Last night at 9:30 I waited 30 minutes for a bus in the freezing cold and when it arrived the automatic ramp didn't work again so couldn't get on the bus. It took me an hour and three quarters to get home by which time I couldn't talk due to being so cold.
Why is it that so many of the automatic ramps do not work? Is it that I am just unlucky or is it that so few people in wheelchairs travel on buses so they can get away with what appears to be a design or maintenance fault?
Why is it that I couldn't get a taxi in Carlton last night but when I went past the Casino there was a long line of wheelchair taxis waiting to take the punters home? How many of these people do you think were in wheelchairs?
What would it take to get the Government to take notice of the disabled and do something other than platitudes?
Why do we as a society not only tolerate but appear to encourage inequality even when all the evidence shows that inequality harms all of us, even the well-off?
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