Turku for All

Good to know for visually impaired

• plenty of stands, clothes stands, poles, flowerpots and more, but still good space for moving
• the floor beige/gray checked pattern
• see the symbol Automatic door
• in connection to the entrances gray stone covering
• good lighting

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Glare trouble

• some of the entrances have lamps in the floor (see the symbol Automatic door)

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Guide and service dogs welcome

Level changes

• Linnankatu's entrance
• the whole entrance longsloping rising
• steep rising, about 20% on a length of five meters
• after the rising threshold 3 cm
• at the Aurakatu's entrance longsloping rising

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Door with automatic opening mechanism

• doors of glass
• gray metal edges
• Kauppiaskatu's entrance: 
• the best entrance
• NB before the door stands (on the left side) and bicycles (on the right side), still plenty of room
• automatic sliding door: free width 220cm, no threshold
•  the inner door about 220cm
• light checked pattern as contrast borders
• Eerikinkatu's entrance:
• the narrowest route
• 2 pcs automatic sliding doors, both's free width 150 cm
• no contrast border on the outer door
• on the inner door light checked pattern as contrast borders
• grating after the outer door
• the entrance goes through the café: many tables, poles and flowerpots
• Aurakatu's entrance
• 3 doors, the most outer's free width 140 cm, the other's 150 cm
• the most outer automatic sliding door, the other are open
• grating after the middle door
• long sloping rising
• the floor gray stone covering, the walls are yellow
• dim
• lamps in the floor
• stands in the corridor
• Linnankatu's entrance:
• the hardest entrance
• 2 pcs automatic sliding doors, both with free width 170cm
• light checked pattern as contrast borders
• grating after the outer door
• the floor of gray stone covering
• the whole the entrance long sloping rising
• steep rising, about 20% on a length of five meters
• after the rising threshold 3 cm
• lamp in the floor

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Fully accessible

Spacious Lift

lift to Clas Ohlsson on the upper floor. no information sign to the lift. the lift resides next to the Turku local transportations office

• the doors width :90 cm
• depth 138 cm
• free width 120 cm
• automatic door
• the ordering button on the doors left side, height 115 cm
• the lifts buttons on the left side seen from the door
• the lifts buttons, height 100-110 cm and alarm button, height 120 cm

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Parking place for disabled people 1 slot

• the closest parking slots for disabled on Kauppiaskatu in front of Hamburger Börs and on Aurakatu in front of Galax
  

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Additional information

• almost all shops in Forum have fully accessible entrance, but it is hard to move around for example in a wheelchair
• in Forums corridors many stands, clothes stands and flowerpots
• shops in Forum
  • Clas Ohlson

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