Revitalization of Pedestrian: Fulfillment Accessibility Rights for Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) in Surabaya

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10.2991/icss-18.2018.40How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Pedestrian, Accessibility, Disabilities

Abstract

Implementation of fairness in Public service is to ensure the availability of service facilities for all community groups. Governments are obliged to provide access, means and special treatment to disadvantaged groups such as Persons with Disabilities (PWDs). Sufficient, integrated/inclusive and sustainable means and efforts are needed that can ultimately achieve independence and welfare of persons with disabilities. The city of Surabaya with 4,090 people with disabilities has made various efforts to reorganize and revitalize the facilities for people with disabilities. The concerns of the Surabaya city government is the revitalization of pedestrian facilities for PWDs based on the criteria that have been determined by the Ministry of Public Works and Human Settlements (PUPR). Based these conditions, the problem of research is how to describe the efforts of Surabaya city government fulfill the criteria of convenience, usefulness, safety and independence for PWDs as required by Regulation of Minister of Public Works and Human Settlements (PUPR). The study used a a qualitative descriptive approach to describe the efforts by the Surabaya City Government in providing services for people with disability through the Provision Pedestrian pathways. The location in the areas where are had been available pedestrian pathways. The primary data source is obtained from the observation of the object (observation) and interviews with the government of PWDs and communities of Surabaya city. The results indicate that the pedestrian path in Surabaya continues to be carried out and expanded by considering aspects of ease, usefulness, safety and independence. According to persons with disabilities and community says, that's effort is considered to have facilitated access and comfort for PWDs. But, in usefulness aspect, findings Pedestrian abused function for selling, parking or other activities such as motorcycle club to gather place or other activities. The safety aspect, the pedestrian design was built with a friendly design for disability, but at some point, there is a pedestrian building design that is less concerned about safety aspects. For example, a straight line that serves as a guide for the blind at some point turns to crash into trees, public phones or other buildings. Apart from the various weaknesses, the efforts of the city government to provide and fulfill the access rights for persons with disabilities should be appreciated. Important points that can be recommended from this research are: a). The city government continues to improve the quality of accessibility aspects of pedestrian pathways, b). Control to oversee the use of pedestrian from other activities such as vehicle parking, sales or other activities that could potentially deprive the custody of the disable, c). Considering the safety of supervision by the civil service police (Satpol PP) to ensure that persons with disabilities can access the pedestrian facilities comfortably and safely, d). Continuous monitoring of the physical condition of pedestrian pathways.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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AU  - Muhammad Farid Ma'ruf
AU  - Indah Prabawati
AU  - Eva Hany Fanida
PY  - 2018/10
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TI  - Revitalization of Pedestrian: Fulfillment Accessibility Rights for Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) in Surabaya
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Social Sciences (ICSS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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