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Frustration after government only issues partial ban on new floating bus stops

By John Pring on 10th July 2025 Category: Transport

Frustration after government only issues partial ban on new floating bus stops
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Disabled campaigners have expressed their frustration with ministers after they imposed a “pause” on the most dangerous types of “floating” bus stop but refused to halt the rollout of all such installations. The National Federation of the Blind of the UK […]

Report suggests five big ideas that could transform disabled people’s mobility

By John Pring on 10th July 2025 Category: Transport

Report suggests five big ideas that could transform disabled people’s mobility
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A new report – co-produced with a disabled people’s organisation – has suggested five “big ideas” that could transform disabled people’s mobility. The Transforming Mobility report aims to ensure disabled people are included when places “become more ambitious in transforming mobility”. […]

Making all self-driving pilot schemes accessible would be ‘counter-productive’ and slow us down, says minister

By John Pring on 26th June 2025 Category: Transport

Making all self-driving pilot schemes accessible would be ‘counter-productive’ and slow us down, says minister
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A transport minister has told peers that it would be “counter-productive” – and take too long – to draw up rules that would ensure all pilot schemes of self-driving taxis are accessible to disabled people. Labour’s rail minister Lord [Peter] Hendy […]

Government’s ‘weak’ response to damning transport access report puts right to travel in ‘grave danger’

By John Pring on 19th June 2025 Category: Transport

Government’s ‘weak’ response to damning transport access report puts right to travel in ‘grave danger’
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The government’s “weak” response to a major report on the inaccessibility of the transport system has left the future of disabled people’s right to travel in “grave danger”, campaigners warned this week. Although there were some pledges of action from the […]

Self-driving taxis that are not accessible will be allowed pilot scheme licenses, government suggests

By John Pring on 12th June 2025 Category: Transport

Self-driving taxis that are not accessible will be allowed pilot scheme licenses, government suggests
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Companies will be allowed to launch self-driving taxis and minibuses in pilot schemes in England as early as next spring even if the vehicles are not accessible to disabled people, the government has suggested. A disabled peer who raised concerns about […]

Rail travel has become less accessible since pandemic and cost-of-living crises, researchers are told

By John Pring on 5th June 2025 Category: Transport

Rail travel has become less accessible since pandemic and cost-of-living crises, researchers are told
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There are fewer staff at stations and ticket counters and increased ticket prices since the emergence of the Covid pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis, disabled rail passengers have told researchers for a government report. Some of those interviewed for the research* […]

Anger at Network Rail for ‘shocking’ exclusion of scooter-users from ‘future of railways’ exhibition

By John Pring on 29th May 2025 Category: Transport

Anger at Network Rail for ‘shocking’ exclusion of scooter-users from ‘future of railways’ exhibition
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An exhibition that will travel the country to celebrate the “past, present and future” of the railways will be inaccessible to many disabled people who use mobility scooters, because Network Rail has used carriages that are more than 30 years old. […]

Network Rail to spend £8 million on building an inaccessible footbridge that will last 120 years

By John Pring on 15th May 2025 Category: Transport

Network Rail to spend £8 million on building an inaccessible footbridge that will last 120 years
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Network Rail’s decision to spend nearly £8 million building a new footbridge that will be inaccessible to many disabled people has been labelled an “appalling contradiction” of the government’s commitment to improving the accessibility of the public transport system. The footbridge […]

Activist’s legal threat set to lead to more generous compensation for rail passenger assistance failures

By John Pring on 8th May 2025 Category: Transport

Activist’s legal threat set to lead to more generous compensation for rail passenger assistance failures
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Rail companies are likely to be forced to provide more generous compensation when they fail to assist disabled passengers, thanks to the actions of an accessible transport campaigner. The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has written to train and station […]

Motability Operations stays silent over how much high street banks benefit from disabled people’s car scheme

By John Pring on 10th April 2025 Category: Transport

Motability Operations stays silent over how much high street banks benefit from disabled people’s car scheme
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The company that runs Motability has repeatedly refused to say how much money the four high street banks that own the business are making from the £7 billion-a-year disabled people’s vehicle leasing scheme. Motability Operations, which is owned by Barclays, Lloyds, […]

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