gusmac wrote:
bloodnock wrote:
gusmac wrote:
So are the disabled in rural areas less important than those in urban areas?
Or do they simply not have disabled people in rural areas?
Nope..just as many per head of population....but in a rural are there is no ranks for them to find a TAXI...they would have to pre book....and if they pre book then not every vehicle would need to be WAV..only the vehicle that was sent out to collect them would need to be a WAV if thats what they required...and theres enough WAVs going about to operate in such a manner...Simple
Not quite so simple though. Unless all or at least the vast majority are WAV, wheelchair users will have to wait longer than anyone else.
That means a substandard service and defeats the object of the exercise.
Not at all,.....available WAVs travel just as fast as saloons...no reason for it to be a slower service..the only part of the operation that costs time is loading and securing the Passenger. Maybe a Balance of 1 Wav out of every 5 in a PH fleet....and should you have a fleet of say less than 4 vehicles then a WAV vehicle should be optional.
It must be preferable to have at least some TAXI or PH operators in an area using saloons and a few WAVs rather than forcing WAVs on everybody and ending up with virtually no operators at all for local customers...Abled or Disabled.
Besides...the Disabled know they have also have a vaste pool of volunteer mobility groups they can call on, The disabled are not daft and they tend to plan their journey in advance. I have never yet in 10 years of rural Operating had to turn a wheelchair user away, they have all coped perfectly well with my saloons, and should they have had an electric wheelchair that I couldnt take then im guessing even a WAV would be of little use and a more specialised vehicle would be needed.
If we took the equality route then every single new car thats sold in britain should be wheelchair user friendly...but lets get real, they know customers have choices as to what vehicle suits their needs best without making all vehicles the same. same goes for the Disabled...they also have a choice of going with a WAV or a saloon and in most cases either vehicle will serve their purposes perfectly well.
I personally think the wider Issue is down to driver training...its a reluctance by some drivers to even consider taking a wheelchair user thats the problem. 95% of transportable disabled im sure could be carried in almost any vehicle type...and no way, even with WAVs will you get that percentage up by much.
but.....because Equality is a fashionable word at the moment and MPs just love to be seen as fashionable they pursue it with a Zealousy seldom seen in anything else they do....partly because we are such an easy target for to help them salve their wretched MP conscience's
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