CUBA NEWS
January 7, 2003

FROM CUBA
Handicapped seat ordered out of Havana buses

HAVANA, January 5 (www.cubanet.org) - Handicapped seats have disappeared from Havana buses, and no one can give a coherent explanation for the Transportation ministry measure ordering their removal.

The closest anyone can come is a widely-circulated rumor that a high ministry official, some say the minister himself, learned of a conductor who would use the seat whenever there were no handicapped users on board, and ordered the man fired and the seats removed from the fleet.

The removal left an indentation on the floor of the buses, right at the entrance, on which several passengers have reportedly tripped and fallen, prompting street wags to proclaim: "It's plain to see whoever ordered the seats removed never has to take the bus himself."


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