On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 11:35:04AM +0000, Walter Briscoe wrote:

"All of London's 8,000 buses are now low-floor, wheelchair accessible
vehicles. The ramps on all buses must be in full working order at all
times. Any bus with a defective ramp is taken out of service, so you are
assured of full accessibility at all times."

That's just crazy. So given the choice of inconveniencing a tiny number
of people (wheelchair users unable to use that bus if it remains in
service until the end of the day before being fixed overnight) versus
inconveniencing a huge number of people (that is, everyone unable to use
a bus that isn't in service) they've chosen to inconvenience everyone.
This helps neither those disabled people wanting to use the bus nor the
cause of accessibility - it just makes normal people ****ed off at how
accessibility inconveniences them.

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