On 19 Nov 2010 11:11:59 GMT
Adrian wrote:
George gurgled happily, sounding much
like they were saying:

Does anybody really think wheelchair users are ever going to be able to
use the tube? Val Shawcross and the like just can't grasp the fact that
many disabled people don't want to use public transport, it just isn't
a viable option for them and it never will be.

Well, quite. Why would spazzes, flids & other crips want to try and lead
normal lives, anyway? Why can't they just be happy sitting at home
drooling in front of daytime TV...?

Obviously you've never heard of Dial-a-ride then.

B2003

d gurgled happily, sounding much like they were
saying:

Does anybody really think wheelchair users are ever going to be able
to use the tube? Val Shawcross and the like just can't grasp the fact
that many disabled people don't want to use public transport, it just
isn't a viable option for them and it never will be.

Well, quite. Why would spazzes, flids & other crips want to try and lead
normal lives, anyway? Why can't they just be happy sitting at home
drooling in front of daytime TV...?

Obviously you've never heard of Dial-a-ride then.

I've not only heard of it, I've got a far better idea of the reality of
it, having wasted far too much of my life trying to organise it to take
the M-i-L places.

In article ,
d wrote:
Does anybody really think wheelchair users are ever going to be able to
use the tube? Val Shawcross and the like just can't grasp the fact that
many disabled people don't want to use public transport, it just isn't
a viable option for them and it never will be.

Well, quite. Why would spazzes, flids & other crips want to try and lead
normal lives, anyway? Why can't they just be happy sitting at home
drooling in front of daytime TV...?

Obviously you've never heard of Dial-a-ride then.

A wheelchair-accessible tube is of more use to a wheelchair user than
dial-a-ride. I speak as someone who occasionally goes on to rush hour
tube trains with someone in a chair, and who has heard from users
of dial-a-ride exactly what it's like.

--
Mike Bristow

On 2010\11\19 16:32, Mike Bristow wrote:
In ,
d wrote:
Does anybody really think wheelchair users are ever going to be able to
use the tube? Val Shawcross and the like just can't grasp the fact that
many disabled people don't want to use public transport, it just isn't
a viable option for them and it never will be.

Well, quite. Why would spazzes, flids& other crips want to try and lead
normal lives, anyway? Why can't they just be happy sitting at home
drooling in front of daytime TV...?

Obviously you've never heard of Dial-a-ride then.

A wheelchair-accessible tube is of more use to a wheelchair user than
dial-a-ride. I speak as someone who occasionally goes on to rush hour
tube trains with someone in a chair, and who has heard from users
of dial-a-ride exactly what it's like.


Exactly what dial-a-ride is like depends on the funding level. If less
money was spent on retrofitting lifts to old tube stations, more could
be spent on dial-a-ride.

Basil Jet wrote:

Exactly what dial-a-ride is like depends on the funding level. If less
money was spent on retrofitting lifts to old tube stations, more could
be spent on dial-a-ride.


You know damn well that any money saved on making the Tube accessible
would *not* be diverted to dial-a-ride.

In any case, there would still be a heavy demand for dial-a-ride even
if the Tube was made fully accessible.

Thankfully, the Disability Discrimination Act goes some way to
ensuring that people with a very strong anti-disabled mindset have
absolutely no say in how the money is spent.

On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:39:13 +0000
Bruce wrote:
Thankfully, the Disability Discrimination Act goes some way to
ensuring that people with a very strong anti-disabled mindset have
absolutely no say in how the money is spent.

Right. And so we end up with ****ing pointless "wheelchair" areas on tube
trains which just means that the people who do use the tube now have less seats
and some of the ones they do have are uncomfortable flip up ones. So
thousands have to have an even more miserable journey just so self righteous
pricks like you can feel smug and feel that "something has been done!".
Even if that something is nothing more than idiotic gesture politics.

B2003