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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 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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, 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 […]