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A DISABLED student demanding fair access to public transport caused traffic gridlock when she parked her wheelchair in front of a stream of double-decker buses.
The striking demonstration came in the height of rush hour on Friday afternoon and left four-lane Camden Road, nearby Camden Street and several of the surrounding streets jammed.
To the sound of tooting car horns, protester Maria Whitefield, 18, said she was blocking the traffic to persuade Transport for London (TfL) to make sure that all wheelchair ramps on buses function properly.
She added: “They say that buses will not go out without working ramps but in reality they hardly ever work and it means the drivers just drive off without us.” Disability campaign groups and politicians have reacted to the protest by urging transport chiefs to take swift action.
Ms Whitefield defiantly went nose to nose with the buses, sparking fears among flustered police officers that she could be injured.

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