Hello Access Indians, I sympathize deply to hear sad news. Let me put some comment regarding "savety guard system" on the platform is going on in Japan now which will be better a ction in India too.
I am long staying in India now and I came from Tokyo, Japan. Railway transport ation system is the most common in big sities in Japan, and we have been heard similar sad news every year. In a recent a few decades, tactile tile system have been widely installed in m ajor railway platforms. It is definetely better than nothing though, still sot ime blind persons fell down or touch with approaching train and died or sivier ly injured. Besides the blind persons, certain amount numbers of ordinary sighted persons kill themselves by jumping in front of a train Sometimes accidentally fell dow n by faint or walking drunken. This is a new system called "safety guard platform", or nickname is "platform- door is popularizing, and many busy railway stations are going on the installm ent, like everywhere in Tokyo. Railway platform is like a bridge without any guard fence in the side, and thi s sfafety guard has fence with sliding doors. The doors are open only train st op and its door open. Of course it is going on automatically. The most popular major railway lines have 11 coaches-linked and in the rush ho urs, every 2-3 minutes interval coming in the station platforms. This is a very good news for the blind and everybody in Japan. Some newly built and completely renovated metro lines have this safety guard s ystem in all staions, and the train operated by one-man which means having no conductor. Notes: The labor cost is high in Japan, then railway company try to reduce the man po wer. The minimum price of the ticket is About 75 rupeews. If you want know more, please contact me. <[email protected]> Saburo Sasada International Trainer of Japanese Medical Manual Therapy Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in 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. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
