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Yers. That's if you even bother trying in the first place. Where the fuck are you going to flag them down? Stand outside the building you were in and hope one goes past? Try to wave one down from knee-height by the side of a main road with people twice your height surrounding you? Not bloody likely. It's a bit like buses - they're all kitted out to be wheelchair-friendly but you hardly ever see anyone getting on them with a wheelchair, and it's not because there's hardly anybody in the city who needs a wheelchair, it's because they're still a massive ballache to use even with their fuzzy little headboards and their kneeling step.
I was being slightly facetious in my response to Apollo though, but that's because his question was facetious. Of course I wasn't saying all disabled people are poor, that would be absurd. They are, however, twice as likely to be living in poverty than people without a disability, so they're even less likely to be able to get cabs everywhere than "normal" people are, and "normal" people are priced out of the things themselves. Of course there are people with disabilities who aren't poor, I'm one. But it's not so very long ago that I was one of those disability-linked poverty statistics myself, and it's purely through the whims of chance that's no longer the case.
I didn't understand the whole buses thing until a few months ago when my partner started working in a carehome scheme thing for disabled people who are in that "almost 24/7 care" grey area in that they need help daily and need someone on call but aren't considered 24/7 so need to share staff. She started having to take them out but more with the instruction to be there and let them do things as much and as independantly as possible. Her observations on buses had been that request stops will be ignored so often it was "easier" to go to another stop, another tactic by drivers is to claim the ramps are broken, when they did eventually get on a bus the driver would radio in a delay and the route would often cut short and then the next bus would become full as all the able passengers boarded first and they would have to wait ages before they got going again. Lastly the levels of animosity are fucking huge, everyone gives disgusted looks when someone takes a minute to find an oyster card let alone the whole ramp up/down ordeal.
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Disabled people who have limited mobility can't afford to take fucking taxis in the first place
Who says they have to pay for them? Certain benefits include help with these transport expenses.
Mini cab firms do very well out of hospitals too - ferrying sick and disabled passengers (probably families and medics too) - sometimes in place of an ambulance, if safe enough.
That's not to say I disagree with your point that the disabled are twice as likely to be living in poverty than people without a disability.
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Her observations on buses had been that request stops will be ignored so often it was "easier" to go to another stop, another tactic by drivers is to claim the ramps are broken, when they did eventually get on a bus the driver would radio in a delay and the route would often cut short and then the next bus would become full as all the able passengers boarded first and they would have to wait ages before they got going again. Lastly the levels of animosity are fucking huge, everyone gives disgusted looks when someone takes a minute to find an oyster card let alone the whole ramp up/down ordeal.
So depressing :(Does she find her job rewarding and/or enjoyable though?
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Ok, ok, so some disabled people can make use of the capped allowance for travel that they may be eligible for (depending on their award and the schemes that their local authority has in place) in order to take a thrilling trip or three to the hospital and back in a black cab.
The above statement has still not convinced me of Jeez's central point of "black cabs are better than any other transport service because of them disableds innit".
Edit: I am being slightly unfair. That wasn't Jeez's central point, it was just the only point he had left after his other two points were demolished as being manifest bollocks
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So depressing :(
Does she find her job rewarding and/or enjoyable though?
Extremely. She trained as a nurse and then got stuck a couple of years ago between being newly qualified and not having 6 months experience, most of the interviews she made would have someone who had just been made redundant from a similar role in another hospital or even just different department so loads of experience and she had no chance, yay side effects of cuts. She decided to take a step down from being a nurse to be some sort of support worker(crazy long job titles I can't remember). She really enjoys it tho and all the people she cares for sound nice, pay is more than I get so she always has more money left after all the bills lol
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farage - man of the people also caught fiddling his expenses
£200k of gifts and kickbacksis there a single politician who isn't on the fiddle
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More fuel efficient and safer lorry designs? Sorry. Your life is not worth it.
Under Franco-Swedish pressure, ministers regrettably agreed to ban the introduction of safer and cleaner lorry cabs from Europe’s roads for at least eight years.
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"London road casualties at their lowest level ever'
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farage - man of the people also caught fiddling his expenses
£200k of gifts and kickbacksis there a single politician who isn't on the fiddle
He could face a fine of as much as £20,000.
WTF? £200k profit and get fined 10% of that? No wonder they're all at it. -
not everyone sent it back
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I'm putting mine straight in the cat litter tray :)
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Why has Harrison Ford's leg breakage made national news ALL DAY?
HTFU!
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Technically isn't that august?
On disability & transport, I've just run a two year action research programme on adults living in residential care & their transport needs and barriers. I'll bore you with the highlights once I've typed them up; in short - private hire exploit disabled people; public transport (bus & trains) actively avoid the PD community & have even told me they actively discriminate, and care budgets through the mobility component of DLA mean people are socially isolated to the extent they can't afford to even go to family funerals. Cheery stuff.
Farage remains a constant teat, and is in a leadership contest with Rowan Atkinson's brother.
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This man doesn't care for music. He said so himself in an interview. I mean, that's it brother. You're out the door. Wipe your tone deaf feet on the way out and never call me again. People like you give people like me a worse name than we already have. Belm.
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Not well off, but every one of the people I know who need to take taxis due to mobility or other reasons (disclaimer - this is obviously not ALL people with mobility issues but all the one's I know personally) have their journeys on account which are paid for along with their other government subsidies. If they do have to take a black cab, they get a receipt and it is reimbursed.