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Post by Admin on Dec 9, 2014 22:49:05 GMT
Bus firms not required to force parents with buggies to move for wheelchairsWheelchair users should petition parliament for a change in the law if they want to be sure of the right to reserved spaces on buses, according to a court of appeal judgment. In a ruling that balanced the interest of passengers with pushchairs against those in wheelchairs, three senior judges decided that transport firms are not required to force one traveller to make way for the other. “The proper remedy for wheelchair users is to ask parliament to strengthen the powers of bus drivers so that they could, for instance, require people to vacate the wheelchair space, or create new duties on other passengers, or to campaign for a different design of buses,” Lady Justice Arden said. “In that way, a greater number of wheelchair users would be able to use the wheelchair space.” The case focused on a woman’s refusal to move a pushchair with a sleeping baby from a bay on a bus used by wheelchair passengers in February 2012. FULL STORY HERE - www.theguardian.com/law/2014/dec/08/bus-parents-buggies-wheelchair-users-appeal-first-group
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