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Bus drivers in London often ignore wheelchair users’ requests to get off, driving off with them on board, on a regular basis – over 50 times to Chris alone, as put to TFL’s manager on ITV News. Today, after ignoring Chris’s request to get off, the driver had a parting message for him…
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…
In oral evidence to the Select Committee on the Equality Act 2010 and Disability on Tuesday just gone (3rd November), after apposite and powerful evidence from Transport for All / Gwynneth Peddler (including on the repeated difficulty of conflict for the wheelchair space on buses,) Simon Posner of the Confederation of Passenger Transport Industries said…