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London’s transport authority is refusing to provide details of how it could potentially close nearly every ticket office along the new Elizabeth line cross-capital rail system. The Elizabeth Line only opened three years ago but extracts from a contract – seen […]
Disabled activists and allies who fought off rail industry plans to shut hundreds of ticket offices across England two years ago say they fear train companies are quietly finding new ways to push through closures. They spoke out this week after […]
A train company has planned partial closures of 14 ticket offices across its network by “stealth”, say campaigners, a year after the rail industry was forced to back down over plans to shut nearly 1,000 of them across England. Disabled campaigners […]
The government has refused to release its assessment of how plans to close nearly 1,000 ticket offices across England would have affected disabled people and other groups protected under the Equality Act, even though those proposals have now been abandoned. The […]
One of the two watchdogs tasked with running the huge public consultation on proposals to shut hundreds of rail ticket offices appears to have suggested to MPs that it will probably approve many of the planned closures. Transport Focus appears set […]
A disabled people’s organisation has told MPs it does not trust the government to listen to the hundreds of thousands of concerns raised during a consultation on proposals to close hundreds of rail ticket offices. Members of the Commons transport committee […]
New evidence about the closure of hundreds of ticket offices shows the government is “sacrificing” disabled people’s right to enjoy spontaneous travel on the rail network, says a leading campaigner. A detailed government questionnaire that rail companies must fill in as […]
The right of disabled people to enjoy spontaneous travel on the rail network is under “serious threat” because of the planned closure of nearly 1,000 ticket offices across England, campaigners warned this week. One disabled activist warned that the time for […]
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 […]
A government-backed programme to close most ticket offices across the country will lead to a significant fall in the number of staff available to support disabled passengers, analysis of consultation documents has shown. Several of the documents published last week by […]