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

hollydays

I also use the disabled seats briefly sometimes ,sometimes more than briefly, in the same way as Pollycat , and also because it saves me having to lurch from rail to rail to move up the bus.

hollydays

Her response of " I dont care " could have been to the threat of being photographed. The conversation isn't recounted, we don't know what was said.

JReacher1

hollydays wrote: »

I also use the disabled seats briefly sometimes ,sometimes more than briefly, in the same way as Pollycat , and also because it saves me having to lurch from rail to rail to move up the bus.

I'm surprised Bus's even bother having standard seats.

It doesn't look like anyone uses them

Pollycat

JReacher1 wrote: »

I'm surprised Bus's even bother having standard seats.

It doesn't look like anyone uses them

Our Bus's (sic) have lots of different seat configurations.

We've already established that hollydays and I use the drop-down seats - unless there is a wheelchair or baby buggy that needs the space of course.

JReacher1

Pollycat wrote: »

Our Bus's (sic) have lots of different seat configurations.

We've already established that hollydays and I use the drop-down seats - unless there is a wheelchair or baby buggy that needs the space of course.

I thought you wanted to put the thread back on topic?

Just repeating the fact you sit in the disabled space because of personal laziness doesn't help that objective :rotfl:

GwylimT

Someone asked earlier if you could book disabled seats on trains, supposedly you can, however we have always been informed if someone who is disabled boards the train before you they have priority over the seat whether you have booked it or not. In her four years of commuting my wheelchair using wife has never been successful in booking a disabled seat but has never actually seen a reserved ticket on one, so it seems few are in reality available to book.

Pollycat

JReacher1 wrote: »

I thought you wanted to put the thread back on topic?

Just repeating the fact you sit in the disabled space because of personal laziness doesn't help that objective :rotfl:

I think you'll find I did go back to the original topic.

It was your insistence on debating the rights and wrongs of using certain bus seats that de-railed it again - in your incessant quest to score cheap points about something (catching bus's (sic)) you appear to know sod all about.

I think you'll find that it's not me repeating that I sit in the disabled space because of personal laziness, it's you who is doing that.
hollydays has explained perfectly adequately why she also uses those seats - and it has nothing to do with personal laziness.

You've not even bothered to answer the OP's post here:

MoneyMate wrote: »

Can we all get back to the original thread please If there is a genuine disabled person requiring disabled seats on the train ( Should able bodied people move ? ) AND how can we police this in the future :beer:

Pollycat

GwylimT wrote: »

Someone asked earlier if you could book disabled seats on trains, supposedly you can, however we have always been informed if someone who is disabled boards the train before you they have priority over the seat whether you have booked it or not. In her four years of commuting my wheelchair using wife has never been successful in booking a disabled seat but has never actually seen a reserved ticket on one, so it seems few are in reality available to book.

It was probably I who asked if you could book seats.

Just curious - what has been your wife's experience of getting a disabled seat on trains?
Does she find able-bodied people are often sat in those seats?
If they are, do they move willingly when they see she needs that space? Or gracefully when asked to move?
Has she ever had to ask the inspector to move someone from a disabled seat?
Was he/she helpful?

It begs the question - are we really doing enough for disabled people travelling on trains?

SeduLOUs

wealdroam wrote: »

Hmmm... are there any trains that go to Exeter St. Davids via Winchester?

I think not.

I never believe anything I read on FB.

The fact you can't get a train direct from Winchester to Exeter St Davids is evidence enough for me of BS.

http://ojp.nationalrail.co.uk/service/timesandfares/WIN/EXD/tomorrow/0915/dep

MoneyMate