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The rail sector has been accused of a “scandalous” failure to take advantage of the “rich and important” data from a unique mass public consultation that heard from many tens of thousands of disabled rail passengers. Transport Focus was one of […]
Transport for London (TfL) has secured the right to close more than half the ticket offices along the new Elizabeth line cross-capital rail system, a new document has confirmed, in a move that would discriminate against many disabled rail passengers. Concerns […]
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 […]
The government and train operating companies have refused to rule out further attempts to close rail ticket offices across the country, despite ministers scrapping proposals to shut nearly 1,000 of them across England. Transport secretary Mark Harper this week reversed the […]
Disabled activists and disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have been celebrating this week after a four-month campaign forced the government to abandon plans it had previously backed to close nearly 1,000 rail ticket offices across England. Transport secretary Mark Harper announced on […]
Transport secretary Mark Harper has dismissed concerns that plans to close hundreds of ticket offices across England will have a negative impact on disabled people’s right to “turn up and go” rail travel. Even though the proposals are set to lead […]
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 […]