee Louw 19446 at http://montreal.mediacoop.ca