Bad Design Style: Case #9

The usual concept behind parking is a place to leave your vehicle while you go somewhere else. In which case an accessible path to nearby destinations is always appreciated. Especially for accessible parking where an accessible path of egress is required. This picture of “accessible” parking from the U.S. Virgin Islands is sort of a parking lot to nowhere. Rough gravel is does not qualify as an accessible surface for wheelchairs or walkers.

With the high curbs all along the edge of the parking spaces, the only direction to go is onto the gravel. Even if the spaces are striped correctly, that doesn’t help the situation  much if you can’t get to your destination easily. I could be wrong but the “accessible” parking also doesn’t appear to be close to an entrance of any kind. So this parking lot might as well be an isolated island in the ocean.