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The Only Living Boy in New Cross wrote:
Well exactly. Of course it's unrealistic *now*, but in the USA
disabled people have been able to sue over access since the mid-1970s,
and as a result there is far more awareness and accessibility over
there. LU must have known that things were going the same way here;

Indeed, a friend of my parents who is in a chair had a Churchill
Fellowship to the US in the seventies to look at this issue. Of course,
it's a social shift that has a lot of relationship to guilt over Vietnam
and improvements in battlefield medicine: there was a sudden rise in the
number of wheelchair using young men who were otherwise fit, politicised
and politically significant. How much of the wheelchair access to, say,
BART is practical if you don't have the upper body strength of a fit
young man who is the victim of an injury (as oppposed, say, to
progressive wasting from MS) is an interesting issue. Wheelchair users
are not, by and large, the wheelchair users one sees doing the London
Marathon, but have multiple other issues.

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