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Accessible transport campaigners have broadly welcomed a series of recommendations for improvements to the accessibility of the rail system. Among the 17 recommendations made by the regulator, the Office of Rail and Road (ORR), is a call for a drastic reduction […]
More than half of passengers who describe themselves as having an impairment that limits their day-today activity find travelling by air difficult, according to a regulator’s annual report on access at the UK’s major airports. The Civil Aviation Authority’s (CAA) annual […]
The health secretary has been confronted by a campaigner after government figures revealed the number of hospitals charging disabled people to use their carparks rose by 12 per cent in just a year. Kush Kanodia, a disabled ambassador for Disability Rights […]
Two-thirds of disabled passengers experience at least one problem when travelling by rail, according to research commissioned by the government. The research was carried out in 2017 but was only published this week when the Department for Transport (DfT) marked a […]
A disabled governor of a leading London hospital has accused its executives of arrogance and a “disgraceful” lack of compassion after they decided to start charging holders of blue badges to use their carpark. Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust […]
Disabled people and families with disabled children will benefit from hundreds of millions of pounds in new funding released by the company that runs the Motability car scheme. Motability Operations announced on Friday that it would release £370 million from its […]
Disabled campaigners have welcomed new rules that will make it easier for autistic people and others with invisible impairments to secure blue parking badges, but they have also raised concerns about how they will work in practice. The new government rules […]
A bus and tram company has been criticised for an “indefensible and shocking” failure to comply with a high-profile Supreme Court victory on the rights of wheelchair-users to use buses. Blackpool Transport has now been forced to back down after being […]
The rail industry is breaching its duties under the Equality Act by failing to ensure that vital buttons and other fixtures and fittings on different trains are always positioned in the same location, say disabled trade unionists. Union members called on […]
A train company that has received more than £100 million in public subsidies to pay for new carriages for a sleeper service from Scotland to London has failed to provide any accessible on-board showers, even though it is providing such facilities […]