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Accessible transport services: an inefficient way to help the mobility impaired

Gavin Smith - Transport Planner
20 May 2011
Gavin Smith has over 30 years of experience as a transport planner for a variety of public and voluntary sector bodies.
Gavin Smith has over 30 years of experience as a transport planner for a variety of public and voluntary sector bodies.

 

Do we need specialised accessible transport services?  (By ‘accessible transport’, I mean transport that a wheelchair user or other mobility impaired user can access). The question is not as daft as it sounds, especially as some local authorities pay very large sums annually for inefficient or incomplete specialised accessible transport systems. 

Take a not untypical scenario. A large local authority may operate or support a considerable, centralised, grant-aided, but...

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