Easier and safer in the underground
Published 14 January 2010
Last modified 3 June 2019
Warsaw Transport Authority signed a contract with the Innova Consulting company for drawing up feasibility study to enhance accessibility of the first Warsaw underground line to the needs of disabled people. Preparing the feasibility study will cost PLN 547,000 net. The document will be ready at the end of next year. ZTM will attempt to finance this investment from the European funds.
The study will allow to estimate the costs of the first underground line reconstruction. It includes among others installation of additional lifts and escalators, tactile information – maps and timetables, things that will increase safety and facilitate using the underground by the disabled.
The Innova Consulting company will also prepare the concept of marking platform edges (according to the planned directive of the minister of infrastructure on technical conditions which should be applicable for the underground structures and their surrounding) and dangerous places along the whole line, as well as of better connections between stations and bus stops or railway stations, removing some barriers from platforms by changing the system of fastening and proper marking of cash and ticket machines.
The study will be preceded by social consultations with organizations for the disabled.
