THE WEALTHY CITY MUST DEDICATE MONEY TO RETROFITTING THE OLD BUT ESSENTIAL SYSTEM
Like most visitors, I love using the Paris Metro system.
Locals don’t just love it – they depend
on transit to get to work, school, healthcare and much more.
I encourage city leaders to increase
wheelchair access for tenfold.
I’m tired of the worn out excuse that
buses are accessible, so the subway does not need to be.
It can easily take an hour by bus to cover
a distance that only takes 10 or 12 minutes by Metro.
That is not equality.
You would think in a city where the
mayor and a significant number of mayors of the 20 arrondissements are socialists,
they would wisely invest billions in tourism revenues to solve the social problem of
grossly unequal mobility for wheelchair users and others with disabilities.
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