04 July 2019, GTRK “Nizhny Novgorod” (video). The city should be safe for everyone. Strokina and Druzhaeva streets visually impaired, considered the most dangerous in the city. The deputy chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod regional organization of the All-Russian Society of the Blind, Petr Varankin, spoke about this. This time the meeting of the regional public chamber was devoted to the issues of ensuring a barrier-free environment for people with disabilities . Problems were discussed together with the chairmen of public organizations of disabled people. This and the lack of sound for the blind, and lack of traffic lights on dangerous sections of roads, disadvantages of public transport, hospitals, old residential buildings and the human factor.
Nazariy Zeleny, Director of the VGTRK Branch “GTRK “Nizhny Novgorod”, working group member “accessible Environment” Public Chamber of the Nizhny Novgorod Region – “Our main task and mission – this is, First of all, today reveal these problems, that is, to really identify them, what they are. If you have during your work, in the process of our interaction some current interesting tasks, some interesting initiatives, then we will turn on, talk about them and highlight them”.
Peter Varankin, Deputy Chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod regional organization of the All-Russian Society of the Blind – “Talking City, smart stops, building, constructions, but it requires expensive equipment, which you can, or manage subscriber devices, or from a smartphone”.
Andrey Bulanov, Chairman of the public organization of disabled people “Invatur” – “Very disappointing, when, what has already been done before for accessibility, it somehow disappears, let's say earlier, if the exit from the sidewalks was smooth then during repairs, they might roll him back into the curb”.
A source: http://vestinn.ru/news/society/120902/
