Accessible buses added, barriers remain

A total of 12 actions with a fund of €1.47 cardinal are being launched to support radical with disabilities, including accessibility interventions and lodging measures, with an estimated 100,000 citizens expected to benefit.

Yet important barriers stay successful regular life. Accessible buses with ramps exist, adjacent much than before, but that unsocial does not solve the problem, Korina Theodorakaki, a subordinate of the Panhellenic Association of Paraplegics and Mobility-Impaired People, told Kathimerini.

“There are accessible buses, but this unsocial does not solve the problem,” she said, noting that staff are not trained oregon are unwilling to deploy the ramp. “How tin we determination astir the metropolis when sidewalks are either occupied, breached oregon deficiency the due width?” she added.

Maria Moschovou, a parent of a kid with autism and a subordinate of the Special Scientific Committee for Autism, described the regular ordeal faced by families owed to the lack of schoolhouse buses for special schools.

“As students successful special schools travel from antithetic areas, some are forced to travel distances of up to 60 kilometers daily,” she said.

The challenges are widely known and complex, requiring “cooperation, continuity, consistency,” said Minister of State Akis Skertsos during a presumption of the government’s planned actions.