Its an another vital matter of concern.
These days the drivers of DTC buses do not stop exactly on the Bus Station.
while I've heard that there were some instructions to these drivers that Bus
needs to be stopped just on the parallel lane and close to the Station
in a proper manner but often they stop in the middle of the road which can
cause a serious accident.
We confront difficulties in boarding the bus and while when we get down from
the Bus.
Regards,
Amit Bhatt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Satguru" <[email protected]>
To: "Access India" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 4:49 PM
Subject: [AI] Inaccessible transport of the Indian capital
Hi all,
Sorry for this lengthy mail but I'd try to make as short as I can.
I would like to draw your attention towards a very important issue.
Friends specially from Delhi may please pitch in and give their inputs.
I think, everyone must have noticed that In Delhi, the private buses, or
what we used to call them "Blue line busses" are no more on the roads
except few roots in Delhi.
Whatever reason may be to get them off the road, I personally think, those
were quite accessible to us as the conductor used to call the names of the
stops that the bus is going to cover and a visually impaired person
standing on the bus stop could easily find the right bus even without any
sighted assistance. Now, in these low floor busses, be it Green busses,
Redline, Orange busses, AC/nonAC, it is almost impossible for a VI to get
the right bus without asking someone standing next to him as the DTC
conductors don't call the names of the stops. I had once got to know that
there is clearly written on every bus stop that conductor will have to
call the stops names for persons with vision problem but noone cares about
that. To cut the story short, there is no way out by which a visually
impaired person can know the number of the bus or the root of that bus.
I had once seen some device being developed at IIT Delhi but don't know
much about its current status.
It was said and written in 1995 that the government shall frame schemes
and allocate funds to make the transport accessible to visually impaired
and in 2010, the government made sure here in Delhi at least that whatever
accessibility is left, just take it away!
I appeal to one and all to come up with the ideas which could insure that
the transport which is the one of the most important part of our day to
day life becomes accessible to us and necessity of taking help from others
is reduced to minimum.
Hoping for a healthy discussion on this.
Satguru
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