Inclusion London has called on the Mayor to provide funding to improve the transport system in London so it becomes ‘fully accessible, affordable and reliable’.
The disability equality organisation has made recommendations in response to the Mayor’s Transport Strategy Accessibility Implementation Plan.
Included in the recommendations, Inclusion London suggest that disabled people are ‘consulted at an early stage of the design of services and vehicles’.
The organisation makes recommendations to improve accessibility of the transport system throughout its response, the 5 top specific recommendations are:
- TfL to reinstate the target of at least 29% for step free underground stations by 2017 /2018 with guaranteed funding.
- Disabled people are actively involved in the design and implementation of disability awareness for bus drivers.
- All TfL stations are manned and staff are available to assist disabled people.
- Funding for door-to-door transport and the freedom pass is protected and the eligibility criteria is not tightened.
- All stations to have ramps, platform humps, tactile paving before the platform edge, use of colour contrast, good lighting, audio-visual information and other design elements that increase accessibility for disabled people.
