Now it's almost ubiquitous: night frost replacing the daytime thaw seizes the damp steps of buildings, and it turns out a dangerous slide, according to which the disabled, man with a stick, to the blind, in a wheelchair or just an elderly person can hardly climb.
On the slippery path
New store on the corner of Belinsky and Osharskaya in Nizhny Novgorod, eg, has a gentle ramp, on which it is convenient to climb and the wheelchair user, and a man with sore feet. Only now, with the advent of winter, it is just right to write in this place: “Don't approach, dangerous!” The ramp turned into an ice slide.
– I'm afraid of everyone “spar”, – says disabled person Ksenia Moneva. – And to the pharmacy at the bus stop on Vaneeva street “Opera theatre” it is impossible to climb the high porch, extraordinarily steep ramp – just for distraction. The shop opposite the Middle Market is only accessible on the first floor. The market in Pechery can only be visited by healthy people, everything is dug up and blocked off.
Such slippery paths and potholes on the way of disabled people in cities and district centers are countless. Somewhere they make mud and sprinkle sand on the floors, in some places special braking tapes are glued, but not all retail outlet owners care about the safety of visitors.
Access for disabled people to shopping facilities is difficult for many reasons. Some shops are located on high floors without elevators and become inaccessible due to the endless number of steps.. Often even there, where are the escalators, they work in one direction, down or just up.
Would get…
– I can easily list places in the Avtozavodsky district, where I can't get in, – says the invalid of the 2nd group Daniel Tabert. – Shopping center near DK GAZ, escalator in width close to the stroller, impossible to drive inside. Also in pharmacies. If you get on crutches, then it is impossible to move in the room itself. South Highway Market – you can still drive outside, do not turn around on the territory. With steps and a porch, almost all hairdressers.
There is hope, that the requirements for those, who opens and builds public buildings and sites, become stricter. To turn the tide, deputies of the Legislative Assembly NO are preparing a relevant document.
Committee for Urban Development, Housing and Utilities and Fuel and Energy Complex of the Legislative Assembly approved a bill on providing access for disabled people to shopping facilities. Draft amendments to laws “About retail markets in the Nizhny Novgorod region” and “About trading activities in the Nizhny Novgorod region”, introduced by the head of the region, suggests, that the preparation of project documentation for the construction or reconstruction of buildings, structures and their complexes, located in the markets, should be carried out in compliance with the requirements of the regulations on ensuring access to such facilities for persons with disabilities.
The organization, carrying out trading activities, according to the amendments, they will have to provide unhindered access to shopping facilities for people with disabilities.
Nika PEROVA.
A source: www.nnews.nnov.ru
