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My dorm building in college had eight entrances, of which two were handicap accessible.

University administration declared that from now on, 100% of doors on campus must be handicap accessible.

A week later, six doors were removed from my building...

My employer recently implemented "all gender bathrooms." All that meant was a couple new signs and disabling and taping off all the urinals. So now 75% of the toilets are permanently out of service and there's more pee on the seats.

Yep and then eventually you get WOMEN ONLY sections of the room any ways

wait, what?

There's rules vs conventions

They women use get to use both, W, Male Female and Male Men have to make do with the ones delegated Male and Male Female.

I have seen this in airports, nightclubs, office buildings.

In defense of the school, this forces everyone to confront how bad handicap accessibility is. Before, only a minority of people had to deal with only having two entrances available, so nothing was going to force the issue.

On one side yes, on the other side those two entrances are now more crowded, making it even worse for handicapped people, possibly for the time to come.

Did anything actually force the issue though? The comment said that they closed the other six doors, but I don't see any implication that people pushed back in any way that improved the new two-door situation.

>> University administration declared that from now on, 100% of doors on campus must be handicap accessible.

>> A week later, six doors were removed from my building...

> In defense of the school, this forces everyone to confront how bad handicap accessibility is.

No, that can't be a defense of the school. The decision-makers could have decided to make improvements so at least some of those six doors became handicap accessible, but they didn't. Instead they decided to take a cheap action that imposed costs on others in order to make an empty statement.

> My dorm building in college had eight entrances, of which two were handicap accessible.

Around 13% of Americans have disabilities according to Google. 25% of the doors at this school were handicap accessible. I don't get "how bad handicap accessibility is" from this example.

Closing 6 doors to comply with a policy of course is completely stupid.

Handicap accessibility in the U.S. is the best in the world.

Saving this one to my collection of bureaucracy anecdotes

Try this one on for size: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/03/06/u-california-...

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