The nearest wheelchair-accessible Metro line is about a kilometer (half a mile) away and public buses in the French capital — host of the next Olympic Games — can be a time-gobbling ordeal for people with limited mobility, Ribes says.
to be trained in catering for their needs, so as to “avoid users feeling that they have any kind of disability.”
They pledged that 150 to 200 shuttle buses will be laid on for people who use wheelchairs and said they're aiming for a five-fold increase in Paris' flotilla of accessible taxis, from 200 to 1,000, by games-time. “It’s shameful,” says Ribes. “The image of France is at stake. The impression we have is one of great inertia.”
Paris public transport operator RATP says that making the Metro accessible “is complex because of numerous technical obstacles” in the capital where space above and below ground is at a premium. It says 32 stations will be accessible by games-time and that other transport options are plentiful. The entire Paris bus network and 86% of bus lines serving the suburbs are accessible, as are all eight of the city's tram lines and two of its major crosstown rail lines, the RATP says.
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