Northern (Arriva Rail North)

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RE: Northern (Arriva Rail North)

(30/11/2018 09:32)knutstransport Wrote:  If that's your fact where's your evidence? You need to prove every disabled person can do one of the following:
1. Get a lift
2. Get an accessible bus instead
3. Have funds to pay for a taxi
For EVERY essential journey they need to make.

The context is Saturdays and was mainly conurbations. GM has approximately 100 times as many regularly served (60 jnys per week up to probably 100 times that many on Oxford Road) bus stops in each direction, as rail stations.

Depending on level of disability - eg how far you can walk (if at all) - it is very unlikely you can reach rail, wihout getting a lift. If necessary, get a lift the whole way, rather than just to the rail station. All service buses are DDA compliant by law. The "access" to them is a seperate issue, due mainly to illegal parking and other problems with the walking (or indeed using a wheelchair) environment. Again, bus stop blocking apart - these apply moreso to accessing rail stations.

I suspect your comments are more to do with the seperate thread about disability access, rather than people making essential journeys on a weekend when strikes mean reduced or no trains.

I did say "virtually" every journey; I accept some people are contracted to work Saturdays, but I don't know about East Cheshire, but around here there is no Primary Health Care at weekends and secondary care is remote - and certainly nowhere near rail stations.