01-30-2016, 10:23 PM
(01-30-2016, 10:02 PM)ijmorlan Wrote:(01-30-2016, 09:41 PM)tomh009 Wrote: (In pedestrian/transit-oriented Tokyo, major street crossings are often by pedestrian bridges, which effectively cause a pedestrian detour and require the use of stairs -- yet I have never heard anyone complaining about them.)
How do they handle accessibility? Not everyone can use stairs.
It's a good question. I rarely see people in wheelchairs in Tokyo but I do see, much more often than here, very old or handicapped people walking, albeit slowly and often with the help of a cane. (And I have never seen even one scooter.) Is it a cultural difference? People walking, even if slowly, can use overpasses.
Now, some overpasses do have either elevators or escalators, a few have (steep!) ramps, but most do not. In general, I think what you would need to do is to look for the next intersection that has a crosswalk rather than a bridge.