how about
the millions and millions of pounds spent on buses for the disabled?

obviously wheelchair users or other disabled people need transport. but for the millions of pounds squandered on replacing lovely london landmark routemasters or other perfectly serviceable double deckers with the new stupid buses, how many people who are so disabled that they can't be assisted onto an old bus could have been provided with their own taxi service? fuck it, their own limo driver and bugatti sportscar?? much easier and more convenient for the disabled passenger, millions of pounds cheaper for london, why not do this? because red ken and london transport are a bag of cheesy bell sniffers, that's why.

and in a city where congestion is the biggest problem, or one of, who thinks that making hundreds of buses three times the length of an ordinary one will help? not to mention the fact that they frequently crush people because they are too damn long for the drivers and more than one has spontaneously combusted...

stupid european regulations, stupid bendy buses, stupid mayor of london.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 11:59, 11 replies)

Yes!
Ken Livingston IS a big cheesy bell sniffer.

And I hate him.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Fri 23 Nov 2007, 12:11, closed)

oh to be in England...
yes I agree but then again London voted for him, personally I think I'll move there when I get back just to vote for Boris Johnson!!
(The kneeling rifleman Is slowly getting there.., Fri 23 Nov 2007, 12:15, closed)

When I went for a temp job with a christian organisation
(and my impression was that it should be christain with a capital KKK) the interview stopped immediately after the question "Where do you worship?".
More correctly, after my answer - that I didn't. I was told they only wanted a christian. And thank you for coming.
Apparantly thereis a legal get-out for this still (the interview was 15 years ago).
Is this true MsSwipe?
( Farmer Geddon - is on his way., Fri 23 Nov 2007, 12:30, closed)

i don't rightly know
as i'm a property lawyer not an employment one. but yeah, i would have thought that you'd be able to insist on certain criteria if it's essential for the job as there are some exceptions to the discrimination laws.

for example, it's ok to insist on hiring a woman if it's to be a bra fitter.

by analogy, if you're going to be working in an organisation that promotes and teaches christianity, you'd have to be christian. ultimately it depends on what the organisation DOES and what the job is FOR. typical lawyer waffle answer!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 12:42, closed)

Some of my best friends are disabled
Actually, that's not true. One does have a poorly foot though.
(frankspencer, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 12:47, closed)

...And I always wanted to be a bra fitter. Dammit!

Cheesy bell sniffer - Brilliant.

*writes in book of insults*
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Fri 23 Nov 2007, 12:49, closed)

Farmer Geddon...
...my girlfriend recently applied for a job with the YMCA.

The application form pointed out that the YMCA is a Christian organisation and went on to say that you didn't have to be a Christian, but you had to respect and be tolerant of all people's beliefs no matter what.

That's the way it should be, in my opinion.

(Sorry, but I can't answer your question though!)
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 12:55, closed)

mobility
It's a real piss-take that any costly changes be made to public transport to accomodate wheelchair users.
I don't have anything against our mechanically mobile bretheren, but they do get a specific motability benefit of up to £160ish per month, which is optionally redeemable for a free fucking car!
Taxpayers: Don't pay once for 'ripples, pay twice!

I also seen a lot of job adverts quoting some regulation that allowed them to specify gender when I was looking into working in social care. Apparently, a male carer isn't trusted not to violate a mong-lady's whimsy while he wipes her arse and changes her nappy. But if he's gay he can bugger any man-mong he is given unsupervised access to?!
(Greencloud Wanted to go fishing on, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 15:15, closed)

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Rachelswipe, I have long admired your posts but I had to reply and tell you... and it was the bendy buses that prompted it.

FUCKING bendy buses. I spend a good deal of time driving in central London and trying to get round the roundabout at the end of Waterloo road where there is a bendy bus, you're taking your life in your hands. They are BOLLOCKS.
(Clarabelle is reverting to type on, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 20:52, closed)

Oh transit...
thats my bag baby. Yeah, I work for NYC Transit. We have the bendy buses too (we call them artiks, short for articulated). Our entire city bus fleet has lifts for those in wheelchairs, and the newer "hybrid- low floor buses" have a ramp that slides out. I have no problem with this. However, the city does provide a service called "access-a-ride" where you prove to a doctor at the Authority (and if you really are disabled, then its cake), and they give you a pass, that enables you to ride this literal door-to-door service anywhere in the city for the same price as the regular bus and Subway (which is $2). Now the only thing with this service, is that you need to schedule your pick up I believe at least 36 hours in advance. Works great when know you have to go to your doctor and all, but that sudden desire to get groceries, makes it a bit inconvienent. Our subway has about 65 stations that are accessable. We need to have 100 done by 2020. We should actually surpass that goal by 3 or 4 stations, but we will continue to make stations accessible. Mind you I have in all my years riding the subway, I have seen just TWO people in wheelchairs on the subway. One was a beggar.

I remember seeing a program about inventions, and someone created a wheelchair that could actually climb steps. IF this is in fact true, the city could buy everyone who needed a wheelchair in the city so they didnt have to upgrade the stations. This would probably be cheaper in the long run.

It is in my experience about escalators and elevators, most of the people using them, are women with strollers (prams is that what they are called in the UK?), those with lots of packages, and the eldery.

All in all - we are doing our best, however some handicapped advocacy groups feel it isnt enough. Fitting in an elevator into a subway station that is 80 years old isnt easy (relocate utilities, sidewalks, many items), and can be very expensive very fast.
(Subway Riding the rails underground, Sat 24 Nov 2007, 2:58, closed)

And because the new buses are wider than the old Routemasters
which is probably why the driver of the 97 hit me while i was on the pavement. twat

And i'm still arguing with Red Ken over a bloody congestion charge fine.


grr, grr and thrice grr
( ogwen69 has returned from Reddit, Sat 24 Nov 2007, 21:22, closed)