Londoners asked for thoughts on transport accessibility

Date: 8/7/2011

Public travel service customers in the UK capital have been urged to come forward and give their opinion on what can be done to improve accessibility to the infrastructure.

Transport for London (TfL) notes that such individuals will be welcome to attend stakeholder meetings over the next few months and their opinions will be gathered to help the organisation in any bids it makes to the government for funding.

Those interested can look at the Mayor's Transport Strategy Accessibility Implementation Plan and select the projects within it that they would give priority to.

Among these are plans to continue making improvements to physical accessibility to the infrastructure through step-free interchanges.

In addition, boosting staff availability has been proposed, so that there are more employees on hand to offer direct assistance to passengers where necessary, while door-to-door services for those with mobility problems could also be expanded.

Michele Dix, Managing Director for Planning at TfL, says: "Our aim is to provide passengers with more confidence to travel through better information and physical improvements to our transport system."

Over the last ten years, all buses operating in the capital have provided both audio and visual announcements, along with having low floors, while the Docklands Light Railway and Croydon Tramlink are both step-free.

Posted by Mary Treen