Lowering tube floors to allow wheelchair access?
Michael Bell wrote:
There is (or maybe was) a project to lower the floors of new tube
stock and/or maybe only the trailers of existing stock by redesign
and
fitting smaller wheels - only fitting smaller wheels in the case of
existing
stock - to allow wheelchair access, and much more commerically
important,
though with no legal need, to make it easier to use children's
pushchairs and
shopping trolleys.
Can't see how they'd do it. Theres little enough room under the floors
for
the equipment as it is. Also , what happens at stations where the
platform
is already at the level of or higher than the trains floor such as the
new
section of the jubilee line , the bakerloo north of queens park, some
on the
piccadily etc..?
B2003
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