Reviewing Public Transport:
RNZFB members Chris
Orr(with guide dog Quinnell) and Gary
Williamson at the upgraded Glen Innes train
station
Falling off
the platform onto the train tracks at his local
station, two minutes before a train was due, remains
one of Chris Orr's more memorable public transport
experiences.
Now that his
local station at Manurewa in Auckland has been
redeveloped with white paint strips and yellow
tactile pavers along the platform edges, the
Foundation's community education and awareness
manager is confident that the same problem won't
happen to anyone else.
"The tactiles
are a psychological barrier," says Chris, "in that
everybody stands behind them now and is safer. I
always tell the planners, 'if it works for me, it
works for everybody'."
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