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Volume 4 Issue 13 - July 01, 2006
Specially designed bus shelters in the offing
D.N.I.S. News Network Despite the failure on the part of the New
Delhi Municipal Council (N.D.M.C.) to incorporate necessary clauses to make
the 197 new bus queue shelters in its area disabled-friendly, European advertising
firm J. C. Decaux that bagged the contract has, in a letter to disability
rights group Samarthya, offered to provide access ramps, tactile tiles and
braille plates at all the shelters.
The
Earlier,
a number of measures including maintaining the height of the shelters at 380
m.m. to make them compatible with low floor buses operating under the High
Capacity Bus System, to have a ramp on both sides with handrails at two levels,
and textural or tactile clues for persons with visual impairment had been
suggested. Further, it was stated that there should be demarcated space under
the shelter for two wheelchairs, Braille plates with name of the bus shelter
and routes in Hindi and English, and audio beepers for orienting blind persons.
The design
will be similar to that of the model barrier-free shelter constructed by Delhi
Transport Corporation at Hauz Khas terminal in
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