7 years on from the Paulley v Firstgroup ruling, which affirmed bus drivers’ duty to ask those with buggies to vacate the wheelchair space, this is still a weekly occurrence. Why am I regularly refused access to a bus and forced to wait for a 2nd or 3rd? Why... does nothing change?show more

Today the wait for the next bus was 8 minutes, but the 2nd bus had a faulty ramp leading to a further delay. These may seem trivial delays, but they add up - and feature in *every single journey I make*. My journeys are already much longer (can’t use the Tube). It’s exhausting.

It’s important I have priority access to the wheelchair space because I use a wheelchair for every single journey I make. If I was stopped from boarding a bus every time there’s a buggy/luggage, I wouldn’t get anywhere ever. There’s many more buggies than wheelchairs!

I worked in accessible transport campaigning for 5 years, had countless meetings with TfL, read pages of “inclusivity strategies” etc etc, and I cannot for the life of me work out why things are not changing? Why do we have the same conversation over and over again?

At a time when action on climate, tackling pollution, and relieving congestion is needed more than ever, why is it not a priority to enable as many people as possible to use public transport? I shouldn’t be forced to depend on cars. Let me on the damn bus! 😩

Start taking legal proceedings against bus companies . Only way.

You may be right! But considering we already have the Paulley v Firstgroup precedent (and this doesn’t seem to affect driver behaviour) - I am not confident another identical case would help?

Even as a non disabled person this really really bloody annoys me. Buggies should 100% be asked to vacate the spaces to accommodate wheelchairs

I was dealing with this almost 20 years ago on my way to school. Can’t believe it’s still happening!

It’s groundhog day out here fr

And they want us to all go back to work but even getting there is a herculean effort somedays!!