A recent article in a nation paper announced 'A disabled woman hopes a landmark legal victory against a London taxi driver who started the meter before her wheelchair was loaded will empower other disabled passengers'.
Emma Vogelmann, 25, and her PA Laura Creek challenged the cabby when he set the clock running before lowering the ramp on his cab outside King’s Cross station.
The driver has been found guilty under the Equality act.
Wheelchair passengers wishing to be dropped outside the front door of selected shops on Tottenham Court Road at certain times during the day, will soon be told by the taxi driver they don't have access to the street in day time hours and they can only be dropped in streets running adjacent to Totenham Court Road.
This new system is at the bequest of Camden Council, TfL and the Mayor of London.
Our question to Emma Vogelmann and her PA Laura Creek....."will you both be empowered enough to take a law suits out against Camden Council's leader Georgia Gould, TFL's Mike Brown and Sadiq Khan under the Equality act with the same gusto as they used to prosecute the cabby.....or does the Equality act only apply to Taxi drivers " ???
If Emma Vogelmann and her PA Laura Creek can be empowered to take this line, then perhaps disabled groups across the capital will take up the gauntlet.
Perhaps this is also an avenue that can be explored by our own representative groups on behalf of their subscribers ???
Why should it be that a cabby can't discriminate against a disabled person, but Camden Council and TfL can ???
Perhaps we need a test case
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