On Haihe East Road (tianjin railway station-Chifeng Bridge), various obstacles are attached to the blind road, which makes it difficult for visually impaired people to pass.
Tianjin North Network News:When we were young, we all played a video game "Super Mario". Mario, the protagonist of the game, had to cross many hurdles along the way and finally reached the peak of his life. The more obstacles in the game, the more fun the game participants can have. However, in reality, obstacles on the road will only bring inconvenience and safety risks to passers-by. Especially when obstacles are "attached" to the blind road, it is a disaster for visually impaired people.
The blind road is not dispensable, it is the standard of a city civilization, reflecting whether the city is friendly to visually impaired groups. Perhaps this convex road is not used by many people, but it is "just needed" for everyone who needs to use the blind road.
This wonderful blind road is very unfriendly.
Summer evening, Haihe Square, Tianjin Railway Station. People sat on the shore and watched the night view of Haihe River, welcoming the people who were sent, and it was bustling. This is the place where many foreign guests look at and examine Tianjin at first sight, and it is also the most beautiful memory left in the minds of many parting people.
Walking along Haihe East Road to Chifeng Bridge, walking on the sidewalk, the scenery along the line is excellent, but it seems that there is a little less affinity. Where is the affinity? The reporter sat there and studied it carefully — — It’s a blind road. There’s something wrong with the blind road.
Walking out of the fence in the Tianjin station area, the blind road suddenly narrowed. Previously, it was more than enough to put your feet on the blind road, while the blind road on Haihe East Road only left the width of one foot. Imagine a visually impaired person walking on a blind road. He needs to keep his feet steady, leave a certain position for the blind stick, and use the blind stick to detect the road ahead, so as to judge his walking direction. And the blind road in front of us, which can only accommodate one foot, is it necessary for the visually impaired to take a "catwalk" on the road?
Careful observation shows that the sidewalk on Haihe East Road is higher than the non-motor vehicle lane, and the road width is spacious, so the blind road should be built in the safest position on the sidewalk. However, the blind road on Haihe East Road is located in the nearest place to the non-motor vehicle lane. The road less than 50 cm away is just bicycles and electric cars that come and go in a hurry, which means that the visually impaired will fall down the steps if they are not careful, and the risks of spraining their ankles and being hit by other vehicles will increase sharply.
Look at the obstacles on this blind road, which are varied and involve many departments and units. The manhole cover of the power sector straddles the blind road, and the street lamp pole "happens" to stand in the center of the blind road; Walking around the fire hydrant of the fire department; The street sketch of the garden department is very exquisite. One person’s height is more than one person’s face, right in the middle of the tree, and there is a fire hydrant hidden. According to the National Barrier-free Facilities Standard, blind roads should be laid continuously, and obstacles such as trees, telephone poles, guy wires, tree holes and manhole covers should be avoided, and other facilities should not occupy blind roads.
If these obstacles can be predicted in advance through the blind stick, then the next "obstacle wall" can really make the visually impaired people unable to find the way forward. Ramps were built from the sidewalk on the Haihe River to the pro-platform, and decorations like piers were set up at the entrance of each ramp. Here, the decorations just blocked the blind road, and there was no guidance on the following road, so the blind road became a "broken road".
People can see treading on thin ice along the way, but these obstacles are concentrated within a short 200 meters. This 200-meter blind road is like a game level. Even if a healthy person walks with his eyes open, it is inevitable that there will be no bumps.
The reporter chatted with the public about this blind road. Some people say: "This kind of blind road is redundant. If visually impaired people really walk on it, they will be lucky if they don’t get bruised." Some people also said, "Move the blind road inward and transform the steps into gentle slopes, so that fewer obstacles will make it safer." Others said: "This blind road is like dealing with an errand. Is there a blind road? Yes! Anyway, I built … …”
The blind road is a "static eye"
The transportation of visually impaired people is a livelihood issue that cannot be ignored, which has been written into the Measures for the Construction and Management of Barrier-free Facilities in Tianjin. It stands to reason that all the streets and alleys in the city should be equipped with corresponding facilities to help the blind to travel safely.
