The family of an 11-year-old girl with cerebral palsy has accused the Blackpool Transport tram company of abandoning her on a day out after they refused to carry her wheelchair back from the seafront.
Has the whole darn world gone bonkers??
A 47-year-old wheelchair-bound mother who had a stroke 18 months ago has been forced to do her banking on the street after staff at her local NatWest branch refused to lift her up two steps “for health and safety reasons.”
Is this the 21st century??
Some of you may remember Kenny Cieplik, the maverick Accessibility Consultant we profiled on Irked last month. Well, we’re not the only ones who think Kenny is truly phenomenal (not by a long shot!). Mark J. Belanger, a columnist for The Middleboro Gazette, recently wrote a wonderful, earnest, insightful piece about Kenny’s advocacy work titled Changing the world, one review at a time.
Meet the trailblazer behind TheTravelingWheelchair.com…after the jump!
