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On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 03:22:00 -0800 (PST)
George wrote:
Wouldn't a taxi that took them from door to door be of far more use?
Shame it doesn't fit in with some people's politically correct ideals
eh?

Don't forget that in politically correct world their is no such thing as
a limit on the amount that should be spent accommodating minorities to
make
metropolitan liberals feel smug and self justified.

Even if wheelchair users have door to door service thats not good enough.
Far better to spend a few hundred million quid on upgrading the entire
tube system so a few hundred extra people in wheelchairs can suffer the
misery of it too.

The problem is:

if you spend 10 million pounds a year on special taxi fares for disabled
people, when a period of austerity comes along that money is easy to cut.

But if you've spent 200 million on infrastructure changes that are costing
you 10 million a year in finance costs you've no choice but to continue
paying it

tim