Today, people travel a taxi has become an important mode of transportation, but so convenient mode of transportation for people with disabilities try it? For the mobility of persons with disabilities, if something happens to go out to get a taxi smoothly enough, but a taxi for them is not an easy task. August 11 is the fourth "National Day physically disabled people." According to the Throttle Body Kero learned specifically for the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games feature 70 Disabled Accessible taxi, a total of three kinds of styles, steam and Beiqi Taxi Seoul each 35, are 15 Austin, 15 Santana 3000 and five Ford Transit.
Austin is the "British classic cars", the internal space is large, you can place a wheelchair and baggage. When a disabled car, the passenger compartment door will extend a guide plate to the ground, a wheelchair can follow the guide plate to the passenger compartment, and fixed in the folded seat bolt on insurance.
Ford Transit vehicles equipped with a contraction of stairs, the wheelchair onto the car directly, without human move.
Santana 3000 modified Accessible taxi passenger seat can be rotated 90 degrees outward to facilitate people with disabilities ride.
It is understood that after the Olympic Games in 2008, another mission Accessible Taxi, mainly from abroad to protect some of the right outer Hospital and Beijing hospital for rehabilitation Waterhouse who received the list, the relevant government departments direct contact with enterprises, chartered 4 hours 350 yuan, the price, wage earners simply unacceptable.
It is understood that Beijing taxi driving several types, Jetta trunk is the largest, fully able to lay down a common type of wheelchair, Elantra's trunk can barely put down a small wheelchairs, others such as the Elysee, cable 8, Pentium other models taxi, put down a wheelchair, did not cover on the back cover. There is also a key driver of the taxi trunk items, although the company provides drivers to stay out of 2/3 of the space to put luggage of passengers, but the "2/3 of the space," in order to put down the wheelchair is almost impossible.
Director, Division of Old City traffic police team also made it clear that, for wheelchairs, crutches and other persons with disabilities must carry ancillary items belonging to guests, "carry" products, not in the "same set of people and goods," the range.
Taxi Management Office Tan Zhuren also called for a taxi driver to help people with disabilities, "I have talked to the taxi company, because if the driver is equipped with a wheelchair, crutches, disabled and stopped by traffic police punishment I went to the traffic police team , and began to worry that some drivers as an excuse not to pull people with disabilities. " Kero Throttle Body that disabled taxi difficult to solve, the first is to improve the quality of taxi drivers, universal wheelchair placed on the trunk of expertise. Moreover, it should strengthen social supervision and willful rejection of punishment. Finally, is to increase the number of taxis Beijing accessibility, ease of appointment disabled car. In addition to bus, subway, taxi, the car is also another option for people with disabilities to travel, but at present, handicapped parking spaces to set up and use the situation is not satisfactory. Domestic hand drive vehicles converted into a higher cost of disabilities, many people with disabilities can not afford. |