Unless designed and installed in St. Petersburg metro special facilities for disabled wheelchair users descending on escalators, go down into the subway with disabilities will only be able to accompany the two to back and escalators. Told a BakuToday announced today, June 27, the press service of the State Unitary Enterprise “St.Petersburg Subway.”
The press service stressed that now are working out logistics schedule underground reserve of escalators, which will be published on the site of Petersburg subway. “Wheelchairs, arrived at the station with one attendant and not during peak hours, should be asked to act as a second subway of the escorting officer, then it will be necessary to wait a few minutes to come machinist, who runs the backup escalator, and then to slide down” – According to the press-service.
Today at a press conference in St. Petersburg, the head of state unitary enterprise “Petersburg Metro,” Vladimir Garyugin said that before July 1 will be developed terms of reference of the competition to develop equipment for descent with disabilities, the documentation be sent to the All-Russian Society of Disabled People and Rostekhnadzor. Garyugin told me that, except for peak loads, up to 70% in St. Petersburg stations have in reserve the escalator, which can be run for wheelchair users.
