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I can tell you've never tried to use the Underground with a wheelchair, tho if you're questioning what accessible means in that context—because it's really bad.

• YeGoblynQueenne 4y ago
  Ah, my bad - literally "accessible". I don't use a wheelchair and I don't know about the London underground but I can tell you that public transport in the small town I lived for 15 years were eminently accessible, as evidenced by the continuous presense of passengers with obvious (and varied) mobility issues on them. In any case improving accessibility on public transport also does not require any new technology that we don't know how to create. It just requires political will.
  • ghusbands 4y ago
    This is a common refrain, that things must be accessible because you see people with mobility issues using them. But it's not true - the people you see are the people who are coping with it, either all the time or on that day. You don't see all the people for whom it is not accessible. It's well-known in disabled circles that most public transport is hit and miss at best and exclusionary/ableist/injuring at worst. Actually solving the problem does involve new technology, because the worst cases need door-to-door access and most cannot afford taxis (nor do welfare systems provide them). What makes it all harder though is the continual fight to persuade every last person that it is a significant problem, because they're so sure it can't be.