Accessibility on public transport for disabled people is a “national embarrassment”, a senior group of MPs has warned. A report by parliament’s cross-party transport select committee found “systematic” failings across all public transport and says “too great a burden is placed on individual disabled people” to hold operators and authorities to account.
Disabled-led charity Transport for All is urging the government to act on the report’s findings. Local Transport Minister Simon Lightwood said “there is more to do to ensure everyone can travel easily and with dignity”.
The report found nearly seven in 10 disabled people report experiencing barriers to travel either most or all of the time.
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