"TheOneKEA" wrote in message
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"John Rowland" wrote in message
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3595351.stm
London Underground (LU) has been warned that it could be sued by
disabled
people if it does not improve access for them by October.
By then the part of the Disability Discrimination Act which governs
access
to transport will come into force.
Currently only one in seven stations are step-free, which allows entry
for
wheelchair users.
[snip]
And where will the resources needed to go back and restore the lifts
originally removed in lieu of escalators come from?
Brad
Not only that be you would need to upgrade them to 'modern' gold plated
standards. Additonaly as I understand it correctly the former lift shafts at
some stations
aren't actually street-platform level in any event.
Of course if the tube had been properly funded as Metro's in other countries
are
then this modernisation work could have been carried out ages ago. But then
this is
Britian with a Tresuary that suffers from acountantitis..