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Train company faces calls to rip up scooter policy after latest ‘shameful’ episode

By John Pring on 9th August 2018 Category: Transport

Train company faces calls to rip up scooter policy after latest ‘shameful’ episode
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A rail company is facing calls to change its “reprehensible and unsupportable” attitude to disabled passengers, after one of its guards threatened to throw a woman off a train because she was using a mobility scooter. Sara Harvey was on the […]

Rail minister’s postbag ‘is overflowing with complaints’ about passenger assistance

By John Pring on 23rd November 2017 Category: Transport

Rail minister’s postbag ‘is overflowing with complaints’ about passenger assistance
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A disabled minister has told the rail industry that his postbag is overflowing with complaints from disabled passengers who are not receiving the assistance they need to use its services. Paul Maynard (pictured), the rail minister, was speaking after the Office […]

ELECTION 2015: Lib Dem president’s bus horror ‘proves need for new law’

By John Pring on 1st May 2015 Category: Transport

ELECTION 2015: Lib Dem president’s bus horror ‘proves need for new law’
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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 […]

Six years on, Trailblazers go back undercover on buses, trains and taxis

By John Pring on 1st May 2015 Category: Transport

Six years on, Trailblazers go back undercover on buses, trains and taxis
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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 […]

Campaign seeks solution to rail access nightmare

By John Pring on 30th January 2015 Category: Transport

Campaign seeks solution to rail access nightmare
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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 […]

Court’s ‘extraordinary’ judgment on bus access leaves campaigners ‘appalled’

By John Pring on 12th December 2014 Category: Transport

Court’s ‘extraordinary’ judgment on bus access leaves campaigners ‘appalled’
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The “extraordinary” failure of three court of appeal judges to protect the rights of wheelchair-users to travel on buses has left disabled campaigners “frustrated” and “appalled”. The judgement over-turned a county court ruling that wheelchair-users should have priority in the use […]

Government funding means Crossrail campaign success

By John Pring on 21st November 2014 Category: News Archive, Transport

Government funding means Crossrail campaign success
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Every rail station on the major new Crossrail project will now be step-free, following a successful two-year campaign by disabled and older people. Transport for London (TfL) had already announced in September that Crossrail would be step-free from street-level to the […]

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