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Posted By ghgeorge 6 months, 1 week ago in Health & FitnessThe town of Skelmersdale has recently purchased several buses from Wirral in England. The new buses were the double decker style and were supposedly much more comfortable and the customers really liked them. However, after putting them on the roads it was discovered that there was no way to get a wheelchair onto the bus. These buses were the older type that did not dip down to road level and let wheelchairs roll onto the main deck. This leaves the disabled community without public transportation and those that were using the disabled travel passes have no way to get around. The work around at this point is for the disabled to pay for taxi service to take them to their destination. However. most of the disabled cannot afford taxis for functions like going to the doctor or the grocery store. The city has promised to fix all of the buses so that they are fully accessible to the disabled but gave no time frame of this work having a completion date. (Source: OSAdvisor.co.uk )
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