Chapter 578 Three Major Demands and Three Major Policies

The so-called special roads can only help the blind, but they can also be regarded as a major effort to protect the interests of the disabled.

Historically, such roads would have to wait decades to appear. The current early emergence of special roads is hoped to improve the living standards and happiness index of disabled people in Australasia.

The fastest-changing city is Sydney, especially in urban areas. Special roads of about 40 to 50 centimeters were soon paved. They have special colors and easy-to-recognize patterns. When you step on them, you will have a clear tingling feeling, which is convenient. Blind people have to identify whether it is a special road.

After the paving of Sydney's special roads was completed, the previous newspaper reporter Daisy Doddridge deliberately returned to the school for the blind that she had interviewed before and invited the blind child to walk on Sydney's newly built blind streets to experience walking alone. The feeling of the street.

Of course, even though he was walking alone on the street, he was still accompanied by others to ensure that there would be no accidents.

The face of the blind child finally showed a smile and had the color of happiness.

As a special road of great significance to blind people, it soon entered the curriculum of these blind people.

The school for the blind will also build a demonstration special road, so that many blind people can recognize the roads that allow them to walk on the streets in the school, and it will also make it easier for them to better identify the difference between ordinary roads and special roads.

Since mid-June, there have been significantly more blind people on the streets of Sydney. These blind people walk on special roads as if exploring, and there are more enthusiastic people around them who are watching them to prevent accidents that may happen at any time.

This special road that allows blind people to walk out of their homes is also affectionately known as the Love Passage. It has been praised by many media and newspapers, and has also made blind groups and blind families extremely grateful.

But the establishment of special roads is not just good news. The first is the cost of road reconstruction across the country, which requires not only the corresponding design of special roads, but also the reconstruction of existing roads. The overall budget is too large, and the number of blind people in some areas is too small, making reconstruction difficult. Not much necessary.

The second is that special roads are easily occupied by other people or vehicles. Blind people cannot see. If there are dangerous obstacles ahead, the existence of special roads will become the greatest danger.

In response to these two problems, the cabinet also made certain improvements to the previous special road construction after consulting Arthur.

First, the construction scope and budget of special roads have changed from the original renovation of all cities in the country to the renovation of large cities with a large number of blind people.

In this way, the cities that currently need to be renovated are only large cities such as Sydney and Melbourne, as well as state capitals. Small cities do not need to be renovated for the time being.

The municipal governments of these big cities can basically bear the cost of road reconstruction by themselves, which means that the construction of special roads hardly needs to be borne by the government, which is good news for the government's finances.

And although the construction scope of special roads has been reduced, it can still allow most blind people to get out of their homes.

After all, there are not many disabled people in Australasia, and even fewer blind people.

These people are generally distributed in major cities, or in small villages and towns, so there is not much need to build special roads.

In response to the second issue of being so busy that it is easy to be occupied, the government has specially issued regulations prohibiting anyone from occupying special roads at any time. Violators will be subject to heavy fines and even face imprisonment.

Moreover, any accidents caused by occupying special roads will be the responsibility of the person occupying the special roads. This can be regarded as a sharp sword hanging over everyone's head, making them think carefully whether occupying special roads is worth it.

To put it bluntly, it is just a 40 to 50 centimeters wide path, and occupying it will not bring any benefits. Instead, you will have to face high fines or even imprisonment, and bear corresponding risks. This is completely uneconomical.

Of course, occupancy here refers to long-term occupancy. If ordinary people just take a walk, they will not be punished. The scope of occupation depends mainly on whether it will hinder the traffic on special roads and the length of time it is occupied.

While special roads were still popular across the country, these two regulations were quickly promulgated and implemented immediately.

Judging from the response from all walks of life after the promulgation of the two regulations, the public is quite satisfied with these two regulations.

In particular, the prohibition on occupying special roads can ensure that blind people have no obstacles in front of them when traveling, and is complementary to the special roads themselves.

After the problem of the blind has been properly solved, the next step is the hotly discussed issue of welfare policies to protect the disabled and improving the quality of life of the disabled.

