Disabled people need buses too (From The Argus)

Disabled people need buses too

5:13pm Friday 19th March 2010 in

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I would like to reply to Wendy Taylor’s letter regarding accessibility for disabled travellers (Letters, March 15).

Just because she has never seen a wheelchair user in the time she has been using public transport that does not mean there aren’t any.

I am the mother of a wheelchair user who has lived and worked in Brighton for many years, paying the same taxes and dues as everyone else and who also frequently uses public transport.

Why should she not have the same rights as the “majority” in society.

I cannot express the anger I feel about Ms Taylor’s narrow-minded views.

The “millions” of pounds spent on accessibility for buses is not exclusively for the disabled but for the elderly and for mothers with pushchairs also. So could she please suggest an alternative for wheelchair users who can’t afford one car, let alone two.

I suggest Ms Taylor spends a few days in a wheelchair and see how hard life is on a daily basis.

Let’s hope she never finds herself in the very same unfortunate situation in the future, because I think she sounds like the kind of person who would be the first to complain.

Christine Halstead
Preston Mansions, Brighton