Twice recently, once on VTWC and this morning on Grand Central, I have found that the seat reserved with my ticket is an accessible seat for disabled people. Whilst I can use the seat OK, it does concern me that the reservation system is offering such seats and so making them not available to disabled people. Are reservation systems meant to be set to avoid this happening?
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Seat reservations in accessible seats
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Bletchleyite
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I don't think so. It would be good if they were, as it also causes disputes if someone needing it more than the reserver shows up, whereas my personal take would be that in a non-priority reserved seat a reserver gets priority, with someone more rightly ejected from an unreserved seat.
Probably worth allowing them to be selected (with suitable warning text about possibly having to give them up) for those who might prefer them for any reason but not be official "priority" e.g. taller people.
Probably worth allowing them to be selected (with suitable warning text about possibly having to give them up) for those who might prefer them for any reason but not be official "priority" e.g. taller people.
Transpennine usually allocate me a priority seat when I book assistance but said they had all been booked for the train I was taking yesterday and had to reserve me a normal seat of which there were plenty left.
As it happened it was a Nova and didn't run anyway
As it happened it was a Nova and didn't run anyway
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