The disabled people in Australasia can be roughly divided into three types: those with congenital disabilities, those with external disabilities, and those with acquired disabilities.

At present, the first and third types of people are more numerous. The number of migrant disabled people is still relatively small, and most of them live in big cities, so the quality of life can still be guaranteed.

To put it bluntly, even a disabled person cannot immigrate to Australasia without a substantial net worth.

At present, the price of an ocean-going ferry ticket is still relatively expensive. Most disabled people immigrate with their families, which is a considerable expense for ordinary families.

Some families even spent most of their life savings just to immigrate to Australasia. This also cut off their hope of immigrating again to a certain extent.

Immigration is equivalent to a high investment for most immigrants. In fact, most people would not choose to immigrate unless they really cannot survive in the area where they originally lived.

Of course, there is another kind of immigration with a strong purpose, such as the gold diggers attracted by the previous gold rush.

When the desire to make money is far greater than people's fear of unknown places, it will also make people have quite violent thoughts of immigrating.

For those who have acquired disabilities, except for those who were disabled due to various accidents, most of the remaining ones are soldiers who were disabled during the original war.

These soldiers are actually guaranteed quite generous pensions. Their living materials and living standards are the same as ordinary people. They have never expressed dissatisfaction with the government from the beginning to the end.

This is what Australasia currently does better than other countries, that is, it has a pretty good pension system for soldiers who were disabled in the war and retired soldiers.

This also makes the Australasian army far ahead in terms of morale. If the soldiers have enough morale, the army's combat power will be stronger.

There are many rights that disabled people need to protect, which can be roughly divided into the right to education, the right to work and the right to a normal life.

The right to education is relatively easy to solve. Sydney and Melbourne already have a considerable number of schools for the disabled, and by encouraging other big cities to build corresponding schools for the blind and disabled, the right to education for most disabled people can be guaranteed. .

This investment is actually not large, after all, there are not many disabled people in Australasia.

Therefore, cities and governments are also moving quickly. Schools for disabled people in many cities have been put on the agenda and have even been approved by the local city council for funding.

The right to work is more difficult to solve. After all, ordinary people in most positions have huge advantages over these disabled people, and capitalists will not harm their own interests and deliberately recruit these disabled people.

Therefore, if we want to ensure the right to work for these disabled people and increase their income, we must find ways to build more jobs suitable for disabled people, or to build some positions where disabled people will not be affected.

However, such situations are still relatively rare. Most positions still require able-bodied people, even people who can do physical work. This is very different from the situation of disabled people.

In order to improve the living standards of disabled people, the government can only focus on another aspect, which is to correspondingly increase subsidies for disabled people.

This was left to the Royal Relief Committee. The Relief Committee can establish contact with each municipal government to further clarify the number of all disabled people, and negotiate with the government for certain subsidies.

However, it is probably just some material subsidies to ensure that disabled people can live a normal life like ordinary people, at least in terms of food and housing.

There are also the needs of normal life. Encourage the public to be kind to disabled people, prohibit discrimination against these disabled people, and at the same time pay attention to some aspects that are more difficult for disabled people, such as building barrier-free roads next to stairs, etc. This needs to be promoted nationwide.

Although many of these policies have just begun to be implemented or even planned to be implemented, they already represent great hope for those with disabilities.

It can also be seen from the reactions of disabled people reported by various newspapers that this group is very grateful for the attention of the government, parliament and all Australasians, and this time the incident of special groups has been successfully concluded.

The disabled people are very grateful to the government, and the people are also very satisfied with this result, which can be considered a relatively good result.

Because of Arthur's timely voice in this incident and the timely response of the government and parliament, the people are quite satisfied with the government, and the country's cohesion has also been invisibly improved.

This is actually very simple. It is enough for the people to see the government's efforts and the government's care for the people.

Perhaps what the people want is not a perfect result, but that the members of the city council, from Arthur to the states, care about the basic lives of the people, rather than just talk.

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