On June 22, I arrived at Brighton station by train with my 93-year-old mother, who has impaired sight.
I had hired a wheelchair for her. As I was carrying a heavy rucksack and my 73-year-old sister was with us, we decided to use a taxi to return to my mother's home in Elm Grove.
However, to our amazement and disgust, the two taxis we approached on the rank refused to take us, even though the wheelchair folded.
I find the insensitivity and discrimination of these drivers against my mother in a wheelchair absolutely unbelievable, as there were no notices displayed indicating that the taxi drivers at Brighton station are "wheelchair unfriendly".
Fortunately, at 70, I am still a strong walker, so managed the journey on foot, while my sister went by bus.
I wonder what somebody not as fit as I am would have done and what those taxi drivers will do if they are unlucky enough to find themselves in a similar situation at some time in the future?
-Peggy Merton, Fakenham, Norfolk
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