I HAD a disabled badge for my mother until her death in 1992 and even then was appalled at the lack of facilities for badge holders.
Since then I have seen the facilities for able-bodied cyclists (who pay nothing to use the road) enlarged and improved many times over.
Contra flow cycle lanes are created, complete with advanced stop signs with enough green paint sloshed about to paint the Forth Bridge twice over.
Not to mention cyclists' almost total freedom from prosecution when they break the law, as they frequently do.
In the same period, I cannot recollect a single concession being made to the holders of disabled badges.
York may claim to be the number one cycling city but to the handicapped it is about number 104.
Mike Usherwood,
Mendip Close,
York.
Updated: 11:34 Tuesday, October 05, 2004
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