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Rail companies have delayed plans to launch a new mobile phone accessibility app, just days after they were warned that the technology appears to breach their duties under the Equality Act. The Rail Delivery Group (RDG) had been set to launch […]
A controversial British outsourcing company has admitted forcing disabled patients to share non-emergency ambulances throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. G4S insists that it is following NHS guidance, which says that two patients can be carried together in an ambulance if neither of […]
Rail companies have apologised after their blundering attempts to make a gesture of respect following the death of the Duke of Edinburgh left their national rail information website inaccessible to many disabled people. National Rail Enquiries was just one of several […]
A disabled woman who was left stranded on trains and station platforms more than 30 times by a rail company has been awarded compensation of £17,000. Southern admitted repeatedly failing to deal with the discrimination Sam Jennings was facing, even after […]
Investigators who examined the death of a visually-impaired man who fell from a railway platform that had no tactile strip to warn him he was approaching the edge say only half of UK mainline stations have such markings. The Rail Accident […]
Disabled people have been ignored by policy-makers in the post-COVID rush to introduce low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs), according to new research by a disabled people’s organisation. Although disabled people have both positive and negative views about LTNs, local authorities and transport bodies […]
Tributes have been paid to Margaret Hickish, an “unstoppable roller-coaster for inclusion” who played a significant role in “waking up the transport industry to the benefits of accessible transport and inclusive design”. Although Hickish’s name was not widely-known among disabled people, […]
A government minister has allowed the transport industry its fourth temporary exemption from access laws, allowing it to continue to use inaccessible vehicles for rail replacement services for another nine months. The concession came in a letter from transport minister Chris […]
Information used by disabled passengers to check if a rail station is accessible is frequently “wildly inaccurate”, and often leads them to book travel to and from stations they cannot access, according to new research. The research by disabled campaigner and […]
Campaigners are calling for “critical” changes to rules that make it harder for disabled people to use their blue parking badges in four central London local authorities, particularly when they are attending urgent hospital appointments. They say the COVID-19 pandemic has […]