Originally Posted by
theothersimon
have you tried pre-booking a wheelchair accessable taxi? If you can book on, it often won't turn up on time as they are so few and far between
This should surely tell yousomething
Buses are getting there
They have, at considerable expense, "got there". In London the entire fleet has been replaced in the last 10 years with wheelchair-accessible ones. This has had a number of notable effects. One is that, for a range of reasons in combination, such buses have significantly less seats than their predecessors, so many more passengers have to stand - a key way to drive people away from public transport. The second is that such buses cost twice as much as before (and , in combination with the previous point, four times as much per seat). A third is the wheelchair ramps the are all fitted with now are used so rarely that, should a wheelchair passenger actually present thmselves, the ramps are often found to be rusted/jammed in position.
Private cars are really the only option
That's great. Private cars are one of the few means of transport nowadays which are not adapted for disabled transport, and not required to be, yet the disabled find them (of course) the best option, over all that expensively adapted public transport. What a policy !