Support for Paris bus driver who helped disabled user
A Parisian bus driver, who took the unusual decision to ask all of his passengers to leave the bus to allow a wheelchair user to get on, has said he did it because 鈥渘o one was moving鈥�.
The wheelchair user - Fran莽ois Le Berre, who has multiple sclerosis - wrote on Twitter that he was waiting to get on the bus in the capital鈥檚 17th arrondissement, but none of the existing passengers were moving to allow him to do so.
Buses in the capital usually only have one or two places where a wheelchair can go, and other passengers should give priority to them by moving out of the way and allowing a user to get on.
A from an account named 鈥淎ccessible Pour Tous鈥� - a disabled support network - has since been Liked over 9,000 times, retweeted over 3,000 times, and has received almost 4,000 comments - most of which are supportive and congratulating the driver.
According to Mr Berre, : 鈥淭erminus! Everyone off!鈥�, and made all the passengers descend. He then came to him and said: 鈥淵ou can get on first, and the others can wait for the next one.鈥�
Mr Berre said: "No-one wanted to move despite the access ramp. When he saw that, the RATP driver quickly intervened. He got up and said, 'everyone off'. Everyone did it, but some people did grumble a bit."
The driver then said: 鈥淓veryone might need a wheelchair one day.鈥�
