Disability and London's Public Transport System: The Truth
With six months until the 2012 Olympic Games - when tens of thousands of people with disabilities will be among those flooding to the capital - LBC decided to test the reality of travelling around the capital with a disability.
Reporter Declan Harvey was joined by actress and disability rights campaigner Julie Fernandez to see first hand what it is like travelling around London in a wheelchair. To get an accurate idea of how much harder it is for someone with a disability LBC's Chloe Aust did the same journey as an able-bodied person. The idea was to travel from LBC's office in Leicester Square to Kings Cross - as if to meet someone coming in to London from elsewhere - then to Liverpool Street to get some lunch at Spitalfields before heading to Stratford - the home of the Olympic Park. Here is how they got on...-
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Here is what inspired this report - the official step free tube map from Transport for London.
Despite claims the underground is accessible you can see from the number of circles that very few stations have step free access - making London a very hard place to navigate for those in a wheelchair.