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Accessibility in Kyoto Yabuki Fumitoshi is the Secretary general of the JCIL in Kyoto. In 1994 he was also a member of the Higashi-kujo Madang Executive Committee. He organized the ñwheelchair courseî corner of the Madang, where individuals could see for themselves how difficult it is to maneuver a wheelchair without ramps and adequate turn space. Here I chat with him about the availability of wheelchair ramps on KyotoÍs public buses. ñ [There are only] six,î he replies. ñAnd there are a thousand buses.... It is inconvenient.... [And the reason for this is simply] money. ItÍs [one of those] ïafter due considerationÍ matters. Out of this yearÍs consideration they decided there will soon [mamonaku] be nine lifts. At this rate it will only take 330 years [to fix the situation].î |
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