@willnorman @Wheels4Well
Re: all-ability cycling and disabled motoring.
Many disabled motorists are Motability customers, using the mobility component of their benefits to lease their vehicles on 3-5 year contracts. Many have contributed £100s in advanced payments on necessary

larger vehicles, and adaptations. Giving up such a vehicle early, and withdrawing from the Motability scheme, is a huge step into the unknown. What can be done to make the transition as easy and worry-free as possible?
Adapted cycles are also expensive and rare commodities,

unlike Motability vehicles information is difficult to find and opportunities to view and test limited. Information on lease schemes is hard to find if they exist at all.
And adapted cycles can never replace all car journeys. Distance, weather, luggage capacity can all

mean that access to a suitable, possibly, adapted vehicle is occasionally necessary. Where able bodied cyclists can use rail, coach or car hire to transport them and their cycles, the size of many adapted cycles makes their transport by rail difficult/impossible, the need to

transport disability equipment, additional mobility aids such as wheelchairs, and the lack of adapted vehicles available for hire all conspire against switching from private vehicle to adapted cycle as sole means of transport.
Finally, many disabled people are eligible for a

Blue Badge, enabling vehicle parking not only in designated bays, but in many on street parking bays, and many single and double yellow lines.
Adapted cycle users have no such equivalent, meaning they may have to park their cycle further away, in cycle bays, assuming they are

suitable for the often unusual design. The expense of adapted cycles can also mean users can be reluctant to leave them in insecure areas.
What can TfL, and the Mayor of London @SadiqKhan do to help disabled motorists overcome the barriers to adapted cycle use? What financial

assistance can be made available, and what reassurance can disabled motorists have to know that (adapted) vehicle access is still available when needed?
#cyclingforall #adaptedcycling #motability #wheelchair #bluebadge #StreetspaceLDN