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York parking fight
APROTEST outside a council HQ has been hailed as an important step in the year-long fight to overturn a city centre ban on blue badge holders.
Reverse the Ban, a coalition of disabled-led organisations and allies, held the demonstration outside a full council meeting.
Protesters handed City of York Council members more than 2,700 signed postcards, each of them calling on the council to reverse the blue badge ban.
Disabled campaigner Flick Williams, who played a key role in organising the protest, said: “It went fabulously well. It was very important in terms of showing the council the strength of feeling out there about the discriminatory actions of this council. ”
The ban prevents vehicles, including those with blue badges, from entering the city’s pedestrian “footstreets” zone from 10.30am to 5pm every day of the week.
Introduced initially to create more space for pedestrians amid the pandemic, the exclusion zone was made permanent a year ago to to allow anti-terror bollards to be installed.
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FLASHBACK to 1946 – and a convertible car that has heads turning. Here’s what they were saying about the innovative Larmar Disabled Vehicle – the world’s narrowest car, measuring just over two feet wide ...
“The single-seater Larmar car, expressly designed in the first instance for disabled persons to obviate the existing discomforts which they have hitherto experienced, will also be of value to the general public, particularly the shopper, where a bigger or more expensive car is not practicable.
The body was made of plywood and aluminium, and it had a side door.
Asingle-cylinder, two-stroke engine from BSAwith 249cc displacement and 8hp was mounted in the rear and drove one of the rear wheels via a chain.
From 1950, a two-cylinder four-stroke engine with 350cc displacement and 10hp was available.
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