Commentary
This particular section of path has the triple hazard, a slick slope, accumulated water and a pipe which could trip you. Any person, particularly one with decreased mobility would probably baulk at these obstacles.

As a group of women how did we respond to this challenging environment? The only option seemed to be to walk further to avoid them or stay put. Where are the VFB (vigilante feminist builders)? The roving band of tool wielding women brazenly fixing environmental hazards, erecting those “women working ahead” signs to tell us the job is in hand? The women regrading the slope so it better sheds water, placing anti-slip surfaces on the path, burying the pipe so we won’t trip on it, where were they?

You know… the same women who put those emergency phones and beacons near our streets and public toilets, who reclaimed the park, who placed the traffic calming bumps on our neighbourhood streets, led us in refurbishing our community centre and building the health clinic, who installed the bike racks and taught us to hammer and saw without injury, who worked with government to improve out safety.