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The Accessibility Committee, formed by the Department of Equal Opportunities Policy and Cooperation, headed Alicia Barquero, and organizations Famdif, Once and Aspaym, have held a meeting with the manager of Urbamusa, Roque Ortiz, and engineers responsible for the coastal North and South to ensure that the new sections of road accessibility compliant.

The Commission has made suggestions Accessibility in terms of type of pavement, pedestrian crossings, traffic lights, traffic signals, pedestrian access, etc., so that these roads are fully accessible in the urban stretches.

Among the agreements addressed include:

Compliance with the Order of the Ministry of Housing VIV/561/2010 for accessibility and non-discrimination for access to and use of public spaces urbanized.

Determinations are met this Order with respect to the width of medians, sidewalks, fords and cycle, longitudinal and transverse slopes of driveways, sidewalks and fords, fords implementation detail, and so on.

It also complies with existing signage in relation to the horizontal and vertical.

At the traffic lights, paying particular attention to the time of passage of pedestrians at traffic lights and audible signal will be included in all traffic lights for pedestrians.

The pedestrian crosswalks are highlighted visually.

Fords pedestrian sidewalks will run under the new design included in the Order VIV/561/2010 and there is no "step" to access the ford from the roadway.

The sidewalk tree pits will be completely flush at the same level as the rest of the sidewalk and extend them with a dry resin floor also makes it slip.

On the sidewalks that have alcorques, although they are level with the sidewalk, paving include two different types, separating the area where the tree pits from the rest of the sidewalk.

During the work will focus on the implementation of fords, sidewalks, crosswalks, traffic lights, etc, to be jobs that require greater precision.

Furthermore, it has offered to representatives of member associations Accessibility Committee to visit these works during execution.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia