THOROUGHFARES
Living in Abu Dhabi for over a year proved to be worth the exodus we had from the comfort zone we maintained on our native land. Of course, this excludes the longing for friends and loved ones we left there
Aside from that, there’s this feeling of security anywhere you go. You can walk through the skirts of Abu Dhabi without any worries that someone may grab you or any of your belongings. Safe and Sound could very well describe the atmosphere. This is why you often find people preferring having long walks in reaching their destination.
Our family love to go places even when there’s really no purpose in doing so. We love doing things all together. Recently, my husband decided that he start biking so as to get fit. Biking, brisk walking and anything you can think of to relax means Corniche. And to adhere to the head of the family’s purpose, the rest of us joined him in his endeavor-- by walking.
As I have already mentioned, taking long walks in Abu Dhabi is but natural. The lone dilemma we are having is the sidewalks’ accessibility to people with toddlers or babies in strollers/buggy/baby carriage.
What’s so amazing here is that, there are pavements that have ramps in going up. But upon reaching the end of the pavement, voila! There’s no way how you can get off your baby carriage with ease! Whatever happened to the engineering designs here? Who were in charged of the public works and highways that they let those road designs pass their quality? Everything would have been so perfect hadn’t the sidewalks were designed that way. Good thing here is that there are no disabled people going on their own in their wheel chairs. Otherwise, they would really be having a lot of trouble getting through their destination. Imagine the underpass, having these access ramps, but before you could reach those ramps, you will be having this big bamboozle on how you can get your wheel chair up the underpass’ stone curb..whew!
I guess I’m just trying to think my mind out loud hoping that some concerned authorities could do something about this enigma.
So for the meantime, we just have to settle on the great obstacle course in reaching Corniche as our toddlers endure the wiggle-waggle on the thoroughfares of Abu Dhabi. Cheers!
