[Civsoc-mw] [NYASANET] Why not curtail the power of minibuses 🚐

[Tony Thontholani]

Stan,
You are right. When UTM was on the road, their buses weren’t designed to accommodate people with disabilities. 

No section of the buses was designated for the “disabled”. The seats were designed with a stereotypical Malawian male in mind. 1.75 meters tall, slim. And his wife leaning on his shoulder. Sometimes tenderly her delicate hand rubbing his masculine chest. 

Who is to blame? Pew? Engineers? Contracting authorities? Society?

But UTM is the past. We are talking of now and the future. 

I would love to see a bus on the roads of Malawi that is inclusive. A bus that accommodates the challenges of people with disabilities, for instance. A bus that has a wheelchair rump, for instance. You can clap the rump back into the bus and it becomes part of the floor. 

Minibuses won’t provide such. 

> On 12. Jul 2019, at 16:07, Stanley Nazombe <00000b054f47ea81-dmarc-request at listserv.icors.org> wrote:
> 
> Shad,I was following this conversation waiting for somebody to mention this. Indeed; As much as I  dislike the minibus charter, the truth remains that there was never any accommodation for the disabled in public transportation long before the minibuses came along. Even now, I don't believe there is any accommodation for the disabled  in the non minibus public transportation.


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