{"id":337891,"date":"2025-08-12T07:43:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T07:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/337891\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T07:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T07:43:11","slug":"navigating-birmingham-in-a-wheelchair-is-incredibly-trying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/337891\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Navigating Birmingham in a wheelchair is incredibly trying&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The free replacement taxis mean Ms Allen can still travel, but it extends her journey by at least 30 minutes, if not longer at rush hour. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, on one occasion a taxi did not arrive, with Ms Allen saying passenger assistance at Chiltern told her &#8220;there was nothing more they could do&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for the rail operator has since told the BBC &#8220;there were some difficulties sourcing a taxi&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They added that the company was &#8220;continuing to work with Network Rail to resolve a fault with the lift at the station&#8221; but despite temporary fixes, &#8220;the lift continues to have persistent issues&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Once in Birmingham, there are more problems to navigate, Ms Allen uses dropped kerbs to cross the road safely, however these are often blocked. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Allen said she experienced &#8220;people parking across them, leaving bikes, bin bags, scaffolding. Lots of obstacles&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It just feels very dangerous,&#8221; she added. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think anyone takes any notice of the signage, I just don&#8217;t think people see it as a punishable thing, so they won&#8217;t stop doing it if there is no consequence&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The free replacement taxis mean Ms Allen can still travel, but it extends her journey by at least&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-337891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115014677664320334","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}