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Tens of thousands of disabled people could face a huge increase in rail fares for many of their journeys outside London, if government-backed plans to close ticket offices across England are approved, campaigners have warned. The research by the Association of […]
Disabled campaigners have won significant concessions from London’s mayor after they warned that plans to widen the ultra-low emission zone (ULEZ) in the capital would discriminate against tens of thousands of disabled Londoners. Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) had warned that the expansion of […]
Staff shortages are repeatedly causing step-free access to be suspended at stations across London’s tube network, new figures have shown. Transport for London (TfL) has provided figures showing that at one station – West Finchley – the lifts have had to […]
A new £3 million fund is set to provide a “really exciting” and “radical” opportunity to transform the disability movement in London. The new Disability Justice Fund aims to strengthen the foundations of the movement in the capital, strengthen the ability […]
The mayor of London’s plans for a huge expansion of the capital’s low emission zone for cars could have a drastic and discriminatory impact on disabled people, say campaigners. They fear that the current, limited exemptions for disabled people will leave […]
The mayor of London has defended his decision to set up a board of nearly 30 senior figures to oversee the recovery from coronavirus in the capital without including any members representing disabled people. Membership of the London Recovery Board is made […]
The Metropolitan police has apologised to its own disabled advisers for failing to consult them about how to treat disabled people taking part in this month’s Extinction Rebellion protests in London. The force had been asked by its Disability Independent Advisory […]
The Metropolitan police faces claims that it breached disabled people’s right to protest during this month’s Extinction Rebellion (XR) demonstrations in London, after a wheelchair-user was arrested because she needed support from a personal assistant (PA). During the same action outside […]
A disabled peer was forced to miss the state opening of parliament after London Underground failed yet again to alert wheelchair-users to broken lifts on the network, despite a critical court ruling in January. Baroness [Jane] Campbell (pictured) was forced to […]
New research for the mayor of London has shown how 10 years of government welfare cuts and reforms have “discriminated” against disabled Londoners. The mayor of London has written to work and pensions secretary Amber Rudd to ask her to reverse […]