Should People move to other available seats if disabled seats are required on trains

MoneyMate

Please don't shoot the messenger, Please have a look at this link
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152596894749262&set=a.10150699291439262.410188.708959261&type=1&fref=nf&pnref=story
If there is a genuine disabled person requiring disabled seats on the train ( Should able bodied people move ? ) :eek:

BrassicWoman

if the disabled person has reserved seats, yes.

I'm loathed to abuse random people on facebook when we don't know the full story though. It's possible it's just a pic of 2 women on a day out and a spiteful relative is stirring things needlessly.

Also, situations like this are what the train manager is for.

Indie_Kid

Of course they should.

Not sure where anyone expected that child to go tbh. Those areas are for wheelchair users.

peter_the_piper

I'm very surprised that you should even need to ask the question.

GwylimT

Yes, which is why on most trains there is a sign stating they are priority seats for disabled/elderly people, therefore if someone enters the train who fits that category a person say in them must move.

carlislelass

According to the post the boy was in a wheelchair

GwylimT

carlislelass wrote: »

According to the post the boy was in a wheelchair

Which is why he needed to use the extra leg room area to be in his wheelchair, from experience unless you can use this area as a wheelchair user you will be removed from train at the next stop while a women with several bags of shopping that she couldn't possible put on the overhead storage takes up both disabled seats and ensures the wheelchair area cannot be accessed.

BrassicWoman

carlislelass wrote: »

According to the post the boy was in a wheelchair

and according to the post there are empty seats behind the women if someone moves a handbag. I have a credibility gap and think someone is stirring. Video would be more compelling.

I do hate this mass dogpiling and bulling by social media. Facts need checking!

MoneyMate

BrassicWoman wrote: »

and according to the post there are empty seats behind the women if someone moves a handbag. I have a credibility gap and think someone is stirring. Video would be more compelling.

I do hate this mass dogpiling and bulling by social media. Facts need checking!

And were in the disabled seats on the train heading towards Exeter St David's via Winchester on Monday 27th October, when asked politely to move as a 9 year old boy with no motor skills, severe learning difficulties. :mad:

BrassicWoman

MoneyMate wrote: »

And were in the disabled seats on the train heading towards Exeter St David's via Winchester on Monday 27th October, when asked politely to move as a 9 year old boy with no motor skills, severe learning difficulties. :mad:

prove it. were you there? do you have video? do you have a contact for the disabled kid about whom there are so very many details but no parents or carers posting?

This has all the hallmarks of an internet scam. All I see is stirrers cutting and pasting mock outrage. I've done a search on an image and there is nthing but this one troll post cut and pasted. There's no original post from anyone who was actually there, or the parents. There are plenty people calling for evidence, followed by deadly silence....

MoneyMate

BrassicWoman wrote: »

prove it. were you there? do you have video? do you have a contact for the disabled kid about whom there are so very many details but no parents or carers posting?

This has all the hallmarks of an internet scam. All I see is stirrers cutting and pasting mock outrage. I've done a search on an image and there is nthing but this one troll post cut and pasted. There's no original post from anyone who was actually there, or the parents. There are plenty people calling for evidence, followed by deadly silence....

This not is not nthing to the people involved, thanks for your negative attitude . :beer: