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Acrosticus · April 15th 04, 06:53 PM posted to uk.transport.london

From: "Brimstone"
Date: 09/04/2004 09:18 GMT Standard Time

The primary concern with allowing wheelchairs onto the Underground,
specifically the tube lines, is getting them out in the event of an
emergency. The interconnecting doors between cars aren't wide enough nor is
the door in the front of the train allowing emergency access to the track
permitting emergency evacuation along the track to the next station.

Therefore it is surely the trains that are unsafe and not wheelchair users?
Back in the 1980s London Transport published a pathetic leaflet about disabled
access and concerning wheelchair users and the underground it as good as said
"Bugger off, you're a fire hazard. Why not take a taxi instead". It seems the
same cavalier attitude is still abroad today, even though the world has moved
on and disability awareness has increased (in most places).

The underground people seem to have stuck their head in the sand and hoped
disability access problems would go away. They won't, and they're just about to
get it in the neck for their longstanding negligence - which serves them right.