This is funny, but not funny. But still funny. From Telegraph:
The mother of a disabled girl have criticised housing officials after they installed a £40,000 eyesore ‘slalom-style’ ramp over ten levels outside her home.
Clare Lally, 33, spent two years campaigning for improved access for her wheelchair-bound daughter Katie, 7, after the council gave them a home at the top of three flights of stairs.
Officials eventually relented, but Ms Lally was left shocked by their solution – a £40,000, 10-level chicane-like steel ramp which almost fills their whole front garden.
She said: “There must have been a better solution. The council could have gone about the whole project in a more sensible way.”
“We had to move to the house to get easier access for Katie and we have fought all these months to get that.
“The council said this was the only option to fit something into the garden because of building regulations.
“It is a lot easier but I don’t believe that the council weren’t able to do something else.
“We weren’t fighting for a massive steel ramp – we just wanted to improve Katie’s quality of life.
“What they have built is something which I would never have expected a local council to do. We have to open our blinds and look at it every day.”
Katie suffers from bulbar palsy – caused by complications after she and twin Holly were born prematurely – and is confined to a wheelchair.
West Dunbartonshire Council have not yet completed the final costings of the ramp at the home in Clydebank, near Glasgow, but it is estimated to be around £40,000.
The ramp is so big that Ms Lally said she cannot see the bottom of it from her front window.
