Wheelchair Accessible Bus (WAB) in Singapore

Via SBS webpage:

Wheelchair Accessible Bus (WAB)
Singapore’s first Wheelchair Accessible Bus (WAB) is now available on Service 21. To find out the timetable of WAB trips, select Service 21 from the Basic Services drop-down box below. Alternatively, you can also make use of our *Send 655 to find out the next WAB bus arrival time at your selected bus stop (applicable for SingTel users only).

(www.sbstransit.com.sg/transport/trpt_bus_timetable.aspx)
Last accessed 9 Oct 2006.

The issue of “accessibility” should be seen holistically, imho. We may build accessible libraries, but a person with physical disabilities (e.g. wheelchair) would face a myrid of physical obstacles just getting out of the house, and getting to the library — getting from your HDB flat to the ground floor; getting into a vehicle; making your way to the library if your mode of transport doesn’t bring you right to the library.

Delivery services provided by the library and getting volunteers to be the go-between are some options, but some people with physical disabilities prefer to have control over where they want to go. And transportation has to be affordable. Hopefully we’ll see more of such buses, at least on routes to MRT stations.

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