The two pictures above, show the disabled parking bays, on the main road, outside The Carlisle pub.
If you park here, and you use a wheelchair or scooter, that you must get out of drivers side, or rear of car, you must travel on the main road, with the traffic around the
corner into Albert Road, or against the traffic into Harold Place until you come to a ramp to get off the road. Below is a short video showing the problem, of getting from your car onto the pavement. Short video showing how disabled people in wheelchairs have to get from car onto pavement.
If you are coming into town from direction of Morrisons in a wheelchair or on a scooter. When you arrive at Cornwallis Street, there is no dropped kerb down into Cornwallis or around the corner in Brook St., so you have to turn back, travel back to the zebra crossing outside Morrisons, cross the road, and travel into town on the opposite side of the road, along the narrow footpath on the east side of Queens Road.
For someone in a small wheeled electric scooter, this is like riding over a ploughed field, as tarmac is raised.
Fancy going into Cambridge Gardens (east side) from Cambridge Road (Post Office/ESK), on your wheelchair or scooter? No chance
The 'AG wheelies' say 'why no dropped kerbs?'.
30 minutes maximum stay? An 'AG wheelie' says "It can take 15 minutes to get out of car, into wheelchair, push yourself into centre of Priory Square. So no time to go into a shop, as you need to get back to your car".
Got a child and want to go into to the Childrens Library, not on a scooter.
A member of the 'AG wheelies' trys to get scooter onto footpath.
How is someone on a scooter meant to get into...........Walkers.................................................or Millets???
This vehicle is often parked across the ramp in Trinity Street.
