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MPs call for urgent action on transport discrimination, and tell industry: ‘Accessibility is a human rights issue’

By John Pring on 20th March 2025 Category: Transport

MPs call for urgent action on transport discrimination, and tell industry: ‘Accessibility is a human rights issue’
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Disabled campaigners have welcomed a “fabulous” and “validating” report by MPs that calls on the government and industry to “urgently” recognise that the “regularity and severity” of public transport access failures is a human rights issue. The long-awaited report by the […]

Ticket office cuts by three rail firms are just a test run for fresh round of reductions, campaigners warn

By John Pring on 13th March 2025 Category: Transport

Ticket office cuts by three rail firms are just a test run for fresh round of reductions, campaigners warn
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Cuts to ticket office opening hours by three rail providers across England and Scotland are just a forerunner of further reductions to come across the country, which will have a significant impact on disabled passengers, campaigners have warned. The warning came […]

Rail industry unable to point to single train company ‘getting it right’ on access

By John Pring on 23rd November 2023 Category: Transport

Rail industry unable to point to single train company ‘getting it right’ on access
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Senior figures in the rail industry have been unable to point to a single train company that is even close to “getting it right” when it comes to providing an accessible service to disabled passengers. Iain Stewart, the Conservative chair of […]

Watchdog appears set to approve mass ticket office closures

By John Pring on 14th September 2023 Category: Transport

Watchdog appears set to approve mass ticket office closures
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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 […]

‘We don’t trust government to listen to ticket office consultation,’ MPs are told

By John Pring on 14th September 2023 Category: Transport

‘We don’t trust government to listen to ticket office consultation,’ MPs are told
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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 […]

Evidence to inquiry exposes ‘inadequate’ consequences of transport discrimination

By John Pring on 8th June 2023 Category: Transport

Evidence to inquiry exposes ‘inadequate’ consequences of transport discrimination
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Disabled campaigners have exposed the widespread – and unpunished – discrimination that passengers face across the rail, bus and taxi sectors, in written evidence to an MPs’ inquiry. Many of the concerns were focused on the rail sector, with evidence highlighting […]

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