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Disabled transport access a national embarrassment with passengers treated like ‘second-class citizens’, committee warns
A general view of commuters disembarking a Great Northern railway train at Hunt's Cross station, Liverpool, July 19, 2024
TRANSPORT union RMT called on the government to put passenger accessibility and safety at the heart of its plans for Great British Rail (GBR) today.
The transport select committee released a report following its inquiry into accessibility for disabled people on the transport network.
It found “far too great a burden” is placed on individual disabled people to hold operators and authorities to account for not fulfilling their duties.
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