Charleroi
People With Reduced Mobility The ONLY TAXI FOR WHEELCHAIRSPRESENTATION
Charleroi
People With Reduced Mobility The ONLY TAXI FOR WHEELCHAIRS
Sympathetic-Tax for one week a vehicle designed for people
with reduced mobility has proposed
It is quite as incredible as veracious: for all Wallonia, only one company of
taxi proposes a vehicle especially adapted for the people to reduced mobility...
Sympathetic-Tax is based in Couillet. This company, created here just two months
per M. Denni, have had for one week a mono volume, especially conceived to accomodate
any customer with reduced mobility, moving in wheelchair.
"That makes ten years that I work like driver of taxi
in the area of Charleroi, entrust M. Denni. With the wire of my races
and customers whom I was brought to meet, I realized that there was a real request
on behalf of the people suffering from handicaps. In Brussels, six identical
vehicles exist for some time. But in Charleroi as in the whole of the Walloon
Area, nothing! I decided to create my own company and to acquire a vehicle adaptedfor
these people ". Thus, at the "standard" sides of three cars,
the company has a Citroen Jumpy: this mono volume was arranged with the back,
with a device approved by the Ministry for Transport. An approach ramp is spread,
actuated by hydraulic actuating cylinders. The customer in wheelchair is made
hoist inside. "then let us fasten We it by four harnesses. A belt of safety
is also installed for the passenger dealt with. This system is much more flexible
and does not ask to leave its vehicle the customer, then to fold up its wheelchair,
before repeating contrary the operation at the race end "
the taxi deals with the customer, who does not leave
his wheelchair.
The formula suggested by the company of taxi, very recent, meet already
a certain success: "I return from Brussels, where I went to seek a customer
to whom a company of taxi had announced our existence ", M continues. Denni.
Because, apart from a trade agreement tied with Community television Télésambre,
publicity the Sympatheticone functions especially by the good old man system
of the mouth with ear.
"Certain people with reduced mobility want despite
everything to remain independent, the owner of Sympathetic-Tax continues.
They want to go by their own means to the cinema or the restaurant. Of course,
the tce proposes lines adapted for them. But at certain hours and with certain
priorities. We propose with this public a fast service, on only one telephone
call ". For as much, null competition with the tce. On the contrary...
"the tce provides our co-ordinates when their services are overflowed".
And conveys it adapted can receive moreover five valid people. "No
matter who can get into our car, valid or not-valid. And the price of the race
is identical. A fixed price is also proposed for the long distances ".
It was said, Sympathetic-Tax is the only company to propose this service
for all Wallonia.
Only one call number But three prefixes different for
this company
from taxis. The Sympathetic-Tax company can be contacted with (071),
(0475) or (0477) 30.30.33. For the hour, the company couilletoise has only one
vehicle adapted to the people to reduced mobility. This car circulates seven
days out of seven, until midnight.
B. Berthaut