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How Japan Controls Sidewalk Construction Quality
Japan sidewalk construction quality: our challenge. Japan’s approach: Japanese sidewalks🇯🇵 are neat, equal everywhere — no bigger budgets, but no builder discretion: law, standards,…
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Safety: A Fundamental Matter of Design Work
The wheelchair ramp slope degrees are clearly set by law, but a ramp’s safety also depends on other details — like a manhole cover…
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Double-track railway: how far has it gotten?
Our people’s network has tracked the double-track railway programme for a while, and we’ve fallen behind. Let’s catch up. The double-track railway is the…
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Disability Employment: A Coin with Two Sides
People with disabilities keep telling me: disability employment Thailand has had a law for nearly 19 years, yet good jobs stay out of reach.…
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Tactile paving: the right spacing
Still on tactile paving. This time: how much clearance does a guide path need so blind people can walk safely? Know first how blind…
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Why should tactile paving be yellow?
I’m glad tactile paving is now a standard feature of sidewalks. But I still see blind spots from design to construction. Let’s talk about…
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Stem Cell Treatment for Spinal Cord Injury
I’ve followed this issue for years, so when the news broke, I dug deeper. This is new hope for spinal cord injury stem cell…
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TOP 5 Public Transportation Systems That Care for Passengers Best
Based on 2026 data, the best public transportation systems in the world — the ones that take care of passengers best — are all…
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Japan’s 33rd Report on the Situation of Persons with Disabilities
Japan 🇯🇵 just released its Disability White Paper 2026 (Reiwa 8) — the 33rd consecutive edition. Since 1994, the government reports to the Diet…
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Turning an Expressway into a Public Park – Sugoi!
Tokyo, so sugoi! This tokyo expressway park conversion is turning the city’s decommissioned elevated expressway into a 2-km ‘sky park.’ A city that values…