Transportation in Paris is a giant concern whether or not you’ve got particular wants otherwise you occur to be the Paralympics torch. Getting round Paris accessibly for the Paralympics is feasible. With the upgrades and motivation of the Metropolis of Paris, the Paris Vacationer Workplace, Area Ile-de-France and the RATP the place you keep will make transportation simpler. My curiosity in studying extra got here from a reader. She requested me about renting a wheelchair for the video games. At a press briefing I discovered about an organization that may assist. Too late. The reader had come and gone. She wrote that the transportation for her in a wheelchair was disagreeable; inconceivable to make use of the metro. She attended solely one in every of her occasions. This one query and her frustration made me curious to know extra. Researching opened up a gold mine of knowledge, which was not simple to search out. I hope I’m not too late passing it on. All of the hyperlinks beneath are both accessible in English or will be translated inside your browser. In case you see hyperlinks with a line by way of them, they work anyway: cyber gremlins.
Transportation throughout the Paralympics
Are you attending one of many video games and want particular transportation to the game venues? An accessible shuttle (photograph) is accessible for individuals with disabilities and people accompanying them. This devoted transport service is a technique or spherical journey and takes you to the competitors venues. The shuttle makes use of eight central Paris stations. Use the Paris2024 software. With bought tickets (instance photograph beneath), reserve the shuttle. Observe the particular wants directions and ebook your journey. The price is 4 Euros a technique and eight Euros spherical journey. Write to the vacationer workplace at handicap@parisjetaime.com to hire a wheelchair or scooter/chair mixture on the Video games. Contact Omni straight hiya@omni.group for extra info for basic leases. (images of Charlotte) or ebook by way of Omni on-line at Paris je t’aime.
Realizing which strains are accessible is useful when selecting a resort. A hundred percent of the Paris buses, trams, RER B and C and Orlyval are accessible. For the metro solely line 14 is totally accessible. Line 4 is accessible between Porte d’Orléans and Bagneux Lucie-Aubrac stations. Line 11 between Porte des Lilas and Rosny-Bois-Perrier stations.
La Terrasse des jeux Accessibility
Borrow a wheelchair/scooter mixture totally free on the video games terrace/La Terrasse des jeux in entrance of metropolis corridor/Hôtel de Ville. For accessibility assist, go to one of many three welcome cubicles/accueil. The volunteers are multilingual and have many options. They may lend you a sunflower lanyard to put on throughout your go to. It offers you precedence seating and line placement. There’s at all times a protracted line for the laser/video video games and the upstairs photograph sales space. To go to the terrace with a view, use the ramp to the precise aspect close to the kids’s climbing wall. The photograph sales space is free and offers you 4 completely different clichés and a memento bookmark with the images. Scan the QR code on the bookmark for a hyperlink to a video and your photograph sales space pictures.
Particular Wants Toolkit
The Paris Vacationer workplace has an on-line sensible information video for the Video games. They’re lively hyperlinks and will be clicked on from the video. (photograph) In 2019-2020, they revealed a web-based guidebook for accessible Paris, which will be downloaded as a pdf. Most of the gadgets of each publications will nonetheless be helpful. The vacationer workplace web site could have extra updates and knowledge, together with lodging, sightseeing and restaurant accessibility. Since 2020, their title has modified to Paris je t’aime. Their momentary places for the video games. and so they don’t have any everlasting, bodily places. For the Video games, go to SPOT24. (Line 6 Bir-Hakeim and RER C Champs de Mars).
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The Paralympic Torch is Utilizing Public Transportation
The Paralympic Torch relay journey begins in Stoke Mandeville persevering with by way of the Channel Tunnel/Chunnel. Halfway by way of the tunnel, the 24 British athletes go the flame to 24 French athletes. Twelve separate flames will journey by way of 50 French cities. One will head on to Paris. 4 days later the cauldron is lit on August 28. That is the primary time since 1948 that France hosts the Paralympics. Stoke Mandeville Hospital is the historic birthplace of Paralympic sport. The primary competitors was wheelchair archery.
The Torch Route and extra…
The Paralympics Image
An up to date model of the Agitos (Latin “I transfer”) emblem of the Paralympics image appeared in 2019. with the standard colours of purple, blue and inexperienced appeared in 2019. No less than one of many Paralympics colours of purple, blue and inexperienced are present in flags globally. The image is a visible illustration for the Paralympic Motion.Their values are braveness, willpower, inspiration and equality. Earlier designs are additionally on this web page for the Worldwide Paralympic Committee.
Paris Accessibility Ideas web page up to date in 2024.
