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[email protected] · October 4th 15, 08:45 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Neil Williams) wrote:

On 2015-10-04 10:20:19 +0000, Roland Perry said:

It's not necessarily important for every private hire vehicle to
offer disability access, because the are pre-booked. As long as
each firm has some minimum number of such vehicles available if
requested, that should be sufficient.

Indeed. The principle should be that the accessible vehicles are
available on the same terms as the non-accessible ones (e.g. they are
kept available for such bookings such that the bookings are satisfied
within the same sort of time period as for a non-accesible vehicle)
not that every vehicle has to be accessible.

Bear in mind that "accessible" isn't a simple binary. My late mother
couldn't use black cabs late in her life because she couldn't make the step
up to climb in. She could use conventional saloons though. So some cabs are
not accessible to wheelchairs but are accessible to some old people. That is
why the Cambridge Hackney carriage fleet continues to have both types of
vehicle licensed.

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Colin Rosenstiel