So today I experienced one of the most annoying elements of accessibility and one of the best I’ve seen at least where I live, in a very short space of time.

The bus I tried to get this morning already had a wheelchair user on it, which meant I couldn’t get on it. This needs to change. We need to create buses with space for multiple wheelchair users at the same time. This is particularly true when society tends to push disabled people together, by segregating and excluding us from the rest of the word. I’m thinking of Special Educational Needs (SEND) Schools specifically here. It doesn’t make sense to force disabled children into the same social spaces then deny them the social space to go out together as they become teenagers and adults.

Then a newer bus, while still only with one space, did not involve the awkward turn other buses have apparently deemed necessary for wheelchair users to have to make. So it’s an improvement, in a way. Not as big of an improvement as having multiple spaces on a bus for those in wheelchairs, but it’s something.

Can you imagine if buses only let one person on at a time? How ineffective they would be at their job? But we’ve deemed that an okay place for disabled people to be in. That is something that will never make sense to me.