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| General Principles
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| III. Specific measures |
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Promotion of
integrated and comprehensive barrier free measures |
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In order to remove barriers from buildings
and public transportation systems and to promote integrated and continuous
barrier free space in stipulated districts around railway stations
etc. to implement comprehensive removal of barriers, a legal system
intended to integrate the Heartful Building Law and the Barrier Free
Law will be constructed. |
(Examples of measures based on legal systems)
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Enactment of a basic national policy
for comprehensive removal of barriers that will form barrier
free spaces not only in transportation facilities, but continuous
space including buildings. |
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Introduction of the following measures
to implement comprehensive barrier removal measures |
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Promoting the expansion of
the areas where barrier free measures are planned and
the removal of barriers not only from transportation facilities,
but from facilities surrounding them. |
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Creation of systems to remove
barriers from buildings linked to barrier free routes
stipulated by the basic concept (in existing buildings,
the promotion of partial and staged barrier free measures). |
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Introduction of the following measures
to encourage the enactment of basic concepts |
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In a case where an agreement
has been reached on fundamental policies to remove barriers,
basic policies concerning part of the concepts of the
basic concept are established in advance, permitting the
later establishment of specific improvement plans. |
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Prefectures can contribute
to the removal of barriers from large transportation facilities
and from routes spanning multiple cities, towns, and villages. |
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To reflect the views of a variety
of types of users, the participation of responsible officials
through the formation of a cooperative committee at the time
of the enactment of a basic concept and obtaining proposals
from NPO and residents concerned with the drafting of the basic
concept are systematized. |
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In order to encourage integrated and continuous
removal of barriers through links between concerned organizations,
agreements concerning management by facility managers and methods
of creating corporations to operate and manage barrier free facilities
are established. |
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Greater removal of barriers from transportation
facilities, vehicles, and from homes etc. is encouraged through the
following measures |
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Regarding existing railway stations
where it is difficult to remove barriers because of problems
with the structure of the stations and ensuring introduction
space, support is given to improvement measures based on these
factors. |
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Encouragement is given to the removal
of barriers from all busses including the introduction of more
non-step busses and community busses *11,
tourist busses, etc. And barriers are removed from taxis etc.
by introducing welfare vehicles etc., and the provision of STS
(special transport services *12) is
encouraged. |
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Financial support for the construction
of public rental housing and for private housing encourages
the formation of a barrier free housing stock. |
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Community busses: Bus systems
serving small districts operated mainly by regional government bodies
in order to improve the welfare of regional residents by eliminating
districts without access to transportation or with inconvenient access
to transportation to encourage elderly people to go outside their
homes, and to promote the use of public transportation. The vehicles
are compact so the can run on narrow streets, and they often operate
with innovative rates, schedules, and bus stop locations. |
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STS (Special Transport
Service): Individual transport services for people whose ability to
move is restricted because they cannot use normal public transportation
services unaided: mainly people requiring nursing care or physically
handicapped people. |
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