When Alan Toy s family seeks new hiking trails in the hills around Santa Monica, Calif., the thrill of the unknown can quickly turn unpleasant.
Toy uses a wheelchair.
Starting down a clear-looking path that turns muddy or strewn with rocks after a hundred yards quickly sours what should have been a fun outing. Frustrations like this made Toy, who holds a master s degree in urban planning, wonder how he and others with mobility challenges could more easily identify accessible destinations and travel routes in Los Angeles County. Web site project development team at the Advanced Policy Institute of the UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research. You can share resources fairly easily when you re in the same neighborhood, but the opportunities are a lot more limited when your mobility is impaired and you re not part of the majority in any one area. So I wanted to create a disability community on the Web.