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    "id": 875664,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/875664/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nairobi CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Esther Passaris",
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        "legal_name": "Esther Passaris",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute. I want to thank my sister, Hon. Dennitah Ghati, for bringing this Statement to the House. We have been hearing about the BRT System coming into our city. It is important to understand that Kenya ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPWD) thus forming part of the laws in Kenya based on Articles 25 and 26. The BRT planners should use focus groups of users and form advisory committees to review and assess plans to access the BRT systems during the entire planning and implementation process. Such users include persons with disabilities. The transit planners should include individuals with different types of physical and sensory impairment. End users including PWDs should also participate in the implementation process. They should be represented on different disabilities, for example, passengers with hidden disabilities such as arthritis need to be heard. Lack of representation maybe one cause for lack of proper emphasis on the design of bus entrances. Also, we need to ensure that disabled persons from the neighbourhoods served by the feeder routes are on the advisory committee as well as persons along areas, trunk lines, corridors and intersections. If we do the BRT and we only concentrate on main roads, we will not be doing service to persons with disabilities. We need to ensure that we understand those we are serving. We have to ensure that pavements are wide enough so that when they are dropped, they can access their homes with ease. More than that, we also have to ensure that maintenance is high when the BRTs are in place. If we fail to maintain them, then we will not be serving the persons with disabilities because the hydraulics will fail which will cause the BRT to fail hence inconveniencing the PWDs. This is a good agenda. We have the UN headquarters in our country. It is important that we also involve them and get the best practices so that we can improve the BRT system for persons with disabilities in our country. Thank you."
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