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
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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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