The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #120446   Message #2621413
Posted By: Liz the Squeak
29-Apr-09 - 03:21 PM
Thread Name: BS: Wheelchair info
Subject: RE: BS: Wheelchair info
Beat this one then...

In the headquarters of the PCS - the Union of the civil service, a Trade Union that prides itself on fighting for rights for all workers - the only door in has steps, albeit little ones. The only lift available for access to upper floors is in a narrow passageway that leaves no room to rotate a chair to reverse into the lift. The lift itself is not big enough to take a chair and more than one other person... it's certainly not big enough to rotate a chair in. The lift call button is so placed that the chair user has to reach forwards and up - if not actually partially raise themselves from the chair to call the lift. And the killer - to get to the disabled emergency access - i.e., the ramped fire escape - you have to get up a large step that is big for an able bodied person...!

LTS