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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 […]

A year on from new taxi discrimination laws… and not a single prosecution

By John Pring on 10th May 2018 Category: Transport

A year on from new taxi discrimination laws… and not a single prosecution
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Local authorities have failed to prosecute a single taxi-driver for discriminating against wheelchair-users under new legislation introduced more than a year ago, according to new figures released under the Freedom of Information Act. The figures show that not one taxi-driver out […]

Bus industry set to face fresh legal action over access to wheelchair space

By John Pring on 17th August 2017 Category: Transport

Bus industry set to face fresh legal action over access to wheelchair space
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The bus industry is facing fresh legal action over its failure to ensure disabled people have access to the designated wheelchair spaces on buses, six months after a Supreme Court judgment that campaigners hoped would finally settle the issue. The Supreme […]

TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference: Frustration at London Underground autism refusal

By John Pring on 25th May 2017 Category: Employment

TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference: Frustration at London Underground autism refusal
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Union activists are planning a high-profile campaign against London Underground after it refused to introduce an employment policy on autism and neurodiversity. Janine Booth, a member of the RMT transport union, told the TUC’s annual Disabled Workers’ Conference in London that […]

Mayor invests £200 million in making more tube stations accessible

By John Pring on 8th December 2016 Category: Transport

Mayor invests £200 million in making more tube stations accessible
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London’s new mayor has announced a significant increase in investment in making stations on the capital’s largely-inaccessible tube network step-free. At present, only 70 of 270 stations on the London Underground network are step-free to all platforms. But Sadiq Khan, who […]

Wheelchair-user’s anger over recurring blue button bus nightmare

By John Pring on 27th October 2016 Category: Transport

Wheelchair-user’s anger over recurring blue button bus nightmare
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A wheelchair-user has lodged 40 separate complaints in just three years about bus drivers who have failed to put down the ramp for him, and have then driven off with him still on-board. Despite his repeated complaints, Chris Stapleton says the […]

ELECTION 2015: Lib Dem president’s bus horror ‘proves need for new law’

By John Pring on 1st May 2015 Category: Transport

ELECTION 2015: Lib Dem president’s bus horror ‘proves need for new law’
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The disabled president of the Liberal Democrats has complained of her “outrageous” treatment by a conductor who refused to ask a young dad to move his child’s buggy from the wheelchair space on a near-empty London bus. Baroness Brinton, a wheelchair-user […]

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