OREANDA-NEWS. On 19 January 2009 was announced, that handicapped people will be able to go up by lifts to the roofed pedestrian bridge over Dmitrovskoe Highway, Yury Khardikov, prefect of the northern administrative district of Moscow, said.

The official specified that the roofed pedestrian bridge with a glassed ceiling and walls had been built near the stop called 7th Bus Fleet within the reconstruction of Dmitrovskoe Highway and it would be equipped with lifts to make handicapped people move through at ease.

“The lifts are to be installed by the end of April 2009,” Mr Khardikov added.

According to him, a control unit to supervise the performance of the lifts is to be completed by the same time.

The prefect reminded that an underground passage below Dmitrovskoe Highway equipped with ramps for disabled people using wheel-chairs had been built near Saint Innocent’s Church before.

Mr Khardkov noted that more than 30 pedestrian crossings were adapted for handicapped people in north Moscow from November to December 2008.

Besides, roughly 200 flats in the houses located within the northern district of the Russian capital were rearranged in 2008 to provide a comfortable living for physically challenged individuals.

The official emphasized that the work on adapting the urban environment for disabled people would go on in 2009 that had been proclaimed by Moscow City Mayor Yuri Luzhkov as the Year of Equal Opportunities.