Opinion: in Crimea, the accessibility of amenities for people with limited mobility has increased significantly

Over the past year, the Popular Front, together with Housing and Communal Services Control Crimea, the Ministry of Housing and Communal Services and local authorities, monitored more than 30 public areas being improved. One of the important aspects of the inspections: accessibility of facilities for parents with strollers and people with disabilities.

If at the start of the project for a comfortable urban environment in 2018-2020. Issues of access to sidewalks and detours around stairs arose quite often and were finalized manually, but now these are isolated cases. At the same time, even in geographically complex objects built in the middle of hills, full accessibility is often taken into account. In general, both local authorities and contractors understand that if a playground for younger groups is not accessible to young parents with strollers, then the question arises for whom it is being built in the first place, — noted the head of the Popular Front in Crimea Alla Vertinskaya.

At the same time, the possibility of normal access with a stroller does not always equal full accessibility for people with disabilities. Because for comfortable independent movement, not only the fact of exits or ramps is important, but also the correspondence of the angles of inclination. In Crimea, public monitoring of the accessibility of facilities will continue this year. Residents of Crimea are also encouraged to join the all-Russian survey of key problems of people with disabilities in such areas as education, work, sports, provision of rehabilitation means; their results will become the basis for proposals to the President of the Russian Federation and the Government.

The survey is available at the link (https://2nf.ru/krcUZ).

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