Accessibility and the freedom to get around are important to the Quingo team and our customers. That’s why Quingo were taken aback when we read the story of a mobility scooter user from Cumbria who was told by train station staff that Northern Rail didn’t accept mobility scooters on the Carlisle-West Cumbria line.
The Quingo team were interested to discover the recent story of a Carlisle man who believes that some pavements in his city are unsafe for mobility scooter users.
Jack Paton, 65, of Montgomery Way’s Botcherby often uses his scooter to visit family in nearby Harraby where he says that some of the streets have kerbs up to five inches high. He claims that the lack of dropped kerbs make certain areas difficult for him to get around.
Continuing our series of blogs highlighting attractions across the country that provide good accessibility in conjunction with Silver Travel Advisor, today, we’d like to showcase three more attractions, this time north of the border.
As advocates of mobility and accessibility, the Quingo team are keeping a keen eye on a story about new calls to review the ban of mobility scooters from trams in Edinburgh.
The Quingo Scooters team recently looked at three different accessible Silver Travel Advisor-approved accessible attractions you can visit on your Quingo in Scotland. Today, we’d like to look at three more accessible attractions in the Midlands.
If you’re not driving, there are a vast number of buses, trains, coaches and trams in the Midlands to help get you to your destination. Journeys to the accessible attractions listed below can be also be planned by using the Traveline East Midlands site.
