Wheelchair

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TfL Keeps Tube Wheelchair Ramps After Games — For A While

Use of ramps will be reviewed over the next few months.

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New Wheelchair Advice Given To Bus Drivers

TfL acts after stories about disabled people having problems travelling around London.

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Wheelchair Labelled Fire Hazard At Cinema

Hot on the heels / wheels of our earlier story on parking for wheelchair users at Wembley, here is another story of unfair treatment that has a certain ‘WTF?’ air to it. James Ballardie of West Norwood is a fire hazard – but only when …

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Wembley Car Parking Price Hike

Wheelchair users and those dependent on car travel are paying double last week’s rates for parking at Wembley stadium. Wembley London Ltd manage the stadium’s car parks and this week prices have gone from £12.00 to £26.50 for a short stay. Disability charity Radar has …

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And Heroes Come

Working at my first ever Paralympic Games in Beijing, this Londonista heard and understood the maxim: ‘Heroes are born at the Olympics; Heroes come to the Paralympics.’ The Paralympics are the equivalent of the Olympics for athletes with physical, mental, and sensorial disabilities (so you’ll …

Accessing Wheelchair Accessible London?

A man rolls into a bar. Sounds like the start of a dumb joke? It’s not. Wheelchair-enabled people like going out in the evening as much as anybody. What does appear to be a joke is how difficult it can be to find info about …