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Accessibility on public transport for people with disabilities is a “national embarrassment”, warned a group of deputies.
A report by the Multipartite Transport Committee of the Parliament of the Parliament has revealed “systematic” failures in all public transport and says that “too much a burden is imposed on individual disabled people” to keep operators and authorities to account.
Charitable transport led by the disabled for all urges the government to act on the conclusions of the report.
The local Minister of Transport, Simon Lightwood, said “there is no longer to do to ensure that everyone can travel easily and with dignity”.
“It is clear that accessibility was a reflection afterwards in the development of transportation services and that there is more to make to ensure that everyone can travel easily and with dignity,” he added.
The report noted that nearly seven people with disabilities report obstacles to obstacles to travel most or all the time.
Ruth Cadbury MP, which chairs the restricted transport committee, told the BBC: “I am so disappointed that my fellow citizens, my voters cannot make the kind of choice I can make on the way in which they live their daily life.”
MPs say the current system is too difficult to sail. They call the DFT, which is in charge of transport policy in England, to simplify the system and examine the possible changes in legislation, which in theory they say to be implemented in other British countries.
The report calls for a change of culture, which according to them, is necessary to reframe the inclusion of disability as “a non -negotiable question of human rights”
Transport for all said that the results of the report “paint an overwhelming image”, stressing that the disabled community “did not have access to any mode of transport”.
Caroline Stickland, director general of the charity, told the BBC: “We really welcome this clear call for action that the current state of the inaccessibility of transport in this country cannot continue.”
“This report is a call for alarm clock for the government to deal with transport accessibility and ensures that the United Kingdom is a place for all of us.”
The report takes 29 conclusions and recommendations – of which the government should produce a new inclusive transport strategy within 12 months.
The report also recommends that ministers plan to simplify the current regulations and application which, according to them, are “far too fragmented and complex”.
