Author: Doug Paulley

Wheelchair user and residential care user, sometimes thorn in the side of authorities.

easyJet mauls wheelchair

A guest blog by my excellent co-campaigner and friend Esther. Please share awareness of this and bring pressure on easyJet to do the decent thing. Just before Christmas I went on a phenomenal holiday to Egypt. On the way home, it was ruined by Easyjet who messed up the boarding at Hurghada so I was…

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Taxis and the Equality Act

Download Final September 2018 report: Licensing authorities’ approach to the Equality Act 2010 provisions on taxi wheelchair discrimination Sept 2018 report (.pdf, 3Mb) – Sept 2018 report (.docx, 3Mb) Interim Reports: April 2018 update (.pdf, 2Mb) – April 2018 update (.docx, 7Mb) July 2017 initial report (.pdf, 7Mb) – July 2017 initial report (.docx, 27Mb)…

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Accessibility of Rail Replacement Bus Services

I’m finalising my submission to the Transport Select Committee’s inquiry into the effects of this year’s rail timetable disruption on passengers. I am publishing here my explanation as to why I think that it is a (little-honoured) legal requirement that most rail replacement bus services must be operated using accessible vehicles. It is a criminal…

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