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Wheelchair access taxi's stockport and cheadle

We, the undersigned Would like stockport council to create a 24 hours 7 days a week fully wheel chair accessible taxi service for people who are fully reliable on there wheelchairs, which will service the local community, local hotels, airport runs, hospital and other medical service runs.

I work in a busy hotel where guests requests are important to us receptionists, on a number of occasions guests have asked for full wheelchair accessible taxi's to take them to local transport links, hospital and medical services and airport runs, I and the rest of the hotel team have had to ring at least 10 different taxi services including greater Manchester and south Manchester wheelchair accessible taxi services, none of which service the cheadle stockport areas, and all of them say no, it is out of their area, it can take minimum of 2 hours to try to persuade one of these companies to go out of theit service area to help our guests, which isn't good at all, considering most wheel chair users are in a rush to get to appointments from our hotels to local hospitals and medical centres.
In this day and age, with the available technology, I wish to make my guests lives easier, and cut the waiting time down for an easy access taxi to a 10 - 15 minute wait, rather than the 2 hours of getting "no, sorry we don't service your area"
It has been recommended by a taxi firm that Stockport council are notified, and this is why I am making this ePertition.

This ePetition ran from 16/09/2016 to 28/12/2016 and has now finished.

11 people signed this ePetition.