Things are rolling along in the effort to make SouthCoast buildings wheelchair accessible as Play Arcade installed a handicap ramp made entirely out of LEGOs.
The DeSousa Family of Freetown started Zane s Ramps back in July of 2020 in an effort to make buildings on the SouthCoast more accessible to people like their son Zane, who is wheelchair-bound, and people like him. After many LEGO donations, hours of block sorting, roughly 3,000 bricks and 30 hours of building later, the first of Zane s Ramps was installed at Play Arcade in downtown New Bedford. I think the ramp is great not just for wheelchairs but for anyone with mobility issues like parents with strollers, etc. Accessibility is a human need, not a special need, noted Alissa DeSousa, Zane s mom.