DISABILITY DILEMMA OF TRAVEL

OK ..

Here is a perfect example of something I've been talking about for a very, very long time now but only now gets covered in the media.

Now this has a bit of .. irony about it as it's to do with travelling on public transport and in a tabloid you can pick up for free while .. umm .. travelling?!

It's primarily to do with trains, thigh why just trains in not entirely sure.

And it's train stations where you pick up this tabloid.

What it states is that I've been saying for 13 years or more now, as in all that time I don't go anywhere without a walking stick. Unless it's very, very close by. I have one with me right now.

That which I've long since stated is that when your disabled public transport is bad.

In fact it's awful anyway and had been for years now.

But in the rush hours your simply not going to get a seat 90% of the time and if your confined to a wheelchair your not going to get on a bus.

Come to think of it tube trains are obviously a no-go area for wheelchairs.

What's worse and covered in this article is that no one gives up a seat for you. In my experience your lucky if it happens a single time in twenty or so journeys.

According to this article .. it's so bad, though it always has been, that they are now going to make public announcements for people sitting down to look up to see if there is someone who needs a seat?!

2018. It's 2018. They've been trying to force disabled people into work for the last six years or so and they only think of doing this now?!

It also states that people are ignorant. Most people too!

The fact is that the infrastructure of almost everything has seriously needed an overhaul or upgrade for years. But even long before the financial crisis came long they ignored this. Now we are years into a financial crisis and they expect disabled people to perform miracles. They cannot.

There is not very much wheelchair access and in the rush hour this is absolutely non existent, in London, almost everywhere. Unless your going against the rush of people? Years ago doing this means empty buses but even this is not like that any longer.

TfL Tube commuters throw their weight behind campaign telling passengers to 'look up' for people who need a seat http://flip.it/qOTjIp

HOT ON THE BUSES

So this is weird.

I just recently posted about being cooked alive at 9.45am on a bus and this news report comes out about searing heat on the buses.

Now this report involves buses in the Midlands somewhere but involves two very shocking things that need to be read to be believed.

First off the buses had their heaters on full blast and when asked about it the driver said he was sorry, could not turn them off because they helped keep the engine cool?!

What the feck?! This was something you did with cars thirty years ago or if you had a coolant leak but not today.

Passengers were dating they felt terrible and we're on the verge of passing out.

It does not have to be that hot for me to feel like that. I felt exactly like this yesterday afternoon and I wasn't even in a bloody bus. I had been in the morning but decided that buses were out completely until things cooled down.

The second shocking thing about this is the bus company stated when asked that they knew nothing about any of this?!

Errrr .... what?!

Only one of three things is going on here ...

First of that the driver is a complete moron.

Second that the manager at the bus depot is a complete moron and so are his drivers for believing this crap.

The third one might be what turns out to be the case ... the transport service knew dank damn well this was a problem and covering up and going no one realises they blew a large portion of the public's money on fucking cheap shite buses that overheat when the weather is hot.

Oh and in which case they are all idiots or staying quiet in an act of self preservation ... or both?

It's really .. quite surreal. I'm having trouble actually believing it really and wonder if I can remember to check where this story goes in the future.

Passengers 'boiled alive' on heated buses - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-36849648