In July 2023, the District Disabled Persons' Federation and the District Housing and Urban-Rural Development Committee established the city's first barrier-free environment supervision team. Immediately, the barrier-free environment supervision team composed of 10 disabled people went to Nanping, Danzishi, Tea Garden and other places to supervise the construction and use of barrier-free facilities and equipment on urban roads and public places from three aspects: barrier-free facility construction, barrier-free information exchange, and barrier-free community services.
From July last year to May this year, in 10 months, the barrier-free environment supervision team extended its tentacles to all possible corners, and with their efforts, 168 barrier-free passages in the whole district were renovated, 26 new crosswalk traffic light voice prompts were added, and 3 barrier-free parking lots were standardized, so that the barrier-free environment construction on the south bank was more loving.
Spring for people with disabilities has really come
"Only when you experience it first-hand will you know where the shortcomings are, and you can transform them." This is the deep feeling of Peng Haiting, the captain of the barrier-free environment supervision team, in the past year of barrier-free supervision.
Follow Peng Haiting's wheelchair out of his small shop, turn left into Nanping Zheng Street, just 1 kilometer road, the junction of the sidewalk and the road are set up curb ramps, Peng Haiting easily drove onto the sidewalk. Sidewalks are also spaced at appropriate distances to make it wheelchair accessible. Such barrier-free renovation is not uncommon in the old neighborhoods of the Nanping area.
Although it is only a humble curb ramp, there are strict standards for barrier-free environment renovation. Peng Haiting took out a booklet, on which was written in black and white the "Code for Barrier-free Design of Urban Roads and Buildings", "The slope is strictly less than 12 degrees, and the height difference between the bottom of the slope and the road cannot exceed 10 mm; The manhole covers on all blind roads are paved with braille bricks to reduce bends and twists, and the overall road slope is also changed to be more gentle. ”
Peng Haiting and his team members have long been familiar with these specifications, but they still have to carry a booklet and a tape measure every time they go out, so as to prepare for standardized measurements.
"From last year to this year, 43 Houbao in Nanping alone have been renovated." Peng Haiting introduced that in addition, the Garden Village on Huayuan Road, the entry and exit stations of the Danzishi Rail Ring Line, the vicinity of Wanda Plaza, the Convention and Exhibition Center and the vicinity of Nancheng Avenue have all carried out barrier-free passage transformation, and it has to be said that after the transformation, the travel rate of disabled friends around has increased a lot. "Spring has just passed, and more and more disabled friends in the district have gone out to the riverside and walked up to Nanshan to feel the spring. Peng Haiting said with a smile.
Feeling the "stone" and slowly crossing the "river"
How can the arrival of warm spring not experience a cold winter?
"Going up, going through, and getting down" is the basic criterion of barrier-free transformation. Now, whether it is housing construction, civil affairs, or town streets, they all keep the criteria of barrier-free renovation in mind. But when the Accessibility Steering Team first walked down the road last year, they found that they were almost the only ones who knew the code.
This is the first difficulty. "So, we took the brochure with us and compared the regulations to communicate with the construction party sentence by sentence." Peng Haiting recalled that sometimes we would encounter construction parties who did not understand, "We are not annoyed, we will find the community, the street, the District Housing and Urban-Rural Development Committee, and the District Disabled Persons' Federation, and we will definitely solve the problem anyway." ”
From a barrier-free rectification that requires the supervision team to run 6 or 7 times, to the final direct contact and communication with the relevant departments of the District Housing and Urban-Rural Development Commission, the District Housing and Urban-Rural Development Commission, the Urban Management Bureau, the Procuratorate, and the Disabled Persons' Federation 4 units have strengthened the linkage mechanism and actively coordinated the implementation of the rectification. "Behind the maintenance of a barrier-free environment is the protection of the right of special groups of people to travel. For some hard bones, the district procuratorate discovered the problem through visiting and investigating and receiving clues, promptly initiated the pre-litigation procedures for public interest litigation, and urged the relevant departments to make timely rectifications. Ni Xiang, assistant prosecutor of the public interest litigation department of the District People's Procuratorate, said.
"The administrative department recruits people with disabilities as supervisors to participate in the design, construction, renovation and follow-up supervision of barrier-free facilities, hoping that they can collect their experiences and opinions and suggestions in each link from the perspective of people with disabilities, so as to better identify problems and supervise and solve them." Li Hongying, a fourth-level researcher of the District Disabled Persons' Federation, also said so.
Nowadays, the work of the barrier-free environment supervision team has been strongly supported by more and more departments, and with the expansion of publicity, more and more social units, especially construction units, have recognized the work of the barrier-free supervision team. Now, Peng Haiting has a careful wish, "We only hope that more people in the society will pay attention to the construction of a barrier-free environment, and more friends will join in the supervision of the construction of a barrier-free environment." ”
The future of travel "no one is missing"
At the end of last summer, a two-storey, more than 2,000-square-meter elderly activity venue in the Yuhua Street community of Danzishi Street was completed. After the site was completed, the barrier-free environment supervision team came to inspect it as soon as possible. "The wheelchair-propelled road ramp is more suitable, and many of the designs are handicapped-friendly." Peng Haiting immediately gave a comment.
The reason why it can achieve the heart of the supervision team is to link with the community before the renovation to investigate the living conditions of the disabled in the area, ensure that the construction of a barrier-free environment in public places is standardized, and meet the personalized needs as much as possible. "We also feel more and more respected and valued by society." Peng Haiting told reporters that because of these respects and attention, the construction of barrier-free facilities in many constructions on the south bank has been advanced, taking into account the details of the use of disabled people.
It is understood that the work of the barrier-free environment supervision team continues to "increase". According to the relevant person in charge of the District Disabled Persons' Federation, this year, the District Disabled Persons' Federation will organize members of the barrier-free environment supervision team to participate in the experiential acceptance before the completion and acceptance of public service places, and go deep into the grassroots to publicize the "Barrier-free Environment Construction Law" and related laws and regulations, technical specifications and knowledge, "In this way, we can promote and enhance the awareness of barrier-free environment construction in the whole society, and create a good social atmosphere that cares about and supports the construction of barrier-free environment." ”
From going out to the destination, the journey is smooth, and you can find barrier-free access without asking; There is no need to ask for help, and you can walk alone with peace of mind, which is the greatest wish of Peng Haiting, the members of the supervision team, and even all disabled friends. In this regard, it is necessary to hold the mentality of "no one is missing" and continue to improve the construction of barrier-free facilities, so as to eliminate prejudice and discrimination from the society, and to make the new South Bank more warm and civilized.