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The All Wheels Up website reports on current efforts to allow wheelchair-users to sit on their own wheelchairs while flying on commercial airplanes. This is a project in progress. More websites on the topic of TRAVEL are shown below. In addition to accessing planes, people have been using accessible taxis, limos, buses, and rental vehicles. Definitely these items are more common in the U.S. than they were 20 years ago! First, more photos of vehicles on the ground:
A "tip of the hat" to:
A "tip of the hat" to:
Allen Garrett (above),
who has promoted accessible tools--including sports cars. For more information, see
A ramp unfolds from this vehicle...
A ramp unfolds from this vehicle...
Many different models of cars are made accessible by businesses such as: https://www.mobilityworks.com
to allow wheeled access.
to allow wheeled access.
The person sitting on a scooter or wheelchair parks beside the driver.
The passenger seat here...
is a "transfer seat" that...
moves out of the vehicle...
and lowers as directed.
See "mobility device lifts" at bruno.com
This is a "Joey interior platform lift" by Bruno.
In addition to platform lifts, there are interior- and exterior-hoist options.
This red scooter...
This red scooter...
fits into the back of a van.
In a demo model...
In a demo model...
the moving (Valet) seat can be for the driver and/or for the passenger.
MOBILITY WORKS sells, rents, and leases vehicles.
"Accessibility 4 all" is their motto.
M.W. has offices across the U.S.
Taxis, buses, and airplanes
Taxis, buses, and airplanes
An accessible cab
An accessible cab
Not all cabs in NYC are accessible, but a lot are. Call from your smartphone, knowing the numbered street address of your pickup location (not the x-street).
London, England,
London, England,
is the home of LEVC which features all accessible cabs! This model holds 6 people comfortably. Now available internationally in a growing market. See: London Electric Vehicle Company https://www.levc.com
MTA bus in NYC
This is an accessible bus that goes to/from New York City airports & Manhattan.
An accessible bus in a small New England town.
Here is that same bus with its automatic ramp in place, ready for riders.
AN "AISLE CHAIR"
Airlines require that a mobility-challenged person transfer onto this type of chair in order to move down an airplane's narrow aisle to your seat. Strong, trained airline attendants help lift the passenger onto an aisle chair. Then the person is secured with straps and buckles....
ANOTHER "AISLE CHAIR"
Once you're in your seat, you may be there for the duration of the flight (if you can't walk)...until an aisle chair team returns to take you off the plane. (Use airport restrooms before getting on the plane!)
A WEBSITE & BLOG FULL OF TRAVEL INFORMATION!
The creator of the Wheelchair Travel website is John Morris, a world traveler who also happens to be a triple-amputee. Hotels, airplanes, and trains are the primary topics of his blog-posts which appear on his website.
Clearly John has succeeded as a "wheelchair traveler": so far he has logged 750,000 miles and been to 30 countries and territories!
See more details on his website about "accessible lavatories" on domestic and international flights.
ANOTHER WEBSITE & BLOG FULL OF TRAVEL INFO!
An award-winning accessible travel blog from the U.K.
Carrie-Ann Lightly loves to travel, "to the next town or somewhere far away." As an experienced wheelchair-user she has accumulated a lot of helpful tips. She also worked in tourism for 13 years. In 2018 she "started a new job as Marketing Manager at AccessAble, the UK's leading provider of accessibility information." https://www.carrieannlightley.com
This is a non-commercial website created to share information. No recommendations are made for individuals with any particular diagnosis. Everyone has their own unique capabilities. The photographs were taken spontaneously over a period of 5 years, by several people. Additional pictures (screen-shots from websites) were added for clarity of image. Those images have been credited to their corresponding websites, but no advertising fees have been collected. The information on this website represents some of the many topics that come up daily for people who live with physical challenges. This information does not constitute a comprehensive study of the topic. More accessibility tools are hopefully still being invented!
This is a non-commercial website created to share information. No recommendations are made for individuals with any particular diagnosis. Everyone has their own unique capabilities. The photographs were taken spontaneously over a period of 5 years, by several people. Additional pictures (screen-shots from websites) were added for clarity of image. Those images have been credited to their corresponding websites, but no advertising fees have been collected. The information on this website represents some of the many topics that come up daily for people who live with physical challenges. This information does not constitute a comprehensive study of the topic. More accessibility tools are hopefully still being invented!
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