{"id":477871,"date":"2022-03-23T11:42:38","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T06:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=477871"},"modified":"2022-03-23T11:42:38","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T06:12:38","slug":"kochi-metro-is-hardly-disabled-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/kochi-metro-is-hardly-disabled-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Kochi Metro is hardly disabled-friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: To make metro transport disabled-friendly, Kochi Metro Rail Limited (KMRL) had introduced tactile paving at metro stations \u2014  inside and outside \u2014 a few years ago. The yellow coloured blocks have bumpy surfaces that help blind pedestrians navigate their way safely, like Braille script helps them read. It also prevents them from stumbling on hard surfaces, including the edge of the platforms. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: To make metro transport disabled-friendly, Kochi Metro Rail Limited (KMRL) had introduced tactile paving at metro stations \u2014 inside and outside \u2014 a few years ago. The yellow coloured blocks have bumpy surfaces that help blind pedestrians navigate their way safely, like Braille script helps them read. It also prevents them from stumbling on hard surfaces, including the edge of the platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,267,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}