Here’s a round-up of the most recent information on the earth of accessible journey and incapacity, together with a surprising story of airport wheelchair pushers threatening a disabled girl for ideas. There’s some constructive information too, together with 3 standard U.S. cities for accessible journey and a person constructing wheelchair accessible ramps in his neighborhood.

Accessible Journey Information from Across the Net

• Girl alleges airport employees extorted her for cash — Katherine Frances Wolfe, a 62-year-old Briton touring from Goa, India to London, England, mentioned that two wheelchair help employees threatened her and compelled her to provide them cash on the Goa Airport. “The 2 males that have been alleged to be aiding me, stopped me in a random house within the airport, the place I used to be helplessly surrounded by each males towering over me, angrily telling me, ‘if you don’t pay us, then we are going to simply depart you right here’,” she mentioned. In complete, the equal of almost $50 U.S. {Dollars} was taken from her.

• United Airways Misplaced 2 Wheelchairs on the Identical Flight — Karah Behrend and Ryan Main each gate checked their private wheelchairs on a United Airways flight from Jacksonville, Florida to Houston, Texas, however the wheelchairs have been by no means loaded on the plane. They each had connecting flights, to Phoenix and New Orleans, respectively, and neither passenger was reconnected with their private wheelchair till the next day.

• Wheelchair Person Chargeable for Iceland’s First Accessible Gasoline Station and 500+ Entry Ramps — Two years in the past, Haraldur Þorleifsson dreamt up an thought to make companies in Iceland extra wheelchair-friendly, whereas he sat exterior a store that he couldn’t enter along with his personal mobility system. He shaped Ramp Up Iceland to construct tons of of wheelchair ramps throughout the nation, and he lately managed a venture to create Iceland’s first accessible fuel station. Option to go, Haraldur!

• 44% of U.Ok. Disabled Folks Say Sidewalks are Inaccessible — I’ve by no means been to a metropolis the place I didn’t consider that better consideration must be paid to sidewalk accessibility, however my experiences in London, England have typically been good. You may examine accessible London sidewalks in my London wheelchair journey information. The U.Ok. extends properly past London and this statistic suggests issues will not be so accessible exterior of the British capital metropolis. In an article for Forbes, Gus Alexiou reviews that “the commonest complaints amongst pedestrians with disabilities associated to a paucity of drop curbs, uneven surfaces and steep slopes in addition to seasonal boundaries akin to ice and overgrown vegetation.”

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