Hi Anyways, if we look on a positive side, a beginning. As it looks, there is no additional cost implication and it is just a matter of taking the right steps and we need to mobilise other cities to pick it from here. Smartcities would be a right case in context.
We need to demand only then we will get it. Or wait for such gimmics to happen. Harish. -----Original Message----- From: AccessIndia [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Srinivasu Chakravarthula Sent: Thursday, November 9, 2017 3:50 PM To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning the disabled. <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AI] hyderabad: Dressing up for Ivanka trump: 'Tactile' pavements for visually impaired Can someone from Hyderabad comment if this is meant for entire city or for the places that Ms. Trump would be visiting? I wonder why people think of something only when some guests visit the city; what is the problem of thinking about citizens who live here all the time. Regards, Srinivasu Chakravarthula - Twitter: http://twitter.com/CSrinivasu/ Website: http://www.srinivasu.org | http://serveominclusion.com Let's create an inclusive web! Lead Accessibility Consultant, Informatica On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 3:36 PM, avinash shahi <[email protected]> wrote: > Sunil Mungara reports in the TOI today. > HYDERABAD: Less than three weeks before the Global Entrepreneurship > Summit 2017 (GES) kicks off in the city , the civic authorities are > busy dressing up the city in every possible way for the foreign > dignitaries that are slated to troop into the city by the end of the > month...One such spruce-up exercise has the Greater Hyderabad > Municipal Corporation (GHMC) laying `tactile' pavements along some > roads to make them friendly for the visually impaired. These 'tactile' > pavements have block tiles and bars in the middle and on the sides to > serve as indicators to make it easy for the visually impaired to > detect them with the help of a walking stick or their feet... > 61570222/Master > .."We have selected certain stretches for these special pavements. At > NFCL Junction, the existing pavement was dug up for laying cables and > we had to lay a new one, so we opted for tactiles, which can assist > those who cannot see," GHMC chief engineer, (ma intenance), Mohammad > Ziauddin, told TOI...It may be pertinent to point out that Donald > Trump's daughter and advisor Ivanka Trump, who will be heading the US > delegation to the GES2017 at HICC, will travel through Nagarjuna > Junction...These tactile pavements will not only aid the visually > impaired but will also help those with normal sight to walk easily > without hurdles."At the end of the pavement, separate tactile tiles > will be laid, signalling the end of the pavement portion. It can be > detected easily," he said...So far, tactile pavements are being used > only in bus stations, railway stations and airports in the city. "We > are doing it for the first time on city roads and its being > constructed on both sides," he said...Though the cost of tactile tiles > is similar to the ones that were in use earlier, there is only one > unit at Patanche ru manufacturing them in the city. "We have purchased > them from this unit for the pavements," he said. > ..The GHMC CE clarified that the civic body is not constructing new > tactile pavements, but is just laying them in places where old ones > have been dismantled for various purposes...Authorities are mulling > constructing tactile pavements in other parts of the city in a phased > manner, the GHMC official added.. > https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/dressing-up-for-iva > nka- tactile-pavements-for-visually-impaired/articleshow/61570210.cms > > -- > Avinash Shahi > Doctoral student at Centre for Law and Governance JNU > > The list has now migrated to www.accessindia.inclusivehabitat.in > > You should now post to the id: [email protected] > > > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > [email protected] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org > .in > > > Disclaimer: > 1. 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