Paresh, 45. A tech consultant who is registered blind
"I live in Kensington with my wife. I have worked with Action for the Blind for the last 21 years. My job is around access technology in the workplace and universities. On a day-to-day basis that means messing around with technology! I am a bit of a fitness freak - I attend the gym three or four times a week. I love my movies and music as well as comedy. That's pretty much what I am all about.
"I have been using the bus and underground network in London since 1994. I walk to Ladbroke Grove which is my nearest station and then take the underground to King's Cross to get to my office. The nature of my job means that I am often visiting companies across the south east, so every day varies.
"In the last 20 years I have seen such a change in my independence. In 1995 I used to travel on the Bakerloo line and I remember I used to count the number of times the door would open so I could keep a check on the stations and change at the right place. Sometimes I would miss my station completely. All that has changed - I now listen out for the announcements, I don't even need to count on asking a fellow passenger to tell where I am. It is independence.
"I used to get on the bus in the old days and tell the bus driver to let me know when we at so and so and I would wait and wait and wait and then go ask the driver and it was 'Oh, sorry, sorry, your stop was three stops ago!' But now we have the announcements. They are so useful.
"It is getting better by the day, I tell you that. It is getting better and better.
"The staff are really brilliant. If I haven't figured out the station yet, I arrange to get met by all the staff and they take me to the next point or even some of them even go out of their way to take me across the street."
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