Venice's gondolas become accessible to wheelchair users
MILAN - With is many arched bridges, Venice cannot claim to be among the world's most wheelchair-friendly cities. But a pair of gondoliers is challenging that image.
MILAN - With is many arched bridges, Venice cannot claim to be among the world's most wheelchair-friendly cities. But a pair of gondoliers is challenging that image.
MILAN (AP) — With is many arched bridges, Venice cannot claim to be among the world's most wheelchair-friendly cities. But a pair of gondoliers is challenging that image.
A new private-public project, dubbed gondolas4all, on Friday unveiled the first access point for wheelchair users to board one of Venice's storied black-lacquered gondolas. Gondolier Alessandro Dalla Pieta said that over 20 years he had seen people in wheelchairs dozens of times looking at us as if we were the last Coca Cola in the desert.
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