{"id":1312,"date":"2025-11-27T12:17:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T12:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizen.equality.agency\/idcitizen-campaign-how-did-the-m3-line-in-budapest-become-accessible\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T13:04:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T13:04:03","slug":"idcitizen-campaign-how-did-the-m3-line-in-budapest-become-accessible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizen.equality.agency\/en\/idcitizen-campaign-how-did-the-m3-line-in-budapest-become-accessible\/","title":{"rendered":"ID:CITIZEN Campaign: HOW DID THE M3 LINE IN BUDAPEST BECOME ACCESSIBLE?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1312\" class=\"elementor elementor-1312 elementor-1274\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1c3ef56 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"1c3ef56\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-20c2f37 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"20c2f37\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\ud83d\ude89 HOW DID THE M3 LINE IN BUDAPEST BECOME ACCESSIBLE?<\/strong><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\ud83d\udea7 Announced plans for the reconstruction of the M3 Metro Line in Budapest in 2017 did not guarantee full accessibility, which raised concerns among disability rights organizations, who feared that the line would continue to exclude thousands of citizens from safe and independent travel.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\ud83d\udcaa\ud83c\udffc Citizen campaigns such as &#8220;Give us wings!&#8221; and the advocacy of MEOSZ (National Federation of Associations of People with Physical Disabilities) played a key role. 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