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Paris 2024: Uber trains its drivers to transport disabled people in Île-de-France

2024-02-21T05:31:31.510Z

Highlights: Paris 2024: Uber trains its drivers to transport disabled people in Île-de-France. The American VTC firm hopes to offer, during next summer's Paralympic Games, 170 vehicles capable of carrying wheelchairs. Estimates predict the arrival of 350,000 visitors with disabilities. A free shuttle system from major Parisian stations is already planned. But the bet does not seem easy to keep. At the end of December, fewer than 800 taxi licenses for people with reduced mobility had been issued.


The American VTC firm hopes to offer, during next summer's Paralympic Games, 170 vehicles capable of carrying wheelchairs.


It wasn't necessarily the best day to try it: "But in real life, we don't choose the weather either!

» smiles Charles, the trainer, in the middle of a Bois de Boulogne whitened by the snows of January.

This Tuesday in January, around ten VTC drivers met him to follow the “transport for people with reduced mobility” training.

A module that is now essential for transporting people in wheelchairs and that Uber is offering for this summer.

For the Olympic Games and especially the Paralympic Games, estimates predict the arrival of 350,000 visitors with disabilities.

A free shuttle system from major Parisian stations is already planned, particularly for people in wheelchairs.

And the State had also set itself the objective of 1,000 accessible taxis.

But the bet does not seem easy to keep.

At the end of December, fewer than 800 taxi licenses for people with reduced mobility had been issued.

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Source: leparis

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