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Leaving aside the Make In India unnatural embarrassment that is the high floor electric bus where the 'standard' can only be low floor by design...
https://twitter.com/DisabilityIndia/status/1791403794439495930
... because the ad hoc ramps put up hastily during the bus PIL slugfest are tacked on - protruding into the carriageway, blocks access to rest of the bus shelter with no access to pavement. The landing assumes Beam Me Up Scotty accuracy with non-BRT buses! https://x.com/DisabilityIndia/status/151486523389388390
https://twitter.com/jagritichandra/status/1758490535772537283🧵Flying with a disability in India - wheelchair woes collated
https://x.com/zankhnadholakia/status/1758506204999913720?s=20
https://twitter.com/DisabilityIndia/status/1689869812514844672#KilambakkamBusTerminus
There are gaps and faulty logic employed in current designs for redevelopment of stations under Amrit Bharat Station Scheme detailed in linked FMC media release and Railway Board communication :
Trigger : Experiences from 2021
https://twitter.com/dakuwithchaku/status/1654733196825862145
Each demarcation has a safety concern apart from misaligned standing leading to a fall (guessing standing in between step seams is exclusively an auto starting escalator issue?)
https://twitter.com/vjayakumar/status/1636425394596507648.@RailMinIndia 36 STATIONS WITH TRAIN WHEELCHAIR ACCESS RAMP (cont)
https://twitter.com/Deepak_TMN/status/1631665885856530432
Instead of increasing masses' access to vital travel information, the Silent Station trial of Chennai Central (MAS) reduces access, in its attempt to benefit the mainstream's convenience. https://twitter.com/DisabilityIndia/status/1631680964677242880?t=U5Wr4KHjPIFwY25xlo3XYQ&s=19
Table 2.3.A of @IATA's 2023 Dangerous Goods Regulation permits power wheelchairs using installed lithium ion batteries :
We were asked for id @GSBediIAS . Simply for being there and perceived as being potentially 'disruptive'.
https://twitter.com/ganant/status/1600347366770413570
We need to recognise public transport's role in determining social equity.
https://twitter.com/policecbecity/status/1550532646458966016We urge you @ipspolicetn @sameerangs @CollectorCbe to instead refer the @NHM_TN draft policy for homeless mentally ill and work towards a community based, individualised approach that is in compliance with current mental health, disability & privacy law.
https://twitter.com/CMDA_Official/status/1538778511644557313Please issue Stop Work notice on TN Govt till attitude towards accessibility requirements in respected and rectified @CMDA_Official @chennaicorp !
First off, thanks to @DGCAIndia for obliging with a month for comments as per the PLCP (pre legislative consultation process) guidelines - some 100+ pages policy documents give barely a week.
https://twitter.com/the_hindu/status/1530516749854072832Missing InAction: Airlines shall incorporate appropriate provisions on website within 3 months from CAR date of issue, so that while making bookings, passengers with disability have the option to select the required facilities, required during the journey. flyhigh-dra.blogspot.com/p/civil-aviati…
@armanaly @NPRD_IN @drsitu @SCVashishth @vjayakumar @RajivSpeaks @Shampa_Sengupta @Deepak_TMN @SUMNetIndia ... Roads and Monsoons (And Money... And other conveniently selective 3rd world excuses from the Land of Chandrayaan)
https://twitter.com/imranhindu/status/1430800711239888904Disabled people are under involuntary house arrest due to inaccessible public transport.