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No Elevator, no problem…(?)

While becoming rare, some places in Japan still have wheelchair accessible escalators.

Three of the steps stay together and form a platform. They aren’t the safest idea in the world, but if you get the chance, give it a try!

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  2. LizTiddington

    Just listened to you on the BBC ouch podcast 🙂 I can totally see how this would be really scary! Very cool though nonetheless

  4. Guy Davies

    while a good try, I cannot see how anything which requires an additional 2 people to operate could be viewed as being really accessible? What happens if they are not available? What happens in a rush hour?

  8. acresir

    Egmont Folk High School takes escalator without any kind of ramp or special equipment while going on trips around the world (we've even done it a few times with electric powered wheelchairs as the one in the vid.).
    The Japanese are most eager to help finding employees to get these handicap platforms to work (Teachers, assistant teachers and the Handicapped's own assistants said this once).
    Once I was with the Folk High School in Japan and this happened. when the platform started working , half of the people with disabilities were already on the next floor. Only two used the platform. The rest of the guys in wheelchairs wouldn't wait, as they saw the escalator was a possibility. So while waiting for the two using the platform, we took the rest up using the escalators.
    The employees were VERY impressed!
    We thought there was (almost) nothing to it…

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