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Wed 03 Mar 2009Group says plan to make all city taxis wheelchair-accessible will not be met
A PROMISE in the programme for government that all city-based taxis would be wheelchair-accessible by 2010 will not be met, and the best that people with disabilities may hope for is a target of 20 per cent nationally.
That is the opinion of the Accessible Taxi Consortium, a coalition of support groups for people with disabilities, which said the percentage of wheelchair-accessible taxis fell from about 20 per cent a decade ago to about 5 per cent now.
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