At last night's meeting, I extolled the advantages of a RADAR key which 
gives access to toilets for the disabled. I do not consider myself 
disabled but research this morning showed Revenue & Customs thinks 
otherwise. RADAR keys can be bought with VAT by anyone and without VAT 
by disabled people making an exempting declaration at 
<http://www.radar.org.uk/radarwebsite/tabid/41/default.aspx>. [I also 
whinged the Doric Arch was wheelchair inaccessible while the 
Metropolitan is not. I don't, myself, travel by wheelchair.]

I had suggested to LU that their toilets for the disabled should support 
RADAR after I found those at Dollis Hill and Willesden Green did not and 
were locked with standard LU locks. This morning I found North Greenwich 
does. I also got an email which says "The A&I [Accesibilty (sic) and 
Inclusion] team are currently working on a project to install RADAR key 
locks on all public toilet doors on stations ... [and] are 
expecting/hoping that all locks will be installed by the end of the 
year."

It was good to put faces to some of the names and it is even better LU 
is trying to cooperate on access.

[All they have to do now is put a wheelchair on the Circle/ H&C 
trainboard line diagrams for King's Cross St. Pancras. I lost the will 
to live when London Travelwatch required me to confirm there REALLY was 
a problem after the victims at Customer Services told me it had been 
fixed.]
-- 
Walter Briscoe