I bet there were others who couldnt get on the train either. So for the sake of equality. She should have got there earlier
Having been on trains in Japan, I can safely say that England doesn't have trains that simply "have no room".
What kind of train are we talking about here? Like the street trains in munich where some bitches with their baby carriages or people in wheelchairs try to take the one fucking tram that is already choke full of students because it's one of the rush hour ones that passes the local universities and people are already stacking on top of one another? Or are we talking a casual train ride on an inter-city with bought seats?
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Why is this news?
'One passenger said something either mean or true to another passenger - call the reporters!'
Seems pretty lame.
People working 2 jobs in the US (at least one part-time) - 7.8 Million (Roughly 4.9% of the workforce)
People working 2 full-time jobs in the US - 360,000 (0.2% of the workforce)
Average time worked weekly by the US Workforce - 34.5 hours
The article says she said everybody else waiting on the platform got on. But the article is missing a ton of details to know what actually happened. Even if everyone else there got on, was she the last one to try? When I would take the subway in Boston I'd usually let everyone else get on first and sometimes there really wasn't room for me to get on without causing major problems.
pretty much this.
where i live, there's no rule saying that people need to book, but all intercity trains have a high entrance, so a special scissor lift/boarding ramp needs to be used if someone in a wheelchair wants to board.
if you book a handicap ticket there will be a lift and personnel on site to help you off.
our newest trains (general unused, only few units in use on regional trains) have a low-bed-low-entrance carriage, but alas they never really entered use.
metro systems/intra-city trains have low entrances tho.
I don't think people should be in those areas if there's room, but if they got there first and there really isn't more room, asking them to get off seems absurd. Part of equality is being treated equally rather than getting special favors - if there's no room, tough shit, wait for the next train.
The same one who received a settlement because she couldn't hold her piss because a toilet was out of order? Hell, I almost shit myself at a bar once, and the toilet was out of order, but I don't get a settlement because my legs work.
It sounds to me like she pulls the victim card any chance she gets.
#equalrights(withpreferentialtreatment)isalltheywant
Hyphened last name..........ZFG.
Me thinks Chromie has a whole lot of splaining to do!
Being disabled means that there are specifically designed areas for you on most American Trains. If you aren't disabled and are taking up those spaces and a disabled individual needs the spot you can be removed from the train and/or fined. Consider me shocked that the train in this story doesn't seem to have that.
The second part of that article about the woman wetting herself due to an out of service disabled bathroom would have resulted in a massive fine for the railroad here in the States as it would fail FRA safety guidelines as that particular car should have been put out of service until repairs could have been made.
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no you can not be removed from the train, you can be removed from that particular seat, yes. But if the bus is full or train is full, then they bus/train can not pick up additional passenagers. Disabled people are not priortized to go on a destination, especially if the person sitting on those chairs already payed the ticket. If there is room in the train or in the bus, the disabled person is allocated those seats.