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By Raya Al Jadir Disabled transport campaigners have called on three train companies to remove blanket bans that prevent all scooter-users from using their services. To mark the campaign members of the user-led campaigning organisation Transport for All (TfA) took part […]
The boss of a public transport lobbying organisation has apologised to campaigners after being criticised for two “misleading” comments made to peers investigating the impact of the Equality Act on disabled people. Simon Posner chief executive of the Confederation of Passenger […]
Some disabled people have been “let down” by the Equality Act when it comes to access to public transport, a disabled campaigner has told members of the House of Lords. Gwynneth Pedler, a member of the user-led campaigning organisation Transport for […]
A disabled campaigner who is battling to protect the rights of wheelchair-users to travel on buses has won permission for his appeal to be heard by the Supreme Court. Doug Paulley (pictured) has been told by the court that it will hear […]
The Motability car scheme has been asked to justify tough new rules that restrict grants made to disabled drivers with high support needs, at the same time that its charitable trust has reserves of nearly £200 million. Last June, the charity […]
The disabled president of the Liberal Democrats has complained of her “outrageous” treatment by a conductor who refused to ask a young dad to move his child’s buggy from the wheelchair space on a near-empty London bus. Baroness Brinton, a wheelchair-user […]
Young disabled campaigners are to go undercover across the UK to find out whether access to public transport has improved since they carried out a “damning” study six years ago. Members of the Trailblazers network will check out buses, trains and […]
More than 100 disabled people every week are losing their Motability vehicles after being assessed for the government’s new disability benefit the charity has confirmed. The figures appears to confirm fears that the replacement of working-age disability living allowance with the […]
A disabled campaigner has won backing from the equality watchdog to continue his legal battle to protect the rights of wheelchair-users to travel on buses. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has decided to support wheelchair-user Doug Paulley’s appeal to […]
A wheelchair-user has launched a campaign for access improvements to her local train station, so she will no longer have to use an unlit park where she was threatened and harassed by a mugger. Julie Forshaw’s home town station of Todmorden […]