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In misc.transport.urban-transit Boltar wrote:
Access Systems wrote in message ... also a much higher percentage of the subway (tube) stations are accessible.. Thats because they're not nearly so deep down and so its a lot easier to only a small percentage are "deep" what's the problem with the rest retro fit lifts. Though to be honest even assuming someone in a wheelchair could get down to the platform , how they'd get on a tube train in the rush hour beats me. why should there be a problem...people in wheelchairs regularly ride NYC and Tokyo subways at rush hour, what makes the tube any less possible. this has always been the biggest obstacle to access, people who have never been there (using a wheelchair) telling the users what they "can't" do without ever bothering to find out what they "can do". the last couple times WMATA (DC) tried to count the number of wheelchair users they gave up because there were too many. I have been on trains at rush hour when 5,6 or more people in wheelchairs were on the same train, and probably more I didn't see. I have heard unoffical numbers of several thousand a day use the subway in wheelchairs. "if you build it we will come" but there is a certain minimum number of stations have to be accessible for the system to be functionally usable. And it is generally been found that the stations that need to be accessible are the same ones that everyone else uses, so start by making the busiest stations accessible. as an aside the loss of the World Trade center station on PATH and NYCTA was a major loss for people with disabilites in NYC as it was the major accessible station in lower Mannhatan and the substitute stations were for the most part inaccessible. Bob -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve Neither liberty nor safety", Benjamin Franklin - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ASCII Ribbon Campaign accessBob NO HTML/PDF/RTF in e-mail NO MSWord docs in e-mail Access Systems, engineers NO attachments in e-mail, *LINUX powered* access is a civil right *#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*# *#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*# THIS message and any attachments are CONFIDENTIAL and may be privileged. They are intended ONLY for the individual or entity named |
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