At last night's meeting, I extolled the advantages of a RADAR key which
gives access to toilets for the disabled. I do not consider myself
disabled but research this morning showed Revenue & Customs thinks
otherwise. RADAR keys can be bought with VAT by anyone and without VAT
by disabled people making an exempting declaration at
http://www.radar.org.uk/radarwebsite/tabid/41/default.aspx. [I also
whinged the Doric Arch was wheelchair inaccessible while the
Metropolitan is not. I don't, myself, travel by wheelchair.]

I had suggested to LU that their toilets for the disabled should support
RADAR after I found those at Dollis Hill and Willesden Green did not and
were locked with standard LU locks. This morning I found North Greenwich
does. I also got an email which says "The A&I [Accesibilty (sic) and
Inclusion] team are currently working on a project to install RADAR key
locks on all public toilet doors on stations ... [and] are
expecting/hoping that all locks will be installed by the end of the
year."

It was good to put faces to some of the names and it is even better LU
is trying to cooperate on access.

[All they have to do now is put a wheelchair on the Circle/ H&C
trainboard line diagrams for King's Cross St. Pancras. I lost the will
to live when London Travelwatch required me to confirm there REALLY was
a problem after the victims at Customer Services told me it had been
fixed.]
--
Walter Briscoe