Steve wrote the following in:


Does anybody why wheelchair users are allowed to travel for free?

Actually, before you do, let me make one thing clear - I am all
for making travel in London more accessible for wheelchair-bound
and disabled people. I think we all agree on this point - why
should they be discriminated against?

But I have a problem with the fact that they are allowed to travel
free? Is this not rather discriminatory in itself?

The idea of a lot of accomodations for disabled people is that they put
the disabled person in question on a 'level playing field'. For example
a person who has difficulty writing by hand would be allowed to use a
computer to type in an exam. This is because it makes their ability to
write in the exam equal with that of a person who has no difficulty
writing by hand. For wheelchair users, getting around is an inherently
more expensive and difficult business requiring specialist equipment
like wheelchairs or, for example, adaptations to cars (although I don't
really know a great deal about the subject). By making travel on public
transport free that helps make them equal with people who do not have
to bear the extra costs associated with travel for wheelchair users.

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