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Title: FGW Accused Of Ignoring Its Disabled Passengers Post by: Lee on December 29, 2007, 11:26:04 A Former Bristol councillor and wheelchair user has accused First Great Western of ignoring disabled passengers.Kelvin Blake, a former Labour councillor for Filwood, believes disabled passengers were forgotten during a ^150 million upgrade of First's high-speed trains (link below.)
http://thisisbristol.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=145365&command=displayContent&sourceNode=145191&contentPK=19386782&folderPk=83726&pNodeId=144922 He says the train operator made luggage racks in first class carriages too large for standard wheelchairs to squeeze past. Some designated disabled carriages have been left off trains altogether during the upgrade, said Mr Blake. FGW have apologised and put their side of the story in the article. Title: Re: FGW Accused Of Ignoring Its Disabled Passengers Post by: Chris from Nailsea on December 30, 2007, 00:55:19 But this isn't a 'new' story - FGW were being challenged on this, back in May of this year - see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/6702869.stm >:(
Title: Re: FGW Accused Of Ignoring Its Disabled Passengers Post by: Lee on December 31, 2007, 10:43:50 But this isn't a 'new' story - FGW were being challenged on this, back in May of this year - see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/6702869.stm >:( Indeed, we covered that one as well (link below.) http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=340.msg978#msg978 This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |