disability, data protection, activism and other such
I travelled from York to Amsterdam recently by train. It’s surprisingly quick and easy, and there aren’t any silly baggage restrictions, nor did I have to get out of my wheelchair at any point. But it’s not all straightforward, so I thought I’d give some tips. Booking This was the non-straightfoward bit. But it’s not…
There’s a coach service that stops in Wetherby, my home town, once a day in each direction, to Newcastle upon Tyne via Durham and southbound to Nottingham via Leeds and Sheffield. I thought I’d try it out, because National Express now claim that “virtually all of our fleet now has a passenger lift at the…
In oral evidence to the Select Committee on the Equality Act 2010 and Disability on Tuesday just gone (3rd November), after apposite and powerful evidence from Transport for All / Gwynneth Peddler (including on the repeated difficulty of conflict for the wheelchair space on buses,) Simon Posner of the Confederation of Passenger Transport Industries said…