Why disabled people can't take the trams?

It's continuing our campaign to increase the level of the awareness about the problems that, every day, disabled people, have to encounter. 

Today, our main goal, is to show you how the tram is a very common and comfortable way to travel in Arad...but not for everybody!!!

Watch the following video!  

Accessibility of people with physical problems

Looking the floor, in this circle is
the area where people with
disabilities should stay.  It's the
axis of the tram.

During the three months that we are in Arad, we've been observing the city, but not as the average citizen could see his city, but as a volunteers who are engaged with the problems of the common people, in this case, people with disabilities.

Last week we wrote about how difficult is to get inside one of the trams in Arad. But now we want to go deeper and explore the bad things that these trams have (we have to make an exception in the line nº3 where you can find modern trams with ramps so that clients in wheelchairs can enter the transport without any problem).







If we go into other trams, for example nº18, you'll see something weird. Sometimes, between the coaches of the tram there is the famous sign of a man in a wheelchair showing that this area is adapted for these citizens. You have some vertical bars where someone could grip if he/she is travelling. But there is a problem.

Looking more in the tram, we were not able to see how this person could enter the tram without help of other travellers because you only have stairs, and quite narrow. Even old people have problems to use this stairs!

From here, we'd ask the responsible of the public transport in Arad to have in mind these problems that restrict the mobility of the population with disabilities. Between all we can change the situation.