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Old August 28th 17, 01:31 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default TfL, Guide Dogs and Minicab Drivers



"Someone Somewhere" wrote in message
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On 25/08/2017 10:45, Robin9 wrote:
TfL have announced that they have successfully prosecuted 21 private
hire drivers for not accepting assistance dogs between February 2015
and May 2017. One driver was ordered to pay £1,488 after trying to
charge
extra for carrying an assistance dog.

http://tinyurl.com/y7pr5sg3


Whilst my natural reaction to this is "good", it does raise the question
of whether assistance dogs are special


the dogs themselves aren't special

but their owners are

without their dogs these people are generally housebound,

and society has decided that that would be unacceptable

so they are given rights (to insist on being allowed to take their dogs to
restricted places) that others don't have

and whether private hire drivers are allowed to refuse passengers
(irrespective of number of legs) for any reason and if so what?


they can refuse to carry someone for any non-discriminative [1] reason

Good luck with proving that you refused to carry a blind person (plus dog)
on that lawful basis

tim

[1] not limited to the discussion here on disability