Comments on: All aboard the train replacement accessible taxi https://wongm.com/2020/08/all-aboard-the-train-replacement-accessible-taxi/ Marcus Wong. Gunzel. Engineering geek. History nerd. Tue, 04 Aug 2020 15:13:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Sanchez https://wongm.com/2020/08/all-aboard-the-train-replacement-accessible-taxi/#comment-675533 Tue, 04 Aug 2020 15:13:03 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=14219#comment-675533 These have been offered for quite a while but aren’t “advertised” to avoid abuse. They even ran them off peak on the Carrum shuttle for all passengers. One of the main reasons is some wheelchairs don’t fit around the first bend between the first two seats and door.

]]> By: Marcus Wong https://wongm.com/2020/08/all-aboard-the-train-replacement-accessible-taxi/#comment-675484 Tue, 04 Aug 2020 04:13:38 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=14219#comment-675484 In reply to Michael Angelico.

At one point Ventura were running a minibus on the Hughesdale station shuttle.

Ventura minibus #1114 at Oakleigh, on the Hughesdale station shuttle service

]]> By: Michael Angelico https://wongm.com/2020/08/all-aboard-the-train-replacement-accessible-taxi/#comment-675457 Tue, 04 Aug 2020 01:00:08 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=14219#comment-675457 I first saw taxitution on the Caulfield-Oakleigh job, and it was because the Murrumbeena-Hughesdale section was being skipped by the main bustitution route and provided by a minibus, which wasn’t accessible.

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