Disability-friendly parks in Dubai by 2016

The civic body on Sunday announced that it intends to have disabled-friendly parks throughout the city by the end of 2016, in a bid to make the entire city a disabled-friendly one by 2020.

As part of Dubai Municipality’s strategy in making the emirate a friendly one for people with disabilities, 20 per cent of each park, theme park and square will be easily accessible to those in wheelchairs, the blind, or those with other disabilities.

The project is expected to start in October and to be completed within two years, and will include all the major theme parks and residential areas in the emirate.

“We have already paid considerable attention to the specifications of buildings and other facilities, such as streets and markets, and now parks are the next category under our focus,” said Hussain Nasser Lootah, Director-General of Dubai Municipality.