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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 […]

Disabled people ‘must keep fighting for their right to travel on public transport’

By John Pring on 21st March 2019 Category: Transport

Disabled people ‘must keep fighting for their right to travel on public transport’
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Disabled people must keep fighting for their right to travel on public transport, and should “challenge the status quo”, an accessible transport campaigner has told a conference. Alan Benson, chair of the user-led, pan-London organisation Transport for All, told Transport for […]

Concerns over growing number of ‘dangerous and discriminatory’ road layouts

By John Pring on 28th February 2019 Category: Transport

Concerns over growing number of ‘dangerous and discriminatory’ road layouts
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Increasing numbers of local authorities are breaching the Equality Act by designing “dangerous and discriminatory” road layouts that put blind and partially-sighted people at risk of serious harm, say disabled campaigners. The concerns have been raised by the user-led campaign group […]

Crossrail step-free promise looks set to be broken

By John Pring on 30th November 2018 Category: Transport

Crossrail step-free promise looks set to be broken
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The promise to disabled people that every station on London’s much-delayed, £15 billion Crossrail project would be step-free from the moment it opens looks increasingly likely to be broken. Four years ago, a two-year campaign by disabled and older people led […]

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