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have you looked at Crosbie gates? they work like a rail crossing gate and are couter-weighted so it takes almost no strength to lift them and they can be set in pairs to make an air-lock type arrangement to deter motorbikes Vin Vin West Secretary, Arfon Access Group Glyn Dwr Llandwrog Uchaf Caernarfon LL54 7RA Tel: 01286 880761 Mob: 0777 153 6760 ----- Original Message ----- From: Ruth Malkin To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 2:19 PM Subject: External 'kissing' gates Hello, I was wondering if there is an alternative to the kissing gates with RADAR locks to lock the 'arm' of the gate to prevent motorcyclists whilst allowing access to wheelchair and scooter users. The problem that I am advising on is that the disabled person (a scooter user) does not have the coordination to unlock the gate, and also cannot reach behind him so cannot manouvre the gate into an open position once he is inside the D shape of the gate (something that I had never considered, not that I have ever favoured kissing gates locked with RADAR locks anyway. ) Most of the alternatives proposed have been based on electronic solutions and there is no way of providing power to the gates and maintaining the mechanism. Some alternatives seem to propose very twisty routes and I believe that the man would have difficulty with those too. Any ideas would be helpful. Can you send them to [log in to unmask], as I am not on the network yet. Or include this e-mail address on the network... Kind regards, Ruth Ruth Malkin Access Audit Coordinator Manchester Disabled People's Access Group 'Making Manchester Accessible' BEVC Aked Close Ardwick Manchester M12 4AN 0161 273 5033 (voice/minicom) [log in to unmask] ----------End of Message---------- Run by SURFACE for more information on research, consultancy and the distance taught MSc. in Accessibility and Inclusive Design programme visit: http://www.surface.salford.ac.uk Archives for the Accessibuilt discussion list are located at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/accessibuilt.html ----------End of Message---------- Run by SURFACE for more information on research, consultancy and the distance taught MSc. in Accessibility and Inclusive Design programme visit: http://www.surface.salford.ac.uk Archives for the Accessibuilt discussion list are located at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/accessibuilt.html