Author: Doug Paulley

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

Southern Rail’s disgusting treatment of wheelchair users

My valued friend and co-campaigner told me about his disgusting experience at the hands of Southern Rail staff. I have reblogged the below from the excellent Transport for All website. I very much hope Southern Rail – and other rail providers – take it seriously. Their response to it doesn’t inspire confidence though; they clearly…

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ICO on S42 assessments of data controller’s compliance with S10

Here’s the ICO’s response in full. Editing errors, such as the chopped-off sentence “In circumstances where an individual believes,” were in the original. 21 July 2016   Case Reference Number RCC0621317   Dear Mr Paulley   I write in response to your correspondence of 17 March 2016 in which you have raised concerns about the…

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Accessible Single Deck Buses

On the way home from the Yorkshire Show on Tuesday, this happened: To cut a long story short, I caught a single deck bus that had no wheelchair ramp or wheelchair space. I thought that was illegal because all single deck buses must be accessible as of 1st January 2016. This is set out in…

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