16 July, 2010

The Angers bus shelters don't shelter disabled inhabitants


If most of the bus shelters make room for disabled persons, the space dedicated to them is not always convenient. So is the case with some of the stations of Keolis bus, the company entrusted with the transportation of inhabitants of Angers and around.

Even if the weather of that medium mid western town is quite cool in the winter (what could be, in fact the true face of the famous "douceur [mildness] angevine"), it's quite rainy all over the year. Regarding that fact, it's beyond understanding that the spaces dedicated to disabled inhabitants are located outside the bus shelters while "normal" travellers are protected from the rain and from splashings of traffic...

In times of loss of thoughtful behaviour from many users of public transportation, it could have been well advised to set aside a surface partly undercover and partly in open sky. A strict implementation of the instructions written on the ground could drive at the penalizing result for disabled persons. But the good sense should prevail.

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