Basil Jet wrote in news:507d409d$0$7321$5b6aafb4
@news.zen.co.uk:

Firstly, the footbridge over the A406 near IKEA is signposted as
wheelchair accessible, despite being rather steep and stepped. Is that a
mistake, or could a wheelchair really get up there?

I believe that the building regs (for non-residential property) state
maximum gradients of 1:20 amongst various other parameters. I don't think
they actually forbid steps, but surely that's assumed.

There are 3 ramps to get from street to bridge, each (measuring with a
ruler off Google aerial view) about 15m long. The bridge must be say 5m
high to clear a double-decker bus. So thats roughly 1:9.

So I think not.

Peter

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