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Tom Barry · June 17th 09, 07:09 AM posted to uk.transport.london

wrote:

How will they make the upper deck DDA-compliant?
Why would they need to?
On a bendy, all seats would be accessible to the disabled.

Really? I didn't think those at the back were.

Depends on your definition of 'disabled', really - obviously someone in
an actual wheelchair won't be able to use any of the 49 seats easily,
which is why there are wheelchair spaces, but someone frail or elderly
or with difficulties walking is quite possibly going to be able to use
all of them with the proviso that the ones at the back are up a slight
slope and harder to climb into. That's why there are priority seats
near the doors, however, presuming someone lets them sit down. From
memory there are rather more of these than on a conventional double
decker, but I haven't been on a bendy in a while.

Tom