Prague, July 29 (CTK) – Prague will start working out a uniform digital map of barrier-free access to buildings and other public areas to inform disabled inhabitants how to move freely around the capital city, Prague councillors told reporters Wednesday.
The Prague Hall plans to gradually map the whole city. In addition, a mobile application of Prague without barriers should be created, said councillors Petr Dolinek and Irena Ropkova (both Social Democrats, CSSD) and Patrik Nacher (ANO), chairman of the education and social affairs committee.
Prague administrative districts are to order the mapping of barriers on their territory from firms and cover the costs.
The City Hall will subsidise it with 50,000 crowns per district and allocate the money in September, Ropkova said.
One district has already completed a similar mapping. It has cost 100,000 crowns, she added.
The project will start in the historical centre, which is a UNESCO-listed urban conservation area.
Some 190 buildings and their surroundings in the area will be mapped. The costs have been put at 2000-3000 crowns per facility, that is 500,000 crowns in total, Nacher said.
First, heritage sights and offices will be mapped to which parks and other public areas as well as post offices, pharmacies, public transport stops and pedestrian crossings will be added.
At the same time, the application should enable to find a barrier-free public transport connection.
At present, various information sources about barrier-free access in Prague are available, some of which only in paper form. However, the methodology of data collecting and their processing is not uniform, Ropkova said.
The city would like to apply the method used by the Prague Association of Wheelchair Users that marks accessibility with traffic lights colours.
The creation of the respective map will be funded from the programme Prague without Barriers, focused on barrier-free traffic, Dolinek said.
