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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 […]

Blanket scooter bans on trains must end, say conga-dancing campaigners

By guest on 4th December 2015 Category: Transport

Blanket scooter bans on trains must end, say conga-dancing campaigners
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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 […]

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 […]

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