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• Disability services - University of Newcastle
• Planetamber - global health and disability resource center
• Nexus - information on accessible transport
• Disability North
• Transport and travel - disability information
• Disabled passengers transport advisory committee

Getting around abroad:

• Preferred places - mobility information

Mobility information data bases:

• Disability links
• Disability contacts north tyneside

Views on local transport:

North Tyneside Mobility Transport Challenge- 28.2.2002 Extra-wide wheelchairs: can not use public transport at all with extra wide wheelchairs. There is not even the ability to use the Care Bus as it does not accommodate extra wide wheelchairs. This raises the question of the need to improve the design of mainstream transport and assisted transport.

Difficulties in accessing buses because of vehicles parked at the kerbside. People with mobility difficulties are particularly badly affected by unauthorised parking at busstops. This pushes such travellers into dangerous situations and manoeuvres where they are likely to fall down and hurt themselves. As many people who are already restricted in their mobility have to use public transport to access doctors surgeries and hospitals (the care bus can not be used for hospital visits), there are particular dangers. There is a need for proper enforcement of the restrictions on kerbside parking.

Bus designs often include unnecessary posts or centre supports which greatly restrict mobility and make it impossible for wheel chairs to be used. There is a need for more sensitive design of mainstream transport to meet the full range of mobility needs.

Disability awareness consultants in the North East of England:

• Alex Cross - Disability awareness consultant

Mobility shopping:

• Active mobility

This site is managed by

Don Smith
Leisure Choices Amenity Committee
and
North Tyneside Mobility Transport
donsmith76@hotmail.com

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and

Stephen Little
Senior Lecturer in Knowledge Management
Open University Business School
Milton Keynes, U.K.
s.e.little@open.ac.uk