IS MERIDA AN ACCESSIBLE CITY? By Isabela De Matteis Tappan.

 IS MERIDA AN ACCESSIBLE CITY?

Making proper spaces for people with disabilities is an issue that should be paid attention to, in order to make more accessible and inclusive cities.

Mérida it's a growing city and that means that there are more people with disabilities who need special accommodations to be able to do certain things like cross the street or go up to a building. One of the things that I think this city does well is having ramps to access high places. You can see ramps in a lot of places around the city and this is something relatively new because there weren't any ramps a few years ago.

Indeed there's a large path to go speaking about making the city accessible because there are few sensitive streets for blind people and there are practically no sounds on traffic lights or anything else that could help them to cross safely, also many ramps are in dangerous positions for someone with a wheelchair.

Another thing that many people should say is that making accessible places could be so expensive just to help a little part of the population, that's why I think it should be done slowly, doing one thing at a time (like putting a sound in some traffic lights every once in a while) so with time the whole city should be more accessible.