IT was extremely disappointing to discover that from the time I went to college last week till the time I went to college this week, the bus shelter seats in Graham Road had been altered from high and unfixed to low and fixed. Who decided they should be altered?
Walk one day in my shoes. Spend some time with my pain and loss of mobility. Live for just a moment with the frustration my degree of disability causes, and then tell me you know better than I do what sort of bus shelter seat I should be sitting on. The ones that were there previously were perfect, and the ones that are there now cause me considerable pain and discomfort.
I don't want anyone to feel sorry for me, I simply ask that I be allowed the opportunity to choose the level of independence that suits me. I'm well aware that as the law stands under the Disability Discrimination Act, disabled people remain the only group in the UK who do not have the legal right to travel. So shame on those who only listened to those who complained loudest and longest about the design of the bus shelter seats, and ignored the needs of the rest of us.
ADRIENNE HILL, Cales Avenue, Malvern.
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