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Pascale Ribes and other campaigners for the rights of people with disabilities in France have an invite to meet the French president Wednesday. But because she uses a wheelchair, Ribes won't risk traveling by public transport to the conference at the presidential Elysee Palace.
The nearest wheelchair-accessible Metro line is about a kilometer (half a mile) away and public buses in the French capital - host of the next Olympic Games - can be a time-gobbling ordeal for people with limited mobility, Ribes says.
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