Barrier free construction defects uneven distribution of troubled people travel
source: Volkswagen daily
no bus, can not hear the hint can not cross the road, can not touch the button on the elevator... These difficulties that have not occurred in our lives often haunt the disabled. Restricted by barrier free facilities, uneven distribution and poor management, many parts of the city are still far away from strangers.
May 19th is the national disabled day, and the "travel difficulty" of the disabled has aroused people's attention again. At a distance of less than eight a. m. every morning, Zhao Shijing will push himself into an electric wheelchair with both hands, open the door, take the elevator, step on the brakes and move slowly down the ramp... With the electric wheelchair bought from Guangdong 11 years ago, she moved from her home to work unit in less than a quarter of an hour.
with an electric wheelchair, when the weather is fine, she can walk in the streets of Ji'nan, but when it rains and rain, the electric wheelchair can't be used. She always has to think in her mind before going out: how should I stop a taxi? What do you do when you can't get on the bus? And she never tried it. "First of all, getting on the bus is a problem. The distance between the bus steps and the platform is not going to go up." Even at BRT stations with special stops, the gap between the body and the platform is easy to jam the small front wheels of the wheelchair.
Lan Zhenni, who works in Shandong World Expo Culture Communication Company, though he can get on the bus by himself, is always uncertain where to get off. Because the deaf people, the subtitle prompts in the bus are often closed, she has to go out of the station ahead of time and stare at the roadside station, even if she often sits on the station.
just a flat pedal, and a wheelchair can go to the bus; just a little bit, and the body can touch the button on the top line of the elevator; just a little worse, the last sentence on the ATM screen can see... The difference in distance like this is the most helpless place for Zhao Shijing: "sometimes it is a detail or a little distance that lets us not use some public facilities. Maybe the city has only considered half of these facilities for us. " Nearly half barrier free facilities are not good. At present, the coverage of barrier free facilities in our province is more than 65%, which can be regarded as the upper middle level in the whole country. "But about half of this is not good." Wang Jianzhong, Minister of Rights Protection Department of Shandong disabled persons' Federation, told reporters the biggest problem behind the figures: the pass rate is not high.
24 of the mandatory standards for the construction of urban roads and buildings are issued by the Ministry of construction, the Ministry of civil affairs and the China Disabled People's Federation. Among them, a simple ramp has detailed provisions from the following aspects: width, appearance, slope and so on. "But, look at the road, the park, a lot of places in order to save materials, space, slope angle is even more than 30 degrees, wheelchair not to say, for the disabled is simply a danger." There were some resentments and helplessness between Wang Jianzhong's words.
"design, construction, acceptance and maintenance, which is the whole construction process of barrier free facilities, and the most serious problems in the construction process." Ma Yue, deputy director of the Department of human rights protection of the China Disabled Persons' Federation, said that any defect in any link would occur in public places with defective and barrier free facilities. Yang Jingyu, who has a low rate of use and little supervision in the secondary specialized schools of special education in Shandong Province, told reporters that he rarely went out and had to be called a student. As a child, he was blind, walking on the blind road, randomly stacked debris and parked vehicles would often scratch him. When crossing the intersection, because the voice of the traffic lights is not opened, let him have nothing to do.
because of the lack of supervision for the use of barrier free facilities, the blind track was taken up at random and became a parking lot; the barrier free toilets were locked all the year and even became the storage rooms of the administrators. Reporters in Ji'nan's main lines and 3 large shopping malls found that truly open barrier free facilities less than half. In a shopping mall, reporters randomly asked why the barrier free toilets were locked up. The answer was, "anyway, people who use less, save water and save trouble." In view of the problems arising from the management and utilization of barrier free facilities, China promulgated the "Regulations on barrier free environment construction" last year. "However, the provisions of the regulations are mostly initiative and encouraging, and the lack of effective measures of punishment makes the law discounted the protection of accessibility." When it comes to whether disabled persons can use legal weapons to defend their travel rights, Ma Yue has some regrets in his reply.
other relevant data show that the disabled population in the province is 1 million 188 thousand, accounting for 20.85%, while the rural disabled population is 4 million 507 thousand, accounting for 70.15%. But the proportion of barrier free facilities is just the opposite. "Most of them are concentrated in cities, although the statistics in urban and rural areas are not statistically significant, but the situation should not be ideal." Wang Jianzhong analysis shows that the urban population is highly aggregated and easy to plan during construction, and the utilization rate is relatively high after construction. However, in rural areas, the scattered population is not only costly for construction planning, but also difficult to connect every residential area and activity area. Moreover, there are also differences in the construction and use of barrier free facilities. In the new public facilities and stadiums of large cities such as Ji'nan and Qingdao, the coverage of barrier free facilities will be high, while other cities and towns will appear decreasing trend in turn.
"we should also plan to extend barrier free facilities to villages and towns, and design more flexible and suitable barrier free facilities and alternative projects for rural use." Wang Jianzhongjian