THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS LIONS CLUB BARI HOST
53 TH ANNIVERSARY OF FOUNDATION
The report of our meetings: Press Officer:
(Lions, Peter VITALE - Journalist and writer - Card Order Naz. publicists n.116644) Administrative Office of the LC Bari Host: Nicolas Sheraton Hotel - Bari
Nothing is ever really lost, or can be lost: no birth, shape, identity, anything in the world, no life, no power, nothing visible.
The appearance must not impede or the scope changed to confuse the brain.
Vast is the time and space, vast fields of Nature. "(Walt Whitman" Continuity "
" Helping today serve more "
DG Dr. Rocco Saltino Bari 10.01.2011
SUBJECT:" path of light "for the visually impaired Bari Host Lions Club.
city tour for the blind in the center of Bari 2.5 km, complete with traffic lights
equipped and connected with railway stations.
Inauguration January 23, 2010 - The
HOST LIONS CLUB BARI, the oldest club in the city of Bari, in the social 2007-2008, President Di Pasquale Ciommo, thought to honor the fiftieth anniversary of the foundation with a service for the city, shared with all other Lions Clubs in the city that year, Borgo Antico, Aragonese, Federico II, Murat G., Isabella of Aragon, Levante, Mediterranean, Melvin Jones, Niccolò Piccinni, Svevo, Trigg Marina. As you know
set himself and made a tactile urban continuity for the blind and visually impaired affecting the sidewalks of main streets of the city.
The work was completed, the Lions part, 30 June 2008 but we had to wait two years to complete agreement with the City by De Rossi, slides and for crossing with traffic lights for blind people and their connections with our path.
All the work is so enjoyable and so now it has been agreed and set a date for the opening, which was set by the governor Sunday, January 23, 2011. We noted that the inauguration will be attended by the International Director Domenico Messina and Chairman of the Board of Governors Stefano Camurri, we have the two highest offices of the Italian Lions.
Join us in this ceremony, the city of Bari, the Italian Blind Union, the Regional Transport, the Regional Mobility, the railway operators in South East Railways, Railways discharging Lucane, Railway stock (Bari Nord) will
a ceremony that will see us on the way to give public evidence to the work and a ceremony in the council chamber.
recall some salient features of the work and principles which have accompanied the creation and production.
The work called "PATH LIGHT, winds for about 2.5 km in the center of the city of Bari and is in its continuity be one of the largest, if not the largest, area for blind people in the world made of bricks according to the tactile system encoded Loges.
The route starts from the railway station to welcome the users of rail service and lead them to the University by connecting to a closed path, a quadrilateral covering the main streets of the city center, Via Crisanzio, Via De Rossi, Corso Vittorio Emanuele, Via Prospero and Via Argiro Petroni.
The course was designed tactile pavement with bricks under current rules, the track continues, centrally placed along the sidewalks, will guide the blind and partially sighted people by sending them a free trail reports, their diversions, obstacles or impassable impassable and in particular target for road crossings. "PATH LIGHT", freedom and solidarity for those who do not enjoy the light.
But the great result was completed by the joint synergy has been created with the city of Bari and the railway operator.
After the broken door by the Lions, the City of Bari has accomplished less than forty sets of traffic lights and slides for blind people, most of these interventions have focused on the path of light, then the latter was further illustrated by these aids at intersections with traffic lights.
the path of light leaves from Piazza Aldo Moro, from the station where there are four train operators, and these Lions signed with us a memorandum of understanding with which he undertook to make paths for the blind in their stations that welcomes the arrival blind to lead them outside to connect to our path. The railways will provide the State with a specific project while three train operators have made interventions:
-Railways-Appulo Lucane, inter-operator;
-Railways South East regional manager Apulian
-tramway (Bari Nord) operator Apulian
In Bari, therefore, January 23, 2010 will be inaugurated by the result of this solidarity and witness to the great solidarity of the people of Puglia.
The ceremony will be accompanied with the presence of the highest offices Lionism Italian and international, political authorities, civil and religious, many associations, including the first, the Italian Blind Union, which supported and wanted our assistance, the Region of Puglia , which created synergy with the railway operators, railway operators of the same, the City of Bari and all of the city of Bari
Lions will be a ceremony of public evidence along the way and a ceremony in the council chamber, the program will be detailed shortly. The
DREAMS 'BECOME REALITY'
- A PATH OF LIGHT -
This course will enable the blind to walk through the city independently and will feel our presence through the use of the information that we have made an indelible way for them, all of us realize the dream of the city of Bari Lions:
to ensure that every friend who is blind or visually impaired
taking a train that stops in the city of Bari,
is down a path that will give a light
chopped Freedom and Solidarity
and welcome him and accompany him in
"CITTA 'LIGHT'
only way we will fulfill our mission and
"L" LIONS will be synonymous with "L" LIGHT
Head of Service del Cinquantennale
“Percorso di Luce”
Presidente L.C. Bari Host 2007-8
Pasquale Di Ciommo
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