Disabled transport access a "national embarrassment", MPs warn

Molly Stazkar and Sean Daily

BBC News

Getty Images Family Wheelchair Users are waiting on the train platform using their phone.

A senior group of MPs has warned that access to public transport for people with disabilities is a “national embarrassment”.

A report by the Parliament’s Cross Party Transport Select Committee revealed “systematic” failures in all public transport and said that “individual disabilities have a lot of burden to be accountable to operators and officials.”

For all, the charity transport transport is urging the government to follow the results of the report.

“There is more to do to ensure that everyone can travel with dignity and dignity,” said local Minister of Transport Simon Lightwood.

He added, “It is clear that the ability to develop transport services is thinking one and more to make sure that everyone can travel easily and with dignity.”

The report faces obstacles to traveling either of seven out of seven of the seven people with seven disabled people.

Ruth Cadbury's parliament was standing in a park with Westminster in the background.

“I am very disappointed that my fellow citizens, my constituencies, cannot make choices about how they live their daily lives,” told the BBC, head of the Transport Select Committee.

MPs say it is very difficult to visit the current system. They are demanding the DFT, who are in charge of the transport policy in England, to make the system easier and look at the potential changes in the legislation, which, in theory, says it can be implemented in other countries in the UK as well.

The report calls for a change in culture, which he says adding disability is urgently needed as a “non -negotiation of human rights”.

All the chief executive sat on the park bench with the Westminster in the transport background for Carollen Stackland.

For transport, everyone said the report results “paint a harmful picture”, which highlights that the disabled community is not equal access to any kind of transport. “

Charity’s chief executive, Caroline Stackland, told the BBC: “We really welcome this clear call that the current state of transportation in this country cannot continue.”

“This report is to remove transportation from the government and make sure that the UK is a place for all of us.”

The report presented 29 results and recommendations. This includes that the government should develop a new transport strategy within 12 months.

The report also suggests that ministers consider the existing regulatory and implementation, which they say is “very scattered and complicated.”

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