Member

The facts are simple: disabilities do not disappear at peak times. Why, then, are our policies based on arbitrary timeframes? To design a scheme intended to promote accessibility, only to limit it when most people need it, undermines the very purpose of the policy. The issue came to light when my mum put me in touch with her friend Amy, who gets in a taxi with her son to drop him off at school. She then has to spend 30 minutes waiting before she can use her disabled bus pass to get home. In South Yorkshire, a disabled bus pass holder got in touch with me about how their travel journey included one stop in a different local authority. Kurt, who is registered blind, ended up being thrown off the bus at 9.25 am. Liberal Democrat councillors have long campaigned on this issue, including John Lawson in Kirklees, who raised the case of a Cleckheaton resident with epilepsy who suffered from the restrictions too.