Disabled journey is a ’embarrassment’, MP says

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

A report by Parliament’s Cross-Party Transport Select Committee found “systematic” failures in all public transport and said that “a huge burden has been placed on individual disabled people” to take into account operators and officials “.

Charity led by handicapped for all is urging the government to work on the findings of the report.

Local Transport Minister Simon Lightwood said “to ensure that everyone can travel easily and with dignity”.

He said, “It is clear that transportation has reached after reaching the services and to ensure that everyone can travel easily and with dignity,” he said.

The report found that seven out of seven disabled people report that either most or all time experience obstacles to travel.

Ruth Cadbury MP, who presided over the Transport Select Committee, told the BBC, “I am so disappointed that my fellow citizens, my constituents can’t make such an option that I can make about how they live their days and day life.”

MPs say that the current system is very difficult to navigate. They are calling on DFT, who are in charge of transport policy in England, to simplify the system and to look at the possible changes in the law, which in principle, they say that they can be implemented in other UK countries.

The report states the change in culture, which they say that is immediately required to include disability as “a non-pervantic case of human rights”.

Transport for all stated that the findings of the report “Paint a Damming Picture”, highlighting that the disabled community “does not have the same access to any mode of transport.”

“We really welcome this clear call that the current state of transport cannot continue in this country,” Caroline Stekland told the BBC, CEROLON STCIND, CEO of Charity.

“This report is a wakeup call to address transport access to the government and make sure the UK is a place for all of us.”

The report has 29 conclusions and recommendations – in which the government should produce a new inclusive transport strategy within 12 months.

The report also recommended that the minister see the current regulatory and the enforcement simplifying the “very fragmented and complex”.