Commenting on the decision reached in the Court of Appeal today regarding the priority use of wheelchair spaces on board buses, Managing Director of First Bus, Giles Fearnley, said:
"The verdict has given our passengers, drivers and the wider transport industry much needed clarification about the priority use of the wheelchair space on board buses, following two previous conflciting rulings.
"Our current policy, which is to ask other passengers in the strongest polite terms to make way for those who need the space, will remain in place.
"We recognise how important it is that bus services are accessible for all customers - indeed we are leading the industry in improving bus travel for disabled customers. That good work will continue."
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For more information, please contact Niall Dowds, Head of Communications, First UK Bus, on 07860 936671 or email [email protected]
NOTES TO EDITORS
FirstGroup plc is the leading transport operator in the UK and North America with revenues of more than £6.7 billion a year. We employ approximately 117,000 employees and transport around 2.5 billion passengers a year.
Our vision is to provide solutions for an increasingly congested world… keeping people moving and communities prospering.
UK Bus
FirstGroup is one of Britain’s largest bus operators with around a fifth of bus services outside London. A fleet of some 6,400 buses carries approximately 1.6 million passengers a day in a huge number of communities including 40 of the UK's largest towns and cities. We operate Greyhound UK providing regular intercity coach services linking South Wales and Bristol Airport, and we also operate some US-style yellow school buses and have a fleet of coaches available for charter. We also operate the Aircoach network in Ireland.