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19.11.2022 - 18:09 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A Renfrew man has demanded more action to support disabled people in navigating the streets of their own communities.
Danny Taggart, who has set up a Facebook page called Renfrew Action on Mobility Issues, says countless buildings, kerbs and pathways in the town are problematic for people who rely on wheelchairs and electric scooters to get around.
The 63-year-old suffers from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and increasingly uses his scooter to travel into town.
But he frequently encounters problems such as cars parking on the pavement and in disabled spaces, overhanging trees, hedges blocking the paths and bins being left on the pathway.
And since establishing the Facebook page he has discovered many more people are facing the same challenges.
He said: “What I am finding is there are a lot of barricades in my way when I am trying to use a mobility scooter.
“I had put on a local Facebook page asking if anyone has encountered any of these mobility problems that I was coming across and I got a quick response from a fair few people.
“It is little daft things that people who aren’t struggling with their mobility wouldn’t notice like the camber of the paths, the state of the paths and getting access to the shops due to the state of the high kerbs.
“In all honesty, it is things that even I didn’t even see before I had to use a scooter.
“Really it is just a plea for a little bit more courtesy towards people who rely on scooters and wheelchairs and make it as safe as possible to get from A to B, as well as being able to go about leading a normal a life as much as possible.”
Danny has also compiled a report and sent it to Renfrewshire Council which highlights the issues facing less mobile people, as well as suggestions on how
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