Author: Doug Paulley

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

Bernina Express in a Wheelchair: Rhaetian Railway blame the victim

Artikel auf Deutsch On the Bernina Express recently, there was no wheelchair space in the panoramic coach despite my booking the wheelchair space months in advance. Rhaetian Railway, which runs the service, didn’t even warn me before I arrived. tl;dw (Too Long, Didn’t Watch) – This caused me great distress, as it was a bucket-list…

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HEARING CANCELLED – Disabled people in Court! – Tues 18th June 2024, Disabled People and the Government’s National Climate Adaptation Plan

HEARING CANCELLED This hearing has been adjourned at short notice, to 23rd and 24th July. I’m pretty devastated – and I’m sorry to others who made arrangements. Doug – 17th June 2024 I’m one of three claimants taking the Government to court over its failure to produce a fit-for-purpose National Climate Adaptation Plan. If you can,…

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Disabled rail travellers’ handling during Storm Dudley vs Storm Eunice

Back in 2022, Dominic Lund-Conlon / Rail Delivery Group instructed the rail industry to stop / cancel all disabled people’s booked assistance during Storm Eunice. – for trains that continued to run, and including an entire country (Scotland) that was not disrupted by the southerly track of the storm. (Nearly all train operating companies (TOCs)…

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