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wannabeeahack
PostPosted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 3:09 pm 
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In our local paper

A disabled wheelchair user is complaining that M&S has no wheelchairs for shoppers to use, she has her own wheelchair, but prefers NOT to travel in by taxi, instead gets a lift and then wants M&S to supply a chair...

http://www.thisistamworth.co.uk/news/Bu ... ticle.html
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Sums it all up....Government ups the Anti on the Taxi trade to Maximise WAVs for everyone and then the Disabled punter like so many others get a neighbour to ferry them about in a saloon...What! between the Volunteers and Helpful neighbours the whole rationale of making WAVs more accessible seems to come apart.


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bloodnock wrote:
Sums it all up....Government ups the Anti on the Taxi trade to Maximise WAVs for everyone and then the Disabled punter like so many others get a neighbour to ferry them about in a saloon...What! between the Volunteers and Helpful neighbours the whole rationale of making WAVs more accessible seems to come apart.


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You forgot the Motobility Vehicles they get for nothing which again are saloons.
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at least it shows the goverment cares....
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Midlander wrote:
bloodnock wrote:
Sums it all up....Government ups the Anti on the Taxi trade to Maximise WAVs for everyone and then the Disabled punter like so many others get a neighbour to ferry them about in a saloon...What! between the Volunteers and Helpful neighbours the whole rationale of making WAVs more accessible seems to come apart.


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You forgot the Motobility Vehicles they get for nothing which again are saloons.


its funny how very few Mobility cars are WAVs int it.....

PLUS the council taxi tokens, £400 heating allowance and free TV licence+bus pass...

cant wait to get older
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wannabeeahack
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If I ran Mobility, and to get the lowest price for a vehicle, id put it to tender, and that vehicle would be the ONLY vehicle available (i reckon a base model berlingo should do it), that should see the fleet reduced fast

i think support for the disabled should be governed more, especially when i watch the "disabled" cars pull into the parking bays at Tesco and Morrisons and the driver+passenger leap out and jog into the shop
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wannabeeahack wrote:
If I ran Mobility, and to get the lowest price for a vehicle, id put it to tender, and that vehicle would be the ONLY vehicle available (i reckon a base model berlingo should do it), that should see the fleet reduced fast

i think support for the disabled should be governed more, especially when i watch the "disabled" cars pull into the parking bays at Tesco and Morrisons and the driver+passenger leap out and jog into the shop


Do you live near me?? There's loads of them round here.
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