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My night of inaccessibility #part1 Started with almost falling down a curb and some lovely driving on roads in the dark! #wheelchair #disability #disabilitytiktok #acessability

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Replying to @spazticallydoingthings #part2 side streets, courners and broken lifts #acessability #disabilitytiktok #wheelchair #disability #metrolink

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Replying to @spazticallydoingthings #part4 bus, roots and time schedules #disability #metrolink #wheelchair #disabilitytiktok #acessability

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Replying to @spazticallydoingthings #part4 Terror and the kindness of strangers. #acessability #disabilitytiktok #wheelchair #disabilitycommunity

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Replying to @spazticallydoingthings sister and rerouting #disabilitycommunity #wheelchair #disabilitytiktok #acessability #disability #route #newroutes #sisters #help

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Replying to @spazticallydoingthings Learning a roots and thank yous #Part6 #help #newroutes #disability #acessability #disabilitycommunity #wheelchair #metrolink #potholes

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So this evening started with me needing to go on the road again due to cars on pavements, getting caught on the pavement and becoming stuck briefly, but luckily being able to free myself. After which I had to travel down side streets and round a bend on the road in the dark, due to further cars.

Discovering a broken lift at a tram stop and a step free and lift free alternative enterance that was inaccessible to me. I then had to cross a busy road multiple times. On the final time I hit a pothole in the middle of the road crossing, which by some miracle didn’t throw me out of my chiar. At which point I was helped across the road by a cyclist while I waited for my sister to come and help me get home. Hoping I would still make it back for carers.

While waiting for my sister I was teary and angry about the whole situation as my evening had been ruined and I worried I wouldn’t make it home for my care call. I was on the phone to my boyfriend, when several strangers stopped to check I was okay.

After my sister found me, she got me home safely and my carers were able to come late so I am comfortably in bed.

Thank you to everyone who helped me this evening, especially my sister for rescuing me and my mum

who I believe was looking after me. She is the reason I have a 6 wheel wheelchair not a 4 wheel one, 6 wheels are much more stable and I believe the 4 wheel would have certainly tipped on the pothole. I don’t know what would have happened then.

Thank you to my boyfriend for proving the emotional support I needed and my dad for being there for me.

Also thank you to all the kind people I did not know for there help.

Hoping Metrolink repair their lift soon and someone discovers a way to remove tree roots. As well as someone filling in dangerous potholes.

My journey this evening should have taken 30mins it took me 2hrs and 30mins because of various forms of inaccessibility that could have been avoided with a little thought.

The videos to the left explain the evening in more detail. And the pictures below show Google maps photos of the pothole that I believe I nearly fell in.

Thanks again to everyone for ensuring I am home and safe.