What does the blind road mean to the visually impaired? A year ago, our reporter went to Tianjin visually impaired school to find out. The teacher of the school told the reporter that children studying in visually impaired schools will set up directional walking classes in the fifth grade. They must first learn to use the sense of feet and the conduction perception of blind brick on campus to judge the direction of the road. Strip bricks mean that you can go straight, and regular polka-dot bricks mean stopping and turning. Different tactile sensations can let the blind know what changes will occur in the spatial environment of the route ahead. Children in visually impaired schools told reporters through personal experience that they need to keep composing pictures in their minds when they walk. When they walk through this road, they must rely on the feeling under their feet and the hearing of their ears to build a three-dimensional picture. The blind stick in their hands is like a detector, and they can always check the road conditions 1 meter away. When there is an obstacle at a certain point in this picture, it is necessary to bypass it, and this point will stay in this three-dimensional picture for a long time. When you walk next time, you will be particularly careful and even dare not pass here again. It is not until several attempts have been made to find that the obstacle has been removed that this obstacle point may disappear from memory.
When interviewed in a school for the visually impaired, children always show bruises on their knees and calves when they lift their trousers. Often, this bruise has not subsided, and the next collision will come again. The children told reporters that it was hit on the way home. On campus, teachers take care of them in every way, and all facilities should be guaranteed not to harm blind children; But after stepping out of the campus and entering the society, you will find that some facilities on the road are not friendly to them. This kind of injury stays on their bodies, but it hurts in the hearts of healthy people. More seriously, every collision is a psychological blow to the visually impaired. The greater the blow, the more afraid they will be when they go out — — The obstacles on the road eventually turned into obstacles hidden in their hearts.
In addition to the obstacles left over during construction, there are also many obstacles erected artificially. For example, it is not uncommon for cars to park in blind roads. Nowadays, it is common for bike-sharing to occupy blind roads, and the litter left by pets on blind roads also makes it difficult for blind people to travel.
In addition, the color of blind floor tiles is different from that of ordinary floor tiles. Its eye-catching color was originally designed to make it easier for people with slight visual impairment to distinguish, and at the same time, it was also designed to make healthy people look in their eyes and avoid at any time, leaving a safe road for blind people. Its function is to remind and warn, not to become an ornament. To put it more directly, the blind road is not for the healthy people to "watch". The straight and barrier-free blind road is the "just need" of the visually impaired. Even if it looks monotonous, it is a great sustenance for the blind people to travel safely.
Healthy people should at least put themselves in other’s shoes. If empathy can’t be realized, then simply blindfold yourself, experience it for yourself, and actually take a trip to see if this road can help the visually impaired.
Barrier-free public facilities embody civilization.
At the beginning of this century, many enterprises and institutions called on cadres and workers to read a book, Details Decide Success or Failure. From then on, the sentence of the title of the book has been deeply implanted in people’s minds, always saying: success is also detailed, and failure is also detailed. But is "details determine success or failure" really implemented in action?
Going back to this blind road, watching the high-rise buildings in this city row upon row and the rapid development of urban construction is a kind of momentum and enjoyment. But look at this blind road at the foot, which embodies humanistic care and social justice. Its "details" have been forgotten, at least here the blind road has become a "blind area". Although visually impaired people are a "minority" group in society, their rights and interests can not be ignored, and the relevant government departments should attach great importance to them.
And how many blind roads are there in Jincheng like Haihe East Road? Should we take this as a guide, re-examine the barrier-free facilities in this city, and make the repairs and changes. From the perspective of planning, designers should make efforts to make blind roads more scientific and reasonable, reduce detours as much as possible, provide straight walking routes for the blind as much as possible, and combine the overall planning of the city with blind roads efficiently and conveniently, so as to make disabled people, including the blind, happy and convenient to travel in this city.
This is the second time that the "Viewpoint" edition of this newspaper has carried out an in-depth report on the blind road problem. Fortunately, after the publication of the report in 2017, some street crossing lights in our city were equipped with voice control devices, so that the blind can safely cross the street with the rhythm of sound. However, the popularity of such voice-activated indicator lights is still not high, and the voice of guidance is not loud enough. This time, we have an in-depth discussion on the blind road, hoping to make the details of the city more perfect. After all, the municipal facilities that show care for the disabled also show the "soft power" of a city.
Barrier-free public facilities such as blind roads reflect the civilization level of a city and the moral level of the public. Caring for the blind road is the responsibility of the whole society, which certainly needs to be vigorously publicized to improve the awareness and moral level of caring for the disabled; But the most important thing is management. From the design, construction and maintenance of barrier-free facilities to daily supervision, it is essential to implement it meticulously with the idea of taking the disabled as the center. Ensuring the smoothness of the blind road will make more and more visually impaired people have the courage and confidence to go out of their homes and travel with us in this loving city. (Jin Yun News Editor yu zhang)