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 And you can be the remedy...
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Feb. 26th, 2009 @ 02:25 pm 
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Something I can hardly believe I only just worked out today:
The reason the 97, 98 and 99 bus routes pretty much invariably get served by the new-style buses is simply explained: they're the main routes that go to the hospitals. All three of those pass by Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, and the 98/99 go by RPH (Shenton Park) as well, and maybe others.
The new-style buses are the ones that are wheelchair-accessible, with hydraulics to lower the boarding side of the bus closer to the ground and an extendable ramp so wheelchairs can just roll on. Obviously when you're looking at a route that goes past the major hospitals, including Shenton Park Rehabilitation, you're looking at a route that's going to have quite high frequency of disabled passengers, so you want the buses that can handle that smoothly.
Something I've noticed, mind you: The wheelchair zones of the bus have seats that occupy the wheelchair space, for use by other passengers when wheelchairs aren't present. The seats flip up to make room for the wheelchair.
People are good about vacating these seats when someone in a wheelchair is boarding, but hardly anyone thinks to flip the seats up. On some level I find this outrageous, because that's something that's necessary but likely to be problematic for the disabled person, while being a trivial act for someone with fully-functioning limbs. (Many of the buses have signs requesting that people leave the seats up at all times they're not being sat on, but sadly pretty much no-one does this. Including me. We default to "these are seats that can flip up to provide a wheelchair zone", not "this is a wheelchair zone into which seats can be pulled down". Because we are all ablist in subtle ways, I think.)
I've found myself getting up from my seat in a different part of the bus to flip the seats for incoming disabled people on a number of occasions, and it can be quite hard to resist the urge to give the people who didn't do it when they got up a dirty look.
This morning - during my lecture in my now-defunct class - I was informed that the 12-point version of my course had been cancelled. I logged in to WebConnect to check my enrolment, and discovered that 3323 was now marked as DISCONTINUED but I hadn't been enrolled in 2223, which is vaguely irksome, but only vaguely since I decided against doing 2223. Instead, I switched to the 12-point unit (4,500 word research essay incoming...) on Industrial Revolution Britain.
Tomorrow morning, if all goes to plan and I'm not just too freakin' exhausted, I shall be having a bunch of blood tests done. Huzzah. These are for hypoglycaemia investigation, not junkiehood investigation.Current Location: Destiny; kitchen table Current Mood:  tired Current Music: Abandoned Pools - The Remedy
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I honestly have no idea how one flips up the wheelchair seats. There should be a placard or sticky label or something.
(I have just gotten to where I can chuckle and ignore it when I trip or hit my head on the hand-holds. I can't yet bear fumbling for something I don't know how to do on a bus full of people looking at me.
(Which means I should go look this up, now that I'm thinking about it.)
In Perth, at least, you flip them up just by pulling/lifting the seat. No idea about your buses, but quite possibly it is look-up-able, and I imagine it's probably as simple.
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