New Penang ferries a danger to disabled people - activists

Alyaa AlhadjriPublished: Jan 3, 2021 5:38 AM | Updated: Jan 5, 2021 3:14 AM

Physically carrying passengers with disabilities to board the new Penang ferries could be more dangerous to them than help, activists said today.

Former Society of Disabled Persons Penang president Tan Kwan Aw said it was difficult for wheelchair users to enter the new faster and smaller models, unlike the recently retired older vessels...

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