SBB’s disabled transport services tender canceled

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As the rail company announced Wednesday, SBB now wants to deliver orders for taxi services. After the twenty-day complaint period, SBB and its public transport partners will approach prospective transport service providers specifically.

If there is not yet a barrier-free train station where people with walking disabilities live and there are no support staff in the area, they should be able to take a taxi to the next disabled-accessible train station in the future. . SBB is required to offer this service from 2024, because from then on, public transport must be barrier-free under the Equality for Persons with Disabilities Act (BehiG). At over 500 train stations and stops, that shouldn’t be the case by the end of the year.

The call for tenders for driver services, launched in January, failed as few bids were received to be able to offer taxi services across Switzerland. According to the announcement, SBB assumes that the terms set out in the tender will be difficult to implement. Among other things, a two-hour period was required to provide a driving service.

In the future, people with limited mobility will be moved from the non-disabled-accessible train station to the nearest barrier-free train station. Being handicapped-friendly means that the station has no step-free access to the platform or that the platform is too narrow for Mobilift assistance. Mobilift is a yellow lifting platform.

SBB has not yet given information on the cost of the project. The original plan was to place the order in the summer. It is planned to work until the end of 2029.

(SDA)

Source :Blick