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Vancouver is home to more than 70 parks with play equipment, but until this year, none of them were fully accessible to children who use wheelchairs or have various physical disabilities.
That all changed four months ago with the opening of the new Esther Short Park playground, which boasts fully inclusive play equipment, including a ground-level merry-go-round, swings with enhanced safety equipment and a synthetic turf surface in lieu of a less accessible material, such as wood chips.
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