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Description: | By the end of the 20th century, disability awareness had greatly improved. In 1995, the Disability Discrimination Act became law. This guaranteed the right of disabled people to have equal access to houses, jobs and education.
Although a right to access public transport was not included until a later version of the Act, bus and train companies in London were already working at improving provisions for disabled passengers.
Access to the Underground has been addressed, most effectively as part of the extension of the Jubilee Line, which was completed in 1997. By 2000, most bus routes were running at least some wheelchair-accessible buses.
Micheline Mason lives and works in London. Here she reflects on what it was like to be disabled at the end of the 20th century. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Communities | Temporal: | 1990-1999 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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