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Disabled campaigners welcome mayor’s ‘significant improvements’ to clean air scheme

By John Pring on 1st December 2022 Category: Transport

Disabled campaigners welcome mayor’s ‘significant improvements’ to clean air scheme
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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 […]

Underground staff problems cause ‘unacceptable’ rise in step-free suspensions

By John Pring on 22nd September 2022 Category: Transport

Underground staff problems cause ‘unacceptable’ rise in step-free suspensions
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New figures have revealed a huge increase in the number of times that staffing problems are causing lifts to be closed and step-free access suspended across London’s tube network. The figures, secured by Disability News Service (DNS) through a freedom of […]

Staff shortages repeatedly shut down step-free access at tube stations

By John Pring on 18th August 2022 Category: Transport

Staff shortages repeatedly shut down step-free access at tube stations
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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 […]

Regulator probes train ramp safety failings at rail operators across Britain

By John Pring on 16th December 2021 Category: Transport

Regulator probes train ramp safety failings at rail operators across Britain
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Rail operators across the country are being investigated by their regulator after a series of concerns about potentially fatal safety flaws in the use of the ramps used to allow wheelchair-users to board trains. Disability News Service (DNS) has this week […]

Councils face calls to re-think COVID streetscape changes

By TJM on 1st October 2020 Category: Transport

Councils face calls to re-think COVID streetscape changes
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By TJM Local authorities in England and Wales are facing calls to re-think the “streetscape” changes being made in response to COVID-19, amid concerns that the new street infrastructure is making parts of towns and cities inaccessible to many disabled people. […]

Coronavirus: Disabled people face discrimination from COVID traffic schemes

By John Pring on 6th August 2020 Category: Transport

Coronavirus: Disabled people face discrimination from COVID traffic schemes
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Councils and other public bodies across England are failing to consult disabled people before approving “discriminatory” measures designed to aid social distancing and encourage cyclists and pedestrians, say campaigners. They have warned that public bodies are ignoring their duties under the […]

Coronavirus: ‘Greater clarity needed’ over mayor’s COVID-19 transport plans

By John Pring on 21st May 2020 Category: Transport

Coronavirus: ‘Greater clarity needed’ over mayor’s COVID-19 transport plans
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Accessible transport campaigners in London are continuing to fight for greater clarity around sweeping measure announced by the capital’s mayor as England begins to ease its coronavirus lockdown. Sadiq Khan has announced plans to create what he has called one of […]

Rail industry and government under attack over ‘outrageous’ access exemptions

By John Pring on 2nd January 2020 Category: Transport

Rail industry and government under attack over ‘outrageous’ access exemptions
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Furious disabled campaigners have attacked the government and transport providers after operators were given permission to continue using more than 1,000 inaccessible rail carriages – about eight per cent of the national fleet – after missing a deadline set 10 years […]

Disabled peer misses Queen’s speech after Underground flouts court ruling

By John Pring on 17th October 2019 Category: Transport

Disabled peer misses Queen’s speech after Underground flouts court ruling
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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 […]

Shared space schemes must be halted, mayor’s commissioner told

By John Pring on 21st March 2019 Category: Transport

Shared space schemes must be halted, mayor’s commissioner told
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A disabled campaigner has told London’s walking and cycling commissioner that all shared space street developments should be halted because they are too dangerous for disabled and older people. Dr Tom Pey (pictured, second from left), chief executive of the Royal […]

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